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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

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Bradley J. Sottile, The Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity

ethics of academic integrityremain a live and active issue for the modern engineering student.Research Question and Broader Research Direction The primary research question driving this research study involves gaining a betterappreciation of student, faculty, and stakeholder views on modern engineering professionalethics. There is reason to believe that views may be changing, including because of changesengineering educators are seeing in their students coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic (see,e.g., Sottile et al., 2021, 2022). Ultimately, such information could be utilized to developeducational interventions such as the creation of a professional ethics micro-credential. Micro-credentials, whose value has been noted in the literature

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

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Ashwin Satyanarayana, New York City College of Technology

evaluate teaching offaculty members based on three factors: (a) student evaluations, (b) peer faculty observations and(c) grade distributions (see Fig 1).Fig 1: Three sources of data which are input to our descriptive tool for flagging faculty: (a)Student evaluation of teaching, (b) Peer evaluation of teaching and (c) Grade distributionby faculty.This output provided by the descriptive tools is then used to flag those individuals for furtherreview and provide them with support and resources (for e.g. summer teaching workshops) tohelp improve their performance. Additionally, we have seen that clustering helps identify anysystematic issues or patterns in the data that may be contributing to poor performance, such as aninstructor's communication

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

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Amitabha (Amit) Bandyopadhyay, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale

issues of individual differences in learningability and in learning styles were the focus of a group researchers throughout the twentycentury. Their primary substantive concern has been individual differences, whichusually refers to both the ability and habitual behavior or customary ways of acting,usually referred to as personality characteristics. Their preferred and sometimes exclusiveresearch methods are the correlational methods. Closely aligned with this group is thedevelopmental psychology tradition which has been particularly concerned with the waythat individuals differ at various ages and stages of development , their preferred methodof research most frequently has been that of naturalistic observation or some other formof observation

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

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

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Diversity

are developingactivities to expose careers via hands on modules, videos, and presentations that are shared on aninteractive project website. Activities are also mapped in sync with the New Jersey ScienceStandards to aid educators with their lesson plans and development of course content.This presentation will focus on work conducted to date.IntroductionWater and wastewater utilities are facing workforce shortages due to retirements and inability toattract the next generation. The lack of a diverse workforce in these utilities is also of concern[1] - [3]. Therefore, the overall goal of the WaterWorks project is to aid in supplementing theneed for a diverse workforce for wastewater/drinking water utilities as the current workforce isreaching

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

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Sean Knecht, Penn State University

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Diversity

-semester survey results regarding student self-reported comfort in learning new skills (left) and confidence if faced with unsupported skill learning at a new job (right) (n = 14)Conclusions and Future Work: This paper describes an approach to address the issue of poor student technical-background alignment with industry- or faculty-sponsored Capstone design projects. Thismisalignment can result in poor project outcomes, student experiences, intra-teamcommunication, and siloing of project responsibilities. A personal skill development assignmentwas developed to address this, based on student, sponsor, and instructor interviews. Thepersonal assignment is developed by the student and instructor at the beginning of the

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

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Joanna F. DeFranco, Penn State University; Dena Lang, Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Marie Starkey, Pennsylvania State University; Robin Havens Tate, The Pennsylvania State University; Sven G. Bilén P.E., Pennsylvania State University

. With the guidance ofa faculty advisor assigned within the student's first semester, the D.Eng. recipient will beprepared to: • research and develop new products or processes that can benefit industrial, governmental, or military entities; • analyze and synthesize critical information within a discipline, and, where appropriate, across multiple disciplines; • communicate the major issues of a discipline and effectively disseminate research findings through technical reports, presentations, and peer-reviewed papers; and • lead high-performing research and development teams, divisions, and corporations.D.Eng. Learning ObjectivesThe D.Eng. program established a set of learning objectives, which are: 1. Develop

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

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

safety topics. Within our curriculum, we havenoticed a gap in safety thinking when going on site tours, as well as, a general safe mindset culture. It seemsthat students tend to not review pre-selected safety briefs, safety warnings, or even boiler plate safetystatements on syllabi. Over the last four years several faculty members adopted a more upfront and proactive teachingmoment to address these concerns by emphasizing the importance of safety, in every class and meeting,through a Safety Moment. To date, we have implemented safety moments in five different classes withinArchitectural Engineering (AE), from our second-year introductory courses, to a third-year construction course,a fourth-year discipline specific design course, and a

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ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

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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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Diversity

[22]. Secondly, many papers indicated barriers to and challenges ensuring diversity inhackathons [14, 23-27]. For example, our analysis showed weak associations between theDEI/gender cluster and competition cluster that represents more traditional engineering studentcompetitions. Although concerns related to DEI issues were raised in the literature [28-31],strategies for enhancing diversity in ICPs still need to be explored. Currently, a very smallpercentage of underrepresented students participate in ICPs [14, 26, 27, 32, 33]. ICPs are anintegral part of higher education innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems to make studentsinterested in innovation and entrepreneurship and help them build entrepreneurial mindsets [34].In our analysis