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Paul McMullin

BackgroundI had been a practicing engineer for four years when I first started teaching as an adjunct at theUniversity of Utah. The real struggle of applying what I learned in school to actual design problems,and how to navigate life in a structural design office was fresh on my mind. It was rough; notsomething I wanted to ever repeat. I was determined to prepare my students for these realities betterthan I had been, but how?As I pondered this question, I kept coming back to project-based instruction. While I did not knowit by this name back then, I figured if I do projects for my job, maybe that was a good way to teachstudents. Although imperfect, I began to see it working. My students left school knowing how todesign structures; the way they get

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Shellee Dyer

Teaching Quantum Computer Engineering: Practical Exercises Using theIBM Quantum ExperienceShellee DyerDr Shellee Dyer is currently an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Weber StateUniversity. Prior to that appointment, she was a senior engineer at NIST, where she conducted researchon single-photon detectors and quantum entanglement. Her current research interests include quantumcomputers, lasers, fiber optics, and fiber optic sensors. and racial, gender, and disability equity in STEMeducation. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Teaching Quantum Computer Engineering: Practical Exercises Using the IBM Quantum Experience

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Janet Tsai

peaks and valleys of undergraduateengineering education as experienced by individuals.REFERENCES[1] Interaction Design Foundation, “What are Customer Journey Maps?,” The Interaction Design Foundation. https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/customer-journey- map[2] CoSchedule, “How to Make an Effective Customer Journey Map The Best Way,” CoSchedule Blog, Apr. 11, 2018. https://coschedule.com/blog/customer-journey-map- template (accessed Feb. 22, 2023).[3] M. Meyer and S. Marx, “Engineering Dropouts: A Qualitative Examination of Why Undergraduates Leave Engineering,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 103, no. 4, pp. 525–548, 2014, doi: 10.1002/jee.20054.[4] D. McGraw, “Expanding the Mind,” ASEE Prism, vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 30–36

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Alexis Capitano; John Cook; Kathryn Johnson

the retention of students in engineering and ensure a strongfuture for the profession. The data from the specific interview question analyzed for this paperdoes not explicitly ask about macroethics or social justice. However, since it was the 10thquestion in the semi-structured interview protocol, with some of the first nine addressing thesetopics, it is reasonable to assume that macroethics and social justice might be on the minds of theinterviewees when responding.The specific research question that we seek to answer in this paper is:RQ: What, if any, gaps exist between the engineering curricula (at their university or morebroadly) and the engineering profession in which the students at their university are likely to beemployed?The

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Joel TerMaat; Kristopher Williams; Christopher Wentworth

Comparison of the DIT2 and EERI instruments for assessing the development ofethical reasoning of engineering studentsJoel R. TerMaatDr. Joel TerMaat is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and chair of the Engineering & Physicsdepartment at Doane University.Kristopher J. WilliamsChristopher D. Wentworth © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023WORK-IN-PROGRESS: Comparison of the DIT2 and EERI instruments forassessing the development of ethical reasoning of engineering students Joel R. TerMaat (1), Kristopher J. Williams (2), and Christopher D. Wentworth (1) (1) Department of Engineering and Physics, Doane University (2) Director of Institutional Effectiveness

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Pinar Omur-Ozbek

of the interstate highway system on poor and minority communities in American cities. New Visions for Public Affairs, 7 (April), 9-21.Khan, B., Robbins, C., and Okrent, A. (2020). The State of US Science and Engineering 2020. National Science Foundation, (January 15th).Leydens, J. A., and Lucena, J. C. (2018). Engineering Justice : Transforming Engineering Education and Practice. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018. Web.McGinn, R. E. (2003). Mind the gaps: An empirical approach to engineering ethics, 1997–2001. Science and Engineering Ethics, 9 (4), 517-542.Rabins, M. J. (1998). Teaching engineering ethics to undergraduates: Why? What? How? Science and Engineering Ethics, 4 (3), 291-302.Sensoy, O., and DiAngelo, R

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Hongyan Liu

Strategy for Integrating Design Codes in Structural Design LecturesHongyan LiuDr. Hongyan Liu obtained her Ph. D degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado StateUniversity with a focus in structural engineering in 2010. Her graduate education was focused on theperformance based engineering for structural systems under hazard loading, and application of innovativeconstruction materials for underground construction. Her Ph.D. dissertation was focused on developinggeneralized performance-based seismic design procedures for residential buildings with a simplifiedformat to be implemented by practice engineers. Dr. Liu is experienced in teaching structural engineeringrelated courses and has held multiple positions as instructor at

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Ben Weihrauch

Students"Dr. Ben Weihrauch, University of Colorado Boulder, College of Engineering & Applied ScienceDr. Ben Weihrauch serves as Senior Director of Professional Student Development in theCollege of Engineering & Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Ben leads theCollege’s ProReady initiative, which is CU Engineering’s commitment to the career andprofessional development success of students. Ben has been a scholar-practitioner in highereducation for 20+ years across the student lifecycle, including admissions and advising, careerservices, employer relations, and program management.Before CU Engineering, Ben served in leadership roles at the Colorado School of Public Health,Community College of Denver, Michigan State

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Dendy Sloan; Cynthia Norrgran

The Neuroscience Behind the Advice Given to Freshmen College StudentsDendy SloanDr. Dendy Sloan came to Colorado School of Mines in 1976 following postdoctoral study at RiceUniversity. Dendy has three degrees in Chemical Engineering from Clemson University and is aRegistered Professional Engineer in the State of Colorado. He held the inaugural endowed chair in theChemical and Biological Engineering Department from 1992-2009 and is a University EmeritusProfessor. From 2009 to 2015 he audited all the graduate neuroscience courses at University of Colorado,Boulder and taught “Neuroscience, Memory and Learning” at Mines since 2017. Dendy and Dr. Norrgranhave published two editions of a text Neuroscience, Memory, and Learning.Cynthia