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2024 South East Section Meeting

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Stephanie Laughton, The Citadel; Timothy A Wood, The Citadel

knowledge gaps of the students in the roomthereby enhancing overall class-wide conceptual understanding [38]. Student centered educationhas been shown to enhance student learning and critical thinking skills [44]. Polling tools on themarket span a variety of cost and ease of use levels so faculty members can select an optimumtool for their specific instructional style and institutional requirements [9], [45]–[47].Reading versus Watching AssignmentsMany faculty members attempt to make in class time more productive for active learning toolsthrough the use of “blended” or “flipped classroom” methodologies which require students toconduct some level of independent learning ahead of class [48]–[55]. Even if the preparatorycontent is substantially

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2024 South East Section Meeting

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Jennifer S. Brown, Clemson University; Marshal Fasika Rice, Clemson University; Karen A High, Clemson University

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, whereinover 9,000 students from the top 21 doctoral-granting institutions in the U.S. were surveyed. Theresults indicated that while every respondent recognized a faculty advisor, 43% of Black doctoralstudents in STEM reported that they did not have a mentor, compared to 24% of their Whitecounterparts [10]. Furthermore, the attrition of doctoral students remains remarkably high in STEM anddisproportionately so for those who hold marginalized identities in their fields [11]; some studiesestimate that over 50% of doctoral students will not finish their degrees [12], [13]. It may not comeas a surprise that insufficient mentoring can negatively impact graduates students’ decision topersist in their degree programs, among a myriad of other factors

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2024 South East Section Meeting

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John W. Brocato, University of Georgia

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Diversity

program’s location began with an existing collaboration at thefaculty member’s previous home institution, and it made sense to retain this location not onlybecause the faculty member is now exceedingly familiar with the city and has plenty of helpfulcontacts there but also because the larger Munich area has a robust bioengineering industry andacademic presence (e.g., Biogen GmbH, the Munich Institute of Biomedical Engineering), whichproves useful for participating students’ degree work and future career plans. Morefundamentally, the addition of an international experience to a communication culture centeredon the idea of professional personae also made sense since expanding students’ culturalawareness (especially as this relates to engineering work

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2024 South East Section Meeting

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Brian Aufderheide, Hampton University; LaNika M. Barnes, Albemarle County Public Schools (Charlottesville, Virginia); Otsebele E Nare, Hampton University; Garrick E. Louis, University of Virginia; Daniel Webster Fairley II, 100 Black Men of Central Virginia

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institutions towards anincreased diversity of environments and ideas. The UVA course was directed to graduate levelstudents in engineering, and the HU course was for undergraduate engineering students. Initially,4 seminars were shared between the two courses covering Professional Engineering Code ofEthics, Corporate Ethics, Quality and Compliance, Intellectual Property, and Climate Ethics 9. Inthe subsequent year, the collaboration expanded with the goal to further relationships betweenfaculty and students that could lead to other forms of collaboration, including joint researchprojects, opportunities for graduate study and other mutual benefits. The current collaborationresulted in an internal grant from UVA to support one-day in-person student