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2023 ASEE GSW

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Eleazar Marquez; Samuel Garcia Jr.

Communicating Academic Success: Shaping an Inclusive Learning Environment to Promote Student Engagement in Engineering Education Eleazar Marquez, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Samuel Garcia Jr., Ph.D. College of Education Texas State University AbstractClassroom environments that involve and encourage active student participation havedemonstrated positive impact on student learning, engagement, and overall academic success.Studies reveal

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Araceli Martinez Ortiz, University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA); M. Alejandra Sorto, Texas State University; Patricia Perea, Perea Search Cross-Cultural Research & Consulting; Cindy D. Rojas Annicchiarico, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

STEM engagement experiences forSpanish speaking students of need; to benefit an international audience (students in Honduras) withthe intent of replicating the program of informal enrichment for other communities with Spanishspeaking students in the United States or elsewhere; and to provide professional development toeducators/facilitators, orientation and encouragement to parents, and direct learning opportunities tothe participating students.Growing Inequities in Mathematics Education in the United StatesThere is growing concern in the U.S. regarding student performance in national standardized tests dueto 4th and 8th grade students’ largest drop in math performance in thirty years (NAEP, 2022). Overall,in 2022, 38% of eighth graders scored

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Lance L.A. White; Sara Amani; Larry Powell; Karan Watson; Mark Clayton; Tracy Hammond; Sarhan Musa; Kelvin Kirby

performance (Burke et al., 2017; Liao etal., 2013). Considering the strain on time for these students was a priority when developing aninterdisciplinary engineering undergraduate research experience. This work examines theexperiences of undergraduate students working in an interdisciplinary team from two Texas LandGrant Universities on a research project to tackle a social and technical problem for the residents ofthe state of Texas. Interviews were conducted with three students to understand the impact of thisexperience on their personal and academic lives. This extracurricular undergraduate researchexperience was provided for undergraduate engineering students at two significantly different Proceedings of the 2023 ASEE Gulf

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2023 ASEE GSW

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Akila Ravichandran; Kiran Katira; Tariq Khraishi

the same community partner for more than a semester provided more time for them to complete their projects and build a stronger relationship with their community. 4) Continuing with some community partners over time, with different students, had the benefit of stronger long-term partnerships with community sites, which is at the heart of strong community engagement.Though this interdisciplinary initiative by the SOE is fairly new, we believe that it gives immenseopportunities for students to learn and serve the communities that they come from and help createan impact on the lives of many people. We plan to continue our work on this project to reach outto more communities that need a helping hand and to engage more

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2023 ASEE GSW

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Mohammad Shafinul Haque; Anthony Battistini; Soyoon Kum; Azize Akcayoglu; William Kitch

type ofhands-on activity as a normal lab session and will try other than the 3D module.”Faculty feedback 3:“The experiential learning modules have been easily conducted in the classroom while covering thecorresponding topics. They allowed students to see the Dynamics problems in the real world andchallenged them to think analytically. The problem was understood better by the students and theywere all engaged during the hands-on activities. According to my observations, teamwork andcommunication were other important aspects of the activities. The students communicated wellactively participated in the discussion, and brought different perspectives to the possible causes andconsequences of the problems. I believe their engineering skills and

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2023 ASEE GSW

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Marsha Phillips; Lacy White; Mia K. Markey

share detailed descriptions of the activities of the iDEI Summit so thatothers can readily implement them to hold similar events at their own institutions. 2022 iDEI SummitThe 2022 International Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (iDEI) Summit was a day-long discussion among international CSE graduate students. Throughout the event, students wereprompted to discuss diversity, equity, and inclusion themes; were encouraged to identify issues thathave a disparate impact on international students; and were invited to recommend actionablesolutions. All discussions at the event were facilitated by a graduate student enrolled in anothercollege in the university to encourage frank conversation.Upon

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Nathan K. Mitchell; Aburi Anil Kumar

. Global Thinking RoutinesThe affective critical thinking dispositions identified by Claris and Riley are developed overtime.12,13 Boix Mansilla has proposed micro-teaching tools called “global thinking routines”(GTR).7 These simple tools can be used across content areas, frequently, and over a course of anentire degree program to train students to ask deeper questions about their own motivations,incorporate the perspectives of stakeholders, engage with diversity, assess the impact of decisions,and take action. Instructors weave GTR throughout their courses and curricula and make it routineto ask big questions, reflect on the process, and critically evaluate the impact of decisions. Aculture of critical inquiry can be developed within the class or

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2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

Derek T. Gwin; Ozgur Aktunc

success of agile teams than the agile methodology or agile tooling used, with apossible exception among respondents who identified themselves as holding a direct IT contributorrole on an agile team. Among that group, the agile methodology used by a team was identified ashaving greater influence on outcomes than end user engagement and business sponsor relationships.Additionally, director IT contributor respondents were less likely to strongly agree that their agileteams were successful. In totality, the results indicate that the professional community has acceptedagile practices for organizing project and product development work but perceive organizationalbarriers to the effective use of agile. An opportunity exists to address the organizational

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2023 ASEE GSW

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M. Ginger Scarbrough

communicate with and meet the needs of a client 6,7. Wu et al. observed thatproject- and team-based courses have a particularly positive effect on the academic achievements offemale students8.Historically, design projects have been reserved for senior capstone design courses. In someinstitutions, these are pen-and-paper studies, and in others they are hands-on design projects. Morerecently, freshman PBL (often referred to as “cornerstone” courses) has been added to manyundergraduate engineering curricula to motivate young engineering students while teaching thebasics of engineering design and entrepreneurship 6, 9, 10, 11, 12.For most institutions, this leaves a gap between the Freshman and Senior years with few hands-ondesign experiences available

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2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

Huseyin Bostanci; Nourredine Boubekri

normally recruits undergraduate students at the beginning of each academicyear/fall semester, provides orientation training, and engages them in assessments and other IACactivities for a full year. Such operation would have logistical advantages such as streamlinedtraining and staffing of concurrently operating assessment teams.IAC students are closely monitored and advised to ensure that they are pursuing the relevantcoursework in their respective fields. As explained, the IAC students are strategically recruited tocreate a proper team composition with a broad expertise to successfully address all the needs ofvarious SMEs, and make recommendations that will result in high impact, and cost-effective savings Proceedings of the

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2023 ASEE GSW

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Clinton Martin; Peter Rogers; Salar Kamari

in theircourses. All three instructors used the same PowerPoint but created their own unique recordedlectures. Following the introductory lecture, the instructors used a questionnaire to assess thestudents’ opinions regarding the use of micro-lectures and how it might impact their learning.The following shows a representative sample of the student comments taken directly from thequestionnaire. 1. Are there any advantages using micro-lectures in the course? • I feel that an advantage of this, especially from an online student standpoint, is there wouldn't be a lot of fluff or side conversation when presenting lessons. • People learn better when information is provided in small chunks, easier to focus on the entire lesson and

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2023 ASEE GSW

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Nelson Fumo

through the competition and others are focused on learning matters through thecompetition. The following references have been selected as examples of those focused on the learningexperiences through competitions. As mentioned by Schuster et al.10 competitions are a popular meansto engage students in design activities that extend beyond the curriculum. In their paper the keybenefits to engineering undergraduate students are discussed and they highlight the advisorinvolvement as a key role in both project success and student learning throughout the process. Stewartand Willy11 highlight the ways in which the continued participation in the Collegiate WindCompetition of the Department of Energy has allowed for an ongoing, enriching academic as well