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Anne-Marie Ginn-Hedman

1 Session XXXX An Interactive Approach to Teaching Moment Equilibrium Using Virtual Surgical Planning (Work in Progress) Anne-Marie Ginn-Hedman Department of Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University AbstractIntroductory static mechanic courses traditionally have limited practical examples for biomedicalengineering students. We therefore created a virtual lab where students can apply classroomknowledge to solve clinical

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Victoria C. P. Chen; Erick C. Jones Jr.; Suman Gudikandula; Vishnu Sharma; Rahsirearl Smalls; Jocelyn Sigler

shows energy usage in units of cost ($) with higher valuesbeing worse, the y axis shows global warming potential in units of CO2 -eq , and the z axis shows human healthparticulates in PM 2.4 – eq. For all axis higher values are worse. Red dots on the yellow plane indidcate the Parteofrontier. The green dot is our baseline point. The other blue dots are dominated simulation runs. Plans for Implementation in K-12 ClassroomTo implement this lesson into Mr. Smalls’ classroom, Mr. Smalls will have the students participatein a green tiny home building challenge. Project Lead the Way/Science of Technology is a coursethat introduces middle school students to topics in engineering as well as exposes them to possibleengineering

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Tracy Hammond; Robert H. Lightfoot

engineering(Hispanics, African Americans, and women), are discouraged by being grouped with peers whohave coding experience or have otherwise been involved with computers before.Computer Science service classes will continue to encompass students from many diverse majors, asmore degree plans require a coding class. Coding does not always come easy for these students. Thispaper examines assignment choice in an undergraduate CS-1 course. Guided by the SelfDetermination Theory, the authors will implement assignment choice as a means for students to plana path to meet the course learning objectives. We will integrate the choices in the curriculum intoCanvas, the Learning Management System, and provide a course grade calculator to students.Students

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Maurizio Manzo; Huseyin Bostanci

integrating parts, creating codes for Arduino microcontroller, and run their systems using samplecoding. After being exposed to hardware and software, they used a system featuring a 3D printedstructural substrate emulating a power plant with an electric/battery powered heater, temperature andpressure sensors, and LED lights changing intensity based on temperature levels, where they canautomate the system and shut down the plant to avoid issues.Educators in the region (approximately within 90 miles radius of Denton, TX) were contacted earlyin summer for proper planning, and points of contacts included school principals or science teachersUNT recently collaborated with during previous UNT summer camps. They were provided with aflyer describing the

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Randy Brooks; Shana Shaw; LaTasha Starr

to select that is supportable by a four-year faculty member. This palette alsoneeds to reasonably support some variety in the students’ degree plans. This variety may be inthe form of expanded use of the two-year school’s offerings. References 1. Engineering an Alternative Path. (2019, May 13). Texas A&M Foundation. https://www.txamfoundation.com/News/Engineering-an-Alternative-Path.aspx, 2. Texas A&M Engineering Academies Engineering Bachelors Programs. (2022, February 11). Texas A&M Engineering Academies. https://tamuengineeringacademies.org/programs 3. Brooks, R. (2022, August), Work-in-Progress: Designing Pre-Course Sessions to Enhance Student Preparation

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Huseyin Bostanci; Nourredine Boubekri

2023 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of North Texas, Denton, TX Copyright  2023, American Society for Engineering Education 3based on a site industrial assessment. Prospect students’ degree plans are carefully evaluated beforetheir recruitment and monitored during their employment to make sure that they have theappropriate preparation in their majors. In other words, they are individually guided to take therelevant courses to support and compliment their IAC training and experience. As an example, forstudents in mechanical major, the required coursework includes circuit analysis andthermodynamics, along with other

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A. Anil Kumar

EducationSubmit a brief report on your approach to addressing this task. What you plan to do, how youwould interpret the customer’s need and how you would proceed to find at least one choice of adiode that meets her requirements.To facilitate analysis, consider the following steps:1. List the general characteristics of p-n junction diodes – forward current, forward voltage, reverse resistance, capacitance, temperature stability, among others.2. Investigate the literature to explore at least three different diodes that, when a diode is made out of it, provides the optimum range of capacitance values.3. Compute the relevant quantities for these diodes that meet the customer’s requirements.4. Write a concise but detailed report of your findings along

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Nelson Fumo

Statement  Team Member Biographies  Diversity Statement Project information (up to five pages)  Background  Problem Statement  Solution  Technology-to-Market Plan  References (does not count toward five-page maximum)  Appendix (does not count toward five-page maximum)The unlimited number of pages in the Appendix becomes a key element for the holistic presentationof the project since only five pages are allowed in the project information section of the manuscript.Detailed information can be given in Appendix regarding assumptions, computations, simulations,and results. The CourseThe course in which the competition was implemented is the graduate course MENG 5318 – Heating

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Xishuang Dong; Lijun Qian; Xiangfang Li; Pamela Obiomon; Yujian Fu P.E.; Zhigang Xiao; Shujun Yang; Nelson Barnes Jr

(PrairieView A&M University (PVAMU) and Alabama A&M University (AAMU)) propose to build onlineAI-enhanced personalized adaptive learning (PAL) tools to enhance engineering education onprogramming skills at HBCUs. To implement these tools, we plan to complete three tasks withadvanced AI techniques: 1) basic online tools that implement sharing learning materials and managingassignments, quizzes, projects, and examinations; 2) PAL path recommender via deep reinforcementlearning that recommends PAL paths to learners for maximizing engagement in learningprogramming, as well as improving corresponding learning performance by selecting items ofappropriate difficulty; 3) smart programming assistant (SPA) via deep learning-based languagemodels (LMs

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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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Po En Su Wei-Jen Lee; Irma De Leon; Jude Soweh

Environmental conservatio and n sustainable Development Figure 1. Hands-On Activity and Its Relationship to Six Energy Facets. 4 Hands-On Activity: Monitoring and Controlling Energy Consumption Using Smart DevicesFor this project, a STEM hands-on activity lesson plan that can be included as an application lessonto reinforce knowledge learned about the six energy facets outlined in figure 1 and meets the TexasScience and Technology TEKS (112.18.2 and 112.51.1) was created. The focus in this hands-onactivity was on energy

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Nathan K. Mitchell; Aburi Anil Kumar

University of North Texas, Denton, TX Copyright  2023, American Society for Engineering Education 7NATHAN K. MITCHELLDr. Mitchell currently serves as a Professor of Political Science and Director of the B-GLOBAL QualityEnhancement Plan. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Texas Tech University. His researchinterests focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning, program assessment, and state and local politicsand policy. His recent work has addressed topics relating to the integration of open educational resources intocore curriculum courses, removing barriers to learning like food and housing insecurity, and chronicling howminority serving institutions

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Krishna Kumar

real-world examples to facilitate deeper student learning. I also wanted to drawon the knowledge gained during a recent teaching fellowship I had that focused on problem-basedlearning. I had initially planned on using real-world case studies as an introductory but isolatedmotivational example at the beginning of each lecture. Instead, I decided to restructure the entiregeotechnical engineering course around learning new concepts by exploring real-world cases, whichnaturally led me to examine the idea of Problem-Based Learning (PBL).PBL involves students divided into smaller groups examining real-world problems with no single orneat solution. In the process of struggling with solving real-world challenges, students “acquireknowledge, content

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M. Ginger Scarbrough

) their apparatus against the desired task outcomes. The team plansfor scale-up, conducts a techno-economic analysis, develops a business plan, and addressescommunity involvement and government regulations.Each team writes a 25-page report and prepares a conference-style poster that they bring to the eventin Las Cruces, New Mexico, along with their working bench-scale apparatus. At the contest, facultyadvisors step aside to allow the judges to work with the teams. The judges are practicing engineersthat have many years of experience in the workforce. The judges are trained to treat the teams ascolleagues as they discuss with the teams the practicalities of government regulations and thenuances of preparing a design for implementation. The

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Clinton Martin; Peter Rogers; Salar Kamari

. • All three instructors saw increase in the contact and communication from students enrolled in online courses. • Although it created an increased workload on the front end it decreased the amount of confusion and questions asked on the back end.Future ResearchIn the Future, we plan to establish a baseline using the traditional approach and investigate howwell students comprehend the lecture by implementing the micro-learning technique. Threemodules, including pre-test, knowledge transfer, and post-test, will be implemented to study theefficacy of micro-lectures in an online learning platform. For each lecture, an initial pre-test isimplemented to identify the existing skillset of students about the topic. As some students mightbe

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Derek T. Gwin; Ozgur Aktunc

agile represents, it’s important to understand howagile practices are distinct from traditional project management. Traditional project managementpractices, often termed “waterfall”, emphasize long-term, linear plans with rigid scope andrequirements. Under the waterfall model, visualized in Figure 1, engagement with customers andbusiness sponsors occurs predominantly in the early and final stages of the work effort, when settingthe requirements and design of the total solution and after the solution is implemented. Figure 1. High-level summary of the linear flow of a traditional “waterfall” project. Proceedings of the 2023 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of North

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

(RUBE). In Proc. 2006 ASEE Annual Conference.11. Self, B. P., Widmann, J., Prince, M. J., & Georgette, J. (2013, June). Inquiry-based learning activities in dynamics. In Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.12. Kypuros, J. A., Vazquez, H., Tarawneh, C., & Wrinkle, R. R. (2011). Guided discovery modules for statics and dynamics. American Society for Engineering Education.13. Kolb, D. A. (2014). Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development. FT press.14. Nakazawa, T., Matsubara, M., Mita, S., & Saitou, K. (2014). Teaching materials and lesson plans for hands-on mechanics education. Experimental Techniques, 38(6), 72-80.15. Vernon, J., Finelli, C. J

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Daniel Bang; Saira Anwar; Syeda Fizza Ali; Alejandra Magana

were collected from 120 sophomore students taking a System Analysis and DesignCourse at a large R1 University in a computer and information technology department. Studentsvoluntarily participated in the study. The required course introduces students to tools andtechniques of systems development. The topics of the course revolved around the introduction toinformation systems, software development life cycles, methodologies, systems planning, design,implementation, and support. In this study, the data were included from students who participatedand gave their consent to include their data in the research as per institutional review and ethicalprinciples. The students participated in an end-of-semester survey and described their perceptionsof