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Ibukunoluwa E. Salami; Segun S. Oladipo; Logan A. Perry

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Exploring High DFW Rates in an Engineering Statics Course: Insights from Faculty and Teaching Assistants. Ibukunoluwa Eunice Salami1, Segun Samuel Oladipo2, Dr. Logan Perry31: Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska- Lincoln 2: Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 3: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska-LincolnAbstractEngineering statics is a branch of engineering mechanics that focuses on the effects of forceson

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Thomas McKean; Gary Bates; LaShall Bates; Jacquelyn D. Wiersma-Mosely; Ranil Wickramasinghe

andBiotechnology at Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville, AR. Dr. G. Bates hasworked with Upward Bound for many years providing high school students with an initialintroduction to scientific research. Dr. G. Bates is on the advisory board for the Cell BiologyEducation Consortium and utilizes CUREs in his classes to allow students the opportunity to usetissue culture to produce phytochemicals. His laboratory research focus is oxidative stress onplants and human cells.Dr. LaShall BatesLaShall Bates, Ph.D. is a full professor of Biology at Northwest Arkansas Community Collegewhere she teaches both majors and nonmajors. She works with Upward Bound to allow Highschool students the opportunity to do initial types of research. Dr. L. Bates is on

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Alyssa J. Ball; Brandon Crisel

atthe University of Arkansas. She serves in multiple roles in the department including her role as aCourse Assistant for the Introduction to Industrial Engineering course and her role as a ResearchAssistant for the System Design and Analytics Laboratory. She is a member of the university’schapters of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) and the Society of WomenEngineers, and has presented at events hosted by the American Society for EngineeringEducation (ASEE) and IISE.Mr. Brandon CriselBrandon Crisel is an Advanced Instructor and Undergraduate Advisor in the Department ofIndustrial Engineering. He teaches courses including Statistics and Computing Methods. Hisengineering research has focused on systems reliability, but his

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Justin Fausto; Benjamin Cuebas; Preston Carroll; Rohit Dua

tograduate in 2025. He is also currently employed as a Manufacturing Engineer at John DeereRemanufacturing as part of their Electronics division. He obtained an Associate's degree inElectrical Engineering in 2022 from Ozarks Technical Community College. He has also servedas a TA teaching the Introduction to Digital Logic laboratory. Contact: jfwhf@umsystem.eduBenjamin CuebasBenjamin Cuebas is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with aminor in Computer Engineering, at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, and © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conferenceplans to graduate in 2025. He obtained an Associate's degree

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Mollie Petersen; Emily Fitzpatrick; Chloe Mann; Jessica Deters

experiences played asignificant role in their ability to learn from and communicate with cultures other than their own.Two students directly reported that time spent in laboratories was influential. One participantwrote that “labs at college have a very diverse group, specifically physics, so it allows me towork with other people.” 16 students mentioned the diversity of their high school. One wrote thatthey “went to a high school with a very wide array of economic and social background” and that © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conferencethey “also participated in both artistic and athletic programs, giving [them] different experienceswith people

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Eduard Plett

, 2024 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference[18] Elena V. Brewer and Anthony P. Dalessio. "Effective Low-budget Approach to Teaching Photovoltaic Systems to Electrical Engineering Technology Students at Community Colleges ". 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June. ASEE Conferences, 2012. https://peer.asee.org/21262 Internet. 21 Jul, 2024[19] Oxana S. Pantchenko, Daniel Scott Tate, Daniel O'Leary, Michael S. Isaacson, and Ali DUPE Shakouri. "Enhancing Student Learning through Hands-On Laboratory Experiments on Renewable Energy Sources". 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kaycie Lane; Jason Hawkins

© American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conferenceadopt modern scripting languages such as Python and Java [1]. Furthermore, there has been littleintegration of coding courses into the civil engineering curriculum, with coding courses taught by anadjacent department and not by civil engineering professors [1]. While previous data sets weremanageable in spreadsheets and teaching spreadsheet classes is a norm across civil engineeringdepartments [1], improvements in sensors that collect real time data and improvements in mapping largeamounts of data (GIS), monitoring data (large EPA and USGS databases) and the overall emergence ofbig data sets has driven the need to teach students

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Heather L. Walker; Daesoo Kim; Edgar C. Clausen

producing hydrogen from water and compared these tothe current U.S. Department of Energy goal for the cost of hydrogen production by electrolysis[7]. This lab experiment led to a class discussion on balancing the environmental and economicpillars of sustainability and highlighted the complexity of switching to alternative energysources. In the solar energy collection lab, the students used small solar panels to collect energyfrom an overhead light source, studying the position and pitch. The experiment demonstratedhow light is collected with solar panels and subsequently used to generate electricity, while alsodemonstrating the efficiency of typical collectors. Finally, a laboratory-scale pyrolysis reactorwas constructed to demonstrate and study

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Charles Baukal

small groups is not new. However, engineering students solving problems insmall groups in the context considered here (i.e., not in a laboratory or capstone project) hasreceived little attention in the literature. At least until the time of their article, Springer et al.(1999) argued that small-group learning for undergraduate engineering students was notcommonly practiced, even though many studies have shown a statistically significant andpositive effect on achievement, persistence, and attitude on undergraduate STEM students [21].They strongly recommended it be used, although they did not specify a particularimplementation. Sternberg recommended a more formal approach to collaborative learning forengineering students than is advocated here

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Heath A. Schluterman; Aysa L. Galbraith; Leslie B. Massey

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference The Impact of E-Math on Engineering Students: Retention and Progression Outcomes Heath A. Schluterman1, Aysa L. Galbraith1, and Leslie B. Massey2 1 Teaching Associate Professor, 2Advanced Instructor, First-Year Engineering Program, University of ArkansasAbstractIn response to the growing need to support engineering students who were not calculus-ready,the University of Arkansas reintroduced the E-Math program in Fall 2016. This initiative aimedto improve retention and success rates by providing a curriculum that incorporated hands-on labsand integrated engineering applications to enhance student engagement

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Sara E. Wilson; Emma Grob-French; Patsy Maddy; Nancy Noyes

withoutexternal value, just assignments required by instructors that quickly fade once the semester iscompleted. Service learning provides an opportunity to create teamwork projects that haveexternal value. In this paper we will examine using a service-learning team project to promoteteamwork skills.CourseIntroduction to Computational Methods in Mechanical Engineering, ME 208, is a required first-year course for mechanical engineering majors at the University of Kansas. The course coversprogramming skills in MATLAB and C++ on the Arduino platform. The requirements of thecourse include an active-learning lecture within class exercises, weekly individual laboratories,weekly individual homework assignments, three exams, and two team projects. The

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Zahra Zamanipour; Matthew Young; Afsana Ahamed

-by-step process fordeveloping digital systems. The main objective in this course is that students develop hardwareimplementations of algorithms and arithmetic using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).This course is accompanied with or without laboratory time is a project-based course [2, 3, 4, 5].Students were assigned small projects to practice the course subjects during the semester and onebigger project toward the end of the semester.An advanced teaching method, Entrepreneurial Mindset Learning (EML), challenges students toexamine problems more deeply and find realistic solutions. This approach integrates stakeholders,discovery, opportunity identification, and value creation into project-based learning (PBL) [6]. Themain factors to

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Nafiseh Mohammadianaftah; Sara E. Wilson

aresponse to the velocity of input (in this case the velocity of the ball). Finally, the integral termcan improve steady state response (in this case the final ball position). Commercial laboratory balland beam systems exist but can be prohibitively expensive for large class sizes. However, in recentyears, microcontrollers have become more accessible and easier to use, providing a potentialplatform to create inexpensive ball and beam systems. Examples of ball and beam systems usinginexpensive microcontrollers are available [2]. In this work, one such example was adapted tocreate a classroom experiment to study PID controllers [2]. Control systems courses can be mathand theory heavy. By engaging in this hands-on exploration, students gain insights

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Nosakhare I. Idiaghe; Jessica Deters

improve the approaches used in theapprenticeship model of research, ultimately benefiting both students and mentors. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceReferences[1] Boyer Commission, “Reinventing undergraduate education: A blueprint for America’s research universities,” Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University, Room 310, Administration Bldg, 1998. Accessed: May 01, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED424840[2] M. Healey, F. Jordan, B. Pell, and C. Short, “The research–teaching nexus: A case study of students’ awareness, experiences and perceptions of research,” Innov. Educ. Teach