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Susrutha Babu Sukhavasi; SUPARSHYA BABU SUKHAVASI

in problem- AI’s predictive analytics help educators identify students solving abilities [12].who are at risk of falling behind, providing timelyinterventions. A study by The Bill & Melinda Gates Case Study in AR/VR: ClassVR implemented in a middleFoundation [6] found that predictive analytics systems school classroom showed a 50% improvement in studentimplemented in community colleges helped improve student engagement compared to traditional teaching methods,retention rates by 10-20%. Statistics: In a study by the especially in subjects like history and science.Education Advisory Board (EAB), institutions thatimplemented predictive analytics to monitor student progressreported a 15% increase

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Uma Balaji

2025 ASEE Northeast Section Conference, March 22, 2025, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA. Hands-On, Practice-Oriented Approach to Teaching Communication Systems Uma Balaji Electrical and Biomedical Engineering Fairfield University Fairfield, CT ubalaji@fairfield.edu Abstract— A Communication Systems course, offered as a engagement, a practice-oriented approach is essential,major elective for Electrical Engineering students

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Peter F. Cavanaugh

learn, teach,project management practices. and interact in academic environments. From online collaboration platforms to advanced simulation tools, Analysis: Ethical considerations are a critical aspect of AI technology enables students to access diverse resources,implementation. While AI can enhance efficiency and develop new skills, and engage with complex problems indecision-making, it also introduces risks related to bias, innovative ways. One of the most impactful recenttransparency, and accountability. This assignment challenges advancements in technology is Artificial Intelligence (AI

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Elyas Irankhah; Sashank Narain; Kelilah L. Wolkowicz

Sashank_Narain@uml.edu Kelilah_Wolkowicz@uml.edu Abstract— This work focuses on the “Tic-Tac-Toe AI Game”, and enhance student engagement [1]. Studies have shown thata key exhibit at a recent educational technology exhibition, AI-driven educational environments increase studentdesigned as an interactive introduction to the capabilities and motivation and improve retention rates compared to traditionalapplications of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning instruction methods [2]. However, traditional AI education still(ML) systems. The interactive game engaged K-8 students in largely depends on abstract theories, text-heavy explanations,strategic gameplay, helping them develop a

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Samuel Servati; PS. Dhanasekaran

from hands-on, problem-solving approaches intrinsic to PBL Sustained exposure to PBL has been shown tomethodologies. These findings reinforce the argument enhance cognitive skills and improve standardized testthat long-term exposure to PBL fosters deeper performance over multiple years. Research suggestsconceptual understanding and improved problem- that students engaging in STEM PBL experience ansolving abilities. This delayed impact suggests that average improvement of one-quarter of a standardPBL's benefits accumulate over time as students deviation in their strongest subjects, with an overallbecome more proficient in applying learned concepts improvement

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Basile Panoutsopoulos

logically and syntactically Education is one of the fields where AI has a great impact. correct. It can add comments to each line of code. TheEducation tends to adopt various modern practices to improve provided explanatory tutorial statements are great forthe overall educational experience, student engagement, and understanding the material. We may notice that a commentlesson planning. Various services and tools based on artificial error was discovered on a simple program of adding twointelligence are already used in the educational process. Some numbers and slightly different outputs based on the wording ofbenefits from the use of AI in education are: the input question. Although the example used is

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Lina H. Kloub, University of Connecticut; Christina Smith, University of Connecticut; Faiyhaa-Sydra Saulat, University of Connecticut

- reshaping the expectations of employers. According to a reportsolving, and teamwork stand out as particularly crucial for by the World Economic Forum, nearly 50% of all employeesengineering students. Effective communication is vital for will need reskilling by 2025 due to the integration of AIengineers who must regularly explain complex technical ideas and digital transformation in the workplace [2]. The growingto both technical and non-technical audiences[15]. Problem- reliance on AI-driven decision-making, virtual collaboration,solving skills are at the core of engineering practice, requiring and real-time data analysis has increased the demand forstudents to think critically and apply

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Rachmadian Wulandana

, student engagement and interaction, wider [12] K. Bhattacharya, A. S. Bhattacharya, N. Bhattacharya, et al. “ChatGPT in Surgical Practice—a New Kid on the Block”, Indian J Surg 85, 1346–accessibility, improved engagement, and real-time support. 1349 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-023-03727-xNevertheless, they also reminded challenges and concerns [13] T. Hirosawa, Y. Harada, M. Yokose, T. Sakamoto, R. Kawamura, T.such as impact on inequalities among students and needs for Shimizu, “ Diagnostic Accuracy of Differential-Diagnosis Listsadjustment in teaching

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Lina H. Kloub, University of Connecticut

of equipping students with the skills to use projects. The integration of AI tools was a central componentAI tools effectively and ethically is underscored by broader of the course, aiming to enhance student engagement andtrends in workforce preparation. Studies have highlighted the learning outcomes.growing demand for digital literacy and the ability to workalongside AI systems in professional environments [8] [3]. B. Pre-Course Survey. This study focuses on the redesign of a theoretical computer At the start of the semester, students were invited toscience course that is widely regarded as one of the most participate in a survey to assess their baseline knowledgeand attitudes

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Teresa Piliouras; Steffi Crasto; Chinmay Dharap; Pui Lam Yu; Navarun Gupta

• Digital Literacy: Identifying fraudulent communication • Cybersecurity Awareness: Recognizing scams, protecting personal data, using authentication tools to verify accountsScenario Setup: The Students will receive a detailed timeline of events based on real case study (Jane Doe, to protect identity), who was defrauded of nearly $1 million. The class will be divided into small groups, and each group will be assigned a different phase of the scamScam Unfolds to analyze.Real-Time Each group will analyze key moments in the scam and identify warning signs. Groups will be asked:Interactive • What were the red flags at this stage

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Karissa Tilbury; Mohamad Musavi; Cary James; Alex Friess

students in the college that likely are facing similar challenges while also providing a scalable approach for the engineering faculty to multiply their impact on student retention, graduation and career preparation. office provides pizza. The entire BBEST leadership team comprising the Associate Dean of MCEC, two faculty members and the Student Success

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Seyedeh Elham Kamali; Reihaneh Samsami

the AI knowledge as moderately essential, while 12 (14%) reported it as slightly essential, and 4 (5%) as not essential. The average scale for this question is 2.96, which reflects that the majority of the respondents believe that AI knowledge is somehow Fig.7. AI Tools Used by Students essential.Section 3: Perceptions and Impact of AI on Education Students rated the effectiveness of AI tools positively,with 14 (16%) believing them to be very effective

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Kalyan Khatry; Reihaneh Samsami

both educators and learners. In practice, this Some universities have begun introducing modules on could mean incorporating AI orientation sessions at the startmachine learning and AI fundamentals even for non-computer of courses, developing short online modules on AI literacy forscience engineering majors, recognizing that understanding students, and organizing faculty seminars on Gen AI inhow AI works is becoming as important as, say, understanding pedagogy.circuit theory or thermodynamics for certain fields.Additionally, courses on technical communication areevolving to include guidance

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Joseph P. Duszak; John F. Drazan; Cynthia A. Bautista

evaluations depending on the focus of the Soft skill papers focused more on teaching nursing study. These were the NASA-TLX and SUS Questionnaire (nparticipants how they should interact with a person or the = 1), BES-A, CSES, and AttrakDiff 2.0 (n = 1), Virtualclinical space without engaging in a technical activity. VR Reality Sickness Questionnaire (n = 1), PerceivedHMD use in this case allows for nurses to experience Engagement Survey (n = 1), or OSCE Assessment (n = 1).situations they may perceive as stressful (interacting withaggressive patients or patients with mental illness). Soft skill Common Outcomespapers often involved teaching students about interacting and Increased satisfaction in

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Navarun Gupta; Deana DiLuggo; Junling Hu; Abhilasha Tibrewal; Ahmed Elsayed; Theresa Bruckerhoff

students enrolled in scientific problem computer science and engineering degree programs in their first two years of study. As Project Achieve comes to the end of its funded period, • Objective 3: Develop a community of practice the external evaluation focused on the processes engaged in by for faculty to apply the ARG model for Hispanic the project leadership to implement the ARG model into an students enrolled in their first two years as early-year authentic research course and its impact on the engineering and computer science majors. increasing persistence and self-efficacy among participating

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Hasan Baig; Phillip Bradford

) phillip.bradford@uconn.eduAbstract—The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) large language This increase in student enrollment presents a notablemodels (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, brings many benefits for challenge - the manual grading of programming assignmentsproductivity and education. These models also come with a set of becomes a daunting task for instructors. To alleviate thissignificant drawbacks. One of the primary concerns arising from burden, numerous automated programming assessmentthe use of these models is the potential for student plagiarism intheir homework and assignments. The ability of ChatGPT to platforms have been introduced, including

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Shruti Brahma, University of New Haven; Siddhant Alhat Rajendra, University of New Haven; Ardiana Sula, University of New Haven

reflective of the diverseinternational student enrollment with economic and policy pool of applicants, consisting of 31.2% from Connecticut,influences at a Midwestern U.S. university using the Seasonal 35% from other United States states, and 33.7% international.Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) model. In order to maintain student privacy, all institutional recordsThe study discovered that tuition increases had a relatively were anonymized, or all personally identifiable informationlow impact on international student enrollment, suggesting was deleted. The dataset was also audited for regional bias,that factors such as academic reputation and career prospects and no statistically

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Lina H. Kloub, University of Connecticut; Vraj Patel; Tina Huey

porting student learning and engagement were generally cau- The survey results reveal instructors familiarity with, usage tious. Only a small fraction, 4%, rated AI tools as verypatterns of, and attitudes toward AI tools, providing insights effective, while 24% considered them moderately effectiveinto their engagement, concerns, and readiness for integration and 15% effective. However, a substantial 42% viewed AIinto teaching and professional work. tools as slightly effective, and 15% deemed them not effective, reflecting skepticism about their current impact on studentA. Instructors Knowledge of AI Tools

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Bushra Rayyan Qadri; Arthur McAdams; Peter Cavanaugh; Dan Tenney; Ali Baker

, CTAbstract - Universities and corporations are organized in scenarios and practice cross-functional situation-farming andhierarchies in which each division/department has its own problem-solving exercises. The goal of this exercise is to betterexpertise and associated culture that shape their goals and prepare the students for corporate environments by equipping themobjectives. While this segregation encourages focused expertise with the skills necessary to collaborate across multipleand knowledge, it often hinders collaboration across departments, divisions/departments/disciplines.leading to inefficiencies and communication breakdowns thatnegatively impact organizational success

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Thomas C. McKinley

and creating a Additionally, high school students often have busy schedulesgeographical map of bike distribution to add more challenges. We that make it difficult to carve out time for extracurricularalso worked on web scraping projects for gaming to make learning activities. I realized that for the club to be successful, it neededfun. Our club invited professors and engineers to host seminars, to provide clear value and excitement to prospective members.providing research insights and inspiring members. I also led my Students had to see programming and AI as more than just anclub members in carrying out AI research activities and academic pursuit, but as a fun and engaging way to build

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Marvin Gayle; Danny Mangra

-based learning is a critical part of many engineeringFirsthand, experiential education can be engaging to students curriculums. For most engineering programs, lab experimentsand help to develop their technical and analytical thinking skills ensure that students are afforded a hands-on experience thatregardless of program accreditation. compliments the theory covered in the lecture classroom. Their lab experience can be a pathway to enhancing the Lab-based pedagogy, and classroom experience, promoteempirical learning and improve problem-solving techniques. By students’ technical proficiency and problem-solving skill

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Mohammad Rafiq Muqri; Simon Obeid; Gusteau Duclos, DeVry University

opportunities structures in vast datasets as in [1] and continuouslyacross multiple domains, including education, it also raises improving through fine-tuning and prompting.ethical concerns around issues such as copyright,misinformation, and bias. This paper explores the potential of Generative AI operates in three phases:generative AI to revolutionize teaching and learning, with a focuson its impact on student outcomes. Through an examination of • Training, to create a foundation model that can serveselective platforms such as ChatGPT, Character AI, Gemini, and as the basis of multiple gen AI applications.Deep Seek, this paper aims to introduce students to thefundamentals of building AI-powered applications

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PS. Dhanasekaran

privacyconcerns. As AI increasingly enhances students' learning, time feedback, and intelligent administrative support.these innovations may overshadow critical ethical issues. AI-supported classrooms have been found to improveTeachers play a crucial role in ensuring that AI is used engagement and student achievement compared toethically in education, and their training needs to be traditional methods. Computer-based education is set tocomprehensive in addressing these concerns. AI transforms become an integral part of the 21st century, with AIeducation by focusing on students' needs and aiding playing a crucial role in this transformation. It is essentialeducators in developing personalized

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Bala Maheswaran; Meghna Sridhar; Yiannis Levendis; Hameed Metghalchi

—that design and prototyping process involves the use of rapidchallenges students to consider both technical and prototyping techniques, such as 3D printing and laserenvironmental impacts in their projects. This paper presents cutting, to create components for the project. Lastly,a heliostat model assembly project, conducted as part of a students engage in control systems by programmingproject-based learning (PBL) curriculum [8-9], aimed at Arduino-based sensors and motors to adjust the positioningfostering a sustainable engineering mindset in students. A of the heliostat, gaining hands-on experience with thesesustainable engineering

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Nadia Albishi; Peter Cavanaugh

be modified while adopting a lens related to technology the integration of structured technology in the high schools ofmanagement. This can also help in ensuring the benefits of all Saudi Arabia while focusing on student engagement, lessonthe approaches related to strategic decision-making within all planning, and the strategies of assessments?the policymakers and educational institutions of Saudi Arabia.However, without the involvement of proper evidence on the H02: There is no presence of significance among thelong-term benefits of all the operations investment within the participants of OPD and the inclusion of structural technologytraining programs for the online teacher can further remain

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Jun Zhang; Peter Cavanaugh; Dan Tenney

work. Engagement with responsibility and independence. As digital technologyopen source also exposes students to professional interactions becomes an essential aspect of everyday life, schools have aand networking, as well as events like summits and developer duty to prepare students for participation in a free digitalmeetings. In this way, students gain a better understanding of society. Relying on proprietary software can create long-termsoftware engineering, professional communication, and the dependency on specific vendors, which may hinder personalpractical constraints of large projects. Participation in open- and institutional independence. In contrast, free softwaresource projects also

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Marlon Jost; Umme Hani Bootwala; Don Heiman; Haridas Kumuraku

puzzles can improve cognitive skills difficult to systematically isolate the relevant switches. If, forlike memory, attention, and creativity. When students tackle a example, there were only two switches per LED, then it wouldchallenging puzzle, they learn to observe patterns, think be simple to flip the switches one by one to identify which twocritically, and make connections—skills that are essential inboth academics and everyday life. Furthermore, puzzles also TABLE I. MATERIALSencourage social interaction. When students work together to Part Quantitysolve problems, they develop communication skills, learn to 1/4” wood for box

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Terri A. Camesano; Elizabeth Wilson; Valerie Smedile Rifkin

, and Micro-Credentials. AC are an important part of segment of the education landscape focused on non-degree,the university’s mission because they can expand the university’s alternative credentials, including certificates and “micro-role in providing flexible and accessible life-long learning, credentials.” Driven by the rise of online education, theseprovide additional revenue streams, support non-traditional alternative and micro-credentials have found a niche marketlearners, broaden the reach of education to rural or underserved especially among adult learners who value the flexibility,communities, and open up educational pathways to students

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Jorge Paricio Garcia; Paul Spirito

in theconstraints are balanced, and mental images are externalized initial responses gathered from three classes: Human Factorsthrough sketches, drawings, and models. These representations for Industrial Design, Senior Design Project, and Design ofhelp sort information and generate new ideas. The design Textile-Based Wearable Healthcare Devices. The evaluationprocess is solution-focused and goal-oriented, done in iterative criteria were based on the students' engagement and outcomescycles of trial and error to refine solutions. using various AI tools introduced during the academic year 2024-25. The assessment focused on