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Surupa Shaw, Texas A&M University; Randy Brooks, Texas A&M University

Paper ID #49522WIP: Fostering Professional Skills Development through Application in CoreEngineering Subject Courses: A Pathway to Holistic Student DevelopmentDr. Surupa Shaw, Texas A&M University Dr. Surupa Shaw has been associated with Texas A&M University since 2015, most recently as the Assistant Professor at the Department of Multidisciplinary Engineering. Texas A&M University, Higher Education Center. Prior to this, she was a faculty member at Ocean Engineering Department, TAMU.Randy Brooks, Texas A&M University Howdy, After 23 years in Telecom building LD, internet, and email platforms and

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Ali Gharib, The University of Texas at Austin; Ahmed Elsaid; Abdulla Ali Al Dabbagh; Nayef Alyafei, Qatar University; Ghada Salama, Texas A&M University at Qatar

the fed tank, pressurized to the test pressure and fed to the membrane element.The students varied the feed pressure for two different solutions of 3 and 4% NaCl and measuredthe flux of product water (as the volume of water produced per unit membrane area per unit time,i.e., m3/m2.h or m/h). Proceedings of the 2025 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX Copyright © 2025, American Society for Engineering Education 7 (a) (b) Figure 1. Laboratory desalination systems: (a) RO membrane desalination, (b) double

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Matthew Fendt, Baylor University

Paper ID #49493Integrating Conference Poster Presentations into a Data Science ClassDr. Matthew Fendt, Baylor University Dr. Matthew Fendt is a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science at Baylor University. His research interests include video game and app development for education, pedagogical practices, AI, and machine learning. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 1 Session XXXX Integrating Conference Poster Presentations into a Data Science Class

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Bill D Carroll P.E., The University of Texas at Arlington; Kartikey Sharan, The University of Texas at Arlington

Paper ID #49640Teaching Digital Logic Design Using a Floating-Point ProcessorDr. Bill D Carroll P.E., The University of Texas at Arlington Bill Carroll is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). He has been a UTA faculty member since 1981 and has held faculty positions at Auburn University and visiting appointments at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Washington. He is a co author of three textbooks on digital logic design.Kartikey Sharan, The University of Texas at Arlington Kartikey Sharan is a PhD student in computer engineering at the

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Paul J Componation, The University of Texas at Arlington

Paper ID #49677Using Agile Curriculum Development to Design a Systems Engineering ProgramCurriculumDr. Paul J Componation, The University of Texas at Arlington Paul J. Componation is the Associate Dean for Graduate and Interdisciplinary Affairs in the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 1 Ram kSession XXXX

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Fiona Litiku, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Curtis John O'Malley, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Matthew Luis Tyrrell, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

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Paper ID #47536Robotic Opportunities for Rural Communities: Building a STEM Pipelinefor K-12 StudentsFiona Litiku, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Fiona has helped with the New Mexico Tech outreach for a year now, and with the Robotics competition that is a result of the outreach program. She is a teaching assistant for college freshman in the NMT Mechanical Engineering department, allowing her to see first-hand the general scope of knowledge gained from K-12 education in New Mexico. Continued work with the outreach program has allowed Fiona and her co-authors Thomas Pierson, Matthew Tyrrell, and Dr. Curtis

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Nathan Jackson, University of New Mexico; Pil Kang, University of New Mexico

Paper ID #49540Development of a Novel Graduate Pedagogy to Enhance Job Readiness inSemiconductor Education Based on Role-Playing Internship ExperienceProf. Nathan Jackson, University of New Mexico Prof. Jackson is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Nanoscience and Microsystems Engineering Graduate Program at University of New Mexico. He is the PI of an NSF funded Innovation and Graduate Education project focused on increasing job readiness of graduate students in the semiconductor industry. He is a member of ASEE and Senior Member of IEEE. He was awarded the Junior Faculty Research award at

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Amir Karimi, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Randall D. Manteufel P.E., The University of Texas at San Antonio

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Catherine Elisabeth Lugo, UT Arlington Research Experience for Teachers - Fort Worth ISD; Meribah Marie Treadway, The University of Texas at Arlington

‭Copyright‬‭©‬‭2025, American Society for Engineering Education‬ ‭9‬ ‭Session 2025‬ ‭References‬‭1.‬ B ‭ ansal, P. and Kockelman, K.M. (2017). Forecasting Americans’ long-term adoption of‬ ‭connected and autonomous vehicle technologies. ‬‭Transportation Research Part A: Policy and‬ ‭Practice‬‭, ‬‭95‬‭, pp.49-63.‬ ‭https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856415300628?casa_token=I5vPStoUFa‬ ‭0AAAAA:kPqEPShiJ5qJMrxwo80_UoUUwFCoKpKSDbT1olu_UnsjaT7HnkceEUHf1aWCjqK‬ ‭AXyNZiA‬ ‭2.‬ ‭Machek, E., Stanford, J., Fischer, S., Canty, K

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Dani Fadda, University of Texas at Dallas; Wooram Park, University of Texas at Dallas; P.l.stephan Thamban; Oziel Rios, University of Texas at Dallas

wind tunnel shown in Fig. 1 (b), which was designed and built by senior students as part ofa capstone design class. Finally, a report is required to summarize the work done to design the blades,the calculations, and the results. The wind tunnel gives digital data for the power generated for studentsto postprocess. Bragging rights are given to teams with the blades that generate the highest power.Sample blades are shown in Fig. 1 (c to f).Students cut their own blades and get familiar with operating laser cutters during this activity. Theysee that accurate cuts can be made in less than a minute. They learn to think about the assembly, whichis required after cutting the blades. This includes attaching the blades to dowels and deciding on

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Joshua Hicks-Ward, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Kevin Nguyen, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Cody Gonzalez, The University of Texas at San Antonio

the Inner Cone Shaftwith the Gear Rack. Also note that the Inner Cone Shaft is cylindrical with two flat sides, also knownas an obround extrusion, to reduce rotation and therefore miss-alignment of the rack and pinion. ASafety Lock Spring was added between the underside of the Inner Locking Cone and Male LockingCone base. In the instance that an issue occurs with rack and pinion, or electric servo motor, the springpushes the Inner Locking Cone into a locking state. These features and parts are seen in Figure 4 whichshows Locked and Unlocked configurations of the Tool Locking Cone and UGV Master RTC. Figure 4. (a) Section View of Unlocked UGV RTC, (b) Section View of Locked UGV RTC Proceedings of the 2025 ASEE Gulf

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Bonnie S. Boardman, The University of Texas at Arlington

and Mobility Patterns in Higher Education Through Open-Source Visualization," CU Scholar, Boulder, CO, 2019.[4] M. Raji, J. Duggan, B. DeCotes, J. Huang and B. Vander Zanden, "Modeling and Visualizing Student Flow," IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2021.[5] NumFOCUS, Inc., "Pandas," 2023. [Online]. Available: https://pandas.pydata.org/.[6] Plotly, "Sankey Diagram in Python," 2023. [Online]. Available: https://plotly.com/python/sankey-diagram/.[7] B. Boardman, "UTA College of Engineering Sankey Diagrams," 3 8 2023. [Online]. Available: https://bonnieboardman.github.io/Sankey/IEFiltered.html.[8] G. Mendez, X. Ochoa, K. Chiluiza and B. de Wever, "Curricular Design Analysis: A Data- Driven Perspective," Journal of Learning

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Chinedu Okonkwo, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Roy Uzoma Lan; Ibukun Gabriel Awolusi, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Jiannan Cai

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other engineering programs. As depicted inFigure 2 (b) and (c), the majority of the students had no prior programming experience and had nottaken a programming course. Figure 2. Demographic information of students Proceedings of the 2025 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX Copyright © 2025, American Society for Engineering Education 8AI and Programming Knowledge, Learning Confidence, and Relevance to CareerThe findings of the study also show that the perception of the students’ AI and programmingknowledge, confidence, and relevance generally

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Hoo Kim, LeTourneau University; Jaden Schuster, LeTourneau University; Ray Holt

-2—161335. Edalgo, S., & High, K. A., & Lichtenstein, G., & Lee, C. M., & Main, J. B. (2021, July), Exploring How FacultyMentoring Influences Faculty Productivity Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference ContentAccess, Virtual Conference. 10.18260/1-2—371446. Bilen-Green, C., & Green, R. A., & McGeorge, C., & Birmingham, E. J., & Burnett, A. (2013, June), MentoringPrograms Supporting Junior Faculty Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta,Georgia. 10.18260/1-2--222837. Mendez, S. L., & Conley, V. M., & Haynes, C. L., & Gerhardt, R. A., & Tygret, J. (2018, June), The IMPACTMentoring Program: Exploring the Benefits of Mentoring for Emeriti Faculty

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Oliver Cole Harrison, Wichita State University; Adam Carlton Lynch, Wichita State University; Ridge Daniel Towner, Wichita State University

. (2002, November). Enhancing the engineering curriculum through project-based learning. In 32nd Annual Frontiers in Education (Vol. 2, pp. F3F-F3F). IEEE. 13. Smętkowska, M., & Mrugalska, B. (2018). Using Six Sigma DMAIC to improve the quality of the production process: a case study. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 238, 590-596. 14. Selvi, K., & Majumdar, R. (2014). Six sigma-overview of DMAIC and DMADV. International Journal of Innovative Science and Modern Engineering, 2(5), 16-19. 15. Ayati, A., & Schleich, B. (2024). Understanding the relations between part deviations and part deformations for tolerance analysis–an ontology-based approach. Procedia CIRP, 129, 97-102

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Haiying Huang, The University of Texas at Arlington; Monica Franco, The University of Texas at Arlington

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lecture-centric pedagogy, PLTL incorporates small-group sessions facilitatedby peer leaders (PLs). These PLs are selected from students who have successfully completed thecourse with a grade B or above. They receive comprehensive training on active learning strategies,communication, leadership, etc., prior to leading PLTL sessions. The PLTL sessions are typicallyoffered as a supplement to regular classroom teaching. Students voluntarily sign up for the PLTLsessions, but they are required to meet certain attendance threshold to remain in the program. ThePLTL sessions focus on collaborative problem-solving and active learning strategies that help studentsengage deeply with the material and their peers. A faculty liaison develops a weekly PLTL

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Nandika D'Souza, University of Texas at Dallas; Hector R. Siller, University of North Texas; Hyun Kyoung Kyoung Ro, University of North Texas; Debbie Huffman, North Central Texas College; Mary J Combs, Quality Measures

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captured deficitmindset responses such as “does this cost”, “will it be paid” and other responses indicatingexploration was not an optin for most students. Following the invitation, a number of student andfaculty pairs formed. In keeping with SB17, the student peers were supported from the population ofthe college and beyond SHPE. Proceedings of the 2025 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX Copyright  2025, American Society for Engineering Education 7Table 2: a) First year admitted student demographic distribution in Major’s and Pre-Majorsand b

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Mengqi Monica Zhan, University of Texas at Arlington; Grace Ellen Brannon, The University of Texas at Arlington; Liwei Zhang, The University of Texas at Arlington; Frank K. Lu, The University of Texas at Arlington

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, VentureWell, 2024.16. J. Omotade, J. King, and R. A. Kahn, "Imposter syndrome and diversity graduate students," Minority Affairs, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 22-24, 2017.17. H. E. Tajfel, Differentiation between social groups: Studies in the social psychology of intergroup relations, Academic Press, 1978.18. H. Tajfel and J. C. Turner, "An Integrative Theory of Intergroup Conflict," in The Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations, W. G. Austin and S. Worchel, Eds., pp. 33-37, Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1979.19. H. Thiry, T. J. Weston, S. L. Laursen, and A. B. Hunter, "The benefits of multi-year research experiences: Differences in novice and experienced students’ reported gains from undergraduate research," CBE—Life Sciences

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Sivaganeshwar Subramaniam, Wichita State University; Adam Carlton Lynch, Wichita State University

://doi.org/10.1177/25151274198794692. Zappe, S. E., Cutler, S. L., & Gase, L. (2023). A systematic review of the impacts of entrepreneurial support programs in science, technology, engineering, and math fields. Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy. (1), 3- 31. https://doi.org/10.1177/251512742110404223. Curiosity: What do we mean? (n.d.). Engineering Unleashed. https://engineeringunleashed.com/card/1493.4. Creating Value: A component of entrepreneurial mindset (n.d.). Engineering Unleashed https://engineeringunleashed.com/creating-value5. Walden, D. D., Shortell, T. M., Roedler, G. J., Delicado, B. A., Mornas, O., Yip, Y. S., & Endler, D. (Eds.). (2023). INCOSE systems engineering handbook (5th ed.). John Wiley

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chen pan, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Thuy Khanh Nguyen, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Chunjiang Qian, The University of Texas at San Antonio

, benefits, and challenges. International journal of exercise science, 1(3), p.91.[4] Linn, M.C., Palmer, E., Baranger, A., Gerard, E. and Stone, E., 2015. Undergraduate research experiences: Impacts and opportunities. Science, 347(6222), p.1261757.[5] Adedokun, O.A., Zhang, D., Parker, L.C., Bessenbacher, A., Childress, A. and Burgess, W.D., 2012. Understanding how undergraduate research experiences influence student aspirations for research careers and graduate education. Journal of College Science Teaching, 42(1), p.82.[6] Gilmore, J., Vieyra, M., Timmerman, B., Feldon, D. and Maher, M., 2015. The relationship between undergraduate research participation and subsequent research performance of early career STEM graduate students

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Randall D. Manteufel, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX Copyright  2025, American Society for Engineering Education 7 [7] Huang, B., & Lu, C. (2024, June), Evaluating ChatGPT’s Engineering-Reasoning Capabilities and Constraints Through Examples from Mechanical-Engineering Education Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. 10.18260/1-2—47342 [8] Manteufel, R. D., & Karimi, A. (2024, June), Student Use of ChatGPT to Write an Engineering Report Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. 10.18260/1-2—48021 [9] Supan, K. (2024, June), Using Artificial Intelligence Case

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Md Nazmus Sakib, University of North Texas; Maurizio Manzo, University of North Texas; Rattaya Chowdhury Yalamanchili, University of North Texas

Education 3improved their academic performance, with 16.2% noting significant improvement as shown in Figure1.The tools’ influence on students’ confidence in tackling complex topics is another key takeaway. Overhalf (54.8%) of the students felt a moderate increase in confidence, and 9.6% experienced a significantboost. Most students believe AI can benefit their educational experience than traditional learningmethods by providing immediate access to information (64.4%), instant doubt clarification (52.9%)and feedback (48.1%). Students can also benefit from customized learning paths (35.6%) andexpanded access to learning materials (46.2%).Figure 1: a) Effectiveness of AI tools usage, b) Impact of AI

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Pedro Cordeiro Povoa Cupertino, Wichita State University; Adam Carlton Lynch, Wichita State University

10 defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2024/FY2024_Budget_Request_Overview_Book.pdf. 8. U.S. Department of Defense, "FY 2025 Defense Budget Overview," 2024. Available: https://comptroller. defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2025/FY2025_Budget_Request_Overview_Book.pdf. 9. Korki, Jin, and Tian, "Real-Time Cyber-physical Systems: State-of-the-Art and Future Trends," 2022. Available: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-287-251-7_37. 10. J. B. Awotunde, K. A. Amuda, Y. J. Oguns, N. Nigar, T. A. Adeleke, K. M. Olagunju, and S. A. Ajagbe, "Cyber-Physical Systems Security: Analysis, Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Prospects," 2022. Available: https

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Mia K. Markey, University of Texas at Austin; Anakaren Romero Lozano, University of Texas at Austin; Kristin M Connelly, University of Texas at Austin

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Paper ID #49521Welcome Letters to Families of New Graduate StudentsProf. Mia K. Markey, University of Texas at Austin Dr. Mia K. Markey is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Engineering #1 at The University of Texas at Austin as well as Adjunct Professor of Imaging Physics at The University of Texas MD AndAnakaren Romero Lozano, University of Texas at AustinKristin M Connelly, University of Texas at Austin ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 1

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Raj Desai, Midwestern State University

) are rapidly growing fields and importantdisciplines for meeting the needs of a growing population. Enough students are not entering thesefields and hence the need for increasing retention into degree programs that will prepare youngadults for employment in STEM fields. Students from diverse backgrounds may have differentdevelopmental processes in college, impacting the ways in which they should be supported. Ifundergraduate students are to thrive at college, it is essential that they successfully adjust to thevarious academic and behavioral expectations they will face on most university campuses. IntroductionThe First-Year Mustangs Adventure program consists of a zero credit First Year Seminar that

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Colby Edward Kurtz, Houston Christian University

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AbstractThis paper demonstrates the design and implementation of an innovative gamified softwareapplication for learning human-spoken languages. The game serves as an interactive and enjoyablesupplement to aid the learning process of different languages for elementary-aged children. At its core,the application uses a translation Application Programming Interface (API) to process text and outputtranslations in the target language chosen by the learner. Additionally, it is AI-enabled, allowing theutilization of APIs such as OpenAIs’s ChatGPT to enhance the translation capabilities. Provided is abasic proof of concept that was developed as part of the Final Pi Project in the Intermediate ComputerProgramming (COSC 1352) course. The gamified program was

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Lynn L. Peterson, The University of Texas at Arlington; J. Carter Tiernan, The University of Texas at Arlington; Shanna E Banda, The University of Texas at Arlington; Karthikeyan Loganathan, The University of Texas at Arlington; Nila Veerabathina, The University of Texas at Arlington

University of Texas at Arlington Nilakshi Veerabathina Department of Physics University of Texas at Arlington AbstractThe role of non-tenure track faculty members in the present-day urban public university is critical butoften not well-recognized. Though this is a result of a historical scenario, in recent times, institutionshave been working towards the furtherance of non-tenure track faculties. The American Associationof Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) held a workshop in the Summer of 2024. The workshop's goalwas to encourage participating institutions to include non-tenure track STEM

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Kendra Zagozda, Fort Worth ISD; Roberto Wheelock; Raziye Aghapour, The University of Texas at Arlington; Soulmaz Rahman Mohammadpour, The University of Texas at Arlington; Jaivardhan Sood, The University of Texas at Arlington; Erick C. Jones, The University of Texas at Arlington; Victoria C. P. Chen, The University of Texas at Arlington

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Paper ID #49652Bringing College Level Engineering Research Experiences into the K-12 ClassroomMrs. Kendra Zagozda, Fort Worth ISDRoberto WheelockRaziye Aghapour, The University of Texas at ArlingtonSoulmaz Rahman Mohammadpour, The University of Texas at ArlingtonJaivardhan Sood, The University of Texas at Arlington Jaivardhan is a PhD student in the Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering department at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research focuses on statistics, optimisation, and their intersection.Dr. Erick C. Jones, The University of Texas at Arlington Erick Jones is an assistant professor in the IMSE

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Rahul Sharan Renu, Austin College

and context for development of PIs.Specifically, the LLM is informed that the program where the PIs will be used is a general engineeringprogram. In addition, the LLM is given verbs from Blooms Taxonomy and a “verb + content” syntaxalong with other prompts/rules. It is also constrained to generate PIs that include one verb per PI soas to avoid compound statements. Using this contextual information and the stated rules, the LLM istasked with generating PIs for each SO.In some instances, the LLM generated PIs that were vague. In other cases, the LLM generated PIs thatdid not adhere to rules that were stated. The LLM-generated PIs are compared to those found inliterature quantitatively using Latent Semantic Analysis, and qualitatively by the

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Erin Patricia Lawlor, University of New Mexico; Tariq Khraishi, University of New Mexico

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Paper ID #49679Fire Behavior of 3D Printed Wooden PLA MaterialsErin Patricia Lawlor, University of New Mexico Erin Lawlor is currently a senior in Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Mexico. Her research interests involve aerospace engineering and fire safety engineering, as she is a state of Alaska certified firefighter.Prof. Tariq Khraishi, University of New Mexico Khraishi currently serves as a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Mexico. His general research interests are in theoretical, computational and experimental solid mechanics and materials science. He has taught classes in