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Tariq Khraishi, University of New Mexico

students.ME217 was offered by the author fully online and asynchronously using the Canvas LMS. It is alsooffered by other teachers during the academic year and garners a lot larger enrollment then. In thiscourse, all lectures/presentations were pre-recorded with voice over PowerPoint presentations, asvideo with audio (or MP4), and were available to the students from day 1 of this summer offering.This course has a required textbook that its chapters are covered during the semester. ME512 wasalso used asynchronously online but as a medium to exchange course information and documents,e.g. syllabus and handouts or written notes or external class material not covered by the requiredtextbook, as well as homework information. Both online presences utilized an

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

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James K. Nelson Jr. P.E., Texas A&M University System RELLIS Campus; Celeste Arden Riley, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; Jeffrey John Hatala, West Texas A&M University; Andrew Crawford, Tarleton State University; London Knight, West Texas A&M University; Victoria June Vinzant, Texas A&M University - Kingsville

and perspectives. Faculty hope that, by the end of course,students experience a similar level of comfort with other disciplines, how to communicate with peoplefrom different academic backgrounds, how to think critically about subjects not “in their wheelhouse,”and employ concepts and terms introduced during the course.Near the beginning of the semester, faculty felt greater urgency to finish the course design,assignments, syllabus, et cetera, similar to what students experience near the end of their academicterms. I found this ironic and amusing. Proceedings of the 2025 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX Copyright

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

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Raj Desai, Midwestern State University

programs. He has research experience with programming, developing online programs in technology, and has several refereed papers on online education, recycling and innovation. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 1 Session XXXX Improving Retention in STEM Programs Raj Desai McCoy School of Engineering Midwestern State University AbstractScience, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM