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

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Paper ID #49649Integrating Peer-Led-Team Learning (PLTL) and Design Thinking to improvestudent success in Engineering StaticsProf. Haiying Huang, The University of Texas at Arlington Prof. Haiying Huang is a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Director of Engineering Education at the College of Engineering at the University of Texas Arlington. Her research interests include design thinking pedagogy, collaborative learning, and faculty development. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 1

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Raj Desai, Midwestern State University

by the counseling center, attending a tutoringsession at the learning center, or attending a supplemental instruction session. Peer content tutoringis available at the learning center in the library for any writing assignment in nursing, biology,physics, chemistry, math, history, political science, business, computer science, German, Spanish,sociology, and psychology. Online tutoring is available for distance education students, travellingathletes, writing, math, science, business, etc. Supplemental instruction is available for moredifficult courses.Wellness options include attending an athletic event, attending a performing arts event, participatingin a campus or community event that promotes wellness, visiting the wellness center, keeping

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

. Fluid system Group design challenges Team-based fluid Structured lab discussions on encouraging flow experiments report writing with environmentalFluid Mechanics students to and collaborative peer review and impact and fluid optimize design projects. feedback cycles

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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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CareerEngagement (https://careerengagement.utexas.edu/graduate-students/). In addition to our state ofthe art research facilities, our campus also offers numerous opportunities for personal growth andrelaxation, including the Blanton Museum of Art (https://blantonmuseum.org/), Moody Center(https://moodycenteratx.com/), and Recreational Sports (https://www.utrecsports.org/).At the department level, we offer peer-mentoring and weekly professional development seminarsthrough the BMEntored program. We are proud of how our students support each other throughstudent organizations such as the BME Graduate Student Society(https://sites.google.com/view/utbmegss/home) and Graduates for Underrepresented Minorities(https://www.gumut.org/). We invite you to stay

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Matthew Kuester, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

3 Course ObjectivesENGR 4150 is taken concurrently with ENGR 4350 (Fluid Mechanics; three-hour lecture format),and the main objective of ENGR 4150 is to supplement the lecture course. This is evidenced in thecourse’s catalog description: “This lab investigates the fundamental concepts of fluid mechanics with hands-on experiments in the areas of fluid statics, viscosity, buoyancy, Bernoulli’s equation, friction losses, and the concepts of lift and drag.”All course activities were designed with this description in mind. Three additional objectives arealso emphasized: technical writing, uncertainty analysis, and experimental design. The followingsubsections describe each of these

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

Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Texas (UNT). He earned his Ph.D. in 2015 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Italy. Dr. Manzo’s research spans several areas within mechanical engineering, including experimental optics, photonics, sensing, and experimental fluid mechanics. He has authored over 45 peer-reviewed journal papers and conference proceedings, and he holds 3 US patents (1 utility and 2 provisional). Dr. Manzo has been successful in securing over $2.3 million in research funding from prestigious sources such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department

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Alexander Hernandez, West Texas A&M University; Sanjoy Bhattacharia, West Texas A&M University; Sarah Petters, University of California, Riverside; Markus Petters, University of California, Riverside

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as phasechange, phase transition temperature, crystallization, and ice nucleation, in existing universitycourses. We educated a diverse group of students and exposed them to state-of-the-art techniquesearly in their academic careers to consider pursuing a STEM career and higher education. Asoutreach, we also trained graduate students, as well as students from an adjacent communitycollege (CC). The developed curricular activities provided students with experience inexperimentation, data analysis, and technical writing. Based on the ABET assessment of learningoutcomes, we assessed our goals to educate students on 1) using multidisciplinary science,engineering, and mathematical skills to evaluate and address complex issues emergent in

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

consisting of process engineers to upper management and from multinationalcompanies to start up companies. This allowed the “instructors” to determine which KSA’s to focuson in the course. IntroductionMainstream graduate STEM education programs are traditionally designed to train students foracademic careers as they focus on knowledge and skills related to laboratory research practices,writing technical journal papers, and presenting results at conferences to academic peers. Thismethod of education has value in preparing students for academic careers but falls short in Proceedings of the 2025 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at

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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

amenities along the way. Included in consideration should be locating a psychiatric hospital and a children’s hospital in one of the communities served by the rapid rail system to enable greater access to services in regions where access is limited. In regard to the two hospitals, an estimate of the number of beds needed and estimated cost is all that is required; design of the hospitals is beyond the scope of this RFP. All questions regarding this RFP and expectations must be submitted in writing; answers will be provided to all potential responders.The project was divided into two phases, each phase having similar yet different expectations. Further,the expectations of a response to the RFP were intended to

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Lance Leon Allen White, Texas A&M University; Karan Watson P.E., Texas A&M University

be markedly different was the mode inwhich students studied for their exams. Many students spent a significant time working out theirpractice problems and other study materials by hand on physical media, whether that be paper ora writing enabled tablet. Through discussions with students, it was clear that students wereattempting to simulate the exam environment as much as possible. This simulation of assessmentenvironment is far from evidence to suggest the larger difference seen for Exam 2, although itdoes provide insight for further explorative work. Conclusions and Future WorkThis work was inspired by the striking presence of academic misconduct during exams in afoundational first-year engineering course at