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Naga Korivi; Maurice Gunderson

highschool, 2-year, and 4-year college students. He holds a Ph.D. degree in electricalengineering from Louisiana State University.Maurice Gunderson, Oregon Institute of TechnologyMaurice Gunderson is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, corporate director, engineer,and a lifelong aviator. He is Managing Director Emeritus of AutoTech Ventures.Previously he was a founder of Nth Power, one of the first energy venture capitalfirms; and a Senior Partner at CMEA Capital, where he was the lead investor inNuScale Power, a developer of modular nuclear power plants. Mr. Gunderson hasserved on boards of over thirty private and public companies. Prior to his VC career,Mr. Gunderson, an engineer, developed aerospace and energy products and launchedeleven

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Stephanie Wettstein

Peripheral Jigsaw Activities to Engage Students’ Entrepreneurial Mindsets Stephanie G. Wettstein Chemical and Biological Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USAAbstractThroughout a student’s undergraduate career, oftentimes the only engagement they have withengineering professionals is during internships and their senior-level design course. However,research indicates that students value these interactions for their engineering development.Through Kern Entrepreneurial Education Network (KEEN) Fellowship funding, four chemicalengineering alumni created jigsaw activities that were presented in a junior-level

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Jihoon Lim

, “Five major shifts in 100 years of engineering education.”,Proc IEEE, vol. 100, pp. 1344-1360, 2012.[2] Meuth, R., Robinette, P., and Wunsch, D., “Introducing Robots”, in Proceedings of the 2009Annual Conference & Exposition, Austin, Texas. 10.18260/1-2—4581[3] Mikhail, M., Alavizadeh, A., “Virtual Robot Labs for Programming Industrial RobotCourse”, in Proceedings of the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, Florida.10.18260/1-2—33537[4] D. Herath and D. St-Onge, Foundations of Robotics: A Multidisciplinary Approach withPython and ROS. Singapore: Springer, 2022.[5] Walker, J. G., Howe, G., Plett, M. (2022, May), “Interdisciplinary engineering capstonecourse sequence designed for career preparation” in Proceedings of the 2022

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Yuliana Flores; Jennifer A. Turns

former high school (where my siblings currently attend) to a friend, whoencouraged me to apply despite the deadline having passed. That night, I emailed both theorganization and my high school contact, Mr. B. My first conversation with Mr. B occurred after school. I shared my parent conferenceexperience, my questions, my background in user experience research, and my broader interest inengineering education access. I also shared the proposal I had submitted to DiscoverEngineering. Mr. B was excited, offered feedback on my initial idea, and promised to speak withhis supervisors (the Career and Technical Education lead and principal) for approval. Because this project was not research oriented to begin with, I was really flexible to

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Abdelouahab Abrous

their problem-solving abilities, and are betterprepared for careers in both industry and research. This approach not only reinforces theoreticalconcepts but also provides a hands-on learning experience that is critical in developing practicalskills. The effectiveness of this educational model can be evaluated through a combination ofassessments, including conceptual tests, coding projects, debugging tasks, and industry-standardevaluations. To ensure a comprehensive assessment and continuous skill development, variouscomputational tools, learning management systems, auto-graders, and visualization software areemployed. These resources help track progress and provide immediate feedback to students. Inthe end, this blended learning methodology

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Matthew S. Barner

. While not all CE students will pursue structuralengineering, lack of exposure to structural design courses disadvantages them on the FE.Interestingly, two programs introduce steel and reinforced concrete design topics in a singlerequired structural design course. This could be an option for other programs wanting to preparetheir non-structural CE students for the structural questions on the FE civil exam.Introduction Passing the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exams is one of the first steps towardsprofessional engineering licensure. Civil engineering majors are the most likely to take the FEexam due to many civil engineering careers requiring or expecting the ability to becomeprofessionally licensed [1]. The current version of the FE