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Briana M Bouchard, Tufts University; Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University; Ethan E Danahy, Tufts University

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of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University.Dr. Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University Kristen Wendell is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Associate Professor of Education at Tufts University. Her research efforts at at the Center for Engineering Education and Out- reach focus on supporting discourse and design practices during K-12, teacher education, and college- level engineering learning experiences, and increasing access to engineering in the elementary school ex- perience, especially in under-resourced schools. In 2016 she was a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). https://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/faculty/kristen

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AJ Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Brett Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Norma L Veurink, Michigan Technological University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan Technological University

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the fall semester, 2017. The goal we have for this paper is toeconomically describe at the 10,000-foot level (a) our reasons for the systemic changes weestablished, (b) the core architecture of our revised FYEP, (c) a selected subset of ourpreliminary findings and observations regarding our revised FYEP, (d) a special observationconcerning the ease of transition from face-to-face operation over to complete internet operationof FYEP while maintaining the integrity of our revised operational model all in the context of aglobal pandemic (coronavirus), and (e) a thumbnail description of our plans for the future.Introduction: Framing of the Goals for an Enhanced First-Year Engineering Program.The common first-year engineering program at MTU was

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Ludvik Alkhoury, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ashish D Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology

. Student 5 I enjoyed the drone project. I think it was the best feature of the course. Student 6 A great overall project as it teaches students the hands-on/ designing portion of engineering, unlike any other courses.Graphs in Figure 6 divulge that the majority of students agreed (or strongly agreed) that thedrone project improved their creativity and ability to innovate (61% agreement), and helped themgain hands-on experience on designing and creating models (81% agreement) (subgraphs a & b).Furthermore, most of the students believed that it is important to introduce 3D modelingsoftware to first-year students (79% agreement) (subgraph d) and that the drone project was agood way to introduce the 3D modeling concept/software

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Koenraad E Gieskes, State University of New York at Binghamton; Michael Elmore, State University of New York at Binghamton

, pp. 531-555, 2018.[3] C. J. Atman, S. D. Sheppard, J. Turns, R. S. Adams, L. N. Fleming, R. Stevens, R. A. Streveler, K. A. Smith, R. L. Miller, L. J. Leifer, K. Yasuhara and D. Lund, Enabling Engineering Student Success: The Final Report for the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, San Rafael, CA: Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2010.[4] R. Koul, "Work and Family Identities and Engineering Identity," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 107, no. 2, pp. 219-237, 2018.[5] G. Lichtenstein, H. Loshbaugh, B. Claar, H. Chen, K. Jackson and S. Sheppard, "An Engineering Major Does Not (Necessarily) an Engineer Make: Career Decision Making Among Undergraduate Engineering Majors," Journal of Engineering Education

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Andrew Assadollahi, P.E., Christian Brothers University; Kyle Raburn

of the letter gradesA, B, C, D, F, and W. The “W” grade is designated for students who withdrew from the courseafter the Add/Drop date but before the conclusion of the course. There is no distinction betweenstudents who earned an “F” due to performance and those who earned an “F” for other reasons.No personally identifiable information of students nor faculty members was collected.Student Performance in Physics 1Engineering student performance data in the Physics 1 course was collected over a four yearperiod of time. Data is presented for students who were enrolled in Physics 1 either concurrentlywith CE 113 or after being enrolled in CE 113 (Population A). From Spring 2016 until Spring2019, there were 33 engineering students in Population A

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Sherif Abdelhamid, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Mona Aly, Arab Academy for Science,Technology and Maritime Transport; Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

), news websites (e.g. Wall Street Journal, CBC Canada, CBS), or university websites(e.g. Georgia Tech, Mumbai University), see figure 1.b. Some of the URLs are in shortenedformats using domains such as .ly, .gl, .tt, among others. The total number of shortened URLs is832, with most of them using the .gl domain. Correlation analysis of the number of favorites,replies, and retweets showed that the three variables are positively correlated. The number ​offavorites and retweets were strongly correlated, ​r(​ 998) = .51, ​p​ < .001. All correlation coefficientvalues are shown in figure 1.c. Kendall’s tau statistic was used to estimate the rank-basedmeasure of association. (a) (b

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Frank Vahid, University of California, Riverside; Joe Michael Allen, University of California, Riverside

Distance Education, 2010.[2] B. L. Bower, "Distance Education: Facing the Faculty Challenge," Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, Volume IV, Number II, Summer 2001.[3] M. C.C. Musingafi1, B. Mapuranga, K. Chiwanza, and S. Zebron, "Challenges for Open and Distance learning (ODL) Students: Experiences from Students of the Zimbabwe Open University," Journal of Education and Practice Vol.6, No.18, 2015.[4] F. Paas and T. van Gog, "Optimising worked example instruction: Different ways to increase germane cognitive load," Learning and Instruction 16, 2006.[5] R. K. Atkinson, S. J. Derry, A. Renkl, and D. Wortham, "Learning from Examples: Instructional Principles from the Worked Examples Research

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Danny Luecke; Austin James Allard, Turtle Mountain Community College; Michael Maloy Parker, Cankdeska Cikana Community College; Ann Vallie; Teri Ann Allery; Robert V. Pieri, North Dakota State University; Karl Haefner

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: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2009.09.002.[2] D. E. Blum, “Getting Students Through Remedial Math Is a Constant Struggle, but This College Keeps Trying,” p. 4.[3] M. M. M. Parker et al., “Work in Progress: Alternative Developmental Math Curriculum Designed to Accelerate the Sequential Coursework by Implementing Quantitative Reasoning,” p. 8 2019.[4] M. Walter, “Indigenous Statistics: Doing Numbers Our Way,” p. 23, 2016.[5] B. M. J. Brayboy, “Toward a Tribal Critical Race Theory in Education,” Urban Rev., vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 425–446, Dec. 2005, doi: 10.1007/s11256-005-0018-y.[6] M. Huang, 2016-2017 Impact Report: Six Years of Results from the Carnegie Math Pathways . TM Carnegie Math Pathways Technical Report. Carnegie Foundation for the

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James Lenn, Wayne State University; Fatmir Menkulasi P.E., Wayne State University; Marcis Jansons P.E., Wayne State University; Jessie Mazin Yousif-Dickow; McKayla Kleinschrodt; Jeffrey Potoff, Wayne State University

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EngineeringEducation, vol. 82, Apr. 1993. [2] H. Lei, F. Ganjeizadeh, D. Nordmeyer, and J. Phung, “Student learning trends in a freshman-level introductory engineering course,” 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference(EDUCON), April 2017, pp. 152–156.[3] L. A. Meadows, R. Fowler, and E. S. Hildinger, “Empowering students with choice in the firstyear,” 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, Jun. 2012. [Online].Available: https://peer.asee.org/21282[4] L. L. Wu, R. M. Cassidy, J. M. McCarthy, J. C. LaRue, and G. N. Washington,“Implementation and impact of a first-year project-based learning course,” 2016 ASEE AnnualConference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA, Jun. 2016. [Online]. Available:https://peer.asee.org/25566[5] B. C

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Andrew Assadollahi, P.E., Christian Brothers University; Gene McGinnis Jr. P.E., Christian Brothers University

from allengineering departments, faculty members from the Literature and Languages Department, theMarketing Department, various staff members of the university, and engineering representativesfrom the company sponsor. Assessment Mechanism B was implemented in the Spring 2020semester in a structural analysis course. This assessment mechanism requires students to give anoral presentation on projects to the course instructor, non-engineering faculty members, andfellow class peers. Students are assessed based on technical aspects of the project along withtheir professional delivery of the material. The student teams are video-recorded and must re-watch their own recorded presentations and critique themselves for self-improvement using aprovided

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Andrew Assadollahi, P.E., Christian Brothers University

Paper ID #32040GIFT Paper: Using Proactive Advising in a First-Year IntroductoryEngineering CourseDr. Andrew Assadollahi, Christian Brothers University Dr. Assadollahi is a native Memphian and a 2005 graduate of Christian Brothers High School. Dr. As- sadollahi earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering with a concentration in structural engineering from Christian Brothers University in 2009. He also earned a B.S. in Mathematics from Christian Brothers University in 2009, concentrating in applied differential equations. He earned a M.S. in Civil Engineering from The University of Memphis in 2010 with a concentration in structural

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Jerry Austin Yang, University of Texas at Austin; Nina Kamath Telang, University of Texas at Austin

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Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 1989, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1992 and 1995 respectively. Her teaching interests are in the area of circuits and devices, computing, and logic design. Dr. Telang works closely with success programs for freshman engineering students. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Increasing Student Understanding of Diversity/Inclusion Issues in a First-Year Engineering ClassroomIntroduction Engineering colleges and universities across the country are now beginning toacknowledge and support the

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Andrew Assadollahi, P.E., Christian Brothers University; Sarah Swain, Christian Brothers University; Sam Das

Paper ID #32038Work in Progress Paper: Advantages of Applied Engineering Programmingin a Civil Engineering First-Year CourseDr. Andrew Assadollahi, Christian Brothers University Dr. Assadollahi is a native Memphian and a 2005 graduate of Christian Brothers High School. Dr. As- sadollahi earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering with a concentration in structural engineering from Christian Brothers University in 2009. He also earned a B.S. in Mathematics from Christian Brothers University in 2009, concentrating in applied differential equations. He earned a M.S. in Civil Engineering from The University of Memphis in 2010 with a

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Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Stephen Otondi, New Jersey Institute of Technology ; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology

identification’errors were similarly predominant, accounting for a total 69% of all errors. Minor Errorsaccounted for 25% of all errors and Equation Identification errors were the least noted (6%). Inexam solutions ((Figure 1(b)), the two most predominant error categories were ‘plotting’ and‘variable identification’, accounting for 48% and 25% of all errors, respectively. Minor Errorsaccounted for 27% of all errors and no errors were found for the ‘Equation Identification’category. 6% 25% 27% 34% 48% 35% 25% (a

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Sherif Abdelhamid, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

or search for a specific topic,and 15% used chatbots for online booking. Fifty percent of students said they seek help fromtheir teaching assistants most of the time. However, 71% of the students mentioned that theyhave difficulty meeting with their teaching assistants due to various reasons. (a) (b) Figure 1. (a) Areas or sectors where students used chatbots, (b) Number of students having difficulties meeting with their TAs.More than 95% of students said that the presence of a chatbot will be helpful to answer some oftheir questions (FAQ) and around 85% agreed that chatbots will save their study time. Resultsalso showed that around 80% of students

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Pichayathida (Alice) Luanpaisanon, University of Virginia; Carter Kenneth McCullough, Human Machine Interface Research Lab; Ryan Van Der Zee, Caterpillar Inc.; Ruth Wertz P.E., Valparaiso University; Reva E. Johnson, Valparaiso University

, G. Sukhatme, G. J. Kim, and C. M. Park, “Haptic teleoperation of a mobile robot: A user study,” Presence Teleoperators Virtual Environ., vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 345–365, 2005.[3] M. Darrah, K. Murphy, K. Speransky, and B. DeRoos, “Framework for K-12 education haptic applications,” in IEEE Haptics Symposium, 2014.

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Victor Alonso Bradford, University of Missouri - College of Engineering; Tojan Rahhal, University of Missouri - Columbia; Hani Salim P.E., University of Missouri - Columbia

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% 80.0% 0.0% 75.0% 2018 1 Year COE 2018 1 Year MU 2019 1 Semester COE 2019 1 Semester MU Retention Rates Retention Rates Retention Rates Retention Rates 2018 ESBP Cohort (45) Pre-Engineering Students (171) 2019 ESBP Cohort (40) Pre-Engineering Students (187)Figure 1. 2018 cohort 1-year retention rates within COE and MU (a) & 2019 cohort 1stsemester retention rates within COE and MU (b)Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, MU moved all summer 2020

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Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel

experiences.For highest math course completed in high school, we created four groups: less thanPrecalculus, Precalculus, Calculus I, above Calculus 1. For first college math course, we createdthree groups: Precalculus, Calculus I, above Calculus I. We binned students’ grades in their firstcollege math course into two groups: A/B/C, D/F/W.We conducted several two-way mixed Analysis of Variances (ANOVAs) in IBM SPSS 26 toexplore relationships between math experiences, math self-efficacy, and engineering retention.For each mixed ANOVA, the within-subjects factor was time (pre- and post- math self-efficacyscores). The between-subjects factor was either gender, highest high school math course, firstcollege math course, first college math grade, or retention

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Samuel John, Wayne State University; Cameron Hanson, Wayne State University; James Lenn, Wayne State University; Marcis Jansons P.E., Wayne State University; Jeffrey Potoff, Wayne State University

devices, the HM-10 is used. For project purposes, both modules are programmed in theslave mode and are connected to the Arduino boards. Control signals to these modules are receivedfrom existing smartphone-based applications in the form of character data.User input devices are either (A) hardware-based inputs or (B) software-based inputs. Joysticksand push button switches are examples of hardware-based inputs, while smartphones are examplesof software-based inputs. Software-based inputs are divided into graphical and textual userinterfaces. Graphical interfaces use virtual buttons displayed on a touch screen and are availableas smartphone applications. In this case, specific character data is encoded into each of the controlsdisplayed on the user

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Joie Marhefka, Penn State New Kensington; Dalynn D Park, Penn State New Kensington; Laura E Cruz, Penn State

orientation across theircurriculum.References[1] W. H. Blanton, “Why a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering technology and why now?,” in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2005.[2] A. Lozano-Nieto, “New approaches for biomedical engineering technology & clinical engineering education: interactive video conferencing tools,” J. Clin. Eng., vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 117–121, 1998.[3] A. Lozano-Nieto, “Internship experiences in biomedical engineering technology: An overview of students and prospective employers perception,” in American Society for Engineering Education Conference, 1998.[4] L. B. Nilson, Teaching at its best. 2010.[5] E. Butun, H. C. Erkin, and L. Altintas, “A

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Lisa Lampe, University of Virginia; Blakeley Calhoun

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of advisor acknowledge that objective and neutral research (justand largely transactional interactions (i.e., confined to like neutral rules) do not exist, specifically because ournecessary actions such as course selection, own experience impact what questions we ask andregistration, and withdrawal) to a B) co-advising, how we interpret the findings. Sixth, researchers mustcourse integrated with intentionally developmental put thought into how they might impact educationpolicies at multiple levels (i.e. institutional, state and support team. While all parties may have desired morefederal). Seventh, there is a need for research rooted collaboration, the faculty

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McKayla Kleinschrodt; James Lenn, Wayne State University; Marcis Jansons P.E., Wayne State University; Jeffrey Potoff, Wayne State University

Now?,”, Leiden, TheNetherlands: Brill, Jan. 2013.[5] B. A. Oakley, D. M. Hanna, Z. Kuzmyn and R. M. Felder, "Best Practices InvolvingTeamwork in the Classroom:”, IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 266-272,Aug. 2007.[6] Dr. AGJ Loots, “Student Involvement and Retention in Higher Education,”, Education asChange, 13:1, 211-235. Mar 2009.

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Ashish D Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Chizhong Wang, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Moshe Kam P.E., New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology

students bridge the gap between high school and college as well as preparing students for the rigors of mathematics. His research interests include engineering education, integration of novel technologies into engineering classroom, excellence in instruction, water, and wastewater treatment, civil engineering infrastructure, and transportation engi- neering.Mr. Chizhong Wang, New Jersey Institute of Technology Chizhong Wang received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, China, in 2013 and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, US in 2015. He is currently a Ph. D. candidate in Electrical and Computer

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Junfei Li P.E., The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Jaime Ramos-Salas, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Cara Li, Carnegie Mellon University

Boolean expressions; b) to design a diagram of logic gates as in Figure 1; c) tosimulate the operation of the circuit with waveforms as shown in Figure 2; d) to compile the designinto the FPGA program file and fix the errors if any, d) to test the design using the hardware boardonline, as shown in Figure 3; and e) to construct the breadboard layout using hardware icons asseen in Figure 4 and test out the design using the FPGA hardware board as in Figure 3. Figure 1. SoP diagram of logic gates for the 3 parties voting machine Figure 2. Simulation of the circuit with time signals Figure 3. The hardware icons tool showing two switches up and an output LED on Figure 4

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Alexa L. E. Littman; Adam Joseph Malecki, Gannon University; Elisabeth Patricia McAllister; Masen Andrew Collins; Robert Michael P.E., Gannon University; David Gee, Gannon University

walls andfloor of the drying chamber (Fig. 1a), wood dowels were used to fasten many of the 2x6 in plankstogether. While a drill was used to create the mating holes, a manual hand drill could be used onlocation. Similarly, a chisel can be used to create the grooves that receive the sliding door (Fig. (a) (b) (c)Figure 1. Phase 2 solar-powered food dehydrator: (a) interior volume is framed by wallsfastened together with wood dowels; (b) door slides in oppositely matched grooves; (c)completed design showing stackable food trays and a roof composed of four angled slats towhich semi-transparent plastic sheeting is attached.1b). The completed design showing two stackable food

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Leslie Bartsch Massey, University of Arkansas; Aysa Galbraith, University of Arkansas; Heath Aren Schluterman, University of Arkansas; Brandon Crisel; Candace Auburn Rainwater, University of Arkansas

mathematically prepared for rigorous STEMcourses required for any engineering degree, the under-prepared population represents 15% ofour student body and discounting them from the start would be unfair to these students. We willcontinue to search for ways to support these students as they in their academic careers.ReferencesLandis, Raymond B. 2013. Studying engineering: A road map to a rewarding career (4thEdition). Burbank, CA: Discovery PressNational Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 2020. Undergraduate Retention andGraduation Rates (updated April 2020). https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_ctr.aspNational Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (2010). Beyond the rhetoric: Improvingcollege readiness through coherent state policy

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Natalie C.T. Van Tyne P.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Paper ID #32058GIFT: The Influence of Stakeholders in Ethical Decision MakingMrs. Natalie C.T. Van Tyne P.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Natalie Van Tyne is an Associate Professor of Practice at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univer- sity, where she teaches first year engineering design as a foundation courses for Virginia Tech’s under- graduate engineering degree programs. She holds bachelors and masters degrees from Rutgers University, Lehigh University and Colorado School of Mines, and studies best practices in pedagogy, learning strate- gies, reflective learning and critical thinking

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Debjani Sarkar, College of Engineering, Michigan State University

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Business Communications in other countries in- cluding Aalto University, Finland, and at IIT Kanpur, India. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Engineering the Future – Communicating Across Borders Through Elevator PitchesThis is a GIFTS presentation.Our first-year engineering students are goal oriented and not deterred by any levels oftechnicality. But when it comes to sharing their knowledge, they do face challenges incommunicating concisely, logically, and persuasively. Communication is a valued professionalskill that needs to be learned and practiced. It is a work in progress, and if imbibed in ourfreshmen engineering students, it

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Amanda Marie Singer, Michigan Technological University; Jason Mathews, Michigan Technological University; Michelle E Jarvie-Eggart P.E., Michigan Technological University

Paper ID #32114Understanding First-Year Engineering Student Definitions of SystemsEngineeringMiss Amanda Marie Singer, Michigan Technological University Amanda Singer is an Environmental Engineering master’s candidate at Michigan Technological Univer- sity. She graduated in 2019 from Michigan Tech with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineer- ing. Her current research focuses on perceptions of first year engineering students on the engineering disciplines. She is currently exploring phD options in Engineering Education.Jason Mathews, Michigan Technological UniversityDr. Michelle E Jarvie-Eggart P.E., Michigan

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Matthew Wettergreen, Rice University; Joshua Brandel

Paper ID #32103Which prototyping skills should we teach in first-year design? Theanswer is as few as possibleDr. Matthew Wettergreen, Rice University Matthew Wettergreen is an Associate Teaching Professor in Engineering at the Oshman Engineering De- sign Kitchen at Rice University.Joshua Brandel American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Which prototyping skills should we teach in first-year design? The answer is as few as possible Matthew A. Wettergreen, Joshua D. Brandel Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen, Rice