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Lessons Learned through Community Engagement of Engineering Students

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lynne A. Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University; James M. Widmann, California Polytechnic State University; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University; J. Kevin Taylor, California Polytechnic State University; David W. Hey, California Polytechnic State University

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Community Engagement Division

AC 2012-5534: WHY THE HUMAN CONNECTIONS FORMED THROUGHSERVICE-LEARNING MATTERDr. Lynne A. Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University Lynne Slivovsky, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Ph.D., Purdue University, 2001), has led service-learning initiatives both within the College of Engineering and across the univer- sity at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. In 2003, she received the Frontiers In Education New Faculty Fellow Award. Her work in service-learning led to her selection in 2007 as a California Campus Compact-Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Faculty Fellow for Service-learning for Political Engagement. She currently oversees

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Deborah van Alphen; Sharlene Katz

compared to the successmetric using both linear and rank correlation. Additionally, conditional mean values for thesuccess metric were computed.I. IntroductionTraditional electrical engineering programs include a lower division circuits course that serves asa foundation for the remainder of the electrical engineering curriculum. The foundations courseis often frustrating to students and faculty, with students performing at a level below their ownexpectations and with faculty decrying the students’ apparent lack of preparation, effort, and/orability. The mismatch between expectations and achievement is so severe that many universities,including our own, devote a considerable amount of time trying to improve student success in thebasic circuits

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin M. Nickels

writing abstracts is an excellent way for the student to sum-marize and paraphrase the results of the laboratory. Think-pair-share happens almost naturally,with interactions between teams of lab partners.6. Evaluation of EfficacyNew engineering educators often have problems evaluating the efficacy of a particular teachingtechnique. There are many confounding variables: we have limited knowledge of the abilities andcharacteristics of the student audience, we may be developing or substantially changing the coursematerials as the course progresses, or we may be seeing the material for the first time as we teachit. In these situations, there are many possible barriers to learning. In an ideal situation, the best way to evaluate the efficacy of a

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce A. DeVantier; John W. Nicklow

IllinoisEnvironmental Protection Agency (IEPA) and Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT). Theinaugural program has been designed with an emphasis in environmental engineering and isintended to serve working professionals in both the private and public sectors. Beginning inAugust 1998, program courses that focus on topics such as water treatment, groundwaterhydrology and hazardous waste incineration have been taught by faculty from both theDepartment of Civil Engineering and Department Mechanical Engineering and Energy Processes.In accordance with the IBHE authorization, on-site instruction for the courses is provided at theheadquarter offices of the IEPA, located approximately 200 miles from the SIUC main campus.Requirements for the degree program

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Ann McCartney; Maria A. Reyes; Mary Anderson-Rowland

class. This goal was part of anoverall accounting effort to the Board of Regents known as the Hurwitz Measures. Implied inthe University adoption of the Hurwitz Measures was the assumption that all units would makeefforts to reach the goals.The CEAS took several steps to increase retention. The orientation program for enteringfreshman was expanded to include seminars on time management, project management, effectivenote taking, and the benefit of joining an engineering student society. In an effort to have morefaculty (as opposed to graduate student assistants) in the classroom, additional funds were madeavailable to the Department of Computer Science to hire more faculty adjuncts for the many

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Behin Elahi

organizational improvementprogram grounded in Lean Management principles. It covered dimensions such as cost, quality,time, and, where applicable, environmental impacts, providing insights on when to apply Lean,Six Sigma, theory of constraints, and reengineering. Tables 1 and 2 display course objectives andcourse learning outcomes. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2024, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 345 Table 1. The definition of course objectives. Course Objectives: 1. Develop a clear understanding of Lean

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Andrew Siefert; Jonathan Hoy; Keith Christman; Kevin R. Anderson

) inthe Department of Mechanical Engineering for over the last 15 years. Over this timeframe astechnology has advanced, so has the demand to teach the course at a cost effective level for thestudents. Faced with economic downturns, the university has forced its faculty to come up withcreative alternatives to teaching such state-of-the-art technical electives as robotics in order to fillthe need of making our graduates competitive as they enter the industrial workforce and/orgraduate school. To this end, over the last couple of years, the faculty teaching robotics andcontrol systems curriculum in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly Pomona havedevised a series of projects based around using the ARDUINO series of microcontrollers

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christi Patton Luks

My War on Cheating Christi Patton Luks The University of TulsaAbstractI love teaching, but I confess that I am frustrated by cheaters and the lax attitude toward cheatingby many of my colleagues. When faculty members do not aggressively pursue cases ofacademic misconduct, students begin to feel that it is acceptable to invent lab results, copy thework of classmates, and plagiarize. In this presentation, I will share some of my war stories,some insights shared by students, and some of my approaches to combat the problem. Time fordiscussion will be allowed.IntroductionCheating! It is a hot topic for teachers and for students, a

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek; Fred Harris

Engineering Education, 5 (2), 93-99. 3. Quere, R., Lalande, M., Boutin, J. N., and Valente, C. (1995). An Automatic Characterization of Gaussian Noise Source for Undergraduate Electronics Laboratory, IEEE Transaction on Education, vol.38, No2, 126-130. 4. Kim A. S., Park C., and Park, S. H. (2003). Development of web-based Engineering Numerical Software (WENS) Using MATLAB: Applications to Linear Algebra, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 11 (2), 67-75. 5. Orsak G. C., Etter D. M. (1995). Collaborative Signal Processing Education Using the Internet and MATLAB. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 12 (6), 23-32. 6. Pires V. F. and Silva J. F. A. (2002). Teaching Nonlinear Modeling, Simulation and Control of Electronic Power

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Sustainability, Diversity, and STEM in Contemporary Energy Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Amber C. Spolarich, North Carolina State University; Clair Ellen-Ann Wilson, RAMP-UP; Laura Elizabeth Ganson, North Carolina State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Bottomley received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1984 and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1985 from Virginia Tech. She received her Ph D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1992. Dr. Bottomley worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff in Transmission Sys- tems from 1985 to 1987, during which time she worked in ISDN standards, including representing Bell Labs on an ANSI standards committee for physical layer ISDN standards. She received an Exceptional Contribution Award for her work during this time. After receiving her Ph D., Dr. Bottomley worked as a faculty member at Duke University and consulted with a number of companies, such as

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Ieta, State University of New York, Oswego; Alex Pantaleev, State University of New York, Oswego; Carolina C. Ilie, State University of New York, Oswego

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Engineering Physics & Physics

style, and although class levels and disciplines weredifferent, significantly similar positive perceptions were recorded for different criteria.I. INTRODUCTIONMany instructors have difficulties making students read outside the class [1]. We use onlinequizzes for obtaining feedback on the students’ comprehension of topics not yet taught in theclassroom. Variations of the method were originally developed in 1996 at IUPUI and the USForce Academy; the term “Just in Time Teaching” or JiTT was coined. In this approach, studentscomplete online assignments/quizzes [2] by a certain deadline. Instructors adjust lectures “Just intime” not only to cover the curriculum but also to respond to student needs [3] so that thefeedback loop is closed. The end

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Mechanics Division Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Mechanics

AC 2010-2387: ASSESSMENT OF BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATION IN A FLUIDMECHANICS COURSEMysore Narayanan, Miami University DR. MYSORE NARAYANAN obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool, England in the area of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joined Miami University in 1980 and teaches a wide variety of electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering courses. He has been invited to contribute articles to several encyclopedias and has published and presented dozens of papers at local, regional, national and international conferences. He has also designed, developed, organized and chaired several conferences for Miami University and conference sessions for a variety of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Murphy; G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

through required train the trainer courses. • The hierarchical structure of participating institutions means that staff training and support can usually be provided locally to any new academies. • A strong sense of community and cooperation is developed among participating institutions and their staff. • The globalization of the program means that students can overcome study interruptions caused by international or inter-state relocation. • The course is provided on-line and in several major languages. • A major component of the program is hands-on training. • The programs reflect the reality of the industry, in that for example internetworking is carried on Cisco equipment, Web design uses Adobe

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ben Stuart

weekly basis. The intent of the dailyquiz is to encourage students to complete class preparatory assignments, maintain completeunderstanding of homework problems, and provide the faculty with a means of assessingindividual student performance over a wide array of course topics. The additional work involvedwith grading the quizzes is balanced by the elimination of homework grading. Further, dailyquizzes covering reading assignments are easily written in true-false, matching, or multiplechoice formats for easier grading.This technique has been used in several courses over the past year, including twice in the junior-level Fluid Mechanics course, and senior-level courses Water Treatment, Wastewater Treatment,and Societal Concerns in CE. This paper

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Nickles

Correlations of Student Grades and Behavior While Using a Course Management System Under Different Contexts George M. Nickles III Information Technology and Science (ITS) Center for Teaching and Learning, Texas A&M UniversityAbstractAs the Internet is in widespread use by engineering faculty, the opportunity exists to collectmeasures of student learning behavior based on their use of the Internet learning tools. One suchtool is a course management system (CMS). Data on student use of a CMS is readily availablefrom login records and the web server log file. It has been shown that this data, paired withcontextual information about the

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Maxwell; Michael Parten

emissions and improved fueleconomy. In line with these problems, recent work at AVEL has included the conversion of a2000 model General Motors Suburban to a fuel cell powered vehicle.The development of the vehicle is a multidisciplinary project with students from mechanicalengineering, electrical engineering and computer science involved. The majority of the teammembers are enrolled in a two-semester senior design sequence. However, some graduatestudents and volunteers also participated in the program. Faculty advisors from both electrical andmechanical engineering provide guidance for the team.The fuel cell’s performance is directly related to a large number of factors, which must be

Conference Session

Investigating Alternative Energy Concepts

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kala Meah, York College of Pennsylvania; Anh NV Nguyen; Patrick Martin, York College of Pennsylvania; K. Vaisakh, Andhra University, AP, India

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

. Inthis offering of the course, a student completed a project as an independent study under thesupervision of the faculty. The student studied the implementation of a fuzzy logic-based PMDCmotor controller; additionally, the student modeled the motor and the power processing unit,controller implementation, as well as simulated the final system design. During the project, thestudent gained experience in modeling the physical quantities such as motor, sensors, and DC-DC converter and representing them using the mathematical equations and Simulink blocks.Furthermore, the student designed the controller for the systems and included the fuzzy logic-based auto-tuning for the controller. Simulation results presented in this paper compare the

Conference Session

Global Education in Construction Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Hildreth, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Construction

prestige and increase their ability to attracthighly qualified faculty and students.Students benefit from the requirements for quality classroom and laboratory facilities, the qualityeducational program delivered by qualified faculty, and in some cases an opportunity to pursueprofessional registration and licensure. Employers, as consumers of educated graduates, mayalso benefit from greater quality in the applicant pool and the opportunity for accreditedgraduates to pursue professional licensure.In engineering education and practice, accreditation has long been linked with professionallicensure. Widespread efforts to enact uniform laws and licensing standards has resulted in the

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Evelyn Hanna

, positively advocate these fieldsto young women?The Academy at Rutgers for Girls in Engineering and Technology (TARGET) wasdesigned by the Office of Special Programs at the School of Engineering at RutgersUniversity to address the issue concerning the lack of women in the engineeringdiscipline. Research indicates girls in the 7th and 8th grades begin to loose interest in themath and sciences and cease continuing onto advanced courses in such subject areas. Atheory was developed that early exposure to engineering and technology would spark aninterest in middle school girls to continue in advanced math and science curricula in highschool and even further continuation of such curricula on the university level. Hence,TARGET was founded in 1997.TARGET is

Conference Session

Launching Successful Academic Careers

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Chin, East Carolina University; Nancy Study, Virginia State University

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New Engineering Educators

archival role, and they serve as a mechanism for the rapiddissemination of information. The guidance provided authors by the discipline and the journalfacilitate the scientific journal’s archival and dissemination roles. Thus the ultimateresponsibility for the production of a high quality manuscript and one that is worthy of editor andreviewer time rests with the author and their ability to comply with the guidance provided them.In this paper, we attempted to share with readers, in particular engineering faculty within the firstseveral years of their initial teaching appointment, suggestions for negotiating the journalpublication process. At the very least, complying with the guidance facilitates the storage andretrieval of new knowledge. In this

Conference Session

Grasping the "Concept"

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Ana Gabriela Aguilera Silva, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

activities group, althoughthe effect size was small. Post-test scores were significantly higher for students who hadpreviously taken courses in fluid dynamics and heat transfer when compared to those who hadnot. There was a significant difference between the activities and no activities groups onstudents’ understanding of reversibility, with a small effect size. A survey of faculty revealedthat reversibility activities were implemented by some in ways that differed from the directionsprovided. Finally, understanding of reversibility was impacted by students’ previous courseworkin fluid dynamics and heat transfer.Introduction and BackgroundConceptual difficulties with heat, temperature, and energy have been documented at alleducational levels.(4, 17

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ERM Technical Session: Student Mental Health & Wellbeing I

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ava Kay Huth, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Sarah A Wilson, University of Kentucky; Matthew Whitwer, University of Kentucky; Joseph H Hammer; Joseph Francis Mirabelli, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Kentucky. He completed his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering at West Virginia University in 2020.Dr. Joseph H Hammer Associate Professor of Counseling PsychologyMr. Joseph Francis Mirabelli, University of Michigan Joseph Mirabelli is a postdoctoral fellow in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor who researches engineering education. He earned his PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a focus in Engineering Education. His interests are centered around mentorship, mental health, and retention in STEM students and faculty. Additionally, he helps support the development of new

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Sunil Dehipawala; Guozhen An; Arkadiy Portnoy; Tak Cheung

conferences to train interested faculty. We in the Physicsengineering technology and other curricula in our community Department will continue to conduct AI assisted pedagogy,college. The supremacy of using AI as a writing tool to improve consistent with CUNY Graduate Center.lab report narration was verified readily, although theimprovement of conceptual understanding through literacy wasobserved to be minimal in a cohort of students. An information II. FIRST LEVEL IMPLEMENTATIONpedagogy of converting assessment in multiple choice question A general issue of using generic information generated byformat to an informational format with AI driven lab narration AI in describing a lab could be

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Rachmadian Wulandana

Analysis (FEA) use AI tools, particularly version of ChatGPT to approximately 500,000 students andChatGPT, to support their learning. A survey examined whether faculty members across 23 campuses [4]. This initiative aimedAI tools help students understand concepts, solve problems to provide personalized tutoring and assist faculty withefficiently, and enhance convenience with 24/7 availability. It also administrative tasks. Similarly, Estonia launched a nationaladdressed their motivational impact, reliability, and concerns initiative in February 2025 to teach AI skills to high schoolabout dependency. The survey statements included questions students, partnering with tech companies like OpenAI

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Michael Geselowitz; John Vardalas

the University of California, Merced(UC-Merced). UC-Merced is the tenth and newest UC campus (it opened in 2005, the first in 40years; UC Santa Cruz and UC Irvine were added in 1965). As “ the first American researchuniversity of the twenty-first century” (as it bills itself), UC-Merced is committed tointerdisciplinary practice and to performing as a network. Still early in its life, UC-Merced hadan organizational culture that was conducive to working across traditional faculty boundariesthan at most long-established universities such as Rutgers. In this collaborative environment,Vardalas, with assistance of Geselowitz and based on their collaboration at Rutgers, was able towork with both the School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Arts

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Julie L. P. Jessop; Samuel Van Horne

possible area for improvement in this regard would 4 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)be to develop a problem-solving glossary from the lecture capture files so that it is easier forstudents to find example problems of a certain type as they work to master a specific skill.The students in Fall 2013 and Fall 2014 overwhelming reported that the most valuable aspects ofthe flipped class were working problems in teams and getting their questions answered as theyhad them during

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Professional Papers

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2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

M. A. Karim P.E., BCEE, F.ASCE, M.ASEE, University of West Florida

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Professional Papers

withoutsacrificing student learning and performance.Keywords: Attendance; learning performance; environmental engineering coursesIntroductionAttendance in the class is important for students where they can learn several things in class suchas peer teaching, group work, note-taking, how to be an engineer, how to get to class on time, etc.,while these may not be more important to some students. However, after COVID-19 interventionhigher education institutions gained experience and comfortability on online and/or hybridteaching and learning as there were no other options at that time. A certain percentage of studentsand faculty still want to continue online and hybrid learning and teaching as these options helpthem avoid the number of hours per week not to be

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Track 5: Technical Session 7: WIP: Perceptions of Instructional Practices among Engineering College Students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

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2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

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Xiaping Li, University of Michigan; Nolgie O. Oquendo-Colón, University of Michigan; Musabbiha Zaheer; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan

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2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

Paper ID #45158WIP: Perceptions of Instructional Practices among Engineering College Studentswith Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity DisorderMiss Xiaping Li, University of Michigan Xiaping Li is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education Research at the University of Michigan. Her research interests encompass faculty development and change, neurodiverse college student learning experiences and outcomes, international students in engineering, and cognitive sciences. She holds a B.S. in Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering and an M.S. in Geological Sciences.Nolgie O. Oquendo-Col´on, University of Michigan Nolgie O. Oquendo

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First-Year and Experiential Learning for Women Engineers

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jie Sheng, University of Washington, Tacoma; Justin Wang, The Overlake School

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

/high schools, universities, and industries respectively; so that each community couldunderstand their roles and take action to improve the enrollment of women engineers overall. Toincrease enrollment of minority women in Engineering, especially in Civil and MechanicalEngineering, Alabama A&M University [7] has implemented a certain number of facilitatingactivities including scholarships, summer internships, awareness generation about the benefits ofengineering education, increased levels of self-confidence development, desire to study technicaleducation. To help with the enrollment of the undergraduate Electrical and ComputerEngineering program, [8] presented an Electrical and Computer Engineering Leadership(ExCEL) Summer Program offered

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NSF Grantees Poster Session II

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kazumi Homma, The George Washington University; Ekundayo Shittu, The George Washington University; Ryan Watkins, The George Washington University; Payman Dehghanian, The George Washington University; Chung Hyuk Park, The George Washington University; Hiromi Sanders J.D., Ph.D., The George Washington University/University of Maryland, Baltimore

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

exploring enhancement mechanisms for improved student engagement in the STEM fields and developing strategies to increase the ethical consciousness of student STEM researchers, particularly in engineering education.Ryan Watkins, The George Washington University Ryan Watkins is a Professor of Educational Technology Leadership, and Direct of Education for the GW Trustworthy AI initiative. He is also the faculty lead for the Human-Technology Collaboration PhD program. He is the author of 11 books and over 100 manuscripts on needs assessment, instructional design, and technology in education. You can learn more about his work at: www.RyanRWatkins.comDr. Payman Dehghanian, The George Washington University Dr. Payman