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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 4: Supporting Success 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Northeastern University; Angelina Jay, Northeastern University; Andrew L. Gillen, Northeastern University; Susan F. Freeman, Northeastern University

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toprovide some value to engineering students.Educators may be hesitant to carve out time for mindfulness or meditation but practicing the artof attention builds executive functioning and helps students focus on the task at hand. The timespent on these practices need not be seen as another lesson to squeeze into a packed curriculum,but instead, short practice sessions are a way of helping students emotionally regulate andbecome fully present. We contend that carving out time for mindfulness in our curriculum insmall ways is a simple, but potentially powerful, addition to create the next generation ofengineering thinkers. With these ongoing interventions, we seek to develop resilient lifelonglearners.References[1] S. L. Smalley and D. Winston

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Technological and Engineering Literacy - Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Schreiner, United States Military Academy; Leang Tri, Missouri S&T

entrepreneurship and strives to place himself at the forefront of emerging technology and the operationalization process. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comIntegrating Virtual Reality for Enhancement of the Student Learning Experience1.0 IntroductionTechnology makes it possible to experience “reality” in imaginary space via Virtual Realitydevices. Virtual Reality Technologies (VRT) create an artificial environment that is experiencedthrough sensory stimuli provided by a computer [1]. VRT includes virtual reality, augmentedreality, and mixed reality. While VRT has been examined extensively in its value to both trainingand education

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Mathematics Division Technical Session 1: Best Practices in Engineering Math Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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JaCoya Thompson, Northwestern University ; Sally P.W. Wu, Northwestern University; Jacob Mills, Evanston Township High School

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CollegeBoard AP Statistics standards [1]. The unit consists of five lessons, which are detailed below. Lesson 1: Students received a dataset of gas prices at various gas stations. Students usedcalculators and their prior knowledge of descriptive statistics to make decisions about the amountof money they should budget for gasoline. Students were then prompted to explain the reasoningfor their budget using the data set. Lesson 2: Students begin to familiarize themselves with Jupyter notebook and variousPython commands/functions. They receive a dataset and run Python code in the notebooks (Figure1) to generate tables and plots (Figure 2). First, students generate a descriptive table and interpretthe statistical values (mean, standard

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 1 - Women in Computing

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanda Ross, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Sara Hooshangi, The George Washington University

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

mastery experiences are not enough to build general computing self-concept. Sincea lack of computing confidence in women can cause negative attitudes towards the field ofcomputer science, future work should focus on ways in which this confidence can be increasedso as to try and minimize the number of women avoiding or leaving the field of computerscience.1. IntroductionThe gender gap in computer science is not a new problem. For over two and a half decades,women have earned less than 25% of bachelors degrees in computer science [1]. Diversityinequities such as this are a problem because they lead to computer science based innovationsthat are biased, like voice recognition software that cannot recognize female voices [2]. Theyalso take power away

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 1 - Women in Computing

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary V Villani, Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York; Ilknur Aydin, Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York; Lisa Cullington, Sacred Heart University

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in FSC computing programs has doubled since 2010 to over 750 at its peak; however,the percentage of women enrollment in computing programs has remained relatively flat between8-16% (Fig. 1). While the Computer Programming and Information Systems (CPIS) program hasbeen offered for over 20 years, the Computer Science (CS) program was launched in fall 2021.FSC is one of the 64 campuses in a large state college system and a diverse space where about90% of its ~10,000 students are commuters, 82% work full or part-time while attending college,57% are from minority populations, 62% receive financial aid, 30% are first-generation collegestudents, and 42% are women. Coupled with the high cost of living in the area, these factors resultin a school

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 9: Identity & Belonging 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olivia Reynolds, Washington State University; Sandra Brabb, Washington State University; Eleanor Dizon, Washington State University

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including new/continuing status, gender, ethnicity, degree program,first-generation status, and Pell-eligibility using student-provided identification numbers.Continuing students (sophomore–level and above) and students not pursuing a degree offered byour college were excluded from the data set. After exclusion of these students, a total of 675responses remained. Overall, first-time freshmen represented 86% of the sample and transferstudents represented 14%. A summary of respondent demographics is included in Table 1. Table 1. Summary of respondent demographics Overall First-time Freshmen Transfer Variable Identifier [N (%)] Fall ‘21

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DEED Technical Session 1: Adapting to COVID and other Design Challenges

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nebojsa Jaksic, Colorado State University - Pueblo

program is chiefly assessed through analyses of student seniordesign projects. In this work, a comparative analysis of three generations of students’ seniorcapstone projects (a pre-pandemic phase, an early-pandemic phase, and a full-pandemic phase)based on project quality, work environment, and funding, is presented. Each phase was furtherdivided into three stages: survival, adaptation, and thriving. A combination of appropriatepedagogical methods was used for each phase/stage. Based on direct quantitative projectassessment metrics based on defined quality attributes it is observed that the senior design projectsat the full-pandemic phase were of higher quality than the projects of the previous two phases.This shows that it is possible to design

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ERM Technical Session 1: Methods Refresh: Approaches to Data Analysis in Engineering Education Research

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Aaron Robert Hamilton Thielmeyer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Dina Verdin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brianna Benedict McIntyre, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rachel Ann Baker; Jacqueline Doyle, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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undergradu- ates who join non- industry occupations upon graduation.Ms. Dina Verd´ın, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dina Verd´ın is a Ph.D. Candidate in Engineering Education and M.S. student in Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. She completed her B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at San Jos´e State University. Dina is a 2016 recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship and an Honorable Mention for the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program. Her research interest focuses on changing the deficit base perspective of first-generation college students by providing asset-based approaches to understanding this population. Dina is interested in understanding how first-generation

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Graduate Education Model, Industry and Practitioner Experience - Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 1

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jaclyn K. Murray, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Erika Mosyjowski, University of Michigan; Diane L. Peters, Kettering University

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encompass threeessential components of creative performance (CoCP): 1) domain-relevant skills, 2) creativity-relevant processes, and 3) task motivation, embedded within an individual’s social environment.The level of proficiency with the three components of creative performance affects the outcomeof the creative process. Robust domain-relevant skills and knowledge, as defined by adiscipline’s community of practice, includes facts, routine procedures, and special techniquesunique to the discipline. For example, a knowledge of Newton’s laws, an ability to solve routinestatics and deformable bodies problems, and skill for computer-aided design software arenecessary for designing a cantilever beam to support a 600 square-foot flag flying from the top

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International Division Technical Session 1: Looking at Study Abroad through an enhanced lens

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jemal Bedane Halkiyo, Arizona State University

knowledge stated in instructional objectives as describedin appendix table 1 [9], [26].Design of instructional strategies: In designing instructional strategy, I identified differentinstructional strategies that help the learners integrate the existing knowledge into the newknowledge and scaffold their learning to master the skills and knowledge specified in theobjectives. To demonstrate effective design, I considered two essential elements. First, the initialpresentation to provide an outline of information/contents associated with stated goals andidentify the methods of instruction of lesson contents about each objective. Second, I consideredthe generative strategy to describe the instructional strategies that would enable learners topractice

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _ Monday June 26, 1:30 - 3:00

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Umair Shakir, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Justin L. Hess, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Matthew James P.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

students’responses to example responses. Promising LLMs include BERT [7], Generative PretrainingTransformer (GPT-3) [32], and Masked and MPNet [8]. Our NLP approach uses the open-sourceMPNet transformer language model available from the Hugging Face repository.Study DesignThe research process of this study comprised four steps as shown in Figure 1. An overview ofthese four steps is provided here, followed by more in-depth discussion in subsequent sections.Figure 1. An Overview of Study DesignFirst, we collected data (750 students’ assignments) from instructors and pre-processed the rawtext data before passing it to the NLP workflow. Second, we took a subset of 550 students’assignments to do traditional qualitative coding for developing an example bank

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 1: Partnerships Making It Real!

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Lynn Biesecker; Justin McFadden; Thomas Tretter, University of Louisville; Brian Scott Robinson, University of Louisville; James E. Lewis, University of Louisville

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

mathematics) education has beenperforming well below numerous fellow OECD nations [1]. The committee identified severaldeleterious results if this trend continued, including the reduction of the United States’ competitiveeconomic edge. Stated benefits of improved science and technological literacy included theprovision of essential preparation for all careers in the modern workforce. Moreover, without aflourishing scientific and engineering community, young people may not be motivated to dreamof “what can be,” and might have inadequate motivation to become the next generation of scientistsand engineers that can address persistent national problems including national and homelandsecurity, health care, the provision of energy, the preservation of the

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: Evolving First Year Programs

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig M. Harvey P.E., Georgia Southern University; Sarah Cooley Jones, Louisiana State University and A&M College; Elizabeth Michelle Melvin, Clemson University; Roberto Champney

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

prepared in the state of Louisiana because over 20% of all the math and science classestaught are short of adequately prepared teachers [4][6].The student demographics is also changing. The percentage of first-generation students hasincreased over 17% since 2012. Underrepresented minorities have increased over 8% and Pellgrant recipients has also increased over 8%. These changes in student make-up are positive asengineering expands and diversifies its student population [1].Strategically, the Louisiana State University College of Engineering (CoE) decided thatprograms must be implemented to give students the best opportunity for success. As a college, inthe heat of the pandemic and with industry support, several programs were developed including

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: Evolving First Year Programs

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doris J. Espiritu, Wilbur Wright College, City Colleges of Chicago

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

seminars or experiences are considered one of the high-impact practices (HIPS) [2], and aredesigned to increase first-year retention. The general goals of first-year experience courses are tosupport college students' academic performance, social development, persistence, and degreecompletion. The College Success courses often introduce first-year students to campus resources,time management, study skills, career planning, cultural diversity, and student developmentissues [1]. The majority of 4-year institutions require first-year courses for credit [4]. However,due to the diversity of FYE design and configuration, research shows mixed results regardingpositive outcomes [3]. Zerr and Bjerke [5] compared a three-credit academic-themed first

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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 1: Topics Related to Engineering - Part 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Conrad Tucker, Carnegie Mellon University; Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; John Jongho Park, Penn State University

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divergent perspectives of AI. According to Merriam Webster’sdictionary, AI is defined as:1: a branch of computer science dealing with the simulation of intelligent behavior in computers2: the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behaviorOf the 60 responses to the question, “Define AI, in your own words” two participants mentionedthe idea that defining AI can be perplexing. One participant wrote, “AI is not a single thing –there are many capabilities that we can try to get a machine to possess. I guess the sum of all thatis AI” while another wrote, “AI is a general umbrella term without a consistent definition.” Allbut 10 of the definitions included a technical reference such as computers or machine learning.Examples of the non

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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technological literacy too which Kathryn Neeley drewthe division’s attention in her 2017 review of its development [4]. The idea of such a mechanism is not new and is to be found in Newman’s 1852 lectures on“The Idea of a University”, where it is called a ‘science of sciences’, and in the representationof technology that I presented at the 2010 meeting of TELPhE shown in exhibit 1. Itsintention was to demonstrate that a particular power of mind is required to understand thetechnological process as a whole. Arriving at that power of mind requires enlargementbeyond that which is purely technical. Such a mind is able to look at an activity or objectfrom many different angles, and this requires a particular set of skills in the handling ofmulti

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 9: Identity & Belonging 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Wonch Hill, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Lance C. Pérez, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Sohrab Asgarpoor, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; David Jones, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Zachary George Short, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Jennifer N. Rutt, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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Sophomore Year Cohort 3 HS Juniors HS seniors Freshman YearIn a study of the 100 largest public and private institutions in the United States, researchersfound that policies related to masking and in-person learning were near universal, while collegesand universities varied in their COVID-19 testing requirements, de-densification policies and 5cancelling of intercollegiate athletic activities [20]. At the university where this study wasconducted the following policies were implemented: 1) All classes went remote midway through the spring 2020 semester and remained remote for the summer session

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ECE Division Technical Session 1: Online or Remote Teaching and Curricular Developments

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Weiying Zhu, Metropolitan State University of Denver

perceptions of their learning experiences in this onlinecourse. The survey analysis and results are reported in this paper. Three questions are aboutpossible negative impact on students’ availability during the class time or on their timecommitment, or about possible technical difficulty for taking lessons online. Followed are 15Likert-scale questions on the use of tools, instructional materials, and hands-on learningactivities. We found that 1) there is no statistically significant difference between the studentperformance in the online section and that in the face-to-face sections, 2) among three surveyedchallenges, students’ time commitment to this online course was most negatively impacted bypandemic-related situations, and 3) student feedbacks

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _ Monday June 26, 1:30 - 3:00

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn A. Dyrud, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Technology. She is an ASEE fellow (2008), winner of the James McGraw and Berger Awards (2010, 2013), the communications editor for the Journal of Engineering Technology, and the ETD mini-grant coordinator. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 “Better Living through Chemistry”? DuPont & TeflonIntroductionIn 1961 DuPont, in collaboration with American entrepreneur Marion Trozzolo, introduced the“Happy Pan” [1] to the delight of cooks all over the country, especially those with a penchant forburning food. Coated with a new substance, Teflon, food magically slid from the pan, leavinglittle residue and ending the onerous task of scouring. Early ads touted Teflon as “an amazingnew concept

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Technological and Engineering Literacy - Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Paul, University of Manitoba; Nikita Dawe, University of Toronto; Sherry-ann Ram, University of Toronto; Mandeep Pandey, University of Calgary; Victoria Thomsen, University of Manitoba; Reed Forrest, University of Manitoba; Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba; Renato Alan Bezerra Rodrigues; Nicholas Rupar; Robyn Paul, University of Calgary

. Willey, A. Gardner, S. Jose, R. Sharma and L. Jolly, "Moving from Crime and Punishment to Success and Reward: Transitioning from Technical to Educational Research," in 8th Research in Engineering Education Symposium (REES 2019), Cape Town, 2019.[4] M. Borrego, "Conceptual difficulties experienced by trained engineers learning educational research methods," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 96, no. 2, pp. 91-102, 2007.[5] A. G. D. Holmes, "Researcher Positionality - A Consideration of Its Influence and Place in Qualitative Research - A New Researcher Guide," International Journal of Education, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 1-10, 2020.[6] R. M. Felder and R. G. Hadgraft, "Educational practice and educational research in engineering

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Technological and Engineering Literacy - Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Gross; Keyoni McNair

rate). These respondents are labeled CS students.In Spring 2022, we distributed the instrument to 130 students in a general education course on filmhistory. We had responses from 40 of which 37 were usable (3 incomplete). Of these, ten identifiedas CS majors or minors, and we eliminated those from our analysis, leaving 27 responses (21%effective response rate). These are labeled non-CS students.Select self-reported demographics of respondents are reported in Table 1. All demographic ques-tions were optional, although most respondents answered all questions.Evaluating the InstrumentFor each item, we translated from the Likert-like scale to a numerical scale of -2 to +2, with -2representing Strongly Dislike and +2 representing Strongly Like. We

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First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nick Tatar, Olin College of Engineering; Kevin A. Nguyen, Texas Tech University; Chris Gewirtz, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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a practitioner develops and modifies this knowing-in-action, andreflection can only be done when paired with an action, and is separated into three types:reflection-before-action, reflection-in-action, and reflection-on-action. Reflection-on-action isthe only definition being employed in this case, as these students reflect on actions after theyhave already happened, ex post facto, in order to affect how they might act in the future. Kolb describes the process of learning from experience as a cycle (Figure 1), and citesreflection as the part of the learning process by which concrete experience is used to generate,validate, or otherwise affect conceptual frameworks or knowledge systems2. Reflection in thiscycle is a necessary step for

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ERM Technical Session 1: Methods Refresh: Approaches to Data Analysis in Engineering Education Research

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University; Theresa Green, Utah State University

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veteran undergraduates in engineering.Theresa Green, Utah State University Theresa Green is a graduate student at Utah State University pursuing a PhD in Engineering Education. Her research interests include K-12 STEM integration and improving diversity and inclusion in engineer- ing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 1 An Inquiry into the Use of Intercoder Reliability Measures in Qualitative ResearchWhen compared to quantitative approaches, qualitative approaches are relatively newer to theengineering education research community (Borrego, Douglas, & Amelink, 2009). As thecommunity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 4: Supporting Success 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristin Kelly Frady, Clemson University; Randi Sims, Clemson University

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

. Literature2.1 Importance of Community Colleges in Engineering and STEM Baccalaureate Pathways Community colleges are important and overlooked partners in creating baccalaureatepathways to engineering and STEM degrees. The transfer function at community colleges cansupport social mobility through providing access to a four-year college or university that mightotherwise not have been available [1]. Their open-access mission which provides broad accessand acceptance of students and broad diversity of student body positions community colleges toserve as a pathway to for women, first generation students, and underserved populations wishingto enter STEM and engineering careers [6]–[8]. The importance of community colleges in STEMand engineering

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Energy Conversion and Conservation Technical Session 1: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Energy-Related Concepts

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Mativo, University of Georgia; Jacob Lancaster, University of Georgia

power generated by the engine is transferred as heat into the coolantsystem. This meant that 12.6 kW of heat needed to be removed from the system given by ourdesign. The next step required the use of heat transfer equations [2] to determine the radiator sizeneeded to dissipate the heat from the system. This was done using the Effectiveness NTUmethod for cross flow heat exchangers. Equations 2 to 4 were used to determine and compare thecross sectional area to heat transfer effectiveness, engine heat output, and Volume flow ratethrough the radiator, respectively. A MAT-Lab® script was created to compare multiple sizes ofradiators simultaneously. NTU=U*A*(1/Cmin ) …………………………………. (2)where NTU is

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Energy Conversion and Conservation Technical Session 1: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Energy-Related Concepts

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Neda Shourabi, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

(1) (𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑂𝑢𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑉𝑜𝑙𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒) × (𝑅2 𝑉𝑜𝑙𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒) 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 = (𝐵𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝐼𝑛𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑉𝑜𝑙𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒) × (𝑅1 𝑉𝑜𝑙𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒) Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 75 % 61.5% 76% Table 2. Example student results for boost converter efficiency calculationsOutcomes and ResultsAfter the experiment, students were informally interviewed. Some of them felt that they willcontinue to grow from more than just garden light and decided to work on different aspects ofsolar energy or other types of clean energies as their senior projects.During the experiments, a technical

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aditi Verma, University of Michigan; Katie Snyder, University of Michigan

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SoutheastMichigan. A week in the course comprises two lecture sessions, a lab session, and a discussionsection as shown in Figure 1 below.Figure 1. A week in the course, ENGR 100: “Socially Engaged Design of Nuclear EnergyTechnologies.”What is novel about this course?The course marks a departure from traditional engineering design courses in at least thefollowing five ways:Engineering as sociotechnical: Rather than present engineering primarily as technical work, wepresent it to the students as being fundamentally sociotechnical. In other words, we ask studentsto examine the social implications of engineered products and processes. We ask them to reflecton the ways engineering shapes social life, for better and for worse. As noted in the introduction,much

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Technical Session 1: Partnerships Making It Real!

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary E. Loveless, Baylor School; Louie C. Elliott; Benjamin H. Holt; Ramon Antonio Herrera; Elizabeth Burnette

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Advanced Research withan 85 or above have the option to progress to Thesis Research in their respective discipline. Figure 1. BR Course ProgressionThree lab spaces have been designated on the first floor of the science building. Table 1 lists theprimary equipment available for the research students.Table 1. Lab Equipment ListThe BR program is financially supported by an endowment gifted by the family of a schoolalumnus. The endowment provided the construction of the science building, perpetualmaintenance on the science building, as well as a generous budget for the science department andother STEM-related endeavors.Research Scholars DesignationWith the support of the administration, Research Scholar designation can be given to studentsthat

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 1: Onboarding and Community Building in Graduate Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University; Sanjivan Manoharan, Grand Valley State University; Samhita Rhodes, Grand Valley State University

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andcomputer; mechanical; and design and manufacturing engineering. The undergraduateprerequisite coursework required to transition into the graduate program will be presented alongwith experiences of students from two different groups and recommendations to improve theprogram in the future.Developing the General Program PlanWhen developing an appropriate study plan, the Graduate Committee (GC) sought to address thefollowing two concerns:1) The rate-limiting step for undergraduate majors outside of engineering, along with limited technical knowledge and skills, has always been inadequate math and physics preparation. Consequently, the GC decided to focus extensively on applicants with non-engineering STEM undergraduate majors. These included

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 1: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in ChE

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deesha Chadha, Imperial College, London; Jerry Y.Y. Heng; Emerald Sun

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

staff and studentrepresentatives in a student-staff liaison meeting, several initiatives that potentially enhancedEDI were identified for further attention. These included recognising points in the curriculumwhere technical content or teaching was EDI-centric or could be modified to incorporateelements of EDI whilst ensuring examples provided are socially relevant [8], a robustrevision of the student peer-review system, and modifying or creating information-basedresources to better reflect EDI provisions e.g. the programme handbook. Finally, weconsidered engaging students to design and develop their own material for educating theirpeers about EDI.In completing Phase 1 of the project, Mason concluded: “Testimonial evidence has revealed a