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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas G. Stanford; Donald Keating

. effort to maintain competitiveness in the global marketplace. Continual technological innovation in industry isrecognized worldwide as the principal driving force for competitiveness and economic prosperity. Withoutdiminishing the importance of scientific research, it is now evident that continual technological innovation isprimarily a needs-driven creative professional practice requiring engineering leadership.Following a review of graduate engineering education and needs assessment studies of graduate engineers inindustry, it is now clear that a transformation in graduate education is needed to improve U.S. technology innovationand competitiveness in the worldwide economy. As a national priority, the educational investment in the

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Siegfried M. Holzer; Raul H. Andruet

Page 3.392.5(1990) 5Kolb, D., Experiential Learning, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1984)Light, R. J., The Harvard Assessment Seminars, First Report, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138(1990)Lochhead, J., “Teaching Analytical Reasoning Through Thinking Aloud Pair Problem Solving,” in James E. Stice,Ed., Teaching Thinking Through Problem Solving, New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 30, Jossey-Bass,San Francisco (1987)Lyman, F., “Think-Pair-Share: An Expanding Teaching Technique,” MAACIE, Cooperative News, 1(1) (1987)Miller, J. P., The Holistic Teacher, Curriculum Series 65, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Press, Toronto,Ontario (1993)Papert, S. A

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1998 Annual Conference

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Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

-university class was a newelective course for both faculty and both departments. The two faculty members worked togetherto develop the material to assure that it would be appropriate to students in both disciplines. Forexample, a strong emphasis on the theory of mass transport was appropriate for chemicalengineering students, but might initially overwhelm environmental engineering students unless itwas balanced with concrete applications and examples of site remediation, pollution prevention,and risk assessment. Both student populations appreciated a strong emphasis on problemsdealing with natural, i.e., nonhomogeneous systems. The course was organized such that the two classes followed the same schedule, covered

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard D'Amato

Session 2251 A MULTI-FACETED HYDROLOGY EXPERIMENT FOR ENRICHING OUR UNDERGRADUATE ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS DR. RICHARD D’AMATO MERCER UNIVERSITYI. INTRODUCTION Fieldwork is an integral part of most engineering disciplines, particularly environmentalengineering. Assessing the impact of environmental problems often requires field investigations.Engineering students need to develop the confidence to work in the field. Lectures, problem solvingexercises and computer simulations are essential tools in training our students, however, no amountof

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Amir Mirmiran

conductedas a demonstration experiment.EVALUATION AND DISSEMINATIONA three-member advisory board consisting of a senior faculty at UCF, another from University ofFlorida, and a member of a local prestressed concrete industry was proposed to assess the technicaland pedagogical content of the laboratory experiments developed before its use in pilot testing.Initially, a complete laboratory and field experiment program was developed and modulized to fitthe two existing concrete courses over a two-semester time span. The experiments are presentlybeing packaged in a laboratory manual that will be further examined by the board. The program willthen be revised to address the comments. It is also intended that during the second year of the

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter C.M. Burton; Fred Payne; Dinesh Kant

be offered as three day short courses. Participantswho elect to take later assessment and are successful will be credited with corresponding gradestowards the Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma.It is also expected that the new courses will attract considerable interest from overseas studentswishing to continue study on a full time basis. It is believed that many of these students will befrom the Asia-Pacific region since the courses will focus on material which is very relevant toindustry in that area, such as electronic manufacturing. This directly meets the objectives of theDepartment’s mission and will generate significant revenue for the Faculty of Engineering.The new courses will contain a strong enterprise engineering element

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis J. Doyle III

importance of defining objectives early in the course, incollaboration with the constituents, and the assessment of whether these goals were achieved atthe end of the course. Posting the objectives on the Web invites the students into this process at aminimal level, future offerings of the course will allow student feedback on the objectives page.4. Student ResponseAt the time of this writing, our pilot offering of the CHEG 401 Serf page was only halfcompleted. However, a number of very useful comments have been generated by the students.The bulletin board and discussion forum utilities have been used with moderate frequency,suggesting that they are convenient to use, and they are valuable for communication ofannouncements. The personal grade access

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

use to eliminate paper-based assignments and distribute problem solutions. Thespecific objectives of the developments were i) find useful new techniques for teaching statics,ii) encourage the students to learn and use the Web, iii) expose the students to modernengineering support tools (symbolic algebra and simulations) to reduce trivial work and preparethem for senior level courses.2. THE COURSE2.1 THE INCOMING STUDENTSAt the beginning of the course, I informally assessed the students to determine the range of com-puter experience. In general the level of student knowledge was dispersed. I estimated that mostof the students were proficient computer users. Four of the students (less than 10% of the class)had inadequate computer knowledge

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Bailey; Richard DeBlasio; David Freeman; Rommel Simpson; Devdas Pai

, J. McCarter, R. Roedel, and P. Williams, 1996, "Team-Based Projects for Assessment in First-Year Physics Courses Supporting Engineering," Proceedings of the ASEE 1996 Frontiers in Education Conference, Session 8, Paper 3.3. Felder, R., 1992, "How about a Quick One?" Chemical Engineering Education, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 18-19.4. Felder, R., and R. Brent, 1996, "Navigating the Bumpy Road to Student-Centered Instruction," College Teaching, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 43-47.5. Mahajan, A. and D. McDonald, 1997, "An Innovative Integrated Learning Laboratory Environment," Proceedings

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Bob Lahidji

. Thefaculty member shall demonstrate his/her continuing concern for instructional effectivenessthrough methods of presentation and evaluation of students. In support of teaching effectiveness,a faculty member must maintain a high level of knowledge and expertise in his/her discipline orarea of specialization. Evaluation techniques for all faculty members include, but are not limitedto self-evaluation, classroom visitations, and student evaluations of teaching, department headevaluation, peer evaluations, and assessment of academic advising of students.”Scholarly and/or Creative Activity: “A faculty member shall give documented evidence of his/her contributions to his/herdiscipline or area of specialization within the discipline or in an

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald D. Earley; Thomas G. Boronkay

computers and AutoCAD.Three of them had already used the Working Model software package in their job. The class atthe University of Cincinnati had twenty-four students. Most of them were full time day students.They had been exposed to this software package in the Mechanisms course during theirsophomore year. At this time, no formal assessment of the effectiveness of this approach hasbeen made. Informal query of students revealed that about seventy five to eighty percent of themfound the use of the software to be helpful in helping them understand the physical meaning ofthe analytically obtained results. They found the software to be easy to learn, and comments,such as, "I did not realize until now what the textbook meant by it" reinforced the

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Lib Crockett

realistically assess their interestsand aptitudes to succeed in a rigorous and demanding curriculum. Or to help them recognize thattheir interests and abilities would be better utilized in another field and move into that area assoon as possible. How can we accomplish this? With the large number of students and the smallstaff, it is impossible togive every student one-on-one attention. So our most efficient method of delivery is theclassroom where we can reach most of the students at one time.Clemson University’s General Engineering Program has several goals. First to help studentsgain the solid academic foundation required to become a successful engineer. Second, to allowstudents to explore the field of engineering by giving them information about the

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Emil C. Neu

Electrical and Computer Engineering’s web pages contains information aboutfaculty, programs, and course descriptions. Faculty web pages include research interests, courseinformation, and sometimes a photograph. The latter is provided for those students whose sparseattendance in class might preclude recognition of their instructor.The internet also presents an unprecedented opportunity for innovation in the educationalprocess. In one circuits course students may interactively solve homework problems. Achemistry professor is developing interactive lectures via the web. Web-based assessment isbeing used to perform student evaluations of courses. In some instances the whole idea of whatshould be taught and what should be left to the computer is being

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1998 Annual Conference

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Albert Lozano-Nieto

Engineering’s role in Hospital Health Technology Assessment. Proc.of the 17th IEEE Eng. in Med. & Biol. Conference, paper no. 477Heines, S. (1997). Video Conferencing. Presentations: Technology and techniques for effective communication.Vol 11, No 4: 34-35Kearney, B.J. (1996). Developing high-quality biomedical equipment technicians: A Tech Prep Baccalaureatedegree. Journal of Clinical Engineering. Vol 21: 402-406Sprey, J.A. (1997). Videoconferencing as Communication Tool. IEEE T. Prof. Commun., Vol 40: 41-47ALBERT LOZANO-NIETO is Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Commonwealth College, Penn StateUniversity. He is responsible for the Biomedical Engineering Technology program at the Wilkes-Barre Campus ofPenn State. His interest reside in the

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1998 Annual Conference

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Charles D. Turner

. The current catalog description of the course is as follows’: “Introduction to the engineering aspects of environmental systems to include such topics as water quality management, air pollution and control, solid and hazardous waste management, environmental impact assessment, and governmental regulation”. Over the past eight years the class has been taught once a year. During this time fivedifferent individuals have taught the course. The author has taught the class for the last fouryears. Although all instructors were engineers with terminal degrees, each instructor has had avery different background and little effort was has been made to coordinate the instructional

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie G. Adams; Karan L. Watson

/faculty increases. 5. Concerns about student self-assessment and faculty sponsorship. Page 3.542.6 7 Items 3 and 4 are most important when talking about developing faculty teams. Theconcept of teamwork is a difficult concept for faculty to embrace. The primary reason faculty members resist teamwork has to do with the expectation ofindividuality in the academy. It has been stated that the faculty culture is strongly individualisticand that collaboration occurs mostly pairs and occasionally in threesomes. Even in fields

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Jacob E. Mendelssohn; David J. Ahlgren

on-board computer network linking master and slave microcontrollers via a synchronousserial bus. Of the twelve senior design projects under way in the Trinity Engineering Departmentin 1997/98, five are directly related to fire-fighting robotics: 1) a scaled-up robot based ontechnology developed for Phoenix and Ot-Bot; 2) an improved PWM controller for a brushlessd.c. motor with optical encoder; 3) a fiber-based network for linking master and slavemicrocontrollers; 4) a dual-processor board with DMA interface connecting a 16-bitmicrocontroller and a DSP chip; and 5) a capacitive reflector proximity sensor and associatedmixed-signal ASIC (MOSIS chip).Assessment and ConclusionsExperience at Trinity College indicates the benefits for engineering

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Equity, Inclusion, and Access

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Lampe, University of Virginia; Lloyd R. Harriott, University of Virginia; Sarah Schultz Robinson, University of Virginia

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

binarywith a choice of yes or no. To ensure student privacy and reduce any risk or harm to students,IRB approval was obtained by UVA’s Institutional Research and Assessment (IRA) staff - #IRB-SBS 3177 for the 2020 data and 2012008100 for the 2018 data. To answer the second research question, we examined university data publicly availablethrough the IRA dashboard. See the Appendix for detailed descriptive statistics of 1st yearretention data for engineering undergraduates.Survey and Statistical Analysis The purpose of soliciting student responses through the Student Experience in theResearch University (SERU) Survey is to generate new comprehensive longitudinal informationon the undergraduate student experience. SERU data was used by

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 7

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiuhao Ding, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Meghana Gopannagari, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Kang Sun, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Alan Tao, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Delu Louis Zhao; Sujit Varadhan, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Bobbi Lee Battleson Hardy, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; David Dalpiaz, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Chrysafis Vogiatzis, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Lawrence Angrave, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Hongye Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

study’s dataset was acollection of children’s questions, and expert psychologists coded whether the questions had ahigh or low question complexity. Researchers separated the experiments into three groups: expertcoding (manual coding), example-based coding (by LLM), and codebook-based coding. Theresults were assessed based on how similar the codings were with the expert results. The studyfound that the most accurate method of coding was using an expert codebook (61%) compared toexample-based coding, but both results performed poorly compared to the expert analysis.Data from a survey on UDL-based teaching pedagogy and intervention methodUniversal Design for Learning (UDL) is an inclusive pedagogical framework and set of principlesto improve

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 22

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohammad Faraz Sajawal, University of Oklahoma; Javeed Kittur, University of Oklahoma

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

, ChatGPT may be susceptible to security flaws that could result in databreaches and the disclosure of students' private information.In a parallel study, a survey instrument is designed and developed to assess engineering students’perceptions on the use of ChatGPT. This study aims at answering the following research question,‘How do students housed in engineering programs perceive the use of ChatGPT’? To answer thisresearch question, a survey instrument was designed with a few open-ended questions, and thesurvey instrument also collected participants’ demographic information. The open-ended questionsincluded in the survey are (1) Describe the different words (as many as you can) that come to yourmind when you think about ChatGPT? (2) How do you see

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 3: Advising in Graduate Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zilong Pan, Lehigh University; Anand Jagota, Lehigh University; Volkmar Dierolf, Lehigh University; Himanshu Jain, Lehigh University

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

about the need to amend the structure of STEM doctoral training. Toexamine the challenges and obstacles that the faculty members felt towards making substantialchanges across the board, we conducted a survey to assess their perspectives on three specificaspects: (i) faculty members’ roles and responsibilities, (ii) perceived challenges and resourcesneeded to satisfy (i), and (iii) the skills and training needed for student centered doctoral training.Altogether 125 of faculty members responded to the survey. The key outcomes of their responsesare as follows:The faculty valued preparing PhD students as (i) researchers with expertise in the field, (ii)becoming successful as a faculty member in academia, and (iii) fostering skills valued by

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Military and Veterans Division (MVD) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert J. Rabb P.E., Penn State University; Alyson G. Eggleston, Penn State University; Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University; Ronald W. Welch P.E., The Citadel; Jerry Lynn Dahlberg Jr, University of Tennessee, Space Institute; David M. Feinauer P.E., Virginia Military Institute; B Grant Crawford P.E., Quinnipiac University; Samuel Shaw, Utah State University

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Diversity

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Military and Veterans Division (MVD)

interests are in mechatronics, regenerative power, and multidisciplinary engineering.Dr. Alyson G. Eggleston, Penn State University Alyson Eggleston is an Associate Professor in the Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Director of Evaluation for the Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Her research and teaching background focuses on program assessment, STEM technical communication, industry-informed curricula, and educational outcomes veteran and active duty students.Dr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 30 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms

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Faculty Development Division (FDD) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Casey Daniel Kidd, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal Corbett Cruse, Louisiana Tech University; Kelly B Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University

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. This section is still in development. This section aims to provide anassessment method that looks at the project's impact, developed through the PDC, on the students'understanding of the pre-defined course outcomes. Some measures being considered forassessment are course-specific student learning objectives and/or ABET student learningoutcomes.Future WorkThe PDC will continue to be developed and assessed for its effectiveness. Specifically, assessingthe impact of the PDC in reducing perceived barriers to implementing projects in courses byfaculty. Additionally, plans for evaluating the PDC’s effectiveness in helping to develop projectsare planned. To disseminate the PDC process to the larger STEM education community,workshops will be developed

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ahjah Marie Johnson, University of Cincinnati; Samieh Askarian Khanamani, University of Cincinnati; Mark Okoth Onyango, University of Cincinnati; Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

sometime. In fact, meritocracy is often considered to be one of the major influences to prevent socialjustice [8] culturally inclusive curriculum [20], and socio-technical emphasis on curriculum frombeing embedded within STEM [8], [21]. For these reasons these beliefs gatekeep individualsfrom STEM degrees and contribute to their inability to perceive and achieve a sense of belongingto STEM fields as means to support their cultural beliefs in community uplift [22] and givingback.2.2 CapitalIn academia, the assessment of student capital and the lack thereof has often been considered tomanifest as the lack of financial resources, mentorship, career guidance, and capital often listedas a necessity for the continuation of education and career

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan; Corin L. Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles; Elizabeth Ann Strehl, University of Michigan; Sabrina Olson, University of Michigan; Ricardo Elias, California State University, Los Angeles

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

is or is not preparing them to address macroethical issues?We also pose a question to assess our curriculum: RQ3) How does the macroethical curriculum impact students’ perceptions and awareness of macroethical issues and their desire to engage with the macroethical implications of their future work?In the first year of our project, we are developing a survey to conduct quantitative and qualitativeanalyses of students’ awareness and perception of macroethical issues in aerospace engineering,as well as their educational experiences on the topic. A pilot study of a proposed two-factorstructure based on RQ1 and RQ2 did not offer evidence of validity via confirmatory factoranalysis (see the poor fit shown in Figure 3

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Prashanta Dutta, Washington State University; Soobin Seo, Washington State University; Tahira M Probst, Washington State University; Joseph M Hewa, Washington State University

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Collaboration, andAnalysis and Modeling. On the other hand, we also found that they showed relatively lessconfidence in Data Analytics and Computing, which will be further emphasized in the rest of theprogram. By further assessing the impact of interdisciplinary education on the future creators ofcutting-edge robotic technologies, we seek to illuminate the path toward a new breed of engineers– individuals who are not only technically proficient but also well-versed in the nuances ofentrepreneurship, business acumen, and user experience design.Figure 3. Trainee’s level of confidence in targeted knowledge, skills, and ability domains. Figure 4. Students’ reflections on their experience with the program and course.8. Future DirectionIn future years

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Audrey Boklage, University of Texas at Austin

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

makerspace and university staff should encourage human resourceprofessional in the hiring practices.While recent research (Chambers et al, 2023) has recognized the soft skills and technical skillsstudent staff gain as a result of working in academic makerspaces, hiring processes and practicesshould purposefully include these in the competencies they assess in staff candidates.Given the high turnover of university staff, it is imperative that university staff are involved in thehiring practice to ensure the institutional knowledge is preserved as the space.Finally, while student staff are recognized as important innovators in university makerspaces;ensuring they are equitably hired into inclusive spaces is the responsibility of institutions and

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noemi V Mendoza Diaz, Texas A&M University; Deborah Anne Trytten, The University of Oklahoma; Russell D. Meier, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Harry A. Hogan, Texas A&M University; So Yoon Yoon, University of Cincinnati

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of D), failed (grade of F), or withdrew (either with a gradeof Q for students remaining at the institution, or W for students leaving the institution) in aneffort to understand how their performance in computational thinking affected their careertrajectories. In addition, we are also completing the longitudinal study of computational thinkingdevelopment in our student cohorts.IntroductionDuring the last period, the major achievements of this project were the validation of theEngineering Computational Thinking Diagnostic (ECTD) and its dissemination. The validationof the instrument afforded the opportunity to identify its predictive characteristics, strengtheningour rationale that this diagnostic can be a powerful tool in assessing entry

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yue Li, Miami University; Maressa L. Dixon, Miami University; Sarah Woodruff

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

outcomeswere measured as dispositions, including interest, aspiration, motivation, confidence, and self-efficacy. A smaller number of studies also assessed knowledge in specific STEM careers.Overall, a small to moderate level of positive effect was observed (effect size mean = 0.379, SE= 0.064, 95%CI = 0.252 – 0.505, p < .001), with significant heterogeneity (Q (167) = 2418.355,p < .001), suggesting the need to explore potential moderator variables.Intervention characteristics revealed that 58% targeted underrepresented and/or underservedpopulations, 41% included explicit career development, and interdisciplinary content wascommon. Additionally, 56% of studies took place in informal settings. The study also consideredintervention format

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Systems Thinking

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amin Azad, University of Toronto; Emily Moore P.Eng., University of Toronto; Asher Hounsell

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Systems Engineering Division (SYS)

Paper ID #41498Advancing Engineering Education: Linking Systems Thinking Skills to theTools through a Revised FrameworkMr. Amin Azad, University of Toronto Amin is a doctoral student at the University of Toronto’s Department of Chemical Engineering, pursuing a collaborative specialization in Engineering Education. Amin focuses on applying Systems Thinking Principles to Engineering Education and assessing its learning outcomes when solving wicked problems, especially in the field of Entrepreneurship. Amin obtained his MASc. and BASc from the University of Toronto, both in Industrial Engineering, and has worked as a