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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kenechukwu Churchill Mbanisi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Purvi Shah, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gbetonmasse B. Somasse, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Dhvani Gangadia, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Walter Towner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Torbjorn S. Bergstrom, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Consumer Affairs, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, and Marketing Education Review.Dr. Gbetonmasse B. Somasse, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Gbetonmasse Somasse is a faculty member in the Department of Social Science and Policy Studies at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he also directs the Cape Town Project Center. He holds a Ph.D. in economics and a Master in statistics. His research interests are in applied econometrics, development economics, program evaluation, and higher education. In higher education, he is interested in student motivation, experiential learning, and critical reflection to promote active and more intentional learning. Previously, Somasse was a

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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 4

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Rajani Muraleedharan, Saginaw Valley State University; Marie Cassar, Saginaw Valley State University

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

afterschool Xplore STEM camp. Due to the increased number ofconfirmed cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Michigan, large gatherings are restricted andparticipants (students, staff, and volunteers) from different schools are unable to meet at a singlelocation. Hence, the afterschool enrichment program includes two schools, who will be virtuallyattending the sessions via zoom. The teacher from each school will facilitate interactions duringthe online sessions conducted by the program director from the university. All Institutional ReviewBoard (IRB) approved paperwork is shared with the schools, and the consenting students willcomplete an online pre-intervention, post-intervention survey and submit a 500-words self-reflection essay about their camp

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Research Methods and Studies on Engineering Education Research

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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D. Matthew Boyer, Clemson University; Luke A. Duncan, Clemson University

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Educational Research and Methods

formative analysis.As a work in progress,, we are seeking feedback from researchers who have experience withlarge-scale, multi-year implementations, especially in the context of making revisions to researchdesign. We chose design-based methods to construct our tools and plan our implementation,having selected them for their applicability in situations where plans may need to be revisedbased on formative iterations of reflection [1]. Now that we find ourselves with the need to makechanges, we are uncertain how to effectively integrate new research questions, collect andanalyze data, and communicate findings in ways that: (1) maintain consistent attention toestablished throughlines while; (2) integrating adaptations to the original research design

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Working Together: Approaches to Inclusivity and Interdisciplinarity

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Tawfik Elshehabi, University of Wyoming

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Diversity

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New Engineering Educators

90% of my students (N=87) strongly agreedthat sharing my teaching philosophy is critical. Additionally, underrepresented students wereempowered and archived more than half the “A”s in my courses. In conclusion, since equal is notalways fair, instructors must make their expectations exceptionally clear to ensure that anystudent can succeed and earn an “A.” I believe it is time for educators to polish their teachingphilosophy, create appealing visual models, and share them with their students.IntroductionDeveloping a Teaching Philosophy Statement (TPS) is central in any academic career [1]. TPSdeclares the educator’s approach to teaching and learning. Creating a teaching philosophyengages educators in metacognitive reflection on what they

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What Are Crucial Barriers and Opportunities to Bring Our Whole Selves to Engineering Education? Moving Watermelons Together

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Ann D. Christy P.E., The Ohio State University; Marybeth Lima P.E., Louisiana State University and A&M College; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University; Julia D. Thompson, University of San Francisco

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

everyone, even though everything in the society pressures you into sameness – it is a handicap in the end. A handicap to live without knowing the struggle of difference – in all of its pain, its fear, its celebration, its compassion [2].”AbstractThis is an archival record of a proposed panel discussion for the 2021 ASEE Annual Conferenceand Exposition. It reflects a year-long conversation between the six co-authors. Panel attendeeswill be invited to join and expand upon that conversation. Further analyses and integration areplanned after the conference when we will have the benefit of other panel attendees’ commentsand their own narratives.Under ideal circumstances, engineering cultures in academia and industry bring out the best

Conference Session

Tech Tools and Tips

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kweku Tekyi Brown P.E., The Citadel; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Elise Barrella P.E., Wake Forest University

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Civil Engineering

’ experiences with the project-based pedagogy and open-source QGISsoftware through the lens of CLT. In the Geomatics course, students’ QGIS project was a majorcomponent of their third regular-semester exam. Using the rigorously-developed NASA TaskLoad Index (TLX), students reflected on perceived workload (an indicator of cognitive load)experienced in their face-to-face engineering courses (through midterms), their emergency onlineengineering courses (midterms through finals), and their third exam. Based on our data, weexplore the following questions: (1) How did cognitive load related to the project compare tostudents’ face-to-face and online classes? (2) How did test/exam performance compare toprevious years? We seek to provide insights for improving

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Ethics Integration in Engineering Design

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Brooke Odle, Hope College; Greg Bassett, Hope College

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Engineering Ethics

semester.This lesson plan, executed with a collaborative teaching approach, was piloted in Fall 2020,when only one section of the course was taught (17 students enrolled in the course). Aftercompleting the MATLAB portion of the course, one week (two 80 minute class sessions) wasdedicated to discussing ethics in computing and introducing the culminating project. Studentsused the remainder of the semester to work on the project outside of class, with one additionalclass session during the last week of classes scheduled as free time to work on the project.Dedicating a week to ethics in between teaching the two languages was intentional, providingstudents with an opportunity to reflect on the basic computing concepts they learned in the firsthalf and apply

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Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Mitchell L. Springer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kathryne Newton, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Continuing Professional Development

-majority’ of America (or the ‘majority-minority’) wherethe non-Hispanic White population becomes the minority overall for the first time in U.S.history. Figure 1 depicts this transition. Figure 1. Changing U.S. Demographics 2016 – 2060 (000)As with any country, the youth of the U.S. reflect the bench strength of the nation. Thesemembers backfill for the aging and are the primary workers for sustaining age-related socialprograms. They are the strength of the working class and hold the keys to our innovation. Thisgroup must be sufficiently educated and capable of sustaining a country.In the year 2020 (Figure 2), less than one-half of the children under 18 years of age wereCaucasian (thus, a minority). This crossover comes with a

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Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Bob Schaffer, Mission College

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Core Curriculum cultivates social justice, civic life, perspective, andcivic engagement. It involves community-based learning with a social justice emphasis. Studentsare required to (i) engage in 16 hours of community-based learning experiences and (ii) performcritical reflection and evaluation of their experiences. A primary goal of the ELSJ requirement is“to foster a disciplined sensibility toward power and privilege, an understanding of the causes ofhuman suffering, and a sense of personal and civic responsibility for cultural change.”The specific learning objectives of an ELSJ class are as follows:• Recognize the benefits of life-long responsible citizenship and civic engagement in personal and professional activities (Civic Life

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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Matilda Ho, University of Texas at Dallas; Casey Hatfield; Jieun Kim

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Diversity

areas that thecapstone team and their peers had faced when taking the control systems course; namelyabstractness and continuity. As mentioned before, the architecture of the education tool features anoverarching real-world example of a system the student user is hoping to control. The real-worldexamples ultimately used in the tool are reflective of the engineering concentrations of the capstoneteam. The biomedical track used an example of controlling the glucose level within a human body;and the mechanical track used an example of controlling car speed. Figure 1. Screen capture of the track selection page Proceedings of the 2021 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Leen-Kiat Soh, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Gwen Nugent, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Wendy Smith, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Guy Trainin, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; John T. Sutton, ResultED LLC; Kent Steen, Lincoln Public Schools

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, two are administered in the first year for a cohort: (1) an introductionto computer science course where teachers learn fundamental CS topics and programming in ahigh-level programming language (e.g., Python), and engage in problem solving and practicecomputational thinking, and (2) a course in pedagogy for teachers to learn how to teach K-8 CS,including lesson designs, use of instructional resources such as dot-and-dash robots, andassessments. Then, the following academic year after the summer, the PD program holds a seriesof workshops on five separate Saturdays to support teacher implementation of their lessonmodules during the academic year, reflect and improve on their lessons, reinforce on CSconcepts and pedagogy techniques, review and

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NSF Grantees: RED 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Uzoma M. Monye, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Tobin N. Walton, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Stephen B. Knisley PhD, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

At the culmination of the 5-week program, a focus group and exit survey were used togather descriptive and interpretive information on the students’ feelings of self-efficacy,valuation of engineering knowledge and skills, and engineering identities. The exit surveycontained items developed by Walton and Liles [15] and Walton et al. [3] to measureEngineering Values, Self-efficacy, and Identity. The Engineering Values Scale (EVS), contains8 items arranged on a 7 point Likert scale. The items assess both general and specific aspects ofthe field of engineering with higher scores reflecting greater valuation. The Engineering Self-Efficacy Scale (ESES), contains 14 items arranged on a 7 point Likert scale. The items assess ageneral form of self

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 19

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Foad Hamidi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Adena Moulton, Digital Harbor Foundation; Shawn Grimes; Stephanie Grimes; Andrew Coy, Digital Harbor Foundation

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Pre-College Engineering Education

used to assess program impact atscale. We studied results from a series of surveys using two deployment modes with 94 youthwho participated in programs at an afterschool maker learning center. We found thatretrospective surveys that ask youth to reflect on shifts in their attitudes after completing aprogram are more effective than the same surveys deployed twice, pre- and post- a program.These results confirm input from youth interviews in which they expressed dislike of repeatingthe same surveys before and after a program and difficulty with answering self-assessmentquestions without a point of reference.1. IntroductionAfterschool maker programs provide opportunities for engaging youth in hands-on projects thatrequire creative problem solving

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Sociotechnical Integration

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Maysam Nezafati, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mel Chua, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

know)? 2. Write a story about when you, or someone you know, or someone you can imagine, were personally impacted by bias in an engineering design.Student responses were collected and graded based on whether they had been submitted or not.The intent of the reflective questions was to motivate students to examine bias by giving them anopportunity to see how it had shaped their own lives. Students had already been exposed tostorytelling as a tool for communication via other initiatives in the department, so we includedsome reminders from those projects, such as “make it sticky,” “include a few compelling detailsto make the story specific [and] real,” and “help the reader see your story, like they are watchinga movie.”Intervention phase 1

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First-year Programs: Professional Development and Skills

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Irene B. Mena, University of Pittsburgh

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First-Year Programs

International Center for Academic Integrity [5]: honesty, trust/trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, and courage • Time to read and discuss an article on the importance of integrity • Student teams (consisting of typically 3 students) submit answers to short reflection questions about the textModule 2: Connecting Professional Integrity to Academic IntegrityThe second module was implemented on week 6 of the fall semester (there are 15 weeks in thesemester), and consisted of the following: • Introduction to the engineering code of ethics – the code of ethics provided by the National Society of Professional Engineers [6] was used • Connecting integrity in the engineering field to integrity in the school setting

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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Simon Thomas Ghanat P.E., The Citadel; Timothy Aaron Wood, The Citadel; William J. Davis P.E., The Citadel; Tara Hornor, The Citadel; Kevin C Bower P.E., The Citadel

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Diversity

GPA = 3.33; Calculus II GPA = 3.25). ParallelCalculus I and II sections had average GPAs of 2.17 and 2.15 with DFW rates of 35% and 38%,respectively. In focus groups, students shared that they indeed valued their mastery experiences.Acknowledgement: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under GrantNo. 1741611: Encouraging Civil Engineering Retention through Community and Self-Efficacy Building. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and donot necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Reference: [1] Bandura, A., Self-efficacy:Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychological Review, 1977. 84(2): p

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Dominic Bosomtwi, University of New Mexico; Marek Osiński, University of New Mexico; Viktoriia Babicheva, University of New Mexico

, and their ability tocontrol, confine, and enhance light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. Results & DiscussionNanostructures, such as dolmens and oligomers of nanoparticles as well as several plasmonicmetasurface structures, have shown to exhibit Fano resonances in the optical domain. An example ofsuch nanostructure is the ultrathin Babinet-inverted metasurface made up of asymmetric split-ringapertures fabricated in a metal plate, which produces high-quality-factor (high-Q) Fano resonances. TheFano resonances originate from the interaction of bright modes and dark modes that give rise toasymmetric linewidth profiles in the scattering parameters, such as absorption or reflection spectra. All

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CoNECD Session : Day 1 Slot 2 Technical Session 3

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2021 CoNECD

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Karis Boyd-Sinkler, Virginia Tech; Cynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech; Taylor Lightner, Virginia Tech; Natali Huggins, Virginia Tech ; Cherie D. Edwards, Virginia Commonwealth University ; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech; David B. Knight, Virginia Tech

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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

me nowadays.Nevertheless, there still must be a consideration of the types of issues that BPE volunteers must encounterto assist students, with the above participant acknowledging their own challenges. The understandingfunction that is present here exhibits the multi-layered and complex level of student support needed thatthis participant had to navigate. The above reflection of the participant and their role also extends to thebroader picture of their own marginalization in certain areas of BPE volunteerism. One participant says: ...they do push a lot more of the ones they have in their grasp because the ones that are here are passionate about that and they at times it seems like overextend us. Um, and one, uh, which I, I

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Works in Progress in Chemical Engineering Education

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Carl F. Lund, University at Buffalo

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Chemical Engineering

Education, 2021 Work in Progress: Wrappers vs. ExpertsIntroductionEighty-one students enrolled in a required, third-year reaction engineering course were thesubjects for this investigation. The author was the instructor for that course and had taught itmore than twenty-five times before this offering. During that span, four substantial pedagogicalchanges occurred. After those changes the effect of completing homework upon an averagestudent’s course score improved by a factor of 2.5 [1].One of those pedagogical changes incorporated homework wrappers into assigned homeworkproblems. Briefly, the homework wrappers asked the students to reflect upon their approach tosolving the problem and their execution of the solution and then

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Megan N Phillips, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Maggie Nevrly, Cal Poly SLO; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Michaella Ochotorena, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Nathalia De Souza, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Eileen W. Rossman P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

graphs of the motion and summary tables. The end of the simulation for Case 1 is seenin Figure 7. Figure 7: Simulation for Case 1 of the pulley IBLA Figure 8 below shows the corresponding graphs and motion summary tables for Case 1,produced by the simulation. Figure 8: Resulting speed and displacement graph for blocks A and B in Case 1 and initial conditions summary graph for Case 1 of the pulley IBLA After the students participated in the simulation corresponding with Case 1, they wereprompted to answer the following questions seen in Figure 9. Figure 9: Post-simulation reflection questions for Case 1 of pulley IBLA Finally, as seen in Figure

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Posters and Workshops

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2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

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George D. Ricco, University of Indianapolis; Najmus Saqib, University of Indianapolis; David Olawale, R.B. Annis School of Engineering, University of Indianapolis; Tyler J Nolan, University of Indianapolis; Teangelo Rayner, University of Indianapolis; Tyson Burton; Jacob Michael Rohrig

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Workshops and Posters

R.B. Annis School of Engineering at the University of In- dianapolis (UIndy). Saqib received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines (CSM), focusing on ”Optical Diagnostics of Lithium-Sulfur and Lithium-Ion Battery Electrolytes using Attenuated Total Reflection Infrared Spectroscopy”. He likes to use innovative pedagogical techniques to facilitate student learning.Dr. David Olawale, R.B. Annis School of Engineering, University of Indianapolis Dr. David Olawale is a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the R. B. Annis School of Engineering, University of Indianapolis. He has diverse experience in research and development, as well as technology commercialization and

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Karl D. Schubert; Leslie B. Massey; Carol S. Gattis

problem in getting faculty interest in developing the course, and the collaborationbetween retention professionals and faculty went well.After the course, an iterative improvement retrospective will be performed on the program asimplemented to this point to inform improvements for next year’s cohort © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.2030297. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.KeywordsFaculty Paper

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Shelley A. Lorimer P. Eng., Grant MacEwan University; Jeffrey A Davis P.Eng., Grant MacEwan University

of multiplechoice and short answer. For exams, online proctoring was not an option, however, in-personinvigilated final lab assessments with small groups was possible. This was found to work well. Bothstudents and faculty felt that these exams were more reflective of student learning and competency. Tomaintain a balance between academic integrity and the availability of resources, faculty felt it wasnecessary to design unique problems since solutions to many existing problems were readily availableonline. In addition, with reduced room capacities for in person exams, multiple exams needed to becreated. This was accomplished by creating questions which were easily expandable to thedevelopment of new questions. Attempting various types of

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2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Shannon Bate; Shannon Hayes Buenaflor, University of Maryland College Park; Mary Bell, University of Maryland; Suzanne Ashour-Bailey, University of Maryland College Park

. Traditional orientation programs have historically taken place on campus and materialhas been covered in full during the in-person event. During Summer 2020, our office drew uponthe flipped advising approach (Kuhn, Gordon, & Webber, 2006) to create meaningful activitiesthat took place electronically prior to students’ scheduled orientation date. These activities tookplace via an online Education Learning System (i.e., Canvas) and utilized modules withinteractive videos, presentations, and quizzes which assessed students’ learning outcomes. Wethen revamped our day-of activities to reflect on the online modules. This process allowed ourteam to reinvision the orientation process in order to create meaningful interactions via Zoomduring the day-of

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Adam Kramschuster; Gregory Slupe

for MFGE-325, Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)establishes eight groups of three students each. Intentionally, each group has studentsrepresenting plastics engineering and manufacturing engineering. Proper group sizing has beencrucial in order to effectively maximize CNC machine tool usage, in addition to facilitatinginner-group collaboration.Prior student knowledge and skill of operational sequencing, proper machine tool setup, toolingselection, and CAM programming are reflected in the choices each group makes as they proceedto manufacture the injection mold inserts in MFGE-325. Groups are also faced with makingdecisions on how to collectively utilize their own talents to assure timely completion for thePLE-310 class (to allow for molding

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Jean-michel I. Maarek, University of Southern California

while the instructor and teaching assistants work around the roomto help the student pairs whose progress is slowed by wiring or measurement errors.The students summarize their observations and data measurements in a report they complete each weekafter the laboratory session. We encourage them to reflect on what they learned by completing thelaboratory and what they would improve if they had to do a similar design for a different goal.Grading of the laboratory work emphasized the importance of the preparation and preliminary report(50% of laboratory grade) in comparison with the post-lab report (30%). Questions asked of the studentsat the end of each laboratory to check their involvement in the laboratory counted for 20% of thelaboratory

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Patrick Tunno

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Diversity

, and discuss the application process. • Make a compelling (clearly argued, articulated, inspiring, and well prepared) presentation about how their international experiences are relevant and beneficial to becoming a successful engineer. • Anticipate the cultural demands that may accompany international business travel and formulate a plan to compensate for such needs, including identifying appropriate resources to investigate how one can professionally engage with the target culture. • Discover opportunities for international internships, careers, and fellowships. • Reflect and build upon intercultural learning experiences and to consider ways to apply their knowledge, skills, and perspectives

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Robert H. Caverly, Villanova University

descriptionsof their circuits. For the microwave and RF engineer, however, these open and short circuitmeasurements are problematic because as one goes higher in frequency, reliable opens and shortsare difficult to implement because of the electromagnetics involved. For this reason, scattering orS-parameters are instead used, where the measurements look at incident and reflected energyfrom the networks in the presence of matched terminations rather than total voltages andcurrents. The measurement of S-parameters is frequently done using an S-parameter multiportanalyzer, with two-port analyzers being the most frequently found since many circuits such asfilters and amplifiers are two-port networks. These S-parameters can be measured as a functionof

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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

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Randy Hugh Brooks, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

improvedstudent performance. In addition, the widely available digital course will prove most beneficialto the underserved populations with previously limited access to much of the knowledge andskills incorporated into this pre-college course.Included in this paper is a framework of concepts to be addressed in the course. ContentStudent skill and knowledge deficiencies are often observed in both academic preparedness andcollegiate life readiness through instructor observations and student self-reflections. As such,items in these areas need to be part of a college prep program to ensure that students are readiedon all fronts.Radcliffe and Bos re-inforce that “key dimensions for building college readiness

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Mid Atlantic Papers

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2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

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Ethan Patrick Adams, Penn State University: Berks Campus; Patrick Joseph Scanlon; Joseph Torres, Penn State Berks GenCyber; Tricia Clark, Penn State Berks; Terence Laughlin, Blue Mountain High School; Abdullah Konak, Penn State Berks

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Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

networkPedagogical ApproachCollaborative learning through hands-on, inquiry-based activities is very important for K-12students. In the delivery of the camp program, we used collaborative learning and inquiry-basedstrategies. These strategies made not only hands-on activities more engaging but also initiatedpeer-to-peer learning by encouraging skilled students to help their teammates who were not asskilled as themselves. Hands-on activities were designed based on an inquiry-based frameworkdefined in our earlier work8-10. This framework is inspired by Kolb’s Experiential Learning Model.In addition to step-by-step instructions, each of the camp hands-on activities has three componentsto enhance student learning- Reflective Observation, Abstract