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Community Engagement Division Technical Session 2

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Greg Rulifson P.E., USAID; Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines

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Education, 2021 Beyond the Social License to Operate: Training Socially Responsible Engineers to Contend with Corporate Frameworks for Community EngagementAbstractThe “social license to operate” (SLO) has emerged as a key industry framework forconceptualizing the need to responsibly engage communities. The social license loosely refers topublic acceptance, but the term is usually invoked without clear definition [1]. Advocates for theSLO define it as “the level of tolerance, acceptance, or approval of an organization’s activities bythe stakeholders with the greatest concern about the activity” [2]. From its original use in thepulp and paper and mining industries in the 1990s, the term has since

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First-Year Programs: Student Perceptions and Perspectives

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Lea Wittie, Bucknell University; James Bennett, Cornell University; Carly Merrill, Bucknell University ; Jove Graham, Geisinger; Troy Schwab, Bucknell University

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First-Year Programs

peer evaluations is often employed. These peer evaluations can beutilized by instructors to gain a greater understanding of the dynamic of a team, and sometimesinfluence the grading of students in the class 1 . It is noted across literature that the method of peerevaluations is met with both praise and adversity from both educators and students, as it givesstudents the opportunity to share opinions on the dedication of fellow team members, but alsopresents opportunities for unfair assessments 2? ,3,4,5 . It is undeniable that peer evaluations aresusceptible to biases. Specially, there are both implicit and explicit biases, both of which mayresult in assessing peers in a partial manner, deviant of the actual team dynamic or work done byeach

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 4

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Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Hoda Ehsan, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Christopher Cappelli, Georgia Institute of Technology; Euisun Kim, CEISMC; Roxanne Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael Helms, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey H. Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marc Weissburg, Georgia Institute of Technology

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: Online Teacher Professional Learning (Evaluation)IntroductionTo be successful in a 21st century global economy, engineers must develop a broad knowledgebase that allows them to contribute to diverse interdisciplinary teams and to creatively solveproblems faced by humanity [1]. In undergraduate and graduate engineering programsthroughout the United States, more higher education institutions are beginning to implement bio-inspired design (BID) into their engineering curriculum to better prepare their eventual graduatesfor a cross-disciplinary career (e.g., [2]; [3]). To do so, programs throughout the United Stateshave begun to integrate BID in various ways into their undergraduate and graduate-levelcurriculum, including through small modules, full

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Samuel Enrique Blair, Texas A&M University; Henry David Banks, Georgia Institute of Technology; Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Astrid Layton, Texas A&M University

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benefits of makerspaces for educating the modern engineer require careful analysis as theprevalence of these hands-on spaces increase. Research on makerspaces has focused on studentimpact, with three elements suggested as essential for success by Martin [1]: 1) rapidprototyping, digital tools, and low-cost microcontroller; 2) events and interactions within thecommunity; and 3) a failure-positive mindset that encourages collaboration. Research on thebarriers to makerspaces is limited, focusing primarily on inclusive environments andtraining/mentoring [2]. Other barriers found that impede student interaction include student lackself-confidence, fear of failure, and a lack of visibly alike peers [3-5]. A deeper understanding ofmakerspaces, which

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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Carlotta A. Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Audrey Bowden, Vanderbilt University; Monica Farmer Cox, The Ohio State University; Tahira N. Reid, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Leroy L. Long III, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach

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Summits in North Carolina andCalifornia for Women of Color (WoC) STEM faculty. Since 2004, NIFE has offered workshopsand academic resources for women and minorities in STEM [1], [2]. Many of these initiativeswere funded by NSF Advance grants. In 2012, the Academic Research Leadership Network (ARLN) was founded by Drs.Samuel Graham, Baratunde Cola, and Raheem Behah to create an online community of Blackengineering faculty and meet in an annual symposium co-located and co-facilitated with theannual National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) conference. The Academic ResearchLeadership Symposium (ARLS) serves as a yearly meeting of largely Black faculty to enhancethe professional development of postdocs and early to mid-career faculty. The

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Jerrod A. Henderson, University of Houston; Erik M. Hines, Florida State University; Ayesha Boyce, University of North Carolina - Greensboro; Jared Larenz Davis, University of Houston; Waldemiro Muanha Junqueira, University of Houston; Tyron Slack, Florida State University

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c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #32969in Psychology at Southeastern Louisiana University and my Master’s of Social Work degree at FloridaState University. My clinical and research interests include African American student academic success,resilience, and mental health. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Black Males in Pursuit of Advanced Engineering DegreesIntroductionProducing graduates with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)competencies remains a national concern/challenge [1]. Annually, less than half of the studentswho

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Supporting Biomedical Engineering Students in Holistic Development

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Cassandra Sue Ellen Jamison, University of Michigan; Annie AnMeng Wang, University of Michigan; Aileen Huang-Saad, Northeastern University; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan

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Biomedical Engineering

participants’ initial view of possible careers in the field was narrow. Overthe course of the study, some participants changed their view of career possibilities; for thosewho had not yet decided on a career, concrete exposures to possible BME careers contributed tomore optimistic career outlooks. Suggestions for future research to more broadly understandBME students’ career exploration are also presented.IntroductionBiomedical engineering (BME) degrees are often advertised as a means to pursue many careerpathways upon graduation [1]; however, at the same time, their curricula has been criticized asbeing too broad and not deep enough to prepare students adequately for industry work [2]–[4].Studies have explored these criticisms by looking at measures

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Working Together: Approaches to Inclusivity and Interdisciplinarity

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Valeriya Yudina, Higher School of Economics; Yulia Skrupskaya, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Victor Taratukhin, SAP Silicon Valley and University of Muenster; Elvira Kozlova; Natalia Pulyavina, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics

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thinking and is the originator of thecreative archaeology lab at Stanford University, working closely with Design Thinking.Another speaker was Kakeru Tsubota, Principal and Japan Representative, SAP LabsSilicon Valley. Also, Tamara Carleton, the CEO and founder of Innovation LeadershipGroup LLC and a research associate at the Foresight & Innovation lab affiliated withStanford's Center for Design Research.During the Ideathon Challenge, there was a division into two time zones (European andAmerican) to provide an opportunity to pitch the project at a suitable time. The studentswere offered but not limited to three challenges.Case study 1: Learning and interaction in the post-COVID worldIsolation can often lead to a reduction in communication

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First-Year Programs: First-Year Experiences

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Jill Davishahl, Western Washington University; Jeffrey L. Newcomer, Western Washington University

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First-Year Programs

SessionsTraditional freshman orientation sessions are designed to facilitate student transitions to collegeby providing information about student resources, college and department services, institutionalpolicies, advising, course selection, technology, and an introduction to physical facilities such asmakerspaces and labs. Studies suggest that well-designed freshman orientations can have apositive impact on students including improved student retention, persistence and academicsuccess [1] – [8]. In addition, orientation programs have been shown to lead to strong personalconnections between students and facilitate their overall social development [1] [6] [9] [10].More specifically, Gentry et al (2006) found that students who participate in orientation

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 5

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Mohsen M. Dorodchi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Alexandria Benedict, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Audrey Rorrer; David K. Pugalee, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Lijuan Cao, University of North Carolina Charlotte

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Computing and Information Technology

Broadening the Middle School Computational Thinking Interventions beyond Block Programming Mohsen Dorodchi, Alexandria Benedict, Audrey Rorrer, David K Pugalee, Lijuan Cao, Mary Lou MaherAbstractThe contributions of this research paper are as follows: 1) it builds on prior work done intransitioning teaching and learning of programming and computational thinking from block-basedprogramming to text-based programming languages, and 2) it infuses this model of programmingto teach computational thinking (CT) in middle school curriculum and studies the impact of theprofessional development (PD) on teachers. Our proposed curricular approach is based on therequest from our partner middle school teachers in

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Tuncay Aktosun, University of Texas at Arlington; Yolanda Parker, Tarrant County College; Jianzhong Su, University of Texas at Arlington

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federally-fundedscholarship and fellowship programs have helped to make the changes. We provide theappropriate data and present various plots to demonstrate the trend over the years in the studentdiversification since 2005.The three scholarship and mentoring programs we have been running in the UTA MathematicsDepartment are the S-STEM Scholarship Program [1] supported by the NSF-DUE (NationalScience Foundation, Division of the Undergraduate Education), the GAANN (GraduateAssistance in Areas of National Need) Program [2] supported by the US-ED, and the UTAMathematics Bridge-to-the Doctorate Program [3] supported by the NSF-DMS (NSF, Divisionof the Mathematical Sciences). Since we provided detailed information about these threeprograms in a previous

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Design Courses 2, Aerospace Assets

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Cristhian David Coronel, Nihon Gakko University; Mayra Luján Mosqueda, Nihon Gakko University; Blas Fernando Vega BV, Agencia Espacial del Paraguay; Diego Herbin Stalder, Universidad Nacional de Asunción; Jorge H. Kurita, Universidad Nacional de Asunción

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Aerospace

appointedto lead the research department of the School of Engineering. From 2017 he is appointed to be the head ofthe Mechanical Engineering Department at Universidad Nacional de Asuncion. He is currently workingas the director of the Planning Directorate of the Paraguayan Space Agency. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Building 1U CubeSat as a Tool to Promote Project-Based Learning in Paraguay, a case studyIntroductionIn Paraguay, various higher education institutions such as universities do not have properlyequipped engineering laboratories because it requires a significant investment [1]. Also, theselaboratories may require extensive infrastructure

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College; Isabel Huff, Springfield Technical Community College

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Women in Engineering

the U.S. “will need a steady supplyof well-trained engineers, scientists, and other technical workers, as well as a technologically andscientifically literate general public, to succeed and prosper in the twenty-first century.” [1]Further, there is agreement that solving the most critical problems facing society requires aSTEM workforce that mirrors its diversity. The publication of Broadening Participation inAmerica’s Science and Engineering Workforce and subsequent Broadening Participation inAmerica’s STEM Workforce and Pathways to Broadening Participation in Response to theCEOSE 2011-2012 Recommendation places great emphasis on innovating pathways to includewomen, minorities, and disabled persons in commensurate numbers and shifting

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Supporting Successful Progression From First-year Studies

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Erica J. Marti, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Eakalak Khan, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Amit Gajurel, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Neil Christian Ledesma Tugadi

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Civil Engineering

. This informationshould prove useful to other institutions who are in the process of implementing new first-yearprograms, especially for institutions who have similar characteristics (i.e., urban setting,commuter school, highly diverse, high proportion of first generation students). Programevaluation focuses on the following items related to CCB objectives: 1) increase in sense ofbelonging (tool: student survey), 2) increase in CEEC/CM retention betweenfreshman/sophomore and sophomore/junior years (tool: institutional data), and 3) completion ofprogram activities (tool: internal records).Background and introductionOne of the biggest challenges faced by the universities in the US is the lower graduation rates intheir engineering programs. It

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Workforce Preparation at the Two-year College

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Elodie Billionniere, Miami Dade College; Lawrence Eric Meyer Jr, Miami Dade Community College

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Two-Year College

and instructors assessment of student work and coursecomprehension. The net effect of these certifications is not only earned degrees, but employerability to validate prospective employee skill and knowledge outside of an academicenvironment.This paper presents the approach followed in developing in-depth, project-based learningopportunities using cutting-edge technology for the new academic pathway in cloud literacy andthe program outcomes. A discussion on the best practices and lessons learned whileimplementing the first year of the program is included.IntroductionThere is a significant shortage of experienced cloud professionals with 63% of U.S. organizationsexpecting this gap to widen in the next two years [1]. Cloud migration has

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Focus on ETAC Accreditation

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Qudsia Tahmina, Ohio State University; Kathryn Kelley, Ohio State University; Aimee T. Ulstad, Ohio State University

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Engineering Technology

that they are meeting the criteria. Accreditation Board ofEngineering and Technology (ABET) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization with ISO9001:2015 certification that accredits postsecondary, degree-granting programs in applied andnatural science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology [1]. Since the paper isfocused on engineering technology degree, the relevant accreditation council and criteria arediscussed.A new Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology (BSET) degree program was developedto address the growing needs for highly skilled college graduates with the manufacturingengineering technology focus at the regional campuses of The Ohio State University. To deliverthe quality educational experience and provide

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Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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Marsha Lovett, Carnegie Mellon University; Mark David Bedillion, Carnegie Mellon University; Cassandra M. Birrenkott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Karim Heinz Muci-Kuchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Laura Ochs Pottmeyer, Carnegie Mellon University

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Systems Engineering

science on student learning. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Building and Revising an Assessment to Measure Students’ Self-Efficacy in Systems Thinking Mark D. Bedillion1*, Cassandra M. Birrenkott2, Marsha C. Lovett3, Karim H. Muci-Kuchler2, and Laura O. Pottmeyer3 1 Mechanical Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University 2 Mechanical Engineering Department, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology3 Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Technology, Carnegie Mellon University

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Bringing a Different Perspective

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Agnes Germaine d'Entremont P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Andrea S. Webb, The University of British Columbia; Sean Maw P.Eng., University of Saskatchewan; Jennifer Kirkey, Douglas College

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Mechanics

: Evaluating Approaches to Problem DevelopmentIntroduction: Inter-institutional collaboration in higher education contextsUniversity students around the world face significant challenges in affording learning materials,including textbooks and ancillary resources such as online homework systems. Recent researchindicates that commercial homework systems can cost students $52-$105 CAD per course [1].Since homework problems are central to learning many core engineering science topics, such asclassical mechanics, there is a substantial opportunity to reduce student costs and makeengineering degrees more accessible. Additionally, open educational resources (OER) allowinstructors to customize problems to suit their courses or pedagogical goals. For example

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Undergraduate Students' Professional Skills and Reflection

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Gloria Washington, Howard University; Marlon Mejias, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Marlon Mejias; Legand L. Burge III, Howard University

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Educational Research and Methods

Bloomberg Business Week regarding diversity and inclusion in tech, and conducted a TedX talk on HBCUs role in the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem for African Americans. Dr. Burge is a Fellow of AAAS, BEYA Innovation Award recipient, and a Fulbright Scholar recipient. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Building Computational and Social & Emotional Learning Skills into Undergraduate Computing Education Through Student-Led Coding Camps1 IntroductionABET student outcomes like 1) “communicate effectively in a variety of professionalcontexts”, 2) “recognize professional responsibilities and make

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Enhancing Teaching and Research

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Lisa Benson, Clemson University; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Karin Jensen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Gary Lichtenstein, Arizona State University; Kelsey Watts, Clemson University; Evan Ko, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Balsam Albayati

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New Engineering Educators

as well as internalizing high standards of scientific research [1]. Asa field, EER benefits from diverse perspectives aimed at improving engineering education andchallenging existing models of professional formation of engineers. New faculty are oftensolicited to review journal manuscripts and grant proposals, but receive little to no formaltraining to develop their schema, or model, for conducting quality and constructive peer reviewsin their field. We have leveraged the knowledge and organizational structure of the first tworounds of the JEE Mentored Reviewer Program to create the EER PERT project. We anticipatedthat participants would experience benefits similar to those of the Publons Academy, a peerreview training program. Responses

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Tiffiny Antionette Butler, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Katherine C. Chen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kimberly Lechasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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matriculated in the following fall. Spring and summer sessions wereused for a twofold purpose: 1) building community amongst the cohort, and 2) introducingstudents to key campus resources very early. These sessions were intentionally spaced roughlyone month apart to gradually introduce students to resources over time (as to not overwhelmthem) and to provide a space for their home support network to connect into their onboardingprocess. This process is an important piece of establishing a line of trust with their student’s newnetwork of support. Students within the program also had many opportunities prior to theirmatriculation to engage with the campus community through optional summer courses,participation in the “Connections” program (designed to

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Multidisciplinary Learning and Teaching Experiences

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Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; José G. Andino Martínez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Olivia C. Coiado, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jessica Marie Mingee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Flavia Andrade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Tim Pollack-Lagushenko, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Collaboration with the Social Sciences and HumanitiesIntroductionEducators have long recognized the need to integrate social sciences, arts, humanities, andphysical sciences to solve such major human problems as environmental degradation, climatechange, rural poverty, and global pandemics.[1] Many colleges and universities with engineeringprograms, for example, have established courses that introduce technical students to the socialsciences and humanities for building skills that range from language to problem-solving andcreative thinking. [2] The significance of global challenges, while always present, became evenmore pronounced in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, which shut down entiresocieties, halted travel, and

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering, Art and Society

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Katherine Hennessey Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering; James R. Kieselburg, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Margaret T. Dwyer, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Candela Marini, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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presence of the arts and the humanities in terms of academic majors andassociated liberal arts departments.The second part of this paper presents examples of successful integration of STEM with the artsand the humanities, i.e., STEAM, at our institution. Exposure to the fine arts has beenencouraged to specifically address this problem since at least the 1950s [1]. It is, for instance, atthe origin of MIT’s Committee for the Study of the Visual Arts, established in 1972: “As MITpresident, [Jerome B.] Wiesner transformed the Institute, recognizing that being the best inscience and engineering was not enough–that tomorrow’s leaders also need to integrate the artsand humanities into their thinking about engineering, science, technology and policy” [2

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Changing How We Pursue Change

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Jacqueline Handley, University of Michigan

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Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity

-progress) The conversation around youth engineering work has increased in volume over the pastdecade. As college engineering programs struggle to attract and retain individuals who identifyas BIPOC, women, LGBTQ+, and/or from disenfranchised socioeconomic groups [1], outreachefforts to attract youth from diverse backgrounds to the field have increased. Further, the adventof the Next Generation Science Standards [2] has positioned engineering experience as a meansto broaden participation in STEM writ large and has brought pre-college engineering moreexplicitly to the national consciousness [3]. Prior research has sought to explain why youth fromhistorically marginalized backgrounds might veer away from engineering before college

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Bring Your Own Experiment: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies

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Bobby F. Hodgkinson, University of Colorado Boulder; Trudy Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

students in modular hands-on learning opportunities thatteach Satellite estimation, sensing, actuation and control. The platform allows students toimplement several custom designed Satellite control schema on hardware and compare simulatedand actual performance results, thereby increasing conceptual understanding of how control gainsaffect the overall system dynamics (stiffness, damping, etc). This is accomplished on thehardware through the employment of a wireless embedded Satellite control board programmedwith Simulink and a LabVIEW-based Base Station. Figure 1 shows the main Satellite and Base Station without any additional modular accessories

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Bring Your Own Experiment: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies

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Ahmet Can Sabuncu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John M. Sullivan Jr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kerri Anne Thornton, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Maqsood Ali Mughal, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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experimental setup as one of the possible student laboratory exercise in anengineering experimentation course. We had nine students complete this optional assignment ina class of 89 students. We measured student engagement with a survey and analyzed studentwork. Students liked the mode of data acquisition and student success was high. We believe thismethodology is particularly important when delivering experimentation remotely, including ourcurrent pandemic situation.INTRODUCTIONCollege education is an enabler. It enables fulfilling one’s dreams and economic prosperity at alarger scale. However, due to ever-increasing costs of higher education, a discrepancy exists inaccessibility to higher education. Only 1 in 10 people in low-income families get a

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Bring Your Own Experiment: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies

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Mark Trudgen, University of Georgia; Dominik May, University of Georgia

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

, assembly of the associated electronics during the lab period isoften included. Presently, labs are often either: 1) a series of disconnected/disjointed labs onlyfocused on a single-sensor-application or 2) pre-fabricated equipment setups purchased fromeducation companies, which are often costly and have a small scope with very limited possibilityfor future modifications. Both also suffer from “cookie-cutter” type approaches, which stiflestudents from experiencing true engineering design methodologies. Both existing solutions oftenhave no flexibility to be switched between in-person and online teaching; if it is even possible tobe implemented online.In this BYOE presentation, we present the design, fabrication, and implementation of a hybridSensors

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Bring Your Own Experiment: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies

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Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University; Robert D. Adams, Western Carolina University; Paul M. Yanik, Western Carolina University; Hugh Jack, Western Carolina University; Andrew Ritenour, Western Carolina University; Hayrettin B. Karayaka, Western Carolina University

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Options for Analog and Digital Circuits Suitable for In-Class or At-Home ExperimentsAbstractDuring a pandemic such as COVID-19, many institutions need to increase the portion of onlineinstruction and enforce social distancing in the classroom. It is challenging to maintain the samelevel of hands-on lab experience, and yet lab experience is essential for many courses andperhaps the most effective pedagogy to help students learn. There are three alternatives totraditional labs: (1) purely virtual simulations, via an app or software, an online platform, or avirtual environment; (2) remote labs to run experiments on actual hardware hosted off-site viainternet and parallel access; and (3) individual lab kits so that each student can

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Chemical Engineering Pedagogy

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Kayla Chapman; Matthew W. Liberatore, The University of Toledo

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Chemical Engineering

single cohort of ~100students generated data across 7 chapters before each of three midterm exams. Measuring ifstudents correctly solved end-of-chapter problems beyond those required for a grade and if theextra practice helped their exam grades are central research themes. More specifically, severalresearch questions will be explored: 1. What fraction of students correctly solve problemsbeyond those earning a homework grade? 2. Does the fraction of students completed extraproblems and the number of extra problems successfully completed change over the course ofthe semester? 3. Since previous research found that success on homework problems increaseswith each letter grade, does completing more end-of-chapter questions than required correlatewith

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Capstone Design

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Nathan M. Kathir P.E., George Mason University; Erik Knudsen, George Mason University

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Mechanical Engineering

program.” The ME program at Mason is young, having started six years ago and hasalready gone through a successful accreditation evaluation by a visiting ABET evaluation team.The AY 2019-20, i.e., the class of 2020 at Mason represents the fourth graduating class for thisprogram. In addition to meeting the curriculum requirements, the capstone courses are requiredto meet the ABET [1] EAC Criterion 5(d) in providing a culminating design experience. Thecapstone program is managed by the first author, a designated faculty member known as theDirector of Senior Projects (DSP) and all the student projects are sponsored by industry orgovernment. After working in the industry for 30 years, this was the first year in academia forthe DSP and this sudden