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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2020 Best PIC and Zone Papers

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Pamela McLeod, Stanford University; Junko Munakata Marr, Colorado School of Mines; Richard G. Luthy, Stanford University

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persistence in the discipline [1], increasingstudent interest in graduate school [2], and developing a student’s identity as a researcher [1].The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is a large supporter of such experiences through itsResearch Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site and Supplements Program. Almost 150REU Site Programs are currently funded in Engineering.Most REU Sites are based at a single institution. This traditional model for REU Sites typicallyinvolves 8-12 participants per summer, housed in close proximity on campus, engaged inresearch projects united by a common theme. Having a unifying theme and developing strongcamaraderie are two aspects deemed critical to a successful REU program [3].A small but growing number of summer

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WEDNESDAY PLENARY: Featuring Best Zone and PIC Papers & Corporate Member Council Keynote Speaker, Sponsored by EngineeringCAS

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Chao Wang, Arizona State University

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Corporate Member Council

provision of choice and control has a more prominentimpact on female students’ motivation than on male students. The perceived need satisfaction ofcompetence may play a role in shaping students’ motivational responses.IntroductionHands-on team-based open-ended design projects in freshman engineering courses have beenshown to significantly improve student retention due to the benefits of active hands-on learning,self-directed acquisition of knowledge, development of skills and confidence necessary tosucceed in engineering and a growing sense of community [1, 2]. These open-ended designprojects range from highly structured [3] to theme-based [1, 2] to free choice [4, 5]. Combiningentrepreneurial thinking and maker technology, student-driven free

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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2020 Best PIC and Zone Papers

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Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Nathan E. Canney; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado Boulder

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the degree program, and ifthe relevance of the intervention was clear to students’ personal and academic interests. Thisresearch provides suggestions for educators designing ESI instruction and considerations of thecontext in which the instruction is embedded.IntroductionCalls to improve engineering ethics education have reverberated through industry andgovernment with increasing intensity over the past few decades (e.g., [1], [2]). Engineeringprograms have responded to the growing recognition of the need to foster students’ ethicaldevelopment and awareness of societal impacts in a variety of ways [3]-[5]. Without consensuson how engineering ethics should be taught or which outcomes the instruction should aim toachieve, different approaches

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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2020 Best PIC and Zone Papers

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Shuvra Das, University of Detroit Mercy; Darrell K. Kleinke P.E., University of Detroit Mercy; David Pistrui, University of Detroit Mercy

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change. “We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist,using technologies that haven't been invented, in order to solve problems, we don't even know areproblems yet.” Most of us have come across this famous insight from former Secretary ofEducation, Richard Riley. Here are some key pointers from a recent publication (Walsh). - 65% of children entering elementary school this year will work in a job that hasn’t been invented yet - 49% of current jobs have the potential for machine replacement, with 60% having at least 1/3 of their activities automated - 80% of the skills trained for in the last 50 years can now be outperformed by machines - At a global level, technically automatable activities touch the equivalent of 1.1

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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2020 Best PIC and Zone Papers

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Diana S. Dabby, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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—somethingunexpected—thus showing the potential allure of an Engineers’ Conductorless Orchestra toexternal audiences. Specifically, this student conductorless orchestra brought a New Yorkaudience to its feet. Though it was not OCO’s best 2017 concert, the performance connectedviscerally and crossed the footlights. As has repeatedly been observed, students talented in math, science, and engineering areoften talented in music, suggesting that a viable musical presence within an engineeringcurriculum makes sense. A first approach towards introducing the conductorless orchestramodel to other schools will occur at the 2019 ASEE Zone 1 International Conference in Niagara 3Falls, New York. The photo below captures

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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2020 Best PIC and Zone Papers

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Ron Averill, Michigan State University; Sara Roccabianca, Michigan State University; Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University

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c Society for Engineering Education, 2019 A Multi-Instructor Study of Assessment Techniques in Engineering Mechanics Courses1. IntroductionThe authors have conducted a three-year study to explore the effects of a new assessment modelon student outcomes in a sophomore level Mechanics of Materials course. Preliminary resultsfrom the first two years were discussed previously [1]. The most recent set of results andconclusions are presented here, along with further discussion and lessons learned regarding itsimplementation. A key component of the latest phase of the study is the transition of the controlinstructor to the new method. For this instructor this paper includes a control

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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2020 Best PIC and Zone Papers

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David Joseph Ewing, The University of Texas at Arlington; Catherine Mary Unite; Christina Natasha Miller; Cedric Shelby

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2018, UTA added Supplemental Instruction (SI) tothe class, giving the students more academic assistance outside the classroom.Underprepared students and underrepresented minoritiesThe educational gap between the expectations placed on college students and the knowledgelevels of underprepared students are not at all encouraging. These students are more likely to domore poorly in their courses and have lower graduation rates than other students. In looking forways to meet the needs of these underprepared college students, one-to-one tutoring has becomea service that is most often provided to them. Tutoring has sometimes been called the goldstandard to supplement effective instruction [1]. Many universities have also adoptedSupplemental

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WEDNESDAY PLENARY: Featuring Best Zone and PIC Papers & Corporate Member Council Keynote Speaker, Sponsored by EngineeringCAS

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Deborah Won, California State University, Los Angeles; Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Gustavo B. Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles; Adel Sharif, California State University, Los Angeles; Masood Shahverdi, California State University, Los Angeles; Ni Li, California State University, Los Angeles; Arturo Pacheco-Vega, California State University, Los Angeles

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critical formational period and yet often neglected in student successinitiatives [1-3]. The sophomore year is a defining moment in the college career, and also a timethat is filled with uncertainty and a sense of losing support students had in their freshmen year [2,4-6]. We recognized the need for students to strengthen their motivation, resolve, and capabilityto persevere through the challenges that tend to hit them particularly hard when they reach theirfirst engineering courses, typically in their sophomore year. We hypothesized that servicelearning projects during the students’ freshman-to-sophomore transition would address theseneeds and thus build engineering identity and improve their academic performance in theirsophomore year

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Multidisciplinary Curriculum and Course Development

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Steven R. Biegalski, Georgia Institute of Technology; Pavel V. Tsvetkov, Texas A&M University; Yuguo Tao, Georgia Institute of Technology; Vladimir Sobes, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Karl Pazdernik, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Simon Labov, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; David F. Williams, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; James M. Ghawaly Jr., Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Alfred Olivier Hero, University of Michigan

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support cross-cutting technologies across three coredisciplines: 1) computer and engineering science research specifically in a form of machinelearning and high performance computing (HPC), 2) advanced manufacturing, and 3) nucleardetection technologies. For outreach and development, ETI hosted the first of three summerschools from August 24-28, 2020 with the theme of “Data Science and Engineering”. Theschool was hosted in an on-line format and had over 200 participants. The recorded content isavailable on-line as a resource for students. This describes the hurtles and methods utilized toovercome obstacles limiting in-person workshops in 2020.The summer school had four modules: 1) Fundamentals of data Applications, 2) ComputationalMachine

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Best in 5 Minutes: Demonstrating Interactive Teaching Activities

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Timothy Aaron Wood, The Citadel

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Civil Engineering

popular textbooks, these concepts are oftendisconnected from the study of statics proper, and instead students are told, "you'll need this nextsemester, too," as the instructor launches into math-intensive theoretical lectures. Though allstatics textbooks draw connections between center of gravity and area centroids, they rarely doso using the previously-established language of equivalent load systems [1], [2]. These divisionsin the textbooks and lectures can cause the effort of calculating an area centroid to becomedivorced from the source concepts of center of gravity and equivalent systems resulting in weakmental models and underdeveloped understanding of the connections between these importantconcepts. However, centroids should be related

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Building Success in the Online Classroom

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Jiehong Liao, Florida Gulf Coast University; Galen I. Papkov, Florida Gulf Coast University; Ashraf Badir P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University; Robert O'Neill P.E., Florida Gulf Coast University

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Mechanics

dynamics), a required course for students majoring inbioengineering, civil engineering and environmental engineering at FGCU. Success in this courseis critical to success in follow-up mechanics courses and upper-level engineering courses. Datahas been collected on students’ performance on homework, quizzes and exams, and on thestudents’ thoughts on learning and course delivery. Thus far, it has been concluded that the use oftraditional hand-written homework, frequent assessment via quizzes [1], or the Pearson MasteringEngineering [2] software for formative assessment did not have a significant impact on students’performance on exams. It was also observed that neither traditional nor online homework scorescorrelated well with exam scores; however

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 8

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Shelly Gulati, University of the Pacific

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

biomicrofluidics. More recently, her interests have emphasized mentorship of women and underrepresented students in order to promote persistence and success in engineering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Book Club Model to Promote Personal and Professional Development Activities for Female Engineering and Computer Science StudentsIntroduction and MotivationProfessional and leadership development is one recommended strategy to support and retainfemale engineers and computer scientists in their professional careers in industry or academia[1], [2], [3], [4]. For women in engineering and computer science, personal

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 2

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Radana Dvorak, City University of Seattle ; John L. Whiteman, University of Portland

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

limited IT support/or lack of support. Instructors having to createlabs is a problematic option since it is a very time-consuming overhead added to the regularactivities involved in teaching a curriculum. COVID-19 has recently compounded this problemdue to universities having to restrict access to labs.Creating virtual labs for cybersecurity classes has been given attention in the last few years, andASEE has published papers on the topic [1- 4]. Some universities are creating labs, while othersare using the NSF-funded SEED Labs Project. [5-7]. The authors are proposing an opensourceproject initiative that allows universities, students, and others to contribute their lab work to apublic repository hosted by an entity like GitHub. The work can be

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Manufacturing Division Session: Make-it!

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Byul Hur, Texas A&M University; Chao Ma, Texas A&M University; Brey C. Caraway, Texas A&M University ; Jorge I. Roa, Texas A&M University; Alejandro X. Trejos, Texas A&M University; Pauline Davila, Texas A&M University

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facultyadvisors. This team started their capstone as usual. However, in the middle of the first semesterof the capstone (Spring 2020), the team has experienced imposed restrictions due to COVID-19.Restrictions due to COVID-19 were still active in the second semester (Fall 2020). The teamcould complete the capstone project in Fall 2020 during COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, thepowder compaction system is introduced. The details of the block diagrams and fabricatedprototype device are presented. Testing and verifications are shown, and the capstone evaluationis presented.I. Introduction A powder compaction system can be useful to various manufacturing technologies, such aspowder metallurgy [1] and additive manufacturing [2-5]. In powder metallurgy, a

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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Mary K. Nyaema, The University of Illinois at Chicago; David G. Rethwisch, The University of Iowa; Mark Andrew McDermott

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competitors from the global market catching up withits standing as the international leader in science and technology [1]. This challenge from the globalcommunity has led to the United States government issuing a call for reform-based science teachingwith an aim of strengthening the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce[2]. With this call comes the associated need to train competent teachers prepared to handle thechallenges accompanying the demand to increase the STEM workforce. To help provide a capableSTEM workforce, many institutions, groups, and committees have created and promoted STEMeducational interventions aimed at i) increasing the number of students pursuing STEM majors and ii) improving student

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Undergraduate Students' Development of Computational and Programming Skills

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Angela Minichiello P.E., Utah State University; Muhammad Asghar P.E., Utah State University; Ebenezer Ewumi, Washington State University; Candis S. Claiborn, Washington State University; Olusola Adesope, Washington State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021A Characterization of Engineering and Computer Science Undergraduate Participation in High Impact Educational Practices at Two Western Land Grant Institutions IntroductionTo maintain its technological competitiveness and innovation leadership into the 21st century,the United States requires a robust engineering and computer science (E/CS) workforce withsubstantial diversity across gender and underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups [1][2]. However, there are growing concerns about the ability of U.S. educational

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3

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Lelanie Smith, University of Pretoria; Nadia Millis Trent P.E., University of Waikato

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

andOperate (CDIO) teaching framework which stresses the importance of training engineers fundamentalprinciples in the context of real-world systems and products. In some of the modules the CDIOteaching framework becomes a lens through which to facilitate problem/project based learning (PBL)activities to achieve specific outcomes. Teaching large student cohorts based on a PBL framework caneasily become ineffective if there is a lack of curriculum overview and insufficient scaffolding of PBLskills for students [1]. Kamp [2] also stresses the urgency of developing curricula that emphasises1 AREND - Aircraft for Environmental and Rhino Defencetraining communicative and innovative engineers for diverse workspaces as we move intotransformation and

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Engineering Education Culture: Mental Health, Inclusion, and the Soul of Our Community

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Hector Enrique Rodriguez-Simmonds, Purdue University; Avneet Hira, Boston College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

in engineering education and its adverse realizations. Engineering issocio-technical in nature i.e. there is no engineering that is solely technical, and bydichotomizing or picking a side we break up a complex conceptualization into one that is neitherauthentic nor realistic. By sitting with tension as a guiding metaphorical framework for thisstudy, we attempt to break up the dualism that exposes itself in engineering education.Our discussions in this paper are informed by our ontology or sense of being. Such explorationsin ontology are not traditional to engineering. We bring in this construct from the liberal artsbecause of the lack of such a device in engineering scholarship. We discuss: 1) our conception ofthe soul of engineering

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Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

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Kathleen Buse, Advancing Women in the Workforce; Lyndsey McMillon-Brown, NASA Glenn Research Center; L. Nicole Smith, NASA Glenn Research Center; Brian P. Kirkmeyer, Miami University

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consumer products (International American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #33434Flavors and Fragrances) prior to his current role. He served on the executive committee of the ASEEWomen in Engineering division from 2010 to present. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Collegiate External Women’s Advisory Committee: Origins and the Development of a Strategic PlanAbstractGender diversity increases collaboration [1] enables better and more creative problem solvingleading to greater

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Innovative Pedagogies Afforded Through Technology and Remote Learning

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Shivam Jindal, New York University; Jack Bringardner, New York University

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Educational Research and Methods

portfolio as “a purposeful collection of student work that exhibits thestudent’s efforts, progress, and achievements in one or more areas”, and the authors also add that“the collection must include…evidence of student self-reflection” [1]. Knott et al. describes apilot e-portfolio (electronic portfolio) project developed at Virginia Tech. The authors note that88 percent of students wanted to continue using the e-portfolio as way of keeping samples oftheir work, recording their progress, and reflecting on their work [2]. Similar student appeal toe-portfolios is seen in [3]. Heinricher et al. also conduct a pilot project of three different portfoliomodels at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and found “portfolios increased students’goal-directedness

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Engineering Technology Curriculum and Programs

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Riem Rostom, Indiana State University; Sheikh Fahad Ferdous, Indiana State University; A. Mehran Shahhosseini, Indiana State University

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Diversity

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most in achieving 3 out of 5 student outcomes.1. IntroductionEngineering design is an important component of higher education in engineering. In mostinstances, these experiences in engineering design become incorporated into standards-baseddesign courses. In this case, the courses are designated as engineering/engineering technologycourses and the engineering design component is emphasized. Engineering design projects areproblems that may be approached and resolved using strategies and approaches commonlyconsidered to be engineering practices. The term “engineering” is used because developingsolutions to the problems involves processes similar to those used in the professional practice ofengineering, in addition to the integration of knowledge

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First-Year Programs: First-Year Experiences

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Ashish D. Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Roobini Vijayabalan; Athira Suresh Kumar Nair

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their mode of instruction in Fall 2019, Spring 2020 and Fall 2020.Engineering 101 (ENGR101) is an introductory engineering mathematics course loosely based onthe Wright State University (WSU) engineering mathematics education model [1-3]. The courseis a 4-credit course meeting for 90 minutes of lecture (common for multiple sections of the course)two times a week, and 90 minutes of recitation and 90 minutes of lab meetings once a week. It isa required course for all engineering students who are taking pre-calculus and are one term behindthe expected starting point in mathematics. The lecture component provides an overview ofrelevant topics in engineering analytical methods that are most heavily used in core engineeringcourses [4]. These topics

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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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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Personnel Development & Retention

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Thomas A. Ward, Cedarville University; Corinna Megan Ward, Capital Group

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Aerospace

Scale Integration Int Integrated1.0 IntroductionFuture aerospace advancement in the United States depends on the education of the nextgeneration. But there are warning signs that this foundation is diminishing. In the Final Report ofthe Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry (2002) [1], urgent attentionwas given to a decline in the number of new engineers and scientists entering the aerospaceworkforce. The commission described how the quality of life has been improved through the priorinnovations in aerospace engineering, giving examples such as aerial application of chemicals foragriculture, remote sensing systems, weather and climate investigations, and air vehicle design. In2011, Crawley et al. [2

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Design Pedagogy 2

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Imane Aboutajedyne, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez (Morocco); Yassine Salih Alj, Al Akhawayn University; Ahmed Aboutajeddine, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez (Morocco).

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students and, thereby, helps design inclusive learning conceptsthat will contribute to the emergence of a more diverse skilled engineering workforce.Keywords: Engineering Education, Human-centered design, conceptual framework, context-centered design, visual design tool, inclusion.IntroductionCreating value for people is crucial in major fields of human endeavor. Indeed, innovative solutionsare designed to meet the specific needs of people in a particular context [1]. In engineering, forinstance, scientific knowledge is applied to develop products, services, and systems in order tosolve problems that affect the quality of human life. Along with addressing this core value,solutions need to be technically feasible and economically viable [2

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Student Division Technical Session 3

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Ryan Edward Lake, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Jessica Brooke Altenberg, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Arin Rzonca, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Kariem Hashem, University of Illinois; Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Student

often lack a complete understanding of the contextwithin which they work and aims to improve both performance efficiency and outcomes byencouraging careful consideration of political, cultural, economic, and other non-technicalfactors that reside within the project population [1]. In this CIP case study, the authors willexamine Enactus-USA, whose clients populations are identified as the communities with whichproject teams seek to address material needs.Enactus-USA is a large entrepreneurial organization with the mission of “building a better worldwhile developing the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders” from among college studentsacross the United States. Founded in the U.S. in 1975, Enactus has since established similarnetworks in an

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Technological and Engineering Literacy-Philosophy of Engineering (TELPhe) Division Technical Session 3 / Perspectives on Advances in Promoting Technological Literacy

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Sayyad Zahid Qamar, Sultan Qaboos University; Ramanathan Arunachalam, Sultan Qaboos University; Sayyad Basim Qamar, Texas A&M University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

is perhaps the ability to solveproblems of technical, financial, interpersonal, and other types [1]. Many of these real-worldengineering problems are ill-structured and complex, containing multiple conflicting goals, andrestricted by both engineering and non-engineering constraints. That is why the first skill forengineering graduates that ABET lists in its Criterion 3. Student Outcomes [2] is “an ability toidentify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles ofengineering, science, and mathematics.”Reaching optimum solutions for practical engineering problems requires a systematic approachbased on evaluation, interpretation, and creative decision making. Mature level of criticalthinking (CT) skills are crucial

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Best Paper, Best Diversity Paper

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James Buchholz, University of Iowa; Jae-Eun Russell, University of Iowa; Venanzio Cichella, University of Iowa; Casey Harwood, University of Iowa; Shaoping Xiao, University of Iowa; Pablo M. Carrica, University of Iowa

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Ocean and Marine

credits (6 courses), according to the formula described in Table 1.Required elements of a student’s plan of study include courses in naval hydrodynamics, controland autonomous systems, and an approved capstone project on a naval science & technologytopic, which can be either a full-year senior design elective (which also satisfies the ABETcapstone design experience requirement) or a single-semester independent investigation with afaculty advisor.Curriculum and facilitiesThe primary certificate courses are listed in Table 1, and are arranged into the categories of navalhydrodynamics courses, control & autonomous systems courses, and capstone courses. Courselearning objectives focus on technical knowledge associated with the subject as well

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Academic Success and Retention

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Danika M. Dorris, North Carolina State University; Julie L. Swann, North Carolina State University; Julie Ivy, North Carolina State University

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Educational Research and Methods

predictors in the first year, and race does not become asignificant predictor of dropout until the second year. The factors that influence dropout changeover time which emphasize the importance of dynamic dropout prediction models. The findingsfrom each phase of our analysis highlight the complexity of understanding the causes of dropoutand the importance of personalizing interventions for specific populations within a cohort.IntroductionNearly 20 million students attended American colleges and universities in Fall 2019, and roughly625,000 of these students were enrolled in an undergraduate engineering program[1], [2]. Thirtypercent of engineering students drop out before the second year[3], and more than 60 percent ofdropouts occur in the first two

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 7

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James A. Kearns, York College of Pennsylvania; Jennifer Owrutsky

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Electrical and Computer

by 19 students there were 28 cases in whichstudents were unable to correctly solve a problem using traditional methods, while in 17 of those28 cases the students were able to do so using the approach outlined in this paper. There were noinstances in which a student was successful using the traditional approach but unsuccessful usingthis new approach. All students received instruction in both methods.IntroductionThe transient (homogeneous) solution of any first-order system with constant parameters isdescribed by the following expression. Ke−t/τ (1)where τ is the time constant associated with the system and K is related to an initial condition. Inthe