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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 3: Teaching Environmental Engineering in the COVID-19 Era

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Shannon L. Isovitsch Parks P.E., University of Pittsburgh

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Environmental Engineering

learning environment. Perhaps initially studentscould not imagine how complex engineering problems would be solved in an onlineenvironment, without the personal, face-to-face contact with their peers and the instructor. Also,while students had the same writing assignments in the online environment, presentations werecanceled. This could be a reason that students felt this learning outcome might suffer. Asfaculty became more accustomed to the online learning environment and available tools,presentations were required in subsequent semesters.After students experienced the online learning environment, more students felt they would atleast do the same in meeting all the objectives than worse. However, teamwork skills and solvingcomplex engineering

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First-Year Programs: Cornucopia

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Abigail E. Heinz, Rowan University; Matthew Strauss; Mary Staehle, Rowan University

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First-Year Programs

. theywould be able to obtain a higher score.While objective, this scale helps to better understand the state of the classroom culture. Forexample, if many students are receiving high scores in Connection, this can be an indicator ofhealthy classroom culture and shows students are actively listening to their peers. Conversely, ifstudents are receiving low confidence scores, this may indicate there is an issue with students notbeing comfortable responding and could identify room for improvement in the classroomenvironment.Two independent raters observed the introductory activities. To normalize scoring techniques,both raters scored all respondents in the first week of class and compared scoring, and thenalternated attendance.Implementing the Activity

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Faculty Development Lighting Talk Session 1: COVID-19 Focus

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jazmin Jurkiewicz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Byron Hempel, The University of Arizona; Malori Redman, San Francisco State University; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Christopher Dominguez; Amber Ford

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Faculty Development Division

UsefulnessPerceptions of usefulness often revealed shortcomings of online teaching in that it removedhelpful measures, such as being reminded of due dates during in-person classes. Several of theauthors noted that while cameras were an inherently useful tool for online learning, they feltuncomfortable trying to enforce their use. Malori wrote in her reflections: The feedback loop of seeing if students understand/when they’re done writing is still pretty much gone - but some students do have their cameras on, so I use them as the gauge. Otherwise I have to rely on students asking questions or for them to tell me to go back a slide.Much of the time, the authors perceived a technology to be useful if students engaged more withit. The chat

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Designing and Evaluating Engineering Leadership Programs

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Hyun Hannah Choi, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Selim Havan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Charlotte Hathaway; Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Mattox Alan Beckman, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Yuting W. Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Lucas Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Engineering Leadership Development

Havan, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMs. Charlotte HathawayDr. Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Dr. Blake Everett Johnson is a Teaching Assistant Professor and Director of Instructional Laborato- ries in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. His research interests include experimental fluid mechanics, measurement science, and engi- neering education. He oversees undergraduate laboratories in fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Pedagog- ically, Dr. Johnson employs evidence-based writing instruction, active learning, inquiry-based laboratory instruction, and initiatives that empower students to do hands-on

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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Ranji K. Vaidyanathan, Oklahoma State University; Shalini Sabharwal Gopalkrishnan, Menlo College

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

comparison group (26% had owned a business at some time since graduation),” [43].Distance learning (MOOCs)- Massive Open Online coursesThe idea of distance learning has been around for decades through open universities, mail orderlearning etc. But technology has changed Distance education significantly. The idea was firstcoined [44] by Downes and Siemens in 2008:” ‘connectivist’ distributed peer learning model.” [ ]MIT’s OCW and Stanford’s released recordings of their classes and in 2011 this field exploded[45].MOOCs implies open access and global. Some are free and normally , there is a video componentto instruction through online platforms and is aimed at allowing thousands to be educated.Looking at google trends we find that only in 2014 did this

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Computers in Education 10 - Technology 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jeffrey Todd McDonald, University of South Alabama; Dawn McKinney, University of South Alabama; Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama

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Computers in Education

of South Alabama’s School of Computing. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Florida State University (2007), a M.S. in Computer Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology (2002), and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida (1998). He was a prior faculty member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2012. He is a retired Major in the U.S. Air Force, serving over 23 years specializing in cyber systems defense, research, and education. He has published over 65 peer-reviewed papers and journals related to computer and information security, side-channel analysis, embedded sys- tems security

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Student Division Technical Session 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Bala Vignesh Sundaram, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Diversity

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Student

engineering education is directed towards teaching empathy as askill, Astin [24] conducted a comprehensive study to understand how the college experienceaffects students and, in particular, how faculty characteristics affect the experience of students.The study included 34 measures related to faculty characteristics, including type of teachingmethods, level of altruism, values, morals, and student orientation. Astin found that high researchorientation of faculty members had negative impact on student satisfaction. He found that thestudent orientation of faculty members had a number of positive effects on academic outcomessuch as degree attainment, self-reported growth in writing skills, critical thinking abilities,analytical and problem-solving

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MASS: Mastery, Assessment and Success of Students

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Amie Baisley, University of Florida; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University

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Mechanics

and the Built Environment at Arizona State University. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 What do students know after Statics? Using mastery-based grading to create a student portfolioAbstractA mastery-based grading system was implemented in the courses Statics, Dynamics, and DeformableSolids to create a better assessment environment for the students and to provide more formative feedbackabout their learning. The mastery-based system is structured around course objectives that require thestudents to write an equation, draw a sketch, or some specific action for each objective for each individualproblem. The course

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Zaniyah Victoria Sealey, University of Georgia; Racheida S. Lewis, University of Georgia; Trina L. Fletcher, Florida International University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

. Figure 2 SenseMaker dyad that probes the overall concept of thriving. After completing their narrative and a series of triadic and dyadic questions, andparticipants were also asked sentiment-based multiple-choice questions (MCQ) relevant to theirstory. One MCQ participants were required to answer was “If you could do so without fear ofjudgment or retaliation, who would you share this story with?” and were given the followingoptions: 1) Family 2) Instructor 3) Peers 4) Prefer not to answer 5) Other. A third of the participantsindicated that they would share their story with their instructor.Additional Analyses Pearson’s chi-squared tests were conducted on the quantitative data of the MCQ statedpreviously to determine if there were

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First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Matthew Lucian Alexander P.E., Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Breanna Michelle Weir Bailey P.E., Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Rajashekar Reddy Mogiligidda, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Mahesh Hosur, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; David Hicks, Texas A&M University-Kingsville; Michael Preuss, Exquiri Consulting, LLC

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

problems on which computer scientists work. - I can describe the use of algorithms in computer science. - I could explain to a friend what it means to solve a computer science problem at the conceptual level. - I can describe how geographic information systems relate to spatial data, attribute tables, and temporal data. Excel Functions - I can write a formula in Excel. - I know several options for visualizing data in Excel. - I know how to nest formulas in Excel. 3D Modeling - I have seen

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Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Praveen Meduri, California State University, Sacramento; Lawrence David Landis, Intel Programmable Solutions Group; Perry L. Heedley, California State University, Sacramento; Tyler Sheaves, Intel Corporation

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Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #33688Cloud-based Instruction Model for Electrical Engineering Courses: ARapid Response to Enable Fully Online Course DeliveryDr. Praveen Meduri, California State University, Sacramento Dr. Praveen Meduri is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Sacramento State University. He is also a Technical Liaison to Cadence Design Systems. He received his PhD from Old Dominion University, VA, M.S. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and bachelors from JNT University, India. His research interests include Embedded Systems, Smart Cities and VLSI Design and has multiple peer

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Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Saeed Rokooei, Mississippi State University; Michelle Garraway, Mississippi State University; Ali Karji

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Construction Engineering

beneficial than internshipexperiences without taking a class. In these structured internship classes, the assignments can be reports,daily log of work activities, projects, portfolios of the work, analysis of a problem faced during theinternship, observation papers, presentations, interviews, or combinations [11], [38]–[40]. Karji et al.’s[11] studies on the construction management internships show that mentors found the interviewassignment the best method of assignment for their interns, and students preferred the interviewassignment over writing reports.With the shortage of skilled workers in the construction industry, the need for new workforces equippedwith the necessary job-required skills is felt more than ever. The internships can play a

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Pedagogy 1

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Rungun Nathan, Pennsylvania State University

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Engineering Technology

-linear sensors is used in the classroom and is exemplified with the NTC sensor. The need to understand the underlying mathematical model of the sensor during calibration are also discussed as part of the lecture. The students wire the circuit and write the LV program. Data is collected in a file and the concept of file input/output was introduced. The experiment uses beakers with distilled water heated to different temperatures along with a digital thermometer to act as the calibration standard. A second LV file is used to read in the data file and perform a calibration curve which was based on the underlying model.i. Linear IC based temperature sensor. ○ In this experiment, an IC based linear temperature sensor

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Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 7

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University

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Computing and Information Technology

– Right Questions http://vimeo.com/74338298 More Videos & Other Materials https://venturewell.org/i-corps/team-materials/ Table 3. Business Plan Resources Material URL Inc Magazine Business Plan https://www.inc.com/larry-kim/top-10-business-plan- Templates templates-you-can-download-free.html SCORE Business Plan Templates https://www.score.org/resource/business-plan- template-startup-business Small Business Administration https://www.sba.gov/business-guide/plan-your- Business Plan Templates business/write-your-business-plan5. Course-Long Software

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Zhen Zhao, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University; Jean S. Larson, Arizona State University; Michelle Jordan, Arizona State University; Wilhelmina C. Savenye, Arizona State University; Kristi L. Eustice, Arizona State University; Allison Godwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Gillian Roehrig, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Christopher Barr, Rice University; Kimberly Farnsworth, Arizona State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

University of Minnesota. Her research explores issues of professional development for K-12 science teachers, with a focus on beginning teachers and implementation of integrated STEM learning environments. She has received over $30 million in federal and state grants and published over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She is a former board member of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching and past president of the Association for Science Teacher Education.Dr. Christopher Barr, Rice University Rice University Office of Assessment and Evaluation of STEM Programs led by Dr. Barr is the Direc- tor of Assessment and Evaluation of STEM Programs at Rice University. He has been an evaluator and

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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Heydi L. Dominguez, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Vibhavari Vempala, University of Michigan; Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Aileen Huang-Saad, Northeastern University; Jacob Frederick Fuher, University of Michigan

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

education has been widely noted. Thishas been driven by the need to develop a wide range of skills such as innovativeness, creativity,and problem-solving in engineering students to succeed in today’s technology-driven economy.Increasingly, graduates are expected to adapt their complex problem-solving skills to align withthe modern-day multidisciplinary practice of engineering [1], know how to integrate theirscience and technical training to enhance industrial practice [2], and successfully navigate futurechallenges through continued innovation [1]. As noted by Torres, Velez-Arocho, and Pabon [3],“The contemporary engineer must be able to (a) effectively communicate orally as well as [in]writing, (b) be capable of working in multidisciplinary teams

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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2020 Best PIC and Zone Papers

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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

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ASEE Board of Directors

/ methodcomparison of student outcomes and observations on adopting the new method.Based on the results of numerous informal classroom experiments and hundreds of informaldiscussions with students, it was determined that most students do not use effective studystrategies to fully understand key concepts and to master problem solving techniques. Instead,the goal of their current studying and test taking strategies is to “maximize partial credit.” Thesestrategies work as follows. 1. Memorize problems from the homework, in-class examples, or previous exams. 2. Match each problem on the exam to one of the memorized problems that most closely resembles it. 3. Write down the memorized solution, making adjustments along the way so that the solution

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TS3: Working with Students

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jodi A. Bolognese, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Northeastern University; Evie Dee Cordell, Northeastern University; Alissa P. Link Cilfone, Northeastern University; Brooke D. Williams, Northeastern University

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Engineering Libraries

First-year faculty coauthors at ASEE.Evie Dee Cordell, Northeastern University Evie Cordell is the First Year Experience and Undergraduate Engagement Librarian at Northeastern Uni- versity. She is the liaison to the Writing Program, General Studies Program, Explore Program, ContiNUe Program, NUi.n. and several other First Year Programs at Northeastern University. She also serves on the First Pages (Northeastern University’s common reads program) committee and is a member of the FUNL (First Generation, Undocumented, Low-Income) Network at Northeastern. Evie holds a Bachelors degree in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia and a Masters of Science in Library & Information Science from the University of

Conference Session

Faculty Development Lighting Talk Session 1: COVID-19 Focus

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Lance Leon Allen White, Texas A&M University; Donna Jaison, Texas A&M University; Samantha Ray, Texas A&M University; Kelly Brumbelow, Texas A&M University; Sherecce Fields, Texas A&M University; Luciana R. Barroso, Texas A&M University; Karan Watson P.E., Texas A&M University; Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University

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Faculty Development Division

remotely online. However, these specialists were vastlyoutnumbered by the sheer volume of faculty in need of assistance. This urgent and desperate needled many faculty to reach out to their peers. Over 700 engineering educators at TAMU raced totransition their courses to a remote online compatible format. In response to this event, there was amobilization by a group of educators, known as the Engineering Education Faculty Group (EEFG),to begin addressing their colleagues’ rapidly changing needs.This group existed pre-pandemic as a community of practice that was formed with the intention ofexploring engineering education as a group and provide resources and support amongst its mem-bers. However, The members of EEFG assumed roles as leaders in the

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Eli Tilevich, Virginia Tech; Simin Hall, Virginia Tech; Peeratham Techapalokul, Virginia Tech

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Software Engineering Division

custom block. In Scratch, the custom block construct reifies procedural abstraction; it mimicsthe functionality of a procedure in text-based languages, having a unique name, parameters, and abody of statements. We discovered that not only could absolute beginners be effectively taught areal software quality concept (i.e., code duplication), but they were quite receptive and apprecia-tive of this knowledge. The majority of the study participants showed an inclination to keep usingautomated quality improvement tools in their future programming pursuits. This discovery is animportant contribution to the understanding of the mindset of introductory learners, with respectto their attitude toward not only learning how to write code, but how to do it

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo; Maria Barichello, University of Waterloo; Christopher Rennick, University of Waterloo; Erin Jobidon, University of Waterloo; Richard Li, University of Waterloo

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

strategies she used to approach conflict resolution. This instructorengagement successfully encouraged the students to reflect on their own past experiences andrelate the theoretical concepts to real-world scenarios. One example of this was demonstrated atthe end of the ENV/GEO session when a student approached the facilitators to share a previousconflict experience and to ask for feedback and strategies to try in the case of a similar conflictoccurring in the future.6. Qualitative resultsIndividual students were asked to write a 5-10 page long reflection report at the end of the term,looking back at their course project. These reports were graded to ensure they were takenseriously, with grades focused on completion, insight, and grammar/clarity1

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Experiences of Underrepresented Students in Engineering

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Oleksandr Kravchenko, Old Dominion University; Konstantin Cigularov, Old Dominion University; Phillip Dillulio, Old Dominion University

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Educational Research and Methods

.” All personal demandswere measured on a 5-point Likert-type scale, where 1 = Strongly Disagree and 5 = StronglyAgree. School resources. School resources were measured with three variables comprised of 13total items. The school resources were the frequency with which students used administrative,campus, and people resources. For example, an administrative resource was using the financial aidoffice, a campus resource was using the University’s writing center, and a people resource wasusing peer tutors or faculty mentors. All school resources were measured in terms of utilizationusing a 5-point frequency scale, where 1 = Never and 5 = Frequently if not always. Outcomes. In addition to personal / school demands and resources

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Youngmi Kim, University of Wisconsin, River Falls

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Engineer and has authored or co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters. Her expertise area include food and bioprocess engineering, biofuels and chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass, and reaction engineering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Design and Implementation of Collaborative Problem- Based Learning Laboratory Modules for Engineering and Non-Engineering StudentsMotivation and BackgroundProblem-based learning (PBL), which originated in the 1960s for professional training ofphysicians for medical practice, is now extensively practiced in various science, technology

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2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

Ron Averill, Michigan State University; Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University; Sara Roccabianca, Michigan State University; Ricardo Mejia-Alvarez, Michigan State University

on interpreting the attemptsof students to write something meaningful regarding the approach to solving a problem of thistype.The opposite approach is used in the SMART Assessment model, where the expectation is thatmost students (those earning a grade of C or better) should be capable of earning at least 80% ofthe available points on the exam by solving most of the problems completely and correctly,according to the rubric in Table 1. The other 20% (or so) of the credit can be reserved for whatwe call “challenge problems,” which require a more complicated solution process involvingmultiple steps and multiple concepts. But even for the challenge problems, a complete andcorrect solution is required to receive credit.When the grading rubric is

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Chadia Affane Aji; M. Javed Khan

to ensure that the students watch the videos prior to coming to class, and second, toidentify any conceptual challenges being faced by the students. The in-class activities consisted ofproblem-solving sessions that were based on the concept of the pre-class videos. These problems weredesigned to have a real-life application flavor. The problem-solving sessions were also collaborativeto promote peer learning. In-class quizzes were also administered as a formative assessment tool.Other active-learning opportunities included Jeopardy-style games to engage students. Students werealso asked to share and explain their solution to the word problem on the white board. So, studentshad the opportunity to enhance their communication skills. Exams on

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 1 Slot 4 Technical Session 2

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2021 CoNECD

Authors

Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech ; Christian Matheis, Guilford College; Christine Tysor, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech

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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

. This site has 115 alumni to date. He also leads an NSF/Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site on interdisciplinary water re- search and have 25 alumni. He also leads an NSF-funded cybersecurity education project and serves as a American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #28454co-PI on two International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) projects funded by the NSF. He haspublished over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Sustaining

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Labs and Experiential Learning

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2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

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David Olawale, R.B. Annis School of Engineering, University of Indianapolis; Payton Ashby Staman, University of Indianapolis; James T Emery II, University of Indianapolis

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Labs and experiential learning

Paper ID #35174Doing the impossible in a pandemic: Delivering student-designedfabricated parts to an industry clientDr. David Olawale, R.B. Annis School of Engineering, University of Indianapolis Dr. David Olawale is an Assistant Professor of Engineering (Industrial and Systems) at the R. B. Annis School of Engineering (RBASOE), University of Indianapolis. He has diverse experience in research and development, as well as technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. His research areas include multifunctional composite materials and manufacturing, as well as innovation engineering. He has pub- lished over fifty peer

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

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Kevin A. Waters P.E., Villanova University; Virginia Smith, Villanova University

the many civil engineering concepts that are related to a sitedevelopment project. As currently structured, four class meetings throughout the semester arededicated solely to the Core Project. Two classes are project working sessions where studentteams can collaborate with each other and ask the instructor questions during class time, whilestudent presentations for each part of the project use an additional two class meetings.For this first iteration with a small enrollment of 14 students, there are two groups of five andone group of four. Students chose their own group, work with the same group throughout thesemester, and complete peer evaluations after each project submittal. In future offerings, the goalis still to restrict group size to

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine C Tetrick, Washington State University; John B. Schneider, Washington State University; Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

-incomebackgrounds were more likely to hold a fixed mindset than their peers from high-incomebackgrounds. They determined that a fixed mindset among students from low-incomebackgrounds is more incapacitating to a student’s academic performance than a fixed mindsetamong students from high-income backgrounds. On the other hand, a growth mindset amongstudents from low-income backgrounds is more empowering to a student’s academicperformance than a growth mindset among students from high-income backgrounds (Claro et al.,2016). This finding is highly relevant to the STARS program since students from low-incomebackgrounds are targeted. Potentially, persistence in engineering could be linked to a student’smindset. Students displaying growth mindset motivated goal

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Gonser, United States Military Academy, West Point; Todd Mainwaring P.E., United States Military Academy, West Point

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Civil Engineering

aspects of theprogram that have the most perceived value. Both surveys can be found in Appendix A.Results and DiscussionImpressions Immediately Following the CourseAt the completion of the credentialing course, students were asked to write their reflections ofthe course and their anticipated utilization of the credentials and skills learned. Several of thestudents thought the credentials would help them be more competitive or be used in the course oftheir career. Some excerpts from their comments are below: • “The accreditation will enhance the individual’s military career as well as his or her professional career after he or she is complete with their service to the nation.” • “Earning these professional credentials … makes