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Innovative Pedagogical Techniques in Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chibuzor Joseph Okocha, University of Florida; Gloria J. Kim, University of Florida; Jin W. Choi, Michigan Technological University; Yong Kyu Yoon

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

. By analyzingqualitative data from weekly blog post reflections and student interviews, this work aims to unpackthe complex ways global competencies are cultivated among undergraduate and graduateengineering students with varying degrees of prior research experience. The findings of thisresearch are expected to inform future engineering education practices, providing valuable insightsfor educators, policymakers, and institutions aiming to enhance the global competencies of theirstudents through international research collaborations.IntroductionGlobal competence has increasingly become a key differentiator in engineering, significantlyinfluencing an engineer’s employability and career progression [1], [2], [3], [4]. However, workingwith

Conference Session

Broader Approaches to Engineering Ethics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bono Po-Jen Shih, Pennsylvania State University; Benjamin Daniel Chambers, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Matthew James P.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

following: whereas theideal of engineering education research seeks to identify and promote “best practices” inengineering education, this goal faces at least three sets of challenges in the practice ofengineering ethics instruction. First, the scope of engineering ethics has grown and diversifiedowing to evolving accreditation criteria and reflections from the engineering educationcommunity. Second, teaching practices for engineering ethics also expanded and divergedaccordingly to answer the increased and changing needs in engineering ethics education. Third,even when a promising ethics teaching practice is identified, there is a great variation in facultyviews about its effectiveness, further compounded by the methodological challenges

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 7

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

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Diversity

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

people and circumstances that differ from those with which students are familiar.  Frequent, timely, and constructive feedback.  Periodic, structured opportunities to reflect and integrate learning.  Opportunities to discover the relevance of learning through real-world applications.  Public demonstration of competence.While not all HIPs address each element to the same degree, the list provides a standard forjudging the quality of implementation. It could potentially be used to assess the quality of otherevidence-based curricular and co-curricular activities as well.The most common outcome studied across all high-impact practices is student retention andacademic performance (grade point average). For both measures the result is

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2023 CIEC

Authors

Rebecca Book

employers, and posting must be done cautiously and withethical consideration. Students are asked in an assignment to highlight the four ways to use socialmedia professionally: minimize their profiles, create the presence wanted, make it private andGoogle themselves. The students are asked to reflect on what their digital footprint says aboutthem and list the steps to take to change or enhance their professional profile.Papers and Industry CodesIn my higher level course, papers are assigned that address ethical practices and situations.Additionally, professional codes of ethics are studied to inform students and familiarize themwith the codes, emphasizing that industry does require and expect ethical behavior. The codesare studied and also applied

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Lynn Morano, Lawrence Technological University; Matthew L. Cole, Lawrence Technological University

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

helps to put the impact of the students’ projects in perspective [20].By infusing empathy for others into the students' experiential learning at the early stages of thecourse, all phases of the design process–from opportunity identification to ideation to prototypetesting–will reflect insights that are both innovative and responsive to actual user needs anddesires. To initiate this user-centered, empathetic design approach, students engage in anaccessibility simulation exercise on the first day of class designed to foster greater understandingof the everyday experiences of people with disabilities [21]. In this exercise, students break intogroups and engage in multiple simulation activities including: 1. Mobility impairment in which

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 12

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyndra Mary Plagge, Trinity University; Emma Treadway, Trinity University; Jessica E. S. Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Danielle Francine Usinski, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

order to meet the requirements forparticipation, the students had to be taking their first semester of coursework in the engineeringprogram. Participants were asked to complete interviews and surveys at the end of the fall andspring semesters. The interviews and surveys had participants reflect on their experiences in theirmath, science, and engineering classes and involvement in engineering activities. Questions fromthe interviews were based on the previously discussed models of affect and engineering identity.This study uses data from the first two semesters. A total of 17 participants completed the firstround of interviews and 13 participants completed the second interview. Three participantsillustrating a range of strengths in their

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2013 GSW

Authors

A. Baheri; Yucheng Liu P.E.; M. Hedayati

Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright©2013, American Society for Engineering Educationdies move during the performing and crushing steps can be precisely controlled at 17mmwhen the two time periods are set as 17s.The movements of the dies are described as follows: in the performing step, the side diesmove 17mm inwards during 17s and immediately move back to the original position at theend of the time period; at the same time the upper dies begin to perform the crushingoperation at a total stroke of 17mm from 17s to 34s. As reflected in Fig. 1, the internalpressure of the tube appears at t = 29s, which means that the internal pressure does notappear during the

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Bruce Dvorak; Dennis Schulte; Mary Garbacz; Shari Aldrich; David Admiraal; Julia Soulakova

this study: • A writing attitude survey to assess engineering students’ perspectives, reflections, and opinions about writing skills; • A basic writing skills test based on a similar test created by the UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications to determine students’ ability to recognize correct grammar, sentence structure and punctuation, • A writing sample assessment rubric and methodology to systematically assess engineering students’ writing samples; • A technical oral presentation assessment rubric, with both individual and group components, to assess senior-level capstone oral presentations.The writing assessment tools were applied to freshmen, juniors, and seniors in the twodepartments. The oral presentation

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Thomas Mertz

consistent.  All user observed objects must use consistent capitalization and punctuation.  Appropriate form control types (e.g. combo box vs. text field) must be used to improve usability and reduce user error.A student’s grade for these criteria directly reflected the extent to which he or she used theindicators. An “acceptable” project used the indicators; an “unacceptable” one didn’t. I reservedthe highest grade, exemplary, for those projects that showed commercial quality, i.e. what Iwould’ve done had I been paid for it. Here’s the general rubric for criteria 2, 3 and 4: The Look, Feel and Internal Structure Standards Pts. Rank Description 4 Exemplary Project appears

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Chih-Hao Wu; Kim Troboy; Tracy Cole; Loretta Cochran; David Roach

because a model tends to separate out different cognitive activitiesthat are highly interdependent and may be performed at the same time.16 An ethical decision-making model therefore may not be a reflection of actual decision-making processes in businesscontexts. In spite of this, in teaching ethics, professors hope to influence students’ decision-making processes in ways that will result in ethical conduct. As explained by Hartman andDesJardins12 (p. 6), “. . . students can learn and practice responsible ways of thinking anddeliberating. We assume decisions that follow from a process of thoughtful and conscientiousreasoning will be more responsible and ethical decisions. In other words, responsible decisionmaking and deliberation will result in

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Johannes Strobel

another, as well as with the existing conceptualizations of Jonassen [2,3].With its modified analytical induction, the multi-case lenses within a single case study designwas expected to produce additional insights into the three research questions and “bracketing”[23] prior conceptualizations for the moment. Strauss and Corbin defined this approach as "aqualitative research method that uses a systematic set of procedures to develop an inductivelyderived grounded theory about a phenomenon" [25, p.24]. The five processes of modifiedanalytic induction (mentioned above) reflect the systematic set of procedures within thegrounded theory paradigm.Collecting and coding the material constituted step one of the constant comparative analysis.Codes are

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jason T. Kirby; Talat F. Salama

ofsupervision has resulted in multiple years of event free participation.Program OutcomeThe expected program outcome is to provide student participants with unique experiences thathelp to advance their careers, allows them to assume more responsibility, expand their leadershiprole, and ultimately obtain higher pay. The program presents an educational opportunity for USstudents to travel/live abroad and for Middle Eastern students to interact and create mutualfriendships. Cultural differences are more than just language, food, appearances, and personalhabits. A person's culture reflects very deep perceptions, beliefs and values that influence his orher way of life and the way that they view the world. Students that gain this insight are more

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Carol Shields

As ofthis date the information from the EOFNJ pilot study has been compiled and entered into a database which is now being analyzed by the designers of the assessments.The New Jersey data will be added to the above study which now includes information from over3,000 students from Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, and Massachusetts in grades 3-5.The New Jersey student assessment data will not be available until mid-November 2006.However, CIESE staff has collected the reflections and observations of the teacher participantsusing informal surveys and classroom visits. Anecdotal data and a cursory inspection of teacherresponses indicate the following: • Teachers discovered that engineering concepts can be introduced at an early grade level

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Talia Capozzoli Kessler, Georgia Institute of Technology; Keisha Simmons, Georgia Institute of Technology; Katherine Leigh Boice, Georgia Institute of Technology; Justina Jackson, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jasmine Choi, Georgia Institute of Technology; Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

elementaryschools to understand the conceptualization of STEAM education. This case recognizes thatSTEAM instruction is subjective, suggesting that the implementation of STEAM does not haveto be uniform but can (and should) be individualized to reflect the specific classroom ofinstruction [24]. A similar finding was identified in STEAM-focused schools with a highrepresentation of minority students [25]. Specifically, the authors describe the necessity forSTEAM curriculum to center “the cultural lives of minoritized students,” referencing a methodtermed Black Futurity STEAM [25]. As research on STEAM-certified schools is limited, futurestudies should explore new developments in the space, providing additional context on theimpact STEAM certification has on

Conference Session

Innovative Strategies for Enhancing Engineering Education Across Diverse Learning Environments

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Jeffrey Freeborn, The University of Alabama

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

, examinations, and attendance (for asynchronous/flippedmodalities only) are also given in Table 1 for each iteration. Average final grades range from79.33% to 86.47% which reflects that overall the groups are demonstrating good to very goodmastery of the course material. The average final examination grade, which is the finalindividual assessment of course material, ranges from 67.63% to 79.91% over this same perioddemonstrating satisfactory (with some weaknesses) to satisfactory performance.To determine if there were differences in student course performance between iterations from2018 to 2023 a one-way ANOVA was conducted using the average course grades in Table 1.This analysis reported that the final course grade between semesters was not

Conference Session

Learning Mechanics through Visual and Tactile Modalities

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Alan Zhang, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; John Chen P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Kathryn Mary Rupe, Western Washington University

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Mechanics Division (MECHS)

two instructors in fall 2022. These sections administered the same assessments onthe same schedule but did not use the hands-on curriculum.We compare learning outcomes between the control and intervention sections as measured by thescores on the assessments described above as well as final course grades. Larger pre/post gainson the TRCV across all intervention sections is evidence that the modeling kit producedimproved learning gains with respect to vector concepts and representations. We also sharereflections from the two faculty participants regarding their experiences teaching with themodels. Overall, the instructors’ experiences and reflections demonstrate the importance ofadapting an outside curriculum to the specific educational context

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Kai Zhuang; Dimpho Radebe; Mojgan Jadidi

creative expression into engineering education. We hope that bysharing our pedagogies, experiences, and reflections, we are inviting our fellow educators to joinus in forging new pathways for developing engineering students holistically and readying them forthe emerging future.ReferencesBolkas, D., Jadidi, M.A., Chiampi, J. & Usman, M. (2021) Web-based Game vs Virtual RealityField Surveying Labs Towards Enhancing Experiential Education, American Society ofEngineering Education Conference 2021.Boudreau, J., Nku, D., & Anis, H. (2022). Efficacy of Virtual Equipment Training. Proceedings ofthe Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA), Kelowna, BC.Cech, E. A., & Sherick, H. M. (2015). Depoliticization and the Structure of

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Alisa Morss Clyne

pulmonologist from Drexel College situation. The first question helped the faculty respond quicklyof Medicine taught students the basics of cystic fibrosis and to student frustrations—either individually or to the entirelung function testing, allowing the students to practice reading class. The second question enabled students to reflect on theirreal patient lung function tests. For the laboratory component, own experiences. The third question tested student depth ofpig lungs from the slaughterhouse were treated in various knowledge, and showed that only a few students could relateways to replicate obstructive and restrictive lung diseases. concepts learned in the module to a new situation.Students then inflated the

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

David A. Rogers; Orven F. Swenson

sections which each last for four hours.The students begin by doing some basic experimental work to study reflection and refraction oflight. They then prepare a fiber to do the audio transmission experiment. The lab goes quitewell if the students are given appropriate guidance in the setup of the equipment andcomponents.Conclusions and Future WorkThe use of the undergraduate optics lab for the optical signal transmission course significantlyimproved student learning. It breathed new life into a course that was already well establishedin the curriculum. Future possibilities for new experiments include, for example, the use ofwavelength-division multiplexing and study of optical fibers with different index of refractionprofiles.The NSF-funded lab

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Hassan Badkoobehi

firms are onboard with sustainable design, it hasin fact become a selling point for consultant services. LEED is at this point in engineering history thefirst system to allow for engineers to have standards for sustainable design. The ethical conflict willdiminish with time as standards are developed, amended and revised to reflect the need for sustainabledesign [1]. IV. CONCLUSIONWhy do engineers focus with such zeal on "engineering ethics?" Ethics are ethics. Have we, by creat-ing a set of ethics for our professional lives as engineers, made the concept of ethical behaviour socomplex and confusing that we fail to act in ways consistent with moral principles when faced with anethical dilemma? Studies

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Harry Knickle

4Session 2: May 22, 2010• Snack• What is Engineering?• What is Design?• What is Solar energy?• Solar Power• Solar Energy Application• Clean Water• Water TestingSession 3: May 29, 2010• Snack• What is Science?• Forces and Weights• Pressure and Friction• Pulley experiments• Rotational Speed and Linear Velocity• Stroboscope and Velocimeter• EXCEL GraphingSession 4: June 5, 2010 • Snack • Electrical Circuits • Use of a Multi-meter • Construct Electronic Circuit • What is Color and what is Light • Absorption, Reflection, Transmission • Chemical Reactions • Chemical Reaction Experiments • CertificatesSession 5: June 10, 2010• Harvard Labs and Museum Natural History Cambridge, MA• LunchPowerPoint PresentationsNearly all the presentations are given

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Hassan Bajwa; Mohammad Seddik

described by Maxwell's equations. Antenna characteristics such as gain,impedance, VSWR and reflection coefficient can be determined by Maxwell equation.Here, we present a simple hands-on experiment that can serve as an interactive teachingmodule in microwave and antenna design courses.In many antenna design and microwave courses, mathematical modeling and derivation isfollowed by designing of an antenna in simulation software. Usually students are unableto implement these designs during the semester. Here we present some experiments thatcan be integrated into graduate and undergraduate microwave and antenna designcourses. Students should be implementing the design without taking a formal lab course.We have designed several patch and conformal

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

James W. Smith

to the topic, they generally all cover the same material. Upper divisioncourses are often foundational too: topics like semiconductor electronics, control theory and fluidmechanics certainly qualify but in upper division textbooks there is more of a tendency toinclude more contemporary topics. Nevertheless, the textbooks here also have a certain samenessto them.Technical electives, however, are often much different. Here textbooks, if they are used, areoften written by specialists in the field. This categorization also includes note sets prepared byfaculty. Contemporary work is more often reflected in courses at this level, although actualreading of current papers by students is less common than summaries of their salient points aspresented

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Hussain AlHassan; Navarun Gupta

andphysical aspects. Both consciousness and the body are associated because they affect each other.One study, about the relationship between brain signals and the body investigated heart ratepatterns1. The results showed notably different effects in the nervous system. Neuroscientistsrecommend certain activities and sports to trigger the temporal lobe which generates gammawaves2. Research exhibits the brain, and classifies more than one source in the brain that generatesgamma waves. However, stress and anxiety are reactions reflected on the physical body andthrough emotions. If they are reduced, and relieved, the body acts differently, even though somepeople do not know how to manage their emotions and heal their stress3. Investigation focused

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Elyas Irankhah; Sashank Narain; Kelilah L. Wolkowicz

, adaptive AI difficulty levels, and competition createdistinguishing between player and AI moves. This method an engaging experience that improves curiosity and deeperprovided a detailed dataset for evaluating player strategies and cognitive processing [6]. One example of this approach is Tic-decision-making patterns. While we observed the gameplay Tac-Toe, a simple yet strategic game that reflects fundamentalperformance of all participants across different grade levels, our AI decision-making processes [7]. The game provides adetailed strategy analysis focused specifically on first-grade structured environment where students can observe how AIstudents due to the availability of screen recording data

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Track 2: Technical Session 5: From Barriers to Bridges: The GEES Program's Impact on Low-Income Master's Students' Success and Professional Development

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2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Ximing Li, University of Pittsburgh; Sylvanus N. Wosu, University of Pittsburgh; Keith Trahan, University of Pittsburgh; Tagbo Herman Roland Niepa, Carnegie Mellon University

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2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

accessibility of mentor interactions, specificcontributions of mentorship to their academic success and faced challenges. Intervieweeswere encouraged to provide specific examples and describe the most valuable qualities intheir mentorship. The last theme focused on how the GEES program contributed to students’career readiness. Interviewees were asked to reflect on specific courses or programs that thegreatest impact on their career preparedness and to discuss other career guidance theyreceived during their studies. Results and FindingsSurvey ResultsDemographicsThis study included 27 GEES program students who completed the pre-survey and 23 whocompleted the post-survey. Regarding gender distribution, the pre-survey

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Bruno Osorno

turned out to be as strong asexpected, the presence of a relationship and its direction are evidence for the effectiveness ofproject based learning in groups for better academic performance. One possible reason for theweakness of these relationships is the size of the class. Therefore, the instructor intends tocontinue applying this type of participation level questionnaire in the future courses to increasethe cases included in the analysis. Another reason for the grades to reflect the effort put in theteam projects only to a certain extent might be the anomalies observed in two groups. Therewere two groups where one team member put a big effort and the rest of the members did not.The consequence of this approach was that the individual that put

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Shadi Balawi, Texas A&M University

values of the quiz. The natural distribution also reflects this. Thestatistical Z-test was performed where the p-value obtained is very small, less than the commonsignificance level of 0.05, indicating a statistically significant difference between the Baseline andStudy groups. This suggests that the intervention in the Study group had a significant effect Proceedings of the 2025 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX Copyright  2025, American Society for Engineering Education 5compared to the Baseline group. Figure 4. Histogram Comparisons of

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Roy Uzoma Lan; Chinedu Okonkwo, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Ibukun Gabriel Awolusi, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Jiannan Cai

Teaching SustainabilityEmbedding sustainability within construction education requires a diverse range of pedagogicalapproaches that actively engage students and emphasize practical, real-world applications. Efforts toembed sustainability within construction courses often utilize active and experiential learningstrategies, reflecting the idea that real-world applications better enable students to internalize andretain environmental concepts (Abraham, 2020). Project-based learning (PBL), a student-centeredpedagogy that emphasizes active, real-world problem-solving, engages students in interdisciplinarychallenges like designing net-zero energy buildings or retrofitting structures, fostering collaboration Proceedings of the 2025

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2025 ASEE North Central Section (NCS) Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor Joseph Bihl, Wright State University; Terry Lynn Oroszi, Wright State University; Subhashini Ganapathy, Wright State University; Jeffrey B. Travers, Wright State University

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Diversity

PBL enhancesproblem-solving skills and promotes critical thinking by requiring students to design andimplement solutions to complex tasks [10].Peer review is an invaluable method for fostering critical evaluation and collaborative learning. Itencourages students to assess the quality of others’ work while reflecting on their own [11] [12][13]. This process helps students refine their analytical skills and improves their understanding ofhow to evaluate statistical results and experiment designs. Research demonstrates that peer reviewis a useful learning tool [14] and also strengthens students’ writing and oral presentation skills[15]-[19], which are essential for engineers to communicate their findings effectively.Incorporating peer review in