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Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Ally Kindel Martin, The Citadel; Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Kevin C Bower P.E., The Citadel

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Civil Engineering

Mechanics from the United States Military Academy in 1982. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1990 and 1999, respectively. He became the Dean of Engineering at The Citadel on 1 July 2011. Prior to his current position, he was the Department Head of Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Tyler from Jan 2007 to June 2011 as well as served in the Corps of Engineers for over 24 years including eleven years on the faculty at the United States Military Academy.Dr. Kevin C Bower P.E., The Citadel Dr. Kevin Bower is a Professor and Assistant Provost for Academic Operations at The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Bower’s teaching

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cassandra J. Groen, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Denise Rutledge Simmons P.E., Virginia Tech; Ashley Shew, Virginia Tech

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study and outline ourresearch methods, including data collection and analysis plans. As this project is currently in theinitial phase, we conclude with a discussion of challenges encountered, strategies for overcomingthose challenges, and next steps.IntroductionCurrently available statistics suggest that between 11 and 15% of U.S. college students identifyas individuals with disabilities [1, p. 135]. At the same time, research on K-12 environmentsindicates that students with disabilities leave high school with lower college aspirations [1], areless likely to have access to college preparatory programs [1], and, most salient to this project,are “often discouraged from taking science and engineering courses”; when they do enroll, theyare often

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #21609Playing Relieves Stress. . . Concentrations!Dr. Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel Ron Welch (P.E.) received his B.S. degree in Engineering Mechanics from the United States Military Academy in 1982. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1990 and 1999, respectively. He became the Dean of Engineering at The Citadel on 1 July 2011. Prior to his current position, he was the Department Head of Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Tyler from Jan 2007 to June 2011 as well as served in the Corps of Engineers for over 24 years

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Laila Guessous, Oakland University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

the under-representation of women and minorities in STEMby involving undergraduate students from across the U.S. in automotive-related research projectsfor 10 weeks during the summer [1-3]. Ultimately, the goal is to engage participants in rewardingautomotive research experiences that motivate them to pursue graduate studies and embark oncareers in in industry, government or academia.REU programs are designed around the needs of the undergraduate participants. The researchprojects, seminars, laboratory/industry tours, meetings with mentors, networking events andother activities are all set up to maximize the positive impact of a research experience on thestudents. Numerous studies have shown that active participation in hands-on

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Meg E. West, Ohio State University

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Civil Engineering

of the FE Exam. Those topics includegeometric design of streets and highways, geometric design of intersections, pavement systemdesign, traffic safety, traffic capacity, traffic flow theory, traffic control devices, andtransportation planning [16].In 2006, Turochy completed a study to determine the needs of the transportation engineeringprofession through surveying transportation engineers and comparing his results to the results ofa similar survey conducted in 1985 by Khisty [14]. In both surveys, the transportation engineerswere asked to score topics on a 1 to 5 scale, with 1 being a topic of the lowest priority and 5being a topic of the highest priority, and then ranked each topic based on their relativeimportance [22]. Between the two

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Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew William Wooden, Purdue University Northwest; Jiliang Li P.E., Purdue University Northwest; Evan Laviolette, First Group Engineering, Inc.; Yun Liu, Purdue University Northwest

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Civil Engineering

is most prevalent in engineering based courses [1].Engineering problems studied and taught in a classroom usually requires an individual tomake assumptions or only consider ideal design conditions throughout the problem inorder to simplify important concepts in the learning process. Difficulties arise when theconcepts are applied to a specific project in the field where engineers need to rely onobservations and testing opposed to making assumptions. This is why the naturaldeductive teaching approach used by professors is often times misleading anddiscouraging for students. The bridge between fundamental concepts and theories ofengineering and how to apply them in real world applications is never built, which putsthe student at a disadvantage

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allen Fort Gwinn Jr., Lipscomb University; Justin A. Myrick Sr., Lipscomb University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

last 14 years, the state of Tennessee has made several strategic moves to improve educationalopportunities for Tennesseans through a number of initiatives. In 2003, the Tennessee Education LotteryScholarship (TELS) program followed the lead of several other southern states by providing funding tofirst time college students in the form of Hope Scholarships. Hope scholarships and other initiatives haveconsistently provided over $300M per year to assist high performing secondary school graduates [1].This was followed by the “Complete College Tennessee Act of 2010” enacting broad changes to highereducation in Tennessee [2]. One of the most important provisions of this bill resulted in the TennesseeTransfer Pathways initiative, which had the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yen-Lin Han, Seattle University; Kathleen E. Cook, Seattle University; Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University; Gregory Mason P.E., Seattle University; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington

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industry.During this project, changes to the program and to student and faculty identities are monitoredthrough interviews, surveys, and portfolios. Results of the study will lead to a clearerunderstanding of the changes that promote engineering identities and how such identities affectstudents’ sense of belonging in a program and their persistence in the major. The study will alsolead to a better understanding of the factors that influence faculty identity, and how these richeridentities affect how they view their roles and their students.BackgroundThere are many definitions of identity; however, the various conceptions fit together. Identity isboth within the individual (personal) and without (social) [1]; it is situated in the self and in thegroups to

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Raymond Edward Floyd, Northwest College

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College Industry Partnerships

, Internships, Mentors, Guest Speakers, and Equipment.For accredited engineering and engineering technology programs, the Advisory Board is anABET criteria item (Criterion 5 – Curriculum – “An advisory committee with representationfrom organizations being served by the program graduates...”), thus may have the greatest impactto a school for the particular program being considered for accreditation [1-3]. Even with non-accredited programs, the Advisory Board can provide great benefits for any particular programstudent‟s success. While the remaining four items may not have direct impact to accreditation,each provides an opportunity for a school and industry to cooperate in providing

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie M. Hasenwinkel, Syracuse University; Katie Cadwell, Syracuse University; Joan V. Dannenhoffer, Syracuse University; Frederick J. Carranti P.E., Syracuse University; Can Isik, Syracuse University

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engineering,and others to leave. A variety of academic and non-academic factors found to influence students’persistence include a sense of community, belonging, and collaboration in their engineeringexperiences, confidence in their academic abilities, the quality of faculty instruction andmentoring, their perspective on engineering’s influence and value in society, sufficiency of pre-college preparation, and the difficulty of courses early in the engineering curriculum [1]-[4]. Ingeneral, women and underrepresented minority students are less likely to persist in engineering[5]. Reports also indicate that the persistence of women and underrepresented minority studentsmay be adversely affected to a greater degree by their experiences within the

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susantha Herath, St. Cloud State University; Rohitha Goonatilake, Texas A&M International University ; Suvineetha Herath

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summer internships by scholars, and built newstructures and strengthen relationships with other 2-year and 4-year colleges, industry andnational labs. Marketing materials emphasized the promise of computing in the real world,steady job growth expected for next ten years, and a comparison of lifetime earnings of workerswith STEM and other majors.1. IntroductionThe world needs high-quality, trained majors in Science, Technology, Engineering andMathematics (STEM) with the ability to learn in a short period and stay current with advances intheir respective fields without accumulating massive debts to complete a degree. According tothe Bureau of Labor Statistics’ in the US [1], job opportunities due to growth and replacementsare high in the computing

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Dylan John, Georgia Southern University; Yunfeng Chen, Georgia Southern University; Shahnam Navaee, Georgia Southern University; Weinan Gao, Georgia Southern University

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College Industry Partnerships

important skills that are desired by industry. Understanding skills viewed as most importantfrom the industry practitioners’ perspective will help advance the quality of graduates andincrease industry efficiencies. The objective is to use the findings of this study to provideacademics and education institutions with a direction on what focus areas could be improved onto create a more productive and beneficial curriculum for STEM education.Literature ReviewA study in 2013 by Salzman [1] indicated that there seems to be more STEM graduates thanjobs available to them in their respective disciplines. The study also indicated that there is a high-tech talent crisis in the United States. This raises the question related to whether there is a realneed for

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yuetong Lin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide ; A. Mehran Shahhosseini, Indiana State University; Christian Janke, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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College Industry Partnerships

existing approaches and procedures, butincorporates new tools and analysis methods to assure the mapping to be concrete andcomprehensive to provide effective guidance for ground crew training and skills appraisal.IntroductionOperations in aviation, both military and civilian, require decision makings that are based on solidknowledge and more importantly, systematic thinking. Developing this skills set has been shownto be a challenge for both trainees and trainers. There are a few issues that can cause the trainingnot meeting expectations, as pointed out by Air Force Training report to CongressionalCommittee 1 . First, the step by step procedure laid out in the handbook or manual, which is theprimary source for trainees for guidance, though

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Helen H. Hu, Westminster College; Clifton L. Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College; Patricia B. Campbell, Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc.

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

institutions as they adopted POGIL by providingprofessional development, curriculum resources, and regular mentoring by experienced POGILinstructors. All 13 instructors plan to continue to use POGIL in their IntroCS courses.IntroductionProcess Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) is a pedagogy that organizes students inlearning teams to develop both content knowledge and process skills (e.g. problem solving,teamwork, and written/oral communication). Compared to most other active learning strategies,POGIL is more explicitly constructive because of the way its activities are designed andfacilitated. POGIL uses an explore-invent-apply learning cycle [1] by incorporating models(e.g., figures, tables, equations, code snippets) and a sequence of

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marcia Pool, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Madeline R. Darling, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Gabriella Rose Dupont, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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College Industry Partnerships

. The Engineers’ Council forProfessional Development (ECPD), founded in 1932 and later renamed the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology in 1980, began reviewing the first engineering degree programsin 1936 [1]. By 1947, ECPD had accredited 580 undergraduate engineering programs. However,biomedical/bioengineering programs did not receive accreditation until the 1970s, and even by2000, only twenty-six programs were ABET accredited. However, biomedical/bioengineeringprograms have experienced rapid growth (Figure 1) since 2000, and there are now 115 ABETaccredited programs [1]. Total ABET Accredited BIOE/BME Programs

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James L. Huff, Harding University; Stephen Secules, University of Georgia; Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Benjamin Okai, Harding University; Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Harding University; Jeremiah Sullins; Shari E. Miller, University of Georgia

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between cultural expectations and individuals’internal evaluations of how they are meeting these expectations.1-5We develop this investigation in a way that is both oriented toward unpacking individual experience ofshame and understanding sociocultural narratives that provide context for this emotional phenomenon. Inrelation to Lewis’s characterization of shame, other psychological researchers have characterized shame“as an assault on the self, where the individual’s self-concept, social connection, and sense of power andcontrol come under attack” (p. 233)6 or “a felt sense of unworthiness to be in connection . . . with theongoing awareness of how very much one wants to connect with others” (p. 147). 7 Such prior literaturehas established a

Conference Session

Biomedical Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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J. Christopher Bouwmeester, University of Toronto

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Biomedical Engineering

also interested in researching: 1) the treatment of end-stage heart failure with medical devices de- signed to augment cardiac output, 2) the identification and diagnosis of cardiovascular disease earlier than currently possible by creating tools and methods based on blood pressure and flow waveform morphology, and 3) new and novel ways to visually display heart function by creating realistic and interactive models c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Work in Progress: Knowledge Translation for Biomedical Engineering Graduate StudentsAbstractThis work in progress aims to describe the development of a learning activity that requiredbiomedical engineering graduate

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Tech; Scott T. Huxtable, Virginia Tech; Sathyanarayanan Subramanian, Virginia Tech; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

of OU’s FSAE team. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Collaborative Research: vObjects - Understanding their Utility to Enhance Learning of Abstract and Complex Engineering ConceptsIntroductionResearch over the years has inferred that presence of physical objects enhances pedagogy ofcomplex engineering concepts [1 -3]. However, on numerous occasions, it is not feasible to usephysical objects because of its size, cost, safety, and other restrictive issues. There arises a need forvirtual objects (vObjects) to facilitate instruction of abstract engineering concepts. vObjects aretwo-/three-dimensional virtual objects with functional, geometric, behavioral characteristics

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ivan Lopez Hurtado, Northern New Mexico College; Jorge Crichigno, University of South Carolina; Ashis Nandy, Northern New Mexico College

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

scholarship awards assigned in thisperiod.The institution is in a highly underserved rural community with 77% of the studentsreceiving Pell Grants or some other type of financial aid. In addition, 60% of the studentsare first generation college students (when dual credit students are excluded). The studentbody demographics are 72% Hispanic, 9% Native American, 9% White, 2% AfricanAmerican, and 8% other.The objectives of the project include: 1) to enhance educational opportunities for under-represented minorities by focusing on the recruitment of full-time students from theregion into one of two existing Engineering Baccalaureate programs offered at ourinstitution; 2) to provide sufficient financial resources to enable students to focus on

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bobbi J. Spencer, Texas State University; Vedaraman Sriraman, Texas State University; Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University; Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University

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College Industry Partnerships

career. In academia, thus, understanding anddesigning programs to enhance professional identity is vital to the successful placement ofgraduates into industry. This study will use Higgs’ [1] definition of professional identity as aperson developing “the attitudes, beliefs and standards which support the practitioner role andthe development of an identity as a member of the profession with a clear understanding of theresponsibilities of being a… professional.”As students apply and intentionally pursue a degree in a specific discipline towards becoming aprofessional, they are acting as agents per Bandura’s [2] social cognitive theory of agency intheir own future and make decisions according to their self-reflections, identified desires

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christina L. Baze, University of Texas, Austin; Todd L. Hutner, University of Texas, Austin; Richard H. Crawford P.E., University of Texas, Austin; Victor Sampson, University of Texas, Austin; Lawrence Chu; Stephanie Rivale, University of Texas, Austin; Hannah Smith Brooks, University of Texas, Austin

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Humanities grant. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 An Instructional Framework for the Integration of Engineering into Middle School Science ClassroomsIntroduction A Framework for K-12 Science Education [1] describes three dimensions of science andengineering. These dimensions include core ideas from life science, physical science, earth andspace science and engineering, a set of crosscutting concepts that span across these fourdisciplines, and eight practices that are used in science and engineering to develop and revisenew knowledge about the natural or material world. This description of science and engineeringis intended to convey a more realistic understanding of what

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert L. Avanzato, Pennsylvania State University, Abington; Culllen G. Wilcox, Penn State Great Valley

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Computers in Education

hardware platforms can be programmedusing the same software tools. These results will be of interest to educators introducing low-cost, yet sophisticated robotics lab experiences into a diverse range of undergraduate engineeringcourses. These results also have significance to the introduction of robotics concepts in K-12 andSTEM activities.IntroductionRobot Operating System (ROS) is an open source, Linux-based robotics development anddeployment system which supports many commercial and research and development robots,including the Turtlebot, Husky, PR2, Baxter and as well as a variety of industrial and educationalrobots [1]. ROS provides a distributed, networked, message-passing system that provides astandard development and deployment software

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Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University; Ferry Pramudianto, North Carolina State University ; Abhinav Medhekar, North Carolina State University; Chandrasekar Rajasekar, North Carolina State University; Zhongcan Xiao, North Carolina State University

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Computers in Education

produce better estimates ofreview quality, and hence better estimates of the quality of reviewed work. This paper discussespast work in automatically assessing reviews, and summarizes our current efforts to build onthat work.Keywords: peer review, peer assessment, peer feedback, natural language processing,convolutional neural networks, Tensorflow1. IntroductionPeer assessment has been shown to improve student learning in disciplines all across thecurriculum [1]. A large number of online applications [2] have been written to facilitate studentsreviewing each other’s work. However, there is meager value in peer assessment unless studentsare careful and well informed in reviewing their classmates’ work [3].This suggests that reviews should not be

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aliye Karabulut Ilgu, Iowa State University; Elizabeth Miller; Suhan Yao, Iowa State University; David A Wehr, Iowa State University; An Chen, Iowa State University; Yelda Turkan, Oregon State University; Amir H. Behzadan, Texas A&M University; Charles T. Jahren P.E., Iowa State University

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applied mechanics, materials science and applied mathematics tocompute a structure's deformations, internal forces, stresses, support reactions under prescribedloads and/or other external effects [1], [2]. Despite its critical role in the curriculum, most novicelearners in this course do not appear to have a sound understanding of fundamental concepts,such as load effects and load path; and in general, they lack the ability to visualize the deformedshape of simple structures, a necessary skill to conceptualize structural behavior beyondtheoretical formulas and methods [1], [2]. In particular, students have difficulty in relating basicstructural members, including trusses, beams, frames, and others, to more complex structuralsystems, such as

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Fadi Castronovo, California State University, East Bay; Semih Yilmaz, California State University, East Bay; Akarsh Rao, Immersive and Interactive Research Group; Walter Condori Jr., California State University, East Bay; Karan Monga, STEM Educational Gaming Research Group; Hadiseh Gooranorimi, California State University, East Bay

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Computers in Education

University East BayCal State East Bay Mail - URGENT: ASEE Work-in-Progress Paper... https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/?ui=2&ik=52a0fa3fad&jsver=7N... Fadi Castronovo URGENT: ASEE Work-in-Progress Paper #21140 Questions 1 message Fadi Castronovo Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 8:18 PM To: schilling@msoe.edu, Semih Yilmaz Dear Editor, We greatly appreciate your helpful and encouraging comments on our paper # 21140 for the ASEE 2018 Annual Conference. We are especially grateful for your suggestions for future research directions. We will be incorporating your

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Juan M. Caicedo, University of South Carolina; Robert Petrulis, EPRE Consulting LLC

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numbers ofwell-prepared graduates in STEM occupations is a high priority in the U.S. [1-2]. To fill thisdemand, it is predicted that the U.S. needs to increase the yearly production of undergraduateSTEM degrees by 34%. Thus, there is an urgent need to provide undergraduates top-qualitytraining and prepare them for the transition to graduate school and/or to enter professionalengineering careers. However, training in industrial environment is currently lacking in mostundergraduate curricula.With increasing demands for high performance in structural systems, SST that includes advancedsensing, modern control, smart materials, optimization and novel testing, is receivingconsiderable attention as it has the potential to transform many fields in

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Kai Jin, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Arkansas Tech University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

sustainable energy and environment areas in the last three years. The REU site was designed tooffer REU participants an opportunity to gain new insights and knowledge in the broad spectrumof energy challenges and to provide an in-depth research experience in the following areas: 1)renewable energy; 2) clean conventional energy; 3) energy policy, environmental and socialimpacts.The IR-SEED REU site is interdisciplinary in nature and focused on different aspects ofsustainable energy research. REU participants conducted research for 10 weeks during thesummer session. The IR-SEED REU site provided initial orientation and training on how toconduct research, followed by a period of intensive research experience under the mentorship of afaculty member and a

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen Andrew Gadsden, University of Guelph; Andrew Lee, University of Guelph; Robert Nicholas Vandemark; Elyse Hill; Amy Domenique Gadsden, University of Alberta

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Computers in Education

Alamos where he worked on modeling the transient dynamic attributes of Kinetic Energy munitions during initial launch. Afterwards he was selected for the exchange scientist program and spent a summer working for DASA Aerospace in Wedel, Germany 1993. His initial research also made a major contribution to the M1A1 barrel reshape initiative that began in 1995. Shortly afterwards he was selected for a 1 year appointment to the United States Military Academy West Point where he taught Mathematics. Following these accomplishments he worked on the SADARM fire and forget projectile that was finally used in the second gulf war. Since that time, circa 2002, his studies have focused on unmanned systems both air and ground

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Debapriyo Paul, Texas A&M University; Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University; Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University

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while other occupationshave a growth rate of 9.8 percent, STEM relevant occupations are growing at 17 percent, almostdouble the rate 1. A recent statistic indicates that within the next five years, American companieswill need to add 1.6 million STEM-skilled employees to their workforce. Furthermore, accordingto labor market data, the knowledge and abilities of STEM have grown in demand beyondSTEM-specific jobs into all types of occupations 2, 3. The National Science Foundation assertsthat innovations associated with science and technology have increased in their importance overthe years and in order to succeed and prosper in 21st century’s global economy, students mustpossess knowledge and skills relevant to STEM. Past studies indicate that the

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Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wen Huang, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Computers in Education

Virtual Reality (HMD VR) ConditionIntroduction HMD VR has gained increased attention in last two years. Especially in the engineeringeducation field, it enables users to be fully immersed in a 3D simulated engineering workplaceovercoming the time and place limitation [1]. This characteristic is welcomed by engineeringfaculties, who have used various HMD VR applications to facilitate their class instruction.However, inequitable phenomenon may exist when students participate in learning activitiesunder HMD VR environment [2]. A typical case is reported by Kolomaznik, Sullivan, andVyvyan [3]. In a first-year science communication class, students were self-organized into smallgroups of four to six people to play a maze game. The role settings