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1998 Annual Conference

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Richard K. Keplar; Eugene F. Smith; Vernon W. Lewis

the course.The results of the computer analyses and the set of manual calculations are included in astructural project “package” In addition, this package must include an appropriate number ofstructural sketches for the homework structure, showing foundation and framing plans,elevations, sections, and details as necessary. The student may use either CAD software ormanual drafting to produce the sketches. Frequently, the package must include an estimate ofthe cost of construction for the homework structure. Each student must turn in all of his/her workin a three-ring binder that will become part of his design portfolio.The Building Structure Design Laboratory Course (CET 455)The Building Structures Design Laboratory is the “capstone” course

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1998 Annual Conference

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S. A. Tennyson; R. J. Eggert; D. Bunnell

course work andeventual practice.In preparing its curriculum, as a newly chartered program in Idaho, the Mechanical Engineeringfaculty at Boise State University has incorporated a three credit hour course entitled MechanicalEngineering Design in the sophomore year. Blending considerations of design theory, designmethods, design automation, materials & manufacturing, the faculty team has prepared and hasexecuted the 16 week curriculum during the 1997 spring semester.This paper describes course details including: objectives, topics covered, team teaching ap-proach, weekly class format, prerequisites, activities pursued, student grading, infrastructure,resources, faculty team planning, outcomes assessment techniques and results.1.0 Design

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Carol Richardson

studentsclass averages were almost 0.3 points better than the on-campus students. Only four ofthe 30 site-based distance learning courses showed poorer student performance than theon-campus courses. We suspect that the off-campus students are more mature and morewilling to take the time to study than our on-campus students. Accreditation Review The Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association ofCollege and Schools has prepared guidelines to assist the planning, coordination, andmanagement of distance learning programs. 4 This report discusses many aspects ofdistance learning programs. These guidelines state that the evaluation and accreditation ofdistance learning programs will rest on an

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1998 Annual Conference

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William E. Sayle; Joseph L. A. Hughes

for the next visit.Defining Program Objectives and OutcomesWithin ECE the process for defining the program objectives and outcomes for use under EC2000began more than a year prior to the visit. This effort began with mission statements, goals, andrelated documents developed earlier as part of the College and Institute strategic planning andassessment effort. Comments and suggestions were solicited from faculty and members of theSchool’s Industrial Advisory Board and an initial draft was developed by the authors andreviewed by the School Chair and selected faculty. The revised draft was distributed to allfaculty for further comments. Separate Program Assessment Guides were developed for theelectrical engineering and computer engineering

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1998 Annual Conference

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William E. Sayle; Joseph L. A. Hughes

for the next visit.Defining Program Objectives and OutcomesWithin ECE the process for defining the program objectives and outcomes for use under EC2000began more than a year prior to the visit. This effort began with mission statements, goals, andrelated documents developed earlier as part of the College and Institute strategic planning andassessment effort. Comments and suggestions were solicited from faculty and members of theSchool’s Industrial Advisory Board and an initial draft was developed by the authors andreviewed by the School Chair and selected faculty. The revised draft was distributed to allfaculty for further comments. Separate Program Assessment Guides were developed for theelectrical engineering and computer engineering

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1998 Annual Conference

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H. Öner Yurtseven; Patricia L. Fox

shared by all engineering and technology departments.The largest collaborative effort by faculty and students in PSET is our electric race car project.Faculty and students from almost all disciplines within PSET combine their expertise, research,and development experience to create and maintain an electric race car. Students from theDepartments of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Technology,and Electrical Engineering Technology have used the race car to develop their senior projects. Inaddition to the collaborative efforts among faculty and students in PSET, industry cooperationand collaboration on this project is an essential component to its success. Due to the success ofthis project, plans for future collaborative

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1998 Annual Conference

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Richard M. Felder

assigning exclusively individual homework. They may have heard about some of thealternative instructional approaches that a few of their colleagues have been carrying on about,but they dismiss these approaches as impractical, excessively time-consuming to implement, or“spoon-feeding.” There are a number of reasons for this faculty resistance, most of which have at their basethe inescapable fact that time is generally faculty members’ scarcest and most precious resource:there is never enough of it to do the things we have to do and want to do. First-class research—writing proposals and doing the things necessary to get them funded, supervising graduatestudents, attending and presenting at conferences, writing papers, and actually planning

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1998 Annual Conference

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Scott A. Stefanov; Daniel J. Pack

projects including the fire-fighting robot projects.The wall-following robot project also confirmed our belief that creating a controlledsituation, where students are responsible to develop and execute a project plan with anappropriate amount of guidance, is an important educational experience.The first fire-fighting robot project yielded other valuable lessons. The study showed thata two member team is ideal for such a project. The work was evenly divided between thetwo cadets in creating FRED: one of the two students was responsible for the motioncontrol hardware and software, while the other was responsible for sensor relatedhardware and software. Toward the end of the project, the cadets put the two sub-systemstogether and worked on the

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1998 Annual Conference

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Richard P. Long; Kandace Einbeck

chooses his or her own topics.Teaching such a course involves contacting the speakers prior to the semester, making surenecessary video equipment is available and functioning, reconfirming dates, and maintaining acontingency plan in case the guest speaker's busy schedule suddenly forces the cancellation of atalk. One needs to provide speakers with information about who the audience is and what theirlevel of language ability is, how long the talk should be (beginning language learners are unableto maintain the level of concentration necessary to listen to much more than 20-30 minutes ofsustained speech in the target language), and should be encouraged to bring visuals which canprovide the extra-linguistic information needed to make their

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1997 Annual Conference

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Sema E. Alptekin

Cal Poly in February 7-9, 1997 (Kadlecek et al.). A web page(http://www.calpoly.edu/~ime400p1/mech/studentproj/ime416/ibmcell.html) documenting thedetails of the project was also prepared. The Q-Basic program controls the relays that are part ofthe IBM robot's interface panel. The user-interface allows the user to input the process plan. Thisprocess plan shows the sequence of stations that will be visited by the AGV system. Example: 3-1-2 will send the AGV to station 3 first, then to 1, and finally to station 2. This then will be sentto Mini Board II via a serial cable. The Mini Board II will then interpret the information from theQ-Basic program and decide which relay to turn on. Figure 5: Flexible

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1997 Annual Conference

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John A. Marin; James E. Armstrong

assessing interactions among the Hows usually leads to theidentification of more criteria. Thus, we feel one student in a project group should not be saddledwith the task of filling-in the House. Rather, we encourage students to view this as abrainstorming session. After students identify the key criteria that have the largest impact on the system, the studentsdevelop a plan to model these criteria in regards to existing systems and competing alternatives.A beneficial side-effect of the analysis is the identification of those key areas of the project thathave the potential to add the most value. Thus, the House of Quality assists students in designingalternative systems to meet the needs of the stakeholders

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1997 Annual Conference

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Sheela N. Yadav-Olney; Jill M. Clough

provide a stimulating engineering exercise to high school students aroundthe nation. High school students partner with universities and/or corporations to build a "robo-gladiator," from a kit of parts and limited other supplies, which competes against those fromother teams with diverse backgrounds. The competition brings the spirit of professional sportsto engineering, science and technology. Teams have a tight time frame in which to build therobot and prepare it for shipping; and much preparation goes into the planning, designing, andstrategizing. The high school students enjoy working on the university campus with collegestudents and get an opportunity to experience engineering design and construction first-hand. Inaddition, AutoDesk 3-D Studio

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Michael Aldaco

students from these groups. As noted earlier, the reality is that we also servedisadvantaged students from all races. The program has simply sought to be responsive to theencouragement received from the State of California and its industry partners to focus onstudents from those groups who have eligibility rates for higher education that are substantiallybelow the rate called for by California’s Master Plan for Higher Education.This Master Plan directs the University of California to calibrate its admissions criteria so thatonly the top 12.5% of public high school graduates in the state is eligible for admission. Thelatest eligibility study conducted by the State of California notes the following rates for full UCeligibility: men 11.6%, women 13.3

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1997 Annual Conference

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Bahador Ghahramani

. Page 2.234.1 • Sophisticated business decisions and complex managerial planning significantly rely on information processes such as operations, finance, sales, production, and the quality of the results. • As the number of information users increases, along with speed and volume of data, system environments will become more complex and sophisticated.BACKGROUND Corporate decisions are increasingly based on data stored in databases. High level termplans, mergers, reorganizations, and vital initiatives are decided through aggregation anddisaggregation of vital information. In corporate America, databases are regularly used togenerate reports, and to make numerous vital decisions. How accurate

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Richard A. Young

(or a similar software environment) in the context of an introductory physicslaboratory. After funding, we became aware of a similar effort (on a much larger scale and withmuch larger personnel resources) at Purdue University15.Our approach differs somewhat from Purdue's in that we have attempted to introduce students toelements of data flow programming in the context of conducting their physics experiments. TheLabVIEW data flow paradigm encourages the programmer to think about the entire flow of data,from initial acquisition, to preliminary and then final analysis. Since a central element of ourlaboratory experience is the planning of the experiment, we wanted to leverage LabVIEW'senvironment to support these planning activities

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1998 Annual Conference

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Peter T. Cummings; Hank D. Cochran; Juan J. dePablo; Denis J. Evans; Peter A. Koen; Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos; Richard L. Rowley

content is suited for the novice or the expert (or somewhere in between); thus the expertwould get an explanation of configurational-bias sampling methods (a “deep” topic) that iscouched in the language of partition functions, sampling bias, and Fortran, while the novicemight access an explanation of the same topic presented by analogy to the problem of seating a Page 3.63.7group of ten people versus two at a restaurant. The point to realize is that depth is notsynonymous with degree of difficulty, or complexity.Our plan is ultimately to include all topics of practical relevance in molecular simulation, and todo so to a level of depth and

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1999 Annual Conference

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Bernard Gallois; Keith Sheppard

design-related curriculadevelopment and implementation activities of the various Engineering Education Coalitionssponsored by the National Science Foundation2.The Recent Curriculum RevisionIn 1998 the Stevens faculty started implementation of a revised engineering curriculum to buildupon the experience with the Design Thread, to strengthen the core sequence and to providebetter alignment with ABET Criteria 2000. The revision had its origins in an Institute-widestrategic planning activity that, for the Engineering Curriculum, reaffirmed the core valuesassociated with the Stevens tradition of a large, broad-based core while allowing foraccreditation in various engineering disciplines.Curriculum Development ProcessThe curriculum revision was a

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1999 Annual Conference

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W. D. Jemison; W. A. Hornfeck; J. F. Greco; I. I. Jouny

for computer engineering skills bystudents, employers, and graduate schools. This paper will discuss the motivation formaking a change in the curriculum, describe the curriculum options identified includingthe advantages and disadvantages of each option, describe the chosen degree programand the plan for implementing it, and outline the challenges that are expected during theimplementation.I. IntroductionThere are a number of developments, both external to and internal to Lafayette College,which drove the decision to develop and approve a four year combined BSECE degree[1]. First, there has been a rapid proliferation of technology in the form of computers andcommunication systems throughout society and in engineering in particular during

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1999 Annual Conference

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John Cervantes; Donald J., Jr. Fournier; Cyndi Gaudet

practices. LRPO will be prepared to respond professionally, should anincident occur.”Section 4.3 covers Planning. It outlines the mill’s commitment to maintaining procedures toidentify environmental aspects of its activities and products, to determine associatedenvironmental impacts, and to consider these when setting environmental objectives. Itestablishes the mill’s commitment to establishing and documenting environmental objectivesand targets for each relevant function within its operation. Finally, this section describes themill’s commitment to creating detailed environmental management programs which address itsenvironmental objectives. It is supported by four EMSPs which provide details for implementingthe planning function. The four EMSPs

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Lawrence B. Korta

principles, a program was proposed and ultimately approved by Rockwell(Allen-Bradley). In summer of 1991, 24 visitors (including three faculty from Czech TechnicalUniversity) participated in the first program, fully funded by Rockwell. Various MSOE faculty,typically selected from the electrical engineering and school of business graduate program ,conducted the four week program. Some lectures and facility tours were conducted at localRockwell facilities by their personnel. Students were housed in the MSOE dorms. Topics wereoffered in two or three hour blocks, some requiring two or three blocks; the project was thedevelopment of a business/manufacturing plan for a hypothetical product. For the project,students were divided into small teams of five or

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Warren Perger; Leonard J. Bohmann; Bob Bohnsack

agency. Since our lastregional accreditation ten years ago, the NCA had embraced a continuous improvementphilosophy, and our department was in the process of implementing an assessment plandeveloped over the past year and a half.From our perspective it would be easy. We would be able to make small adjustments to ourassessment plan developed for the NCA, collect our program information, and sail through theaccreditation process with a N.G.R. (next general review).Euphoria LostIt turned out to be a much bigger problem than we had initially thought. There are manydifferences between what NCA wanted and what ABET required. In the assessment programsthat the University developed for NCA, the departments were primarily concerned with whatstudents were

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1999 Annual Conference

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W. Benard Carlson; Takeo Higuchi

a result, one should feel free to write down all kinds of new ideas. They can include • ideas for new products, software, or devices; • ideas for new procedures for manufacturing and marketing; •solutions to major problems confronting human society; •predictions about the future, or how one would like society to be; •plans for your education, career, family; •insights to personal problems; •activities you would like to try, such as new hobbies, sports, or places to visit; and •themes or topics for assignments and essays.In short, IMS provides a framework which can help individuals shape a notebook into a

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1998 Annual Conference

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Kenneth J. Soda

product in mid-January, late May or early August. As such, educators must plan tocontinue student involvement in the Tiny Chip process into the following semester. Directstudent evaluation of their own projects offers a wealth of opportunities to enhance the totaldesign process. We have found students often benefit more from the identification of a designinconsistency than they do from a perfectly working chip. In addition to the pedagogical benefits of student executed testing, NSF requires reportingon the results of testing on all sponsored Tiny Chips within three months of receipt of devices.Testing for both functionality and speed, and comparison with simulation are all desired elementsof these reports.7 Electronic mail is the

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1998 Annual Conference

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James B. Stenger; Karen E. Schmahl

of technical information. Mymentor also provided me with a critique of my teaching, which I have included with my tenuredocumentation. As I told him, I plan to use him as a mentor-for-life, and request his servicesthroughout my career. Page 3.409.4Schmahl: I met with my first semester mentor, a full professor from the School of Business, sev-eral times for lunch and we visited each others classes. Although I learned much from him wenever really “clicked” and seemed to run out of things to talk about. For the second semester, acolleague of mine from within the School of Applied Science did provide very valuable advice aswell as friendship. We

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Effective Teaching 4

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lekshmi Sasidharan, University of Arkansas; Tariq Sweidan, University of Arkansas; Abigail Mayhan, University of Arkansas; Pratik Ghimire, University of Arkansas; Suman Kumar Mitra, University of Arkansas

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

study on using a mini project in structural material testing to address ABET student outcomesAbstract: This is a case study manuscript exploring the potential of a mini-project centered arounda civil engineering course to satisfy several of the student outcomes outlined by ABET. Themini-project was developed to help students meet specific objectives based on Bloom'staxonomy. Students were expected to utilize the materials learned in the Structural materialslecture and lab to come up with a plan to test the effect of a pozzolan/supplementarycementitious material (SCM) on the properties of concrete. The student groups worked on fivedifferent mixes, investigating the effect of two different pozzolans: fly ash and

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Professional Practice 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brett Rocha, United States Military Academy; Scott M. Katalenich P.E., United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

and weakness, identifying employee training needs,identifying gaps in employee performance, and reducing the grievances of employees [2]. Thereare three general types of appraisals: confidential, open, and semi-open / semi-secret. Aconfidential appraisal does not include the appraised employee in the appraisal process [3]. Foran open appraisal, the appraised employee achieves self-awareness by being made aware ofstrengths, weaknesses, contributions, and shortcomings. This method of appraisal is reflectiveand involves the establishment of a plan of action [3]. A semi-open / semi-secret appraisalincludes the appraised employee at the beginning of the process and later removes theirparticipation until they receive their final rating [3].The

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Project/Problem Based Learning (PBL) in Construction Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shaghayegh Kurzinski, Roger Williams University; Anne Anderson, Roger Williams University; Jonathan Robert Gomes, Roger Williams University

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Diversity

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Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

and potential for automated grading.They were then asked for their perception and feedback on their learning environment. It was shown thatthe interactive and visual nature of the modules engages a high level of spatial cognition and criticalthinking among students while preparing the students with a cutting-edge software skill.Zhang et al. [4] studied approaches that improve the students’ problem-solving skills in civil engineeringand construction management education. They used a teaching-learning experiment in a civil engineeringeducation program by role-playing with a real-world project using the procedures of the BIM ProjectExecution Planning Guide and process mapping. Their results based on the surveyed students showed thatthis

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Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karina Ivette Vielma, University of Texas at San Antonio; Robin Lynn Nelson, University of Texas at San Antonio; JoAnn Browning P.E., The University of Texas at San Antonio

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cognitive theory (Bandura 1989): • People have the capacity to create internal beliefs and models, plans for action, and testing complex ideas; • Behavior is goal-oriented and seeks to accomplish a task; • People are self-reflective and able to analyze their experiences and thoughts; • People can control their own behavior and actions; • People learn by observing others; and • The environmental events, personal factors, and behaviors interact together.People’s beliefs about their abilities are primarily informed by the following: • Performance experience – a task can be accomplished because it was successfully achieved previously, • Vicarious experience –the task can be accomplished because someone else

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Sustainability and Student Health in Construction Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saeed Rokooei, Mississippi State University; Raheleh Miralami, Mississippi State University; George D Ford, Mississippi State University

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Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

Paper ID #41130Exploring Sleep Health in Construction Students: A Pilot StudyDr. Saeed Rokooei, Mississippi State University Saeed Rokooei is an associate professor in the Department of Building Construction Science at Mississippi State University. His professional responsibilities include project planning and management as well as architectural design practice in private and public construction and engineering firms. He has taught in architecture and construction programs since 2006. Dr. Rokooei’s primary research interests include simulation and serious games, project management methodologies, construction education, data

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Thomas McKean, University of Arkansas; Ranil Wickramasinghe P.E., University of Arkansas; LaShall Bates; Gary Bates; Jacquelyn Wiersma-Mosley, University of Arkansas

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Undergraduates (REU) program hostingstudents from universities outside of Arkansas. The LSRM program mirrored the 10-week REUsummer schedule with the addition of monthly mentoring sessions after the full-time summerexperience ended (Figure 1). This structure took advantage of the ability to maintain contact withthe students after the program ended that traditional REU programs lack. These sessions weredesigned to extend the mentor-mentee relationships formed during the program and provide careerawareness and professional development sessions. These sessions included presentations fromspeakers and tours of local industry planned with input from the students. The program expectsthat continuing to support the community and relationships formed will result