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First-Year Programs: Student Perceptions and Perspectives

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George James Lamont, University of Waterloo; Stephanie Mutch, University of Waterloo; Chimdindu Ohaegbu, University of Waterloo ; Hamza Z. Butt, University of Waterloo; Kate Mercer, University of Waterloo; Kari D. Weaver, University of Waterloo

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First-Year Programs

Criminal Justice Policy from the University of Guelph and is an MLIS candidate at the University of Western Ontario (August 2021). Her research interests include social constructionism, interdisciplinary applications of critical social theory, and information seeking and evaluation.Chimdindu Ohaegbu, University of Waterloo Chimdindu Ohaegbu is an undergraduate chemical engineering student at the University of Waterloo. She is a member of Waterloo iGEM, the University of Waterloo’s synthetic biology design team. Her research and career interests include engineering education and biotechnology.Mr. Hamza Z. Butt, University of Waterloo Hamza Butt is an honours legal studies student at the University of Waterloo. His other

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Changing How We Pursue Change

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Madeleine Jennings, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity

mobilization of activists against marginalizing forces,such as the International Women’s Strike on March 8, 2017 [19]. However, revolutionary timecan take the form of daydreaming about a queered future on company time or pushing againstinstitutional norms which bar marginalized groups such as the GRSM community fromengineering institutions.This qualitative study utilizes the stories of four GRSM individuals who are currently or whoused to be pursuing an education/career in STEM. Using aspects of queer theory, Foucauldiananalysis, and revolutionary time, this study aims to answer the following research questions:What is the nature of the GRSM experience with power and privilege within the STEMinstitution? How do GRSM individuals imagine a revolutionary

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Faculty Development Division Poster Session

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Jill K. Nelson, George Mason University; Yutao Zhong, George Mason University; Mark Huntington Snyder, George Mason University; Elizabeth L. White, George Mason University

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Faculty Development Division

detection and estimation for applications in target tracking and physical layer communications. Her work on target detection and tracking is funded by the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Nelson is a 2010 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and the IEEE Signal Processing, Communications, and Education Societies.Dr. Yutao Zhong, George Mason UniversityDr. Mark Huntington Snyder, George Mason UniversityProf. Elizabeth L. White, George Mason University Dr. Elizabeth White is an associate chair and associate professor of Computer Science and a member of the C4I center at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. She has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of

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2010 North Midwest Section

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Lance D. Yarbrough; Scott F. Korom; Zhengwen Zeng

about your views on assessment.One might ask the following: Does my degree program really have an assessment plan or do wejust pile paper during the 5th year of the ABET cycle?We could continue to comment about how this vie of assessment impacts one s career, researchtime, and tenure, but the focus of this discussion is on students. How does this view impact yourstudents? Have students been provided with enough feedback to improve their skills andjudgment? One might realize their course assessment seems a bit weak. Is that because onlycourse grades have been used to assess the program? Are you taking an honest look at yourdegree program or do you equate your program assessment with everything ABET?As we understand it, this is the unfortunate

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2011 North Midwest Section

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William C. Farrow

Through an Integrated Reverse Engineering and Design Graphics Project. Barr, Ronald, et al. October 2000, Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 413-418. Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest ConferenceBiographyWILLIAM C. FARROW has been teaching at the Milwaukee School of Engineering full time for 10 years in theMechanical Engineering department. Besides teaching courses related to engineering design and engineeringmechanics he works with students pursuing aerospace career goals. Dr. Farrow has worked for McDonnell AircraftCom ., Ea on Co o a ion Co o a e Re ea ch Di i ion, and a NASA Je P o l ion Lab a a Fac l Re ea chFellow. Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Conference

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering, Art and Society

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Brianna Benedict McIntyre, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

, exploring the tenets (materials, electrical, and structural) of the BMEprogram at her institution and the career trajectories of BME graduates. When she realized that theBME program’s tenets did not align with her interests, she began considering MechanicalEngineering because she thought the program would provide her with various opportunities as astudent and future engineer aspiring to work in industry. Initially, she thought as a MechanicalEngineering student she would be able to take “classes that would be applicable to BiomedicalEngineering or Biomechanics,” however, later on, she realized later that the MechanicalEngineering program would not have provided flexibility within the plan of study “because of therigor in the mechanical engineering

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

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

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Corporate Member Council

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

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Critical Conversations on Being Valued

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Dustyn Roberts P.E., University of Pennsylvania; Robert W. Carpick, University of Pennsylvania

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity

Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania. He studies nanotribology, nanomechanics, and scanning probes. He is a recipient of the ASME Newkirk Award, a R&D 100 award, and a NSF CAREER Award. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, the AVS, and the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers. He holds 6 patents and has authored over 190 peer-reviewed publications. Previously, he was a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his B.Sc. (University of Toronto, 1991) and his Ph.D. (University of California at Berkeley, 1997) in Physics, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Sandia

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Student Division Technical Session 2

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Hossein EbrahimNejad, Purdue University, West Lafayette; George D. Ricco, University of Indianapolis; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Student

, "Who's persisting in engineering? A comparative analysis of female and male Asian, black, Hispanic, Native American, and white students," Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, vol. 15, no. 2, 2009.[6] Y. Xie and K. A. Shauman, "Women in science: Career processes and outcomes," Social Forces, vol. 82, no. 4, pp. 1669-1671, 2004.[7] S. Hurtado, M. K. Eagan, and B. Hughes, "Priming the pump or the sieve: Institutional contexts and URM STEM degree attainments," in Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research, New Orleans, LA, 2012.[8] C. Rodriguez, R. Kirshstein, L. B. Amos, W. Jones, L. Espinosa, and D. Watnick, "Broadening participation in STEM: A call to

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Learning Strategies

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Khalifa H. Harib, United Arab Emirates University; Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University; Hayder Zulafqar Ali, United Arab Emirates University; Bobby Mathew, United Arab Emirates University

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Manufacturing

Emirates University Dr Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan – Siva is a Srilankan by birth and a citizen of the United Kingdom. His experience in Sri-lanka started with an year’s post-graduate apprenticeship in the manufacturing shops of the Government Railway and nine years in the Cement Industry. He graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from University of Srilanka, and obtained his Masters from the University of Aston and PhD from City University of London, both in the UK. He started his career in the UK as the Senior Research Assistant at the SERC Engineering Design Centre. He joined Brunel University in 1995 where he worked for 18 years before joining United Arab Emirates University in August 2011. During his stay at Brunel

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Learnin' Lessons about Faculty Development

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Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University; Jill K Nelson, George Mason University

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Faculty Development Division

. She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for graduate study, earning an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Dr. Nelson’s research focus is in statistical signal processing, specifically detection and estimation for applications in target tracking and physical layer communications. Her work on target detection and tracking is funded by the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Nelson is a 2010 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and the IEEE Signal Processing, Communications, and Education Societies. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020

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Technical Courses and Liberal Education

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Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University; William M. Jordan, Baylor University; Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

their own pace. iGens use the internet a lot andspend time learning on sites such as You-Tube, Wikipedia, and Kahn Academy. They state that90% of online content has been created in the last 2 years so this trend will be growing. iGensconsider education as a means towards their eventual career. Practical experience is importantand 79% of iGens think educational programs should integrate internships. While iGens’ IQ isincreasing, the creativity quotient of this generation has been decreasing since 1990. In a survey,84% of parents and 79% of teachers think there is not enough time allocated in schools todevelop creativity. If students do not get exposed to creativity in elementary and high schools,then creativity will not be there for the

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NSF Grantees: S-STEM 4

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Tuncay Aktosun, University of Texas at Arlington; Yolanda Parker, Tarrant County College; Jianzhong Su, University of Texas at Arlington

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

mentoring of undergraduate students and high school students. He has been leading the development of the UTA learning communities and tutoring program for undergraduate and graduate students and has provided space and travel funds to enhance the UTA model. He is an active member of Gulf States Math Alliance and serves on its board of directors and co-organized the annual Gulf States Math Alliance conference in 2017-2020. Currently he is the PI on an NSF Math bridge to doctorate program at UTA. He also serves as a PI on a large UTA USDA-HSI collaboration project on smart agriculture data and mentoring students to research in data science and to pursue agricultural related career. American

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Best in 5 Minutes: Demonstrating Interactive Teaching Activities

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Timothy Aaron Wood, The Citadel

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Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering

engineeringjudgement to ensure that the right scientific theories have been applied properly.ConclusionThe three-model framework and its application to engineering problem solving is a useful toolfor helping students develop as engineers. The three models can help students better understandthe engineering problem solving format and make sense of the efforts of their educationalexperience in college. Ideally, each engineering graduate has developed an appreciation andrespect for reality, and mental models that intuitively understand how the world works, and theengineering/math models to quantitatively predict outcomes consistent with both their mentalmodel and reality.References[1] R. B. Landis, Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career, 5th ed

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Key Educational & Professional Issues of Strategic Importance to the Civil Engineering Profession - and ASCE - Part 2

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Norb Delatte P.E., Oklahoma State University; Stephen J. Ressler P.E., United States Military Academy; Audra N. Morse P.E., Michigan Technological University; Camilla M. Saviz P.E., University of the Pacific; Brock E. Barry P.E., U.S. Military Academy

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering

pursuing a career in academics, Dr. Barry spent 10-years as a senior geotechnical engineer and project manager on projects through- out the United States. He is a licensed professional engineer in multiple states. Dr. Barry’s areas of research include assessment of professional ethics, teaching and learning in engineering education, non- verbal communication in the classroom, and learning through historical engineering accomplishments. He has authored and co-authored a significant number of journal articles and book chapters on these topics. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Toward Continuous Improvement of the

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Care and Inclusive Teaching

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Jorge A. Baier, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Isabel Hilliger P.E., Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Ximena Hidalgo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Constanza Melian, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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Educational Research and Methods

towards this objective, this paperwill only report the progress towards achieving the first objective.MethodsWe adopted a ground theory approach to identify a set of caring practices and attitudes related tocare in engineering teaching. In order to collect qualitative information, we interviewed aconvenience sample of 11 full-time faculty members. Since UC Engineering has 10 Departments,we chose at least one faculty member per Department, and two of them were female professors.On average, our sample started their teaching career in 2005, and they have been positivelyassessed in student evaluations of teaching. Given their experience and their efforts in teachingtasks, we considered that they could facilitate the identification of practices in

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Teaching Statics: What and How?

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David Allen Evenhouse, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Charles Morton Krousgrill, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeffrey F. Rhoads, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Mechanics

dynamics of parametrically-excited systems and coupled oscillators; the thermomechanics of energetic materials; additive manufacturing; and mechanics education. Dr. Rhoads is a Member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechan- ical Engineers (ASME), where he serves on the Design Engineering Division’s Technical Committees on Micro/Nanosystems and Vibration and Sound, as well as the Design, Materials, and Manufacturing (DMM) Segment Leadership Team. Dr. Rhoads is a recipient of numerous research and teaching awards, including the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award; the Purdue University School of Mechanical

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 8

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Johanna Kristiina Naukkarinen, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology; Kati Maarit Koikkalainen, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology

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Pre-College Engineering Education

andevaluate the outcomes of the cooperation. The development of a survey to monitor thestudents’ thinking is presented and other possible evaluation tools and needs are discussed.Rationale for cooperationThere are several different motives for university-school collaboration resulting in manydifferent types of cooperation programs [1]. The driving forces for starting the presentedcooperation were the town school district’s wish to better contextualise school teaching andmake better use of the expertise available in local university, as well as university’s hopes toserve the local community and to increase the local pupils’ interests towards engineering andbusiness careers and education at LUT University. Both parties also had the interest ofenhancing

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 6

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Marcelo Caplan, Columbia College

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Pre-College Engineering Education

lead thesechanges. To be able to get ahead of the changes, it is paramount that this workforce is literate,well prepared and skilled in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM)subjects, careers and skills.Though the formal education system is in charge of preparing students towards this goal, it facesmany limitations. Data also shows that students in the K-12 system spend less than 15 percent oftheir time in a supervised environment that fosters learning and exploration. Complementary tothe work done in schools, Out-of-School-Time (OST) programs provided by community-basedorganizations (CBO) provide students with alternative environments for learning and growing.However, although these opportunities exist, only a small

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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 8: Modulus Topics

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Aneet Dharmavaram Narendranath, Michigan Technological University

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Computers in Education

computationally oriented courses in mechanical engineering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Collect, Carve, ClassifyAbstractThis work in progress demonstrates a simple example on data-mining and classification for amechanical engineering undergraduate elective course in the finite element method.As big data and machine learning continue to permeate and affect the viscera of society, newchallenges and career opportunities emerge. Organizations such as NSF, McKinsey globalinstitute, Gartner global newsroom, IBM, to name a few, have published projections on the globalimpact big data and machine learning on the job market and how these

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Work in Progress: Assessment, Evaluation and Hands-on Activities

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Julianne Vernon, Vanderbilt University; Matthew Rogers, Vanderbilt University; Benjamin Joseph Saba; Yin Huang

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Chemical Engineering

ofcardboard, wedging pieces of soap into slits in the boats as they saw fit. The boats were thenplaced into bins filled with water and allowed to traverse the bins. The task was to create a boatwhich travelled both the farthest and fastest using nothing but the force generated by differencesin surface tension of the liquid caused by the dissolution of the soap. The activity wassummarized by an open discussion of basic surface tension phenomena, explaining why oilinhibited paperclip flotation and how dissolution of soap could generate enough force to propel aboat. Finally, ties to chemical engineering were shown by highlighting career areas wheresurface tension effects are paramount (inter alia: crude oil recovery, paint design andmanufacturing, food

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Student Experiences with Undergraduate Research

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Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Brian P. Helmke, University of Virginia

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Educational Research and Methods

. What do undergraduates do in extracurricular research?4. How do undergraduates perceive the role of extracurricular research in their education, career, and identity?To investigate these questions, we assessed constructs such as engineering identity and senseof belonging, as well as institutional barriers to participation in research. In addition, we usedthe survey to measure crucial baseline data to (1) inform the design of future interventionprograms to improve undergraduate research and (2) serve as a comparison for the effects ofsuch interventions. Here we report the design of our Undergraduate Research ExperiencesSurvey (URES), discuss a few preliminary results, and raise questions for future research.MethodsIn collaboration with our

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Student Perceptions of Self-efficacy, Success, and Identity

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Isabel Hilliger P.E., Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Constanza Melian, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Javiera Meza, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Gonzalo Cortés, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Jorge A. Baier, Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile

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Educational Research and Methods

managed a pre-engineering program to encourage high school students to study careers in engineering and science. He also volunteered as a teacher in communication skills and personal development, aimed at training high school students in vulnerable backgrounds.Dr. Jorge A Baier, Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile Is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department and Associate Dean for Engineering Edu- cation at the Engineering School in Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile. Jorge holds a PhD in Com- puter Science from the University of Toronto in Canada and a Master’s Degree in Engineering Sciences from Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile. His research focuses on areas of automated reasoning in

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2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

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Nadir Yilmaz P.E., Howard University; Hyung D. Bae, Howard University

requirements. Generative design tool helps students to have a new way ofdesigning engineering part which can be much lighter and/or simpler than the counterpartsdesigned by human engineers. And the design based on the tools can give inspiration inoptimizing the existing parts. More and more parts can be optimized with generative design toolsavailable on the market combined with the addictive manufacturing and students are prepared toexploit this relatively new technology for their future career. Figure 4 and Figure 5 show twodifferent bracket designs using Generative Design. 4 Figure 4. Bracket designs by Generative Design (Photo credit: 3D Printing Media

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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Elizabeth Kurban, Women in Engineering, University of Maryland College Park; Mary L Bowden, University of Maryland College Park

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Diversity

place during the least eventful summer of our academic careers.” “It allowed me to meet many other women who share the same interests” “It is really fun, but you get to learn as well. It also helps me see what college will be like, so it is a nice transition.” “It really helps you get ahead in terms of knowing your way around campus, coming in with a social group, and being able to take an engineering class ahead of time.” “Applying and completing this program is one of the best decisions I have ever made. Thank you so much for allowing me to have this opportunity.”Why did you participate in the FYSE Program? “I participated in FYSE because I found that it would be a

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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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McKayla Kleinschrodt; James Lenn, Wayne State University; Marcis Jansons P.E., Wayne State University; Jeffrey Potoff, Wayne State University

. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020First Year Engineering Student Success Enhancement through the Support of Undergraduate Teaching AssistantsAbstractThis informational paper describes an approach to utilizing undergraduate teachingassistants (UGTAs) in addressing challenges posed by using Computer Aided Design (CAD) andthree-dimensional (3D) printing in a hands-on, first year engineering design class. At Wayne StateUniversity, we began using CAD and 3D printing tools to introduce design principles to first-yearengineering students in the fall 2017 semester. This was prompted by the desireto involve students with CAD at an earlier stage of their academic careers. Assisting in

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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Matthew Wettergreen, Rice University; Joshua Brandel

engineering design, it becomes clear that there are fartoo many topics to cover in the span of a semester. As a result, instructors face the challenge ofdeciding which elements to include or omit in their curriculum. This problem is magnified in afirst-year engineering design course, where in addition to teaching the engineering designprocess, an alternate goal is often to provide students fundamental skills that may be useful intheir academic and professional careers. Therefore, first-year design teachers must be highlydeliberate in allocating their limited time and resources.Research on cognitive load theory suggests that the way information is presented impacts notonly how rapidly students can learn new concepts, but also how long students retain

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CoNECD Session: Day 3 - Slot 3 -- Technical Session 4

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2021 CoNECD

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Brandi P. Jones, University of Southern California; Helen Choi, University of Southern California; Cheyenne Gaima

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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

, examining various experiences and perspectives,and understanding how storytelling can build a sense of community. For these first-year students, they are experiencing this 60-minute program as part of their ENGR102 course - early in their college careers during a time when many crave community-building. When we devised this program in 2019, we saw a need to build morecommunity at our school - and little did we know that this need would be even more ofa priority just a few months later.An RE3 presentation to first-year engineering students in ENGR 102 consists ofabout 60 minutes of story-related activities and story sharing. The content for thepresentation was developed over the summer collaboratively among student trainersand faculty; a template

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Works in Progress in Chemical Engineering Education

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Kitana Kaiphanliam, Washington State University; Olivia Reynolds, Washington State University; Olufunso Oje, Washington State University; Olusola Adesope, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

of opportunity to utilize their skills in projects involving thelife sciences and medical field, yet the misconception that this is not the case is prevalent amongstlower-division undergraduates. It is often seen that potential chemical engineering students whoare interested in careers in medicine take a pre-medical route or switch to bioengineering as amajor. Core classes such as transport phenomena and separations in the chemical engineeringcurriculum, though, teach students a number of invaluable concepts and fundamentals that can beapplied to projects involving the life sciences.To address the misconceptions of chemical engineering as a major and its importance in themedical field, we propose to use a hands-on, interactive learning tool

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Biomedical Engineering Postcard Session (Best of Works in Progress)

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Christine E. King, University of California, Irvine; George Tolomiczenko, Caltech; Nadine B. Afari, CHOC Children's Health Orange County

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Biomedical Engineering

, where 1 represents “not at all” and 5represents “very much”. It was found that 93.3% (14/15) of the respondents agreed that the eventincreased their creativity and discussion of COVID-19 healthcare problems, and 80.0% (12/15)agreed that it led to an innovative solution to a relevant COVID-19 problem. Lastly, 53.3%(8/15) of the respondents agreed that the event was helpful in their current career path. However,although only approximately half of the participants believed it was helpful in their future careerpath, all of the participants were interested in attending the event if it was offered in the future.After following the seven teams that continued the project through the senior design programs, itwas found that three teams were invited to