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Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

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Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Pamela Leigh-Mack, Virginia State University; Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Prairie View A&M University; John C. Kelly, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Miguel Velez-Reyes, University of Texas at El Paso; Shiny Abraham, Seattle University; Megan Bekolay; Otsebele E. Nare, Hampton University; Abdelnasser A. Eldek, Jackson State University; Mandoye Ndoye, Tuskegee University

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, in 2002, the MS degree in Mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 2010. After completing his Ph.D. studies, he joined the Center of Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as a Research Staff Member. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Research Associate at Howard University. Since 2014, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL. His research interests center on signal/image processing, sensor data analytics, intelligent infrastructure systems, power systems optimization and engineering education for under-represented groups

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Robin A. M. Hensel, West Virginia University; Joseph Dygert, West Virginia University; Melissa Lynn Morris, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

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previously taught courses such as Thermodynamics, Thermal Fluids Laboratory, and Guided Missiles Systems, as well as serving as a Senior Design Project Advisor for Mechanical Engineer- ing Students. Her research interests include energy and thermodynamic related topics. Since 2007 she has been actively involved in recruiting and outreach for the Statler College, as part of this involvement Dr. Morris frequently makes presentations to groups of K-12 students. Dr. Morris was selected as a the ASEE North Central Section Outstanding Teacher in 2018. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Academic Success & Retention of Underprepared

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ECCD - Technical Session 1 - Energy & Electrical Engineering

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Glenn T. Wrate P.E., Northern Michigan University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

returned to his boyhood home and is teaching at Northern Michigan University. He is a member of HKN and IEEE, a Registered Professional Engineer in California, and is a past chair of the Energy Conversion and Conservation Division of ASEE. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Teaching Substation Battery Testing to UndergraduatesAbstractMost educational electrical power laboratories do not have access to a full-scale 120 V stationbattery bank. Station battery banks are crucial for the proper operation of an electrical powersubstation. When station service power is lost, the battery bank must power 1) the tripping andclosing of circuit breakers, 2

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Student Learning Assessment Methods

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Aditya Akundi, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Immanuel Edinbarough P.E., University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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Manufacturing

- ogy, University of Madras, India, his B.E.. (M.E.) degree from the Institution of Engineers, India, M.E. (Production Engineering) degree from PSG College of Technology, Bharathiar University, India, and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Bharathiar University, India. He is currently a professor and di- rector of engineering technology at the University of Texas, Brownsville (UTB). Prior to joining the UTB faculty he was a visiting professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and an associate professor of production engineering technology at PSG College of Technology, Bharathiar University, India, where he served as the director of the Computer Vision Laboratory and National Cadet Corps – Engineering

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 4

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Paul Benjamin Crilly, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Engineering Physics and Physics

Paper ID #28539the D and F Ionosphere Layers: Why are AM Broadcast Signals Mostly LocalDr. Paul Benjamin Crilly, U.S. Coast Guard Academy Paul Crilly is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the United States Coast Guard Academy. He re- ceived his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University, his M. S. and B.S. degrees at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, all in Electrical Engineering. He was previously an Associate Professor of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering at the University of Tennessee and was a Development Engineer at the Hewlett Packard Company. His areas of interest include laboratory development, antennas

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Concept Inventories in Mechanics

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Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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2000 and the Rose-Hulman Board of Trustee’s Outstanding Scholar Award in 2001. He was one of the developers of the Rose-Hulman Sophomore Engineering Curriculum, the Dynamics Concept Inventory, and he is a co-author of Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics, by Beer, Johnston, Cornwell, and Self. In 2019 Dr. Cornwell received the Archie Higdon Distinguished Educator Award from the Mechanics Division of ASEE.Dr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air

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Instrumentation Division Technical Session 2

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Dale H. Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

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Conference & Exposition, 2010, Louisville, KY, USA, [Online], available https://peer.asee.org/16249. [Accessed Jan. 29, 2020].[2] P. Avitabile, “An Integrated Undergraduate Dynamic Systems Teaching Methodology Utilizing Analytical And Experimental Approaches,” in Proc. of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2007, Honolulu, HI, USA, [Online], available https://peer.asee.org/2617. [Accessed Jan. 29, 2020].[3] D. Aoyagi, “Pilot Implementation of a Task-based, Open-ended Laboratory Project using MEMS Accelerometers in a Measurements and Instrumentation Course,” in Proc. of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2017, Columbus, OH, USA, [Online], available https://peer.asee.org/27797. [Accessed

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Design Across the Curriculum 2

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Johnathon Garcia, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Ryan E. Harlow, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Estevan Andres Nunez, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; lorena Isabel Velasquez, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology ; Curtis John O'Malley, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

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Paper ID #29838The implementation of dynamic learning in a project-based introductoryengineering courseMr. Johnathon Garcia, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology Johnathon Garcia is a graduate student in the Mechanical Engineering Department at New Mexico Insti- tute of Mining and Technology, seeking an MS in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis in Mecha- tronic Systems. His research covers multiple fields including compact data acquisition systems, robotics, Machine Learning, and vibrational systems. He has conducted research under Dr. O’Malley with coop- eration with Sandia National Laboratories on designing

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 19

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Tianshi Fu; Molly H. Goldstein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Holly M. Golecki, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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is not generated by robotics alone. Instead, it is specificapplications of robotics that can be used to attract underrepresented minorities. The worksummarized here illustrates that intentional curricular design for ER programs may be aneffective tool to increase student diversity in the STEM fields.Robotics as a vehicle to strengthen STEM conceptsPrevious ER implementations and research suggests the practicality of using a roboticscurriculum in order to promote meaningful learning of STEM concepts [5]. These ERimplementations have transformed traditional STEM education processes by teaching theoreticalconcepts through concrete robotics experiences. While some STEM subjects have laboratory,activities integrated into the course, many, such as

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ECCD - Technical Session 2 - Solar Energy

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Saeed Sean Monemi, California State Polytechnic University Pomona

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #31467The Scaled Omni-Directional Solar Tracking UnitDr. Saeed Sean Monemi, California State Polytechnic University Pomona Dr. Sean Monemi is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Director of Smart Grid Laboratory at Cal Poly Pomona. He has many years of industrial experience and practiced engineering profession as an electrical engineer for Litton Industries. His professional experience includes working as a senior engineer and supervisor in one of the largest power company, Tennessee Valley Authority, in the areas of Substation Deign and Smart Metering. American

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Collaboration and Communication in Problem-based Learning

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Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; LuEttaMae Lawrence, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Emma Mercier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Anthony Salvatore Margotta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Elizabeth Renee Livingston; Mariana Silva, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Taylor Tucker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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. Franke, M. Ing, A. Turrou, N. Johnson, and J. Zimmerman, "Teacher practices that promote productive dialogue and learning in mathematics classrooms", International Journal of Educational Research, vol. 97, pp. 176-186, 2019. Available: 10.1016/j.ijer.2017.07.009.[10] "Occupational Information Network", 2013.[11] J. Luft, J. Kurdziel, G. Roehrig, and J. Turner, "Growing a garden without water: Graduate teaching assistants in introductory science laboratories at a doctoral/research university", Journal of Research in Science Teaching, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 211-233, 2004. Available: 10.1002/tea.20004.[12] G. Marbach-Ad, C. Egan and V. Thompson, "Preparing graduate students for their teaching

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International Research Experiences Intl Div Tech Session 8

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Ali Mehrizi-Sani , Virginia Tech; Chen-Ching Liu P.E., Virginia Tech; Stephen McArthur, University of Strathclyde

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. [9] T. Mai, R. Wiser, D. Sandor, G. Brinkman, G. Heath, P. Denholm, D. J. Hostick, N. Darghouth, A. Schlosser, and K. Strzepek, “Exploration of high-penetration renewable electricity futures,” in Renewable Electricity Futures Study. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2012, vol. 1, NREL/TP-6A20-52409-1. [Online]. Available: http://www.nrel.gov/analysis/re futures[10] “Presidential policy directive on critical infrastructure security and resilience,” White House, Feb. 2013. [Online]. Available: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/12/ presidential-policy-directive-critical-infrastructure-security-and-resil[11] “National science foundation workshop on the future power engineering workforce

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NSF Grantees: S-STEM 3

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Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University; Joseph Dygert, West Virginia University; Melissa Lynn Morris, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

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taught courses such as Thermodynamics, Thermal Fluids Laboratory, and Guided Missiles Systems, as well as serving as a Senior Design Project Advisor for Mechanical Engineer- ing Students. Her research interests include energy and thermodynamic related topics. Since 2007 she has been actively involved in recruiting and outreach for the Statler College, as part of this involvement Dr. Morris frequently makes presentations to groups of K-12 students. Dr. Morris was selected as a the ASEE North Central Section Outstanding Teacher in 2018. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Understanding Student Retention in EngineeringAbstractThe

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Sociotechnical Integration

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Maysam Nezafati, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mel Chua, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Fellows ofHarvard College.Cezeaux, J., Keyser, T., Haffner, E., Kaboray, A., & Hasenjager, C. (2008). IntroducingUniversal Design Concepts In An Interdisciplinary Laboratory Project. Proceedings of the 2008American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 13.806.1-13.806.9. https://peer.asee.org/4037Dixon, A. G., Clark, W. M., & DiBiasio, D. (2000). A Project-based Spiral Curriculum forIntroductory Courses in ChE: Part 2. Implementation. Chemical Engineering Education 34(4),296-303.Dyrud, M. (2017) Ethics and Artifacts. Paper presented at the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference &Exposition, Columbus, Ohio.Feister, M.K., & Zoltowski, C. B., & Buzzanell, P. M., & Torres, D. H. (2016, June

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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 8

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Anthony E. Felder, University of Illinois at Chicago; Miiri Kotche, University of Illinois at Chicago; Amna Hoda, University of Illinois at Chicago

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the Medical Accelerator for Devices Laboratory (MAD Lab) at the UIC Innovation Center. Prior to joining the faculty at UIC, she worked in new product development for medi- cal devices, telecommunications and consumer products. She also serves as co-Director of the Freshman Engineering Success Program, and is actively involved in engineering outreach for global health. Miiri received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a B.S. in General Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.Miss Amna Hoda, The University of Illinois at Chicago Amna Hoda is a Biomedical Engineering student at The University of Illinois at Chicago

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Design in Biomedical Engineering (Works in Progress) - June 24th

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Erica M. Comber, Carnegie Mellon University; Elisha Anthony Raeker-Jordan, Carnegie Mellon University; Kalliope Georgette Roberts, Carnegie Mellon University; Melanie Alexis Loppnow, Carnegie Mellon University; Andrew Hudson, Carnegie Mellon University; Wayne Chung, Carnegie Mellon University; Conrad M. Zapanta, Carnegie Mellon University

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Assistant Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering at The Pennsylvania State University in Hershey, PA. He also worked for CarboMedics Inc. in Austin, TX, in the research and development of prosthetic heart valves. Dr. Zapanta’s primary teaching responsibilities are Biomedical Engineering Laboratory and Design. Ad- ditional teaching interests include medical device design education and professional issues in biomedical engineering. Dr. Zapanta’s research interests are in developing medical devices to treat cardiovascular disease, focusing on the areas of cardiac assist devices and prosthetic heart valves. Dr. Zapanta is an active member in the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, American Society of

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A Focus on Sustainability

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Azadeh Bolhari P.E., Angelo State University; Daniel Ivan Castaneda, James Madison University; Kenneth Stewart, Angelo State University

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participants) from variouscommunity organizations and events to participate in this project, as citizen scientists (see Table3). Recruiting focused on low-income, Latinx families because they represent a vulnerablepopulation that does not often participate in citizen science projects. The families completedinitial screening interviews to establish a baseline of their perceptions of drought, drought-resiliency, water conservation and water quality testing. The project required a commitment ofapproximately six months to construct an acrylic concrete rainwater harvesting tank at ourengineering laboratory, adopt it for home use, document water usage, and collect rainwatersamples for quality testing. The tanks were built with a metal frame covered with a

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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 11

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Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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instructor feedback ofthose reflections in one of the engineering units that use LAs.The LA ProgramThe LA Program utilizes the three core elements suggested by the Learning Assistant Alliance(https://www.learningassistantalliance.org/). First, in the LA Pedagogy Seminar, LAs receivepedagogical development in in a formal class with their peers, generally in their first term as anLA. Second, LAs meet weekly with the instructor and the graduate teaching assistants as amember of the instructional team to prepare for active learning in class that week. While LAselsewhere are often used in large lecture sections, in the context of the unit studied, the LAsfacilitated learning in smaller studio or laboratory sessions (Koretsky, 2015; Koretsky et al

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First-year Programs: Teams and Teamwork

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Siqing Wei, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rui Wang, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gaurav Nanda, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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. Informatics Assoc., vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 550–563, Sep. 2007, doi: 10.1197/jamia.M2444.[8] F. Dernoncourt, J. Y. Lee, O. Uzuner, and P. Szolovits, “De-identification of patient notes with recurrent neural networks,” J. Am. Med. Informatics Assoc., p. ocw156, Dec. 2016, doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocw156.[9] “Standards for privacy of individually identifiable health information. Final rule,” 2002.[10] A. Rudniy, “De-Identification of Laboratory Reports in STEM | Journal of Writing Analytics,” J. Writ. Anal., vol. 2, pp. 176–202, 2018.[11] Y. Lecun, Y. Bengio, and G. Hinton, “Deep learning,” Nature, vol. 521, no. 7553. Nature Publishing Group, pp. 436–444, 27-May-2015, doi: 10.1038/nature14539.[12] A. Krizhevsky, I. Sutskever, and G

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Sense of Belonging and Diversity in Engineering Programs, Courses, and Teams

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Siqing Wei, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Wei Zakharov, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Lan Jin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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rather than setting up and operating laboratory equipment).There is another important remainder for engineering education researchers and instructors:over half of the selected articles are from industry where power distance is obvious and stablebetween team leaders / managers and employees. This phenomenon is less likely to bepromoted or present in academic teams. The role of leadership moderating the relationshipbetween cultural diversity and team effectiveness might not be a significant factor in the contextof engineering education.LimitationThere are two limitations of this paper relating to the sources of literatures we include andanalyze and the selection process. From the spectrum of included papers, we find that themajority is from

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Cultural Issues in Engineering: International Division Technical Session 2

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Donna M. Ebenstein, Bucknell University; L. Felipe Perrone, Bucknell University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Deborah L. Sills, Bucknell University; Craig Beal, Bucknell University; Amal Kabalan, Bucknell University

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; Environmental Engineering Department at Bucknell Uni- versity. Her teaching and research focus on sustainable production of biofuels and bioproducts. She and her students use laboratory studies and modeling techniques—such as life cycle assessment—to develop and improve the environmental performance of resource recovery from wastewater and multi-product biorefineries.Dr. Craig Beal, Bucknell University Craig E. Beal earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Bucknell University in 2005 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 2007 and 2011. Dr. Beal is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Bucknell University and was the Jane W. Griffith Faculty Fellow from 2012-2015

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Inquiry, Inclusivity, and Integration

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Ilgin Guler, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University

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Civil Engineering

, represents the objectives due allowing students to observe different best possible to variability in phenomena. Students would go out to option for traffic and the intersections during laboratory observation. inability to periods for in person observation. observe different scenarios.Observations Relies on video footage of Allows for the Sincethrough videos intersections along a major arterial of instructor to

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Postgraduate Pathways and Experiences

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Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Aditya Johri, George Mason University; Cory Brozina, Youngstown State University; Russell Korte, George Washington University

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. degrees in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. Dr. Jesiek draws on expertise from engineering, computing, and the social sciences to advance understanding of geographic, disciplinary, and historical variations in engineering education and practice.Dr. Aditya Johri, George Mason University Aditya Johri is Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University where he also directs the Engineering Education and Cyberlearning Laboratory (EECL). Dr. Johri studies the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for learning and knowledge sharing, with a focus on cognition in informal environments. He received the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Early Career Award in

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Computers in Education Division Technical Session 3: Digital Learning Part I

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Bryan Weber, University of Connecticut

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Notebooks.Moreover, the author is aware of several students who have continued to use Notebooks tocomplete other coursework, e.g., data analysis for their laboratory courses.Lessons LearnedThe author has gradually incorporated more of the elements of the approach described above overthe last several semesters. The following discussion is an account of some of the “lessons-learned”from the approach described in the previous section and future directions to be explored.Lesson 1: Students Are Worried About ProgrammingIn the Mechanical Engineering program at the University of Connecticut, students take a general“Introduction to Programming” course in their first year, so they have some experience with Pythonprior to taking Thermodynamic Principles. Nonetheless

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Perspectives and Evaluation of Engineering Design Education

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Isabella Stuopis, Tufts University; Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University; Melissa R. Mazan, Tufts University

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supporting discourse and design practices during K-12, teacher education, and college- level engineering learning experiences, and increasing access to engineering in the elementary school ex- perience, especially in under-resourced schools. In 2016 she was a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). https://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/faculty/kristen- bethke-wendellDr. Melissa R Mazan, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Clinical Sciences Director, Tufts Equine Respiratory Health Laboratory American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020

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2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

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Joseph Dygert, West Virginia University; Melissa Lynn Morris, University of Nevada - Las Vegas; Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University

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cum Laude with a BSME in 2006, earned a MSME in 2008, and completed her doctorate in mechanical engineering in 2011, all from WVU. At WVU, she has previously served as the Undergraduate and Outreach Advisor for the Mechani- cal and Aerospace Engineering department and the Assistant Director of the Center for Building Energy Efficiency. She has previously taught courses such as Thermodynamics, Thermal Fluids Laboratory, and Guided Missiles Systems, as well as serving as a Senior Design Project Advisor for Mechanical Engineer- ing Students. Her research interests include energy and thermodynamic related topics. Since 2007 she has been actively involved in recruiting and outreach for the Statler College, as part of

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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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Ludvik Alkhoury, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ashish D Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology

separate laboratory experiences in a computer lab. In each of the four (4) labsections, students are asked to form teams of three to work on the drone project.For this project, students are asked to (1) reverse engineer, (2) physically assemble, and (3)redesign a mini-drone. The objective of this project is to introduce engineering world – from allits angles – to students and teach them how to transform an idea into a real product. The studentsare asked to come up with their own designs to create a drone with improved capabilities byeither altering the basic drone body already provided or starting from scratch. For simplicity,design process is subdivided the into three (3) milestones as discussed below. Students spend thefirst nine weeks to learn

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2020 First-Year Engineering Experience

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AJ Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Brett Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Norma L Veurink, Michigan Technological University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan Technological University

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Technological University Jon Sticklen was the chairperson of the Engineering Fundamentals Department, Michigan Technological University from August 2014 through June 2020. In the decade of the 90s, Dr. Sticklen founded and led a computer science laboratory in knowledge-based systems in the College of Engineering, Michigan State University that focused on task-specific approaches to problem-solving, better known as expert systems. Over the last fifteen years, Dr. Sticklen has pursued engineering education research focused on early engineering with an emphasis on hybrid course design and problem-based learning. Dr. Sticklen assumed the chairperson of Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Tech on August 1, 2014. His research has

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Kenneth Leitch; Erick Benjamin Butler

renumbered and reconfigured to share with the environmental engineeringprogram. The two programs share lower division courses and naturally complement each other interms of shared faculty as well as laboratory and classroom resources.WTAMU uses a pre-engineering sequence that approximates the first two years of study at a fouryear institution and is approximately the same as the pre-engineering (associate’s degree)program at partner junior colleges and universities. It was decided to make the pre-engineeringsequence identical for both civil and environmental engineering BS programs in 2019. Studentsmust complete fundamentals of engineering (ENGR 1301), computer-aided drafting (ENGR1304), statics (ENGR 2301), dynamics (ENGR 2302), calculus I (MATH

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Roli Varma

fulfill specialty jobs for whichdomestic labor was seen in short supply10.The 1990 Act defined a “specialty occupation” as requiring highly specialized knowledge andskills, and a bachelor’s or higher degree in the specific specialty (or its equivalent). It created acap of 65,000 temporary foreign workers based on specialized education and technical skills indemand. They were allowed to work for up to six years, with an eligibility for renewal in threeyears. This cap only applied to the U.S. industrial sector; those on H-1B visas working foracademic institutions and government research laboratories were excluded from this cap. In1998, the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act increased H-1B visas to115,000 for the 1999 and 2000