Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan L. Solnosky, P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Moses Ling, P.E., Pennsylvania State University

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Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE)

rarely presented as a concern. Sledge-hammer approaches were common.Experiment procedures that might discover the threshold for success were rarely promoted. Preconceived Notions – Some reports clearly reflected the team’s preconceived notions of theproject goals or requirements. Project narrative was ignored by some teams. Many groups ignore privacyand thermal comfort issues mentioned as critical concerns in the project brief and proposal opening the doorright after a shower similar to their practice at home. Some team even suggests bringing in box fans blowingair into the bathroom. Ineffective Internal Team Collaboration – In student teams, collaboration rarely resulted in evendistribution of work and, by inference, learning

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS) Technical Session 4: Bring Your Own Experiments +

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of California, San Diego; Molly Y. Mollica, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Diversity

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

safety tips werealso reviewed. Our goals for incorporating the toy adaptation module included providingstudents with an opportunity to: ● work together as a team towards an end goal and hone team working skills through collaboration ● make a difference in the local community by increasing access to accessible and developmentally important toys, and apply knowledge to create a positive societal impact ● hone technical skills including soldering and circuit analysis, and gain hands-on experience in problem-solving ● participate in hands-on exploration of circuitry concepts ● engage in conversations and reflection regarding concepts of accessibility of universal designLab Session: Teams of ~3 students were

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Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 6

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Hadley Perkins, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

be gleaned from their perspectives [5], [7]–[9]. Analysis ofdiscrepant cases that fall outside the norm is a critical strategy in qualitative research [7]–[9].The uncertainty and inconsistency involved in such outlier cases do not invalidate theparticipants’ stories but instead reflect the complexities in the phenomena under study [5], in thiscase, mentorship. Discrepant cases can provide clues to generating innovative hypotheses andunderstandings not readily apparent in more common responses [5], [8], [10], and, as such,require close examination to reveal their meaning [8].We leverage attachment theory as a psychological and developmental lens [11], [12] to guidethis study. Attachment theory has been extensively used to examine mentoring

Conference Session

Committee on Effective Teaching Presents: Creativity

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amie Baisley, University of Florida; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

. Compute relevant response L. Apply work/energy principlesGrading for MasteryIdentifying the mastery objectives, requiring them for all solutions, and assessing every other week resultsin a lot of data and information on how each student approaches problem solving. Instead of recordingperformance on each assessment as a single score, we look for and track demonstrations of masteryobjective by objective. This approach helps students to break away from the scoring mentality and focusbetter on their strengths and weakness as reflected in their progress with respect to the mastery objectives.Mastery is defined as a redundant demonstration of an ability to perform a given objective. The coursegrade is based upon the

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sunni Haag Newton, Georgia Institute of Technology; Roxanne Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joycelyn Wilson, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sabrina Grossman, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

example, students are asked to consider the ways in which the lyrics they analyzeaddress collective action and the pursuit of equity for the common good in order to promote asociety that is just, considering equity for all individuals that reflects the cultural and socialdiversities amongst them. These ideals are baked into a Hip Hop-inspired consciousness, andautomatically considered in the analysis exercises that students participate in. This approach guidesstudent creatives to design, create, and write songs that remix themes that advance theirunderstanding of not only the 7 principles, but also their understanding of race, equity, and justicein their daily lives. EarSketch The Your Voice is Power curriculum is also centered around

Conference Session

Committee on Effective Teaching Presents: Models, Models, & More Models

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paulina Robles, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Gabrielle Rose Favro, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Anahid Behrouzi, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Abby Lentz

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

on tension and compression members, small groups of students arepresented with the foam model and corresponding handout which is included in Appendix B.Students determined the cross-sectional dimensions and height of the column using a ruler, thencalculated slenderness ratios (as defined by NDS 2018 Section 3.7.1.3) [13]. After reflection onhow these ratios may affect buckling behavior, students induced two buckling scenarios bypressing on the top of the model to simulate a concentrated axial load as shown in Figure 3. Thefirst scenario involves a completely unbraced length, in which the column buckles along theweak axis in single curvature. The second scenario involves bracing along the weak axis at mid-height, in which the column will

Conference Session

Committee on Effective Teaching Presents: Models, Models, & More Models

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Francis McMullen, United States Military Academy; Adrian Biggerstaff, P.E., Stanford University; Christopher H. Conley; Jakob C. Bruhl, P.E., United States Military Academy; Kevin Arnett; Paul Moody; Aaron T. Hill Jr., United States Military Academy; Lynden Damon Crosbie

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

” “Give more time to reflect and think on the process. It would also allow us to design a better structure and build it better.” “Use more CE403 concepts. Could work on different pieces of it throughout the semester as we learn the relevant concepts.” “Providing more example/reference material because the first few assignments were very confusing and took a long time. Videos or other resources on it would be very helpful.” Figure 13: Student Feedback on the open-ended question: “What changes do you recommend making to improve the engineering design project experience?”The final student feedback data analyzed were responses to Likert questions included in theanonymous course-end-feedback survey for the last

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Systems in Practice

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

the company, “. . . and then where I’m at now,[shifting from] the technical side to the supervisory side, it’s more managerial tasks and also thedesign.” (P-3). The nature of one’s responsibilities and roles also reflected a level of experienceand competence in the company. For example, the following quotes describe first an experiencedindividual’s role and responsibilities compared to the second quote from someone relatively lessexperienced in the organization. [experienced] I work with everybody. I’m like the top of the triangle for the project in the field. I work with the project manager and all my contractors, suppliers, vendors, customers, etc. They all go through me and then I work with project management and my

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 6

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

Conference Session

Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katrina Marie Robertson; Hadi Ali, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Jonathan M. Adams, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott; Elizabeth Ashley Rea, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

teaching in his life. This was when his views of issues of equity started to surface.Each participant’s experiences contribute to a fuller sense of the challenges facing gendered and/orracially-minoritized students in introductory engineering programming courses. Interestingly, theauthority and social infrastructures proved to be the most important for the three student participants,reflecting existing scholarship about the importance of community, mentorship, and student dispositionsof confidence in programming education. The physical and operational infrastructures also discouragedactive participation by all students, while challenges with the economic infrastructure didn’t surface inthese interviews. 7. Future workOur ongoing research and

Conference Session

COED: Grading Systems

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marko V. Lubarda, University of California, San Diego; Alex M. Phan, University of California, San Diego; Aidan Daniel Carrigg; Karthik Srinivasan; Josephine Relaford-Doyle, University of California, San Diego

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Diversity

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

students’ willingness to reflect on their understanding, to identify misconceptions andareas of deficiency, and to make adjustments to improve learning and performance [1], [11],[12]. Constructive well-designed feedback has also been shown to improve student motivationand self-efficacy beliefs [13], [14]. Academic integrity research argues that meaningfulsupportive feedback empowers students, reducing their likelihood to cheat [15]. Educatorsadopting formative feedback as an instructional intervention too can benefit from the process, asit can offer them valuable insights into students’ understanding of the subject material to helpinform their pedagogy [16], [17].While most of the earlier research focused either on feedback to students as a

Conference Session

Session 1 - Track 4: What does an Engineering Instructional Faculty do? Voices of Engineering Instructional Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Collection

2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Viyon Dansu, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University; Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas at El Paso

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

knowing what to prepare for. So, I even have support from the students themselves.Poobah is another EIF who highly values developing meaningful relationships with his students.During the first year of the COVID pandemic, he shared how challenging it was to build thoserelationships, given that he lost that valuable time before and after class to speak one-on-onewith students. In the interview, he reflected on one memorable example from before COVID todescribe why he appreciates building these relationships with his students and what he hoped areturn to campus would bring for both him and his students. So, I was sitting next to one of my students in my class and I looked at him, I said, "Well, you look a little sad today." And he

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 6: Monitoring, Evaluating and Research

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Dang, Purdue Engineering Education; Kirsten Davis, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Brent Jesiek, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

 Knowledge of the engineering profession,  Explain the significance of diversity in engineering education, and globalization engineering education and professional from the perspectives of countries beyond practice, including by evaluating the United States, particularly competing perspectives on diversity in perspectives from Europe and the different historical and sociocultural emerging economies of Asia contextsTable 1 presents sample learning objectives that reflect each course’s emphasis on developinginter/cross-cultural skills in general and global engineering competency in particular. It is alsoworth noting that students in both classes are required to

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: Student Success Boot Camps, Summer Bridge Programs, and Living Learning Communities

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Palm, Roger Williams University

, Environmental, or MechanicalEngineering.During the time period included in this study, the university featured several first-year programsintended to help students transition to college: 1. First Year Seminars (FYS) – special sections of a three-credit course in the university’s core curriculum, distinguished from regular core sections in that they enrolled only first- semester students and included additional learning outcomes focused on developing oral communication, information literacy, teamwork, time management, and learning reflection/metacognition skills. 2. RWU Experience (RWUXP) – a zero-credit college transition course that met one hour per week and focused on practical information such as the differences between

Conference Session

Centering Black Experiences in STEM: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Merriweather, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Marah Lambert, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Shaunelle Casey; Cathy Howell, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Niesha Douglas

and political critique informed by Africana Philosophy and Critical Race Theory, Lisa invites readers and interlocutors to a space of reflection through (re)presenting and (re)languaging racialized experiences. Her research interests include culturally liberative mentoring, critical race pedagogy, STEM doctoral mentoring, and race and racism in non/informal adult education.Marah Lambert Marah Lambert just completed her first year in UNC Charlotte's Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation Ph.D. program. She is working as a graduate research assistant part-time. She recently earned her Master's in Research Methods in Education from the University of Kentucky. She taught middle school math for 5 years in the

Conference Session

Thinking Outside the STEM Box: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roxanne Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology; Chalece Delacoudray, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sunni Newton, Georgia Institute of Technology; Justina Jackson; Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Stephen Garrett, Georgia Institute of Technology; Hilah Barbot, Amazon Web Services; Jason Freeman; Joycelyn Wilson, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sabrina Grossman

primary focus of this paper is goal 2, students attitudes and values. Goals related tostudent attitudes and values reflect the expectation that through their participation in thecompetition, students will expand their views on what coding and computer science entail, and thepotential role these subject areas might play in students’ future coursework and career goals. Byvirtue of the curriculum’s emphasis on social justice and activism, it is expected that students willgain a deepened understanding of these societal issues and how the areas of coding and computerscience can be used to promote positive changes therein. These goals focus on high studentstanding on awareness of potential uses of coding skills, empowerment and agency to affect

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Intersections of Identity and Student Experiences: Equity, Culture & Social Justice Technical Session 10

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Yang, Stanford University; Crystal Nattoo

fast friends, broughttogether by our shared passion for social justice that seemed to not be reflected in anyone else inthe group. Unlike the other students, who seemed to be religiously devoted to their technicalengineering research, both of us led separate lives in the engineering social justice space, andboth of us had encountered unexpected ways in which our social justice work intersected in ourengineering experiences. Our conversations around social justice and experiences in theengineering doctoral program led naturally to this paper, an extension of our in-personconversations and storytelling experiences.CounterstoriesJerry - Navigating Academic Gatekeepers When I was applying to PhD programs in electrical engineering, I wasn’t

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 12: Work-in-Progress Postcard Session #1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacques Richard, Texas A&M University; Janie Moore, Texas A&M University

completely virtual classrooms (with options for synchronous andasynchronous content delivery) after Spring Break 2020 with the worldwide acknowledgement ofa global COVID-19 pandemic. The university faculty and student groups’ surveys found thatmost did not like the completely virtual classroom of the second half of the spring 2020 semester.According to some surveys, many students did not feel connected to their peers and the collegeclassroom experience, reflecting a broader body of related research on COVID effects 28,29 ,importance of peer interactions in FYE education 17,18 , and teaming 25,22,19,26,27 . Therefore, theuniversity decided to have onsite classes for Fall 2020 with a virtual option for students who werenot comfortable attending class

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Social Identities and STEM Experiences: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Minichiello, Utah State University

programs remain dishearteninglylow. While research with military undergraduates in higher education continues to increase and expandin focus, scholars agree that this research remains reactive, deficit-based, and overly attuned to veterans’needs and services, including mental health, disability, and academic support. This historic focus on needsand services has resulted in a literature base wherein military students have been essentialized andwritten, (nearly) exclusively by civilians, as deficient—oftentimes to the point of deviance.To conduct research and engage in praxis and reflection that actively counter socio-educational injusticesimposed on military undergraduates in engineering, this paper explores theoretical, conceptual

Conference Session

Imagining the Research Agenda for ASEE LEAD

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meagan Kendall, University of Texas at El Paso; Meg Handley, Pennsylvania State University; Brian Novoselich, United States Military Academy; Matthew Dabkowski

research through thebody of work associated with ASEE revealed key gaps in 1) student pre-college experiences, 2)internal structures of support, 3) assessment of classroom experiences, and 4) persistence.Further reflection on the application of Terenzini and Reason’s college impacts framework forthis project reveals a gap that may indicate a uniqueness of EL that does not perfectly fit withinthe framework.Few studies focused on engaging pre-college students around the importance of EL skills fortheir academic and industry careers. Those studies that did focus on pre-college students, e.g.,[27], largely examined models for supporting teachers in their leadership development andinstruction in the Teachers as Leaders cluster. This may reflect how EL

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ECE Division Technical Session 4: Student-centered Learning and Teaching Methodologies

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saharnaz Baghdadchi, University of California, San Diego; Theresa Meyerott, University of California, San Diego; Paul Hadjipieris

and create new innovativesolutions to solve these problems [3], [9]. Results indicate when students can reflect upon howthey learned, share with others their learning patterns, and are open to peer feedback. Thisprocess has a cumulative effect on student knowledge and comprehension of the material [10],[11], [12].Self-Directed Learning as an AssessmentRecommendations illuminated in the literature posit a significant component of self-directedlearning is for students to develop the skills to self-assess their work. Data shows successful self-assessment correlates with instructor formative and summative assessment results of theirmastery skills. Therefore, suggestions for educators center on building self-assessment into thecurriculum and

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratory and SoC Developments

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Schuman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lisa McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Thomas Martin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Justin Kleiber, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

is a context specificallyrelevant to the university’s rural location that can stimulate students’ reflection onhuman-technology interactions and outcome-oriented engineering design. We chose autonomousfarming to contextualize the project because it is an area of rapidly improving technology thatrelates to multiple ECE fields of interest [15]. Students will learn the importance of designing fora distinctly relevant context in engineering.6. Project and ExampleThis section contains the project’s prompt (Section 6.1), setup instructions, parts list, and aninitial software outline. In the pilot studies, participants were also given a hardware diagram,which is referenced. Faculty can choose when to introduce each element in order to scaffold

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ERM: Systematic Reviews!

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhammad Asghar, Utah State University; Angela Minichiello, Utah State University

of attempting an SLR and ending up with first writing an SMR areavailable in their published work [49]. In this case, researchers were working on a project focusingon the topic of broadening the participation of African Americans in engineering and computerscience. Reflecting on the execution of the project, Phillips et al. [49] state that one of theirobjectives was to conduct an SLR to investigate the existing literature related to their project. Atfirst, they were confident that an SLR would serve the purpose of answering their researchquestions. Soon, however, they found that the process of identifying and selecting studies for anSLR may not be as straightforward as initially thought. The research team encountered many difficulties

Collection

2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Ben Weihrauch

, the theoretical framework of intersectionality and college studentsimportant. The term “intersectionality,” commonly attributed to feminist legal scholar KimberléCrenshaw (1989, 1991), posited that sexism or racism does not singularly and fully account fordiscrimination in the legal arena. Within higher education, applying an intersectional frameworkcan more accurately reflect the diverse experiences of students and provide insight intoeducational inequality. Most intersectional studies focus on the interplay of race/ethnicity,gender, sexual orientation, or social class, and their impact on student academic and socialexperiences (Duran & Jones, 2019; Santa-Ramirez et al., 2022). Because of the manyintersecting identities common in the FGS

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josephine Meyer, University of Colorado Boulder; Bethany Wilcox, University of Colorado Boulder; Noah Finkelstein, University of Colorado Boulder

deeper reflection, often was sufficient to prompt anoticeable change in faculty’s attitudes regarding ESR in the QIS classroom.One reason our conversations might have had this surprising effect was simply that multiplefaculty had never thought explicitly about teaching ESR in the classroom (at least in those terms).David’s change in attitude seemed to have been sparked simply by the interview topic itself: David: I always thought of this quantum computing course as a very technical-type course. Never thought of it in those terms [ESR] but ... it could be an opportunity.Further, we argue that the way we presented these ideas in the interview – simply asking facultyto reflect and elaborate on their views from a non-judgmental position – itself

Conference Session

ERM: Conceptualizations of Engineering and Engineering Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

development described in the previous paper demonstrated the importanceof understanding the culture in which educational decisions are made, for those decisions area reflection of the society in which they are made. Opportunities taken, and opportunities lostare a function of those mores; for some a decision will be an opportunity to be taken, and forothers it will be an opportunity lost.This study confirms the importance of “culture” in educational decision making, be it interms of career choice, institutional status, or curriculum and teaching.Following a brief introduction, essentially a short precis of paper 1, answers to fourteenquestions derived from the philosophy of the Percy Report, and other elements of itsdiscussion are given in the light

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Walker, University of Texas at Dallas; Laura Gelles, University of Texas at Dallas

difficult within the university” (EE, Black, Man). Another felt they had to provestereotypes wrong. She stated: The assumption that I will be less successful due to my gender has greatly affected my intention to persist. I feel that it is my duty to prove stereotypes about women in STEM wrong, and that my success reflects not only my efforts, but the efforts of my support network (MECH, White, Woman).4.4.3 Difficulty as a double-edged sword (pride vs. demoralization)The assumption that ECS majors were difficult was both motivating and demotivating forstudents to persist. Some participants took pride in being a major that was considered difficult.This pride acted an inoculant despite experiencing difficulty. For example, one

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division: Ethics Education Assessment

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Green, LeTourneau University; David Dittenber, Cedarville University

standarddeviations for the responses to most items are in the range from 0.7 - 1.0. Some noteworthyresults are: On average, students: 1) Agree teachers sufficiently clarify cheating in engineering classes. 2) Are neutral as to whether some banned behaviors would actually help their learning (however, 35-40% of students agree or strongly agree with this prompt, which is reflected in numerous free-response comments requesting for increased allowances). 3) Agree most other students are aware of the definition of cheating (although note the calls for clearer definitions in the free-response comments, even though only 6-10% of students disagreed with this statement). 4) Agree teachers sufficiently de-motivate cheating

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hao He, University of Missouri - Columbia; Heather Hunt; Suzanne Burgoyne; Joshua Saboorizadeh

interpretation. In addition to these definitions, Csikszentmihalyi [8] explored a different approach basedon assessing the impact of work on a discipline, daily life, or the entire world or society,dividing creativity (or creative acts, practices, and thinking) into little-c and Big-C types ofcreativity. This classification of creativity was complemented by Kaufman and Beghetto [9]raising the concepts of mini-c and Pro-c. While little-c means a small innovation in daily lifeand Big-C reflects a major one that may significantly revolutionize society or the world,mini-c refers to “novel and personally meaningful interpretation of experiences, actions, andevents,” and Pro-c indicates a relatively impactful contribution to a professional field but

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Session 12: Track 3: Exploring Two Contrasting Narratives of LGBTQ+ Undergraduate Engineering Students at a Hispanic Serving Institution

Collection

2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

J Garcia, Florida International University; Malak Elaouinate, Florida International University; Bailey Bond-Trittipo, Florida International University; Stephen Secules, Florida International University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

undergraduate degree. As shebegan to integrate more fully into campus life and the engineering center, she realized that herhome life, in which she was raised with a single, feminist mother who was the provider in thefamily, contrasted with the patriarchal nature of the atmosphere at the university. This caused herto experience cultural shock and felt pressured as a woman to suppress parts of herself inengineering spaces. Reflecting on this pattern prompted her desire to push for change to improvethe experiences of underrepresented student groups in engineering. She identifies as an ally forLGBTQ+ people, and the lack of emphasis on LGBTQ+ students in the STEM research literaturetroubled her and motivated her to take part in this research.Bailey Bond