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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ramazan Asmatulu; Heath E. Misak; Bailey Cooper; Waseem Khan

to teach students about nano-technology processes; magnetic nano-particles (1), functionalization (Ferro-Fluid) (2), nano-composite (3), electrospinning (4), spincoating (5), AFM lithography (6), drug delivery (7), nano-porous film (8), electroplating (9) andsolar cells (10). Students were surveyed and found this lab to be informative, enjoyable and usefulfor their future careers. It is expected that as technology increases the more industry will utilizenano-technology. Wichita State University is striving to prepare students for a high-tech educationby providing cutting edge labs to teach theory and hands on applications. Providing this level oflearning, students will have the knowledge to thrive in a high-tech industry.References:1

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Dan Allison; Colin Davidson; Martha Shawver; Shelly Belles; Chris Wilkinson

academicadministration for over sixteen years. Her research interests include engineering education,broadening the participation in higher education and transformation of institutions of highereducation.Dan Allison is currently the Director of Airbus Single Aisle Product Development for SpiritAeroSystems. He is responsible for technology research and development specifically targeted tonew programs and products. He joined the company in 2006 after a 28 year career with Boeing.During which time he held many positions including Site executive, General Manager andDirector of Quality and Engineering manager at various Boeing facilities. Mr. Allison holds aBachelor and Masters Degree, both in Mechanical Engineering, from Wichita State Universitywhere he was on the

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Kevin R. Lewelling; Kevin S. Woolverton; Michael C. Reynolds

students to select careers inengineering and improve retention rates by making course work applicable and highly visible.We will be tracking these rates over the next few years to confirm these assumptions.References1 Hissey, T. W., Enhanced Skills for Engineers, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 88, No. 8, pp.1367-1370, August 2000.2 Ford, R.M. Goodrich, J.G. Weissbach, R.S., A multidisciplinary business and engineeringcourse in product development and entrepreneurship, Frontiers in Education 34th AnnualConference, Vol. 1, pp. T2E/5 - T2E10, October 2004.3 Sullivan, J.F.; Knight, D.W.; Carlson, L.E., Team Building in Lower Division Projects Courses,Frontiers in Education 32nd Annual Conference, Vol. 1, pp. T1A-7- T1A-12, November 2002.4 Felder, R.M

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Shannon G. Davis; Bryan W. Hill; Carol S. Gattis; Bradley M. Dearing; Edgar C. Clausen

middle school students, or even earlier, to increase the number of students enteringengineering disciplines.1 Most students in the middle level grades (6th, 7th, and 8th) are unawareof engineering and do not recognize engineering as a rewarding career option. To moreeffectively prepare students in the pursuit of engineering and science degrees, students should beencouraged to develop the critical thinking skills necessary for solving problems in the realworld.It is universally accepted that all student benefit from hands-on learning activities in theclassroom. Studies show that hands-on activities are especially important for English languagelearners (ELLs), and are therefore an important way to tap this increasingly large and diversepool of

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Larry A. Glasgow

,” Wall StreetJournal, October 6 (2005).2. Finkelstein, N. D. “Context in the Context of Physics and Learning,” nfinkels@ucsd.edu (2001).3. Wankat, P. and F. Oreovicz. “Gaming the Curriculum,” ASEE Prism, 15:48 (2005).4. Glasgow, L. A. “Reconnecting Chemical Engineering Students with the Physical World,” presented at theAnnual AIChE Meeting, San Francisco (2006).5. Grose, T. K. “The Mechanics of a Career,” ASEE Prism, 14:25 (2005).6. Mc Dermott, L. C. and P. S. Shaffer. “Research as a Guide for Curriculum Development: An Example fromIntroductory Electricity, Part 1,” American Journal of Physics, 60:994 (1992).7. Slater, T., Adams, J., and T. Brown. “College Student Success in Completing a Simple Circuit,” submitted toJournal of College Science

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Douglas R. Carroll; Hong Sheng

Conference of the American Society forEngineering Education" 8[4] Siau, K., Sheng, H., and Nah, F. (2006) “Use of a classroom response system to enhance classroom interactivity”, IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 398-403Biographical InformationDr. Douglas R. Carroll, PE is a Professor in the Interdisciplinary Engineering Department at theUniversity of Missouri-Rolla. He is best known for his work with solar powered race cars, winning twonational championships and publishing a book on solar car design. He has received many teaching awardsin his career. His research interests are composite materials, solar-electric

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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J. Collins

. ERICClearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education. Office of Educational Research andImprovement, Washington, D.C. Retrieved from http://www.ericacve.org/fulltext.asp5 Cronin, B. (2003). Bowling alone together: academic writing as distributed cognition. Journal of theAmerican Society for Information Science and Technology, 55 (6), 557-560.6 Spector, J.M. (1999). Teachers as designers of collaborative distance learning. Society for InformationTechnology and Teacher Education International Conference, San Antonio Texas. ED 432 259.

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Ahmed M El-Sherbeeny, West Virginia University; Robin Hensel, West Virginia University; Andrea E. Ware, West Virginia University; James E. Smith, West Virginia University

engineeringdisciplines and careers, as well as an opportunity for the development of study skills and timemanagement practices. The other two freshman engineering courses form a two-course sequencewith a problem-solving emphasis. Both courses use individual assignments and team projects toteach fundamental engineering topics, basic professional skills, and ethics, and the use of avariety of computer tools. The second semester engineering course is the result of a recentredesign of a traditional programming course to a hands-on, problem-centered and project basedtechnical problem-solving course which uses software as a problem-solving tool. The newcourse, taught for the first time in Spring 2006, is the result of identifying desired learningoutcomes, examining

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Tony Kerzmann; Gavin Buxton; Maria V. Kalevitch

, chemistry, biology and environmental science. RMU's focuson communication and business skills gives graduates an advantage in the job market. Allof our students enjoy small class sizes and personal attention that make RMU a specialplace to learn.It is this interdisciplinary background and strong vocational emphasis, along withPittsburgh's status as a future energy capital that makes RMU the ideal environment fortraining our future workforce for careers in the alternative energy sectors, and providinglocal employees with science and business graduates with a strong background inenvironmental issues and sustainability.On a recent visit to Pittsburgh, President Obama outlined the importance of energy [1]:“The time has come, once and for all, for this

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Hossein Rahemi; Shouling He

department in new course offering and program modification. Their valuablerecommendations and comments will continuously make our program delivery stronger and morecompetitive with the growing demand of today’s technology. Furthermore, the close partnership withthese industrial companies, such as NASA, Sikorsky, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Lockheed Martin,RCM-Tech, Rockwell Collins, Pavon Manufacturing Group, FAA, CDI-Aerospace, U.S. Didactic, Con-Edison, and MTA, allowed our students to explore an internship opportunity with top engineeringenterprises. These internship programs provided our students with the needed career-building and hands-on experiences and a mind-set to adapt the fast changes and challenges in technologies

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Timothy B. Whitmoyer; David T. Vader; Joel Z. Bandstra; William H.J. Strosnider

outcomes that we have defined for graduates of the Engineering Program. Theoutcome to “work toward integration of Christian faith, learning, professional life” is difficult tosatisfy through classroom instruction. The Modified Rower Pump project places its teammembers at the intersection of extreme human need, academic performance, and engineeringpractice. Our students have responded in the short term with quality designs and some havecommitted their professional careers to address similar human needs. Three of the project’salumni have chosen to work in Burkina Faso to promote the economic development of theMahadaga community. Such responses represent the highest level of learning in Bloom’staxonomy15: evaluation and commitment.Based on these

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Peggy Leonowich-Graham; Katie Blue; Steven Condly

Encouragement May Be the Missing Link in the Pursuit of CS / IT Majors Dr. Peggy Leonowich-Graham and MAJ Katie Blue Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996 Dr. Steven Condly Institutional Research and Analysis Branch United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996AbstractFew students in general, and fewer female students in particular, choose anundergraduate major in IT/CS. Efforts at ameliorating the situation must be rootedin an understanding of those factors which have a demonstrated influence onmajor/career choice and decision making. In an

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Gary P. Halada

-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova UniversityFall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova UniversityIntroduction:The inclusion of ethical, legal societal and other ‘broader’ issues in undergraduate engineeringdegree programs has been noted to be critical in preparing students for successful careers, notjust as engineers but also as productive and valuable members of society.1 In recent years, theemphasis for the need for engineers to develop more than just “hard engineering” skills hasgrown, especially in response to reports and studies showing the need for engineering educationto respond to trends in globalization of the engineering enterprise, professional mobility,increasing importance of

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Jaime D. Alava; Keith M. Gardiner

their professional career. The fundamentals and theory of project Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova Universitymanagement is discussed in class, which can be applied in the lab sessions and in future projectwork. Some lecture sessions are reserved to explain the limitless opportunities available forengineers at Lehigh University. Programs such as Integrated Product Development (IPD),supporting entrepreneurship, and working with Fortune 500 companies in the Co-Op program,are only some things that make a Lehigh engineering education unique. Many lectures focus onthe programs of the engineering departments. Representatives from the seven departmentsprovide information on topics such as curriculum, salary

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Frank T. Fisher; Hong Man

engineering practice will providestudents: • a window into the practice of engineering; • an understanding of the complexity of engineering problems encountered in practice; • the framework to envision how their education will relate to their future engineering careers; and • an opportunity to realize earlier in their the studies the benefits associated with students participating in activities such as internships and co-ops.17A program to develop multimedia-based learning environments to expose undergraduate studentsto “real engineering” could take a number of forms as shown in!Table 1. In the current work wewill focus on our efforts to develop such multimedia learning modules based on nanotechnologyresearch being

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Bhavna Sharma; Birdy Reynolds

volunteer for extra professionaldevelopment opportunities,21B. Reynolds, M.M. Mehalik, M.R. Lovell and C.D. Schunn. (2009). Increasing Student Awareness of and Interest inEngineering as a Career Option through Design-Based Learning. International Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 1-11.2 L. Desimone, A. C. Porter, B. F. Birman, M. S. Garet, and K. S. Yoon, The Newsletter of theComprehensive Center Region VI, 8, 2005, p. 3.and equality of access issues can arise, unless selection for admission into such programs explicitlyaddresses equity issues. A variation of the professional development approach that we explore in thispaper is the NSF's Research Experience forTeachers (RET) program, in which teachers are paid toparticipate in engineering

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Daniel Schmalzel

course to teach writing and a public speaking course to complement the secondclinic. All teams in a specific Clinic will be given the same well defined problem statement that isthe subject of the entire semester. The individual student’s grade will be based on theirperformance in both team and individual presentations or writings. At the end of this yearstudents should understand that an engineer maybe called to act as project interpreter andadvocate. So their ability to accurately convey knowledge with many different audiences may bedirectly correlated to their later career success. It is also at this stage that students work in theirfirst inter-disciplinary team, a hallmark of the Rowan Clinic Experience.Junior and Senior Engineering Clinics

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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William E. Kelly

as it should.2 One of the keys,according to the NAE authors is life-long learning – one of the current ABET outcomes and onethat has been particularly difficult to assess and evaluate. The NAE authors state that “...to beindividually/personally successful, the engineer of 2020 will learn continuously throughout his orher career, not just about engineering but also about history, politics, business, and so forth.”3Assessment is increasingly focusing on student learning including the ability of students to assesstheir own learning. Ultimately, a professional must have the ability to assess where there are gapsin their knowledge and skills and develop, implement, and assess appropriate learning strategies.An overall goal of accreditation is to

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Adriana Popescu

at thechallenges awaiting the current and future engineers1. In her address, Jamieson said: "We have to askourselves, will graduates have the attributes and skills that they need for careers over the next 40 years?"What makes this question even more thought provoking for engineering educators is the fact thataccording to some academic estimates, the half-life of engineering knowledge is between two to sevenyears, which means that by the time one graduates, half of what it was learned in the first years may ormay not be relevant. One other factor educators need to take into consideration when designing theirprograms is the fact that new technologies requiring multidisciplinary skills are an integral part of theprofessional practice, and they

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Chang-Hee Won

are vitally important in today’s business world. Soft skills, including oral, written, and interpersonal communications, are often the most important skills that a person must possess in order to advance one’s career. Working in large groups as a part of the undergraduate curriculum provides students with a chance to hone their people skills, which generally occurs only in an industrial cooperative education setting. • Students learned how to make informed group decisions and to deal with the ramifications of their decisions. Since each student was responsible for a major portion of a subsystem, she or he also learned how to depend on others to complete the mission. If only one

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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James McDonald; Mary A. Burke

, Joseph M. and Townsend, Barbara K., Evaluating State Level Articulation Agreements According to Good Practice, Community College Review, Volume 28 Number 3, pp 1-21. 3. Reese, Susan, Articulation Agreements Ease the Way, Techniques (Association for Career and Technical Education) Volume 77 Number 3, March 2002 pp 37-38. 4. Roach, Ronald, A Passport to a Four-Tear Degree, Black Issues in Higher Education, August 28, 2003 pp 28-31. 5. Taulbee Survey 2004-2006, Computing Research News, Computing Research Association, May 2006. 6. Kalwarski, Tara, et al, Best Jobs in America, Money Magazine, May 2006. 7. Zinser, Richard W. and Hansen, Carl E., Improving Access to the Baccalaureate, Community College

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Bert Davy; Indranil Goswami; Jiang Li; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein; Charles Oluokun; Arcadio Sincero

economically disadvantaged. These groups, which the economy mustincreasingly rely, have been historically underrepresented in science, engineering and relatedfields.According to Nikias the Dean of the Viterbi School Engineering at University of SouthernCalifornia, we have forgotten why these students wanted to become engineers in the first place.Engineering is enormously creative. If science is all about understanding nature, thenengineering is about applying that understanding to create new technologies that profoundlyaffect our lives. But the traditional approach to engineering education–a heavy dose of rigorousmath and science during freshman and sophomore years–does not engage students’ vision of anengineering career. Freshmen students are

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Farouq Alhourani

training for their career choices inmanufacturing/robotics Class Assessments are conducted, where Exams, Quizzes, HW, ClassProject were given to students and the student learning has been improved.Informal questionnaires were distributed to find out what students think regardingthe use of MiniCIM 3.2 as a teaching tool. All students agreed that by having acomplete integrated CIM/FMS, it helps them to understand both concepts and thetechnology of CIM/FMS discussed in class.References:[1] Rehg, J. A., & Kraebber, H. W, “Computer-integrated manufacturing”.Pearson Education. 2005.[2] Groover, D. R., “Managing the behavior/systems interface: anotherperspective on the effectiveness of behaviour-based safety”. Professional Safety v.46 no. 3

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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R. Radharamanan; Ha Van Vo

design7, 8.The objectives of manufacturing engineering education, possible ways of introducing the subject into anundergraduate curriculum, and the urgency for improving it in the educational system that supply industrywith engineers have been discussed9, 10. Robotics in engineering education111, 12 and experiments in partacquisition using robot vision13 have also been presented and discussed. 1At Mercer University School of Engineering (MUSE), the biomedical, mechanical, and industrialengineering students are prepared for careers in manufacturing and service organizations. The students aretrained from freshman through senior year in design

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Linda Ann Riley; Charles Thomas

. For example, this year we have worked directlywith the calculus class at Mount Hope high school exploring the JETS TEAMS competitions. JETS(Junior Engineering Technical Society) is a non-profit organization that promotes careers in engineeringand technology to high school students.3 The TEAMS competition offers students the opportunity toapply mathematics, science and engineering knowledge to a number of interrelated scenarios. It is a fullday morning and afternoon challenge hosted by a number of Universities and Colleges across the country.Students spend approximately in preparation for the competition. This year’s competition focuses on theBeijing Summer Olympics and includes eight scenarios. Each scenario addresses a different area

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Rashmi Jain; Keith Sheppard; Elisabeth McGrath; Bernard Gallois

experiences and curriculum components in middle and high schools is seen as ameans to engage students and excite them about the opportunities for an engineering career. Given thatsystems thinking and perspective are now seen as playing an important role in educating engineers for thefuture, it follows that coupling these concepts to the engineering elements of the pre-college program hasmerit. Stevens, through its Center for Innovation in Engineering & Science Education (CIESE), has beenvery active in promoting the introduction of engineering into K-12 curricula in the State of New Jersey aspart of a broader approach to increasing the STEM pipeline. As part of this pre-engineering effort CIESE,with funding from a New Jersey Foundation and

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Tools for Planning and Evaluation of Design Projects

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Saeedeh Ziaeefard, The Ohio State University

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

relying solely on rubrics, educators should empower students to align theirwork with these objectives, fostering a more intrinsic comprehension of what constitutes qualityperformance.In essence, the key lies in fostering a culture of continuous improvement, feedback, and self-reflection throughout the academic journey. By incorporating these strategies into thecurriculum, students can develop the skills required to evaluate their own performanceeffectively, even in the absence of rigid rubrics. This perspective aligns with the dynamic natureof the professional engineering landscape and provides a solid foundation for students to thrivein their future careers. This ongoing initiative introduced an empowering rubric to 120 seniordesign capstone

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WIP: Student Success and Sustainability

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alison Leigh Banka, University of Georgia

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

successful in the course. The constraints of the class itself need to be carefullyconsidered. Specifically, there were CMs that were difficult for students to complete within a 50-minute quiz.SBG has the potential to place each individual metric (or skill) into its own individual silowithout giving students the opportunities to synthesize material from different areas of the class.Considering both the time constraints for quizzes and the potential of ‘siloing’ metrics, it may bebeneficial to develop metrics that can be completed outside of the class, potentially in the formof a project. This project could serve to integrate concepts from multiple areas of the class sostudents are not learning specific skills in a vacuum. Finally, as early-career

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Campbell R. Bego, University of Louisville; Tessa Withorn, University of Louisville; Judith Danovitch, University of Louisville; Angela Thompson P.E., University of Louisville; Elisabeth Thomas, University of Louisville; Gabriel Ethan Gatsos, University of Louisville; Alvin Tran, University of Louisville

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

contribute to cognitive offloading [12], which may create gaps inlearning essential engineering knowledge. Students need to be able to understand how and whento use GenAI tools such as ChatGPT effectively and ethically in different contexts, such as forhomework, assessments, and in their work as professional engineers.Recent studies reveal varying levels of awareness and use of GenAI tools among students [13],[14], but in many cases, an overall positive attitude toward GenAI [15], [16], [17]. Despiteconcerns about accuracy, plagiarism, and its impact on their future careers [16], studentsgenerally welcome opportunities to use GenAI intentionally in their coursework to prepare themfor the profession [18]. This trend is similar among professional

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cassie Wallwey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Michelle Soledad, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Tyler Milburn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

.,[26], [27]) or even the fear, stress, or anxiety of upcoming graded events (e.g., [6], [28]). Forthese reasons, we do assert that most engineering students believe to some degree that there is acost to good grades.Next Steps / Future WorkOur research team is in the process of designing a research study that uses the expectancy-value-cost model of motivation to answer our guiding question: What role do grades play inengineering students’ day-to-day decisions related to how and when they engage with coursecontent? We hope to begin our exploration of by looking into the experiences of students whoare in the first two years of their academic careers in engineering, as it is during this stage in thecurriculum where students are required to take