Conference Session

Professional Papers

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2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Lianjun Wu, Mercer University; Arash Afshar, Mercer University; Dorina Marta Mihut; Belle Lin; Melanie L McElroy, Mercer University ; Jordi Riera Shephard, Mercer University; Michael James Norenberg, Mercer University

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Professional Papers

/Design skills o Material testing and characterization o Data analysis and interpretation o Technical documentation o Project management o Other (please specify): _________Part 4: Project Impact and SuggestionsPlease provide detailed responses to the following questions: 16. How has this project influenced your understanding of interdisciplinary engineering work? 17. What aspects of the project would you suggest improving for future students? 18. How has this project impacted your career goals or interests in prosthetic development?Thank you for your participation in this survey. Your feedback will help improve futureinterdisciplinary engineering projects at Mercer University.

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Track 3: Technical Session 6: Uncovering the less-heard histories and barriers of Asian and Asian American Students

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2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Siqing Wei, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Marissa A Tsugawa, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Li Tan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus

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2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

constitute 14% of the U.S. population.Asian Americans also show the highest median household income and highest levelof education of all racial groups, even surpassing native-born White Americans. Forexample, half of Asian American adults ages 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree ormore, compared with 31% of White Americans, 18% of African Americans, and 13%of Latino/a Americans. Their socioeconomic rise is largely due to immigration: Asianimmigrants arrive in the United States with more than average levels of education,job skills, and incomes. Furthermore, the Pew report emphasized that AsianAmericans place more value on hard work, career success, marriage, and parenthoodthan other Americans, and that they are also more satisfied with their lives

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

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 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

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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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

A.E. Schuster; J.A. Sanchez; C.W. Swan; J.L. Durant; D.M. Matson

. 1. Support mechanisms such as the existence of a water board, a partnership with a local NGO, and strong personal relationships with community members can contribute greatly to sustaining a small-scale project. 2. Engagement in hands-on projects in a real-world environment helps students to better understand the engineer's role in society and transition to a successful professional career. 3. Student reflections show how these experiences have enhanced their education beyond the traditional classroom experience.AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank the Tufts University School of Engineering, the Tufts Institute for GlobalLeadership, and the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Robert Dees; Ken S. Gilliam; Michael J. Kwinn

hypothetical traditional multiple choice grades.Finally, we explore options for integrating strictly proper scoring rules into other engineering courses.Introduction The mission of the United States Military Academy is "To educate, train, and inspire the Corps ofCadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty,Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the Nation as anofficer in the United States Army".1 During their four years of education at West Point, cadets learn thevalue of being bold, decisive leaders who are committed to action. What is often not as well learnedhowever is the risk assessment associated with committing to the wrong course of action

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Xiaobin Le P.E.; Ali Moazed; Anthony Duva; Richard Roberts

observations, our own industrial experience and some comments fromstudents, alumni and IPAC, we believed that students developed a better understanding of thedesign process and gained real hands-on design experience when they created virtualcomponents and virtual assemblies for their design projects. We believed that these experiencescan be directly used in the industrial design environment in their future careers.5. References[1] Andrew D. Dimarogonas, “Machine design- A CAD approach,” John Willey & Sons, Inc, 2000[2] David C. Planchard, etc., “Engineering design with SolidWorks 2009,” SDC publication- Schroff Development Corporation, 2009[3] Paul M. Kurowski, “Engineering analysis with COSMOSWorks Professional 2009”, SDC publications

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Ismail I. Orabi

and confidence, and impart life-long benefits. It has aided inpreparing students for advanced degrees. Also, of particular importance is how these 6experiences help to make better engineers and lead to a broad range of successful career paths inacademia and industry.Examples of the projects 1. Air Bearing Tester: The goal of this Capstone Project is to design and build a working air bearing tester for the corporate sponsor, ASML, by the end of the second semester. This air bearing tester is used by ASML to determine the air film stiffness of a hydrostatic air bearing as shown in Figure 1. The tester applies a range of push and pull forces to the bearing and the resulting

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Wilson Tsz-Hon Kowk; Zhineng Li; Rahel Steffen; Brendan O'Brien; M.C. Damas; Vazgen Shekoyan; Paul Marchese; Tak Cheung

algorithm would help to establish a publicly smartphone Community college pre-engineering students sometime accessible, computing network that could assist in exploratoryneed extra counseling on which career path such as studies of all FITS data. ImageJ is considered as simple mass-professional engineers, research engineers, information market software since our experience in teaching ImageJ totechnology engineer, etc. Hands-on experience gained in community college students majoring in liberal arts has beendoing a research project in a laboratory and presenting the very successfully over the years. Other authors have foundresults in conferences would enhance motivation and

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Alessandro DiMarco; France Marquez; Wilson Tsz-Hon Kowk; ShuaiXiang Zhang; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Tak Cheung

single alphabet or mono- nucleotide entropy, L = 2 for double-alphabet or dinucleotide pair entropy, etc. [3]. The results for a real DNA sequence, the I. INTRODUCTION yeast chromosome sequence, showed maximal block entropy Community college pre-engineering students need indicative of a very disordered sequence as compared tocounseling on which career path such as electrical engineering, literary texts or computer codes for the studied L valueschemical engineering, protein engineering

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Jose Javier Montaner Mora; Luis Miguel Mora Gonzalez

remarkable. They provide enriching experiences and skills toexperiences. develop oneself in work and life. They provide new social and “The UMANE program was the qualitative leap to stand technical capacities that represent a significant advancement inout as an engineer. At the beginning it was a challenge, but I one’s formation and training. One outstanding internationalhave learnt to develop the skills needed to achieve my goals. program is UMANE, which connects Europe and the US,This program provided me the capacity to build a new future providing the opportunity to live personal, unique andperspective in my career. I gained relevant skills and

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmed Hasan, University of New Mexico; Alex V Maynes

materials, perform confined space inspections, and conduct specific taskswithin hazardous environments.IntroductionThe mechanical engineering department at UNMintroduced a new course in the spring of 2019 titled“An introduction to modern Mechanical Engineering,ME-150” to increase the retention of engineeringstudents. The objective of this course is to introduceengineering freshman students to the variousEngineering technologies related to mechanical Figure 1. 3Dengineering careers, while describing the science and Printing with 1,2 DOBOT’smath behind them . The class offers non-traditional Robotic Armeducation experience to the students, where morethan 80% of the class

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Randall D. Manteufel, The University of Texas at San Antonio

tutoring systems increase student learning and engagement. AI techniques alsooptimize resources and improve educational institution operations, highlighting the importance ofintegrating AI thoughtfully [11]. Group InterviewsTwenty-two senior-level mechanical engineering students were interviewed in the Fall 2024semester. The interviews were conducted in two groups of eleven students each. About 50% of thestudents were finishing the BSME program that semester and the others anticipated finishing inSpring 2025 or shortly thereafter. All students described how they would be starting theirengineering career after graduation and none intended to pursue graduate studies. The students wereinterviewed in groups since

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Sandipon Chowdhury, West Texas A&M University; Swastika Bithi, West Texas A&M University

everyday life. This approach not only buildsknowledge but also inspires future careers in STEM fields and environmental stewardship.Students gain a comprehensive understanding of wastewater treatment by constructing small-scalesystems that incorporate sedimentation, filtration, and biological treatment. This activityintroduces key processes such as sedimentation, where solids settle due to gravity, reducingturbidity and preparing water for further purification. Filtration follows, using layers of gravel,sand, and activated charcoal to remove finer particles and chemical pollutants, helping studentsmeasure turbidity changes and understand how filtration improves water clarity. Finally, biologicaltreatment utilizes microorganisms to metabolize

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Pedro Cordeiro Povoa Cupertino, Wichita State University; Adam Carlton Lynch, Wichita State University

engineering, and design for sustainability in theircurricula. By involving project-based instruction with hands-on applications that are reflectionsof true DoD issues, students will be better able to prepare for careers in aerospace and defense RQ2: Industry Focus: Which challenges should be the top priority to address?Among these, Security, Dependability, and Sustainability emerged as the most criticalchallenges, being associated with 69% of the budget allocation to CPS and UAV technologies.These three areas not only address critical operational needs but also align directly with all DoDCyber Strategy goals, showing where the defense industry should focus their efforts whenworking in CPS and UAV.The KEEN framework played an essential role in

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Waqar Mohiuddin, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; Jonathan Weaver-Rosen, Texas A&M University; Carlos R. Corleto P.E., Texas A&M University; Joanna Tsenn, Texas A&M University; Shadi Balawi, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

undergraduate education enables students to complete projectsmore effectively and equips them with essential competencies for their future careers. By fosteringthese abilities, engineering programs can better prepare students to navigate the collaborative nature Proceedings of the 2025 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX Copyright © 2025, American Society for Engineering Education 2of professional engineering work. Therefore, integrating teamwork skill development into theengineering curriculum is critical to cultivating the next generation of engineers

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Mostafa Mohammad, Wichita State University; Adam Carlton Lynch, Wichita State University

continuouslearning. This approach prepares them to excel in academic endeavors and equips them with theskills needed to thrive in professional environments.In addition, Lean Six Sigma is a powerful methodology that equips students with the skills to excelin their careers by focusing on continuous improvement and operational excellence. By learningto identify inefficiencies and implement data-driven solutions, students gain a competitive edge intheir professional journeys. Lean Six Sigma’s emphasis on reducing costs and improving qualitydirectly translates to measurable business value, which is highly attractive to employers. Thiscapability not only enables students to contribute effectively to their early roles but alsodemonstrates their potential for

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2025 ASEE North Central Section (NCS) Annual Conference

Authors

Grace Hattery, Ohio Northern University; Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern University; Dax Amburgy, Ohio Northern University

prospective students stand in front of it they will seethemselves as ONU Engineering’s future. All experiences will be controllable for the AssistantDean through the use of Bluetooth and two controllers (one acting as a beacon and the other as areceiver).The team is building these experiences during the spring semester. With these ideas, the teamhopes to bring intrigue and inspiration to prospective students touring the building. This projectwill give them a glimpse into what they can do with their engineering career as well as makethem the center of the storyline. The hope, too, is that this capstone project can be a continuedproject for future senior engineering students to expand upon.Problem DefinitionThe objective of this project is as follows

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

PS. Dhanasekaran

weakening of students' writing and criticaland centers for pedagogical sciences. Commitment to thinking skills. The ethics of learning analytics furtherlifelong learning should be encouraged by recognizing it involves issues like privacy, data management, andas a career development component for engineering consent. A major challenge in deploying AI in educationeducators. Most lifelong learning courses in universities is training educators of higher education and engineeringfocus on pedagogical resources, common computer to keep pace with technological advancements.software, tools for e-learning and blended learning, basic Additionally, concerns persist about AI replacingprogramming and language

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Alex Peebles

obtained from physical systems. emphasized through validating computer simulation results atPrevious authors have described adding experimental projects to specific time points. Student feedback shows that studentsan introductory dynamics course, where students measured believe CAD simulations helps them understand problems,kinematics of physical systems using video data and increases their level of preparedness for their career, and thataccelerometers, and compared the resulting outcomes to they have a medium-high level of confidence for tackingpredictions made based on the theory presented in the course [7]. dynamics-based problems with hand calculations and computerI think

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2025 ASEE North Central Section (NCS) Annual Conference

Authors

Elin Jensen, Lawrence Technological University

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-Framework_Quickstart-Activity-Guide_2023.pdf Accessed 12.27.24[6] https://www.asce.org/communities/institutes-and-technical-groups/sustainability/sustainability-roadmap Accessed 12.27.24[7] https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for-accrediting-engineering-programs-2024- 2025/ Accessed 12.27.24[8] https://www.asce.org/-/media/asce-images-and-files/career-and-growth/educators/documents/civil-engineering- program-criteria-commentary---feb-2024.pdf Accessed 12.27.24[9] Buildings & Infrastructure Priority Actions for Sustainability, Embodied Carbon – Concrete. Reference: 07762000-RP-SUS-0003. (2023) https://www.istructe.org/IStructE/media/Public/Resources/ARUP-Embodied- carbon

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Understanding the Student Experience in Mechanics Courses

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milad Rezvani Rad, University of Southern Indiana; Julian Ly Davis, University of Southern Indiana

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Mechanics Division (MECHS)

Engineering at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, Indiana. He received his PhD in 2007 from Virginia Tech in Engineering Mechanics where he studied the vestibular organs in the inner ear using finite element models and vibration analyses. After graduating, he spent a semester teaching at a local community college and then two years at University of Massachusetts (Amherst) studying the biomechanics of biting in bats and monkeys, also using finite element modeling techniques. In 2010, he started his career teaching in all areas of mechanical engineering at the University of Southern Indiana. He loves teaching all of the basic mechanics courses, and of course his Vibrations and Finite Element Analysis courses

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2025 PNW Section Annual Meeting

Authors

Jihoon Lim

, “Five major shifts in 100 years of engineering education.”,Proc IEEE, vol. 100, pp. 1344-1360, 2012.[2] Meuth, R., Robinette, P., and Wunsch, D., “Introducing Robots”, in Proceedings of the 2009Annual Conference & Exposition, Austin, Texas. 10.18260/1-2—4581[3] Mikhail, M., Alavizadeh, A., “Virtual Robot Labs for Programming Industrial RobotCourse”, in Proceedings of the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, Florida.10.18260/1-2—33537[4] D. Herath and D. St-Onge, Foundations of Robotics: A Multidisciplinary Approach withPython and ROS. Singapore: Springer, 2022.[5] Walker, J. G., Howe, G., Plett, M. (2022, May), “Interdisciplinary engineering capstonecourse sequence designed for career preparation” in Proceedings of the 2022

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2025 PNW Section Annual Meeting

Authors

Yuliana Flores; Jennifer A. Turns

former high school (where my siblings currently attend) to a friend, whoencouraged me to apply despite the deadline having passed. That night, I emailed both theorganization and my high school contact, Mr. B. My first conversation with Mr. B occurred after school. I shared my parent conferenceexperience, my questions, my background in user experience research, and my broader interest inengineering education access. I also shared the proposal I had submitted to DiscoverEngineering. Mr. B was excited, offered feedback on my initial idea, and promised to speak withhis supervisors (the Career and Technical Education lead and principal) for approval. Because this project was not research oriented to begin with, I was really flexible to

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2025 PNW Section Annual Meeting

Authors

Abdelouahab Abrous

their problem-solving abilities, and are betterprepared for careers in both industry and research. This approach not only reinforces theoreticalconcepts but also provides a hands-on learning experience that is critical in developing practicalskills. The effectiveness of this educational model can be evaluated through a combination ofassessments, including conceptual tests, coding projects, debugging tasks, and industry-standardevaluations. To ensure a comprehensive assessment and continuous skill development, variouscomputational tools, learning management systems, auto-graders, and visualization software areemployed. These resources help track progress and provide immediate feedback to students. Inthe end, this blended learning methodology

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2025 PNW Section Annual Meeting

Authors

Matthew S. Barner

. While not all CE students will pursue structuralengineering, lack of exposure to structural design courses disadvantages them on the FE.Interestingly, two programs introduce steel and reinforced concrete design topics in a singlerequired structural design course. This could be an option for other programs wanting to preparetheir non-structural CE students for the structural questions on the FE civil exam.Introduction Passing the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exams is one of the first steps towardsprofessional engineering licensure. Civil engineering majors are the most likely to take the FEexam due to many civil engineering careers requiring or expecting the ability to becomeprofessionally licensed [1]. The current version of the FE

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Knight, University of Colorado Boulder; Angela R Bielefeldt P.E., University of Colorado Boulder; Joseph Polman; Michael Hannigan

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

college enrollment. Educational Researcher, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 595–606, DOI: 10.3102/0013189X2110275286. Matusovich, H. M., Carrico, C. A., Paretti, M. C., & Boynton, M. A. (2017). Engineering as a career choice in rural Appalachia: Sparking and sustaining interest, International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 33, no. 1B, pp. 463-475.7. Shamah, D., & MacTavish, K.A. (2009). Rural research brief: Making room for place-based knowledge in rural classrooms. The Rural Educator, 30 (2), 1-4.8. Bartholomaeus, P. (2006). Some rural examples of place-based education. International Education Journal, 7 (4), 480-489.9. Bielefeldt, A.R., & Rulifson, G. (2018). Environmental considerations in engineering: students’ goals

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2025 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Mridusmita Saikia; Stephanie Fuchs

learning that is now gaining popularity amongengineering institutions [5]. During studio sessions, students work in teams to performcollaborative tasks with the aim of creating a solution for an engineering problem. The problemsare intentionally designed and inspired from real-world topics they will encounter in their futureprofessional careers [6-8].Quantifying student learning in response to the studio-based instruction can be challenging. Toaddress this, we focused our analysis on a specific case: student-developed solutions for thetreatment of type 1 diabetes (T1D), a biomedical problem discussed in both courses.Data collected from students’ final design submissions were used to address the followingquestion, that covered specific questions

Conference Session

DSAI Technical Session 5: Educational Technology and Innovative Tools

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Handan Liu, Northeastern University

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Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) Constituent Committee

five years, it isshown that the students have a very high evaluation of my teaching, which can be confirmed bythe following TRACE data analysis: Semesters TRACE Teaching Effectiveness 2020-Spring 4.6 2020-Summer 5.0 2020-Fall 3.8 2021-Spring 4.9 2021-Fall 5.0 2022-Spring 4.9 2022-Fall 4.5 2023-Fall 4.8 2024-Spring 4.8 2024-Fall 4.6Furthermore, graduates have reported success in applying the skills learned to: • Research career paths in academia: for graduate students, this can make them stand out when

Conference Session

Emerging Technologies and AI Integration in ECE Education

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ismail Uysal, University of South Florida; Rifatul Islam, University of South Florida; Paul E Spector, University of South Florida

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

, N. S., & Nielsen, M. S. (2023). Targeting predictors in random forest regression. International Journal of Forecasting, 39(2), 841-868. Edwards, J. R., & Bagozzi, R. P. (2000). On the nature and direction of relationships between constructs and measures. Psychological Methods, 5(2), 155-174. Flynn, D. (2014). Baccalaureate attainment of college students at 4-year institutions as a function of student engagement behaviors: Social and academic student engagement behaviors matter. Research in Higher Education, 55(5), 467-493. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162- 013-9321-8 Hu, S., & Wolniak, G. C. (2013). College student engagement and early career earnings: Differences by gender, race