Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Technical Session 4: Environmental Issues and the Impacts of Intersectionality

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Diversity

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Environmental Engineering, Women in Engineering

interest for thestructured review; 2) the career status of the participant; 3) a commitment to co-author a structuredreview as part of the workshop; and 4) prior experience with authoring reviews.Workshop organizers:1. DanielB.Oerther,PhD,PE,BCEE,FellowoftheAmericanAcademyofNursing,Professorof environmentalhealthengineering,MissouriUniversityofScienceandTechnology, oertherd@mst.edu2. HeatherRoss,PhD,DNP,RN,FellowoftheAmericanAcademyofNursePractitioners, Professorofnursingandhealthinnovation,ArizonaStateUniversity, Heather.M.Ross@asu.edu3. PascalSaikaly,PhD,Professor,KingAbdullahUniversityofScienceandTechnology, pascal.saikaly@kaust.edu.sa4. MuhammadAli,PhD,Postdoctoralfellow,KingAbdullahUniversityofScienceand Technology,muhammad.ali

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

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Arthur Densmore, California State University, Long Beach; Hen-Geul Yeh, Cal State University, Long Beach

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Diversity

intend that the change we’ve made to our laboratory courses to equip thestudents with function lab equipment to use at their remote locations will maximize theprobability that all students are able to gain suitable practical laboratory experience that isimportant for their career. Vutukuru6 reports that remote electronic laboratory students weremore engaged and eager to learn by building circuits in the comfort of their own homes thanwhen on campus. Vutukuru also reports that laboratory exercises were creatively adapted so thatstudents got a full laboratory experience though remotely. We believe that the adaptability andinnovation that Vutukuru discusses is a key component that can lead to positive studentlaboratory experiences in spite of the

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2021 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Conference

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Michael Shenoda, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale

] Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. “Leaning Out Textbook Costs” Industrial Engineer, August 2015[3] Career Igniter. “How Much Does Civil Engineering School Cost?” 2019. https://www.careerigniter.com/questions/how-much-does-civil-engineering-school-cost/[4] The Economist. “Why textbooks cost so much” August 16, 2014.[5] Stein, S., S. Hart, P. Keaney, and R. White. Student Views on the Cost of and Access to Textbooks: An Investigation at University of Otago (New Zealand). Open Praxis. Vol. 9, Issue 4, Oct.-Dec. 2017. pp. 403-419.[6] Donaldson, R.L. and E. Shen. 2016 Florida Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey. Florida Virtual Campus. 2016.[7] McKenzie, L. “Study: High Textbook Prices Lead to Poor Grades” Inside

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Michele H. Miller; Kari L. Jordan

further develop problem solving and communication skills [19]. Inmechanical engineering programs, a component design course is traditional in the junior year. Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE North Midwest Sectional ConferencePenn State has attempted to improve its relevance by using open-ended design problems tointroduce component design topics [34]. Although the courses may not be dedicated to design,some design content has been added to many engineering science courses in the sophomore andjunior years. The University of Hartford has successfully incorporated design project workthroughout a students’ academic career [35].Hands-On LearningStudents learn by seeing, hearing, acting, reasoning, memorizing and visualizing. A

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Xiang-Fa Wu

relating nanofiberfabrication and characterization such as SEM, which also benefit their future career developmentin the field relevant to nanoscale science and engineering. In addition, these successful designprojects also allow the author to formulate standard design project modules for expanding theseprojects to research border students at NDSU and other universities.4. Concluding remarks This paper has introduced the author’s and his colleagues’ ongoing activities onimplementation of hands-on nanofabrication projects into traditional mechanical design courses.Several successful design projects have been introduced and discussed. Such an effort would begreatly beneficial to undergraduate’s nanoscale science and engineering education and

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Zhiyuan Yang; Hope L. Weiss; Matthew J. Traum

a Dynamometer and Turbine,” M.S. Thesis, University of North Texas, May 2011. 9 T. A. Emran, R. C. Alexander, C. T. Stallings, M. A. DeMay, M. J. Traum, “Method to Accurately Estimate Tesla Turbine Stall Torque for Dynamometer or Generator Load Selection,” ASME Early Career Technical Journal, Vol. 10, pp. 158-164, 2010 [URL: http://districts.asme.org/DistrictF/ECTC/2010ECTC.htm]. 10 V. G. Krishnan, Z. Iqbal, M. M. Maharbiz, “A micro Tesla turbine for power generation from low pressure heads

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

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Reza Fazel-Rezai; Sima Noghanian; Ahmed Rabbi

. Cook, C.J. Foster, S. M. Moon, P.J. Phegley, R. L. Tormoehlen “Attracting Students to STEM Careers, A white paper submitted to the 2007‐ 2013 Purdue University strategic planning steering committee,” [online], available at   http://www.purdue.edu/strategic_plan/whitepapers/STEM.pdf. 2453. G. Rosen, J. Silverman, and A. Chauhan, "Connecting artistically-inclined K-12 students to physics and math through image processing examples," in Digital Signal Processing Workshop and 5th IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop, 2009. DSP/SPE 2009. IEEE 13th, 2009, pp. 419-424.4. G. Rosen, M. Usselman, and D. Llewellyn, "Relating high school

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Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

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Angelique Bonilla; Daniel Charles Jones, California Polytechnic State University; Amanda Krysl; John S Seng, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

InvolvementBecause this work is done at a primarily undergraduate institution, there are many challenges indeveloping a long term robotics project such as this one. It is difficult to maintain continuity in ahardware/software development environment when students are only able to actively contributefor 3-6 months at a time during their college careers. It is a challenging balance to find the rightcombination of student and faculty involvement on a long term project. If students retain mostof the technical knowledge during initial development, then when they graduate, a significantportion of the system knowledge is lost, leaving new students with the tasks of figuring out howthe system was organized. On the other hand, if faculty members are overly involved

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

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Albert Lozano-Nieto, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus

activities themselves can beperceived by the students as being tedious, repetitive and not challenging enough. This can beproblematic for those first-semester students still unsure of their educational paths [3].Moreover, by not providing a complete overview of the EE/EET realm they may contribute tothose students who are not fully committed to the EE/EET program to drop out and instead toenroll in other programs with more engaging activities [4].This paper shares the author’s experiences in combining these basic laboratory experimentsdesigned to instill good instrumentation and laboratory practices with additional experiments thatgives students a broader view of the EE/EET professional careers. These are used to introduce ahigher level of

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

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Ross A. Lee, Villanova University; Giles Wozniak, Villanova University; Alicia Piscitelli, Villanova University; Anitha Devi Kannan, Villanova University; Andrew Jester, Villanova University, Sustainable Engineering Program

of disciplines. Coming from aneuroscience background, it was difficult to bridge the gap between the study of the human nervoussystem and sustainability; at the surface, these seem like strikingly distinguished fields and it waschallenging to figure out how to synchronize both of these academic backgrounds in a way thatwould allow for a successful career as a sustainable engineer. Biomimicry teaches a whole-systemsapproach to problem solving that helps students more efficiently assess critical systems, identifyissues, and outsource solutions from nature and other disciplines to help them develop aninnovative mindset. The whole systems thinking approach from this course helps students breakdown a system to understand how the smaller parts

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Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

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Peter Mark Jansson, Bucknell University

situations and make informed judgments) and Outcome 7 (an ability to acquire and applynew knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies). The seminar is taught in modules thatlast a fortnight and the topics are highlighted in Table 1. Table 1 – ECE Seminar Topics Career Choice Standards Professional Certification Ethics Information Literacy Engineering Economics Finance Electronic Components (supply chain) Self-Marketing

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2021 ASEE North Central Section Conference

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William T. Evans PhD P.E., The University of Toledo

including OPC UA. These are still to be explored and will be part of the expandedlinking of the data in the experimental labs to higher level computers for analysis.Also, recent additions to the texts occurred after discussions with software designers on the valueof UDT generation. All these experiences directly link to the effort to expand the number andkind of lab experiences. Data can be smoothed, analyzed, stored for historical purposes, andotherwise displayed in various formats. Database applications can use the data for purposes ofvarious reports.MotivationFor one who began a career as an engineer in a manufacturing environment before moving to acareer in education, these labs have been a positive motivation to keep the engineer in

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ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

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David G. Novick, University of Texas at El Paso

), knife-baby-angry-cat (players toss these imaginary objectsto one another), “build a machine” (students connect up to form a noisy giant kinetic do-nothingmachine), and “kitty wants a corner” (people standing in a circle try to swap places without lettingthe person in the center in). Interestingly enough, the game “kitty-cat career,” in which one personmimes a cat doing some profession and the other players guess, worked well because there was nointer-player physicality, the mime movements were mostly upper-body, and order did not matterbecause any of the players could guess at any time. (Improvencyclopedia.org and “GroupImprovisation”21 provide instructions for most of these games.)Another physical collaboration warm-up game that worked well

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research - Focus on Engineering Design

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2017 FYEE Conference

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Akhan Almagambetov, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott; John M. Pavlina, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

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FYEE Division - Paper Submission

"UNSATISFACTORY" STUDENT SET UPS FOR PROBLEM 3; BOTH STUDENTS ARE IN THE EDA SECTION OF THE LABORATORY.First Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference August 6 – August 8, 2017, Daytona Beach, FL E1A-5 Session E1A FUTURE WORK future career and attain a greater understanding of the pre- sented concepts, when compared to the

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Chemical Engineering Education

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Steven Perri; M. Barclay Satterfield; Leah Burton

mentoring and providing broader exposure to industry culture and career opportunities; Location: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Agreement: master research agreement (8) allows employees to participate in recruiting and other campus events and to network with local professional Commitment: 6 year (2012-2018), $10 M minimum of sponsored research societies, other area companies, and groups across the Resources: 3 full-time staff scientists, 1 full time admin support university; Facilities: rental space on Centennial Campus - ~ 1600 ft2 with office

Conference Session

Pre K-12 Track - Technical Session VI

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2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

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Suzanne Sontgerath, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Ryan Nicole Meadows, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity, Pre K-12 Education

Jobs," Occupational Outlook Quarterly, vol. Spring, pp. 3-12, 2014. http://www.bls.gov/ooq[4] (2016). Science and Engineering Indicators Digest 2016.[5] A. Ball, H. D. Joyce, and D. Anderson-Butcher, "Exploring 21st Century Skills and Learning Environments for Middle School Youth," International Journal of School Social Work, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 25, 2016.[6] S. Bell, "Project-Based Learning for the 21st Century: Skills for the Future," The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, vol. 83, no. 2, pp. 39-43, 2010/01/29 2010.[7] J. Cohen, M. Renken, and B. Calandra, Urban Middle School Students, Twenty-First Century Skills, and STEM-ICT Careers: Selected Findings from a

Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session V

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2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

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J. Sonnenberg-Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology; Edward J. Coyle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Randal T. Abler, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity, Undergraduate Education

://www.vip.gatech.edu/how-vip- credits-count. [Accessed: 06-Feb-2018].[9] J. Sonnenberg-Klein, R. T. Abler, and E. J. Coyle, “Correlation between Academic Credit- use Policies and Student Persistence in Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) Courses,” presented at the Manuscript submitted for publication, 2018.[10] S. H. Russell, M. P. Hancock, and J. McCullough, “Benefits of Undergraduate Research Experiences,” Science, vol. 316, no. 5824, pp. 548–549, 2007.[11] S. A. Webb, “The Importance of Undergraduate Research,” Science | AAAS, 06-Jul-2007. [Online]. Available: http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2007/07/importance- undergraduate-research. [Accessed: 27-Dec-2017].[12] J. C. Norcross, “Getting involved in research as an undergraduate

Conference Session

Race/Ethnicity Track - Technical Session IV

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2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Sarah Rodriguez, Iowa State University; Mackenzie Sissel, Iowa State University; Ronnia Estes, Iowa State University ; Erin Doran, Iowa State University

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Diversity, Race/Ethnicity

other on campus. Programs may also create partnershipswith community-based organizations in order to encourage engineering-focused activities thatbring together Latino fathers and their daughters (e.g., parent/guardian and daughter roboticscompetitions and design competitions). In particular, this institutional support might take theform of starting or increasing support for First Robotics, Lego League, or Girls Who Codeinitiatives. Embedded within these community programs could be materials geared towardLatino males on the underrepresentation of Latinas in engineering and other STEM fields and therole their support can play in supporting female students in these majors and careers. This study also found that involvement with women’s

Conference Session

Undergraduate Track - Technical Session II

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2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Asha Godbole, Oregon State University; Beverly Miller, University of Virginia; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University; Susannah C. Davis, Oregon State University

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Diversity, Undergraduate Education

and interacting set of studentperceptions arose from the data For example, a commonly expressed theme in the focus groupswas the relative sense of gender parity in our engineering programs, but participants across theboard consistently shared experiences of gendered microaggressions. The findings suggestavenues for future research, as well as provide insights for interventions to improve the climateand experiences of underrepresented students.IntroductionResearch on student choice of and persistence in engineering majors emphasizes the importanceof students’ identification with a major or career in motivating their persistence and success [1-3]. Despite durable myths that students leave engineering primarily due to the difficulty of

Conference Session

LGBTQ+ Track - Technical Session IV

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2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

David J. McLaughlin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Genny Beemyn, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Diversity, LGBTQ+

topics leads to good job prospects and careers; moreover, science shows us that a greater diversityof perspectives in engineering teams leads to better results [6]; it is thus both a moral and practical imperativeto find ways to achieve greater diversity within engineering and technology fields.This paper describes experiences developing a new course at UMass Amherst, called Queer Lights, that aimsto share the excitement and potential of electronics and computing with students who might not otherwiseexperience these topics by pursuing an engineering major. The course has the following description: “QueerLights will cast light on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and asexual (LGBTQA) topics while the studentsin the class literally cast light

Conference Session

Race/Ethnicity Track - Technical Session II

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2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference

Authors

Avneet Hira, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Chanel Beebe, Purdue University, West Lafayette; James Holly Jr., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kayla Renee Maxey, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity, Race/Ethnicity

college. My NSF CAREER project focuses on understanding how broader, more social contextsfor engineering design activities can better appeal to grades 5-9 students’ personal interests. Inthis context, I think about diversity in three distinct ways--the diversity of engineering, thediversity of solutions, and the diversity of people. The diversity of engineering relates to thediverse projects, fields, and domains engineers work on or in. My goal is to highlight to youngstudents that engineers do much more than build bridges, buildings, and cars. The diversity ofsolutions relates to the idea that any problem will have multiple possible solutions and that eachone brings its own unique benefits and tradeoffs. I want students to understand that

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Bridget Benson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Matt Jamison Burnett, State University of New York at Canton

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Diversity

across the United States and Internationally. In addition to painting, he is known for new media environmental installations in the Northeast US, including Mt. Desert Island, Saranac Lake, Portland ME, St. Lawrence University, and Weymouth Nova Scotia. During 2017 he was a visiting fellow at Munich University of Applied Sciences, where he developed and auditioned his latest project, ”Convergence.” In addition to his art career he is a former New York State Assistant Forest Ranger for the Department of Environmental Conservation and is currently a licensed NYS guide in the Adirondacks. Burnett is currently an Associate Professor in the Graphic and Multimedia Design Program at the State University of New York

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Sam Spiegel, Colorado School of Mines; Megan Sanders, Colorado School of Mines

Learning to Engineering Learning 3Articulate (continued) 2. Relevance to Students and Field: What should students already know and be able to do related to this course content before taking the course? How will what students learn in this course help them in their further studies at Mines AND in their career? Why should this course be important to the students? 3. How to Ignite Student Passions: How will this course build on students’ interests and passions? Is it designed for students with specific interests and passions or does it provide opportunities for students to apply and utilize varying passions? 4. What’s the Added Value: What is the added value

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Kyle Frederick Larsen P.E., Eastern Washington University; Nm A Hossain, Eastern Washington University; Hani Serhal Saad, Eastern Washington University; Abolfazl Amin, Utah Valley University; Heechang Bae, Eastern Washington University

entering the MechanicalEngineering (ME) program usually has no prior exposure to the concepts of probability orstatistical analysis, because these were not included in any of the required or prerequisite coursesfor the program. While students might understand the need and the cause of uncertainties anderror propagation, technical writing and statistical analysis tend to be more challenging for them.In particular, they fail to see the usefulness and importance of statistical analysis and are underthe impression that they will never have to be concerned with it in their professional careers. Thecourse topics include both finite and infinite sets of data in addition to Gaussian and Tv,p tables.In order to convey the importance of the topics to

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W. Whalin, Jackson State University; Qing Pang, Jackson State University; La Shon N. Lowe, Jackson State University; Josie H. Latham, Jackson State University, Undergraduate Studies and CyberLearning

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

, MS). He has authored/co-authored over a hundred technical papers and reports during his career in private industry, government and academia. His current research interests are nearshore wave trans- formations, coastal structures, tsunami inundation, hurricane surges, high performance computing, and engineering education.Ms. Qing Pang, Jackson State University Ms Qing Pang is Instructor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Science, Engineering & Technology, Jackson State University. She earned her MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000. She worked for several private companies before joining Jackson State University in 2007 as an

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning and Motivation in BME

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian P. Helmke, University of Virginia

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Biomedical

. Civil Engineering e. Computer Engineering f. Computer Science g. Electrical Engineering h. Engineering Science – Nanomedicine Engineering i. Engineering Science – Materials Science Engineering j. Engineering Science – Other k. Mechanical Engineering l. Systems Engineering8. What career do you hope to eventually have after you've completed your education? (Select one) a. Artistic, creative professions b. Business, finance-related professions c. Education d. Engineering, computer programming e. Goverment, public service f. Law g. Medicine, health-care related professions h. Psychology, helping professions i. Researcher, scientist j. I don't know9

Conference Session

K-12 and Graduate Experiences in BME

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sam Dreyer, University of Illinois at Chicago; Miiri Kotche, University of Illinois at Chicago; Jennifer Olson, University of Illinois at Chicago ; Andria Shyjka, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Diversity

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Biomedical

programaffected their own classrooms and/or career. In addition, this post-implementation survey polledteachers on their self-reported knowledge in trends in bioengineering research, and solicitedfeedback to help identify weaknesses and suggestions for program improvements. Self-reportedinformation in a pre-program survey was used as the baseline metric to evaluate changes inknowledge and perception of preparedness before and after program participation.In addition to the exit surveys, BEST participants also presented their work at the conclusion ofthe program to each other and representatives of of the CPS central office.Teacher participants disseminated their curriculum frameworks, instructional materials, andstudent assessments to science teachers at

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison K. Polasik, The Ohio State University; Alexandria Julius, The Ohio State University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

” course offered through The Ohio State University and taught by Dr. Polasik (~45 hours),four face-to-face sessions at a local career technical school (24 hours) , and classroom mentoring (8 – 10hours depending on teacher need), and Saturday “demonstration” sessions led by materials science masterteachers (~12 hours). Through the camp teachers are immersed in materials science in inquiryexperiences, experiments, and materials science content. Throughout the program explicit curriculumconnections are made so that teachers can connect materials science concepts to the foundational sciencecontent they teach. Teachers are given opportunities to share their classroom practices, supporting oneanother as they discuss what works, how they can tweak

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

been fortunate in our unit to have a highly engaged Industry Advisory Board (IAB)that we have enlisted in support of our RED project work. During our fall 2016 meeting severalIAB members expressed interest in engaging with students in support of the RED project goals.During the meeting we developed the concept of “matching” IAB members (and other interestedalumni) as mentors with student Pods. The matching would be based on mentor and Pod-members’ career directions and experiences, and more generally on their life stories, challenges,and accomplishments.The student designers have continued to interact with each other in what they refer to as a“superpod” (both because it is larger than a typical pod and because it includes representativesfrom

Conference Session

Work-in-Progress Posters: Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John E. Bell, Michigan State University; Timothy J. Hinds, Michigan State University; S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University; Christopher Cugini, Michigan State University; Cui Cheng, Michigan State University; Daniel Joseph Freer, Michigan State University; William Cain, Michigan State University; Hannah Klautke, Michigan State University

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Computers in Education

has over 30 years of combined academic and industrial management experience. He received his BSME and MSME degrees from Michigan Technological University.Dr. S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University S. Patrick Walton received his B.ChE. from Georgia Tech, where he began his biomedical research career in the Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He then attended MIT where he earned his M.S. and Sc.D. while working jointly with researchers at the Shriners Burns Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. While at MIT, he was awarded a Shell Foundation Fellowship and was an NIH biotechnology Predoctoral Trainee. Upon completion of his doctoral studies, he joined the Stanford University Genome Technology