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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - NAE Grand Challenges, Graduate Students, Sustainability, and Makerspaces

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kavitha Chandra, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Trina Kershaw, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Susan Tripathy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Max Denis, University of the District of Columbia; Jorge Allen, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Hong Liu, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Tzuyang Yu, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Charles Thompson, University of Massachusetts Lowell

systems (CPS) andpractices such as product lifecycle management (PLM) that aim to integrate environmentalsustainability, ethical use of data and other societal factors throughout the lifecycle of a systemor product. The goal is to produce insightful educational modules on these topics that can beintegrated into existing undergraduate courses so that students acquire a broad understanding ofpotential research and career pathways in these emerging fields. These applications may alsomotivate students to better assimilate, gain and retain foundational knowledge in fundamentalprinciples taught in core engineering courses. The design of CPS and PLM involves multipledisciplines across the fields of engineering, computer science, business, health

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

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Michelle Ausman; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany-SUNY; Melissa Shuey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Engineering Education,” Jun. 2009, p. 14.1002.1-14.1002.11. [22] C. Kang, H. Jo, S. W. Han, and L. Weis, “Complexifying Asian American student pathways to STEM majors: Differences by ethnic subgroups and college selectivity,” Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, Jun. 2021.[23] L. Lowe, Immigrant acts: on Asian American cultural politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.[24] M. Tuan, Forever foreigners or honorary whites? the Asian ethnic experience today. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1998.[25] J. Tang, “The Career Attainment of Caucasian and Asian Engineers,” The Sociological Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 467–496, Aug. 1993.[26] C. S. Chan, “Issues of Identity Development among Asian-American

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Remote and Flipped Instruction in Mechanics

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Jennifer Holte, University of St. Thomas

instruction–making activelearning even more important in remote instruction.Not every learning objective is best tackled with a full class period of active learning. Using avariety of instructional methods will help the students to succeed in different learning modes [13]and increase their learning flexibility [14] [15] which will benefit them in the classroom and intheir careers. Without denying all the benefits of active learning, students also need to becomecapable listeners, note takers, and questioners if they want to successfully participate in projectproposals, planning sessions, and public meetings as engineers.Whether using passive or active instructional methods, motivation matters. Deci and Ryan [16],Cavanagh [17], and Eccles and Wigfield

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Professional Skills and Community Building in Chemical Engineering Education

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Christopher Chen

the number of and facilitating meaningful student-studentinteractions throughout the course.Fixed Learning Teams. As students were taking the first course in the major, with a subsection ofthe class (the transferring juniors) in their first semester at our institution, we decided to assignlearning teams based on some shared affinity (e.g., sector, career aspirations, or researchinterests) in which students completed all group learning activities in the course, while beingmindful to avoid groups in which only one member of a gender or under-presented minoritywould be present. Since students have not previously taken any courses within the department,and no previous grade data was collected, students were not grouped by any way to balance

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Aerospace Division Technical Session: Student Success

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Kathryn Wingate; Aaron Johnson, University of Michigan; Kayla Brooks, University of Colorado Boulder

different reason not tied to lack of resources: found a major better suited to their interests, decided to pursue another career or life opportunity, did not develop a strong engineering identity, etc.ConclusionsOverall this paper was a data driven approach to understand how SES impacts studentpersistance and performance through the aerospace engineering curriculum at a large R1university. We found that students from low SES backgrounds struggled more in calculus andearly aerospace classes, left the major at a higher rate, and had lower 6-year graduation ratescompared to students from high SES backgrounds. The admissions criteria at this universitysuggests that students come in with a strong math background. Students from low

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Design Experiences in Manufacturing Education

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Faisal Aqlan, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College; Daniell DiFrancesca, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College; Matthew Swinarski, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College; Chetan Nikhare, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College; Mohammad Rasouli, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College; Qi Dunsworth, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College

use. It makes a tremendous contribution to the economy in the form ofincreasing gross domestic product (GDP), exports, creating high-paying jobs, supporting all othersectors, and provides a meaningful return on investment. The integrated nature of manufacturingis evident in its symbiotic relationship with innovation, Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM) education, and national security [1]. Unfortunately, few young Americanschoose a manufacturing career [2]. Meanwhile, the current manufacturing workforce is lesseducated and slower to adapt to new technology compared to other sectors. It is predicted thatbefore 2025, two million manufacturing jobs will be left unfilled due to a widening skills gap [3],which is further

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Two-Year College Potpourri

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Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

undergraduate degree programs. Beginning in the mid-1980s, the field ofengineering education started to respond to numerous reports that there needed to be changesmade to engineering education. An increased emphasis on synthesis and design, open-endedproblem solving, development of management and communications skills, professionaldevelopment, and career-long learning are all included in this call for change. This response wasin reaction to a perceived need to correct a multiple decades long emphasis on engineeringscience that occurred post-World War II tilting the engineering education field away fromengineering practice and the new realities of a global economy that demanded skill sets notemphasized at the time [13]. Several new initiatives drove

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Investigating Student Pathways to and through Undergraduate and Graduate Programs

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Emma Treadway, Trinity University; Kailey Tubbs, Trinity University; Melissa Joan Caserto, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Michelle Lee, Trinity University; Jessica E. S. Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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graduate in May 2025. Her previous research includes studies in astrophysics, chemical and biological engineering, and engineering affect and identity. She wants to pursue a future career in aerospace engineering.Melissa Joan Caserto, University at Buffalo, The State University of New YorkMichelle Lee, Trinity University Michelle Lee is pursuing a B.A. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Computer Science at Trinity University. They are expected to graduate in 2025, after which they would like to pursue a Ph.D. in Mathematics.Dr. Jessica E. S. Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Jessica Swenson is an Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo. She was awarded her doctorate and masters from Tufts

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 11: Projects

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern University; Ian Meyer Kropp

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

programming for itsown sake [6]. However, it must be kept in mind that these are first-year students, not practicingcomputing professionals, so appropriate assignments and accommodations are needed. Forappropriateness, the posed problem should be one that is within the spectrum of a typicalteenager’s life experiences and thus relatable; for accommodating, the assignment should bedelivered in a way that makes problem solving using technical skills acquired in CS1 the primaryfocus. Collectively, these various aspects help to motivate students through the perceivedrelevance of the assignment to career goals and societal needs [7].2. Course SettingProgramming 1, the CS1 course at Ohio Northern University (ONU), is a four-credit hour C++programming course

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 10

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Lauren Singelmann, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Yuezhou Wang, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Darcie Christensen, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

feedback that provides the students with further contextabout how the presentation was received by each of the evaluators.Grading for Growth MindsetMuch of the messaging around professionalism grading focuses on an idea of growth andcontinuous improvement. By framing a ‘3’ as “student engineer”, a ‘4’ as “engineering intern”,and a ‘5’ as “professional engineer”, students recognize that they are able (and expected) to growand improve throughout their educational and professional career. In some cases, expectationsare clear and measurable (e.g. turning things in on time, communicating absences ahead of time).In other cases, professionalism is subjective to the evaluator and context. The IRE 5-Point scalecreates pathways for both of these types of

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

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Denise M Driscoll, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Kristin Everett

, and Interconnectedness—encapsulate decades ofresearch on social cognitive career theory [5], social identity theory [6], self-efficacy theory [7],and need for social connectedness [8]. A fourth concept known to be important for inclusion isCultural-Intelligence (CQ). CQ enables people to work more effectively with culturally diverseothers, a skill critical for developing culturally intelligent, global engineers [9]. Having CQ alsoallows a person to understand the culture in a workplace, and, if inclusive, allows people fromdiverse backgrounds to feel that they fit in with the workplace culture. In addition, OverallInclusion (see Figure 1) was asked on a 1-7 strongly disagree to strongly agree scale, as well, todirectly gauge the more abstract

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2022 ASEE - North Central Section Conference

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Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern University; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University

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Diversity

EM’s integration into the engineering curriculum are that itreinforces technical concepts (especially in design-related topics), helps promote greaterinclusion within the profession, and develops a mindset oriented towards problem-solving,empathy, creativity, and valuing the expertise of others. 10 The KEEN Framework’s“mindset+skillset” approach presents EM as a competency geared towards graduates creatingvalue for their organizations and communities in successful and rewarding engineering careers. 9To succinctly put it, EM is CBE.KEEN’s approach also benefits the development of computing professionals. Researchinvestigating the EM of engineering and computer science students did not report any differencesbetween these two groups.11 The

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2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference

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Diane L Peters P.E., Kettering University

what types ofquestions remain to be answered.One gap that seems to exist in bridge programs is career preparation; while this may not besignificant at some schools, it could be an issue at those colleges and universities that have asignificant emphasis on co-op or internship experiences, particularly if they are integrated into thecurriculum at an early stage of students’ education. Another gap in the literature is in thecomparison of virtual, hybrid, and fully online programs. The growth of virtual programsnecessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic may begin to fill this gap, but long-term data will not beavailable until the programs have been running for several years, and will present the limitationthat any differences in the programs’ results

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ASEE Middle Atlantic 2022 Fall Conference

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Tyler S. Love, Penn State University, Harrisburg

, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 289-302, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-022- 09955-2[11] P. A. Reed and M. K. Ferguson, “Safety training for career and content switchers,” Technology and Engineering Teacher, vol. 80, no. 7, pp. 16-19, 2021.[12] International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, “Safer Engineering and CTE Instruction: A National STEM Education Imperative. State Reports,” [Online]. Available: https://www.iteea.org/SafetyReport.aspx. [Accessed Nov. 4, 2022].[13] T. S. Love, K. R. Roy, and P. Sirinides, “What factors have the greatest impact on safety in Pennsylvania’s T&E courses?,” Technology and Engineering Education Association of Pennsylvania Journal, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 5

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Chrysafis Vogiatzis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Stephanie Marie Teixeira-Poit, North Carolina A&T State University; Tobin N. Walton, North Carolina A&T State University; Grace Gowdy, North Carolina A&T State University ; Bala Ram P.E., North Carolina A&T State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Foundationsince 2019. The program offers seminar-type lectures supplemented with activities designed to helpgraduate students develop critical skills for research-based careers. The program is focused on graduateengineering students but is open to graduate students from all programs. Students also choose mentorsfrom within and outside the university with the goal of increasing their sense of belonging to the field andtheir identities as research engineers. As part of this program, a pilot study is in progress, aimed atperforming a full-scale network analysis of student interactions. A web-based survey was administered tocollect information about students in and outside the College of Engineering who participate in the GRIDprogram sessions. The survey was

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Stephanie Philipp, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Olfa Nasraoui, University of Louisville; Jason Immekus, University of Louisville; Jody Zhong, University of Louisville

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

eight and 20 years ofteaching experience while the other three had three years of experience. This RET is alsomanaged by two women with careers in STEM, one an immigrant from North Africa. Weworked intentionally to create a welcoming research culture with our diverse teacherparticipants. The location of our RET site, a diverse urban metropolitan area surrounded by low-income rural areas, has helped our efforts to involve participants that have had little professionaldevelopment in computer science. In addition, our faculty-led research projects have appealed toteachers’ many different interests and tackle real-world problems that involve societal issues. Weplan to leverage these close connections and interactions with local school districts for

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Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; Zachary Michael Steudel; Joshua Craig Hunter, Baylor University

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Software Engineering Division

course. Zachary Steudel worked as a Software Developer Intern at Amazon in the Summer of 2019, a Software Engineer Intern at Microsoft in the Summer of 2020, and begins his full-time career with Amazon in the summer of 2021 as a software engineer.Mr. Joshua Craig Hunter, Baylor University Joshua Hunter is a Sophomore Computer Science student at Baylor University working as Computer Sci- ence and Calculus tutor. Joshua worked alongside Zachary Steudel to design and create the group project for the Computer Systems course in the Fall of 2020. Joshua is a member of the Theta Tau professional Engineering and Computer Science organization and will be working as a Software Engineering intern at L3 Harris this summer

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Governance, Diplomacy, and International Comparisons in Engineering Education

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Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

faculty who wish to offer a similar course is to gain at leastsome first-hand experience in science diplomacy through programs such as Fulbright orperhaps through extensive international, cross-cultural engagement as an active member(or perhaps officer) of an international scientific society.Reflecting on the three-year experience of this pilot project, recommendations for futurework, include: 1) re-connecting with former students to evaluate if the course contentproved useful in their careers (i.e., was science diplomacy a skill that was utilized byengineers after graduation); 2) assessing changes in student attitudes and beliefs frombefore and after the course (i.e., measurements of affective domain learning, or gains inattitudes before and

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Capitalizing on COVID: Using This Disruptor to Change the Educational Model

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Jes Barron P.E., United States Military Academy; Jakob C. Bruhl, United States Military Academy; Brad C. McCoy, United States Military Academy; Brock E. Barry P.E., United States Military Academy; Rebecca Zifchock, United States Military Academy; Margaret Nowicki, United States Military Academy; James E. Bluman, United States Military Academy; Brad Wambeke P.E., United States Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

P.E., United States Military Academy Dr. Brock E. Barry, P.E. is the Director of the Civil Engineering Division and Professor of Engineering Education in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Dr. Barry holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Rochester Institute of Tech- nology, a Master of Science degree from University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD from Purdue University. Prior to pursuing a career in academics, Dr. Barry spent 10-years as a senior geotechnical engineer and project manager on projects throughout the United States. He is a licensed professional en- gineer in multiple states. Dr. Barry’s areas of research include

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Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

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Stephanie M. Gillespie, University of New Haven

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

andresponsibility for team achievement” [2]. After completing the required course, some studentsagreed that the entrepreneurship content was useful, but others argued it should be voluntary.However, most students found the skills learned from entrepreneurship to be useful for personaldevelopment and general career preparation. As another example, an entrepreneurship clubfailed, with the faculty member hypothesizing that there was not enough momentum from thestudents since those who took entrepreneurship courses were not interested in continuing withthe club [3].1.2 Entrepreneurial MindsetAs an alternative to teaching formal entrepreneurship in a silo, engineering faculty have begun tointroduce the topics and skills related to entrepreneurship in more

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Making in Design Education

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Alexander R. Murphy, Georgia Institute of Technology; Danielle M. Saracino, Georgia Institute of Technology; Beyza Akgun, Georgia Institute of Technology; Katherine Fu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Julie S. Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

questions were chosen to capture studentperceptions of the two prototyping strategies during the design competition and how they feltabout them as strategies for use in future projects throughout their undergraduate careers.3.2 Satisfaction SortingBased on student responses to the questions shown in section 3.1, participants were categorizedby two different methods: “permutation sorting” and “emergent themes”. Permutation sortingconsisted of eight categories capturing whether the participants scored points and whether theywere satisfied with their random condition assignment. The categories are duplicated for eachexperimental condition for a total of eight. These categories are listed in Table 2. The primarysource of data for permutation sorting

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Alexander P. Parobek, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COS); Patrick M. Chaffin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COS); Marcy H. Towns, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COS)

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

career as secondary math and chemistry teacher after graduating from Linfield College with a BA in chemistry and mathematics. She received a Jefferson Award for her engagement in activities surrounding food insecurity in her community. She holds an M.S. and Ph. D. from Purdue University in Chemistry having carried out research in chemistry education (masters) and physical chemistry (doctorate). American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Students’ Transfer of First Law Concepts Across Engineering and Science Discipline-Specific ContextsAbstract The first law of thermodynamics plays a crucial role across engineering and

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Supporting Biomedical Engineering Students in Holistic Development

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Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington; Yuliana Flores, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington

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Diversity

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Biomedical Engineering

to make educational and career choicesbased on opportunities for service to their communities [24]. Finally, although ethics anddiversity are critical components of engineering training and practice, mostundergraduate engineering programs do not address these issues in-depth [25-26].We launched “Science and Engineering for Social Justice” as a 5-credit course selected ina competitive process through the University Honors Program. We chose to offer thecourse through the honors program to reach a diverse audience of students who wereaccustomed to high-level engagement with course material.By offering the course through the honors program was that we wanted the class to becomposed of both STEM and non-STEM students to cultivate a more rich

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Studies of Classroom Assessment: Exam Wrappers, Equitable Grading, Test Anxiety, and Use of Reflection

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David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine; Alexander J. Headley, University of Memphis

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

manual for the use of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ),” The University of Michigan, Tech. Rep., 1991.[30] O. Adesope, N. Hunsu, B. van Wie, B. Austin, R. Richards, and P. Dutta, “Work in progress: Assessing engineering students’ motivation and learning strategies-a psychometric analysis of the motivated strategies for learning questionnaire,” in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2017, pp. 1–6.[31] J. Clark Blickenstaff, “Women and science careers: leaky pipeline or gender filter?” Gender and education, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 369–386, 2005.Appendix - Survey Questions Q1. How would you rate your study habits while learning remotely as

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Capstone Design

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Jamie Gravell, University of Texas at Dallas; Robert Hart P.E., University of Texas at Dallas; Todd W. Polk, University of Texas at Dallas

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Design in Engineering Education

student’s undergraduate career, ABET requires a majordesign experience which uses knowledge and skills learned in previous courses and involvesapplication of engineering standards and handling of multiple constraints. Typically, this isaccomplished in a capstone (senior) design course or course sequence [1].In the two-semester engineering capstone course sequence at the University of Texas at Dallas(UTD), we provide students with the opportunity for “real world” experience [2] throughpartnerships with companies which sponsor projects. During the first semester, students focus onthe project definition and design phases and attend weekly lectures while the second semesterprimarily consists of prototype fabrication and testing. The benefits of

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Engineering Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Patricia R. Backer, San Jose State University; Laura E. Sullivan-Green, San Jose State University; Maria Chierichetti, San Jose State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

not promising for continued instruction online in the upcomingsemesters under the COVID-19 epidemic.References[1] Blaich, C. & Wise, K. (2020, September 14). Comparison of how faculty and staff have experienced their institutions’ responses to COVID-19. Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS). Available: https://www.hedsconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2020.09.14-COVID-19-Survey-Faculty-v-Staff- Memo.pdf[2] The Chronicle of Higher Education (2020, October). ‘On the Verge of Burnout’: Covid-19’s impact on faculty wellbeing and career plans. Available: https://connect.chronicle.com/rs/931-EKA- 218/images/Covid%26FacultyCareerPaths_Fidelity_ResearchBrief_v3%20%281%29.pdf[3] Fox, K

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TELPhE Division Technical Session 2: The Broadening Face of Engineering Education

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Mousumi Roy P.E., University of Connecticut

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Princeton University, led by Associate Professor of Mechanical and AerospaceEngineering Michael McAlpine, used 3D printing technology to make a functional ear from calfcells and electronic materials [26]. Padmasree Warrior has been educated as a ChemicalEngineer with a Masters’ degree from Cornell and joined Motorola in 1984. She worked therefor more than two decades before joining Cisco as Chief Technology and Strategy Officer. Later,she moved from Cisco to build autonomous Electric Vehicle company for a company called NIOInc., [27]. Her career illustrates the nature of modern-age employment as an interdisciplinaryengineering manager. These examples provide a glimpse towards the future of interdisciplinarity. Breaking thesilos of the

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First-Year Programs: Cornucopia

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Abigail E. Heinz, Rowan University; Matthew Strauss; Mary Staehle, Rowan University

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First-Year Programs

assignments, labs,and homeworks.Administering this simple activity could result in a similar effect on first-year engineeringstudents in other disciplines and improve their learning strategies for the remainder of theircollege careers. Importantly, these activities can be adapted in many different ways to fit theexact needs of any classroom.References[1] Cornell, Heather, Wade Kenny, and Kevin Myers. "An Investigation of the organizational communication culture of an introductory chemical engineering class." Proceedings of the North Central Section of the American Society for Engineering Education: Annual Section Meeting. 1999.[2] Swartz, Brian. "Building a Classroom Culture that Paves the Way for Learning." American

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International Division Technical Session 4

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Zheping Xie, Tsinghua University; Xiaofeng Tang, Tsinghua University; Fujun Jin

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Diversity

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International

professor for departments of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua throughthe invitation of the university President Y. C. Mei and the dean of engineering Y.H. Ku (Wei2001). At the 10th International Congress of Mathematicians (Oslo, Norway) in 1936, Wienerpublished a paper about gap theory on behalf of both Tsinghua and MIT. Wiener had two paperspublished in the Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering in 1935 and in 1936 respectively: OnOperational Calaculus and On the Kron Theory of Tensors in Electric Machinery. In his publishedbiography, Wiener cherished the year spent at Tsinghua as a very important time of his academiccareer. “If I were to take my specific boundary point in my career as a journey-man in science

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Making in Design Education

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Amin Malek Mohammadi, California State University; Amir Hajrasouliha, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Joseph P. Cleary, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Jeong H. Woo, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Design in Engineering Education

knowledge and meaning-making that results in career-ready students preparedand committed to apply whole-system thinking to solve local and global problems” (2017, p.xvi).Problem-based learning (PBL) is an alternative to traditional learning environments involvingprimarily lecture delivery (Yildririm, Baur, LaBoube, 2014). PBL features hands on learningwith the goal of longer retention of the desired learning outcomes. PBL activities candemonstrate increased performance compared to a traditional classroom setting. Barlow statesthat soft skills typically not learned through passive learning are developed and honed throughPBL (2011).Spiral learning (SL) adds to the value of PBL by introducing concepts at various points. Veladat& Mohammadi list the