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Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica E. S. Swenson, University of Michigan; Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

join a small committee of teachersworking to redesign the science curriculum resources for the city.Data Collection and AnalysisTo track the evolution of Vanessa and Dani’s choices for teaching engineering, we invited bothto be interviewed periodically as they implemented engineering units, which ranged in lengthfrom one class session to several months. The first author conducted three interviews withVanessa and five with Dani, using the same protocol each time. Each interview began with theteacher describing her most recent units, often with pictures of student work and binders oflesson plans. The second part of each interview asked teachers to explain their instructional andpedagogical choices, reflect on why they persisted in teaching

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Course Structuring for Effective Student Engagement

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel W. Baker Ph.D., P.E., Colorado State University

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Civil Engineering

Colorado State University. Topics will include: the learningcurve and use of Geogebra, how assignments built around interactives encourage student use,and future plans for the use of Geogebra in Statics and Dynamics.Educational Basis of StudyThe use of active learning (across its various forms) has been broadly found to enhance studentlearning [1], however care must be taken to create active learning tools which are well-structuredand delivered. As one example of active learning, the use of physical and virtual interactives (orthe combination thereof) for both in-class teaching and outside of class learning has often beenshown to enhance student learning [2]. Similar to all other learning materials, the way in whichinteractives are used can be as

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 3

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM) and Universidad Andres Bello (UNAB); Itzel Hernandez-Armenta, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Jorge Eugenio de la Garza Becerra, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM)

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics and Physics

opportunities and exploit them, thus, students learn to read and understand and better build their understanding.  What a textbook actually is. Textbooks are often used as an outline for course planning. Most textbooks are built as repositories of information on a concept or knowledge area and tend to be ordered in a certain way, sometimes by time of discovery, and other times in order of ‘difficulty’. This order may not have authentic or significant for developing cognitive interconnections. Also, books often promote remembering how to do specific problems which we have identified as a problem itself.Inconsistencies regarding velocityIn this article, misconceptions and incongruencies around the concept of

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Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathaniel Raymond Nunez, University of Detroit Mercy; E. Prasad Venugopal, University of Detroit Mercy

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics and Physics

paper we have described the results of an experiment involving the forensic application ofNewton’s law of cooling as an example of biologically-relevant physics concepts suitable for anundergraduate laboratory. The undergraduate research student was tasked with reproducing theresults presented in a peer-reviewed article from the pages of The Physics Teacher. Havingsuccessfully completed this exercise, the student was then required to design and implement theexperiment to test a new hypothesis. The final step of the research plan was aimed at training thestudent in writing skills by requiring him to create an undergraduate laboratory manual for theexperiments.The benefits of this research model include the relevancy and appropriateness of

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COED: EE Topics

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheng Chih Liu, University of Wisconsin-Stout

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Computers in Education

student expressed “The projectswe receive are always fun and interesting that really tests what we learned in class; a veryenjoyable class; a decent teaching plan throughout the semester”. One student expressed “classwent at a good speed and gave enough time for projects to allow them to be completelyunderstood before moving on”. One student commented “discussing problems outside of classtime can be extremely helpful”.For question 8 in the fall 2017 survey, one student expressed “sometimes I didn't understandfully what some of the code did and labs were not interesting”, which we interpreted it as arequest for providing more detailed descriptions on what the code does in our lab exercises; onestudent expressed “one problem was that most coding

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Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Bouazzaoui, Old Dominion University; Charles B. Daniels, Old Dominion University

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Engineering and Public Policy

done in quantitative investigations, theoreticalsampling cannot be planned before embarking on a grounded theory study. The specific samplingdecisions evolve during the research process itself” [12]. The theoretical sampling processcontinued until the point of theoretical saturation, which means that the researcher stoppedinterviewing engineers when no new relevant data emerges and the relationship between thedifferent categories is established [16]. A total of 13 semi-structured interviews; open-ended questions; were conducted. Theduration of each interview ranged from 30 to 45 minutes. Following is a list of questions askedwithin the interview: • What avenues does an Engineer have, to get more involved in public policy issues

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System 1 in Engineering Education and Research

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Scheidt, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Ryan R. Senkpeil, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Julianna Sun Ge, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); John Chen P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; James M. Widmann, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

dimensions ofengineering-student success—the non-cognitive and affective factors that potentially influencetheir performance. This understanding could begin to answer the call for ways, beyond GPA andSAT/ACT test scores, to predict performance and suggest interventions to promote success.During the 2017-2018 school year, we are conducting the full SUCCESS survey. We surveyedstudents from the partnering institutions, two of which were included in this pilot data. At theseschools, we plan to link survey response data with registrar data as well as Dean of Studentsrecords to have a more complete picture of our student populations for future modeling work.Additionally, we plan to launch an international survey across many universities in the U.S. aswell

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A Technology Potpourri II

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Barbara Christe, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis; Joe Tabas, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis

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Engineering Technology

controlfrom unauthorized sources. Academic programs can deliver coursework focused on thisknowledge through a certificate. Seeking certificate approval can require clear communicationand collaboration among academic colleagues who may confuse the boundaries between medicaldevices and hospital networks.References[1] American National Standard ANSI/AAMI EQ89:2015[2] A Wirth, “The Importance of Cybersecurity Training for HTM Professionals,” BiomedicalInstrumentation and Technology, vol. 50(5), pp. 382, September/October, 2016.[3] United States Department of Labor Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity Task Force Report onImproving Cybersecurity in the Healthcare Industry, June, 2017. Available fromhttps://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/CyberTF/Documents

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Works in Progress I

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Bahnson, North Carolina State University; Heather Lee Perkins, North Carolina State University; Marissa A. Tsugawa-Nieves, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno; Cheryl Cass, North Carolina State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

thepopulation for inclusion in the survey. Approximately 260 programs were selected into the firstsample. Due to low response from programs in the first sample, this procedure was repeated toselect two additional sets of programs. The sample plan ensures the sample is representative ofthe population in terms of location, size, and program. We expect to collect at least 2500 studentresponses by early 2018.Contact information for each program on the sample program list was gathered for the programchair, graduate coordinator, and other pertinent staff from program and/or university websites.Each program was emailed an initial invitation to participate. The invitation included generalinformation about the research project and a request for the recipient to

Conference Session

Works in Progress I

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ivan Detchev, University of Calgary; Elena V. Rangelova, University of Calgary; Scott C. Packer, University of Calgary ; Quazi K. Hassan, University of Calgary; Kyle O'Keefe P.Eng., University of Calgary

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Educational Research and Methods

, electrical, and mechanical engineering [7]. Srivastva [8]identified ‘map scale’, ‘datums’, and ‘data models’ as threshold concepts within the spatialsciences (i.e., geographic information systems, surveying, and remote sensing), where the subjectarea is similar to geomatics engineering.The rest of the paper proposes methods to be used in exposing threshold concepts in a fewgeomatics engineering courses. Some preliminary results are then shown. As this is a work-in-progress, recommendations are suggested for future development of the project at the end of thepaper.Proposed methodsIn terms of methodology for identifying threshold concepts in geomatics engineering, the authorsplanned/are planning a number of activities:  In-class observations (where a

Conference Session

Works in Progress I

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicole Johnson-Glauch; Dong San Choi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #21569WIP: How Do Visual Representations Affect How Engineering Students Learnand Solve Problems Within and Across Disciplines?Ms. Nicole Johnson-Glauch, Nicole received her B.S. in Engineering Physics at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) in May 2013. She is currently working towards a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) under Professor Angus Rockett and Geoffrey Herman. Her research is a mixture between understanding defect behavior in solar cells and student learning in Materials Science. Outside of research she helps plan the Girls Learning About

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Works in Progress II

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tasha Zephirin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

definitions and appropriateness ofassociated examples. We plan to share insights gained throughout this process and engage incontinued discussions about potential findings and directions from further analysis within thebroader study in presenting this paper. In addition, how authors engaged an intersectionalapproach to data collection and analysis will be included in future work.This research aims to contribute to other scholarship that employs asset-based approaches toexamine persistence by investigating interventions with successful outcomes, including tohighlight avenues through which students can successfully navigate institutional and societalchallenges faced on their journey to be an engineer [6], [8], [14]–[16]. It is also expected thatresults

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Postcard Session 1: Retention and Student Success Strategies

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Krystal S. Corbett, Louisiana Tech University; Katie Evans, Louisiana Tech University; Stacey McAdams; Julie Gaudin; Madison Abigail Walker, Society of Women Engineers; Tyler Scott Fontenot

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

upperclassmen role model that the first-year students can associatewith engineering. On average, each mentor has three to seven mentees. The Eco-Carorganization has sponsored workdays, where new members get paired with older members tocomplete projects. The workdays have encouraged mentor to mentee relationships, whichinvolve teaching new members various skills. They have set up an organized system of sub-leads, where a sub-lead of a specific aspect of the car would serve as a mentor to a group ofmentees. This gives the mentees a consistent person to go to if they ever need help with Eco-Carprojects or projects outside of the organization, such as schoolwork. They plan to set upadditional activities, not directly related to the car, but for various

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First-year Programs Division Postcard Session 2: Identity and Sense of Belonging

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University; Kyle D. Squires, Arizona State University; James Collofello, Arizona State University; Robin R. Hammond, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

experience. Designed as a 60-contacthours/year program directed by the university, this effort will serve 150 girls who are high schooljuniors over two years, through high school graduation to enter college. In 2017, 75 participantswere recruited from schools. Undergraduate mentors support the program with planned activitiesto explore engineering around the types of problems engineers solve and their impact on society,experiences to confront stereotypes, facilitate access to industry mentors, and university sitevisits.3) Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) at the high school grades 9-12 andcommunity college encourages exploration of engineering as socially relevant through socialentrepreneurship efforts in a co-curricular experience

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Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 1

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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D. Raj Raman, Iowa State University; Amy L. Kaleita, Iowa State University

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering

multiple datapoints, had determined that a major revision of the course was warranted, and we had agreed tolead this effort and redevelop the course. Complicating our plans for the Y3NM course werespace constraints that arose just weeks before the semester started – we had 50 students enrolledin the course but had teaching lab space for only 40, and due to campus-wide record enrollments,could not find a suitable lecture room to accommodate a joint lecture session. Again, thepossibility of video lectures was appealing, in this case because it would allow us to circumventthe lack of a large lecture room, transferring that function to a location of each student’s ownchoosing, and letting us focus instruction on two lab sections.Materials and

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Works-in-Progress Postcard Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tracy L. Carter, Northeastern University; Samira M. Azarin, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Elizabeth Hill, University of Minnesota Duluth; Amy J. Karlsson, University of Maryland - College Park

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Chemical Engineering

, there is a widerange of practices in course-specific learning outcomes and teaching practices across theinstitutions. Based on these results, the authors propose improvements to the survey and a widerimplementation of the survey. The authors also propose a preliminary plan to target the UOlaboratory for safety education in chemical engineering.Survey of Safety Education in Chemical EngineeringUsing the SAChE outcomes as a framework, a brief survey was developed in Qualtrics andcompleted by the authors to assess safety learning outcomes in UO laboratories and more widelyacross the chemical engineering curriculum. The complete survey is shown in Appendix A. Inaddition to asking about SAChE outcomes, the survey also examines potential differences

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Works-in-Progress Postcard Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reginald E Rogers Jr, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

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Chemical Engineering

as a standalone course, cannot be done in a ready-made fashion.Challenges faced with developing curriculum to address process safety include carefullyidentifying what topics should be covered in a course, timescale required to ensure material isadequately delivered, and how the course development is captured in plans of work of faculty.Many Chemical Engineering programs do not have room in their curriculum for a standalonerequired course on this topic. Therefore, these programs would have to remove a course fromthe credit count in order to substitute a process safety course. Which course do you remove?This is a point of contention for many faculty members given the desire to provide breadth anddepth to their students. There is not an easy

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul A Bender, Ohio Dominican University

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Software Engineering Division

semester. These experiments are described inthe next two sections.Initial trialDuring the fall 2016 term, the author was informed that a single student in the SoftwareEngineering program was scheduled to graduate in the spring 2017 term. This student would needto have the capstone course in order to graduate. The first regular offering of the course wasscheduled for fall 2017. Immediately, we begin planning for how to offer a group experience forthis single student.At about the same time, the author was made aware of the Social Coder project(https://socialcoder.org ) because of a partnership between Social Coder and theACM 6,7 . The social coder organization is an organization dedicated to connecting volunteerprogrammers with charity groups for

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Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session on Conservation and Optimization

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farshid Zabihian, California State University, Sacramento

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

part ofthe final grade for that report. These three stages of reporting were meant to mimic the actualprocess in the real world engineering practice. Each team ought to meet the instructor biweeklyto report the progress in the project and to discuss future plans. The number of students per groupdepended on the topic of the project and its scope.The topics and the scope of the projects depended on the course and expected time that studentswere supposed to spend on the project. For two consecutive semester courses, e.g.Thermodynamics and Applied Thermodynamics (six credit hours together) and large teams,projects were typically more substantial and complex, such as:  design, fabrication, and experimentations,  numerical model

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2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

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Te-Shun Chou

size of computernetworks. Network management covers a broad range of tasks, such as planning, monitoring,maintenance, provision, and administration, and a variety of network management models havebeen proposed [1, 2]. Among them, the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) network managementmodel (NMM) is the most popularly recognized of all the models [3]. It is an InternationalOrganization for Standardization (ISO) standard and also referred to as the OSITelecommunication NMM.The OSI NMM architecture consists of four models: organization model, information model,communication model, and functional model. The organization model covers an overview of thenetwork management that includes its components, functions, and infrastructure. It also

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2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

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Mary Sadowski; Sheryl Sorby

• Sub-scores • Assessment vs. Evaluation of scores 58 Concept Inventory Workshop CIEC 2018Proceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Session ETD 415Copyright ©2018 American Society for Engineering EducationProceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Session ETD 415Copyright ©2018 American Society for Engineering Education Future Plans with the EGCI  Recent completion of final instrument  Additional statistical analysis  Dissemination of instrument  Use of instrument  Process of creating educational

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Track: Pre-college - Technical Session 7

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2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

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Kristina Rigden, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Mariappan Jawaharlal, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Nicole Gutzke, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Diversity, Pre-College

”) that “I aminterested in engineering now.”The Femineer® students were asked about their intent to pursue engineering in college or as acareer. The results are below. Future Plans in Engineering 60 50 Percent of Respondents 40 30 20 10 0 Yes Maybe No

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Track: Pre-college - Technical Session 3

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2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

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Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati; Darryl Dickerson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Virginia Lynn Booth-Womack, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Delano White, The Gaskins Foundation

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Diversity, Pre-College

Emerging Ethnic Engineers (E3) Program. She teaches Calculus 1 during the Summer Bridge program and instructs Cooperative Calculus 1 during the school year. Continuing with her commitment to community involvement, Whitney has previously served on the Na- tional Executive Board for the National Society of Black Engineers, a student-managed organization with more than 30,000 members. She served as the Planning Chairperson for the 2013 Annual Convention and is currently an advisor for the Great Lakes Region. Dr. Gaskins the President of the Sigma Omega graduate chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She is also a member of the Society of Women Engineers, the Women’s Alliance, the National Technical Association

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Track: Pre-College - Technical Session 8

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2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Suzanne Sontgerath, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity, Pre-College

note: Full details of this study have been submitted for publication to the Journal ofWomen & Minorities in Science and Engineering.We expect that most in this audience are well aware that the middle school years are a criticallyimportant time for identity development and career planning for girls, particularly with regardto supporting interests in engineering.Some would argue that offering engineering programming for middle school girls is importantand valuable regardless of long-term outcomes. But program funders and host universitiestypically want to see more than that, such as entry into STEM majors or recruitment to theuniversity. This study captures our effort to track long term outcomes of a program that’s beenrunning at WPI for the

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Track: Pre-College - Technical Session 11

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2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

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Christine Newman, Johns Hopkins University; Margaret Hart, Johns Hopkins University; Andrea M. Perry, Garrison Forest School; Anitra Michelle Washington, Western High School; Laura Garcia

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Diversity, Pre-College

 practice their presentation and receive feedbackSelection of an interested mentor is critical.  We have had problems when the mentor was not motivated to be a mentor.  Once a young woman was selected by her faculty advisor as a mentor because she was female. She told the mentee that she didn’t like the field—that her parents made her do it.  That faculty member offered that mentor again and we declined.Mentor support before and during the program is important to gauge their interest, to help them think through how they are going to teach a high school student with much less specific knowledge than them—learn how to do what they are planning for students to do and also to see if they need any cultural competency guidance.  During the program it is

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ajay P. Malshe, University of Arkansas; Salil T Bapat, University of Arkansas

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Diversity

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Materials

non-MSE engineering students. The project led students to connect the dots between thetextbook chapters, the classroom discussion and the homework assignments. Additionally, theproject provided students with an opportunity to practice their public speaking and presentationskills through the ‘poster session,’ an important aspect of their growth as a STEM engineeringgraduate.In the future, the instructors plan to explore pathways to have the material’s project centeredaround a societal cause (such as a local community-driven social project) or an actual case-studyproblem in collaboration with the local materials and manufacturing industries. The motivationbehind this approach is to give students a project assignment that will help the community

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 18: Student Learning and Problem Solving

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Ferrar, Temple University; Pete Watkins, Temple University

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Educational Research and Methods

: the app produced for the course required users to enter their own recipes into a database. A full-featured version would include an aggregator feature which searches the web for open recipes. iOS Mobile Swift An app that enables users to enter their class schedules and post times and locations that they plan to study for courses. The app assists users in finding study groups and locations on campus. Note about scope: the app for the course utilized a pre-built database of

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corey Kiassat, PhD, MBA, PE P.E., Quinnipiac University; Ruby ElKharboutly, Quinnipiac University

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First-Year Programs

has been applied during Spring 2017 on trial bases and was fully implemented during the Fall 2018 advising season. Results show a significant reduction in the advising session duration and general satisfaction from both faculty and students. The study is still ongoing. The next steps involve standardization and validation. We plan to standardize the process by reflecting and rectifying problems that aroused during Fall 2018. Some problems included miscommunication between PMs and faculty and delays in obtaining the executive summaries. We would like to expand the use of the new advising process to including all advising faulty and all first-year students in Fall 2019. The validation/post-implementation phase is conducted

Conference Session

New Developments in ECE

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Son Nguyen, University of California, Davis; Andre Knoesen, University of California, Davis; Hooman Rashtian, University of California, Davis

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Electrical and Computer

years. Based on thepreliminary surveys and course evaluations, the course is successful in motivating students and to introducethem to different important topics in electrical and computer engineering. For future work, the plan is toobtain the IRB approval to collect assessment data about subjective experience of students in the class aswell as their performance in in their future downstream junior and senior years.AcknowledgmentsThis work is supported by Texas Instruments. The authors would like to thank Jason Rubadue at TexasInstruments for his support.References[1] Chu, P. P. (2016, June), Integrating Computer Engineering Labs with a "Sound Theme" Paper presentedat 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.[2

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Mechanics Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Constans, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Karl Dyer, Rowan University; Shraddha Sangelkar, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Mechanics

Martin [6], Myszka [7] and Bulatović and Dordević [8]. The dot product methodpresented by Wilson and Sadler [9] obtains essentially the same results, but in a morecomplicated fashion. We describe both methods below in order to compare them with thenewly-developed method, which we denote the projection method.This work is a part of ongoing research to establish the most effective method for teachingfourbar linkage analysis to engineering students. Previous related work has established thecomputational efficiency of deriving the solution for fourbar mechanisms using the projectionmethod [11]. An experiment with undergraduate engineering students is planned to methodicallyvalidate its educational efficacy. The goal of this paper is the document the