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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Robert Avanzato

environment are of a persistent nature and can be viewed and accessed byavatars controlled by people throughout the world via the internet, thus providing thepotential to interact with an international community. In addition to other educationalsuccesses, undergraduate students at Penn State Abington have been utilizing SecondLife for several years and have successfully constructed a variety of projects (includingfurniture, robots, etc.) and virtual exhibits.Several case studies which demonstrate the successful application of Second Life in thearea of design and modeling will be presented below, including several educationalprojects at Penn State Abington. The basic building and scripting tools provided inSecond Life will also be outlined, and the

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Orla LoPiccolo

teaching on construction topics. Other than bringing students to a site under constructionfor every construction method discussed in class, which is not feasible, instructors rely onsupplemental visuals. Visual aids include: drawing construction materials and details on theclassroom blackboard, images on PowerPoint slides, images from textbooks, class projects suchas creating a digital visual dictionary, and videos. Gangwer notes that, ―With the influx oftechnology, visual learning and media literacy are perhaps more critical that they have been atany other time in history, it is essential for teachers to explore the world of technology, wheretheir students reside, in order to teach the way the students are learning.‖7However simply adding a video

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Hao Dong; Xingguo Xiong; Xuan Zhang

intention of using constant parameter is in adjusted by the time (increase or decrease the count time order to make the program easier to read and modify. in circuit) to increase the flexibility of process Changing the values of the constants updates constant's value for whole program, which enhance the flexibility of this project. In addition, at the programming process all of the constant

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Hamoud Alshammari; Hassan Bajwa; Jeongkyu Lee

Bioinformatics applications usually require large DataNode 1 2 3 4complex amounts of data processing and computational Hb1 Hb2 Hb3capabilities. A large distributed file based processing is Router HDFSadopted in this project to process large data files whichcan scale up to few terabytes. Hadoop based cloud 5 6 7 8 Hbase column oriented Serversarchitecture is composed of Hadoop Distributed File

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Kenneth Edward Dudeck; Wieslaw Grebski

conducted at the Penn State Hazleton campus.The solar car was designed by Penn State Hazleton engineering students and built in cooperationwith high school students. The photovoltaic power station was erected in conjunction with aphotovoltaic installers training course which was offered on site at the Penn State Hazletoncampus.As a positive result of these projects, the Penn State Hazleton Campus decided to develop andoffer a new innovative Bachelor of Science in General Engineering with an Alternative Energyand Power Generation Track. The General Engineering with an Applied Materials Track was Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE Northeast Section Annual Conference University of Hartford

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2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

James A. Lee; Michael J. D'Agostino

careers in the design and construction of the builtenvironment, including civil engineering and construction management. As the concept of sustainable designcontinues to hold greater significance in engineering and related professional disciplines, the laboratory alsoprovides the opportunity to reinforce principles of sustainability, including embodied energy, life cycle assessment,waste management and minimization. In addition, the design project has and continues to provide undergraduateresearch opportunities in the area of concrete design. Some aspects of this work will also be presented in this paper.Keywords: Concrete; Recycling; Aggregates; Wastewater; Sustainability BACKGROUNDIndustry Need

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2012 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Patrick H. Oosthuizen

subject, (ii) some backgroundinformation, (iii) aircraft noise, (iv) local and regional environmental effects, (v) impact of civilaviation on global warming, (vi) aircraft contrails, (vii) design of civil aircraft for the future,(viii) engine design changes to reduce environmental impact, (ix) reducing environment effectsof civil aircraft by changes in operational and traffic management procedures.11The course in its initial implementation has consisted of fairly conventional lectures andrelatively free format classroom discussions of specific topics. The evaluation of studentperformance is based on assignments on specific basic subjects, on several small projects wherethe students are given a particular topic and have to write a three to four

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Ronald Gonzales; Alan Watkins; Chris Simpson

words.A third lab requires students to practice creating encrypted volumes with an ‘easy’ password anda ‘complex’ password. Once completed, each student tries to crack their partner’s encryptionusing different tools. A final lab challenges the students to practice hardening a Linux virtualmachine by setting up a local firewall and running penetration testing scans against theirpartner’s VM to observe the results. A pre-hardening scan is conducted to enable baselineresults as a comparison against their probe.Students are offered several options for a final class project. One project option is to utilizeSecurity Onion to analyze a large packet capture. Some example of potential datasets are at theNETRESEC website [9]. As part of the project

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Byron Garry

: take actions to continually improve process performance.For use by our COM Department11, we have developed and use this definition: Quality Control(QC) is an in-process or embedded technique: • In manufacturing, processes are monitored, to identify problems that could lead to non- conforming products • Corrective action can be taken quickly in assessing a course, after each semester. • Can also be used to test new materials, equipment, and methods. If a test did not work well, then fixing it can happen the next time the test is given.In our COM Departments program’s continuous improvement process, we use mostly embeddedassessments, that is, we use the assignments, quizzes, tests, labs, reports and projects that are apart of

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Amro Khasawneh, Mercer University; Abby Anne McDowell, Mercer University; Sarah K. Bauer, Mercer University; Halley Elizabeth Smith, Mercer University; Abby Anne McDowell, Mercer University; Halley Elizabeth Smith, Mercer University

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Diversity, Professional Papers

Paper ID #45424Understanding the Impact of an International Service-Learning Trip to Belizeon Mental Health: A Case Study of Students and FacultyDr. Amro Khasawneh, Mercer UniversityMs. Abby Anne McDowell, Mercer UniversityDr. Sarah K. Bauer, Mercer University Dr. Sarah Bauer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering at Mercer University. Her primary research interests include water and wastewater treatment and renewable energy technologies. Her work focuses on developing techniques for the production of clean energy and clean water. She has also worked on a variety of projects to enhance

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session: Examining Identity

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katharine Sarah Getz, Pennsylvania State University; Allison Godwin, Cornell University; Matthew Bahnson, Purdue University – West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Danielle V. Lewis, University at Buffalo; Linda DeAngelo, University of Pittsburgh

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

in existingliterature and queer theory. This is her first research project with purely qualitative analysis,which impacted the methodological choices. The remaining authorship team includesheterosexual and queer-identified research team members who bring cisgender and TGNCexperiences to investigate gendered engineering education experiences. As researchers, we holdexperience in qualitative research, which is supported the first author’s exploration of this topicand qualitative interviews.A Note on TerminologyThroughout the results, participants use a variety of language to differentiate their genderidentity, their gender expression, and their peer’s perception of their gender identity. Weacknowledge that. However, the language to describe

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Anna K. T. Howard, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Nicholas Garcia, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

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Professional Papers

% backstop backstop at homework 70% of daily 50% of daily (CGHW) quiz grades quiz grades Weekly Quizzes 14% 17% 17% (WQ) Midterms (3) 14% each 13% each 13% each 13% each 13% each Final exam 23% 22% 22% 22% 22% In-class grades 10% 10% 5% 6% 6% Prep quizzes 5% 5% 6% 6% Projects 2% 2% 5% 10

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Sundas Zafar; Aparicio Carranza

. Other1000mA. For projects requiring more power languages such as Java, C, and C++ can alsothan 1 Amp an externally powered USB hub is be installed and used if the programs areneeded. The GPIO pins on the board require installed on the system. It is important to note16mA each, the camera module requires that installing programs that use these250mA, HDMI requires 50mA while keyboard languages might take up a large amount ofand mice requirements vary. Powering the space on the SD card. This can also cause theRaspberry Pi using batteries is possible system to slow down. Over clocking ishowever it is not recommended because possible, however, it is important to note

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - AI and Digital Futures in Design Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel D. Jensen, Westmont College; William Johnston Allison; Camila Rapalo; Mark Rogers; Gregory Reich, Air Force Research Laboratory, Aerospace Systems Directorate; Landon Thomas Vanderhyde

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

insight into the design challenge.Often this phase ends with the development of the core opportunity statement that drives thedesign work. The third D, Develop, implements numerous ideation DM including mindmapping, C-Sketch rotational drawing and Design by Analogy to generate ideas to address theopportunity statement. The fourth D, Deliver, provides DM for prototyping and testing strategiesas well as creation of other project deliverables such as design pitches and design documentation. FIGURE 1: 4D DESIGN PROCESS [22]2. AI Overview and Literature Review2.1 Background on AIThe rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its effects on a multitude of industries cannot beunderstated. The concept of AI originated in the 1950

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Poster Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tao Zhou, Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

conductive tapes for capacitancemeasure the capacitance between the two positioned measurement. (a) Five product packagescopper tapes (Figure 3(a)). A 200g weight (several used in this experiment. Three different types of gummy candies. (b) Life Savers.pieces of calibration weights, ~$10) was used to apply (c) Haribo Goldbears. (d) Sour Patch. (e) Jet-Puffed marshmallow and (f) Elmer'spressure on the top of a simple gummy pressure sensor Gue glassy clear slime.(Figure 3(b)), proving that everyday school suppliesor household goods can be utilized for this project. We could also successfully

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danielle Wood, University of Notre Dame; Faisal Aqlan, University of Louisville; Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame; Hazel Marie, Youngstown State University - Rayen School of Engineering

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

/or analyzed data in addressing a ND 1.74E-09 <0.001** 0. 865542 Largereal-world issue broader impacts in neighborhoods, UL 2.25 E-04 <0.001** 0.915815 Large industry, and place attraction to the YSU 8.95 E-04 <0.001** 0.982895 Large region [6, 17-19]. The design ofI know how to apply design NDthinking/empathic design to problem- 7.25E-12 <0.001** .842 Large training and projects to achievesolving in the real world. these nested outcomes, with the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan M Lord, University of San Diego; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Sociotechnical Issues in Electrical Engineering Starting with Circuits: Year 2This NSF-funded Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) Improving Undergraduate STEMEducation (IUSE) project aims to integrate sociotechnical issues into Introduction to Circuits,typically the first course in electrical engineering (EE) for undergraduate students. To preparegraduates for the real-world problems, which are interdisciplinary and involve complex socialimpacts, instructors must help students address the sociotechnical nature of engineering.Accrediting organizations such as ABET stress the importance of sociotechnical issues andrequire undergraduate programs to consider global, cultural, social, environmental, and economicfactors in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laila Guessous, Oakland University; Dan DelVescovo, Oakland University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

% 20% 0% 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2021 2022 2023 Caucasian Hispanic/Latino Asian Am./Pacific Isl. African American Am. Indian/AK Nat. Figure 3: Ethnicity Distribution of REU Participants as a Percentage of TotalLongitudinal Assessment and Program OutcomesSixteen different faculty members volunteered between 2006 and 2023 to mentor REU student projects.Additional faculty members assisted with some of the group activities and assessment processes. A full listof projects completed as part of this program can be found on our website [1]. All of the REU students wereencouraged to present their

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne M Lucietto, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Lesley M Berhan, The University of Toledo; Monita Hollis Mungo, The University of Toledo; Revathy Kumar

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Black Students Choose Engineering Technology or Engineering and the Implication of This ChoiceAbstractThe National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a significant grant in 2023 to investigate themotivations behind Black students' choice of engineering technology over other engineeringdisciplines. This research is crucial as it addresses a gap in understanding the factors influencingacademic choices among underrepresented groups in engineering fields. The findings from Phase1 of this project reveal essential insights into students' experiences, particularly concerningfaculty engagement and institutional support, which are pivotal for fostering persistence andsuccess among minority students in engineering Burt et al. [1-3

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brittany Lynn Butler-Morton, Rowan University; Darby Rose Riley, Rowan University; Eduardo Rodriguez Mejia, Rowan University; Cheryl A Bodnar, The Ohio State University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; Yusuf Mehta, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

academia withoutcompromising the technical rigor of their program. In our NSF-funded Innovation in GraduateEducation (IGE) grant, we have created a R2P graduate education model within the Civil andEnvironmental Engineering (CEE) graduate program through the incorporation of a non-academic mentor into the thesis / dissertation committee structure. While the traditionalacademic advisor ensures students are well-prepared to meet academic and researchrequirements, the non-academic mentor brings valuable practical insights, helping studentsaddress engineering challenges that are relevant to their projects and allowing them tounderstand the broader implications of their work outside of academia. The R2P model isgrounded in the cognitive apprenticeship

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nuria Jaumot-Pascual Ph.D., TERC; Maria Ong; Tiffany Smith, American Indian Science & Engineering Society

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #48436BOARD # 357: ECR: Core. Identity Intersections of Indigenous Engineersand Computer ScientistsNuria Jaumot-Pascual Ph.D., TERC Nuria Jaumot-Pascual, Ph.D. is a Research Scientist at TERC. She leads studies on the experiences of people of color in STEM education and careers through creative methods and meta-synthesis, methods that she provides professional development on. She is Co-PI in four NSF-funded projects and a Spencer Foundation project, two of which focus on the experiences of Native students and professionals in STEM. She has a Ph.D. in Qualitative Research Methodologies from the University of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sedig Salem Agili, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College; Aldo Morales, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

pathways after the firstcalculus course at the rate of 33.3%, indicating a need to redesign the activities and implementmore student-centered practices in Calculus I; and peer and faculty mentoring were important forretaining students. In 2022 Penn State Capital College (PSCC) received an NSF DUE grant andbased on the lessons learned, a stronger evidence-based approach was added to the current grantto leverage the infrastructure that was built with a persistence of interest framework. Prenzel’sPersistence of Interest model is defined as a special persistence and selective relationshipbetween a person and an object, where persistence in this context means “the maintenance of therelation by repeated, active engagements.”The current project

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie L. Aldridge, The Ohio State University; Nicole M. Else-Quest, University of California, Los Angeles ; So Yoon Yoon, University of Cincinnati; Joe Roy, American Society for Engineering Education

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

of Texas at San Antonio and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Ottawa. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Year Two: The Organizational Climate Challenge: Promoting the Retention of Students from Underrepresented Groups in Doctoral Engineering Programs -EDU Core ResearchI. IntroductionThe goal of this 4-year project is to develop and validate a multi-factor organizational climatesurvey tailored to assess perceptions of department-level policies, practices, and proceduresinfluencing engineering doctoral student retention and commitment to degree completion. Thisproject adopts an explicitly intersectional approach to the meaning

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Freeborn, The University of Alabama

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

).After recruitment, participating students completed a prep-course meeting weekly with theprogram coordinator for 2-hours over 15 weeks in the spring semester prior to their summerresearch. Classes were to prepare students for their summer research by introducing fractionalcalculus, fractional circuits, design methodologies, approximation techniques, and design tools(MATLAB, LTSpice). Additionally, this course provided activities and discussions to supportstudents in their international travel (e.g., passport & medical requirements, currency, foodculture, inter-city and inter-country buses/trains) and collaboration with international faculty(e.g., communication strategies, project requirements, documentation requirements).After the prep

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber F Young-Brice, Marquette University; Allison Murray, Marquette University; Somesh Roy, Marquette University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

development initiatives focused on pedagogy, literature reveals descriptions ofslow changes in faculty pedagogical transformation [1]. We contend that there is a missing focuson the science of learning and the impact of teacher-student interactions as a reason behind thelow efficacy of faculty development activities in changing beliefs and behaviors [2]. To addressthis gap, this project seeks to broaden engineering teaching with theory-based educationalresources (BETTER) through a Caring Science lens [3].ObjectivesObjective 1: Examine the impact over time of a faculty development curriculum grounded in ahumanistic-educative framework for promoting a humanizing model to engineering education.Objective 2: Examine the impact of a Community of Practice

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trevion S Henderson, Tufts University; Collette Patricia Higgins, Tufts University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

conflate sociotechnical engineering education with ethics education.Others have challenged the nature of sociotechnical learning activities, such as service-learningand community-based design projects, for their tendency to fail to engage with the ways powerdynamics shape interactions between faculty, students, and community members [8-12]. Thesecritiques elevate the need for clarity around defining sociotechnical design education.Other criticisms have come from local, state, and national legislative actors who have advancedefforts to curtail or ban the teaching of the “divisive issues” in primary, secondary, andpostsecondary education [13-14]. However, the form and function of these legislative attacksdiffers across sociopolitical contexts in the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine C. Chen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Theresa Fs Bruckerhoff, Curriculum Research & Evaluation, Inc.; Jillian A DiBonaventura, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Noemi Robertson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Thomas Noviello, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

0.0 0.0 0 0 Multi-Race 4.1 3.8 0 0 White 26.1 67.4 67.6 53.8 unknown 3.6 Total # 24,350 5205 34 13Currently in the 4th year of our NSF Noyce Track 1 project entitled, “Cultivating University-School-Community Partnerships to Prepare STEM Undergraduates to Teach in UrbanEnvironments” [4], we have embraced the engineering design process [5] of prototypinginterventions, assessing and reflecting, and then continuously improving upon each iteration toreach our intended outcome that WPI TPP students develop an equity

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Shayla Sawyer, Rensselaer Polytechic Institute; Barry J. Sullivan, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Heads Assn; Elizabeth Hibbler, Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration (CIEC)

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

conversations with mentees as a cohort after midterms of the first semester. • As with any multi-university, multi-state project, finding the best meeting platform and mutually workable meeting schedules has been difficult, with some things working better than others. Meeting together synchronously in hybrid format works best for most faculty. Alignment of schedules across universities is navigated by recording meetings, providing open hours, and creating online modules of pertinent information. Open shop hours by graduate students and/or faculty mentors need a regular, predictable schedule. • Industry cannot guarantee internship positions for students in specific programs. To significantly increase the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martell Cartiaire Bell, The University of Iowa; Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan; Rachel Vitali, The University of Iowa

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

-contextualize engineering science engineering courses to better reflect and prepare students for the reality of ill-defined, sociotechnical engineering practice. Current projects include studying and designing classroom interventions around macroethical issues in aerospace engineering and the productive beginnings of engineering judgment as students create and use mathematical models. Aaron holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Michigan and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to re-joining Michigan, he was an instructor in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.Prof. Rachel Vitali, The University of Iowa Dr. Rachel Vitali is an

Collection

2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Jay R Porter, Texas A&M University; Paul M Koola, Texas A&M University; Rahul Subramanian, Ocean Engineering, Texas A and M University

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Diversity

platform. Each team is limited to a $100budget to ensure that all teams compete on a level playing field.Interdisciplinary teaming is encouraged through a constraint that all teams must include five toseven members with at least two freshman engineering students, one ocean engineering student,and one student from any other department on campus, such as marine biology. The intent is tocross-pollinate ideas between disciplines and encourage students to work outside of their domain.Once approved, they work together to complete the project, demonstrate their solution, andcompete for monetary awards. An essential goal of eSMART is to foster more interactions amongstudents on this small campus that would not have otherwise happened. For the first