Hernandez, A., & Bhattacharia, S., & Petters, S., & Petters, M. (2025, March), Teaching Science and Engineering undergraduates with a liquid droplet solidification tool  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference, Arlington, TX, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--55082

\bibitem{asee_peer_55082}
  Hernandez, A., \& Bhattacharia, S., \& Petters, S., \& Petters, M. (2025, March), \emph{Teaching Science and Engineering undergraduates with a liquid droplet solidification tool}
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference, Arlington, TX, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--55082

Alexander Hernandez, Sanjoy Bhattacharia, Sarah Petters, and Markus Petters.  "Teaching Science and Engineering undergraduates with a liquid droplet solidification tool".  2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference, Arlington, TX, Texas, 2025, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/55082 Internet.  16 May, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_55082}
  Alexander Hernandez, Sanjoy Bhattacharia, Sarah Petters, and Markus Petters.
  "Teaching Science and Engineering undergraduates with a liquid droplet solidification tool".
  \emph{2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference, Arlington, TX, Texas, 2025, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/55082 Internet.  16 May, 2025

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AB  - Title: Teaching Science and Engineering undergraduates with a liquid droplet solidification tool
Alexander Hernandez1, Naruki Hiranuma2*   Sanjoy K. Bhattacharia1*

1College of Engineering, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX 79016
2Dept. of Life, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX, 79016

Abstract:
We developed curricular activities that were based on the application of a Community Ice Nucleation Cold Stage to teach theory of solidification that is applicable to multidisciplinary STEM disciplines. We adopted a freezing assay, which simulates ambient immersion freezing in a laboratory setting (i.e., freezing of ice-nucleating aerosol particles immersed in a water droplet), to provide hands-on, laboratory-based education to train STEM students at a primarily undergraduate and minority serving institute (PUI-MSI). With the freezing assay, we instructed more than 60 STEM students on fundamental concepts of material and environmental science, such as phase change, phase transition temperature, crystallization, and physical nucleation, in existing university courses. We educated a diverse group of students, and exposed them to state of the art techniques early in their academic careers to consider a STEM career. Among those were undergraduate and graduate students as well as community college students (from an open-access, public Hispanic-serving community college, as outreach teaching activities with the students at an adjacent PUI-MSI). The developed curricular activities provided students with hands-on laboratory experience  in experimentation, data analysis and technical writing. Based on the ABET assessment of learning outcomes, we achieved our goals to educate students on 1) using multidisciplinary science, engineering, and mathematical skills to evaluate and address complex issues emergent in science and engineering-related fields (ABET - 1) and 2) fostering professional collaboration and inclusive team working environment as well as effective oral and written communication (ABET # 3, 5 & 6). We will present that the developed modules can be applied at any institute to advance undergraduate curricula in science and engineering. 

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CY  - Arlington, TX, Texas
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