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Future grid mix impacts on whole-building life cycle assessment Open
Building construction and operation are a significant contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, so understanding and mitigating emissions is crucial for reliable and realistic emissions accounting. Whole-building Life Cycle Assessme…
Work in Progress: Transformation Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (T-CURE) Open
Undergraduate research experiences are well-established as a high impact practice for students. Transitions, including those from community colleges, are often challenging for students to navigate and may lead to retention issues. In this …
WIP: Evaluating Entrepreneurially-minded Learning in Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences Open
Our study in this Work in Progress paper presents preliminary results from the first stage of a three-year research project centering on the creation and validation of a pre-post survey instrument for evaluating entrepreneurially-minded le…
A Secure, Scalable Approach to Student-Graded Homework for Self-Reflection Open
A large body of research shows that deliberate practice is essential to developing expertise in any skill. The essential elements of deliberate practice are: (1) motivation, (2) intentional plan of practice, (3) repetition, and (4) timely …
Assessing Entrepreneurial Mindset in Computer Science Students Using Concept Mapping Open
The purpose of this research is to improve computer science and engineering student's understanding of the entrepreneurial mindset and how it affects STEM undergraduates. Computer science and engineering students are often taught through t…
Board 317: Institutional Practices to Close the Equity Gap Open
The S-STEM supported program "Achieving Change in our Communities for Equity and Student Success" (ACCESS) in STEM started at the University of Washington Tacoma in 2018 and has supported 108 students over 6 cohorts. University of Washingt…
How the Entrepreneurial Mindset Supported the COVID-19 Transition in Engineering Unleashed Faculty Development Open
For several years Engineering Unleashed has provided in-person faculty development events focused on expanding an entrepreneurial mindset in undergraduate engineering programs. During Spring 2020, it was decided that ten faculty developmen…
Making Teaching Matter More - The Making of a T1 University Open
Research I (R1) university" is a category that the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education uses to indicate universities in the United States that engage in the highest levels of research activity.There is currently no …
Steeped in Engineering: Using coffee to introduce students to engineering Open
Full Paper This will be followed up with a full paper. The University of Washington Tacoma (UWT) recently entered Phase 2 of its NSF-funded "Achieving Change in our Communities for Equity and Student Success (ACCESS) in STEM" program in 20…
The effect of deductive and inductive teaching methods in an introductory programming course Open
Many first and second year engineering students are required to complete an introductory programming course as part of their program. Typically, class time within these courses is divided into traditional instructor lecture and student wor…
Undergraduate Research as a Tool for Building Entrepreneurial Mindset in Engineering Students Open
Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM) has become a widespread classroom practice in many universities in recent years. Our research project is focused on how EM may be infused into undergraduate research experiences for engineering students. For se…
Board 207: ACCESS in STEM: An S-STEM Project Supporting Economically Disadvantaged STEM-Interested Students in Their First Two Years Open
Achieving Change in our Communities for Equity and Student Success (ACCESS) in STEM at the University of Washington Tacoma started as a Track 1 S-STEM program in 2018 and has supported 69 students to date. This year we received Track 2 fun…
Work In Progress: Multiple Mentor Model for Cross-Institutional Collaboration and Undergraduate Research Open
In this paper we describe our work in progress (WIP) partnership between three academic institutions to enhance multiple-mentor models for undergraduate research students. Our collaboration includes a unique planning effort to thoughtfully…
Labor-based Grading in Computer Science: A Student-Centered Practice Open
Innovation in teaching in STEM fields was explored widely during the COVID pandemic in 2020. This paper describes the adaptation of labor based grading for computer science courses. Labor based grading has been developed for language and w…
View article: Work in Progress: Gap Analysis for Assessment of Entrepreneurial Mindset in Engineering
Work in Progress: Gap Analysis for Assessment of Entrepreneurial Mindset in Engineering Open
The efforts to incorporate an Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM) in engineering have grown significantly in recent years. The purpose of this work-in-progress research is to determine what tools and methods are currently used to assess EM, and w…
Benefits of Statics Concept Mapping in Career Cognition Open
The purpose of this research was to develop a classroom project module that supported students in developing conceptual understanding of topics in statics, and building awareness of career value creation in engineering. The module develope…
View article: Experimental and Modeled Assessment of Interventions to Reduce PM2.5 in a Residence during a Wildfire Event
Experimental and Modeled Assessment of Interventions to Reduce PM2.5 in a Residence during a Wildfire Event Open
Increasingly large and frequent wildfires affect air quality even indoors by emitting and dispersing fine/ultrafine particulate matter known to pose health risks to residents. With this health threat, we are working to help the building sc…
Strategies for connecting whole-building LCA to the low-carbon design process Open
Decarbonization is essential to meeting urgent climate goals. With the building sector in the United States accounting for 35% of total U.S. carbon emissions, reducing environmental impacts within the built environment is critical. Whole-b…
Refining an Entrepreneurial Mindset Master Concept Map through Multi-Institutional Collaboration Open
Over the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in the demand for the integration of entrepreneurial mindset (EM) into training of undergraduate engineering students.Although the engineering education field recognizes the impor…
Schlieren Flow Visualization and Analysis of Synthetic Jets Open
This work explores several low-cost methods for the visualization and analysis of pulsed synthetic jets for cooling applications. The visualization methods tested include smoke, Schlieren imaging, and thermography. The images were analyzed…
Design Systems Thinking for Innovation in an Engineering Faculty Development Program Open
This is a work in progress paper describing design systems thinking as a paradigm for evolving faculty development. Managing organizational change is a difficult task, often dependent on the way ideas are operationalized for effective inno…
Creating an Inclusive Engineering Student Culture Through Diverse Teams: Instructor-led and Student-led Approaches Open
Past researchers have linked diversity to increased creativity in engineering teams. Self-efficacy and retention also relate to how well students believe they fit socially and academically in engineering. This paper reports on three qualit…
Connecting Entrepreneurial Mindset to Software Development Open
The purpose of this research was to develop classroom project modules that supported students in developing an entrepreneurial mindset in the context of software engineering. The modules connect the software development life-cycle from beg…
Design of a Cross-curricular Circuits Laboratory Experiment Open
The purpose of this research was to develop a laboratory module which introduces a mechanical engineering concept into an existing circuits laboratory module. This module was developed so mechanical engineering students would have a famili…
Play-Doh and Pendulums: Making Mass Moment of Inertia Fun Open
Statics is commonly the first engineering class students take. The version of statics taught at this university ends with a final lecture on mass moment of inertia. This is a segue to dynamics and strength of materials, two classes the stu…
View article: Implementation of Real-world Class Activities in an Introduction to Environmental Engineering Class
Implementation of Real-world Class Activities in an Introduction to Environmental Engineering Class Open
In traditional introduction to environmental engineering classes, students commonly do book problems and never see applications to real problems such as lack of access to clean water in developing countries or algal blooms. This leaves a d…
Students Taking Action on Engineering Ethics Open
The purpose of this research was to develop a classroom project module that supported students in developing an action plan for ethics. The module connects ABET criteria related to ethics and evolving research in ethics in other discipline…
Intercollegiate Coaching in a Faculty Professional Development Program that Integrates Pedagogical Best Practices and the Entrepreneurial Mindset Open
This work-in-progress (WIP) paper reports on intercollegiate faculty coaching experiences in a large-scale engineering professional development program funded through the Kern Family Foundation. Research demonstrates that adding coaching a…
Increasing Student Curiosity with Cooling Systems Open
The purpose of this research was to develop a classroom project module that increased student curiosity about cooling systems. The module was designed to help students connect with psychrometrics near the end of an applied thermodynamics c…