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Jul 12, 2024

(Left to right) Jenni Buckley, Sarah Rooney, Alexander De Rosa, Haritha Malladi, and Joshua Enszer.

Faculty and staff from the University of Delaware s College of Engineering and College of Education and Human Development presented at the 2024 Annual Conference and Exposition of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Organized under the theme of The future of engineering education, this years meeting took place in Portland, Oregon from June 2326, 2024.

Marcia Gail Headley, Data Scientist at UDs Center for Research in Education & Social Policy (CRESP), Haritha Malladi, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of First-Year Engineering, and Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue from Towson University presented Near-Peer Mentors Discussions with a Student Avatar Experiencing Logistical Issues on a First-Year Design Team. This paper was selected as the Best Paper from the First-Year Programs Division, the Best Professional Interest Council IV paper, and the ASEE 2024 Best Conference Paper overall.

Professor Jenni Buckley, associate professor Alexander De Rosa, and associate professor Heather Doty, all of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Amy Trauth of the American Institutes for Research presented The Wooden Bike Frame Challenge: Learning Statics Through Hands-On Design. This paper was selected as the Best Paper of the Mechanical Engineering Division and the Best Paper of Professional Interest Council V.

Buckley, De Rosa, and Trauth presented The Mini-Mill Experience: A Self-Paced Introductory Machining Exercise for Mechanical Engineering Students.

Buckley, David Burris, associate professor of mechanical engineering, De Rosa and Trauth presented Implementation of a Standalone, Industry-centered Technical Communications Course in a Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Program.

De Rosa and CRESP Data Scientist Samuel Van Horne presented Promoting the Transfer of Math Skills to Engineering Statics with co-author Teri Kristine Reed of the University of Oklahoma.

Associate professor Joshua Enszer of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering presented Do Lightly-Flexible Deadlines Support Student Performance?

Ashutosh Khandha, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, presented Incorporating an Entrepreneurial Mindset, Bio-Inspired Design, and STEAM Approach to Enhance Learning in a Computer Aided Design and Modeling Class along with co-authors Adel Alhalawani of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Lisa Bosman and Bhavana Kotla of Purdue University, and Thomas Aminga Omwando of Simpson University.

CRESP Education Researcher Shameeka Jelenewicz and biomedical engineering associate professor Sarah Rooney presented Work in Progress: Development of a Medical Devices Course for Sophomore Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Students.

Malladi also moderated and presented at a special session Inclusive Makerspaces for First-Year Engineering: How to Build It So They Will Come (and Stay!).

Poster Presentations

De Rosa and Horne presented Research Initiation: Facilitating Knowledge Transfer within Engineering Curricula along with co-authors Reed and Angela E. Arndt from Tech Literacy Services.

Jelenewicz, Malladi, and civil and environmental engineering associate professor Jovan Tatar presented Perceptions of Sustainability Among Participants at the NSF REU Site on Sustainable Resilient Transportation Systems.

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