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Thematic and Authorship Analysis of ASEE Gulf-Southwest Conference Papers

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2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference

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Prairie View, Texas

Publication Date

March 16, 2022

Start Date

March 16, 2022

End Date

March 18, 2022

Page Count

5

DOI

10.18260/1-2--39216

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https://strategy.asee.org/39216

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Anna Huang Texas A&M University

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Anna Huang is a sophomore at Texas A&M University studying computer science. Currently, she is an undergraduate researcher at the Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation. Huang is interested in artificial intelligence, data science, and machine learning and is passionate about advancing engineering education practices.

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Amanda Jane Latham Texas A&M University

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Erika Yao

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Tracy Anne Hammond Texas A&M University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-7272-0507

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Dr. Hammond is Director of the Texas A&M University Institute for Engineering Education & Innovation and also the chair of the Engineering Education Faculty. She is also Director of the Sketch Recognition Lab and Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. She is a member of the Center for Population and Aging, the Center for Remote Health Technologies & Systems as well as the Institute for Data Science. Hammond is a PI for over 13 million in funded research, from NSF, DARPA, Google, Microsoft, and others. Hammond holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and FTO (Finance Technology Option) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and four degrees from Columbia University: an M.S in Anthropology, an M.S. in Computer Science, a B.A. in Mathematics, and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Physics. Hammond advised 17 UG theses, 29 MS theses, and 10 Ph.D. dissertations. Hammond is the 2020 recipient of the TEES Faculty Fellows Award and the 2011 recipient of the Charles H. Barclay, Jr. '45 Faculty Fellow Award. Hammond has been featured on the Discovery Channel and other news sources. Hammond is dedicated to diversity and equity, which is reflected in her publications, research, teaching, service, and mentoring. More at http://srl.tamu.edu and http://ieei.tamu.edu.

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Abstract

Throughout the history of the ASEE Gulf-Southwest annual conference, hundreds of papers have been submitted and presented over a wide range of topics in the field of Engineering Education. By systematically scouring the ASEE PEER document repository, the ASEE-GSW Index of Past Proceedings, and Google Scholar’s document database, papers submitted to the annual conference from the year 2009 to the year 2021 have been collected, added to a database, and analyzed in an effort to identify trends that reside in those papers. Using natural language processing techniques such as TF-IDF, analysis on keyword usage in titles and abstracts across many research papers is produced, revealing consistencies in topics researched that are found to persist across numerous years in papers from various authors. Through the web scraping of Google Scholar’s h-index system and scholar database, the writing histories of many authors is well documented and can be sorted, allowing for the identification of patterns in citation counts and h-index scores of authors who submit papers to the conference. Finally, a more comprehensive database, generated using Google CoLab, of research papers submitted to the ASEE-GSW annual conference was created, due to the high level of detail required by the analysis techniques used for each paper submitted. This allowed for the discovery of connections between various affiliations and the papers their authors submit, including notable variances in the number of papers, number of authors per paper, and number of early career researchers submitting papers to the conference. Analysis also revealed a core community of researchers from several different schools who continually submit papers to the conference across numerous years. These insights can aid future authors in the presentation of their work for the ASEE-GSW community and will improve understanding of the current trends and interest of the Engineering Education research community as a whole.

Huang, A., & Latham, A. J., & Yao, E., & Hammond, T. A. (2022, March), Thematic and Authorship Analysis of ASEE Gulf-Southwest Conference Papers Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference, Prairie View, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--39216

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