artificial intelligence andits impact on their career prospects. Students found to be more confident through position-of-stress surveys administered later in the academic term were found to be more positive about theirfuture in a world more influenced by artificial intelligence. The figures below show this result. Figure 1. Boxplots for the confidence levels. Figure 2. Three groups of confidence levels and their associated ECTD scores (Y axis) and confidence levels (X axis).In short, students who lack confidence see themselves as being impacted and possibly evencontrolled by artificial intelligence. Students who are more confident see themselves controllingartificial intelligence and are
Humanitarian Engineering CourseDesignAn introductory Humanitarian Engineering course was developed and incorporated into theminor. This course focuses on contextualizing skills [9], empathy building, and fostering studentself-awareness regarding their positionality in colonial contexts and power dynamics as it relatesto community-engaged design work [12], [13].The initial course covered content on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals,global lifestyles and assumption making, global natural resource and technology distributions,colonization, valuing ways of knowing, traditional ecological knowledge, participatorydevelopment practices, career paths in HE, social impact companies, supply chainconsiderations, reflection techniques, and several
LensAbstract:Physics generally falls under engineering programs yet is required for a multitude of differentmajors spanning many departments and disciplines including medicine. When people think aboutthe medical field, their mind immediately goes to classes such as biology, chemistry, anatomyand physiology. However, when looking at the prerequisite courses for medical school or testedMCAT content, there seems to be one subject that doesn’t fit in with the rest: physics. For years,pre-health students have joked that physics is much less applicable to their future careers than theother courses. The goal of this research paper is to tackle the general student assumption thatunderstanding physics will not help them in their respective fields by providing real
troubleshooting.This project is conducted at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), which is a publicuniversity located in Newark, New Jersey. It is home to 18% Hispanic, 9% other minorities, and28% female students as of 2021. The School of Applied Engineering and Technology (SAET) atNJIT develops strong connections with the community colleges and industries, and offersABET-accredited programs with significant hands-on laboratory experiences and appliedresearch opportunities. These opportunities complement the classroom experience in preparationof students for careers in a wide range of industries. The principal investigator of this project hasexpertise in the field of solar PV and power systems [1]-[8], has supervised several research anddevelopment
CSUM’sengineering curriculum to ensure a fundamental knowledge base is perpetually introduced andbuilt upon during the student’s career at CSUM. We ultimately aim to utilize the STCWcompetencies to ensure the academic and practical aspects of our curriculum creates experientialknowledge deeply rooted in a hands-on approach that is difficult to mimic in a purely academicsetting.BiographiesDAVID SATTERWHITE is an assistant professor in the Engineering Technology Department at California StateUniversity Maritime Academy. He graduated with a BS in Marine Engineering Technology in 2003 from CSUMand an MS in Engineering Management from California State University Northridge in 2019. Mr. Satterwhite holdsa USCG chief engineer unlimited horsepower for diesel, and
Copyright ©2023, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 545course content is housed on a Brightspace page. Piazza was selected for students to be able to askquestions and receive peer feedback along with instructor answers. All Purdue Universitystudents also have licensing to Microsoft Office with their career accounts, with which MicrosoftExcel is recommended to students to build financial statements. Zoom was selected forteleconferencing use in virtual office hours, also due to the licensing that Purdue Universitygrants.As the course is an online course designed for working professionals, all content wasprerecorded except for two weekly virtual
. Development and implementation of the EL frameworkof this project will also help educational institutions such as PNW to have closer interaction withindustry as well as with local agencies. Students will have on-site training and be more preparedto become valuable and contributing members in their field. This effort will helpunderperforming students to become more engaged in learning, leading to retention and a highergraduation rate. Students will benefit as they will be able to identify an area of career interestwithin the construction industry. The new EL initiation also brings in robust field exposure indifferent courses beyond the selective and project-specific internship. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference for Industry and
suchefforts as brochures, listings of engineering technology programs and career opportunities,surveys of support materials for teaching engineering technology (reference and audio-visualresources), and studies of ET graduates [1]. As funding increased, projects changed, movingfrom listings, publicity brochures, or surveys to more focused studies; for example, MohammedAbdallah’s “Proof of Concept: A Novel On-Line Learning Approach for Electrical andComputer Engineering Technology,” is an early exploration (2014) of what we now call “remotelearning” [2].The ProcessMini-grants are currently awarded on a two-year cycle, and the process is relatively painless.Criteria include division membership and a proposed project that can benefit the
student outcome levels are obtained from individual assessmentinstruments. Additionally, conducting assessments in Canvas resulted in higher completion rates.This paper presents the advantages and disadvantages of each assessment tool and outlines anamended process that utilizes Canvas for assessment and mimics and improves upon the reportingin SearchLight by creating a customized dashboard in PowerBI.1 IntroductionFor engineering programs, domestic and abroad, obtaining ABET accreditation is critical to thesuccess of the program, the placement of graduates, and the career advancement of alumni. ABET’ssix-year evaluation cycle ensures alignment between industry needs and academic curriculum. Thecrux of program accreditation lies in the ability
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alongside traditional STEM curricula. Theseparation between STEM and creativity has drawbacks for both parties. For example, STEMprofessionals have missed opportunities of participating in design-thinking careers, and artprofessionals have missed the technical knowledge to provide innovative solutions [10]. Inaddition, STEM faculty and practitioners have suffered a disconnection from creativity andabstract thinking, while artistic community members have struggled to keep pace with thequickly advancing technological society [11].In the classroom, educators should encourage the early development of new ideas to fostercreativity and innovation with engineering design. Learning from industry partners' successstories can provide insights into practical
community. Eachsemester we selected a PESP alum, who had graduated from the university, to talk to the studentsabout her job and career plans at the Reunion party. The Reunion party occasionally featuredguests from industry.In addition to the pay for the peer leaders and PhD stipends, the only other costs involved inrunning ESP were the light suppers provided to the two workshops (approximately $200 perweek) and the cost of the end of semester reunion dinner.Admissions practices at the University of PennsylvaniaAt the University of Pennsylvania, students can begin freshman year with a declared major orthey can be undecided, which is called curriculum deferred in Penn Engineering and undeclaredin the College of Arts and Sciences. The vast majority
University. She received her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2009, and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University in 2007. Her work has focused on studying the engineering design process through cognitive studies, and extending those findings to the development of methods and tools to facilitate more effective and inspired design and innovation. Dr. Fu is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the ASME Design Theory and Methodology Young Investigator Award, the ASME Atlanta Section 2015 Early Career Engineer of the Year Award, and was an Achievement Rewards For College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Scholar.Prof. Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin - Madison Mitchell J. Nathan is a
skills and collaborative and inclusive teams into the curriculum. Dr. Rivera-Jim´enez graduated from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayag¨uez with a B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. She earned an NSF RIEF award recognizing her effort in transitioning from a meaningful ten-year teaching faculty career into engineering education research. Before her current role, she taught STEM courses at diverse institutions such as HSI, community college, and R1 public university. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Social Responsibility Views in Science and Engineering: An Exploratory Study Among Engineering Undergraduate
differingidentities change people’s perspectives nor how to articulate that properly until late in myundergraduate career. As a white, first-generation, queer, neurodivergent woman; I am able torecognize that there are certain spaces that were built for me and others that were not. I haveworked to understand my own intersecting privileged and marginalized identities, and held a lotof anger towards institutional power structures that often fail minoritized communities. I do feelcomfortable questioning engineering culture and honestly would like to use my power andprivilege to change it to help improve the experiences of future generations of students. Aschange occurs slowly, my personal struggle involves directing my passion and energypragmatically in order
for novice engineers is to present the results in a format following the key points of an RFP. This is a good career advice. Making it easy for reviewers to identify responsive points certainly will encourage positive responses. Developing a Hypothesis – Novice engineers will need guidance to develop meaningfulhypothesis. By definition, hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon based on previousobservations. To be valid, the hypothesis must be accurately and concisely stated. It should not be anunsubstantiated wild guess. It should be possible to validate or discredit the hypothesis. This is not a simpletask for students for whom psychrometric principles are newly learned concepts. A practicum exercise
Engineering, English,Communication, Rhetoric, Theatre, Visual Art and Design, Science and Technology Studies, andEngineering Education. Our teaching responsibilities run the gamut of transdisciplinaryinstruction, including communication, science and society, professionalism, team skills,leadership and ethics, and responsibilities as an artist-in-residence, with instruction andsupervision at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Our research interests reflect theseactivities and our career stages span from graduate school to near retirement. We are united by acommon interest in how engineering students develop mindsets that enable effective humanisticpractice, and we share common values in supporting our students’ development of
projects can foster the inclusion of students with learning disabilities (Daniela and Lytras, 2019; Nanou and Karampatzakis, 2022). In the case of tertiary education, industrial-scale robots are used to prepare students for careers in industry by emphasizing aspects such as hardware, software, and human-machine interfaces (Nagai, 2001; Brell-Çokcan and Braumann, 2013). However, industrial-scale robots are expensive to purchase. In addition, there is usually some oversight over their usage due to time-sharing and to prevent damage, which prevents "free-play" by students. Some solutions to this include the use of miniature robots and the use of online labs (Mallik and Kapila, 2020; Stein and Lédeczi, 2021). Though these reduce the cost of the setups
people, but rather done by atask force that surveyed well over 3000 correspondents. These correspondents included 1470senior engineers and engineering managers, representing companies with as small as 1 employeeto as large as more than 46,800 employees, and having upwards of more than 30 years ofexperience. 42 responses were gathered from differing academic institutions, which resulted in aplenary, which further probed 85 department heads on questions relating to the survey. In a finaladdition, 635 responses from early career (0-10 years of experience,) were gathered to provide athird perspective on the strengths and weaknesses of engineering education [7].The survey presented 15 key skills and asked participants to determine which skills were
university. Hence, keeping the general educationcourses including Math and Science courses would better serve the purpose of this program.Summer 2019 marked the first term for curriculum development with six new courses developedand submitted for approval by multiple campuses, the College of Engineering, and the AcademicAffairs Office. For some of the existing courses, the steering committee negotiated withdepartments to offer separate sections for engineering technology students.II. Defining Program Objectives and Student OutcomesProgram educational objectives are the broad statements that describe the long-term career andprofessional goals that are envisioned for the graduates of the program to achieve. It is a commonmisunderstanding among
postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before starting her academic career at Oklahoma State University (OSU), where she was an assistant professor 2014-2020 and then a tenured associate professor until January 2021 before moving to UB. Dr. Ford Versypt leads the Systems Biomedicine and Pharmaceutics Laboratory. She was the 2020-2021 Chair for the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division (CHED). Dr. Ford Versypt has been recognized with the NSF CAREER Award, ASEE CHED Ray W. Fahien Award and Joseph J. Martin Award, and AIChE CAST Division David Himmelblau Award for Innovations in Computer-Based Chemical Engineering Education. She is an Academic Trustee of Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering Corporation
working on activities in teams, with instructors and tutors providingcoaching and consultation; and (4) balanced grade weighting so that 50% is based on the teamactivities, and 50% is based on individual tests.Thus, I retained testing, but for the first time ever in my career, a significant portion of the graderewarded activities other than tests, and other than analytical abstraction. Tasks such assketching, measuring, observing, and explaining can be completed by following relatively simpledirections, often providing a ‘safe’ environment to encourage activity. Results that are not‘correct’ are not severely penalized if well documented and explained, and in fact, are often usedfor starting deeper discussions. Also, the team-based structure
University of Missouri (2006), and an M.S. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering (2010), M.P.Aff in Public Affairs (2010), and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (2013) from The University of Texas at Austin. She received the National Science Foundation CAREER award and the UCOWR Early Career Award for Applied Research for her research work on the energy- water nexus. She was honored with the 2015 Girl Scouts of Central Illinois Woman of Distinction Award in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, the 2018 Rose Award for Teaching Excellence, and the 2018 AEESP Award for Outstanding Teaching in Environmental Engineering and Science. Dr. Stillwell has also been included on the List of Teachers Ranked as
mathematical involvement, in contrast toother courses in the career, and for the restricted applicability to industrial jobs. This criticismgenerally negatively affects the motivation of students. However, the combination with hands-onexperiments has proved to enrich the learning and motivation of students, but most colleges facesevere restrictions on the investment, maintenance, and operation of process control labs and theaddition of new requirements in the curriculum. Some alternatives have been exploring the useof simple modules for classroom demonstrations, theoretical simulations of equipment in unitoperations lab, and virtual-lab simulations.This paper describes the scope of technical training based on process model and synthesis of
engineering and construction industry lags behind other professions in theirdiversity, equity, and inclusion of women and racial-ethnic minorities [11], [12]. Researchindicates a significant factor deterring underrepresented minorities from pursuing construction-related careers is the lack of a sense of belonging. An individual’s perceived sense of belongingwithin a particular space can be influenced by the physical materials or “artifacts” within theenvironment. A study by Burgoon, et al. [11] suggest artifacts (e.g., art, signage, photographs)with exclusionary nonverbal messaging about “who is valued and who belongs” within aconstruction school may decrease students’ sense of "fitting in,” and reduce retention of womenand racial-ethnic students in
. Engineering practice for me became as much about interaction withthose individuals and collaborators as the technology itself. Leydens and Lucena present aframework in their book Engineering Justice [5] that establishes methods for integrating criteriain courses such that the human factors rampant in engineering practice are present in engineeringeducation. This was the missing link for me when I was a student preparing to apply forinternships, jobs, and try to formulate an idea in my mind concerning how a career inengineering might materialize and be fulfilling.Research approach and rationaleThe focus of the field observations in this study was the creation of knowledge through themutual understanding of the instructional faculty and students within
education framework [39]. In this project-based learning, the student's competencies and skills were significantly enhanced, which wasthought to benefit them in their future careers. Furthermore, a study about biomimicry, aninterdisciplinary design thinking approach that answers engineering issues by takinginspiration from nature, explored the understanding and perceptions of biomimicry amongundergraduate and high school students from different countries [40]. The findings revealedthat students had limited knowledge of its applications in engineering and required moreassistance in developing their ideas into prototypes using a top-down approach, also referredto as problem-driven method or indirect biomimicry that involves using biological systems
membrane, nucleus,vacuoles, and cytoplasm. The students were also taught choreography for a poem about cells,Mabie, McGill, Huerta ASEE 2023then how to program a virtual character to dance the choreography that they learned. Findingsrevealed that students’ CT skills increased significantly between the pre- and post-test andstudents were engaged in and enjoyed the learning process.Playton et al. conducted a case study focused on whether increasing student exposure to STEMintegrated with CS (STEM+C) positively impacts their attitudes, interests, engagement, andknowledge of CS careers [41]. Rural fourth graders (n=34) were given 18 contact hours over ayear with three inquiry-based STEM
instruction -- as a facilitator of learning first day of class. as opposed to an authority figure Content This section contains strategies for ❏ Have a diverse set of readings and guest embedding inclusive teaching principles speakers representing varied demographic into the content of the course. These perspectives (gender, race, ethnicity, career path, strategies are aimed at enabling all academic path.) students to feel engaged with the content