Paper ID #33430Student Perceptions of Project Management and Team Culture WithinCapstone ProjectsMrs. Nourhan Emad El-Atky, Rowan University Nourhan El-Atky is a Graduate Assistant in Mechanical Engineering at Rowan University. She received her BS from The Arab Academy Of Science And Technology in 2018 in Egypt. She is working on her Ph.D. at Rowan University. Her Ph.D. is focusing specifically on capstone design projects at Rowan University, senior and junior clinics in particular.Dr. Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University Dr. Smitesh Bakrania is an associate professor in Mechanical Engineering at Rowan University. He re
Paper ID #33752The PEERSIST Project: Promoting Engineering Persistence Through Peer-ledStudy GroupsMs. Thien Ngoc Y Ta, Arizona State University Thien Ta is a doctoral student of Engineering Education Systems and Design at Arizona State University. She obtained her B.S., and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. She has taught for Cao Thang technical college for seven years in Vietnam. She is currently a graduate research associate for the Entrepreneurial Mindset initiative at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Her doctoral research focuses on Entrepreneurship Education and Innovation in
at Harvey Mudd College. His research interests include experi- ential and hands-on learning, and integrating mechanical, chemical and quantum devices into circuits and communication links. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Engineering Identity, Slackers and Goal Orientation in Team Engineering ProjectsAbstract -- This research paper will describe the results from a qualitative investigation oflong-running, team-based engineering projects at a small liberal arts college. Long-running,team-based engineering projects are projects in which groups of students perform an engineeringtask over three or more weeks
Paper ID #32748Examining the Me in Team-based Projects: Students’ Perceptions of Timeand TasksDr. Marcia Gail Headley, University of Delaware Dr. Headley is a Research Associate III at the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy (CRESP) at the University of Delaware. She specializes in the development of mixed methods research designs and strategies for integrating quantitative and qualitative research approaches. She is the recip- ient of the 2017 American Education Research Association (AERA) Mixed Methods SIG Outstanding Dissertation Award. Her methodological work has been published in the prestigious
Paper ID #33176Student Recognition, Use, and Understanding of Engineering for OnePlanet Competencies and Outcomes in Project-based LearningJames Larson, Arizona State University James Larson is a graduate of Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus. The general engineer- ing program in The Polytechnic School takes a project-based pedagogical approach when designing the curriculum. James has previously researched influences for this program design in examinations of the Maker Movement. Previous contributions to ASEE on this subject include conference papers, ”Sup- porting K-12 Student Self-Direction with a Maker Family
, developing knowledge-base to predict potential architectural drift using artificial intelligence. Tajmilur Rahman was a doctoral student at Con- cordia University. As a doctoral student he worked on empirical understanding on software projects with various lengths of release cycle, he extracted feature-architecture of Google Chrome web browser, he up- dated the 12 years old browser reference architecture and also he was working on software quality due to post-release bugs in a trunk based development environment. He received his PhD In 2018.Dr. Stephen T. Frezza, Gannon University Deacon Steve Frezza, PSEM is a professor of Software Engineering and chair of the Computer and In- formation Science department at Gannon
Paper ID #34165Revolutionize Ph.D. Training in Academia-industry CollaborationShiuan-Huey Yen, Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan I’m working as Project Specialist of Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan (IEET) and my BAU is about MOE Industry-Academia Cooperative Project. Graduated from National Taiwan University and received Master’s degree in Linguistics.Jessica Fan, Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan Ms. Jessica Fan is currently the Accounting Manager and Project Manager of Institute of Engineering Ed- ucation Taiwan (IEET). Her primary responsibilities are to oversee accountant and Ministry of
deMonterrey, showed that the methodology enhanced project monitoring, leadership, and systemicreasoning skills in students. However, no significant impact was perceived in mutual support,where students seem not to collaborate with the teamwork, and potential interpersonal conflictsare not intended to be solved.IntroductionEngineering students are often requested to work collaboratively in the solution of complexproblems, however, accurately measuring the performance of individual team members can bedifficult due to the conjunction of contributions into a single deliverable. This paper shows theimpact of applying the Scrum methodology to manage and evaluate collaborative projects in avirtual collaborative environment, using a multimedia platform to
this study demonstrate that there is significant value in getting students toconsider both technical and professional competencies concurrently as they work through project-based experiences in academic settings. Importantly, this study shows that a little reflection can goa long way in improving student outcomes and supports an argument that professional competencyreflection as a regular feature in the engineering curriculum.1.0 IntroductionThe motivation for this work stems from a need to help engineering undergraduates in therecognition and development of professional competencies. An important challenge forundergraduate programs is to provide students with experiences, inside and outside of theclassroom, that give insight on what it means
Work in Progress: Development of a Simplistic Agent-Based Model to Simulate Team Progress within an Innovation-Based Learning CourseAbstractThis work in progress discusses the development of a simplistic agent-based model used tosimulate probabilistic team behavior within an Innovation-Based Learning (IBL) course.Innovation-Based Learning is a non-traditional learning model that encourages students to learnboth technical and entrepreneurial skills by working on a team project. The course pushesstudents to think innovatively, especially on problems with “unknown unknowns” typical ofcomplex systems. In IBL, students are expected to learn and then apply the core concepts theylearn into their innovation projects and track all
University. His background is in mathematical sciences and mathematics education. Luke’s primary research interests include math anxiety and student success in higher education. He is currently involved in projects surrounding the topics of transfer student success, cognitive and symbol load, math anxiety, and qualitative research methods. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Using Design-Based Research Methods to Scale an Expanding InterventionIn this work-in-progress paper, we share the methodological decisions we made to supportresearch within the ongoing implementation of a large-scale, five-year NSF
Paper ID #34567Development and Implementation of Professional Communication Activitiesfor Undergraduate Engineering Curricula Based upon Industry ExpectationsDr. Jacob Allen Cress P.E., University of Dayton Dr. Jacob Cress is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Management, Systems, and Technology. Prior to joining the faculty at UD, Dr. Cress worked for two years at Stress Engineering Ser- vices Inc. in Mason, Ohio. There he specialized in mechanical test development and project management largely in the railroad and hunting equipment sectors. For five years prior to that, Dr. Cress worked at GE
projects, and working with faculty to publish educational research. Her research interests primarily involve creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship education.Dr. Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Stephanie Cutler has degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and a PhD in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. She is an Assistant Research Professor and the As- sessment and Instructional Support Specialist in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State as well as a co-founder of Zappe and Cutler Educational Consulting, LLC. Her primary research interest include faculty development, the peer review process, the doctoral experience
passions. In addition to Statistics Education, she is especially interested in projects related to Public Health.Dr. Mark Daniel Ward, Purdue University, West Lafayette Mark Daniel Ward is a Professor of Statistics and (by courtesy) of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Public Health at Purdue University. He is also Director of The Data Mine and Interim Co-Director of the Integrative Data Science Initiative. He is especially committed to empowering students from backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in the data sciences. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Work-in-Progress: Evaluating Student
distance education is nothing new, the pandemic of COVID-19 forcedinstructors to rapidly move their courses online whether or not they had ever received priortraining in online education. In particular, there is very little literature to guide instructors insupporting students in online engineering design or project-based courses. The purpose ofthis research is to examine engineering students’ report of social support in their project anddesign-based courses at a large research university during the move to online instruction due toCOVID-19 in the Spring 2020 semester and to provide recommendations for instructors teachingthese types of courses online in the future. Our study is framed by social constructivismand social capital theory. We surveyed
also an Assistant Professor in the General Engineering Department and Civil Engineer- ing Department where he teaches the First-Year Engineering Program course Introduction to Engineering and Design. He is the Director of Vertically Integrated Projects at NYU. His Vertically Integrated Projects course is on Smart Cities Technology with a focus on transportation. His primary focus is developing curriculum, mentoring students, and engineering education research, particularly for project-based cur- riculum, first-year engineering, and transportation. He is active in the American Society for Engineering Education and is the Webmaster for the ASEE First-Year Programs Division and the First-Year Engi- neering Experience
c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Student-Centered Program to Increase STEM Interest through NASA-STEM ContentAbstractThis article is an evidence-based practice paper which is based on NASA Minority UniversityResearch and Education Project (MUREP) Aerospace Academy (AA) program implemented atFlorida Atlantic University (FAU). The program is focused on student-centered methodology forinfusion of NASA-STEM contents into the existing curriculum in middle and high schools. Thisnovel program aims to increase awareness and create interest in underserved minority students inGrades 6-12 for pursuing STEM fields. FAU has designed and embedded the NASA-STEMcontents into Florida’s existing Next
generators, frequency synthesizers, switching power supplies, and high-speed digital circuits. He is co-inventor on a patent for the design of electronic instrumentation used to steer oil wells while drilling. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Work-in-Progress: Enhancing Engineering Students’ Troubleshooting SkillsAbstract Several Engineering faculty at Kennesaw State University have observed over the pastfew semesters that students are often unable to fulfill the original design requirements set fortheir senior project due in part to their limited ability to effectively troubleshoot the technicalissues they
tinkering, social learning, andgroup collaboration on creative and technical projects [9]. The hands on, learning by doingnature of the makerspace experience requires a design approach to problem solving [10].Design is often recognized and taught as a team process. The ABET general engineering criteriaaddress the social aspects of engineering education, such as the need to function onmultidisciplinary teams [2]. Makerspaces provide communities of knowledge sharing and peer-to-peer learning, combined with close instruction and supervision from more advanced peers[11]. In such, students engage in collaborative learning – continuously discussing, debating, andclarifying their understanding of concepts [12, 13]. Through online engagement
instructional practice andstudent outcomes. The use of developmental evaluation in this frame enables cycles ofiterative question asking and answering in service to student learning. Looking forward,this toolset is being developed with a mind toward programmatic evaluation, on adepartmental level, even as initial efforts are focused on an introductory engineeringdesign course.MethodsContext and ParticipantsThis design course is taken by students during their first or second year and is typicallytheir first exposure to engineering. This course situates teams as engineers contracted towork on a project provided by an external client. The instructors solicit, select, and refineprojects that present engineering problems requiring conceptual design and
Engineering and Engineering Technology and a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Using Motivational Theory to Implement S-STEM Activities Supporting Student SuccessAbstractThis research paper describes the early results from a scholarship program that has been initiatedwith an overall goal to increase degree completion of low-income, high-achievingundergraduates with demonstrated financial need in engineering. The project will achieve fourmajor objectives: 1) provide scholarships 2) engage students with engineering faculty andindustry partners; 3) create community among students; and
particular area [8], such as project man-agement [9], marketing [10], big data[11], and so on. Using text mining to analyze the job postingsto develop the job profiles used for recruitment has been effective and efficient [12]. It can alsohelp to identify merging potential occupations [13] and to improve the quality of job matching [14].Text mining is one of the major tasks of NLP [15], which has been a topic of interest in variouseducational research including e-learning [16], gamification in education [17], higher education[18, 19], STEM education [20–22] and more. Prior studies have exemplified how applying NLPto job postings can generate job market trends that offered additional educational considerationfor CS education [23]. By utilizing
at Purdue University. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education Group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at pawleyresearch.org. She was a National Academy of Engineering CASEE Fellow in 2007, received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women, and received the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute in 2013. She has been author or co-author on papers receiving ASEE-ERM’s best paper award, the AAEE Best Paper
other individuals. For example, engineering work producessignificant and long-lasting impacts on society, and engineers are responsible for understandingthe potential societal implications of their solutions [1]–[4]. As another example, engineers maywork closely with communities and stakeholders as part of their problem definition and solutiondevelopment processes [1], [4]–[6]. Furthermore, communication and collaboration are coreaspects of professional engineering practice. To achieve optimal engineering outcomes,engineers must be able to work effectively with diverse teammates and co-workers [1], [7]–[9].Engineering students engage with the social aspects of engineering work in several contexts,including internships and project-based design
the impact of cooperative learning during the Spring2020 semester by studying team retrospectives written by students enrolled in a system analysisand design course.The pedagogical foundation for the system analysis and design course was cooperative learning.The course required students to work in teams to develop a software prototype. The project wasdivided into four milestones and each team was required to submit a team retrospective detailingoverall planning, task allocation, group processes, and strategies for improvement. The first twomilestones were completed during face-to-face instruction, while teams met online for the lasttwo milestones due to the shift to online instruction. To investigate team effectiveness, a rubricbased on the
in aggregate, suggeststhat information gathered through classroom observation would contribute substantially to ourunderstanding of space and technology needs.To provide effective feedback for individual instructors, teaching teams, and administrators, weare undertaking a research project that explores the use of technology in active learning inpurpose-designed active learning spaces through classroom observation. To achieve this goal, weare seeking a protocol that effectively captures the nuances of the interactions between thestudents, instructors, space, and technology in active STEM learning settings. An effectiveteaching observation protocol should capture holistically the complex teaching moves that areinherent in active learning
course. The grading scheme is summarized bypresenting how each of these three categories of practices were implemented.Rethinking the 0-100% ScaleGrading in this course is based around tokens; 26 tokens are required for an A, 23 for a B, 20 for aC, and so on. Students earn tokens by answering exam questions, completing labs, and/orcompleting mini-projects. The token progression was built around Webb’s Depth of Knowledge, alearning taxonomy that breaks learning into 4 levels, shown in Figure 1 [12]. To earn a C,students must meet all of the level 2 objectives. Level 3 and 4 objectives could be completed toearn additional tokens.Depth of Knowledge 1 (DK1) is recalland reproduce. In the case of Circuit Analysis1, a DK1 skill might be using Ohm’s
success of engineering projects, domestically and abroad. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 You Teach Us: Peer Teaching in the Engineering ClassroomAbstractPeer teaching, an instructional technique which promotes both student interaction and activelearning, is explored in this evidence-based practice paper. Both in-person and virtual classroomsnecessitate that instructors carefully consider mechanisms of content delivery in order to retainstudent engagement. The You Teach Us, a peer teaching method described in this paper, enablesstudents to learn from one another through structured activities and can be utilized in courses ofvarying sizes. In the
of the project. An advisory board provided adviceand monitored the project for external quality checks.Findings and DiscussionIn this section, we present preliminary findings from the first two series of interviews with theBridge program participants. We used the frameworks of community cultural wealth and fundsof knowledge to highlight assets the students brought to the program.Community Cultural WealthCommunity cultural wealth highlights forms of capital that Students of Color bring from theircommunities and homes into the classroom [17]. The Critical aspect of this framework shifts thefocus of values from White, middle class culture to the cultures of Communities of Color [17].We recognize that CCW was intended for use with People of
at Michigan Tech. She received undergraduate and graduate degrees in mechanical engineering from Duke and NC State, respectively. Her research interests include engineering education and precision manufacturing. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Exploring the Effects of a Targeted Program on Engineering-Related Social CapitalIntroductionThis work in progress paper explores a subset of initial data from a scholarship program thatincorporates mentoring and other aspects designed to expand students’ social capital via socialnetwork expansion. The larger project follows the students involved in this project to