Paper ID #33004Preparing the Next Generation Advanced Manufacturing Workforce UsingCollaborative Robots and Experiential Learning (Work in Progress)Mr. Kenechukwu Churchill Mbanisi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Kenechukwu C. Mbanisi received the B.Eng. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Covenant University, Nigeria, in 2013, and the M.S. degree in robotics engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), MA, USA in 2018. He is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree in robotics engi- neering from WPI, USA. His research interests include shared autonomy, haptic feedback, human motion modeling
Paper ID #34771Utilizing an Engineering Design-Based Research Approach to Study andStrengthen a Teacher Preparation Program in STEM at the Secondary Level(Work in Progress)Dr. Katherine C. Chen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Dr. Katherine C. Chen is the Executive Director of the STEM Education Center at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Her degrees in Materials Science and Engineering are from Michigan State University and MIT. Her research interests include pre-college engineering education, teacher education, and equity in education.Shari Weaver, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteDr. Gretchen Fougere, STEM Leadership
years to promote computer science skills in the initialschool years. Nowadays, computational thinking has been widely recognized as a fundamentalskill to be used by everyone in the world by the middle of the 21st Century. Computationalthinking is also considered crucial for developing engineering habits of minds and solvingengineering problems [2]. When students work on coding, they can learn how to design acomputer program while developing their computational thinking skills [3]. Computationalthinking (CT) includes the thought processes involved in formulating problems, solvingproblems, building systems, and human behavior through the lens of computer science concepts[4]. However, little is known about how and to what extent children acquire
developing their skills and interest in the STEM fields to ensuretheir success at the post-secondary level and beyond. The fundamental principles of E-CADEMY are based on a combination of best practices from research including: a project-basedlearning (PBL) curriculum, high dosage model, cohort of like-minded peers, engagement withSTEM professionals, and family engagement [4]-[8]. This paper provides an overview of theprogram’s component, student feedback and program model future considerations.II. Program Overview Project SYNCERE has provided equitable hands-on engineering experiences for morethan 20,000 underrepresented students in grades three through twelve since 2011. The goal of theorganization’s work is to create pathways for
other underrepresented populations [9] [10]. Whilethere is an equal likelihood of Latinx students graduating from either Hispanic-ServingInstitution (HSIs) or Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) [11], there is a positive correlationof higher Latinx student engagement and motivation at HSIs [12]. Therefore, with this positivecorrelation in mind and the fact that HSIs educate about a third of Latinx engineering graduatesin the United States, careful examination of HSI faculty’s ability to foster motivation couldprovide valuable insights to help increase the representation of diverse populations in the futureSTEM workforce [13], [14], [15].HSIs are two- and four-year higher-education institutions enrolling 25% or more Latinx students[15
Alicia Beth Consulting2 , Island Pond, VT 05846 Burd’s Eye View Research & Evaluation3, Austin, TX 78704AbstractNorwich University, a private military college that serves both civilian and Corps of Cadetsstudents, secured an NSF S-STEM award to develop a program to attract and retain highlytalented, low-income students. Norwich recognizes that students who enter college with lessexperience in mathematics are less likely to graduate with a degree in a STEM discipline. Withthat in mind, the project aims to measure the benefits of a corequisite implementation ofprecalculus and calculus to help students complete the required calculus sequence by the end oftheir first year. In the first year of the study, 34 engineering students
Paper ID #32460Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Online Graduate EngineeringEducation: Learning-Centered Vision, Administration, and Course DesignDr. Andrea Gregg, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Gregg is the Director of Online Pedagogy and an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Penn State Me- chanical Engineering department. She facilitates faculty development to maximize teaching and learning efficacy throughout the ME curriculum, with a primary focus on online learning. She is also respon- sible for leading quality instructional design for residential and online offerings; facilitating an activity community
Paper ID #34183Virtual Globalization: An Experience for Engineering Students in theEducation 4.0 FrameworkDr. Patricia Caratozzolo P.E., Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey Patricia Caratozzolo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She received the Ph.D. degree from the Uni- versitat Polit´ecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, in 2003. Since 2005 she has been a member of the faculty of Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe, where she is Assistant Professor of Power Energy Systems in the Mechatronics and Sustainable Development Department. She is leading different projects in the area of educational innovation, teaching
) may influence enactmentof interdisciplinary engineering curricula in elementary classrooms.Figure 1. Adapted Gess-Newsome (2015) framework used in this study. In particular, this study uses the lens of topic-specific professional knowledge (TSPK) tounderstand how teachers use curricular materials to shape engineering instruction. TSPKinvolves knowing ways in which to organize and represent content, including how to integratecontent, practices, and habits of mind within lessons. TSPK also involves knowledge ofappropriate instructional strategies, including knowledge of potential alternative student ideaswith students at a particular grade band. For example, for teachers to support modeling acrossdisciplines of science, engineering, and
Paper ID #33410The Laboratory Practice of K-5 Teachers in an Engineering RET:Triangulating Perceptions and ExperienceDr. Kent J. Crippen, University of Florida Kent Crippen is a Professor of STEM education in the School of Teaching and Learning at the University of Florida and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research in- volves the design, development, and evaluation of STEM cyberlearning environments as well as scientist- teacher forms of professional development. Operating from a design-based research perspective, this work focuses on using innovative, iterative and theoretically
interests in Engineering Education include engineering epistemology, equity and inclusion, and engineering culture.Mrs. Bailey Braaten, Ohio State University Bailey Braaten is currently a doctoral candidate at the Ohio State University, where she is in her fifth year of the STEM education PhD program. She is a graduate research assistant on the EHR Core NSF funded project, examining first year engineering students’ beliefs around smartness and engineering. She is also a graduate research assistant on the KEEN project, funded by the Kern Family Foundation, focusing on the assessment of entrepreneurial-minded learning (EML) in first-year engineering courses. Bailey received her B.S. in mechanical engineering from Ohio
entitled Introduction to Engineering at the University of NewHaven were surveyed in this study. Students take this course either in the fall or spring of theirfirst year depending on their math placement. The course is project-based and students areexposed to three small projects related to different engineering disciplines and one large termproject that spans over half of the semester. In fall 2019, the three sections of the course weremodified to incorporate use of the makerspace more consciously into the final project. This wasdone with two objectives in mind: (1) to improve the first-year retention of engineering students;and (2) to engage the Gen Z students more with the learning and give them broader experiences.As part of their first
interests and attitudes. International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 6(3), 221-240.[9] Neathery, M. F. (1997). Elementary and secondary students' perceptions toward science and the correlation with gender, ethnicity, ability, grade, and science achievement. Electronic Journal of Science Education, 2(1).[10] U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2014 and 2018 Technology and Engineering Literacy (TEL) Assessments.[11] Lucas, B. & Hanson, J. (2016). “Thinking Like an Engineer: Using Engineering Habits of Mind and Signature Pedagogies to Redesign Engineering Education
experiences for all types of people. With this in mind, one goal is to inspire thenext generation of engineers by giving them a chance to experience the power of virtual-realityflight.PROJECT HISTORYIn Fall 2017, a multi-disciplinary team of six undergraduate engineering students at Oral RobertsUniversity (ORU) began developing a Stewart-platform-based virtual reality flight simulatorprototype. In doing this, they hoped to develop a more innovative approach to enhance theunderstanding of engineering design principles and custom aircraft design. This project took theform of the students’ senior capstone project, a university graduation requirement.By Spring 2018, the students had successfully designed and constructed a prototype that wasable to
arts organizations.Dr. Nassif E. Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy Nassif Rayess is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He was part of the efforts to introduce entrepreneurially minded learning to the University as part of the KEEN Network and Engineering Unleashed. He is also directly involved in the curricular elements of the co- op program at the University, and teaches the professional development courses that bookends the co-op semesters. He received his Ph.D. from Wayne State University and joined Detroit Mercy in 2001. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Embedding Technical Writing into a
Paper ID #34514A Provisional History of the Idea of ”Soft” vs. ”Hard” Skills inEngineering EducationDr. Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia Kathryn Neeley is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the Engineering and Society Department of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. She has served twice as chair of the Liberal Education/Engineering and Society Division of ASEE and received that division’s Sterling Olmsted Award for outstanding contributions to liberal education for engineers. American c
Paper ID #32377”A New Way of Seeing”: Engagement With Women’s and Gender StudiesFosters Engineering Identity FormationDr. Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College Jenn Stroud Rossmann is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Co-Director of the Hanson Center for Inclusive STEM Education at Lafayette College. She earned her BS in mechanical engineering and the PhD in applied physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Lafayette, she was a faculty member at Harvey Mudd College. Her scholarly interests include the fluid dynamics of blood in vessels affected by atherosclerosis and aneurysm, the cultural
Paper ID #32332Identifying Core Engineering Virtues: Relating Competency and Virtue toProfessional Codes of EthicsDr. 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 University in Erie, PA. His research interests include Global Software Engineering, Affective Domain Learning, Engineering Education Research, as well as Philos- ophy of Engineering and Engineering Education. He is regularly involved in supporting the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem, as well as projects that serve the regional
diverse backgrounds, further disrupting efforts to form capableteams in those STEM enterprises.Historically, many diversity-focused interventions have centered on “fixing” the marginalizedminority to cope with the unwelcoming cultures in which they are situated. Instead, theinterventions in this project attempt to change the culture such that it respects and valuesdiversity in all of its forms.Leveraging diversity as a tool for confronting complex and persistent societal problems willtherefore require engineering and computer science educators to be attentive to priming allstudents to work on diverse teams and be committed to addressing matters of equity within theirrespective fields. With this in mind, the ultimate purpose of our 5-year
Paper ID #33505Quality Mentorship Matters: An Innovative Approach to Supporting StudentSuccess in Engineering Undergraduate ResearchDr. Eleazar Marquez, Rice University Eleazar Marquez is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Rice University.Dr. Samuel Garcia Jr., NASA EPDC Dr. Samuel Garc´ıa Jr. is an Education Specialist at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Assistant Profes- sor of Practice for the LBJ Institute for Education and Research. Dr. Garc´ıa helps facilitate professional development to both formal and informal STEM educators utilizing NASA resources with a specific focus
are struggling. Feedback canbe solicited from both the teams as well as individual team members; this ensures not only thatprogress is made with their projects, but that each student is contributing effectively as part of theirteam. A structure featuring a preliminary and final design review would align with similaroccurrences in coursework and in industry.It is also recognized that a virtual project of this type could potentially be utilized not only forshort-term programs similar to Summer Bridge, but also for traditional K-12 and undergraduatecourses. With this in mind, a goal has been set to collect more data specifically related to theknowledge acquired from the project, including knowledge of the engineering design process andother
Paper ID #33887Burning Bridges: Considerations from a Structure-agency Perspective forDeveloping Inclusive Precollege Engineering ProgrammingJacqueline Handley, University of Michigan Jacqueline (Jacquie) Handley is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan School of Education focusing on Science Education. Prior to her doctoral work, she studied Biomaterials Engineering, earning a B.S. from the University of Illinois and M.S. from the University of Chicago. Her research interests are in the historical and cultural nature of engineering, and how that translates into pre-college learning environments. Her current
Paper ID #33866”Mapping” the Landscape of First-Year Engineering Students’Conceptualizations of Ethical Decision MakingJoshua Bourne Reed, Rowan University Josh Reed is an engineering masters student at Rowan University working for the Experiential Engineering Education department. He has graduated with a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from Rowan University. Josh is very passionate about education as well as the social issues in both the engineering and education systems. He hopes to further his understanding in both of these fields.Dr. Scott Streiner, Rowan University Dr. Scott Streiner is an assistant
Paper ID #32918A Sojourn of Engineering Identity Conflict: Exploring IdentityInterference Through a Performative LensDr. Cole Hatfield Joslyn, University of Texas at El Paso Cole Joslyn is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education and Lead- ership at The University of Texas at El Paso. His research emphasizes humanizing engineering education, particularly 1) increasing Latinx students’ sense of belonging in engineering by a) integrating holistic, socio-culturally responsive practices and Latinx cultural assets and values into educational success strate- gies, and b) understanding how
dichotomy of some kind betweensocial and technical thinking: “Yeah, I think I've definitely heard some people mention it, or it'sbeen explained to me in some way, but never with the term ‘engineering’ at the end of it”(00:11:06).Throughout the focus group, much of the discussion from Dorothy related social and technicalthinking to engineering design. Dorothy pointed out the importance of social impacts onengineering design and of designing products with everyone in mind. The idea that Dorothyrelates social considerations to engineering design and creativity shows that Dorothy possesses abasic sense of sociotechnical integration, a level of understanding likely also held by other first-year engineering students. One research team member noted during
questions as a whole class before going into the design process. I observed that the students were more concerned about building and launching the catapults rather than thinking about the process that allows them to build and be successful. – 4th grade Much of the rushed discussion involved teaching about the engineering design process..Many expressed a desire to “be more mindful of the process” and “putting more emphasis onwhat stage we were in.” One wished they had created a “powerpoint or some anchor chart todisplay each step” and expressed concern that the second grade students
and teaching methods weremade to faculty following accepted best practices with this aggregated data in mind. This surveycaptured both faculty and student responses, although faculty responses were not used at the be-ginning of the pandemic as most efforts were placed on helping students. A total of 113 facultyresponded to this survey, and those responses are discussed here.The Engineering Education Faculty Group (EEFG) began meeting weekly during the pandemicto support each other. During these meetings, the members of the EEFG would share variousmethods that they were using in their own online classes and the struggles or successes that theywere experiencing. Online education specialists would often attend and contribute to discussionsduring
Paper ID #32966Sudden Shift to Online Learning: COVID-19’s Impact on EngineeringStudent ExperiencesMs. Nathalia De Souza, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Nathalia De Souza is a second-year Aerospace Engineering student (B.S.) at California Polytechnic Uni- versity, San Luis Obispo. She obtained her A.A. in Math and Science at West Hills College, Lemoore in 2019. Nathalia currently works as a research assistant for the Cal Poly Mechanical Engineering De- partment and is also pursuing a minor in Ethnic Studies. Her engineering education interests include researching the gap in performance and between
Paper ID #33237Introducing Simple Harmonic Motion – A Teaching Module in a First-YearEngineering CourseDr. Christopher Horne, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Since 2011, Dr. Horne has been a Lecturer at NC AandT State University and East Carolina University. He currently teaches freshman a course in problem solving using MATLAB. He combines twenty years’ experience in management and engineering with a passion to help students learn STEM-related material. He is a licensed professional engineer and holds masters and Ph.D. from North Carolina State University and North Carolina AandT State
most growth in this dimension (termedcollaboration in Table 2) of engineering practice. This is especially encouraging since learninghow to collaborate to achieve desired outcomes is one of the objectives of SEED Lab. It alsodoes not come as a surprise since the complexity of the project demands cohesive collaborationbetween members who are “experts” in a sub-discipline. Evidently, students realized how criticalteamwork is and therefore, it is something at the forefront of their minds as a pathway to success.For the team to succeed, more is required beyond the completion of individual pieces. When theteammates come together to integrate their subsystems, it gives them a means of practicing andlearning collaboration. The phase of integration