beyond ethical reasoning,engineering educators need fundamental knowledge about engineers’ moral formation. Toinvestigate engineers’ moral formation, the first author has begun a dissertation project that hasthree parts. The first part is a mixed-methods study of the influence of organizational culture onthe moral formation of practicing engineers. The second part is a similar mixed-methods study ofengineering students. The third part is an educational intervention whose content will be informedby the results of the first two parts. This work-in-progress paper describes the dissertation project,with specific details about the quantitative phase of the first mixed-methods study.IntroductionAccording to recent research, current engineering
Paper ID #34275Supporting Equitable Team Experiences Using Tandem, an Online Assess-mentand Learning ToolDr. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios. She is one of the faculty co-innovators behind Tandem.Dr
class time, there are active discussions andhands-on learning related to the learned course content. The design thinking course has threeprojects- the first two projects are small projects aimed to help students learn the designthinking process. The third project is a larger course capstone project where students apply thedesign process to solve a real time problem and come up with functional prototypes as a projectoutcome. All the projects are group-based projects and the final project groups are selected bystudents themselves based on their interest area for the project. To understand the context ofthis study, the next section describes a typical class meeting.Daily Routine- Design Thinking Course Students read and complete the
Paper ID #34368From UML Design to Implementation of a Reliable Student Information Sys-temBriana Marie BaileyDr. Yujian Fu P.E., Alabama A&M University Dr. Yujian Fu is an associate professor of computer science department at Alabama A&M University. Her research interests fall in formal verification of cyber physical systems, behavioral analysis of mobile security, software architecture and design analysis of safety-critical and mission-critical systems. Her projects are supported by NSF, Air Force and DoD. She have several publications regarding to the research and educational projects
work on transparent conducting oxides. Before he started at UIUC he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on a project that aimed at a description of non-adiabatic electron ion dynamics. His research revolves around excited electronic states and their dynamics in various materials using accurate computational methods and making use of modern super computers in order to understand, for instance, how light is absorbed in photo-voltaic materials. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Incorporating the use of a materials database into a Materials Science and Engineering freshman
University, Beijing, China, 1999. WORKING EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Cal Poly Pomona, 2016 – present. • Teach Process Design and Process Control for senior students. Process/Project Engineer, Wahlco Inc, Santa Ana, CA, 2014-2016. • Lead Urea to Ammonia process development. • Responsible for marketing research review. • Conduct internal and customer factory acceptance test. • Design process control system with PLC/DCS implementation. Project Manager/Senior Engineer, ClearWaterBay Technology Inc. Pomona, CA, 2007-2014. • Managed a Large-scale Refinery Energy Optimization Project, 2012-2014. • Major project in process design: 30+ units and 2 utility systems, with
UniversityMs. Briceland McLaughlin, Boise State University Briceland McLaughlin is an academic advisor at Boise State University. She graduated with an M.Ed. from the University of Kansas in 2011 and has worked at higher education institutions across the country over the last decade in both student affairs and academic support roles. Briceland is interested in the intersectionality of student development theory and curriculum design.Dr. Donald Plumlee P.E., Boise State University Dr. Plumlee is certified as a Professional Engineer in the state of Idaho. He has spent the last ten years es- tablishing the Ceramic MEMS laboratory at Boise State University. Dr. Plumlee is involved in numerous projects developing micro-electro
through the program. A chi-square test found a statistically significantdifference between groups of students who had participated for an entire year in the LMP andstudents who had not participated at all. An independent samples t-test found an observable, butnot statistically significant, positive association between LMP participation and GPAs.Emergent themes resulting from a preliminary coding of student interviews pointed to atransition in student behavior and identify as they progressed through the LMP. The researchersconclude by proposing a systemic understanding of mentorship programs as a means to providedynamic supports that relate to students’ dynamic STEM identities.IntroductionA multi-institutional NSF S-STEM Project is in its second
Engineering.Mr. Abdullah J. Nafakh, Purdue University Abdullah J. Nafakh is a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in Trans- portation at Purdue University. Abdullah gained both his B.S.C.E. and M.S.C.E. at Purdue University. After gaining his M.S.C.E. degree, Abdullah worked for two years as a roadways engineer carrying out several roadway projects for public Indiana agencies before returning to Purdue as a PhD student. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 AN EVALUATION OF A UNIVERSITY-LEVEL, HIGH SCHOOL COURSE TAUGHT TO FOSTER INTEREST IN CIVIL ENGINEERING (EVALUATION)ABSTRACTHigh school
institutional factors that contribute to a ”culture of disengagement” from the ethical dimension of engineering work among students in the engineering profession. His Ph.D. project is funded by the NSF and is concerned with promoting and im- proving engineering students’ ethical behavior and sensitivity through on-campus student organizations. His academic interests include mental health, international development, human rights, and engineering ethics. Currently, his ambition is to work within an international organization such as UNESCO and to be an advocate for promoting science and technology as critical tools of sustainable development as well as to participate in the dialogue between scientists, policy-makers, and
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
Paper ID #34315Integrating Cybersecurity Concepts Across Undergraduate Computer Sci-enceand Information Systems CurriculumDr. Uma Kannan Dr. Uma Kannan is Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems in the College of Business Administration at Alabama State University, where she has taught since 2017. She received her Ph.D. degree in Cybersecurity from Auburn University in 2017. She specialized in Cybersecurity, particularly on the prediction and modelling of insidious cyber-attack patterns on host network layers. She also actively involved in core computing courses teaching and project development since 1992 in
research is discipline-specific and focuses on identifying how self-efficacy relates to engineering design achievement in an undergraduate BME curriculum. Twogoals of our research include: 1) to increase self-efficacy of undergraduate BME students byproviding project-based learning experiences throughout the curriculum; and 2) to identify ifbiomedical engineering student self-efficacy differences correlate with student ability toeffectively translate fundamental knowledge toward engineering design.Since we bring disciplinary expertise, our choice of mentors parallels the engineering educationresearch topics required to successfully approach our study’s research goals. Again, we targetedthree areas for development: social science research in design
Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios. She is also one of the faculty innovators behind Tandem, a tool to support teams with equity in teamwork. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Proof of Concept: An Algorithm for Consideration of Students’ Personalities in Team FormationAbstractTeam-based pedagogy is common across engineering
interfaces betweenlegacy robotic devices and the environment or the other machinery in work area. Wireless sensorplatforms that can sense the changes in work environment share their sensor observations withthe robot control system by storing the information over the cloud. A replacement for the robotcontrol system that has networking capability can read the sensor’s data from the cloud andcontrols the motion of the robot, accordingly.This in-progress project was implemented in four phases that will be discussed throughout themanuscript. These phases are i) planning for the required sensing and communication, ii) designapproach for data storage and visible cognitive computation, iii) using an industrial hardwareplatform with networking facilities
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
is currently engaged in multiple research projects that involve multidisciplinary collaborations in the field of engineering, medicine, and education, as well as research on teacher preparation and the conducting of evidence-based interventions in school environments.Dr. Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University Stacy Klein-Gardner’s career in P-12 STEM education focuses on increasing interest in and participation by females and URMs and teacher professional development. She is an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University where she serves as the co-PI and co-Director of the NSF-funded Engineering For Us All (e4usa) project. Dr. Klein-Gardner formerly served as the chair of the ASEE
of focus include student retention and implementation of innovative pedagogy and technology. She is currently the Assistant Dean of Academic programs overseeing the First Year Courses, Study Abroad Programs, and International Initiatives at Vanderbilt University. She received her Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from the City College of New York and her Doctorate degree at University of Florida in Environmental Engineering. She has over 10 years of experience developing international and national research experiences for STEM majors, as well as project management. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Work in Progress: Developing a
-op experiences as an undergraduate student, 2 sponsored projects as a graduate student, and as a consultant after joining the faculty at Rose-Hulman. He holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. de- grees in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and was an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipient.Dr. Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee at Knoxville Rachel McCord Ellestad is a a Senior Lecturer and Research Assistant Professor in the Engineering Fundamentals Division at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She received her Ph.D. in Engi- neering Education from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include the impact of metacognitive and self-regulated learning development on engineering student success
has been awarded Honoris Causa from the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy, and has received that society’s highest honor, the Nikolai Tesla Award for outstanding contributions to engineering pedagogy.Prof. Harriet Hartman, Rowan University Professor of Sociology, Chair of Sociology and Anthropology Department. Co-p.i. of RED NSF RevED project at Rowan University. Editor-in-chief, Contemporary Jewry.Dr. Sarah K. Bauer, Rowan University Dr. Sarah Bauer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University. Dr. Bauer holds a doctorate degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Her primary research
many papers written on team formation. Some of these papers focuson team formation for senior design [2, 3], while others focus on comparing different teamformation strategies, such as comparing self-selected teams versus instructor-selected teams [2-5]. In Ref. [2], the teams were half self-selected and the other half were assigned by theinstructor using the Jung Typology Test, which is based on Carl Jung and Isabel Myers-Briggs’typological approach to personality. Ref. [3] considered different approaches for assigningteams in a capstone design course. One approach had faculty forming teams based on studentsurveys of project interests, skills, time availability, and team preferences. The alternativemethod enabled students to form their own
different positions such as Process Engineer, Materials Planning and Logistics Manager, Production Superintendent, Manufacturing Engineer and Glass Technologist. During his time in the company, he co-authored two patents related to glass fabrication and glass coatings pro- cessing. Dr. Gonzalez is a Six-Sigma Black Belt and has participated in numerous process improvement projects. He has been trained as well in the Methodology of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) that he applied to solve complex problems. In the manufacturing operations field, he is certified in Production and Inventory Management by APICS, which is the professional association for supply chain management. He is a member of the Society of Glass
articles in this area, co-authored the book How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching, and developed several innovative, educational technologies, including StatTutor and the Learning Dashboard.Dr. Laura Ochs Pottmeyer, Carnegie Mellon University Laura Pottmeyer is a Data Science Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University’s Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation. She consults with faculty members and graduate students on implementing educational research projects. She assists with study design, data collection, and data analysis. Laura’s training includes a Ph.D. in Science Education and M.Ed. in Educational Psychology from the University of Virginia, where she
completed her doctorate in mechanical engineering in 2011, all from WVU. At WVU, she has previously served as the Undergraduate and Outreach Advisor for the Mechani- cal and Aerospace Engineering department and the Assistant Director of the Center for Building Energy Efficiency. She has previously taught courses such as Thermodynamics, Thermal Fluids Laboratory, and Guided Missiles Systems, as well as serving as a Senior Design Project Advisor for Mechanical Engineer- ing Students. Her research interests include energy and thermodynamic related topics. Since 2007 she has been actively involved in recruiting and outreach for the Statler College, as part of this involvement Dr. Morris frequently makes presentations to
Professor of Architectural Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. She has been on the faculty at Penn State since 1998. After receiving her PhD in 1994 from Virginia Tech, she served on the faculty at the University of Miami before joining Penn State. Dr. Hanagan has focused most of her research career on floor vibration serviceability, with a strong emphasis on steel structures. She has overseen dozens of research projects, participated in several committees, supervised many students, and written numerous papers that have contributed to the body of knowledge in vibration serviceability. While Dr. Hanagan’s primary research interest has been in the vibration serviceability of structures, one of her greatest
: dissertation and thesis writing strategies, preparing for a job search, writing a CV, interviewing, negotiating a job offer Required research training modules 11 research modules are required. Examples include: ₋ Create course modules (K-12, undergraduate) ₋ Deliver classroom lectures on NRT topic ₋ Define an undergraduate research project and mentor students ₋ Present research at external conference ₋ Interact with researchers at national labs, companies and at other universities ₋ Take on
senior design. In addition, correlations between the courses mentioned andthe skills students considered important for design or were confident in using in design illustratedinfluential components of the curriculum. Some of these skills included: written communication,programming, hands-on building, teamwork, project management, using machine shop tools, andoral communication. Students’ resulting perceptions of which skills are “very important” andwhich they are “very confident in” design suggest the need to explore alternative assessmentmethods. Alternatively, these results may illustrate gaps in the existing curriculum aroundparticular skill development and areas where faculty may want to foster students’ understandingof and the skills
interdisciplinary re- search institute called the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) at Virginia Tech. He is the founding director of an interdisciplinary lab called Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS) at VT. He received a Ph.D. in civil engineering from VT. His research interests are in the areas of computer-supported research and learning systems, hydrology, engineering education, and international collaboration. He has served as a PI or co-PI on 30 projects, funded by the National Science Foundation, with a $8.4 million research funding participation from external sources. He directed/co- directed an NSF/Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site on interdisciplinary water
engineering.This career may vary drastically from their peers in terms of industry, specialization, project scope, orexpectations. The purpose of this study is to analyze the breadth of job responsibilities within a wide range ofmechanical engineering positions in order to gain an understanding of the typical activities a mechanicalengineer is expected to complete in the field.This study analyzed 923 job postings collected through the job search and posting site “Indeed.com”, duringa one-week period in the summer of 2020. The jobs represent various industries, geographic locations, andposition titles. Design activities were used as a guiding framework to develop an ontology of engineeringactivities. This study developed an increased understanding of the
and a team project in which they design a scientific orengineering solution that promotes social justice.Learning ObjectivesWe explore social justice in a science and engineering context, with a focus on DEI(diversity, equity, and inclusion). We discover why scientists and engineers must practiceinclusive design and think broadly about the impact of their work on diverse populations,including ethical implications, potential inequities in access, and bias againstunderrepresented people.By the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. Identify how cultural concepts of race, gender, sexuality, and disability have shaped scientific thought and engineering practice (and vice versa) through history. 2. Conduct self-directed