academic interests include biology, philosophy and religion. He is a researcher and writer for Lawyer-Ed, a legal publication. His research and career interests include medical law, legislation research, and engineering education.Dr. Kate Mercer, University of Waterloo Kate Mercer is the Systems Design Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Earth and Environmental Sciences, and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Kate’s main duties include providing instruction and research services to students, faculty and staff. Kate graduated with a MI from the University of Toronto and completed her PhD at the University of Waterloo’s School of Pharmacy. Most
University. She has built an interdisciplinary practice spanning art, design, social sciences and engineering with faculty appointments across multiple schools. As a cultural anthropologist, Erica advo- cates learning from lived experience, the anchor for iterative design and problem-solving processes. Erica is co-director of GW SEAS’s Innovation Center where she designs learning opportunities that emphasize critical cultural inquiry, storytelling, qualitative research methods, hands-on experimental pedagogies, and substantive community engagement.Annamaria Konya Tannon, George Washington University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021
motivation and interest and improvestudents’ engineering skills16. Thus, the design project is a key element of the course that waskept intact as the course shifted from second-year to first-year.It is important to note that Fundamentals was designed by the faculty to be an in-person courseand it was taught as such for the second-year iteration. However, the first-year iteration wastaught during the Spring 2020 semester and was transitioned to an online course for the lastseven weeks of the fifteen-week semester due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Possible implicationsof this transition on the results of this study will be discussed. In addition, future research will beconducted when the course transitions back to full in-person learning to determine the
Paper ID #32926Kindness in Engineering EducationDr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) and Director for the Engineering Plus program. She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where students learned about and practice
shutdownand reopening drastically altered course pedagogies as the traditional seated classrooms morphedinto online and hybrid or blended courses. The problem was that the transition did not align withthe original instructional design. The instructional strategy became uncoupled and was no longercompatible with the learning objectives and student outcomes. A personal experience narrativewas performed to describe the nature of the teaching experience as the pandemic intervened inthe classroom. This paper provides the hallmarks of best practices and lessons learned whenimplementing online education into the structural engineering courses at a small, Midwesternliberal arts, private institution.IntroductionThe governmental stay-at-home orders abruptly
background research we also know that Gen Z students are highlyrelational, have a general disdain for email, and much prefer shorter bursts of communication viasocial media platforms or messaging apps [5]. We hoped that student focus groups might shedsome light on practices our program might employ to market our offerings to these students moreeffectively.Focus Group MethodologyThis study followed an explanatory sequential mixed methods design, initiated quantitatively bythe needs assessment survey, then followed by student focus groups and contextual interviewswith a sampling of campus clubs, programs and organizations in order to qualitatively explainand better understand the survey results [10].The full results of the survey were previously
industry best practices for both technical and soft skills (projectmanagement, communication, marketing, and interdisciplinary design). We included someroleplay activities in the course redesign.The authors felt it was desirable to create activities that engaged asynchronous online studentsand allowed them to experience a level of active learning comparable to the experiences enjoyedby the synchronous online students. The objective of our study was to see if students enrolled inthe synchronous online section of a software engineering course were more engaged thanstudents enrolled in the online asynchronous section of the same course. A flipped classroomstyle course delivery was used to provide synchronous students with opportunities to spend
theirdispositional components and to competency development. Similarly, we suggest programdevelopment work exploring the integration of these (and related) virtues into E/C programs anddevelopment of best practices for assessing effectiveness. Lastly, identifying these core virtueshighlights the need to raise the level of analysis in which our students engage, to address thegoals of engineering and the capacity of engineers to practice engineering in a way that promoteshuman flourishing [35].References[1] J. Annas, Intelligent Virtue. Oxford Press, 2011.[2] E. Pikkarainen, “Competence as a Key Concept of Educational Theory: A Semiotic Point of View,” J. Philos. Educ., vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 621–636, Nov. 2014, doi: 10.1111/1467- 9752.12080.[3
, NY. Dr. Dominguez is a member of the Researchers’ National System in Mexico (SNI-2) and has been a visiting researcher at Syracuse University, at UT-Austin, and at Universidad Andres Bello. She teaches undergraduate courses in Mathematics, graduate courses in Education, and is a thesis advisor on the master and doctoral programs on education at the Tecnologico de Monterrey. Her main research areas are: faculty development, teaching methods, and gender issues in STEM education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Women in Science and Technology Biobio Meeting: Empowering Young Women in ChileAbstractCollege
-centered research anddevelopment activities sponsored by the local industry.In this paper, we mainly focus on the curriculum, laboratory modules and other student-centricactivities for training on robotics and integrated manufacturing systems. We will also present anddiscuss the challenges and opportunities learned during the development of the new program.2. Impact and Learning OutcomesEducation and workforce development focusing on industrial robotics and automation willtransform the way that Engineering Technology courses are delivered, maximizing hands-on andexperiential learning and providing students with a high-tech, industry-based skill set [4]. TheRET program initiative described in this paper is uniquely positioned to engage with the
. the American Society of Mechan- ical Engineering (ASME), and 4. the Institute of Physics (IoP), London, England; multiple best paper awards; NanoBusiness Alliances’ Lifetime Achievement Award and Most Influential Nanotechnology Leaders award; and Special recognition under ”Discoveries” from NSF for a new process, ”Electric Pen Lithography (EPL) for sub-20 nm scale machining using nanoEDM”.Dr. Salil T. Bapat, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Salil Bapat is currently a Post-doctoral Research Associate in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Purdue University under the mentoring of Prof. Ajay P. Malshe since March 2020. Dr. Bapat holds a Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics-photonics from University of
changes in those courses can impact student learning and retention. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Advancing computational knowledge and skill through computing projects in sophomore-level mechanics coursesAbstractThe desire to graduate students with more advanced computational knowledge has become a hot topic incurriculum design. One route to do that is through integration of computing in the foundational mechanicscourses (statics, dynamics, and solid mechanics). The implementation of computing projects in thesesophomore-level courses has resulted in computing becoming an integral part of those courses at
potential to be deployed to millions of people.Given that level of penetration that computer algorithms have into people’s private decisionmaking processes, training our undergraduate students in ethics pertaining to algorithmsbecomes a necessity, much like medical ethics are required of medical students. Computersystems may have bias in their operation. Our students need to have an understanding of howbias enters these sophisticated software applications and how to prevent it.We researched algorithm bias education of computer science students because we wanted todevelop a module on bias awareness and assessment for our students. Our aim is to help studentsin their college coursework, and, later, as practicing computer programmers, to create
kits with a net cost ranging between $20 and $40. Kits were purchased with the supportof the Mechanical Engineering department and were sent to the students’ homes. Then, studentswere tasked with designing, assembling, and operating a generalized measurement system, similar tothe ones available in the laboratory. Thereby, students were able to conduct experiments at home,attained the main objective of the laboratory assignment, and orally presented their results throughBCU. Students were allowed to keep the educational kits for use in other upper-division courses.Another author (Instructor B) taught a required undergraduate course in Thermodynamics (ME4293) with an enrollment of 92 students, as well as a graduate course in Advanced
relationship between students’ interests and the practices and cultures of engineering. Her current work at the FACE lab is on teaching strategies for K-12 STEM educators integrating engineering design and the development of engineering skills of K-12 learners.Prof. Rong Su, University of Iowa Dr. Rong Su is an Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Henry B. Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa. She received her Ph.D. degree in Organizational Psychology with a minor in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and previously served on the faculty in the Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University. Her research centers on the role of individual
a teaching assistant for four semesters of a programming fundamentals course. She is a strong proponent of fomenting divergent thinking in the engineering curriculum specifically by leveraging the arts.Ms. Andrea Essenfeld, University of Florida Andrea Essenfeld is a recent graduate from the University of Florida’s, earning her bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering in December 2020. Her undergraduate research focuses on creativity tests and divergent thinking. She is passionate about how the mind learns and expresses itself, and thus has been working most recently in the engineering education domain.Dr. Jade Williams, University of Florida Dr. Williams is a Lecturer in the Dial Center for Oral
). Dr. Akcay Ozkan’s research interests include Online Teaching of Mathematics. She has completed several workshops on online teaching since 2016. She mentors fac- ulty members as they develop their online or partially online courses and assesses their courses with the Quality Matters Rubric. She has served in the eLearning Committee of the college in chair and secretary positions. She is a member of the Math Department’s Best Practices in Teaching and Learning Committee since 2017, and served in chair and secretary positions.Dr. Dona Boccio, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College Dr. Dona Boccio has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the City University of New York Graduate Center, and an M.S. in
Lecturer and a Science and Engineering Education Fellow at the Mechanical Engi- neering Department, Stanford University. She recently completed her PhD from the School of Engineering Education at Purdue where she focused on identifying and developing leadership and other socio-technical capabilities among engineering students and professionals. She is passionate about improving engineering education and practice and has been working in the areas of innovation, leadership development, diversity, equity, and inclusion, ethics, and, faculty development. Previously, she also worked for companies including Deloitte, Sprint, ProStem and Credit Suisse, both as an internal and external research consultant focusing on areas of
activity showing students the water cycle and illustrated the amount of available freshwater for human use. This was done in the hope of increasing their appreciation for the scarcityof usable water. The results of this activity showed up many times in the students' daily journalsin which they wrote that they learned more about the importance of water conservation.Following the water cycle activity was a fish tagging activity. This included how the fish taggingworks, the importance of it, and how scientists and engineers use the process to determine thehealth of streams and movement of fish in the stream. Thanks to the aid of a graduate student inFisheries Biology, students had the opportunity to engage in the practice of tagging fish.During the
currently pursuing a career in the industry of Engineering Design, with plans of continuing graduate studies after gaining more experience. Additionally, Isamarie owns a 3D printer which she uses as a hobby to learn more and develop design and prototyping skills. Her final goal would be to become an engineering educator, able to teach fundamentals in creative ways that adapt to the new generations of students, including new technologies or dynamics into her lessons. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Toward Benchmarking Student Progress in Mechanics:Assessing Learning Cycles through Mastery Learning and Concept Questions1. IntroductionThis
board).dent participation is key to creating a community of scholars The board comes with an ARM core along with a Xilinxwho form research teams that create cyber threat solutions. 7-series FPGA. For the secure design phase, the studentsThis community of scholars includes faculty, graduate, and developed security functionalities such as designing DRMundergraduate students who practice and share knowledge in functionalities for given audio and running a DRM controlledareas related to the cyber-defense of embedded systems. Also, audio track on a DRM-provisioned device. Overall, the designgraduate student scholars serve as mentors to undergraduate goal was to develop a DRM protocol and
the USA,women represent only 19.7% of engineering graduates and 18.7% of computer sciencegraduates, lagging behind the 35.5% of women in all STEM fields [2]. The goal of this projectwas to understand student thinking about diversity and inclusion with the long-term aim ofimproving culture for females and under-represented groups. The engineering workforce andengineered products, infrastructure, and services can certainly benefit from designs created bydiverse teams. Prior researchers have linked diversity to increased creativity in teams andwork-groups [3, 4].Building an inclusive culture is challenging but very important. A negative campus climate canaffect students’ self-efficacy. A campus with a lack of diverse students can create a
Champaign Alison Kerr received a doctoral degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from The University of Tulsa. Her research interests include training development and evaluation as explored across a variety of academic disciplines and organizational settings. She is currently assisting on a number of training projects aimed at developing engineering students on relevant non-technical professional skills including ethical practice and presentation. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Chemical Engineers’ Experiences of Ethics in the Health Products IndustryAbstractWhile ethics education for chemical engineers has been emphasized, potential
investigationson a series of engineering problems with increased complexity. Opportunities to utilize essentialpractical skills for engineers, include Data Acquisition, Data Analysis, Critical Thinking,Numerical Simulation, Problem Solving, Design of Experiments, and Communication Skills, havealso been incorporated into these lab modules. In this work, we summarize a total of nine multiple-week lab activities, which are designed to prepare students to work in fields related to both thermaland mechanical systems.Introduction and Literature ReviewThe engineering teaching laboratory is intended to be a place to integrate theory with practice. Itspurpose is widely accepted as a place to develop technical and personal skills and establishcognitive abilities to
, p. 11]. Circle overlaps and connections via solid black lines and dotted thin blue linesrepresent dialectic relationships between concepts. The dotted thin blue lines are alsorepresentative of constructed barriers across domains of power, where barrier (and thus opening)size is a function of overall approach, constraining or creating opportunities to navigate towardliberation. As such, the action of engineering graduate students engaging in the strike as alearning method becomes a focal point for this research, where this research study providesparticipants with a reflective space for their own critical consciousness raising around theinterconnections between engineering and labor. Simultaneously, their reflections allow theresearch team to
five key changes for practice, including:(1) the balance of power, (2) the function of content, (3) the role of the teacher, (4) theresponsibility for learning, and (5) the purpose and process of evaluation. As a source of bestSangster, J. Page 1practices in pedagogy, this book was the first of its kind encountered by the author, andsubsequently has had the greatest impact on practice. The discussion on the balance of power introduces the idea that students should haveagency in what they are learning and how they are learning it. Not that the instructor shouldabdicate authority entirely, but that it is possible to meet the learning needs of more
Paper ID #32931Longitudinal Effects of Team-Based Training on Students’ Peer RatingQualityMr. Siqing Wei, Purdue University at West Lafayette Siqing Wei received BSEE and MSEE from Purdue University. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Education program at Purdue University. After years of experience of serving the peer teacher and a graduate teaching assistant in first-year-engineering courses, he is now a research assistant at CATME research group studying how cultural diversity impacts teamwork and how to help students improve intercultural competency and teamwork competency by interventions
research faculty with experience in clinical translation.3. Methods3.1 Course overview and study design At the University of Pittsburgh, a course entitled “Controlled Drug Delivery” is offered as a cross-discipline (bioengineering and chemical engineering), upper-division elective for undergraduate students, and an engineering elective for bioengineering graduate students. Upon completing the course, the student should be able to (1) state the constraints on material properties posed by the physiological environment; (2) use the fundamentals of polymers, diffusion, degradation, modeling and pharmacokinetics to solve problems specific to controlled drug delivery; and (3) demonstrate ability to search and summarize
ways, if any, do student understandings change between their first and second years?Broader Project BackgroundThis analysis used an existing data set generated as part of a larger project that encompasses sixuniversities across three countries. Member institutions are equally distributed, two each fromthe United States, United Kingdom, and South Africa. The research team for this project includesfaculty and graduate students from all three countries, with direct representation from five of thesix included institutions. The objective of the project is to capture various aspects of the studentexperience over the course of a student’s undergraduate career and is thus a longitudinalundertaking beginning in the first year and ending with the
encompasses both theoretical analysis and experimental investigations such as designing and testing of propulsion systems including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr. Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement