Paper ID #34604Abruptly Transitioning an In-Person Hands-on Prototyping Course to FullyOnline Instruction: The Creative Tension Between Maintaining a PositiveExperience and Achieving Learning OutcomesMr. Adulfo Amador, Undergraduate StudentDr. Matthew Wettergreen, Rice University Matthew Wettergreen was appointed director of the department’s Master’s of Bioengineering Global Med- ical Innovation program in 2020. He is also an Associate Teaching Professor at the award-winning Osh- man Engineering Design Kitchen at Rice University, recruited as the first faculty hire in 2013. Wettergreen co-developed six of the seven engineering
students, and integrates many sources of information to provide a seamlessinstructional environment. The practices and mindset associated with quality teaching mirrorpractices of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial mindset.The EMIT Academy uses the metaphor of teaching as entrepreneurship to frame a facultydevelopment program for engineering faculty. The EMIT Academy was modeled on the NationalScience Foundation (NSF) funded Innovation Corps (iCorps) experience [1]. In iCorps, facultywork through a curriculum to help bring technology concepts to market. In the EMIT Academy,faculty applied similar entrepreneurial principles and processes as iCorps to teaching innovationand evaluation. During the Academy, faculty do critical reflection
. Tugba Karabiyik, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Tugba Karabiyik is an interdisciplinary postdoctoral researcher at Purdue University. She holds an MS and Ph.D. degrees both from Florida State University. Before her appointment at Purdue University, she worked as a lecturer and Visiting Assistant Professor at Sam Houston State University for three years. Her research interests include data-driven decision making through data visualizations, economic decision making in engineering design, and applications of game-theoretic and agent-based modeling in compu- tational science, finance, information technology, and engineering fields. Dr. Karabiyik is an expert in conflict, competition, strategic decision-making
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Paper ID #32553Continuous Improvement for Equity in Engineering- AddressingDepartmental Change with Theory-Informed Case Study Research (EBR)Dr. Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation & Research Consulting Dr. Sarah Hug is director of the Colorado Evaluation & Research Consulting. Dr. Hug earned her PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research and evaluation efforts focus on learning science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, with a special interest in communities of practice, creativity, and experiences of underrepresented groups in these fields across multiple contexts.Christina
to obtain a job. Many faced personal/discriminatory interviewquestions, biases, and assumptions about what they could or could not do, in addition to beingsubjected to explicit discouragement and gender discrimination. The paper offersrecommendations for addressing these issues as well as further areas of research to pursue. Bybringing to light the issues surrounding females entering engineering professions in Qatar, thisstudy offers a contribution to women’s role and empowerment in the region.IntroductionWhile attracting women to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fieldshas been a steady concern in Western countries, female students across the Arab world aredominating most STEM educational programs [1-2]. Engineering
Paper ID #32585Pre-Service Teachers’ Experiences Teaching Engineering to ElementaryStudents During the Time of COVID (Work in Progress)Dr. Nick Lux, Montana State University - Bozeman Dr. Nicholas Lux has is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in MSU’s Department of Education. His teaching and research interests are in the area of educational technology. He has worked in the fields of K-12 and higher education for 18 years, and currently teaches in the Montana State University Teacher Education Program. He has experience in educational technology theory and practice in K-12 contexts and teacher education
Board of Directors’ Committee on P12 Engineering Education and the PCEE division. She is a Fellow of the Society.Dr. Medha Dalal, Arizona State University Medha Dalal is a postdoctoral scholar in the Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State Univer- sity. She received her Ph. D. in Learning, Literacies, and Technologies with an emphasis on engineering education from the Arizona State University. Her research seeks to build capacity for engineering edu- cation stakeholders at the grassroots, while also informing policy. Three thrusts that define her research interests at the intersections of engineering, technologies, and education include, ways of thinking that address complex educational challenges
Paper ID #34502Exploring the Relationships between Acculturation Attitudes andDemographic Characteristics in Engineering WorkplacesRohini Abhyankar, Arizona State University Rohini Abhyankar is a doctoral student at Arizona State University’s Engineering Education Systems and Design program. Rohini has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Physics from the University of Delhi, India. Rohini has over ten years of industry experience in addition to extensive teaching experience. Her dissertation focus is on understanding the acculturation dynamics and
engineering course with activities relevant to the identifiedmajor may develop stronger beliefs regarding their career choice and expectancy-related beliefs,improving engineering identity5. For this reason, the Civil and Environmental EngineeringDepartment elected to move a previously offered second-year course titled Civil EngineeringFundamentals to the second semester of the first-year. This paper presents a before and aftercomparison of faculty-assessed student proficiency, as well as students’ self-assessedproficiency, in select civil engineering technologies taught in the course to better understand howthe transition from second-to-first year affected both learning of and comfort with thesetechnologies.Course DescriptionThe Civil Engineering
Paper ID #33403NSF: Integrative Manufacturing and Production Engineering EducationLeveraging Data Science Program (IMPEL)Prof. Mohsen Moghaddam, Northeastern University Mohsen Moghaddam, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at North- eastern University. Prior to joining Northeastern, he was with the GE-Purdue Partnership in Research and Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing as a Postdoctoral Associate. He received his PhD from Pur- due University in 2016. His areas of research interest include cyber-physical manufacturing, human- technology collaboration, user-centered design
experiences, community cultural wealth, and examining URM student’s STEM career decision- making process and STEM identity development.Karla Alejandra Ayala , University of Texas at El Paso Karla Ayala is currently an undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Com- puter Engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso. Karla strives to get a concentration in Computer Engineering to be at the forefront on the integration of hardware and software for future technologies that can better enhance the user experience. Currently she is an undergraduate Support Assistant at the Under Graduate Learning Center in UTEP; where Karla serves as the Gaia Maker Space training team-lead, providing software
senior economist statistician at the Central Bank of West African States. He also served as a consultant for the UN Economic Commission for Africa, and the UNDP.Miss Dhvani Gangadia, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteProf. Michael A. Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Michael A. Gennert is Professor of Robotics Engineering, CS, and ECE at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he leads the WPI Humanoid Robotics Laboratory and was Founding Director of the Robotics Engineering Program. He has worked at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, the University of California Riverside, PAR Technology Corporation, and General Electric. He received the S.B. in CS, S.B. in EE, and S.M. in EECS in 1980 and the Sc.D. in
Paper ID #356582020 BEST PIC V PAPER WINNER - Reimagining Engineering Education:DoesIndustry 4.0 Need Education 4.0 ?Dr. Shuvra Das, University of Detroit Mercy Dr. Shuvra Das started working at University of Detroit Mercy in January 1994 and is currently Pro- fessor of Mechanical Engineering. Over this time, he served in a variety of administrative roles such as Mechanical Engineering Department Chair, Associate Dean for Research and Outreach, and Director of International Programs in the college of Engineering and Science. He has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
targetdemographic of these kits ranges from middle school to first-year college students. This paperhighlights our results from our flagship Family Program and community outreach. The FamilyProgram and Library Program deploys these kits through a series of workshops aimed at raisingawareness in electrical engineering for parents and children and encourages teamwork in familiesthrough hands-on projects. Both programs encourage participants to become the teachers of theircommunity further proliferating the efforts to encourage STEM.IntroductionIt is an exciting time in STEM education as more technologies have become affordable andreadily available with online support structures and forums [1-4]. Teaching and engaging theyounger generation of students to
assignments there. Idid do zoom meetings with my physics classes. My engineering classes chose not to do so”.Student engagement was challenging as described by Joe, “But long story short, I would say thatonce we adapted Canvas and started teaching online, we found that our students, even though wegave them the technology, many of them were disengaged and then were either watching siblingsor just not coming to school at all. And then if they did do it, they just did it on their phones. So Iknow that the lesson we learned is how – was the lack of engagement and how we're gonna try toovercome that because technology was provided, hotspots were there, it's just they weren'tengaged in learning.” Even though teachers implemented multiple communication
Education, Struc- tural Dynamics and Applied Mechanics. He has been a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) in the Mexican Council of Science and Technology. He has held several position within the School of Engineering, including Head of School and his current post as head of the department of Sustainable Technologies and Civil Engineering. He enjoys teaching Engineering in a fun way and likes to learn about Flipped Learning and Open Education. Since 2010 he is an Academic/educatational Youtuber.Mr. Darinel Valencia-Marquez, Tecnologico de Monterrey American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Guided learning sequences as an e-learning enhancer
education and technology development. In education, she is the Engineering director of research alliances for Northeastern University’s Roux Institute. The Roux Insti- tute is creating an innovation hub in Portland, ME, based on applied research and graduate education. Dr. Fougere works across NU to create teams of faculty who partner with corporate and nonprofit or- ganizations to fulfill strategic needs. Previously, she was the inaugural Associate Dean of Outreach and Diversity in the College of Engineering at Boston University. Over the 6+ years, she launched and spear- headed a nationally-impactful initiative called the Technology Innovation Scholars Program, where a cadre of highly-trained engineering undergraduates
sustainable solid waste systems. Dr. Krones received his PhD in Engineering Systems from MIT in 2016.Dr. Jenna A. Tonn, Boston College Dr. Jenna Tonn is a historian of science, technology, and engineering at Boston College. She received her BA and MA from Stanford University and her PhD from Harvard University. Her research focuses on the social and cultural context of science, technology, and engineering, with a particular interest in gender and science, technology and reproduction, and design justice. At Boston College, Dr. Tonn teaches interdisciplinary courses about the history of technology and engineering.Dr. Russell C. Powell, Boston College Dr. Powell is Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Theology and
most faculty had never used video conferencing toolsbefore the move online: the survey reported that only 21% of faculty had used videoconferencing before COVID-19. An additional 49% of faculty started using video conferencingafter the courses moved online.There are few studies that assessed the experiences of engineering faculty. The Tyton Partnersstudy [3] looked at science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) faculty because thesefaculty had unique experiences compared to faculty in general. 46% of STEM faculty in thesurvey taught a course with a lab component, taught introductory courses (70%), taught largeclasses with over 100 students (40%) and taught gateway classes (70%). STEM faculty haddifficulties transitioning courses with a
Integrated STEM SettingsIntegrated STEM education is defined as “the teaching and learning of the content and practicesof disciplinary knowledge which include science and/or mathematics through the integration ofthe practices of engineering and engineering design of relevant technologies” [4, pp. 23-24]. Theimpacts of formal integrated STEM education on middle school and high school students’learning have been well-studied over the past decade, and through these explorations,engineering design activities have been found to potentially have a positive effect on secondarystudents’ science learning. As Wendell and Rogers noted, “Engineering design practicescomplement the essential features of science learning, such as asking scientifically
Generation Science Standards(NGSS) [2] highlight the importance of including engineering in the K-12 curriculum. Theimplementation of NGSS requires that teachers understand engineers’ use of design in their workas well as the ways that engineering is connected to science, technology, and society. The waysin which an engineer’s work connects to science, technology, and society is dependent upon thespecific context in which they are working, and offering students opportunities to engage withproblems situated within realistic engineering contexts can help students meaningfully learnmathematics and science [3]. Providing these opportunities for students will require teachers tohave an understanding of the work of engineers and the way that work connects
, Technical University of Denmark Anna Friesel is Professor at the Center for Electro-technology, DTU Diplom - Technical University of Denmark, Campus Ballerup. She is also the president of the EAEEIE - European Association for Educa- tion in Electrical and Information Engineering, which is a European non-profit organization, with mem- bers from nearly seventy European Universities, most of them teaching in the area of Electrical and In- formation Engineering (EIE). Anna Friesel is a member of the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) Faculty Resources Committee (FRC). The mission of the EAB FRC is ”to promote the continued evo- lution of engineering education and the career enhancement of Engineering, Computing and
competitors from the global market catching up withits standing as the international leader in science and technology [1]. This challenge from the globalcommunity has led to the United States government issuing a call for reform-based science teachingwith an aim of strengthening the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce[2]. With this call comes the associated need to train competent teachers prepared to handle thechallenges accompanying the demand to increase the STEM workforce. To help provide a capableSTEM workforce, many institutions, groups, and committees have created and promoted STEMeducational interventions aimed at i) increasing the number of students pursuing STEM majors and ii) improving student
Paper ID #33112Uncovering Strategies to Improve Student Engagement and Enhance theEngineering Education CurriculumDr. Ekundayo Shittu, George Washington University Ekundayo (Dayo) Shittu is an Associate Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at George Washington University. Professor Shittu conducts basic and applied research that take a systems approach to address the different dimensions of decision making under multiple and sequential uncertain- ties. His focus is on the economics and management of energy technologies, the design and impacts of climate change response policies, sustainability
strategies to assist incoming freshmen cope with first year mathematics classes. She developed teaching modules to improve students’ learning in mathematics using technology.Dr. M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University Dr. M. Javed Khan is Professor and Head of Aerospace Science Engineering Department at Tuskegee University. He received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University, M.S. in Aero- nautical Engineering from the US Air Force Institute of Technology, and B.E. in Aerospace Engineer- ing from the PAF College of Aeronautical Engineering. He also has served as Professor and Head of Aerospace Engineering Department at the National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan. His research
Paper ID #34913Virtual Introduction to Engineering Workshop for High School MathTeachers (Work in Progress)Dr. J. Chris Carroll, Saint Louis University Dr. Carroll is an Associate Professor and the Civil Engineering Program Coordinator in Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology at Saint Louis University. His experimental research interests focus on reinforced and prestressed concrete, while his engineering education research interests focus on experiential learning at both the university and K-12 levels. Dr. Carroll is also the chair of the American Concrete Institute’s Committee S802 - Teaching Methods
Paper ID #34559Computer Science and Computational Thinking Across the Early Elemen-taryCurriculum (Work in Progress)Dr. Kenneth Berry, Southern Methodist University Dr. Kenneth Berry is the Associate STEM Director at the Caruth Institute in the Lyle School of Engi- neering at Southern Methodist University (SMU). He has worked as an education specialist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory until he received his doctorate in Educational Technology in 2001. He then taught at the Michael D. Eisner School of Education at California State University at Northridge (CSUN). In 2009, he moved to Texas to work at the Science and
robotics applications. Savindi was also a participant in the Soft Robotics Toolkit pilot in October 2020.Prof. Conor Walsh P.E., Harvard University Conor is Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the Harvard School of Engi- neering and Applied Sciences and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard. He is the founder of the Harvard Biodesign Lab, which brings together re- searchers from the engineering, industrial design, medical and business communities to develop smart medical devices and translate them to industrial partners in collaboration with the Wyss Institute’s Ad- vanced Technology Team. Conor’s research projects focus on wearable
Paper ID #34399Impact of Course Modality on Student Course EvaluationsDr. Matthew Aldeman, Illinois State University Matt Aldeman is an Assistant Professor of Technology at Illinois State University, where he teaches in the Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology programs. Matt joined the Technology department faculty after working at the Illinois State University Center for Renewable Energy for over five years. Previously, he worked at General Electric as a wind site manager at the Grand Ridge and Rail Splitter wind projects. Matt’s experience also includes service in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear propulsion