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,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) classrooms, but with varying degrees of success[1]. Prior research has demonstrated that a wide range of students with varying abilities and skill levelscan benefit from the flipped classroom format, but the benefits are not uniformly distributed among thegeneral STEM student population. For example, studies [2, 3] have suggested that medical studentsrespond most favorably—reporting heightened enjoyment, decreased boredom and a large gain inknowledge and skills—because the students naturally enjoy collaborative and project-based learning inhands-on environments. In maritime engineering, these same qualities are shared by students who seekU.S. Coast Guard Licensure (“license students”), qualities which
- ence working with many industries such as automotive, chemical distribution etc. on transportation and operations management projects. She works extensively with food banks and food pantries on supply chain management and logistics focused initiatives. Her graduate and undergraduate students are integral part of her service-learning based logistics classes. She teaches courses in strategic relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her recent research focuses on engineering education and learning sciences with a focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies to assess impact of good supply chain
to become more inclusive. NSF Revolutionizing EngineeringDepartments (RED) program awarded the Mechanical Engineering department of SeattleUniversity a grant in 2017. The goal of this five-year project is to build a culture that fostersstudents’ engineering identities. Many changes have been made to the curriculum and coursesthroughout the curriculum so students could experience real-world engineering with practicingengineers. Engineering design courses for senior design projects provide students not only theopportunity to work with industry engineers on real-world design problems, but also thepossibilities to learn the highest level of professionalism. In the past couple of years, notablechanges in Engineering Design courses include using
skills) [6], (3) project-based learning (integrating complexity of multiple cases) and (4) problem-based learning (requiring self-directed learning). [6]The case-based learning approach is appropriate for this work. Students are introduced to thedata visualization process using a series of worksheets. The goals of the worksheets are to enablestudents to understand essential elements of data visualization while fostering critical thinkingthroughout the process. Skills identified and showcased in each worksheet align with capabilitiescharacteristic of higher-order thinking skills across the knowledge and cognitive dimensions ofBloom’s Taxonomy hierarchy of learning. Worksheets are introduced in a linear manner for thenovice
active/cooperative learning have been shown to increase success forall students [3], but particularly for students from under-represented groups [4, 5]. Additionally,hands-on projects in a first year engineering program have been shown to improve retention [6,7]. Therefore, this redesign focused on two factors known to be important for student retention:improving a feeling of belonging [2] by providing continuity of contact with the department andcontent and by including hands-on, active learning in a first year course [6, 7]. While the content development of the biodiesel-based laboratory was completed in 2015,several other factors influenced the timing of the first offering of the course. The School ofEngineering opened a new building in
Paper ID #32829Introducing Communications to High School Students by Leveraging Zoomasa Communications PlatformProf. Curt Schurgers, University of California, San Diego Curt Schurgers is an Associate Teaching Professor in the UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research and teaching are focused on course redesign, active learning, and project- based learning. He also co-directs an undergraduate research program, Engineers for Explorations, in which undergraduates spearhead real-world engineering challenges that impact the world of exploration and resource conservation. Curt Schurgers received his B.S
tactics, the first being restructuring the Civil Engineeringcurriculum to create unique opportunities for nontraditional faculty-student interactions andrelationships [1].One of the central components of the restructured curriculum is the creation of a sequence ofcourses (Springer 1, Springer 2, Junior Studio, and Keystone Design) that incorporate skills andconcepts presented in the traditional Civil Engineering courses offered at Clemson. However,these courses differ from the norm in that they employ a project-based learning approach,thereby exposing students to a collaborative environment consisting of their peers, teams offaculty members, and stakeholders from the greater community. This sequence of coursesculminates in a Keystone Design
using it to determine mastery of more abstractideas. All implementations of a mastery-based learning systems reported in the literature have shownbenefits, but reported outcomes are often quite different, making it difficult to compare the impacts of thevarious approaches.This paper is a follow-up to a previous paper by the authors that described how a mastery-based gradingsystem was implemented in three sophomore mechanics courses, Statics, Dynamics, and DeformableSolids through an effort we call The Mechanics Project [8]. The mastery-based grading system used inthose courses provides data on the progress toward mastery of every student on the objectives in thatcourse during each semester. This mastery progress is fed back to the student in
share much in common with engineering, particularly in terms ofjob functions following graduation [21] such as project management; in both degree programsgraduates are trained to work with contingent problems. Two other degree programs are worthmentioning in terms of their need to deal with contingent problems and in which practitionersoften operate on heuristics rather than rules: teaching and nursing. Until fairly recently thesewere considered primarily occupations that women went into which associated them with lowerstatus than engineering or management given historical belief systems. However, the wayscontingent knowledge is used to manage highly contextualized problems is similar.An in-depth comparison of the educational methods used by
HODAs used in the course. Lecture Assignments Due Systems Thinking Hands-on Activities Week Topics (Related to Archetypes) Archetypes Modeled by Students 1 CST. Mind Get textbook The Fifth Discipline Games led by instructor on mind grooves. Fieldbook and follow reading plan. grooving. 2 Systems zoo Description of an aviation or Games led by instructor on viewpoints and you aerospace system that has illustrates (CIRCLES IN THE AIR and MIND (Thinking in a reinforcing loop and draw the GROOVING). Previous years' projects Systems) system diagram. Class discussion 3
Paper ID #32523Elementary Students Learn How To Engineer Online (RTP)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 on teacher professional development. She is an Adjunct Professor of Biomedi- cal 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 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Board of Directors’ P12 Commission and the Pre-College
placements for preservice elementary teachers, by grade Grade K 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Total Placements 30 20 14 16 23 18 121 Each PET was expected to teach at least one lesson in each of the four content areas, aswell as to be evaluated by the CT. For science methods, a short engineering design project wassubstituted for the science teaching requirement. A previous study by the author [13] showed thatteaching engineering self-efficacy increased as a result of this approach. Engineering Mini-Units (EMU) were designed to be two-day experiences to introduceK-5 students to the engineering design process (EDP). Preservice
. In order to make an impact onstudent understanding of certain topics, it is vital that their perspectives are understood and takeninto consideration [15]. When the voices of students are heard, professors and teachers can usethat to design their courses and projects in such a way that the students will be able to gleanvalue of the topics being discussed [16].Exploring how students understand the EM interventions they have had throughout their collegeexperience will be extremely beneficial in refining the teaching of EM. In this study, engineeringstudents' perceptions of EM are explored, taking into consideration the value that students placeon EM and their feelings toward its importance in their futures. This study will help faculty to
over 25 years of industry experience in the design and development of electro-mechanical systems. As a tenure-track faculty member and Chair of the University of Detroit Mercy Mechanical Engineering department, he has developed a program of instruction that promotes student-lead design of assistive technology products for people with disabilities. The guiding principle is that student project work is more meaningful and fulfilling when students have the opportunity to experience interaction with real live ”customers.” Dr. Kleinke is currently the Director of the Graduate Engineering Professional Programs, emphasizing Systems Engineering and Graduate Product Development programs. In addition to academic work, Dr
distributed. 2. A workshop for faculty in the College of Engineering (COE) that was conducted during every departments’ regular faculty meetings. 3. Discussion sessions were conducted with faculty who taught project-based courses. 4. Informal lunch sessions to encourage sharing of effective strategies were proposed.Each component of this approach is described in greater detail below.1. Resource (‘One Pager’)An important part of the initiative was the creation of a detailed resource which containedinformation in the form of organized steps on how to make a traditional classroom moreinclusive. The authors initially planned on creating a one-page resource but quickly realized thedifficulty in this task due to the volume of information that
Paper ID #34459Lessons Learned: College Student Surveys as a Professional DevelopmentToolDr. Dick Apronti, Angelo State University Dick Apronti is an assistant professor at Angelo State University. He teaches transportation engineering courses, engineering graphics, and plane surveying. His research interests are in transportation safety and planning. Dick Apronti also has interests in projects that improve access to higher education and college retention for minorities and under-represented groups. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Lessons
from themes ofprofessional engineering issues and utilize these perspectives to build frames as ways of seeingand understanding a situation. The course was project and discussion based with biweeklyreflections and course readings. The primary pedagogical element utilized collaborative learningsessions based on a flipped-classroom model, where students would read unique articles to gainnew perspectives, come prepared to in-class sessions to share their perspectives, and engage inproblem framing of a complex situation. Therefore, the course centered around these interactive,discussion-based, collaborative learning sessions to promote engagement and active learning.Course Design Considerations and Lessons Learned The lessons learned are
of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Her scholarly goal is to broaden STEM participation for socially marginalized groups by designing constructionist learning envi- ronments and mobile technologies to empower youth, families, and informal educators. Previously, she worked as a project manager to develop smartphones. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Motives, Conflicts and Mediation in Home Engineering Design Challenges as Family Pedagogical Practices (Fundamental) AbstractMuch is known about the importance of the family as
an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Educa- tion / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions, specifically on design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Prof. Eva Chi, University of New Mexico Eva Chi is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological
supportsmultiple training and education needs related to data analytics across biopharmaceuticalmanufacturing hubs. As a first-step, our project identified a subset of achievable near-term tasksand objectives needed to develop and pilot an introductory series of active-learning boot campsdesigned to upskill incumbent employees serving in established biomanufacturing scientific andengineering roles (e.g. not trained data scientists) to utilize multivariate analysis tools and extractvalue from complex data sets. Our proposed solution is differentiated by its active collaborationwith industry, and commitment to mentored employee knowledge integration into corporateworkflows.Objectives and Value PropositionsWe propose the development of a workforce
applicationsIntroductionMachining and manufacturing are essential skills that engineering students learn during theirundergraduate education to prepare them for their future careers in academia or industry.Because of the unique circumstances due to the COVID-19 pandemic, biomedical engineering(BME) educators have been challenged with developing modified curricula to accommodaterestrictions or prohibitions on in-person courses. The UC Davis BME introductory machiningand manufacturing course has traditionally employed a hands-on approach to teach students thenecessary skills needed to apply to the prototyping of their senior design projects. However, dueto prohibitions on in-person instruction, the BME machining course underwent significantredesign to enable an entirely
Award. Dr. Ofori-Boadu received both the 2017 NC A & T - CoST Rookie Research Excellence Award and the 2017 North Carolina A & T State University (NCAT) Rookie Re- search Excellence Award. Under her mentorship, Dr. Ofori-Boadu’s students have presented research posters at various NCAT Undergraduate Research Symposia resulting in her receiving a 2017 Certificate of Recognition for Undergraduate Research Mentoring. In 2016, her publication was recognized by the Built Environment Project and Asset Management Journal as the 2016 Highly Commended Paper. Andrea has served as a reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and several journals and conferences. Dr
informed judgments incomputing practice based on legal and ethical principles”, and 3) “function effectively as amember or leader of a team engaged in activities appropriate to the program’s discipline”are soft skills that most undergraduate computing programs believe help students havelongevity in their software careers [1]. Tech companies hiring undergraduate softwareengineers state that soft skills like ability to listen effectively, empathize with others, and beagreeable and cooperative during team discussions [2] are skills that new graduates oftenlack. Undergraduate computing capstone courses and sometimes software engineeringcourses are usually a student’s first introduction to both working on a team-based project,creating a prototype
is inherently a nonlinearsystem. This setup could be used in a more complex modeling class, with students validating anonlinear model. It could also be used to investigate issues of linearization; if a linearized modelis used, students could evaluate for what range of motion they felt it was accurate enough to beuseful.Wind TurbineThe final attachment designed in this project is an adjustable wind turbine. This device, utilizinga single Qube, is comprised of a base plate to attach the turbine to the Qube, a vertical shaft thatmounts to the Qube’s output shaft, a horizontal shaft with slots for propeller poles, 6 propellerpoles, and two miter gears. The propeller poles are adjustable, and additional ones could be madeof different materials
, Clemson, both in Mechanical Engineering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 NSF Grantees Poster Session Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision-Makers: Finalizing a Multi-Dimensional Inventory of Decision-Making CompetencyProject OverviewThe main objective of this project is to help students learn to make decisions that lead toacademic success. Our first goal is to map curriculum pathways, which begins by studyingoverpersistence (when a student persists in a particular major but does not make timely progresstoward a degree). We seek to identify curriculum-specific indicators of overpersistence andcorresponding alternative
of K-12, program evaluation and teamwork practices in engineering education. His current duties include assessment, team development, outreach and education research for DC Col- orado’s hands-on initiatives.Dr. Chris Swan, Tufts University Chris Swan is Dean of Undergraduate Education for the School of Engineering and an associate pro- fessor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Tufts University. He has additional appointments in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engage- ment, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can
society. Adopting queer theory as well as critical,anti-capitalist frameworks for this project help provide the tools to critique the STEM institutionas being the ideal environment for maintaining heteronormative, homophobic, and patriarchalideologies, as well as to propose revolutionary ways to dismantle this ideological aspect ofSTEM.Foucauldian Power DynamicsStemming distantly from Marxist economic theory and philosophy, Foucauldian analysis focuseson the immiscible dynamics of power through an anti-capitalist lens. Foucault, a Frenchphilosopher active during the AIDS crisis, discusses class and identity struggles as powerdynamics, which he calls “biopower.” Similarly, “biopolitics'' is the management of the peoplethrough the manufacture and
years’experience. Studies such as the ones briefly reviewed here bear further analysis in developing aframework and further qualitative inquiry.Faculty research and teaching offer excellent opportunities to infuse or hone entrepreneurialmindset (EM) (Mckenna, A et al., 2018). EM competencies result in effective research andteaching as well as career effectiveness. For example, proposal development benefits from anEM. New course development benefits from an EM. Therefore, entrepreneurial mindset is anantecedent to faculty productivity. This project identifies factors that impact EM and therefore,faculty productivity. Exploring how faculty mentoring influences faculty productivity includesidentifying which EM competencies are promoted through
better equipped to make informed decisions on project alternatives. This ability to understand the subtle nuances of complex technical problems makes EGRS majors the intermediary between traditionally trained engineers and society.” 2Engineering Studies graduates are more diverse in terms of gender than are the College’sgraduates with BS degrees in engineering, and they are more diverse in terms of ethnicity thanboth those with BS Engineering degrees and students with degrees in disciplines other thanengineering [3]. Clearly, the Engineering Studies Program is a place where women and studentsof color feel