worked as a visiting instructor in the School of International Studies and Outreach and as a teach- ing associate in the School of Construction Management Technology at Oklahoma State University. She has also worked as an instructor at Ershad Damavand University. In addition, she has over 14 years of experience in industry. Her research interests include sustainable project management, sustainability as- sessment, sustainable technology implementation, supply chain management, decision-making modeling, and big data application in construction. Her research has been published in several peer reviewed journals and presented at international conferences. Dr. Karimi has received numerous awards and recognitions including
American students to work with her as a Navajo principal investigator on the project and building an interdisciplinary, collaborative team of scientists with expertise in analytical chemistry, geoscience, cancer biology, and social sciences are also important to her research. She is a member of the Navajo Nation (born to the N´aneesht’ e´ zhi clan) and is involved in outreach activities for Native American students in undergraduate and graduate research. She is the principal investigator of the Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention and the director of the Bridges to Baccalaureate program. She was named the 2018 recipient of the American Chemical Society Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into
, militaryservice, work in the trades, and life events that too often prevent individuals from pursuingengineering.In the specific context of a project focused on preparing an engineering workforce that canrealize vehicle and roadway electrification and grid decarbonization for a sustainabletransportation infrastructure, we developed a strategic agenda for instilling cross-disciplinarycapacities and creating a smooth interconnected system of pathways through engineering.This paper discusses the structural changes needed in our educational infrastructure and thecurricular and pedagogical changes required for engineering formation to address sustainabilitychallenges in the future. We identify areas for growth and a set of strategic actions in pre-college
key feature of this offering of this course. Students were giventhree immersion options: industry, research or entrepreneurial. Students divided into groupsbased upon the immersion option that they wanted to pursue as well as the topics that theyindicated interest in. Several project topics were suggested for each category and student groupswere free to propose their own.In the industry option, one group of students had an opportunity to explore the NDSU networkand its security. A second group helped a local business (which one of the students was workingat) to design a security testing exercise which was deployed by the company’s staff who reportedback (somewhat abstracted, for security purposes, results to the students). In both cases
. Likewise, efforts mostly but not entirely led by the abovementionedfaculty commission, such as the annual offering of a teaching workshop and teaching conference,as well as new faculty training, a variety of seminars and teaching chats, and voluntary peerobservation all work to reinforce a university culture that is focused on quality teaching andpedagogical development.According to our university’s mission, we provide “a hands-on, project-based learningenvironment” and we aspire to be on the leading edge of “innovative teaching.”Indeed, this phrase appears in a recently released strategic plan, which further emphasizesexcellence and the guiding value of “embracing and celebrating the highest quality standards inteaching.”Though our university is
challenges facing the students were: Attending Remote Classes: Students had to adapt to remote instruction and had to switch among different platforms for different courses. Asynchronous Mode: With asynchronous classes, students missed having the ability to ask questions and participate in class discussions in real time. Team-based Activities: Students collaborating on lab work and projects requiring teamwork had to adapt from in-person meetings to remote and sometimes asynchronous activities, and in many cases, across time zones. Technology: Some students lacked access to reliable computers or internet connectivity. Personal: Some students faced difficult family, health, financial, or living situations.Thrown into the
population [22]. In 2008 and 2012, the COE completed the PACE(Project to Assess the Climate in Engineering) project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundationto identify issues that affect persistence among engineering undergraduates at 22 schools, whilepaying specific attention to the intersection of race, gender, and academic experience [23]. Whenasked to share their personal experiences within the COE, many students indicated that theclimate for women and URMs was not positive and could potentially be detrimental to theireducational experience. For example, some of the comments included the following:“I’m a female, and I've had both professors and students make derogatory comments in jestabout women in engineering.”“Never have I been singled out by
to apply theirexpertise within engineering education. “halfway into my first year I got this notice about a workshop [on teaching]. And I thought, okay, I’ll give it a try.” “my capstone project supervisor had some money to investigate simulated labs … to do some simulation of the lab classes that we do.” “when I came to [institution x], which is almost exclusively engineering and engineers, I had multiple other opportunities to extend those early ideas [on how engineers learn to write] and also to test them.”Sometimes these opportunities were consciously sought, and sometimes found through ahappenstance: “…and I kind of just took any job I could
Paper ID #33470Examining the Efficacy of Exam Wrappers in a Computer Science CourseDr. Karen C. Davis, Miami University Karen C. Davis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineer- ing at Miami University. Her research interests include database design, query processing and optimiza- tion, data warehousing, and computing education. She has published more than 50 papers, most of which are co-authored with her students. She has advised over 100 senior design project students and more than 40 MS/PhD theses/projects in the area of database systems. She was awarded the ASEE Sharon Keillor
labs.Results suggest that each student gains experience building and running their own experiments,and they can explore interesting or unexpected observations at will without the time constraint ofa classroom lab schedule [6]. Further benefits include the ability for experiments to be tailored bythe teacher to meet student needs and the ability of laboratories to be readily shared betweenuniversities [7].Just as important, there is growing need for students to practice professional remote engineeringinteractions because industry has increasingly turned to remote and virtual workflows for reasonsincluding 1) increased complexity of tasks, 2) increased cost of equipment and software coupledwith short term project time frames, 3) the necessity of trained
Penn State. He received his BSME from the University of Wyoming, and his MS and PhD from Virginia Tech.Dr. H. J. Sommer III, Pennsylvania State University Joe Sommer joined Penn State in 1980 following completion of his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and has served as Interim Head of the Department and as Graduate Coordinator. He was a founder of ECSEL, one of the original NSF Engineering Educational Coalitions. His research interests include mechatronics, three-dimensional kine- matics, biomechanics and vehicle dynamics with recent projects ranging from multibody dynamics, to locomotion in microgravity, to tractor overturn, to unmanned air
work presented in thispaper is part of an ongoing project to investigate the effectiveness of the CLICK approach inachieving this goal.3. Effectiveness of the CLICK Approach Study3.1 Immersive 3D Simulation Learning ModuleA 3D simulation model for a manufacturing assembly system was built in Simio® for thelearning module. Simio® is a software package that can be used to create and run dynamicmodels of systems with the ability to build 3D animations [44]. The system represents a tablelamp manufacturing assembly environment. Figure 1 shows a snapshot of the environment. Theoverall process starts with creating the base part of the table lamp using injection moldingmachines, the base parts are then cooled down and transported to a preparation
opportunities relevant tounderstanding the social, cultural, economic, legal, policy, and political contexts ofenvironmental engineering challenges” (p. 80). That said, interdisciplinary work is notnecessarily straightforward in the academy as historically designed. As colleagues andepistemologies from different disciplines come together in a variety of ways, the interface can beboth productive and complex [2], [9].Researchers also point to community partnerships and service learning experiences inundergraduate civil and environmental engineering curricula that reflect both systems andinterdisciplinary problem-based frameworks. They describe positive outcomes and challenges ofsuch community-engaged project work, such as students’ expanded opportunity
engineering roles. He served as the mechanical coordinator for the RMU Engineering Department for six years, and was the Director of Outreach for the Research and Outreach Center in the School of Engineering, Mathematics and Science. In 2019, Dr. Kerzmann joined the Me- chanical Engineering and Material Science (MEMS) department at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the advising coordinator and associate professor in the MEMS department, where he positively engages with numerous mechanical engineering advisees, teaches courses in mechanical engineering and sustainability, and conducts research in energy systems. Throughout his career, Dr. Kerzmann has advised over eighty student projects, some of which have won
of his research, he has explored Colombian chemical engineers’ social representations about science and technology and the conceptions and attitudes about chemical engineering and their identity as chemical engineers. He belonged to Colombian educational formal and informal ambits like a pedagogic consultant at the Plane- tarium of Bogot´ for the project ”Centers of Interest in Astronomy”; innovation, science, and technology a instructor and consultant at the science and technology museum Maloka; and school teacher in Chemistry. As part of his research interests, he looks for the integration between the arts and engineering to foster social justice and critical thinking, and the
Paper ID #34208Exploring the Relationship Between Math Anxiety, Working Memory, andExperiencesLuke A. Duncan, Clemson University Luke Duncan is a doctoral student in the Engineering and Science Education Department at Clemson University. His background is in mathematical sciences and mathematics education. Luke’s primary research interests include math anxiety and student success in higher education. He is currently involved in projects surrounding the topics of transfer student success, cognitive and symbol load, math anxiety, and qualitative research methods.Dr. Karen A. High, Clemson University Dr. Karen High holds
, primarily in the mechanics area. His pedagogical research areas include standards-based assessment and curriculum design, including the incorporation of entrepreneurial thinking into the engineering curriculum and especially as pertains to First-Year Engineering.Dr. Todd France, Ohio Northern University Todd France is the director of Ohio Northern University’s Engineering Education program, which strives to prepare engineering educators for grades 7-12. Dr. France also helps coordinate the first-year engi- neering experience at ONU. He earned his PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder in Architectural Engineering, and conducted research in K-12 engineering education and project-based learning
Paper ID #32874From Lack of Time to Stigma: Barriers Facing Faculty at Minority-ServingInstitutions Pursuing Federally Funded ResearchDr. Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering EducationMs. Carolyn Wilson, Southeastern Universities Research Association Carolyn Wilson is the Special Projects Manager for the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA). Before moving into scientific contract management work, she has focused her research on the changing dynamics of the STEM workforce, as well as the postsecondary education and development of the future STEM workforce. Prior to SURA, Carolyn worked as a
Paper ID #32740Gender Segregation in the Occupations of Finnish EngineersDr. Johanna Naukkarinen, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT Johanna Naukkarinen received her M.Sc. degree in chemical engineering from Helsinki University of Technology in 2001, her D.Sc. (Tech) degree in knowledge management from Tampere University of Technology in 2015, and her professional teacher qualification from Tampere University of Applied sci- ences in 2013. She is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher and project manager with the School of Energy Systems at Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT with main
participation in higher education, and the educational attainment and schooling experiences of Mexican descent youth in the mid-20th century.Dr. Valerie Martin Conley, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Valerie Martin Conley is dean of the College of Education and professor of Leadership, Research, and Foundations at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She previously served as director of the Center for Higher Education, professor, and department chair at Ohio University. She was the PI for the NSF funded research project: Academic Career Success in Science and Engineering-Related Fields for Female Faculty at Public Two-Year Institutions. She is co-author of The Faculty Factor: Reassessing the American
institute in Singapore right after. She spent the next four years in developing navigation technologies for underwater robotics that were used to understand environmental issues in the coastal regions of Singapore. She was always interested in the education aspect of engineering that led her to take up a position as a lecturer in Singapore Polytechnic. Rubaina spent the next five years developing interdisciplinary engineer- ing courses, designing activities to promote engagement and motivation in the classroom and supervise students in their final year projects mainly in robotics. This led to her thinking about issues related to engineering education and pursuing a degree in education
facets), communicating with diversestakeholders, and requiring a lifelong learning approach to every project. Grounded in a richliberal arts tradition, Wake Forest University (WFU) launched a new engineering program in2017 with a strong commitment to this practice of authentically integrating engineeringfundamental knowledge to rich liberal arts knowledge. Together, we believe this combination ofknowledge leads to better engineers. After all, four out of the seven ABET Student Outcomesthat every accredited program must meet is inherently connected to liberal arts knowledge. Inthis paper, we describe a semester-long module within one of our required, first-year engineeringcourses that was co-designed by an interdisciplinary team to embody this
Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. He has developed new and novel methods for sensing and control algorithms for dynamic systems, which are adaptive and robust. The methods have also been applied to networked robots and UAVs/UGVs using AI, neural networks, sensor fusion, machine visions, and adaptive control. He has managed research projects supported by DoD, NASA, Dept. Energy, and Dept. Transportation. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Machine Vision-Based Detection of Surface Defects of 3d Printed ObjectsAbstractDue to advances in 3D printing technologies, 3D object manufacturing has attracted significantattention nowadays
engineeringstudents all five of their courses in an integrated format [15]. LCs were an integral component ofensuring student success in ILS, as they “help learners build interdisciplinary links and sociallinks within a community” [16]. LCs were also integral to the ILS design project, where everyLC form two sub-groups to complete a major engineering design project from conceptualizationto delivery, using the technical knowledge gained from their courses. The use of LCs inengineering design education has been shown to be successful through the ILS pilot, and inWinter 2021, this LC-based integrated delivery format has been integrated into all 2nd yearelectrical engineering education.As the vaccination rollout for COVID-19 steadily improves, academic
disciplines and subjects. Overall, the feedback was encouraging andconstructive. The respondents demonstrated that they recognized definitions of algorithm biasand its harms.Additional presentations at University of Southern California and California StateUniversity, Los AngelesBased on the work done in this current project we identified areas in the module that neededrefinement and adjustment. After making these changes to the initial material the module wasdeployed in sessions at Boise State University, Institution3, and California State University,Los Angeles in Summer 2019, Fall 2019, and Spring 2020 respectively.The module identified a grounding definition of algorithm bias that explained the differencebetween algorithms such as sorting that
improve their problem solving skills and to address their misconceptions.Acknowledgements:Portions of this project were supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) IUSE Grant(DUE-1504730). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References:[1] ACT, INC. "Profile Report-National."[2] Jacquez, R. B., et al. "Building a foundation for pre-calculus engineering freshmen throughan integrated learning community." Page 10 (2005): 1.[3] Seymour, E., and Hewitt, N. Talking about leaving. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1997.[4] Santiago, L., Coolbaugh, A.R., Veeramachaneni, S.S., and Morris, M.L., Board# 129
completed the written survey, four teachers were teaching fully remote and oneteacher was teaching hybrid for the 2020-2021 academic school year. Regarding the LMS, threeteachers utilized the LMS for the curriculum resources and videos. All Femineer® teachers utilizedsocial media for the Femineer® Challenges videos and the teachers reported that their studentsliked the videos and made the projects featured in the videos. One teacher commented “thank youfor the program and for finding ways to support us during our distance learning experience.”Another teacher remarked “overall how you pivoted our collaborations and community has beenamazing! Thank you.” It was identified that teachers wanted more instructional or “how-to” videosand troubleshooting
engineering education profession, develop a vision of engineering education as more inclusive, engaged, and socially just. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Educa- tion Group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at pawleyresearch.org. She was a National Academy of Engineering CASEE Fellow in 2007, received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women, and received the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute in 2013. She has been author or co-author on papers receiving ASEE-ERM’s best paper award, the AAEE Best Paper Award, the Benjamin Dasher award, and co
persistence also highlight the importantdifference between time spent with peers and the support students perceive from those peers. Forexample, a study about Latino students in STEM majors both failed to demonstrate a significantconnection between working with other students on projects and GPA [11] and demonstrated asignificantly negative association between time spent studying with other students and GPA. Incontrast, in a longitudinal study of 100 ethnic minority, first generation college students, whichused perceived support rather than time spent with peers as a central measure, peer supportsignificantly and positively predicted both adjustment to college and college GPA [12]. Studiesof engineering undergraduates have also demonstrated that the
importance to his job of, “…the interpretation and continued iteration ofgraphs, charts, and even the products/prototypes/projects themselves.” Another mechanicalengineer described how he used tables: “We look at volume calculations [in a table] associatedwith tank capacities, product flow rates through piping, pressure measurements related to thermalexpansion.”Other engineers accentuated the importance of statistics rather than algebra. An aerospaceengineer explained how, “Regression analysis can also be used to mathematically sort out whichvariables in the data sets have an impact on increasing items such as revenue, programeffectiveness and product flow in production in a manufacturing facility.” She also describedhow “Data analytics is very