Paper ID #33250Resilience in the Home Office Through a Scaled-down MicrogridMs. Tessa Veurink, University of Pittsburgh Tessa Veurink graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Electric Power. Her interests include renewable energy, sustainability, and electric power.Mr. Bradley G. Fox, University of Pittsburgh Bradley Fox is an electrical engineering student at the University of Pittsburgh. He is interested in power electronics and enjoys learning about a variety of other disciplines as well. He plans to start his career in industry in 2021 and grow as a
Paper ID #33763Development of a Crayfish Behavior Case Study for a New First-semesterGeneral Engineering Course Using a High-frequency EnvironmentalMonitoring SystemSara Freix, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Sara Freix is a recent Graduate from Virginia Tech with a Master’s in Educational Psychology. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Biological Systems Engineering. She worked for the Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System Lab during her undergraduate career and was so excited to explore the intersection of her interests in education theory and environmental engineering through co-authoring
Elizabeth Litzler, Ph.D., is the director of the University of Washington Center for Evaluation and Re- search for STEM Equity (UW CERSE) and an affiliate assistant professor of sociology. She has been at UW working on STEM Equity issues for more than 17 years. Dr. Litzler is a member of ASEE, 2020-2021 chair of the ASEE Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and a former board member of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN). Her research interests include the educational cli- mate for students, faculty, and staff in science and engineering, assets based approaches to STEM equity, and gender and race stratification in education and the workforce. She was awarded the 2020 WEPAN Founders Award
ideas rather than immediately ruling them out because of a closed, stubborn mindset. … I realized that the rest of the semester would look very different from what we originally envisioned, but I also realized that was okay and that it was more important to keep an open mind and remain optimistic about the possibilities still remaining. I believe that both being flexible and keeping an open mind are important skills in many different aspects of life as well as in my future career. Often times, I will face unexpected situations, so I believe it is important to know how to quickly react to ensureIn this quote showing an Emerging level, the student critiques their personal and academicgrowth through
undergraduate students. During 2018- 2020, she collaborated with Dr. Kavitha Chandra to utilize participatory action research (PAR) as an evaluation approach for the Research, Academics, and Mentoring Pathways (RAMP) summer program for first-year women engineering students.Prof. Kavitha Chandra, University of Massachusetts Lowell Kavitha Chandra is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Professor of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering in the Francis College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She directs the Research, Academics and Mentoring Pathways (RAMP) to Success program that aims to estab- lish successful pathways to graduate school and interdisciplinary careers for new undergraduate
-intensive state university in the US. The course, Introduction toEngineering, is a 2-credit hour, 14-week course taken in the first (fall) semester by all incomingengineering students across all majors. The course is taught in two identical, large-enrollmentsections of ca. 350 students per section. For the face-to-face (F2F) version of the course, whichhas been offered in a consistent format from 2016-2019, each section met twice weekly for 60minutes of lecture and active learning exercises in a large auditorium. In Fall 2020, due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, the course was offered in an entirely online format that will be describedin more detail in a later section. For both F2F and online versions, the course was co-taught bytwo faculty instructors
the University of Washington Center for Evaluation and Re- search for STEM Equity (UW CERSE) and an affiliate assistant professor of sociology. She has been at American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #32715UW working on STEM Equity issues for more than 17 years. Dr. Litzler is a member of ASEE, 2020-2021chair of the ASEE Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and a former board member of theWomen in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN). Her research interests include the educational cli-mate for students, faculty, and staff in science and engineering
follow trendsobserved nationally. According to a survey conducted by Every Learner Everywhere, one of theemergent themes was that many faculty members indicated they learned lessons during theirtransition to emergency remote teaching that will inform their practice moving forward, whetherteaching remotely or in-person [1]. Since the teaching modality for the 2020-2021 academic yearwas highly uncertain at the close of the Spring 2020 semester, the instructors recognized thatmodifications to teaching strategies would be critical for a successful course for the nextacademic year.This paper is an evidence-based practice complete work that details positive and negativeelements resulting from the sudden transition to emergency remote instruction and
Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET) in 2015 and inducted as a charter member of the University of Arkansas Academy of Computer Sci- ence and Computer Engineering in 2017. He established an endowed faculty award in Computer Science, an endowed undergraduate scholarship in Chemical Engineering and an endowed undergraduate scholar- ship to attract under-represented students to Engineering to help establish the College of Engineering’s Early Career Awareness Program (ECAP). Dr. Schubert lives in Tontitown, AR, USA with his wife Kathryn, and son Tucker.Dr. Manuel D. Rossetti P.E., University of Arkansas MANUEL D. ROSSETTI is a Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas. He
,will interim-level Team Roles that were neither high nor low (i.e., Coordinator, Team Worker,Completer-Finisher) in this analysis move into one of these high or low categories as the workand needs of the team progresses over time (and as the roles’ descriptions suggest)?When students’ self-perceptions were disaggregated by their leadership role on the team, theleaders ranked the Implementer Team Role highest on average. The Implementer (IM) TeamRole is characterized by an organizing ability, practical common sense, being hard-working andself-disciplined. These skills and mindsets are important for a leader of a VIP DesignCompetition Team, which can be a demanding activity. VIP team members’ self-perceptions oftheir Team Role were, on average
ongoing COVID-19 pandemicoffers a complex context in which students can experience ambiguity with an engineering designchallenge as an iterative process of divergent-convergent thinking while focusing on the bigpicture. Students can learn with an emphasis on systems thinking, making decisions in acollaborative team environment; and managing uncertainty in social processes [1]. Theconversations around how schools could function during the pandemic offered a uniqueopportunity to engage students in problem solving about a situation that they are experiencingthemselves.In the US Southwest, three state universities came together during the early stages of the 2020pandemic lockdown to create a virtual design competition for high school students. The
to facultymembers who had expressed an interest in becoming more involved. Of the initial round of 36invited faculty members, 22 enthusiastically joined the Working Group. Those faculty comefrom multiple engineering disciplines and programs as diverse as music, political science,medicine, physics, sociology, engineering, classics, and information sciences. At the same time,the Working Group’s student representative began to recruit volunteers to create a GlobalSTEAM blog on the Working Group’s website and rapidly assembled a half dozenundergraduate and graduate students from across the campus to act as advisors and curators to arunning blog feature.A third initiative emerging from the roundtable was the establishment of a graduate
Paper ID #32964 durability; (3) thin film processing and nanoscale surface corrugation for enhanced light trapping for pho- tovoltaic devices; and (4) microsphere-based manufacturable coatings for radiative cooling. He has close to 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals and over 200 invited/contributed papers at academic insti- tutions, national laboratories, and conferences. He received a UNM Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award in 2005 and an NSF Career Award in 2001. He is a recipient of STC.UNM Innovation Award consecutively from 2009 to 2018, and he was elected as the 2018 STC.UNM Innovation Fellow. Dr. Han holds 17 UNM-affiliated U.S. patents and 6 pending U.S. and PCT patent applications. He currently
, co-op education competencies, and others specific to faculties ordisciplines such as Engineering, for example, the Graduate Attributes, which represent 12competencies that must be taught and assessed in undergraduate engineering programs [3]. Thecompetency frameworks reviewed were those linked to the University of Toronto Co-CurricularRecord [2], The Canadian University Survey Consortium Survey of University Students [4], TheNational Survey of Student Engagement [1] and the Memorial University Career IntegratedLearning Initiative [5].Finally, interviews were also conducted with several potential employers, including the Actua’scorporate partners, regarding their hiring processes and the competencies they seek in newlygraduated STEM
to the welfare of people and societies. But thereare far too few institutions that are doing so. In addition, over 200 schools of engineering havepledged to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive in their enrollments at all levels and intheir hiring of staff, faculty, and administrators, but evidence of meaningful change is hard tofind. While there have been creditable increases in the numbers of women, there is still a paucityof African American, Latinx, and indigenous faculty members and graduate students inengineering in our major research universities.BackgroundThe work of engineering education is dedicated to making the world a better place. Aseducators, we are called to create classroom spaces that support this endeavor. The
]Belonging (or not) AutobiographyIn high school, I thought engineering would be a great place for me to belong. The summerbefore my senior year of high school I participated in a 6-week summer research programthrough the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program at the University in myhometown. I was matched with a civil engineering faculty member, Prof. AULE. In the lab, Iwas closely mentored by one of her Master’s level graduate students, ANSP. I felt I belonged.These women became my role models and mentors. I continued working with Prof. AULE pastthe 6-week program - I was hired as an hourly employee for the rest of the summer and workedbasically 40-hours per week in the environmental engineering lab. I enjoyed talking with thegraduate
students in STEM college programs, with an emphasis on building skills essentialfor college success or creating a sense of belonging among historically marginalized groups ofstudents. [25] [26] [27] The goal of this project was to explore the potential of a valuesintervention to make such progams even more effective in recruiting, not just retaining, studentinterest in STEM. Research suggests that Black students may be more likely than white studentsin general to value social and collaborative features of careers. [4] Low-income and first-generation students are also more like to value helping others through their chosen careers. [7]Therefore, goal congruity interventions, specifically an altruistic framing strategy, may beespecially effective at
experiential learning opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students locally, regionally and internationally with a focus on Hispanic and female students. She is currently Co-PI of UTEP’s NSF-AGEP program focusing on fostering Hispanic doctoral students for academic careers; the Department of Education’s (DoE) STEMGROW Program and DoE’s Program YES SHE CAN. With support from the Center for Faculty Leadership and Development, she leads a Learning Community for Diversity and Inclusion for Innovation at UTEP. She is also a member of two advisory committees to UTEP’s President: The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee and is chair of the Women’s Advisory Council. She is a member at large of the UTEP Council of
challengesin Puerto Rican communities, compounded by the additional constraints and threats imposed bythe COVID-19 pandemic. This led to a decision to recraft a planned summer conference as partof a sponsored research project “Cultivating Responsible Wellbeing in STEM: SocialEngagement through Personal Ethics” (NSF 1449489) into a virtual symposium consistingprincipally of community designers. Thus, we launched the 2020 Co-Creating Symposium, inwhich we aimed to prototype a new model of solution-seeking at the community level which, asnoted previously, would break the pattern of the paternalistic, outsider-driven power dynamics.3. Co-Creating Guiding PrinciplesIn conceiving the Symposium, we asked the following questions: ● How might we create an
anengineering program. Cultivating a culture of doing engineering can result in graduates who notonly are prepared technically and professionally with a practical, realistic understanding of whatit is to be an engineer, but also who identify with and are committed to the engineeringprofession.ObjectiveThe project’s objective is to develop a mechanical engineering program where students andfaculty are immersed in a culture of doing engineering with practicing engineers from industrythat in turn fosters students’ engineering identities. The culture of a program plays a significantrole in effective, innovative STEM education [25], [26]. The culture of “Engineering withEngineers” is being built through the interactions of students, faculty, and industry
disciplinarities ofher own research and teaching. Her graduate training is in STS, and her research has analyzedinter- and transdisciplinary collaborations between engineers, artists, and scientists [19]. She ismotivated by the potential for interdisciplinary engagement to change engineers’ outlooks ontheir education and profession. Her experiences as an instructor of STS-based core courses forengineering and computer science students have helped to shape her outlook on teaching and herapproach to this paper.Lastly, Dr. Desen Ozkan’s graduate background is in engineering education, specifically inunderstanding how faculty developed and maintained interdisciplinarity amid universitystructures. She focused on interdisciplinary design courses that used human
with coaches, and future research will focus on both their effects on the program andthe program’s influence on the coaches. As the program expands to include grant proposalreview, we will be exploring the similarities and differences between schema development formanuscript and grant proposal review. Sustaining the EER PERT Project: Beyond the completion of the NSF funding period,we will be exploring other ways to support this as an ongoing activity in the EER community.Possible models include fee-based programs: in-person or online workshops, and online,asynchronous training developed and refined through this project. The target audience for theseprograms would be early career researchers, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate
advantage” (in this article, we callthis privilege), the education of the dominant group, and practice and accountability[6]. Thisstudy takes an additional step to differentiate between allies and advocates, tying the differenceto programmatic levels and participation: Advocates are active and effective proponents of gender diversity and equity, specifically in terms of increasing the number of female faculty, encouraging the hiring and promotion of female faculty in administrative positions, and ensuring the fair and equitable treatment of women within partner institutions. They are committed to increasing their understanding of gender bias and its impact on the academic careers of women. Allies are men
are being seen, heard, and receiving credit for different aspects of their scholarship.Allyship can have downsides for members of the in-group given the importance of collegiality inthe academy [10]; however, they note that ally programs can improve campus climate for allfaculty members. Having allies can enhance feelings of belonging; this was noted for Blackwomen in STEM [11]. Allies can be critical in establishing an identity [8]. This paper and panelexamine best practices for male allies of female faculty members.Advocacy and Allyship for WomenThe reasons for advocating and allying for women in technical fields are typically personal, andmay be driven by internal or external forces. The panelists discuss this range of factors in
Center for the Improvement of MentoredExperiences in Research [22]. During Fall 2020, a significantly adapted version of thisprofessional development program was offered as a new course (EGR 193: Introduction toEngineering Research) for the first-year, first-semester students newly admitted to academic yearresearch program.The decision to deploy this new course in the Fall of 2020 was in part an effort to provideadditional supports during the global pandemic. Under normal (in-person) circumstances, first-year college students can struggle to understand course expectations, manage the workload, andbalance personal and academic goals [23]–[25]. High-quality programs that support students’social, emotional and physical wellbeing can assist
” during the core 3-hours withfaculty circulating between pods offering just-in-time desk crits or simply observing the interactions of theteam dynamics as decisions are being made. During the 1:35-2:30 time block, architecture and landscapearchitecture faculty members meet independently with their respective student cohorts. In 2021,architectural engineering instituted an “AE Huddle” after the core studio hour to address issues and providediscipline-specific feedback.4.5 Appropriate Project Selection Selecting an appropriate project is critical to the success of the studio due to the complex anddistinct expectations by each program and advising faculty. The faculty has found that a real projectprovides the necessary sense of purpose for
Air Traffic Manage- ment (NextGen). In addition to his university position, he has served as Visiting Research Associate at the Federal Avi- ation Administration, Faculty Fellow at NASA Goddard Flight Research Center, and Software Quality Assurance Manager at Carrier Corporations. He also contributed to the Software and System Engi- neering profession by serving as an author for Graduate Software Engineering Reference Curriculum (GSwE2009), Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE), Systems Engineer- ing Body of Knowledge (SEBoK), and subject matter expert for IEEE Certified Software Development Associate (CSDA) training material. He is senior member of IEEE.Dr. James J. Pembridge, Embry
a mass online education specificallyfor students and faculty from Tier 2 and Tier 3 colleges. MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course )are online courses which enable large numbers to participate via the web or other technologies.MOOCs have a long history and have primarily been asynchronous so that international studentscan also avail of this. In this article, we delineate how we modified that approach by piloting thissynchronously. The Covid19 situation was an added incentive to offer this course to students whocould not meet in person due to restrictions for in-person classes. Over 350 students from 20different engineering colleges from India were recruited for a pilot program along with the facultyfrom their schools. Each college recruited
otherindividuals. These assignments and assessments were developed to not only help students betterexplore possible career and course options, but to help them discover how they can find thisinformation and expand their network.While this initial “What is Engineering?” module helped students to explore courses, engineeringprofessions, and get advice on their future, it lacked a deeper, more contextual understanding ofengineering practice. Thus, the engineering faculty utilized the strong liberal arts foundation atWFU to begin a mutual partnership with the Department of History, noting that several studiesdemonstrate that history and engineering are a good match for interdisciplinary pedagogy [4,6].Dr. Monique O’Connell, a historian specializing in
a loose relationship with connections established by individual faculty orstaff members without formal ties. These individual connections have now grown to includesignificant National Science Foundation (NSF) scholarships in science, technology, engineering,and mathematics (S-STEM) grant known as Engineering Neighbors: Gaining Access, GrowingEngineers (ENGAGE). This creates a partnership between the institutions to support studentsuccess through pre-transfer, during transfer, and post-transfer stages. This is done byminimizing economic barriers and supporting student development in five areas: academic,engineering transfer/career path, personal, connection, and professional. ENGAGE is alsodesigned to create sustainable change so that our