2015 taking online courses learning how to construct and deliver online courses. This resulted in a MSEd from Purdue University in Learning Design and Technology (LDT). This widely varied background prepared me well for my next big adventure. Beginning in August 2018 I became the Texas A and M Professor of Practice for the Texas A and M Engineering Academy at Blinn College in Brenham. Texas A and M Engineering Academies are an innovative approach to providing the planet with more Aggie Engineers. My research focus is enhancing the high school through first-year college experience and am an engaged member of the Texas A and M IEEI (Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation). My foundations were set by an
infrastructure systems sustainably. Studies have highlighted that there is apressing need for a better foundation of sustainability concepts among the construction andengineering students [7], [8]. Literature has discussed various approaches and challenges toincorporate sustainability in civil engineering capstone design course [9]–[11], teachingsustainable infrastructure through active learning methods [12], [13], integrating sustainabilityconcepts and rating systems into civil engineering curricula [14]–[20]. However, there is a gap inthe literature that explores effective schemes to integrate sustainability throughout four years ofthe Bachelor's program. This study addresses this gap by presenting a comprehensive frameworkalong with best practices
introduce diversity, equity, and inclusivity to engineering students. Her work has been published in The Sociological Quarterly, Journal of Family Issues, Armed Forces and Society, and Sociological Forum. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Driving the conversation of social and educational influences in human- centered design biases among first-year engineering studentsAbstractThis complete evidence-based practice paper focuses on how to introduce the concept of social,cultural, and educational biases in a first-year engineering course through the lens of human-centered design. Consideration of the user can be a
these videos experienced greater learninggains and completed their experiments in less time compared to the control group. An additionalgroup of researchers examined the effectiveness of adding pre-laboratory instructional materialsthrough online videos to the general chemistry laboratory [6]. They found that students were moreefficient and demonstrated greater understanding of the rationale for procedures for two laboratoryactivities that used online pre-laboratory videos than those that used pre-laboratory lectures. In thedomain of circuit analysis, researchers investigated the impact of various teaching practices in bothlecture and laboratory sessions [7]. For laboratory sessions, a key teaching practice was a series ofinstructional videos
. Mahmoud, S. M. Kamel, and T. S. Hamza. “The relationship between tolerance ofambiguity and creativity in architectural design studio,” Creativity studies, [Online]. ISSN 2345-0479 / eISSN 2345-0487 2020 Volume 13 Issue 1: 179–198https://doi.org/10.3846/cs.2020.9628 [Accessed February 6, 2022].[9] V.E. Vynohradov, I.M. Bila, O.V. Kostyuchenko, S.V. Oborska, and L.P. Dykhnych.“Creativity, Readiness for Changes and Tolerance for Ambiguity,” BRAIN. Broad Research inArtificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, 12(3), 44-63, 2021.https://doi.org/10.18662/brain/12.3/219[10] M. Tatzel. “Tolerance for Ambiguity in Adult College Students,” Psychological Reports.47(2), 377-378, 1980. doi:10.2466/pr0.1980.47.2.377[11] M. Buela, M. N. Joaquin, N. Tandang, and A
Paper ID #36744Shifting to a Virtual Summer STEM Program for HighSchool Students (Evaluation)Alison Haugh Nowariak (Graduate Student STEM Education Researcher) Alison Haugh Nowariak is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She is also a STEM specialist teacher for K-5th grade students in ISD 196 in Minnesota. Prior to working in the schools and attending the University of Minnesota, she worked as an undergraduate researcher at the Playful Learning Lab in the Department of Engineering at the University of St. Thomas.Annika Marie GehlGillian Roehrig (Professor
high-impact practices and its influence on community college transfers’ STEM degree attainment," COMMUNITY COLLEGE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, no. https://doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2020.18241334, 2020.[4] Community College Research Center, "Community College FAQs," [Online]. Available: https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Community-College-FAQs.html. [Accessed 31 January 2022].[5] J. Tsapogas, "The role of community colleges in the education of recent science and engineering graduates," 2004. [Online]. Available: https://wayback.archive- it.org/5902/20160210154305/http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf04315/.[6] NASEM, "Barriers and Opportunities for 2-Year and 4-Year STEM Degrees Systemic Change to Support Diverse
levels to explore the concepts of fluids (e.g.,wetting and spreading kinetics, interfacial thermodynamics, droplet impact, fluid/particlemechanics, etc.) It was the goal of the RET participants to identify best practices for teachingclasses such as physics, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, etc. to explain fluid flow conceptsthrough molecular dynamics simulation.IntroductionIn the broad realm of fluid flow simulations nowadays, a wealth of information has been gleanedfrom Lattice Boltzmann simulations, phase field and level set descriptions, volume of fluid models,and other boundary tracking schemes of either a sharp or diffuse interface classification. Whilethey cannot resolve macroscopic length and time scales, particle-based simulations, like
(for middle and high school), physics (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. in Physics at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. In 2013 she obtained a three-year postdoctoral position at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her focus is set on educational research, physics education, problem-solving, design of instructional material and teacher training. She teaches undergraduate courses related to environmental management, energy and fundamentals of industrial processes at the School of Engineering, UNAB. She currently is coordinating the Educational and Academic Innovation Unit at the School of Engineering (UNAB) that is engaged with the continuing teacher training in active learning methodologies at the three campuses of the
mind. Many of my peers never interacted with medespite taking the same coursework in undergrad. I didn’t look like I could help them or knowanything, so I got passed over when it came time for a group project. I wanted to have a chance 14to prove myself like everyone else instead of being assumed to be incompetent. Over the years,my coping mechanism automatically became that of working alone, never asking for help evenwhen I struggled. I was trying to prove that I could do it alone and still do just as well aseveryone else. Unfortunately, in a graduate school doctorate program, that is not the best path totake for long-term success. Researchers
Paper ID #37825Lessons learned: faculty watch parties are a powerfulapproach to foster diversity and inclusivity discussionsLance Leon Allen White (Graduate Research Assistant) Lance White is a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University in the Multidisciplinary Engineering Department focusing on Engineering Education research. His areas of expertise include qualitative and quantitative research in engineering education, but a stronger focus has been in qualitative methods and analysis. He is working as a graduate research assistant at the Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation at the Texas Engineering
. She also works closely with department chairs to create customized programming to meet the needs of their faculty. Her current research interests focus on the adoption of inclusive teaching practices for engineering instructors.Deborah Mitchell Covington (Director of Partnerships, Outreach andRetention) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com People-First Engineering: A College-wide effort to shift the culture by using the socially engaged design processINTRODUCTIONAs engineers, we seek to solve large societal challenges that affect a diverse society. Excellencein engineering thus requires improvements in
Paper ID #38339Preparing Rural Middle School Teachers to Implement anEngineering Design Elective Course: A Just-In-TimeProfessional Development ApproachTameshia Ballard Baldwin (Teaching Assistant Professor)Callie Edwards Dr. Callie Edwards is an experienced educational researcher and program evaluator. For a decade, she has studied, partnered with, and advocated for historically underrepresented and underserved populations in health, education, and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, such as women, communities of color, individuals who experience low-income backgrounds, and those who are
such representations were not necessarily used tosupport children’s engineering design process (i.e., research question 2). For example, there werethree instances in which caregivers discussed why they do not want to be near water when it waslightening or use electrical devices near water. As stated by Amanda, “The crazy thing aboutwater is that it’s a huge conductor of electricity. And that’s why if you are ever doing anythingelectrical, you don’t want to be around water. Because if there is enough electricity, it will zzzz.”In this case, the information shared may be considered a spontaneous science moment [31], but itdid not impact the process and/or completion of the engineering task. Therefore, we focus onrepresentational fluency to
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Modeling and Simulation Engineering, with a joint appointment with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include visualization and computer graphics, virtual reality and augmented reality, modeling and simulation, and signal and image processing. Dr. Shen is a member of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Simulation and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Computer Graphics. He is a member of the Society for Modeling and Simulation and International and a member of American Society for Engineering Education.Pauline Delacruz PAULINE DELACRUZ is a high achieving graduate from Old Dominion University’s Computational Modeling and Simulation
best project is awarded a 1% increase in finalcourse grades.MethodologyDesignThis study is part of an ongoing exploration of pedagogies of engagement that aims to evaluatethe efficacy of several pertinent pedagogies (i.e., mini-projects, guided self-directed learning,peer learning, analysis & design, reflective learning) implemented over time in a sophomore-level thermodynamics course.ParticipantsThe mandatory, face-to-face, sophomore-level thermodynamics course was comprised ofapproximately 80% mechanical engineering majors, 10% engineering mechanics majors, and10% nuclear or industrial and systems engineering majors for the Fall 2021 semester. Allenrolled students were sent an optional survey designed to measure their cognitive and
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assessment of the gaps in institutional services and resources and providethe required feedback, while informing the institution and the research community about theways to develop a resilient support network for engineering students in the times of crisis. Futurework will consider how student responses change under the altering societal and work/academicconditions with or without COVID-19 pandemic being present at that time. Results from thecurrent study also provide recommendations for effective online instruction in the future.Keywords: Needs Analysis, Learning Technology, Engineering StudentsIntroduction During times of local and national quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic,universities had to close campuses and expediently convert
sequence of steps allowed the researchers to identify which parts ofthe design process students focus on and which need more focus in the engineering curriculum.Another area that is relatively unexplored in the design thinking literature is the incorporation ofdiscipline-specific activities that are related to design. Materials engineering as a discipline isdefined by two key ideas. One, there exists a relationship between structure, properties, andprocessing that we can take advantage of to ensure the best performance of a material. Two, wecan systematically select the best material for an application based on its properties. The latter iscalled materials selection. Materials selection can be taught using the Pugh Matrix or Ashby Plotapproach
assiststudents with choosing classes according to the course catalog and ensure that students weremeeting requirements for graduation [20]. Academic advising would follow this structure foralmost one-hundred years until the 1960’s. Around this time, academic advising began toincorporate developmental and learning theories within its practice [22], [23]. Additionally, thenation would see an increasing number of population pursuing a higher education and by the1970’s, the country documented a record number of college students. Many of these students camefrom diverse and underserved backgrounds, thus needing more attention and assistance in theircollege experience [24]. The traditional advising model soon proved insufficient, and academicadvising shifted
Paper ID #36982Sensitivity Preservation and Precision of Plagiarism DetectionEngines for Modified Short ProgramsDylan Ryman Dylan is currently an undergraduate studying computer science and mathematics at the University of Cincinnati. He is preparing to begin graduate studies in engineering education. His current research interests include source code plagiarism detection and computational thinking education with a focus on visual programming languages.P.K. Imbrie (Head and Professor, Department of Engineering Education andProfessor, Department of Aerospace Engin) Head and Professor, Department of Engineering
could be usefulto scholars who study retention at other levels (e.g., at the undergraduate level) or for trackingstudent engagement and motivation over time, as a few examples. To date, to the best of ourknowledge, these methods have not been employed in engineering education, and even in thebroader sociology, psychology, and educational fields, large-scale longitudinal research isextremely rare. Therefore, this paper serves an important role in compiling methodologicalinformation, potential research design choices, and best practices into a useful format for otherresearchers.Considerations for the Design of Longitudinal Research: Recommendations fromLiteratureThe purpose of this paper is to compile the issues and constraints that must be
anticipation of the actualdevelopment of new programs for either undergraduate or graduate students, a pilot course inrenewable energies was conducted during the summer of 2021. The course was offered forjunior/senior undergraduate students and had a broad presentation of renewable energies,theories, and practices associated with each. For this pilot course, a series of invited speakerlectures were offered. Experts in the field covered technical aspects of solar, wind, andbioenergy, as well as business, legislative and geopolitical aspects. Students taking the courseparticipated in an end-of-semester survey about their perception of renewable energies, theassociated industries, and their interest in pursuing jobs related to them. This paper will
conduct research and seek for investigating the best practice, includingconceptual update, structural optimization, pattern innovation, quality assurance, and categoricaldevelopment along with the expected outcomes [4], [7]. In all, the three-stage policy documents depict the directions and guidelines of theChinese reformation of engineering education. The main goal of NEE is expressed as “activelydeploy, set up, and construct engineering disciplines and majors that serve national strategies,meet industry needs, and face future development, and cultivate a group of various cross-composite excellent engineering and scientific talents with innovative and entrepreneurialcapabilities, cross-border integration capabilities, and high-quality [2
organizations. Rodolfo has taught multiple courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and he is well versed in the scholarship of teaching. His efforts in leading the Sustainable Buildings program were recognized with the 2019 Award for Excellence in Education Abroad Curriculum Design. He has also worked as a project engineer, consultant, and safety inspector in the industry. He believes that educating the next generation of professionals will play a pivotal role in sustainability standard practices. In terms of engagement, Dr. Valdes-Vasquez has served as the USGBC student club's adviser and the ASC Sustainability Team's faculty coach since 2013. He is currently serving as a CSU President's Sustainability Commission
associated with the position are introductory levelengineering courses plus courses in mechanical engineering and design science that meet theresearch and design criteria for liaison inclusion (i.e., ENG 100.500, ENG 100.510, ENG100.580, ME 311, ME 335, ME 450, ME 505, ME 512, ME 520, ME 557, DESCI 791).In a relatively short period of time, and in spite of the pandemic and its impact on educationaland research environments, the biomedical engineering librarian’s contributions have had asignificant impact: 1) advancing the development of a variety of instructional resources,including Canvas modules and instruction videos; 2) increasing the number of consultations onresearch projects; 3) bringing a new perspective to library planning discussions and
operations on advanced machining lines that could be rapidly reconfigured to meet changes to a product’s design or production volume. In 2003 he joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of British Columbia as junior chair of the NSERC-sponsored research program in Virtual Machining. His work at this time focused on the modeling of cutter/workpiece engagement geometry to support process modeling for aerospace machining applications. In 2007 he joined the faculty of the Engineering and Design Department at Western Washington University where he is currently a professor in the Manufacturing Engineering program. His teaching and scholarship interests lie in the areas of geometric modeling, design
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