their choice to engage the students. Part of the presentation involved researchingsocietal or environmental impacts that were tied to the structure of interest. For example, a groupwho chose dams as their structure would explain that there’s a potential for damage to aquatichabitats, but there is also the benefit of jobs being created during its construction. Having toperform the research for themselves and become the teachers, students were able to further theirunderstanding of the course’s core concepts. More details on this project can be read in [16].AssessmentsThe high weighting of the quizzes and assignments in the Fall 2020 term affected the students asthey became pre-occupied with getting the best grades. Their fixation on the
being approved in the fall of 2019.In 2011, a thought-leading team of graduate-oriented faculty from discipline-specificdepartments was assembled to research and conceptualize what such a degree might look likeand how it might be best delivered. The team launched three parallel research efforts [1], [2], [3]: To ascertain what precedents and experiences with similar goals existed around the world, i.e., an international review of other doctoral programs addressing similar needs. To begin the process of identifying the curriculum and course content of the program. To conduct an interest and needs assessment of a sample of high probability individuals.The findings of all studies were positive, and their key features
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Paper ID #38089Identifying the Challenges Aerospace Engineers Face Duringthe Transition from University to IndustryMacKenzie Ann Reber (Miss) I am a recent graduate from Grove City College (May 2022). I graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Chemical Engineering. I will be working as an applications engineer for ThermalTech in Pittsburgh, PA in August. My current research interests revolve around engineering education and employee proactive actions.Yun Dong (Ms) Yun is a Ph.D. in Human Computer Interaction. She graduated from Iowa State University. Her research interests include newly
, inspecting U.S. small passenger vessels and foreign vessels from 2016 to 2018. Prior to his assignment at Sector Los Angeles – Long Beach, LCDR Brahan served as a Staff Naval Architect at the Marine Safety Center from 2013-2016. In this assignment, he reviewed general arrangements, structures, stability, and structural fire protection plans and calculations for floating production platforms, offshore supply vessels, and barges. As a collateral duty, he served as a duty officer on the Salvage Engineering Response Team (SERT) working on over 50 salvage cases and deploying on three separate cases. He served as a Student Engineer onboard USCGC TAMPA (WMEC 902) from 2008-2011, and is a 2008 graduate of Officer Candidate School
the interviews. Together, these data streams inform the developmentof three concrete deliverables: impact narratives stemming from the within-case analysis; arobust model for broadening participation in engineering, and a corresponding impact playbookstemming from the cross-case analysis. These outcomes will be used to design and facilitatemeaningful exchanges with the broader engineering education community. These exchanges willcome in the form of sharing information with the ASEE Engineering Dean’s Council, hosting atown hall discussion among Associate Professors in the ASEE community, developing agraduate course for engineering Ph.D. students, and translating the research findings into practiceby partnering with at least one new
working, practicalsolution within specific design constraints, and thus they may not feel creative. In addition, practitioners associated creativity with coming up with multiple solutions andthinking outside of the box. John, who self-assessed his creativity as five out of 10, said that “Igot stuck on one solution, it was hard to think really of alternative ways and so I had one.”Faculty Familiarity with the problem and past experience also impacted faculty’s creativity. Withher self-assessed creativity five out of 10, Angela said she did not feel comfortable with theproblem because she thought she would need a “practical solution.” This clashing betweenpracticality and creativity is consistent with practitioners Michael and Amy’s
in the room, as “a-ha” momentshappen for each of the students.Increased Impact and Student Numbers through Cross-Coupling and SynergyThe ability to better articulate a common vision and mission that provides technical leadershipdevelopment to students at all stages of their MIT journey, from sophomore year throughpost-graduate study, will allow us to reach more of the MIT student population, increasing theirability to leverage their technical skills for greater impact. This will be to the benefit of thestudents, the programs, MIT, and the world. We highlight the potential student pathways betweenthe individual programs in Figure 8.In practical terms, better messaging about these pathways results both in more students enteringthe individual
classrooms and programming under the broad theme of improving the environment to improve people’s quality of life.Melissa M. Bilec (Associate Professor)April Dukes Dr. April Dukes is the Faculty and Future Faculty Program Director for the Engineering Educational Research Center (EERC) and the Institutional Co-leader for Pitt-CIRTL (Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning) at the University of Pittsburgh. She leads local professional development courses and facilitate workshops on instructional, advising, and mentoring best practices for both current and future STEM faculty. I also work alongside faculty seeking to better the experiences of undergraduate and graduate students through educational research
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practices and opportunities for improvement. This research presents outcomes froma planned transition to active/flexible hybrid delivery that was accelerated into the rotation ofoffered course modes due to the pandemic [2]. Results are compared with traditional sections ofthe course offered from Spring 2020 to Fall 2021. The course is an introductory survey course ofthe principles of engineering management for undergraduate engineering students. It is arequired course in the Engineering Management bachelor’s degree program but is popular withmany students in other engineering majors. Typically, about a third of the students enrolled inthe course are Engineering Management majors or intend to major in Engineering Managementonce they complete the
recognized as South Carolina Center of Economic Excellence. Dr. De Backer was awarded as one of the Aviation Week’s 20 Twenties, recognized as tomorrow’s aerospace leaders for his contributions to the aerospace field, scientific research, and the broader community. He teaches the Aerospace Systems, Aircraft Design and Senior Design courses for the aerospace program. Prior to USC, Wout graduated from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands with a bachelor’s and Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering on composite structural design and aircraft design.Monica Gray (Associate Dean)George Wesley Hitt George Wesley Hitt received the Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University in 2009 in the area of experimental nuclear
cadets in Cyber Range-based, hands-on gamified learning activities, a re-search project show and tell, and a soarCTF competition. Another site had cadets create individualprojects as well as mid-term and final presentations. Engaging in hands-on gamification is basedon best practices as outlined in previous research [10].4 Evaluation MethodologyTo gauge the impact of the study, we conducted a formative evaluation of the project [15] using theCAPE framework (see Figure 2) [16]. The CAPE framework serves as the basis for disaggregatingsimple as well as complex interventions across the Capacity for offering the intervention, students’Access to the intervention, students’ Participation in the intervention, and students’ Experience inthe intervention
connect this vast literature withthe similarly extensive research on students' sense of belonging and engineering identitydevelopment, specifically for those students who have historically been excluded fromengineering. Specifically, we draw on W.E.B. DuBois's notion of a 'double consciousness' fromthe Souls of Black Folks (1903) as a lens through which to understand how these seven studentstake on the political, economic, and social dimensions presented to them through a first-yearengineering curricular redesign around engineering as sociotechnical.We note the small-n design of this study (Slaton & Pawley, 2018). The seven interviewedstudents are gender and racial minorities in engineering. However, we note that they do notrepresent all
curriculum and experiencedcurriculum for current students; however, we use it to assess whether and how lifelong learningoutcomes persist for graduated students in the longer term [24] and to investigate the impact ofplanned, enacted, and experienced curriculum in career trajectories. In this stage of our research,we focus on experienced curriculum and lifelong learning-related outcomes to identify specificfeatures of the planned and enacted curriculum that appear to have interactions with theseoutcomes. This contributes to the body of literature on university impact (e.g. [25]).3.0 MethodsThis paper reports on part of a larger mixed-methods study driven by pragmatism. In thisexploratory stage, we use thematic analysis of 24 alumni interviews to
Education (FIE) could hold data-sharing workshops, curate goals and best practices to improve academic recovery among itsundergraduates and publicize the successes. National and regional organizations have aresponsibility to grow their professions.Learning from failure and prototyping should be lauded within engineering. Educators withinengineering departments, especially EE and CPE, should also invest time within their pedagogyto create a culture of resiliency and a growth mindset. Mindset research has found to help allstudents and especially those who are minoritized within selective majors [16]. Based on anumber of studies within and outside engineering, institutions must also take a hard look at whothey most often put on academic probation and
Paper ID #37174Centering Equity and Inclusion in Engineering Collaborationand WritingJennifer C Mallette (Associate Professor) Jennifer Mallette is an associate professor of English at Boise State University, where she collaborates with engineering faculty to support student writers. Her research builds on those collaborations, examining best practices for integrating writing into engineering curriculum; she also explores women’s experiences in engineering settings through the context of writing. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022
engagement with coding and robotics, and early childhood preservice teacher learning.Nidaa Makki Nidaa Makki is a Professor in the LeBron James Family Foundation School of Education at the University of Akron, with expertise in STEM Education. She has served as co-PI on several NSF projects, investigating STEM education interventions at the K-12 and undergraduate levels. She also has expertise as program evaluator for various STEM education programs, and has led teacher professional development in Physics Modeling, Engineering Education, and Problem Based Learning. Her research interests include teacher learning and practices in science education, engineering education, and student learning and motivation for STEM
support their students for future success byincluding communication skills learning objectives in all years of undergraduate coursework.This paper discusses a writing assignment used in 2020 and 2021 in an upper-level StructuralEngineering class at Case Western Reserve University. The assignment follows a lesson plandeveloped by RePicture and the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).The assignment was designed to help students in several ways, including: • Practice writing skills • Engage with technical concepts and relate what they are learning to actual projects • Better understand the breadth of their engineering career options • Create online material that they can include on their resumeThe structural engineering
argumentation asone of its core practices in science and engineering education that should be developedthroughout primary and secondary school education. The National Research Council (NRC)wrote that “In engineering, reasoning and argument are essential to finding the best possiblesolution to a problem…. [S]tudents should argue for the explanations they construct, defend theirinterpretations of the associated data, and advocate for the designs they propose” [10, pp. 72-73].The NGSS specifically included engaging in argument and constructing explanations supportedby evidence in its middle and high school engineering design standards [1]. Argumentationfocuses students on the need for quality evidence, and the process helps students to buildconnections
topic in engineering education, there arecurrently a multitude of dimensions researchers are investigating. Due to the data science focusof this re-designed course, this project is focused on sociotechnical literacy in three dimensions:bias, differential impacts, and responsibility. As described in the paragraphs below, thesedimensions include both content knowledge and skills. For example, if students aresociotechnically literate along the bias dimension, they will be able to: identify potential sourcesof bias in a dataset or algorithm, computationally analyze the effect of that bias, and proposeways to remove or correct for that bias.BiasIn the bias dimension, sociotechnically literate students recognize no data set, algorithm, ortechnology
the senior director of inclusive policy and director of the NYU LGBTQ+ Center. He serves as the primary point of contact for inclusive policies, practices, and initiatives for LGBTQ+ students, faculty, and staff, in addition to the day-to-day management of the LGBTQ+ Center. Additionally, he collaborates with University partners and colleagues on inclusive policy development and operational work to advance the University's core mission in support of global inclusion, diversity, belonging, equity, and access (GIDBEA). He is a former board co-chair and racial justice chair for the Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals and was a chapter contributor in the 2017 book, Queer People of Color in Higher
, educational videos, projects, and mentorship from practicing standardsengineers. One example was a Technical Standards Workshop CWRU hosted on September 4th,2019, incorporating information from the course. In addition, speakers from different standardsorganizations (e.g., UL, ASTM, NIST, IEEE, NFPA) spoke on various topics relevant to studentcoursework and senior design projects.As a result of the CWRU Workshop, students learned about the types of standards, howstandards are developed, and even created hypothetical fire-safety standards for differentscenarios, such as fabrics for racecar drivers or containers for lithium batteries. The speakers’talks were recorded and edited into short 10-minute videos and implemented into the modules toadd other
ofcollaboration is redefined by experiencing a virtual educational mode?Past practice and routine have an overwhelming impact on building collaboration. Wedon’t often think of missing a routine as part of the nostalgia effect. Yet past practice – forexample, a seat you take in the classroom, participating by listening and observing orspeaking up first, immediately turning on the mute button during a zoom meeting, hearingthat your way of asking questions will be appreciated on a research team, or driving on thesame stretch of highway to work every day – all build an internalized automatic and reflexiveresponse. The dividing line between routine or novel behavior is referred to as mindless ormindful behavior respectively. Indeed, mindless vs. mindful
University in Baltimore, Maryland, is the lead institution for this program. TheSCR2 program is designed to engage underperforming REU students in research opportunitiesdemonstrated to improve students’ retention and graduation rates. In addition, teachers fromlocal community colleges and high schools are recruited in this program as RET participants.The experience of RET participants in hands-on engineering research projects helps themencourage their students to pursue engineering as a career. The SCR2 program offers summerresearch experience (eight weeks for students and six weeks for teachers) focusing on smart andconnected cities. In this paper, we present our learnings from the last three years of the SCR2program, which will inform the progress
the college of Engineering and Science. He has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and Master’s and Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University. He was a post-doctoral researcher at University of Notre Dame and worked in industry for several years prior to joining Detroit Mercy. Dr. Das has taught a variety of courses ranging from freshmen to advanced graduate level such as Mechanics of Materials, Introductory and Advanced Finite Element Method, Engineering Design, Introduction to Mechatronics, Mechatronic Modeling and Simulation, Mathematics for Engineers, Electric Drives and Electromechanical Energy Conversion. He led the effort in the
Foundation, and a prior paper by the P4E research team was awarded Best Diversity Paper at the ASEE Annual Conference in 2015. She also conducts technical research with civil engineering and construction management graduate students. She and her students study ways to extend the safe and useful life of existing structures, particularly concrete bridges, through enhanced inspection, management and repair techniques. This research has been funded by the Mountain Plains Consortium, a USDOT University Transportation Center, and the Colorado Department of Transportation. She teaches courses in structural engineering such as reinforced and prestressed concrete design and civil engineering materials to upper division undergraduates
University, Mankato, home of the Iron Range and Twin Cities Engineering programs.Rob Sleezer (Associate Professor, Twin Cities Engineering) Rob Sleezer serves as an associate professor in the Department of Integrated Engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato. As an active member in ASEE and IEEE Rob works to connect the learning of engineering to the practice of engineering. He supports learning across the breadth of electrical engineering and facilitates a seminar where student engineers engage in design and professional learning. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com “But I’m not an Engineer”… Collaboration
approach between instructorsand teaching assistants is crucial.There are numerous successful collaborative models for teaching. While the majority of researchon collaborative teaching involve faculty to faculty collaborations [3-5], there are teachingcollaborations that exist between faculty and undergraduate students [6, 7] or faculty andgraduate students (in their PhD programs) [8]. However, there is only limited research examiningteaching collaborations that involve among undergraduate and graduate students in a course.In this study, we examine the complementarity of roles between IAIs and TAs in the remoteteaching and learning in the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University’s first-year coursetitled Integrated Cornerstone Design Projects
technical workforce. To remaincurrent with advances in technology and heightened industry expectations, degree programs mustcontinuously reevaluate their curricula to ensure that graduates have the requisite skillsets andcompetencies to compete in today's – and tomorrow's – job market. Today’s students are beingtrained for jobs that did not exist even ten years ago. Indeed, many current jobs will be obsoleteten years from now. What remains unknown is how can we best prepare our students for this ever-changing job market?To address this, we have been researching best practices to produce top-tier students and foundthat continuous faculty development is key. The literature says that faculty professionaldevelopment is a part vital component of