and course and curriculum development. He is a Fellow of the ASME. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Mobile, hands-on experiments for classroom demonstrations and student team-based exercisesIntroductionExperiential learning can be very effective in getting students to interact with the engineeringconcepts and see them in action shortly before or after being exposed to the theory. Team basedactivities that accompany hands-on learning are a further way of enhancing learning as studentscollaborate with each other to discuss and test their ideas. This project aims to amplify suchhands-on experiences by
students and faculty in STEM. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Early lessons learned from pivoting an REU program to a virtual formatSince the summer of 2006, the NSF-funded Automotive and Energy Research and IndustrialMentorship (AERIM) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in thedepartment of mechanical engineering at Oakland University (OU) has been offering richresearch, professional development, networking and cohort-building experiences toundergraduate students in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields [1].With a focus on 10-week long hands-on automotive and energy research projects and a
critical role that caregivers play in supporting and guidingchildren’s learning across out-of-school settings and over time. Hands-on family workshops usefamiliar themes (such as home, school, animals, clothing) to introduce children to the steps ofthe design process by inviting them to identify problems they want to solve and create aprototype of their design idea. An app offers additional support both during the workshops andat home, and take-home resources support families in starting design projects at home aftercompleting a workshop. Toolkit components Learning outcomesThe Toolkit Includes:1. Workshop Facilitation GuideThe Workshop is a step-by-step, scripted guide for makerspacefacilitators
, the Entrepreneurial Mindset, and pedagogies including Inquiry-Based Learning, Project-Based Learning, and Active Learning. He serves the Grainger College of Engineering at UIUC as an Entrepreneurial Mindset Fellow for the Academy of Excellence in Engineering Education.Marcia Pool (Assist. Dir. for Education and Teaching Assoc. Prof.) Marcia Pool is the Assistant Director for Education at the Cancer Center at Illinois and a Teaching Associate Professor in Bioengineering. She holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and has served for thirteen years as teaching faculty/staff in bioengineering and six years in departmental/institute educational administration. She focuses on identifying and evaluating mechanisms to enhance
students’ current knowledge and thelevel of research being done at universities. This gap can create issues when scoping out a projectand creating an opportunity for students to gain an authentic research experience (i.e., learn aboutthe research process and obtain valuable research results) [8]–[10]. An additional obstacle is theamount of time university researchers need to commit to catching students up on a particularresearch topic. This creates less time for students be involved in the research project and mayultimately lead to students feeling left out of the research community and removing them from theSTEM pipeline. We contend that these highly motivated high school students can be exposed to ideas in afield and be engaged in
competency by interventions, counseling, pedagogy, and tool selection (such as how to use CATME Team-Maker to form inclusive and diversified teams) to promote DEI. In addition, he also works on many research-to-practice projects to enhance educational technology usage in engineering classrooms and educational research by various methods, such as natural language processing. In addition, he is also interested in the learning experiences of international students. Siqing also works as the technical development and support manager at the CATME research group.Andrew Katz (Assistant Professor)Christopher Greg BrintonMatthew W. Ohland (Dale and Suzi Gallagher Professor of EngineeringEducation) Matthew W. Ohland is Associate Head
) paper describes a National Science Foundation funded RED (RevolutionizingEngineering Departments) Adaptation and Implementation (A&I) grant focused on changing the culture ofa large traditional mechanical engineering department at Texas A&M University (TAMU) and is anadaptation of the “Additive Innovations” model developed by Arizona State University in their REDproject[1]. The TAMU RED project is focused entirely on culture change via faculty development, withthe goal of shifting from a culture where teaching is secondary to research and courses evolve via sporadic,undocumented, individual innovations to a culture that recognizes teaching’s role in both faculty andstudent success and encourages a sustained process of incremental
course with a design project thatinvolves both conceptualization and detailed CAD work. They compared the performance of theclass during remote learning to the prior year during face-to-face instruction and noted very littledifference in the quality of the concepts generated and the CAD models meeting or exceedingexpectations. In addition, course evaluations that rated organization, instructor availability,feedback and perception of value and inspiration, showed most students in agreement or instrong agreement to the affirmative.Kanetaki et al. [4] first investigate the impact of the use of different and multiple LMSs onlearning and engagement in a mechanical engineering CAD class. They found that a combinationof tools, Microsoft Teams® for
issues. She developed and ran for 8 years a faculty-led international program to Brazil focused on Sustainable Energy and Brazilian Culture. This program educates students on the effects of various energy systems and the challenges of social and environmental justice in developing countries. In 2017, Dr. Pfluger moved into the ChE department where she implemented improvements in the Transport 2 Lab and Capstone courses. She assists Capstone students to develop dynamic design projects that address and help solve real-world, global challenges. Dr. Pfluger has served as the AIChE Student Chapter Faculty Advisor for 10 years and will become chair of the AIChE Student Chapter Committee in November 2021. She is a Mathworks
team model. The resultingpilot model captures a transitional process, with some team and some individualized elements that attemptsto balance the benefits of both, while minimizing the challenges of each.Keywords: Capstone, Stakeholder analysis, Team effectiveness, individualized learning,Introduction In Watkins’ [1] review of ABET, the structure and content of design projects is not addressed ormandated. Instead, ABET [2] requires students complete a “major design experience” that is intended toprepare students for professional practice. The most common course in engineering programs that providesthis major design experience is the capstone course [3]. Capstone courses typically simulate a challengingdesign experience similar to the
) parent, starter of crochet projects, lecturerTrevion S Henderson (Assistant Professor) Trevion Henderson is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and STEM Education at Tufts University.Rebecca L Matz (Research Scientist) Becky Matz is a Research Scientist on the Research & Development team at the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan. She directs and supports research projects across CAI’s portfolio of educational technologies. Becky has research experience in assessing the efficacy of software tools that support student learning and success, analyzing quantitative equity disparities in STEM courses across institutions, and developing interdisciplinary activities for introductory
Paper ID #38274Developing a Culture of Strategic Employer Engagement andGrant Know-How to Support Innovative Technical ProgramsAnn Beheler Ann Beheler has been in the Information Technology industry for over 30 years, and she currently leads several National Science Foundation grants including the IT Skill Standards 2020 and Beyond project, the National Convergence Technology Center (a National IT Center), and the Building Pathways to Innovation project. All work builds on many previous NSF and DOL grants. Ann has corporate experience at Rockwell, Raytheon and Novell; has led her own consulting firm; created and
focused on studying the pedagogical theories that are linked to teaching-learning strategies. I am especially interested in understanding the linkages between the different learning styles and skills of engineering students and their success in pursuing the goals that they had set for themselves when they entered the University.Dr. Cesar Delgado (Associate Professor) Associate Professor, STEM education Dept. at NC State University. Dr. Delgado researches students’ knowledge and learning of the magnitude of variables, including spatial and temporal scale. He also studies visual representations, project-based learning and modeling. His externally-funded research includes an NSF EHR CORE grant developing virtual reality
A Douglas (Assistant Professor of Engineering Education) Dr. Kerrie Douglas, Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue, studies how to improve the quality of classroom assessments and evaluation of online learning in a variety of engineering education contexts. She holds a PhD in Educational Psychology and a M.A. in Educational Studies, with focus on school counseling. She is a co-PI on the SCALE project, leading the evaluation and assessment efforts. She recently received an NSF award to study engineering instructor decisions and student support during COVID-19 and impact the pandemic is having on engineering students. She also recently won the prestigious CAREER award from the U.S. National Science
Paper ID #37686Heuristic reasoning through Community-Engaged Learningin the architectural design process (work-in-progress)Eugene Kwak (Assistant Professor) Eugene Kwak is a licensed architect and an assistant professor in the Department of Architecture and Construction Management at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York. He has been running research-based projects, including the most recent project “Togather” which has been featured in the New York Times and Dwell. “Togather” focuses on the regional food systems, land access, and empowering local farmers through providing affordable housing and
Engineering.MethodsSettingThe study was conducted in a first-year Introduction to Engineering course. The course met forapproximately three hours weekly and was led by four instructors across seven sections for a totalof 156 enrolled students, most of whom were first-years. The class consists of multiple activitiesrelated to different disciplines of engineering, including electrical, mechanical, and civilengineering, as well as computer science. Some of these activities involve design decisions.Students also work on a comprehensive final project, in which they design and build a benchtopwind turbine created with prototyping materials (e.g., wood, cardboard, etc.), and monitored withan Arduino. Some of the activities, as well as the final design project, are executed
able to meetthe socio-technical challenges of 21st century society. Together, student veterans and servicemembers (SVSM) are a unique yet understudied student group that comprises substantial numbersof those historically underrepresented in engineering (i.e., due to race, ethnicity, gender, ability,orientation, etc.). That, in combination with technical interests and skills, maturity, life experience,and self-discipline, makes SVSM ideal candidates for helping engineering education meet thesedemands [1,2]. This NSF CAREER project aims to advance full participation of SVSMs withinhigher engineering education and the engineering workforce by 1) Research Plan: developingdeeper understandings about how SVSM participate, persist, and produce
thepurpose to implement them in their classrooms. Throughout the year, the teachers taught theirstudents the cutting-edge technologies and their implementations.In this paper, we report the findings from one classroom where the teacher of the classroomparticipated in the project activities. The design of the research was a case study. The case underinvestigation was one of the teacher participants' classrooms and their students. We visited theteacher’s classroom and collected firsthand data from the student participants. We purposivelyselected six students and interviewed them one on one. In the interviews we asked questions toexplore the students' lived experiences with the integrated STEM activities. We also interviewedthe teacher at another
system such as thrust, chamberpressure, tank pressure, mass flow and pressure in piping systems and engine casing temperature.These parameters are important as it allows the operators to determine the performance of theengine and allow one to observe the status of the engine without necessarily seeing it directly.Thus, an effective data acquisition system also provides a safety aspect to more dangerousapplications such as a rocket engine test bed. The purpose of the project is to allow for students to gain knowledge in using andintegrating Data Acquisition Units in a non-classroom environment. This will allow them to getpractical experience in the fields of Measurements, Electrical Engineering, as well as SystemEngineering. It will allow
www.slayte.com Assessing Awareness and Competency of Engineering Freshmen on Ethical and Responsible Research and PracticesAbstractThis paper presents the initial work of a recently funded NSF project on ethical and responsibleresearch and practices in science and engineering. The objective of this research is to improveinstructor training, interventions, and student outcomes in high schools and universities to improveawareness and commitment to ethical practices in STEM coursework. The project will generate arobust snapshot of the ethical knowledge, reasoning skills, attitudes, and practices of severalthousand undergraduate engineering students. This snapshot will inform the development of athree-week enrichment opportunity for high
to include team structuring, project phasing, conflict types, conflict management andresolution, feedback, and evaluation. A more in-depth description of the elements of teameffectiveness in each course is included in the results section. One of the outcomes we are working toward through this curriculum initiative is to developengineers with an Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM). Developing EM is not about start-ups or businessstrategies necessarily; rather EM empowers engineering students to recognize and identifyopportunities, focus on their impact, and create value in any context (Bosman & Fernhaber, 2018;Entrepreneurial Mindset | Engineering Unleashed, 2022). EM is comprised of three elements:curiosity, connections, and creating
way we understand (and practice) physics and itsrelation to life?[11]”In this paper, I will discuss two multi-week course projects that required introductory physicsstudents to read historical biographies and respond to the scientific and social issues in the story.In the first semester of a year-long course, students were required to read Margot Shetterly’sHidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black WomenMathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race [12]. The central narrative of race and genderin NASA’s history is interspersed with descriptions of rocket propulsion, Newtonian forces,momentum conservation and other topics prevalent in introductory physics. The second semesterbiography was The Boy Who Harnessed the
sets to showcase what today’s industry expects from their expertise andaccumulated knowledge. Besides the frequent homework assignments, exams and term projectsare also assigned to students. The term project is assigned as a team project. It is expected thatthe teams develop an industrial design problem’s solution.In regular semesters, the course is offered in a hybrid format. Lately, the entire course has beendelivered in an FC setting. The lecture and laboratory video components are released to studentsat least two days before the instructor meets with the students. The meetings are heavily used foranswering the questions raised by the students and solving more practical design problems.The course is operated using the D2L course management
Paper ID #36551Work-in-Progress: Understanding learners' motivationthrough machine learning analysis on reflection writingElizabeth Pluskwik Elizabeth facilitates project-based and co-op based engineering education in the Iron Range Engineering program, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Her specialties leading entrepreneurial mindset in engineering, engineering management, accounting, product-costing, and lean six sigma. Her research interests include motivation to persist in engineering, emotional intelligence, and industry 4.0.Yuezhou Wang Dr. Yuezhou Wang is an associate professor at Minnesota State
projects.IntroductionProblem based as well as active learning methods both contribute to maintaining student interestin engineering topics; this can be accomplished through design-based projects or simulations [1]-[7]. Prince defines active learning as “any instructional method that engages the students in thelearning process.” [1] Many educational institutions were forced to conduct their classes onlinedue to COVID-19, at least at the start of the pandemic. This presented a problem for manyinstructors to maintain student interest in lab based courses for which students were unable toattend in person. As a result many labs were taught virtually or were simulated. For this reason,development of hands-on hardware-based projects or labs that do not require the students
instrument control; management ofinterconnected device networks; and web services. Each participant joined one of these on-goingCPS research projects: • Inline Quality Monitoring of an Algal Biodiesel Reactor Train • Examination of Soil Humidity on Geothermal Heat Pump Efficiency • Real Time Monitoring of a Full Spectrum Solar Energy Harvester • Stage-wise Carbon Monitoring of a Biohydrogen Production System • Small-scale Rocket Propulsion System Instrumentation and ControlTo accomplish program objective (1), participants received a three-day introduction to Arduino –a simple, inexpensive, and open-source electronics platform. They were also given amicrocontroller and accompanying hardware kit. They worked
student population regardless of academic major. Thisprovides a diverse cross-section of incoming students, academically and otherwise. With over2600 students completing the course during these semesters, this study objectively comparesperformance on course graded events such as exams, lab reports, and group design projects. Theultimate goals of this study are to 1) compare student performance across remote and in-personclassroom settings and 2) provide future instructors with data to help optimize the studentlearning environment for all classroom settings. The conclusions of this study indicate thatsemesters of transition between in-person and remote learning are the most challenging forstudents, but otherwise student performance was not
discusses the lessons learned when operating in the hybrid mode and makesrecommendations for hybrid REU implementation, if needed in the future. Following the patternof prior analysis, a program model is also presented for potential use by other sites in the futurebefore concluding with a discussion of the broader impacts of REU site operations across thethree types of operation.2. BackgroundAn overview of prior work which lays the foundation for the analysis conducted herein ispresented in this section. Prior work related to project-based and experiential learning isreviewed as well as specific examples of prior work in cybersecurity.Undergraduate research programs are designed to immerse students in a research environment toallow them to see if
sustainability. For example, Outcome 4 requires students tobe able to “consider… global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts.” VillanovaUniversity was awarded a grant to pilot the EOP framework. To integrate the EOP framework asrapidly as possible a faculty workshop was developed. This workshop has been delivered twiceto cohorts of eight faculty each during five half-day sessions. These faculty have addressedtwenty outcomes and assessed seven. At the time of writing, EOP outcomes have been includedand assessed in three courses: two required undergraduate courses and one graduate level course.Assignments, group projects, and exam questions were used to assess the achievement ofselected EOP outcomes.This paper will present an introduction to
experiences. Her projects include studies of student attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and their development of problem solving skills, self-regulated learning practices, and beliefs about knowledge in their field. Dr. Benson is an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Fellow, a member of the European Society forEngineering Education (SEFI), American Educational Research Association (AERA) and Tau Beta Pi, and the 2018recipient of the Clemson University Class of ’39 Award for Faculty Excellence. She earned a B.S. in Bioengineering(1978) from the University of Vermont, and M.S. (1986) and Ph.D. (2002) in Bioengineering from Clemson University. © American Society for Engineering Education