, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(STEM) fields. Founded in 2021, the Program is working on two initial objectives: 1. To develop effective engineering curriculum integrating VR to overcome the abstract nature of structural design and theory, better preparing our future engineers for industry; and 2. To prepare students and practicing engineers for their participation in post-hazard event reconnaissance, evaluation, and rebuild.Collaborating with the CS department, industry, and field experts, this Program’s long-term goalis to build modules and exercises that will educate and train engineers and serve as a vehicle forcommunicating with the broader community about engineering and work-based experiences. Thetarget audience
programming, which traditionallyhas been delivered largely in face-to-face settings. This paper examines the implementation of aseries of energy technology teacher professional development workshops that were deliveredvirtually using online meeting apps. The results of the workshops are presented includingparticipant measures of learning gains, and feedback describing how faculty participants used theinformation gained to modify their curriculum and instruction. The discussion includesobservations and recommended practices to promote the effective incorporation of tools andequipment for remotely delivered workshops.IntroductionThe COVID pandemic resulted in an unprecedented disruption to education at all levels rangingfrom kindergarten through
obstacle reported as the most challenging was “Supplies, materials, andequipment for students to deliver hands-on instruction”, with 79% of survey participantsindicating it as “Extremely” or “Very” Challenging.Figure 2. Energy Stakeholder survey responses to the question: “What are the biggestobstacles schools and educators face preventing them from integrating energy education intotheir curriculum?”Another question only asked on the Faculty survey was “What are the most important prioritiesthat CREATE should pursue for developing a national energy workforce?”. Respondents weregiven a list of 8 ways that CREATE could support the development of a national energyworkforce, and asked to rank their top five choices, in order of importance, from 1-5
Paper ID #37842Capstone Redesign: Engaging stakeholders to find thebalance between individual and team learning outcomesRyan Solnosky Ryan Solnosky is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Architectural Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University at University Park. Dr. Solnosky has taught courses for Architectural Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Pre-Major Freshman in Engineering. He received his integrated BAE/MAE degrees in architectural engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 2009 and his Ph.D. in architectural engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 2013. Dr
faculty expectations andpretty much independent of individual student orientations." [1, p. 14] The model incorporatesthe normative contexts present in institutions, such as the curriculum, and formal and informalsocialization processes, such as interactions between students and faculty, within these contexts.This study operationalizes teaching and learning activities in an emergency online curriculum asthe normative context and analyzes students' experiences with interaction, integration, andlearning.3 – Research DesignOur data are drawn from the qualitative phase of an explanatory sequential mixed methodsdesign [2] in which we explored students' online learning experiences during COVID-19. Wefirst administered a survey based on earlier work [3
. The problem is that design projects by definition are generally things that integrate knowledge. How much knowledge does a student have in the first year? So obviously the level and the sophistication of the design project will improve, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t be doing projects from day 1. DL [With design project] the other thing I used to do with them, is allow them to go up blind alleys. Not too often, or they’d never get there. Going up a few blind alleys, they learn an awful lot, recognise early signs about what’s going on. If they only ever do it right, they don’t know what the warning signs
great insight on the success of their projects. One was avery successful project and the other reported poor outcomes with multidisciplinary projects. Inthe project held by Nanyang Polytechnic, they sensed a demand from the biomedical industry forwork-force ready students, so they created an integrated curriculum with multidisciplinarycomponents to aid in that demand. They were provided feedback from their industry sponsors onthe success of their integrated curriculum who showed satisfaction in the students they were nowemploying. They also noticed that their employment rate improved in 2016. The students alsoreflected positively on the curriculum and now a 12-month integrated work-study program isbeing implemented to take the multidisciplinary
in construction informationpresentation. Regrettably, HMDs are prohibitively expensive and require numerous headsets inclassroom teaching, depending on the class size. This article proposes the use of handhelddevices to make augmented reality technology more accessible for teaching construction-relatedcourses. The authors designed and developed an augmented reality (AR) application forhandheld devices that integrates two-dimensional drawings, BIM models, and other multimediadata. In the future, the application will be evaluated with construction students to determine itseffectiveness in teaching topics in construction classes. The authors observed during the beta testthat the mobile AR application built for education provided students with
) Evaluate the ethical research competency and self-efficacy of university students andidentify any significantly contributing factors to develop an intervention plan to improve theirethical research competency (ERC) and ethical research self-efficacy (ERS) levels; 3) Developlearning materials on topics related to ethical STEM research and practices (such as data ethics,research misconduct, human subjects, etc.) and integrate them into undergraduate curriculum inmultiple engineering disciplines; 4) Provide enrichment experience in ethical STEM research andpractices to high school teachers who then can bring the knowledge back to their classroomsthereby helping to build a pipeline of future ethical STEM researchers and practitioners; and 5)Use a
Paper ID #38226MIND THE GAP! …between engineers’ process safety beliefsand behaviorsJeffrey Stransky Jeffrey Stransky is a PhD candidate in the Experiential Engineering Education (ExEEd) Department at Rowan University. His research interests involve studying engineering ethics and decision making and using digital games as safe teaching environments. He has published in the overlap of these topics by integrating digital games into chemical engineering curriculum to help students build an awareness of the ethical and practical implications of their decisions. Jeffrey obtained his BS and MSc in Mechanical
Science, 2nd ed., S. Keith, Ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 275-297. [3] S. Grover and R. Pea, "Computational Thinking in K–12", Educational Researcher, vol. 42,no. 1, pp. 38-43, 2013. Available: 10.3102/0013189x12463051.[4] J. Dewey, The school and society ; and, The child and the curriculum. Chicago: University ofChicago Press, 1990.[5] R. Capraro and S. Slough, "Why PBL? Why STEM? Why now? An introduction to project-based learning: An integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)approach", in Project based learning: An integrated science technology engineering andmathematics (STEM) approach, R. Capraro and S. Slough, Ed. Rotterdam: Sense, 2008, pp. 1–6.[6] D. Dolmans, W. De Grave, I. Wolfhagen and C
, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation.References[1] S. A. Ambrose, “Undergraduate engineering curriculum: The ultimate design challenge,” Bridge, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 16-23, June 2013.[2] S. M. Ndethiu, “Meta-cognition and graduate tributes' development: Engineering student's reflections on their strengths, weaknesses and strategies,” Int. J. Arts Sci., vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 329-337, Jan. 2018.[3] J. A. Turns, B. Sattler, K. Yasuhara, J. L. Borgford-Parnell, and C. J. Atman, (2014). “Integrating reflection into engineering education,” in Proc. ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo., (Indianapolis
Paper ID #37067Teaching models for Senior Design courses; a Case StudyWilhelm Alex Friess Dr. Friess holds an Associate Professor appointment in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Maine, where he directs the capstone experience and teaches courses in aircraft design and engineering mechanics. Prior to this role Dr. Friess was the founding Director of The University of Maine's Brunswick Engineering Program (2012- 2015), where he developed and implemented an integrated curriculum for undergraduate engineering education. Dr. Friess' research interests revolve around Engineering design, with
. 1IntroductionIn 2015, the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and other faculty in the MechanicalEngineering Department at Stanford University redesigned the Bachelors of Science inMechanical Engineering (BSME) dividing the curriculum into a set of core classes and fourconcentrations [4]. The core classes aim to achieve the ABET learning goals [5] with specialattention being given to “identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems” and“apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs.” This development ledto the creation of a new course, ME 102 Foundations of Product Realization, an introductorycourse to the relevant fields. ME 102 introduces students to new spaces (a prototyping lab andwoodshop), new machines and
Powered by www.slayte.com Writing and Engineering – Perfect TogetherAbstractGood communication skills are essential for engineers. Approximately half of an engineer’sworkday is spent in communication-related tasks. Many job postings for entry-level engineersindicate they are looking for people with strong oral and written communication skills.Communication learning objectives are typically taught in a university’s general engineeringcoursework, as part of a stand-alone communication course. It is seldom integrated into thestudent’s dedicated major. Faculty teaching a rigorous upper-level technical elective mayconsider communication learning objectives to be beyond the scope of what they can teach.Good writing skills are
, manufacturing and design area, are from the University of Texas at Austin. Additionally, Dr. Austin Talley holds an undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University in Mechanical Engineering. His research is in engineering design theory and engineering education. He has published over 30 papers in engineering education journals and conference proceedings. He has worked to implement multiple National Science Foundation (NSF) grants focused on engineering education. He has been an instructor in more than ten week long summer K-12 teach Professional Development Institutes (PDI). He has received multiple teaching awards. He has developed design based curriculum for multiple K-12 teach PDIs and student summer camps
accreditation process gave little explicitattention to the ethical preparedness of engineering graduates for the work they were about toundertake [3]. Perhaps there was an assumption that the ethical background students brought withthem from elsewhere would suffice, and not require any ethical instructional guidance. However,the number and severity of moral lapses in engineering practice that were brought to publicattention raised serious doubts about the reliability of such assumptions [4, 5]. In response to thispublic outcry, ABET (formerly known as the Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology) required engineering programs to incorporate an ethics curriculum. To comply withthis requirement, engineering programs have developed stand-alone
describes tools and practices for creating, living, andsustaining partnerships between community colleges and B.S.-granting colleges of engineeringand computer science by drawing from our experiences in a multi-institutional partnershipfunded via an NSF S-STEM ENGAGE (Engineering Neighbors: Gaining Access, GrowingEngineers) program designed to support pre-transfer, low-income, academically talentedengineering and computer science students where participating institutions include twoCalifornia Community Colleges – Allan Hancock College and Cuesta College – that are highly-ranked Hispanic-Serving Institutions and a predominantly white College of Engineering atCalifornia Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in the California State University system
with Entrepreneurial Mindset (ICE) workshop, and focuses on fusing Curiosity,Connections, and Creating Value (the 3C’s) throughout the Flow of Air in Ducts learningmodule, including an HVAC design project.New lectures and assignments covering topics related to HVAC industry were added to thelearning module curriculum. An existing HVAC design project was revised and updated toincorporate Entrepreneurial Mindset Learning (EML) outcomes. The project required students tocomplement in-class learning with i) content knowledge learned from previous courses; ii)independent research using credible sources; and iii) a proposed HVAC design. New projectdeliverables were related to project economics and the environmental and societal impacts of theproposed
Paper ID #37252Connecting classrooms across borders to engineer a processto manufacture a Tequila bottleRodrigo Martinez-Duarte Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University (USA) and Head of the Multiscale Manufacturing Laboratory www.multiscalemanufacturing.net. His group’s expertise lies at the interface between micro/nanofabrication, carbonaceous materials, electrokinetics and microfluidics. Rodrigo is known as the pioneer of carbon-electrode Dielectrophoresis (carbonDEP), a technique for bioparticle manipulation using carbon electrodes and
not often relevant to the student’s experience orsupervisors were uncomfortable or felt unable to provide an evaluation, i.e. “knowledge ofcontemporary issues” or “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineeringsolutions in a global and societal context”. While employers were encouraged to discuss theassessment with students, there was no mechanism to provide them with a copy of the completedsurvey.In this paper, we will briefly describe the co-op program and how it fits into the curriculum andreview the literature on the benefits and challenges of work experience as well as thedevelopment of student work assessments. We will then explain the development of theassessment survey tool, how the questions were selected, and
the journal, Advances in Engineering Education and she serves on the ASEE committee for Scholarly Publications.Jennifer M Case (Chair, Engineering Education) Jennifer Case is Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech in the USA. Prior to her appointment in this post she was a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cape Town, where she retains an honorary appointment. She completed postgraduate studies in the UK, Australia and South Africa. With more than two decades of undergraduate teaching and curriculum reform work, she is a well-regarded researcher in engineering education and higher education. Her work especially on the student experience of
program. Over a long stretch of time, the result might be a new course as the lore of aparticular new subject grew to merit its own status in the curriculum. Previously, as the rate oftechnology change started to accelerate with the advent of the integrated circuit (IC), theresultant evolution of technology was to some extent predictable by extension of the effect ofMoore’s Law [17]. Moore’s Law (really an observation) predicted the growth rate of the possiblenumber of transistors on a chip (IC) starting in the 1960s and it continues to be relevant today(six decades later!). This evolution of electronics has taken us from computers constructed fromnumerous large circuit boards plugged into back-planes, to single board computers, to systemson a
). Whileaerospace is an engineering domain, there may be distinctive nuances in newly-hired aerospaceengineers’ challenges compared to other engineering fields.3.5 Theoretical FrameworkThis study uses Morrison’s framework for active newcomer socialization, which indicates fourproximal outcomes of newcomer socialization: role clarity, task mastery, acculturation, andworkgroup [social] integration (Morrison, 1993). Since organizational socialization is such a vastand prominent field of research, several different expressions can refer to the same proximaloutcome. For example, other phrases that refer to role clarity include understanding (Taormina,1997) and politics (Chao et al., 1994). Morrison’s framework aptly connects many of thedifferent ideological
by offering specific paths to changing perspectives on a system. Sevensystems thinking skills provide an STS conceptual foundation to the curriculum (Table 2). Theaim here was to both de-jargon and transform abstract STS conceptual frameworks into action-oriented skills and mindsets. For example, the systems thinking skill “finding ethics in artifacts”relates to STS concepts such as the politics of artifacts [20], [38], [40] and material participation[39]. “Hosting STS parties” draws from the long STS history of encouraging public participationin shaping the future of directions of science and technological design and implementation [49-50]. Below we provide more extensive illustrations of how we integrate STS postures into anengineering
is certified as an EFL and ESL teacher as well as a School Principal. Ari’s research and language revitalization interests include Mikasuki, Salish Ql’ispe (a.k.a. Salish-Pend d’Oreille, Montana Salish, and Flathead Salish) and Safaliba. His ethnographic work documents situated practice in grassroots policy initiatives and school-based activism among the Safaliba in rural Ghana. His language documentation includes conceptual metaphors and formulaic language in Salish Ql’ispe and Safaliba. He also explores applications of task-based language teaching in the pedagogy of revitalization. His practitioner papers analyze integrated content and language instruction, academic English instruction for graduate students, and
. Figure 4. An 8″ long vehicle takes off with 3 engines firing Figure 5. An 8″ rocket bus in transitFigure 6. An 8″ rocket bus with four axles after arrival Figure 7. An 8″ rocket bus with four axles impacts with engines still thrustingTables 2 and 3 show how downloaded acceleration data in Figure 8 and Table 1 is converted intovelocity (Figure 9) and distance (Figure 10) traveled using numerical integration. Students feltthese two steps were exciting and fun using real data they collected. Table 2. Vehicle 1 Data Analysis (Part 1) Time Raw Y acc AdjustedY acc Y acc Trapezoid Width Left Right Area (seconds) (G) (G) (m/s2) Hght Hght 8.85
University of California at Berkeley, and an BA and MS in Engineering at Dartmouth College. She is passionate about integrating liberal arts and engineering, alternative assessment approaches, and broadening participation in engineering education and the workforce. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Internships’ Impact on Recognition for First-Generation and/or Low-Income StudentsAbstract This qualitative research paper explores how internship experiences impact therecognition component of engineering professional identity for first-generation, low-income(FGLI) engineering students
a junior engineering project course, whereas this work examinesstudents' experiences who attended hackathons and a project based curriculum. Sample codescan be found in Table 2. Consolidating the process codes in a second round consisted of usingversus coding as an additional method of comparing capstones and hackathons. Code Definition Designing Designing refers to when participants create specifications for a project. Problem Solving Problem Solving refers to when participants are describing specific techniques to approach and resolve a problem, issue, bug, etc. Researching
been taking university classes in an EHLscenario (i.e., freshman) and others had transitioned to this EHL environment from a primarilyin-person university learning (IP-EHL) scenario (i.e., sophomores, juniors, and seniors).However, the data in [31] required a deeper exploration of the needs of these groups.Only two qualitative questions from the validated instrument were analyzed in Christensen’sstudy [31], which were “What challenges or barriers currently exist for you in establishing peermentoring relationships?” and “In what ways could the College of Engineering support you inestablishing peer mentoring relationships?” Themes garnered from the qualitative coding ofstudents’ responses to these questions were integrated with quantitative