options for curriculum design in first-year programs.Background and ObjectivesIn the mid-2000’s, a call went out to integrate the teaching of science, technology, engineering,and mathematics into what we now collectively refer to as STEM [1]. Since that time, additionalinitiatives have suggested that it might be even more beneficial to integrate the arts into STEMlearning, creating STEAM. Some even argue that it should be pushed even further, addingadditional study of the societal implications of STEAM research and work, further lengtheningthe acronym to STEAMS [2]. For this paper, the focus will remain on STEAM and itsimplications for the first-year engineering curriculum.Students’ experiences in their first-year engineering (FYE) classes are
Paper ID #37619How (Inter)national Engineering Faculty Members Perceiveand Teach Creativity: A Cultural PerspectiveHao He Hao He is currently a Ph.D. candidate from the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, with research interests in engineering education, creativity fostering, virtual reality learning environment, and game-based learning. He received his BA in English Language and Literature from Zhejiang University City College in China in 2008 and then worked as an English teacher and an instructional project manager for seven years. He received his
Global Engineering Competence Pillar 3: Integrating Engineering Knowledge with Essential Business Skills Pillar 4: Building Effective Leaders and CommunicatorsThe second pillar, nurturing global engineering competence, is primarily achieved through arequired international engineering field experience. Global Engineering (EGE 320) was firstoffered in the Spring of 2013 and until the Spring of 2020 had taken every engineering student atthe University to an international destination to work on community-centered engineeringprojects.The four-credit hour Global Engineering course is a combination of lecture, project work, andfield experience. While these three components have always been a part of the class, the ratio oftime spent on each has
opportunities, goal setting, andcommunication. All these sessions were conducted by guests invited from across campus and theCREATE management team. In addition, design, based on an engineering challenge and hands-on cohort team building activities was integrated into the seminars to promote social interaction.For the design activities, scholars were divided into teams of four, with facilitation provided by apeer mentor. They were given constraints on the materials and supplies they could use. Theseminars and design activities were held in person before the pandemic but due to safetyguidelines during the pandemic, they were moved to an online format. All theme seminars andteam activities were followed by food and soft drinks. When activities were held
), they must experience the concept in question in a way that aligns with theNewtonian view but would not make sense if their mental model held on to the common butinaccurate idea that a body in motion at constant speed requires an external force. [5]The notion of threshold concepts encourages the thinking of problems as entry points for tacklingvital concepts within particular disciplines and is relevant for the integration of theconstructivist-based strategy, Problem-Based (or Project-Based) Learning (PBL) [6]. Much hasbeen written about the effectiveness of using problem or project based learning for deeperconceptual learning in college science coursework [7], [8]. Markham, Larmer, and Ravitzdescribe PBL as “a systematic teaching method that
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,perceptions of social support, interpersonal experiences, and persistence. Specifically, pre-assessment and post-assessment data were gathered through the Self-Efficacy in ResearchMeasure (SERM), the Attitudes Toward Research Scale (ATRS), and the MultidimensionalScale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS). The participant study afforded the project team theopportunity to determine the specific nature of advancements and iterate Alliance processes tomaximize impact for future cohorts, as the advancement of a refined Alliance model thatuniquely incorporates an integrated and collaborative structure to enhance socialization, doctoralcompletion, and success for STEM faculty is the overarching goal of this award.BackgroundThe AGEP Alliance Model for
within civil engineering departments; in thiscase, additional instruction might be required by the faculty mentor or the program could be runasynchronously with an undergraduate dynamics course. Furthermore, due to the timecommitment (up to 10 hours per week), this program is organized as an extracurricular (i.e., “notfalling within the scope of a regular curriculum” [33]) activity for a select group of paid students;making this program compulsory or part of the curriculum would require additional resources(e.g., multiple 3D printers) and space within already over-scheduled undergraduate curricula dueto ABET requirements. It is therefore recommended to be employed as in this paper or through anelective or independent study; in fact, the latter
supporting non-dominant student populations. Her current research focuses on creating inclusive and equitable learning environments through the development and implementation of strategies geared towards increasing student sense of belonging.Joseph Arthur Brobst (Research Assistant Professor) Previously a high school science teacher, I am now an educational research and program evaluation specialist located in the The Center for Educational Partnerships at Old Dominion University. Though I have been involved in a wide variety of projects and initiatives, common threads throughout my work have included STEM teacher professional development and broadening participation in STEM among individuals ranging from elementary school
co-curricular activities during an identical period in time. There is a reportedparticipation gap and uneven engagement of engineering students in co-curricular activities. Wecompare how student engagement in different co-curricular activities might vary in terms of theself-reported time spent, curricular courses utilized, and professional competencies developed.We use de-identified records data that were collected from a professional development survey ata large North American University. We specifically compare experience between groups ofengineering students who reported participating in one unique co-curricular during 2017-18 andcompleted a professional development survey at the end of the year (between measures/co-curricular activities
programs. This work (which was inspired by my own experiences as a graduate student in astronomy) built upon my background in physics education research from my undergraduate days, when I began working as a Learning Assistant (LA) with Dr. Chandra Turpen. My experience as an LA introduced me to PER, and gave me the opportunity to get involved in curriculum design and research as an undergraduate. After my PhD, I returned to Dr. Turpen’s group as a postdoctoral researcher, and have since redirected my focus to the study of ethics and institutional change in STEM higher education.David Tomblin (Director/Senior Lecturer) UMD College ParkAmol Agrawal Amol Agrawal is an undergraduate student at the University of Maryland
) to increase retention of URWM and WFC;(2) to support career progress for URWM and WFC; (3) to increase satisfaction and success ofURWM and WFC; (4) to stimulate advocacy for systemic change based on awareness of genderequity issues emerging from the programs implemented; (5) to create an integrated set ofcross-institutional programs that will be exportable to other regional universities that aim tosupport, retain, and advance the careers of URWM and WFC.COVID-19 ImpactThe global COVID-19 pandemic became a serious concern in the United States in March 2020,less than six months after the Partnership project’s official start date. Thus, the pandemic had aserious impact on the original implementation plans of the project components. It
, anadapted PSS approach was used to teach facilities layout planning and design in a facilitiesdesign course which is a part of the senior year curriculum of an industrial engineering program.Attainment of learning objectives was measured using two sources, case studies which weredeveloped and executed using PSS techniques, and quizzes. For case studies, an assessment ofthree real-world case studies was compared to an identical assessment of a similar case studyutilized in a prior year. For quizzes, an assessment of quizzes was compared to identicalassessments in the two prior years. Quantitative techniques were used to analyze the outcomes ofthe case studies and the quizzes, while a thematic analysis was used to analyze the post-casestudy feedback
(Jamshidi & Milanovic, 2022). The effectiveness of the VL was also evaluated using the ABETCriterion 3 outcomes 1, 3, and 6 (ABET Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2021-2022). They concluded that there were several other advantages of using this type of VLenvironment within their traditional curriculum. For example, VLs generated interest in thesubject matter via visual attractiveness of the simulation results, allowed students to engage inmore complex experiments virtually, and helped students to develop critical thinking skillsthrough the connection of multiple learning schema, theoretical, experiment and simulation. Others have used ABET criterion to evaluate student outcomes using simulation virtuallabs such as (Alkhedher
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Washington (UW) and an Affiliate Assistant Professor in UW Sociology. She was the 2020-2021 Chair of the ASEE Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI). She is a former Board Member of Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) and the recipient of the 2020 WEPAN Founders Award. She has led social science research projects such as the UW portion of NSF funded Revolutionizing Engineering Departments Participatory Action Research (REDPAR) and the Sloan funded Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (PACE). She also manages program evaluations that provide actionable strategies to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM fields. This includes evaluation of NSF ADVANCE, S-STEM, INCLUDES, and IUSE projects
Paper ID #37486The Impact of Faculty’s Use of Pedagogical CommunicationPlatforms on Professor-Student RapportTina Zecher (Evaluation Associate) Tina Zecher is an evaluator and education researcher in the Center for Science Teaching and Learning at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. She holds a B.S. in Economics/Finance from the University of Texas at Dallas and an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction. Ms. Zecher serves as an evaluator and educational researcher on federally and privately funded grants
the local community on the opioid crisis facing rural America.Interdisciplinary communication methods used by student teams to engage various communitystakeholders and the project sponsors are discussed. The challenges and lessons learnedassociated with connecting a large community project across three semesters in two differentdepartments with different learning objectives are discussed.IntroductionA senior design project course is designed to satisfy Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET) engineering design criteria. ABET Criterion 5 on Curriculum describes theintegration of content as follows: “ The Integration of Content: Baccalaureate degree curriculamust provide a capstone or integrating experience that develops
list of design materials which were provided for the teams to selectfrom for the construction of their design. The results of this project (fall 2020) will be comparedto (fall 2021 – under a less restrictive COVID protocol) and pre-COVID (2002, 2008 and 2011)semesters – when this project was used in a first-year introduction to engineering design course.Introduction At our institution, first-year engineering students (~700 students) have a common first year,which includes chemistry I & II, physics I & II, calculus I and II, ENGCMP I and II (which arefocused on writing for engineers – taught by the English department specifically for ourengineering students), an introduction to engineering analysis and a computing class. The
pedagogy, antenna theory, and remote sensing. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Design of a Wind Tunnel: A Student Project to Design and Build Their Own Wind Tunnels as the Culmination of Fluid Mechanics LaboratoryAbstractFluid Mechanics Laboratory (or a similarly titled course) is an integral part of any mechanicalengineering curriculum. One of the instruments used to demonstrate several key principles offluid flow is the wind tunnel. Currently, our department does not have a wind tunnel that canadequately demonstrate several desired fluid flow concepts to the students. Therefore, as part
civil and environmental engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Ozis holds a B.S. in environmental engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California. Dr. Ozis is a licensed Professional Engineer, Environmental, in Arizona. Before joining CMU, Dr. Ozis was a faculty member at Northern Arizona University, and at University of Southern California. Dr. Ozis enjoys every dimension of being an engineering educator. She teaches across the curriculum from freshman introductory level, to graduate level courses. Dr. Ozis conducts research related to engineering classrooms and innovative pedagogical strategies. Dr. Ozis
Wisconsin-Madison. She is interested in embodied cognition and design in mathematics education.Mitchell Nathan Mitchell J. Nathan (he | him), Ph.D., BSEE, is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Learning Sciences, in the Educational Psychology Department in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with affiliate appointments in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, and the Department of Psychology. Dr. Nathan investigates the nature of meaning and its role in knowledge, learning, and teaching in K-16 engineering, mathematics, and integrated STEM (science, technology, mathematics, and engineering) contexts. His research emphasis is on the embodied, cognitive, and social nature of
) Donna(2012) proposed a similar structure around tech ed teacher professional learning wherebyteachers reflect on engineering activities as both learners and educators to extend theirunderstandings about engineering and the nature of its connections to other STEM domains.The Nature of Engineering Knowledge The nature of engineering as an aspect of engineering curriculum in K-12 schooling isonly beginning to emerge as an area of scholarship and thus there are limited studies of eitherhow the nature of engineering knowledge (NOEK) should be framed or the factors that areimportant for supporting teacher and student learning around the NOEK. We distinguishconceptual understandings about the NOEK from the epistemic practices of engineering
University. She once served as a visiting scholar in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her recent research interests include international engineering education reforms with an emphasis on the "New Engineering" initiative in China, as well as the institutionalization of engineering education research (EER).Matthew W. Ohland (Dale and Suzi Gallagher Professor of EngineeringEducation) Matthew W. Ohland is Associate Head and the Dale and Suzi Gallagher of Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. He studies the longitudinal study of engineering students and forming and managing student teams
prototypical design for each vessel type was discussed briefly and evaluated in agroup setting to provide additional insight into specific design and performance aspects.In 2015, the Prospective Commanding Officer and Prospective Executive Officer School (PCO/PXO),required for Coast Guard officers and enlisted members who are selected to fill high responsibility afloatpositions (ranging in military paygrade up to E-6 or O-6), integrated a modified version of the above-described boat build exercise into its course curriculum. The boat design and build exercise was deemedappropriate due to its inherent review of stability fundamentals. The exercise has since been embraced bythe faculty as well as the PCO/PXO students and remains a popular module within
Paper ID #36852Student perceptions of the societal linkages of engineeringinnovationSenni Kirjavainen Senni Kirjavainen is a Master of Arts doing research on product development and creativity.Raimo Vepsäläinen Raimo Vepsäläinen is an M.Sc. student in Mechanical Engineering at Aalto University School of Engineering, Finland, and he is currently finishing his thesis "The influence of contextual enablers and challenges in business-to-business product development projects". He is majoring in Product Development with a minor in Mechatronics. Raimo’s areas of interests are product development and product
Paper ID #38358Responsible Engineering Across Cultures: Investigating theEffects of Culture and Education on Ethical Reasoning andDispositions of Engineering StudentsScott Streiner (Visiting Assistant Professor, Industrial EngineeringDepartment) Scott Streiner is visiting Assistant Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department, First-Year Engineering Program and the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. From 2017-2021, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department at Rowan University where he
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’ identity development, belonging, and agency in interdisciplinary engineering education. She leads the ASEE CDEI virtual workshop team focused on building a community of educators passionate about expanding their knowledge concerning diversity, equity, and inclusion in engineering education.Jacqueline Rohde Jacqueline Rohde is a PhD candidate at Purdue University and is the recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Her research interests in engineering education include the development student engineering identity and professional developmentHeather Lee Perkins (Post-Doctoral Researcher) I entered the Applied Science & Community Psychology program in the fall of 2014, after completing my Bachelor of Science
Education for Social Justice: Critical Explorations and Opportunities (Springer, 2013), and Engineering Justice: Transforming Engineering Education and Practice (IEEE-Wiley, 2017). Born in Colombia, he learned to value and learn from the poorest people in Colombian society. As an engineering student, he learned the strengths and limitations of engineering assumptions and methods for engaging communities, particularly those neglected by engineering. In his Ph.D., he learned that engineering has culture that can be studied and transformed for the wellbeing of communities, social justice, and sustainability.Sofia Lara SchlezakMateo Rojas © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022