College of Engineering.” Darcie holds a Master of Engineering degree in Environmental Engineering (2019) and Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Engineering (2017), both from Utah State University. She is passionate about student success and support, both inside and outside of the classroom.Idalis Villanueva (Dr.) For the past 10 years, Dr. Idalis Villanueva has worked on several engineering education projects where she derives from her experiences in engineering to improve outcomes for minoritized groups in engineering using mixed-and multi-modal methods approaches. She currently is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at the University of Florida. In 2019, she received the Presidential
bycolonial-era unequal land distribution [8], poor land conversion projects and land use policiesthat enabled unhealthy ecosystems and unsafe urban environments (e.g. [9]). For example,blurring of rural-urban spatial and social boundaries, mobilized by urban sprawl, have inducednew and unexpected changes in rural America at the expense of local solidarity and socialcohesion [10]. Inner city neighborhoods are disproportionately inhabited by socially vulnerablepopulations where a multiplicity of environmental stressors compromise quality of life (e.g. [9,11]). Transformation from agrarian to urban-industrial society urged by fiscal incentives frommultinational corporation further galvanized social discords through cross-migration andintercultural
participate in challenging work or projects to gain experience or knowledge. These practical tasks include any work given to them by their organization in which the newly-hired engineer actively learns from the completion of the work or task.9. Utilize Resources (in Role Clarity, Task Mastery, and Workgroup Integration): Newly-hired engineers use various technical and non-technical pre-prepared resources to gain a better understanding of their role and how to perform the tasks within their job. These resources can include textbooks, manuals, tutorials, documents, guidebooks, Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia. Utilize Organizational Resources (in Role Clarity and Task Mastery): One of the types of resources that newly-hired
the Eolic and Aerospace industry. Nelson’s research interest revolved around Sustainable Development through the triple bottom line and System Thinking approach. Nelson believes that education is the key to achieving a sustainable world.Joseph Tang (Assistant Professor) Joseph Tang is an assistant professor at the College of Engineering and Technology at Western Carolina UniversityTom Spendlove Tom Spendlove is a mechanical engineer working in the education field at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. He has ten years of experience as a manufacturing design engineer and twenty as an engineering educator. His areas of interest are additive manufacturing, sustainable development, STEAM projects, student
disappointingstudent performance in Systematic Layout Planning, the instructor decided to try out the PSSapproach for that module in Fall 2019.As a result, for cohort B, a case study of a wood furniture production facility based on a priorclient-based student project was developed and executed using PSS techniques. The case studyfocused on Systematic Layout Planning and was assigned during the layout planning module(refer to Table 1). However, since concepts scaffold through the course, the students had to applythe learnings of the two prior modules to arrive at final solutions. The students worked in pairs.The instructor acted as the client and the students had to go through the requirements of the casestudy and request necessary data from the instructor
learn here in the U.S as well as around the world. Mostuniversities, faculty members, and students modified their learning system by incorporatingsignificant online or mixed learning methods/modes to reduce in person contact time and toreduce the spread of the virus. Universities, faculty and students were challenged as they adaptedto new learning modules, strategies and approaches. This adaption started in the Spring of 2020and has continued to date through the Spring of 2022. The main objective of this project was to investigate faculty perception of STEM studentexperiences and behavior during the Fall 2020 semester as compared to the Spring 2020 semesteras COVID-19 impacts were prolonged. Through a qualitative methodology of zoom
closed book, closed notes, open book,and/or open notes. All courses were previously taught in-person with traditional lectures,homework, exams, quizzes, team projects, and active learning exercises. Five of the classesincluded labs and 10 of the 12 classes traditionally had closed-book, closed-notes quizzes andexams. After the switch to online learning, all 12 of the classes used a blend of synchronous andasynchronous lectures, videos, and office hours using Zoom, and just two classes remained in aclosed-book and/or closed-notes format for quizzes and exams. Academic integrity rules weregenerally implemented on the honor system during this initial switch to an online learningenvironment in Spring 2020.Table 1: Course Responses Course
responses relates to completing tasks in a timely manner. Within this program,students are given general timelines and assignment deadlines, but due to the unique nature oftheir projects, it is an expectation that groups will use autonomy in creating deadlines to ensurethe project is completed on time. This lack of a traditional classroom schedule may have been aninfluence on this prompt. Overall, this program employs a collaborative form of teaching andlearning; however, it cannot be assumed that this method is the sole reason for the shifts instudents’ self-efficacy, as the transdisciplinary nature and authentic learning environmentstudents are presented with may influence these shifts as well. That being said, from theinterviews and open-ended
Paper ID #36711PHYSICS APPLICATIONS: THEIR IMPACT ONSTUDENTS’ MOTIVATION AND PERSPECTIVE OFSTEMMonica Daniela Hernandez-sanchez (Ing.)Sally Macias-GonzalezErick Iturbe-SanchezArmando de Jesús Barragán-CruzLuis Horacio Hernandez Carrasco I'm a Civil Engineer with a Masters Degree in Structural Engineering. Professional Structural Engineer for 35 years and full time professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey for the last 9 years. Specialized in high rise buildings and vehicular bridges, developing projects for particulars and government institutions. Teaching Structural Design Topics such as Design of Steel Structures and
Management System (LMS), calledGES (Galileo Educational System) [16]. MATH 101 is a joint project between the Department ofApplied Mathematics and the GES team, the latter being responsible for managing the projectand developing the adaptive features of this course. In this first version of MATH 101, a doublebranching approach (outer and inner adaptive schemes) was used to incorporate the adaptivecharacteristic of our virtual remedial course.a. Outer Adaptive SchemeThe diagnostic test drives the Outer Adaptive Scheme. As mentioned in Section 2, the startingpoint of the course is a diagnostic test divided into four sections, one per unit of MATH 101. Theresults obtained in this exam are significant because they will determine the student’s
ofmore of the professional societies within their discipline, and thus committed to upholding thisimperative. Further, some engineering faculty are licensed professional engineers [6-7], and havetherefore taken an oath to uphold this commitment. How might this obligation be realized inpractice, considering both engineering students and the public who will be impacted by theirwork as engineers in the future?First it is worth noting that this paramount engineering ethical responsibility offers bothaffordances and limitations. There is inherent complexity in “the public” – with multiplestakeholders for each project that differentially experience benefits and harms from engineeredproducts and infrastructure. For example, sustainability asks us to
undergraduate students in STEM.Larry PowellSamantha Ray (Graduate Research Assistant) Samantha Ray is a Ph.D. student in the Sketch Recognition Lab at Texas A&M University. She received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2018. Her research focuses on human-centered AI, developing systems that understand human behavior. She has worked on projects in human activity recognition to recognize activities of daily living (ADLs), intelligent tutoring systems to teach perspective sketching, and cognition-aware computing to measure people's mental workload on spatial visualization tasks.Malini Natarajarathinam (Associate Professor) Dr. Malini Natarajarathinam received her Ph.D. in Operations Management
Management (Missouri S&T) and Civil Engineering (Virginia Tech) and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (The University of Texas at Austin). He has taught several courses in the civil engineering curriculum ranging from structural engineering and steel design to infrastructure systems and construction management. Each spring, he co-teaches Project Management Professional prep classes to the West Point community. His research interests include topics in structural engineering and engineering education. He serves as the Vice-Chair of the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Partners in Education Committee and as a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Committee on Education and Committee on Faculty
pedagogicalor programmatic strategies to support student outcomes. Budinoff and Subbian reviewed asset-based approaches to engineering design education and found a few example strategies includingculturally responsive design projects and asset-mapping. Looking more broadly at programmaticstrategies, they suggested providing shared physical spaces for faculty and students to interactand expanding admissions criteria and community building in the first-year (2021). Theserecommendations could also support the development of teamwork and communication skills.Similarly, Svilha et al. utilized funds of knowledge as a framework to redesign and reframedesign prompts for first-year engineering students. Their research indicated that this approachsupported a
Paper ID #36894Low-Cost Haptics and Visualization to Learn the AtomicForce Microscope Force-Distance CurveNisal Ovitigala I'm an international student from Sri Lanka that graduated MIT with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. During my time at MIT, I spent a lot of time as an undergraduate researcher in various research groups such as conducting metallurgy research in the Taşan group, robotics research at the d'Arbeloff lab, and engineering education research with the LEAP group. One of my projects with the LEAP group was developing a computer interface to remotely manipulate and view a light microscope so that
theAmerican Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) [8] recognize the importance of diversityto not only libraries but also entire professions. Publicizing EDI initiatives in libraries isimportant as it “projects that the library or organization is working toward a climate of trust,collaboration, productivity, innovation, shared power, and creativity” [9].One way in which libraries effect these goals is through their collection development policies[5]. A good collection development statement is essential to creating a robust collection thatconsiders both its users’ needs and the mission of the institution [10]. If diversity is to be a keypart of collection development, then a separate statement outlining what constitutes a diversecollection is
- Industry Research) (Purdue University at WestLafayette (COE))Peter Bermel (Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE))Kerrie A Douglas (Associate 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
Construction (K.W.I.C.) organization which supports the growth and development of women in the construction industry. Prior to joining KSU, she worked as an award-winning construction management professional for over 15 years with successful program management, project management, real estate and business development experience in the AEC industry. An accomplished construction project and business development manager, she worked for leading organizations in the public and private sectors delivering successful projects, programs, and winning proposals some of which include Beers Construction (now Skanska USA), Heery International (now CBRE/Heery), Parsons Corporation, and the Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources. In
beneficial towards nurturing academicdevelopment and clarifying career options post-graduation [7], [8]. In a survey conducted by theNational Science Foundation (NSF), 88% of its respondents, which held undergraduate researchpositions, reported significant growth in structuring and conducting a research project, 83%expressed greater confidence in research and professional abilities, and 73% attested awareness ofa graduate school environment [3], [4], [9]. These undergraduate research opportunities, accordingto Hurtado et al. [2], have further facilitated the decision of its participants to pursue STEM careersand Ph.D. studies post-graduation [14]. It is further reported that partaking in undergraduateresearch opportunities is considered an effective
the creation of the single-document labs and thecollection of survey data for this work.References [1] S. Wentworth, D. Silage, and M. Baginski, “Individualized Matlab projects in undergraduate electromagnetics,” in 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition, no. 10.18260/1-2–15655. Louisville, Kentucky: ASEE Conferences, June 2010, https://peer.asee.org/15655. [2] R. Hensel and Y. Sun, “Application of object scaffolding to develop a hands on, problem centered, and project based freshman Matlab® course,” in 2006 Annual Conference & Exposition, no. 10.18260/1-2–1307. Chicago, Illinois: ASEE Conferences, June 2006, https://peer.asee.org/1307. [3] R. J. Sassenfeld and J. R. Tapia, “Teaching a college-wide introductory
Center DirectorCorey Pew (Assistant Professor)Adrienne Phillips (Associate Professor) Dr. Phillips is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Montana State University. She teaches environmental engineering courses and is a member of a team sponsored by the NSF RED program to develop integrated and project-based courses in a new environmental engineering curriculum. She also does research on microbial biofilms.Beth J Shirley (Assistant Professor)Stephanie G Wettstein (Associate Professor) Associate Professor © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Work-in-Progress: Writing in Engineering
also prepare students for engineering projects that transcend limitedcourse scopes. For example, electric circuits courses provide underlying conceptual andmathematical principles to model electronics. However, in practice, electrical projects can beinterdisciplinary and go beyond the basic models introduced in class. Additionally, it is difficultto combine multifaceted sociotechnical concepts into entry level circuits classes. One method fordeveloping course modules for electric circuits that explore technical content with a societalcontext is described by Lord, Przestrzelski and Reddy [1]. We offer a solution to better integrate the technical circuit concepts and societalprinciples in an undergraduate circuits course. Specifically, we
inside and outside of class [5]. Examples of these kindsof activities include student clubs, organizations, undergraduate research, internships, co-ops,service projects, and other activities that can provide learning experiences for undergraduatestudents. Research on co-curricular experiences has addressed both student outcomes anddimensions/features of the experience, but very few studies have adopted a holistic system-levelperspective to think about the effect of the suite of offerings all together.Why Co-Curricular Activities and Supports Matter Offering co-curricular activities for undergraduate students in engineering provides arange of benefits. Several studies have shown how co-curricular engagement relates to students’leadership
materialsand the assignment, and the tutor supervisor identifies how the elements in the lab report arerelated to the tutors’ experience with FYC papers. To ensure student participation, theassignment must require a tutoring session with a WATTS peer writing tutor.Research Data Analysis and FindingsThis project is being funded by a National Science Foundation grant. Research data continue tobe collected and analyzed from all sites implementing the program: Penn State Behrend (PSB),Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indiana University PurdueUniversity Columbus (IUPUC), and the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), aminority-serving institution. Collection methods include pre- and post-training tutor surveys. Inaddition
Paper ID #37487Enhancing the Student Learning Experience through VirtualReality IntegrationJames Schreinerleang tri Leang Tri is a graduate research assistant at Missouri Science and Technology, where he works on dynamic topology control and network localization. He received a bachelor's degree of Science in Engineering Management from the United States Military Academy in 2022. Tri's previous research includes analyzing the effect of social media algorithms through a system dynamics lens and improving efficiency in project management in the Department of Veteran Affairs. He is passionate about innovation and
research interests. Finally, the students met with several potentialmentors and then wrote a synopsis of each researcher and their project. This concluded with thestudents deciding who their choice is and why that mentor was selected. A subsequent lecturelater in the semester discussed standard undergraduate research opportunities such as theuniversity course, summer research programs, and NSF REU type opportunities. An early lecture on literature searching and literature searching tools will allow thestudents to find manuscripts on their advisors work and related work. Once literature wasidentified, the students then wrote a synopsis on each paper and how it relates to or can be usedfor the student’s project. Finally, to initiate research
, secondary education, and theology from the University of Saint Thomas in Houston, Texas and my Masters in mathematics education from the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. I taught high school mathematics in Cincinnati, Ohio before coming to the University of Georgia to complete my Ph.D. in mathematics education. My research focuses on teacher preparation programs and how we assess teachers' feelings of preparedness.Tim Foutz (Professor) Dr. Foutz, a professor in the College of Engineering, is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professors, the university’s highest recognition for excellence in instruction at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Foutz has active projects in the general area of engineering
be presenting on COVID-19 and U.S. Higher Education: The Realities of Undergraduate International STEM Students’ Experiences.Trina L. Fletcher (Assistant Professor) Dr. Trina L. Fletcher is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Computing Education and a Faculty Fellow for the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at Florida International University. Her research includes asset-based studies on women and people of color within STEM education and engineering and computing education at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Dr. Fletcher uses large-scale data sets to conduct research using mixed- methodologies focused her target populations. She is a 2022 NSF CAREER awardee for a project
since it gathers a broader range of useful informationrelated to the projects[11, 12]. Azhar et al [13] provide with a list of benefits of the use of BIMnot only in industry but also for future professionals. The main difference between CAD and BIMis that BIM models buildings consider a wider variety of information including the form,function, and behaviour of building systems and components [14]. This transition is alsohappening in education with the use of BIM to create VR models. Even though VR headsets seemexpensive, they represent a relatively low-cost option compared to the different 2D draftingsoftware licenses. Moreover, it does not represent a high risk due to high contact when regularsafety measures are used such as cleaning the
(Professor)Benny Mart Hiwatig Benny Mart Hiwatig is a PhD candidate in the STEM Education program at the University of Minnesota. He earned his bachelor's degree in Secondary Education and took master's coursework in Chemistry Education in the Philippines, where he also taught high school chemistry. He is currently involved in a research project that aims to develop an observation protocol for STEM lessons and relevant training materials that are directed at improving the quality of STEM instruction in K-12 spaces. His primary research interests include assessment of student learning in STEM contexts, exploration of how integrated STEM is enacted in the secondary level (especially in chemistry classes), and assessment and