anddevelopment effort in the low-cost RPi clusters for mosquito research.II. Capstone project management Engineering Technology programs have effectively executed experiential learning practicesvia capstone or senior projects. Students could solidify their learning through rigorous two-semester capstone project courses in the Engineering Technology programs at Texas A&MUniversity. One of the faculty in this paper, Dr. Hur, has been teaching a junior-level embeddedsystem course [14][15]. Students could be given a reasonably challenging term project to helptheir education in this course. In Fall 2019, a robot challenge as the term project was given to thestudents [16]. For this robot challenge, students need to build their version of a two
Paper ID #38300Addressing National Advanced Manufacturing WorkforceNeedsKaren Wosczyna-birch (Director)Wendy Robicheau © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Addressing National Advanced Manufacturing Workforce NeedsThe mission of the National Center for Next Generation Manufacturing (NCNGM), funded bythe National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (NSF ATE) program,Grant #2055767, and led by the Connecticut College of Technology (COT), is to cultivate andnurture partnerships with stakeholders throughout the United States to further develop a diverseadvanced
first engineer to receive the U.S. Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning and a co-recipient of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education. He is a fellow of ASEE and NSPE. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Engagement in Practice: Model for Project-Based Community Engagement Engineers Without Borders Guatemala Case StudyAbstractThe landscape of community-engaged engineering and design is evolving as many globalcommunities have experienced infrastructure development in recent decades, climate change andlocal crises
Paper ID #38362Evaluating the Impact of Enrichment and ProfessionalDevelopment Activities on REU StudentsBimal P. Nepal (Professor) Dr Bimal Nepal is Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. His research interests are in manufacturing, distribution, supply chain management, and engineering education.Manan Shah © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comEvaluating the Impact of Enrichment and Professional Development Activities on REU
technological gap, the University of Southern Maine has developed a CubeSatdesign competition targeting grade 6-8 and 9-12 students to engage participants in collaborativeSTEM learning. In this program, teams of 1-15 students from school districts across Mainecreate a unique science or technology demonstration mission and use the engineering designprocess to design and build a CubeSat meeting the mission requirements under cost, performanceand time constraints. Teams are judged on their mission success and ability to communicateresults to a broad audience. Teams are provided learning workshops in the design process,computer-aided design, computer programming and fundamental science during the competition.Methodologies, outcomes and assessment tools are
University. He worked as a Research Assistant Professor at IIT in Chicago from 2011-2012. In 2012 he returned to Purdue to serve as an Assistant Professor at the Purdue Polytechnic Kokomo. Dr. Garcia-Bravo, joined the School of Engineering Technology at Purdue main campus in 2015, he is currently an Associate Professor for the Mechanical Engineering Technology program where he has a special focus on fluid power (hydraulic systems) research and instruction. Dr. Garcia-Bravo investigates how hydraulic systems can improve the performance and efficiency of heavy duty vehicles. He also researches techniques for the creation of flexible components with embedded sensors using additive manufacturing for robotics, rehabilitation and
of participating in thisproject. In particular, the team hopes to assess whether the GTAs are experiencing an improvementin their technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) [6] that can positively influencetheir teaching.Concerning improvements to the service-learning assignment in ENG598 TL, the team isimplementing workshops to help the students develop effective media content for their modules.These workshops will be hosted by experts in education and media after the students make theirinitial project proposal. They will guide the GTAs on planning the following: learning objectives,alignment to Next Generation Science Standards Engineering Practices, activity materials, andassessment. The team plans to add a service-learning
Editor of the ASQ’s Quality Management Forum and a Fellow with the American Society for Quality.Harvey HensonTom Withee © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comLeadership Development and STEM Student Success Using the Social Interdependence Model Bruce DeRuntz1, Harvey Henson2, Tom Withee31 School of Applied Engineering and Technology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL2 School of Education, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 3 Goshen Educational Consulting, Edwardsville, IL Leadership Development and STEM Student Success Using the
Paper ID #38063Experiences during the implementation of two differentproject-based learning assignments in a fluid mechanicscourseOrlando M Ayala (Associate Professor) Dr. Ayala received his BS in Mechanical Engineering with honors (Cum Laude) from Universidad de Oriente (Venezuela) in 1995, MS in 2001 and PhD in 2005, both from University of Delaware (USA). Dr. Ayala is currently serving as Associate Professor in the Engineering Technology Department at Old Dominion University. Prior to joining ODU in 2013, Dr. Ayala spent 3 years as a Postdoc at the University of Delaware where he expanded his knowledge on
Paper ID #38151Lessons Learned from Collaborative Initialization ofMachine Learning Class and STEM Contest with Universityand Industry PartnershipHoo Kim Hoo Kim, Ph.D., P.E., is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology at LeTourneau University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. His professional interests include teaching in the area of electromagnetics and RF, integration of faith and engineering, and entrepreneurship in engineering. © American Society for Engineering
Paper ID #37123Dean’s Racial Justice Curriculum Challenge (WIP)Paula Rees (Assistant Dean for Diversity) Assistant Dean UMass Amherst.Scott A Civjan (Professor)Erin Baker (Professor)Promise MchengaHannah WhartonJacqueline E Thornton (Software Developer)Lia Marie CiemnyEsha Ayman UddinSamantha WojdaShannon Roberts Dr. Shannon C. Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department and the co- director of the Human Performance Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass). Prior to joining UMass, she was a technical staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Cyber
and inclusion of Black women are important in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics career pathways and sports such as volleyball. Disparities inrepresentation have an impact on women’s median income, the quality of STEM-based solutions,and the diversity of women in leadership roles and continue pervasive narratives about whobelongs in STEM. Athletics and STEM have been seen as vehicles to mobilize studentseconomically and to develop their valuable lifelong skills such as time management, cross-culturalteam-building, problem-solving, competitiveness, and resolve. In this qualitative study, the authorsinvestigate the sports and STEM journeys of three Black women who are collegiate volleyballplayers. The theoretical framework is
Paper ID #37242Delivery and Impact of Virtual Teacher ProfessionalDevelopment WorkshopsKenneth Walz Dr. Walz has been a faculty member at Madison Area Technical College since 2003, teaching science, engineering, and renewable energy technology. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in Environmental Chemistry and Technology, while conducting electrochemical research on lithium-ion batteries with Argonne National Laboratory and Rayovac. Dr. Walz is an alumnus of the Department of Energy Academies Creating Teacher Scientists Program at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and he has also
Paper ID #38317Increasing Global Competencies through InternationalInterdisciplinary Undergraduate Research on Big Data inEnergy and Related InfrastructureBimal P. Nepal (Professor) Dr Bimal Nepal is Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. His research interests are in manufacturing, distribution, supply chain management, and engineering education.Eakalak Khan © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Increasing Global Competencies through International
advancement; and (3) gaining access to high quality education. Prior research highlights how international students face challenges linked to federal restrictions and policies that potentially hinder their academic success, all of which were heightened during the COVID-19 pandemic. Information such as this raises concern around the current state of undergraduate international STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) students in the U.S. and access to resources (i.e. scholarships, fellowships, internships, full-time jobs, etc.), especially compared to their domestic counterparts. This insight is particularly true for individuals seeking to obtain a degree within STEM (science, technology
Paper ID #37205Work-in-Progress: Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation touncover themes in student comments from peer evaluationsof teamworkGaurav Nanda (Assistant Professor) Dr. Gaurav Nanda is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Technology at Purdue University with focus in Industrial Engineering Technology. His research interests include text mining, collaborative information systems, and intelligent decision support systems combining AI and human expertise. Dr. Nanda has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Purdue University for two years and in the software industry for five years. He obtained
Paper ID #37478Redesigning Cyber Security Labs with Immediate FeedbackPeng Li © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Redesigning Cyber Security Labs with Immediate FeedbackINTRODUCTION In our Information and Computer Technology Program, the lab setup in a cyber securitycourse ICTN 4200/4201 Intrusion Detection Technologies became outdated. We revamped thelab environment and hands-on labs in the course to be aligned with our college’s new initiativesto increase course accessibility utilizing “ed-tech” (cloud services, etc.) and to increase use oflearning management systems for real
Distinguished Teacher-Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has conducted research in computational complexity theory, in professional ethics, and in engineering education. He is a Carnegie Scholar, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education. Professor Loui was the editor of the Journal of Engineering Education from 2012 to 2017 and the executive editor of College Teaching from 2006 to 2012. He was Associate Dean of the Graduate College at Illinois from 1996 to 2000. He directed the theory of computing program at the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 1991. He earned the Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980 and the B.S. at Yale
Robotics Conference, as the Conference Chair for the 2015 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference and has served as symposium and session chairs for many ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences. He was the general Conference Co-Chair for the 2016 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC/CIE). He won a SUNY Research Foundation Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) award, which enabled him to develop a multifunctional Sit-to-Stand-Walker assistive device ( http://www.mobilityassist.net ) for people afflicted with neuromuscular degenerative diseases or disability. The technology and the patent behind the device has been licensed to Biodex Medical Systems for bringing the device to
Paper ID #36857The Role of Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing inCybersecurity EducationTe-shun Chou (Professor) Dr. Te-Shun Chou is a Professor in the Department of Technology Systems (TSYS) within College of Engineering and Technology (CET) at East Carolina University (ECU). He serves as the program coordinator of the Master program in Network Technology for the TSYS and the lead faculty of Digital Communication Systems concentration for the Consortium Universities of the Ph.D. in Technology Management. He is also the point of contact for The Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) at ECU. He
assessment of the gaps in institutional services and resources and providethe required feedback, while informing the institution and the research community about theways to develop a resilient support network for engineering students in the times of crisis. Futurework will consider how student responses change under the altering societal and work/academicconditions with or without COVID-19 pandemic being present at that time. Results from thecurrent study also provide recommendations for effective online instruction in the future.Keywords: Needs Analysis, Learning Technology, Engineering StudentsIntroduction During times of local and national quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic,universities had to close campuses and expediently convert
research topics include Engineering Education, Structural Dynamics and Applied Mechanics. He has been a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) in the Mexican Council of Science and Technology. He has held several position within the School of Engineering, including Head of School and his current post as head of the regional department of Sustainable Technologies and Civil Engineering for the Southern Region of Tecnologico de Monterrey, including seven campuses. His research interests include Computational Mechanics and Engineering Education. Prof. Rodriguez-Paz is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is the author of more
Paper ID #36895Evaluating the Effects of Project-based Learning on aSophomore Mechanics CourseCasey Kidd (Graduate Assistant)Ethan Hilton (Assistant Professor) Dr. Ethan Hilton is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA, where he has been since September 2019 after receiving his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Hilton’s work focuses on Engineering Design and Engineering Education, focusing on design methodology, project-based learning, and hands-on learning in informal environments. He has also worked on Broadening Participation in STEM through
Paper ID #36998Exploring how students attend to the nature and dynamics ofcomplexity in their design problemsCorey Schimpf Corey Schimpf is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at the University at Buffalo, SUNY his lab focuses on engineering design, advancing research methods, and technology innovations to support learning in complex domains. Major research strands include: (1) analyzing how expertise develops in engineering design across the continuum from novice pre-college students to practicing engineers, (2) advancing engineering design research by integrating new theoretical or
Paper ID #36767Building Partnerships to Bridge the Transfer Gap andIncrease Student SuccessCody Mann (Director of Bell Program Operations and Facilitators)Andrew HanegmonMichelle Soledad (Assistant Professor) Michelle Soledad is an Assistant Professor in the Iron Range Engineering - Bell Program at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She holds degrees in Electrical Engineering (BS, MEngg) from the Ateneo de Davao University in Davao City, Philippines, and in Engineering Education (Ph.D.) from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include teaching and learning experiences in fundamental engineering courses, and data
Paper ID #37704Leveraging ThingsBoard IoT Service for RemoteExperimentationAhmet Can Sabuncu (Assistant Teaching Professor) Dr. Sabuncu holds a Ph. D. in Aerospace Engineering from Old Dominion University. Dr. Sabuncu’s professional interests spans from engineering education research, engineering laboratory education, history of science and engineering, thermo- fluids engineering, and microfluidic technology. Dr. Sabuncu is eager to discover next generation workforce skills and to educate next generation of engineers who will carry Industry 4.0 forward considering the needs of the global world.Kerri Anne Thornton
faculty of UNL, he served as Senior Geotechnical Engineer and Geotechnical Department Manager at private engineering firms. Dr. Williamson was an instructor of Construction Engineering Technology at Kansas State University (KSU) for nine years. Prior to his time at KSU, Williamson was an Engineering Associate for the Kansas Department of Transportation. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Engagement in Practice: A model for community partnership in an infrastructure capstone courseAbstractIn the Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, capstone design faculty in the Department of Civiland
each other can completely redefine what faculty retentionlooks like once we are finally on the other side of the storm.7. Works CitedAmerican Council on Education (ACE), “June Pulse Point Survey: Fall Planning, Financial Viability Top List of Concerns,” 2020 (Last Accessed June 26, 2020). [Online].Baillie, C., Pawley, A., & Riley, D. (2012). Engineering and social justice: In the university and beyond. West Lafayette, Ind: Purdue University Press.Banerjee, D. & Pawley, A.L. (2013). “Gender and Promotion: How do science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty members survive a foggy climate?” Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 19(4), 329-347.Bronstein, P. & Farnsworth, L. (1998
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