have gone on to be hired as Graduate Teaching Assistants forECE’s technical communication-focused courses after being accepted into the School’s graduateprogram. Initial plans are underway to codify the peer leader pipeline into a fellowship program,institutionalizing the culture of peer mentorship that has been established.While student feedback following the first academic year in the intended residential, studioformat has been overwhelmingly positive, we continue to look for themes in course feedback topositively adjust the course moving forward. Course design is never truly done when relying onevidence-based practices. The future of ECE Discovery Studio is bright, paving the way tocrucial research as we learn more about discipline-specific
understand undergraduate student and faculty member’s experiences in engineering education. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Integrating Teacher Empathy into the Engineering Classroom one Educator at a Time: An Action Research StudyAbstract: In this research paper, we explore the journey of one engineering faculty whileintegrating best practices from research on teacher empathy in their classroom. Teacher empathyis a term used in multiple fields of study, including higher education, nursing, and medicine, torefer to the empathetic skills of teachers. This body of research generally shows that betterteacher empathy
Design for the Class Project An undergraduate research assistant working with the principal investigator uses theFused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technology to conduct a preliminary study on therepeatability performance using PLA and ABS plastic filaments for two types of 3D printers.ABS and PLA filaments are widely used today in both education and industry. However, eachfilament has its strength and weakness, including stiffness, durability, chemical resistance, andheat resistance. Although PLA filament is one of the most accessible materials, it only fits intohobbyist applications due to its poor heat and chemical resistance. On the other hand, ABSfilament is lighter and more durable [15]. It is used in more practical applications
; and better student experience,covering mental healthiness, a design for all learners, etc.The world needs empathetic engineers, technology stewards [11], people who are aware of thechallenges the world faces, the multitude of voices needed to tackle the challenges in the worldtoday. There are several studies showing growing challenges for graduates entering theworkforce (e.g. [14],[15], and with regards to practical and communications-related skills insoftware engineering, [19],[20]), and with the global recession from COVID-19 [16], studentsneed to come to the job market with a more well-rounded engineering education. In curricula, wehave often sidelined the graduate attributes related to the so-called “soft” skills ofcommunication
Education and Sustainable Development from Kathmandu University, a master’s in Biosystems Engineering from Michigan State University and a dual-major doctorate in Biosystems Engineering and Environmental Engineering from Michigan State. Dr. Aryal’s research interests are in water quality, hydrology, phytoremediation, agricultural conservation practices, urban best- management practices (BMPs), and ecological engineering. Pertaining to education, his interests are in innovative instructional techniques to enhance student motivation and learning.Gautam Biswas Gautam Biswas conducts research in Intelligent Systems with primary interests in monitoring, control, and fault adaptivity of complex cyber-physical systems. In
related to theircapstone design project or team and/or their future careers. These reflections were due two daysafter each speaker’s presentation to keep students from falling behind.3. Methods 3.1 Research questionIn our research, we set out to assess the impact of the redesigned CE Codes and Regulationscourse on students’ learning related to ethics for the practicing civil engineer. This study aimedto answer the following research question:Can professional, civil engineering-focused ethical instruction scaffolded in a Codes andRegulations course impact students’ preparation to be successful, ethically-minded civilengineering practitioners? 3.2 Participants, data collection, and analysisAt Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, the CE Codes
laboratory courses. Dr. Kim and his collaborators attracted close to $1M research grants to study writing transfer of engineering undergraduates. For the technical research, he has a long-standing involvement in research concerned with manufacturing of advanced composite materials (CFRP/titanium stack, GFRP, nanocomposites, etc.) for automotive, marine, and aerospace applications. His recent research efforts have also included the fatigue behavior of manufactured products, with the focus of fatigue strength improvement of aerospace, automotive, and rail structures. He has been the author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed papers in these areas.John D Lynch John Lynch received the BSEE degree from the University of Utah in
are also interested in researched-based pedagogy, including project-based learning, community-based learning, and inclusive teaching. Furthermore, they are dedicated to improving the climate for under-represented students in engineering, including LGBTQIA+ individuals.Christopher Tossas-Betancourt Christopher Tossas-Betancourt is a doctoral candidate and graduate student research assistant at the University of Michigan. Christopher is currently pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. He received a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include computational modeling of cardiovascular blood flow
Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) and is a Senior member of MLA's Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP). His research interests include studying the information seeking behaviors and data practices of STEM researchers, mentoring emerging LIS professionals, and improving information literacy instruction for students in the sciences. He has published on these topics in journals such as College & Research Libraries, portal: Libraries and the academy, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, and the Journal of the Medical Library Association. His work in these areas has been recognized by the ALA Library Instruction Round Table with "Top Twenty" awards in 2018 and 2019. Previously, Alex was the
improve their ability to succeed in a professional settingand better prepare them to enter the profession upon graduation. It has been shown thatmeaningful feedback can provide students with an understanding of how they can improve aswell as close any gap between their current level of performance and abilities and what will beexpected in professional practice [10, 22]. The assessment tool was consciously designed to beformative as regards to an individual student’s assessment. As it was not summative, we hopedto avoid the leniency bias noted in supervisor assessments of students [16, 19, 20]. To stress thedevelopmental nature of this tool, students are given a pass or fail grade on their co-opexperience, not a grade that impacts their GPA. A
Paper ID #36464Integrating Universal Design and Accessibility intoBioengineering CurriculumAlyssa Catherine Taylor (Dr.) Associate Teaching Professor in Bioengineering with a decade of teaching experience across introductory, lab, and senior design courses. Interested in topics such as curriculum innovation (e.g., universal design and accessibility), inclusive teaching strategies, incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion-related course content, technical communication, and accreditation best practices. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022
, benefits, and relationships as time goes on allows for deeper insights into bestpractices and recommendations for future actions and collaborations. Methodology This study employed a single holistic case study design as described per Yin [21] to buildoff the analysis previously completed using data from the first year of VT PEERS. Because theparticipants of this study belong to the same stakeholder group, the process of collaboration asunderstood from their perspectives are more likely to be common, making the use of a singleholistic case study appropriate [21]. According to Baxter and Jack [22], case study research alsoallows for the specific context to be understood—in this case, the specific
students with mentoring has been proposed as a solution to closing the “leakypipeline” [1]. To this end, engineering programs across the country have invested significantresources in developing and implementing mentoring programs [2]. Since motivation underpinsachievement and persistence [3], it is important to understand how mentors can best support theirmentees’ development of adaptive patterns of motivation. There is a need to investigate howmentors interpret challenges that engineering students have in maintaining motivation and howmentors seek to address these challenges. We also need to understand the extent to whichmentoring approaches align with prior research on achievement motivation [4, 5]. By examiningthe convergence of practice with
epistemic matter, faculty agency, and researcher identity.Daniel Patrick Mountain I have a background in chemical engineering, getting my Bachelor's in 2021 in this area. I am currently pursuing my Master's in Chemical Engineering, as well as an Engineering Education Graduate Certificate. I have done past research in engineering education, working with how the COVID-19 pandemic affected engineering students. My current research looks at how perceptions of engineering affect pre-service teachers' self-efficacy at teaching engineering. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comDevelopment of a Hybrid Community of Practice Course
Tech, and Director of the Frith First Year Makers program and of the Minecraft Museum of Engineering. His research focuses include creativity-based pedagogy, the interactions of non-humans with the built environment, and the built environment as a tool for teaching at the nexus of biology and engineering. He earned his graduate degrees from Virginia Tech, including an M.S. Civil Infrastructure Engineering, M.S. LFS Entomology, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Student Engagement with a Nontraditional First-Year Engineering Project ThemeAbstractFor many
Paper ID #37430A Balancing Act: Elementary Teachers and their StudentsBalancing Trade-offs in Engineering Design Projects(Fundamental)Matthew Johnson (Assistant Professor) Matt Johnson is an Associate Professor of Science Education with the Center for Science and the Schools (CSATS). In this role, he collaborates with scientists and engineers to propose and facilitate teacher professional development opportunities for K-12 STEM teachers, often as broader impacts components of research grants. He is also PI of an NSF grant focused on learning how rural teachers learn about engineering through participation in
Paper ID #37749Low and High Performing First-Year Engineering Students’Learning and Metacognitive StrategiesKayla Ney Kayla Ney is a Master's student in Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. While pursuing her degree in BSE conducting research in the Orthopedic and Neural Engineering (ONE) Lab, Kayla has been analyzing data and evaluating engineering student reflections and metacognitive abilities. Her interests include engineering design curricula, engineering education in the biomedical engineering space, and strategies to better equip engineering graduates with skills that
department of Computer Science & Software Engineering; and the Science, Technology & Society Program. Dr. Lehr previously served as elected co-chair of the Science & Technology Taskforce of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), and as a Postdoctoral Research Officer at the Centre for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS) at King's College, University of London. Her graduate training is in Science & Technology Studies and Women's Studies at Virginia Tech and her teaching and research focus primarily on the complex relationships between gender, race, culture, science, technology, and education.Dominic J Dal Bello (Professor) Awardee, Outstanding Teaching Award, ASEE/Pacific Southwest Section, 2022
Paper ID #38127Minecraft Design Build: Teaching Teamwork and ProjectPlanning in a Virtual WorldOlivier Ladislas De Weck (Associate Professor) (Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology) Olivier de Weck’s research is in the fields of Engineering Systems and Astronautics. He studies how new technologies and designs enable complex systems such as vehicles, missions, and industrial ecosystems and how they evolve over time. His group develops both quantitative theories and practical methods such as the Isoperformance approach, the Adaptive Weighted Sum (AWS) method for resolving tradeoffs amongst competing objectives, Time
Paper ID #37054Assessing Distinctives of the New XXXX EngineeringProgram in Terms of Their Impact on Recruitment, StudentSatisfaction and Employment PotentialDaniel D. Jensen (Professor) Dr Jensen received a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is currently the Westmont Endowed Professor of Engineering and the Director for the Westmont College Engineering Program. He was a Professor of Engineering Mechanics at the US Air Force Academy for 21 years (now retired) where he ran the mechanical engineering design program. He has been a Scholar in Residence at the University
section; then, all faculty members review these best videos to determine the top sixvideos; finally, the top six videos are sent to the whole campus community to vote on the bestexplainer video. The first prize is $1200, the second prize is $800, and the third prize is $400.Similar to the design competition, we are actively soliciting endowment funds to support theprize money for the Explainer Video Competition.Pitch Competition in Senior Year associated with Capstone Design CoursesSenior Innovation is a series of three one-credit courses that support the technical senior designcourses. The last of these courses, Senior Innovation III, is in the spring of the senior year. Thiscourse focuses on identifying and articulating entrepreneurial value in
solve theproblems as a consulting firm would. While students were busy putting geotechnical engineeringtheory into practice, their efforts were supported by a course designed as a problem-based,flipped-classroom, with just-in-time-teaching, thereby combining and putting modernpedagogical theory into practice. This paper presents the evidence-based practice study ofinterleaving and putting the pedagogical theories of problem-based learning, flipped classrooms,and just-in-time-teaching into practice. It captures the intricacies of the course design, documentsthe student and professor experience, and provides analysis and recommendations forengineering educators aimed at supporting the jump from theory to practice for these educationalmethods
opportunities for students to learn how to design in the most authenticcontext possible with many of the constraints of the university setting removed (viz. constraintson time, material resources, and opportunities for multi-disciplinary problems).CEWIL Canada – a national body to promote the use of Work-integrated learning (WIL) ineducational settings – defines work-integrated learning as “a form of curricular experientialeducation that formally integrates a student’s academic studies with quality experiences within aworkplace or practice setting… [involving] an academic institution, a host organization, and astudent” [3]. WIL approaches include: community and industry research and projects,apprenticeships, co-operative education, entrepreneurship
: Teacher Impact on Student Learning Using LC-DLM Implementations in the ClassroomOur team has developed Low-Cost Desktop Learning Modules (LCDLMS) as tools to studytransport phenomena aimed at providing hands-on learning experiences. With an implementationdesign embedded in the community of inquiry framework, we disseminate units to professorsacross the country and train them on how to facilitate teacher presence in the classroom with theLC-DLMs. Professors are briefed on how create a homogenous learning environment forstudents based on best-practices using the LC-DLMs. By collecting student cognitive gain datausing pre/posttests before and after students encounter the LC-DLMs, we aim to isolate thevariable of the professor
) What is the impact on the trained advisors? Our research mentors demonstrated growth intheir ability to engage with students due to their participation in CAPS. During early focusgroups, mentors reported a benefit of having dedicated time to discuss the mentorship with theirpeers and borrow best practices from each other. For example, 2 out of 4 mentors reportedimmediate success in establishing relationships with their mentees, building on their expertisedeveloped in roles as mentors in previous programs (Winter 2018 focus group). However, theother two mentors mentioned initial struggles connecting with students. These latter mentorscited discomfort around discussing the personal lives of their students, fearing the student’sperception that
Powered by www.slayte.com Long-Term Impact of Humanitarian Engineering Projects on Views of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Preliminary Qualitative Results from AlumniAbstract: This paper details a poster presented in the National Science Foundation (NSF) GranteesPoster Session for the 2022 ASEE Annual Conference. The study, aptly titled, aims to examinethe ‘Long-Term Effect of Involvement in Humanitarian Engineering Projects on StudentProfessional Formation and Views of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).’ As part of thelarger study, this poster details the results from alumni (n=19) of the Lipscomb Universityengineering program collected through an open-ended questionnaire. The research
student participants toinvestigate their perceptions of the assessment tool. At the time of data collection, the first authorwas a research and teaching assistant supporting faculty in developing and implementing theRadar Map. She also assigns to conduct this research to help the institution find ways to improvethe innovation further. The leadership approved the research design of the school. At this stagethere is no formal ethics process for social science research at this institution, such as theInstitutional Review Board (IRB) in the USA. In accordance, however, with general ethics inresearch practice, students and faculty were invited to participate in this research project on theunderstanding that they were freely consenting to participate
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
chapters, we shared some best practices and lessons learned. Since Esploro continuesto be enhanced, we will refine our workflow with new functionality as it is added.IntroductionDigital Measures was used by University of Iowa until July 2021 to track faculty teaching,publications, research and service, and to form the basis of faculty profiles. After its cancellation,the College of Engineering started investigating a new system to showcase their faculty work.The associate dean at the College of Engineering approached the Engineering Library forassistance. The Engineering Library helped identify a feasible solution: Esploro. Esploro, aresearch information management system powered by Ex Libris, not only serves as ourinstitutional repository but
Paper ID #37583Supporting Faculty and Students with DisabilityCali L. Anicha Cali L. Anicha, PhD, is currently a Research Associate with NDSU ADVANCE and has worked as a teacher in the public schools and as a university adjunct instructor. She is engaged in a range of community and education-based equity and justice efforts, and has worked with the NDSU ADVANCE team since 2010.Cecilia Aragon ( Professor) Professor, Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering, University of WashingtonCanan Bilen-Green Canan Bilen-Green is Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Equity at North Dakota State University. She