Paper ID #36877Preparing Students for Construction ManagementTechnology CurriculumKirk Hochstatter PhD Candidate in the University of Washington's College of Built Environments, researching shared leadership, integrated project delivery (IPD) and collaborative governance, virtual teams and building information modeling (BIM). Has been teaching in the UW construction management department since 2017, and developed the digital tools in construction management course. Has worked in the construction industry for over 20 years and delivered several projects throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and the Seattle/Puget
compare the previous course’s finalproject with the new final project. The methods and tools used to ensure the new course andlesson objectives align with the course assessments, the institutional outcomes, and subsequentcore engineering courses will be described. Preliminary findings from the assessment data willbe presented, and plans for a more robust assessment of the changes will be discussed. 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & ExpositionBackground & MotivationThe mission of the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) is “to educate, train and inspiremen and women to become officers of character motivated to lead the United States Air Forceand Space Force in service to our Nation [1].” This mission sets the
mining courses. Our course has been team taughtfour times by a computer science and a mathematics professor. We developed a mathematics anda computer science version of the data mining course that are identical except that the computerscience version requires the course project to have an interactive data-driven website as one of thedeliverables. We describe how the topics covered in the courses have evolved. We also discuss thelearning outcomes we have developed for the courses and methods we use to assess whetherstudents have achieved these learning outcomes.IntroductionThe growing availability of large data sets has led to a steady increase in data mining relatedcourses in mathematics and computer science departments. Sanati-Mehrizy et al
had a positive impact in recent yearsin Paraguay, especially with the launch and placement into the orbit of the CubeSat style theGuaraníSat1 in 2021 (AEP, 2021), being one of the most significant technological achieve-ments in the country. This experience developed a series of hands-on classes on the applica-tion of a didactic module in the assembly and operation of this nanosatellite.The here referred CubeSat is a didactic module prototype. This was designed for the develop-ment of nanosatellites whose main objective is to apply space science in the education sectorthrough a project-based learning methodology.Previous research was carried out in Paraguay, such as a CanSat project (Kurita et al, 2020),where high school instructors were
joined the Civil Engineering Department at Montana State University in 2016. Her research is focused in ecohydraulics and fish passage with a particular fondness for the application of hydraulic and fluid dynamic models to answer research questions in natural settings. She has worked with the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) both in Bozeman and at the Region 5 Headquarters in Amherst, MA on fish passage research projects and practical applications and assessments that culminated in the creation of a passage model for American shad in Steeppass (modified Denil) fishways. Her work has been financially supported by the DOE through the Hydro Research Foundation and the USFWS. Dr. Plymesser currently teaches Engineering
helped to facilitate the introduction, and the student teammet with school staff to offer their services. The students helped the staff articulate and defineissues that they face in their job, issues that the staff sometimes “didn’t even realize had apossible solution.” 1From these discussions, the team defined three initial service projects that are highlighted in thepaper. One is a fine motor skills training toy, designed to develop the small-muscle coordinationof children with special needs. The second project is an adaptive table to help a wheelchair-bound student to reach kitchen tools in a kitchen-setting classroom. The third project is animproved cleaning/drying system for gastronomy tubes (“G-tubes”) used in the feeding of somestudents
Tech University in 2013. His thesis was titled “Anterior Cruciate Ligament Response Due to Forces Resulting from Quadriceps Muscle and Ground Reaction.” He received his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2005 and earned B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2002. He has more than 10 years of industrial experience, playing different roles like lead project engineer, system engineer, principle mechanical engineer, and finite element analyst. Currently, he is conducting research on engineering education. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered
learning that was implemented in onecybersecurity course with interactive learning modules. In this model, a closed-loop learningenvironment is established, where students are actively involved and guided to include theirgoals in an interactive set of learning modules of the course. Students were provided with theneeded infrastructure and technologies (such as IoT devices and the cyberrange platform) toenable them to proceed with those modules. The article summarizes the results based onstudents' feedback and observations, and concludes with a description of a methodology togeneralize this to other similar courses.IntroductionThe global gap in cybersecurity talent remains highly unfulfilled with projections expecting thisgap to extend with
collaborates with NEWT’s Innovation Ecosystem Director, and the Student Leadership Council in the planning of educational and professional development opportunities for NEWT graduate students and postdocs. At Rice, Jorge is an Adjunct Professor in the Civil & Environmental Engineering and Bioengineering Departments, where he developed and teaches CEVE/GLHT 314: Sustainable Water Purification for the Developing World, a project-based course on sustainable strategies for safe water supply in low-income and developing regions of the world. He advises undergraduate students in other project-based courses at Rice, and he works with the Center for Civic Leadership in the development of activities to promote student community
as fundamentals of micro/nanofabrication. His pedagogical approach emphasizes teamwork, flipped classrooms, and project-based learning. Besides the US, Rodrigo has lived and worked in Switzerland, Spain, India, Mexico and South Korea and has a track record of service and leadership. He is currently the Chair of the Clemson University’s Commission on Latino Affairs, Chair of the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences (CECAS) Committee on Global Engagement, Chair of the Organizing Committee of Dia de los Muertos at Clemson, and Guest Editor and an active Reviewer for leading journals in his field. He is also a Past President of the AES Electrophoresis Society. He is or has chaired several sessions and
Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com US-Sweden Bioinformatics IRES Year 1: Program Development and Initial Lessons LearnedAbstractThis National Science Foundation (NSF) project focuses on creating an immersive internationalsummer research experience for students enrolled in a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI).Over the course of a three-year grant period, this research seeks to: (1) train and mentor 18diverse undergraduate students from PUIs in Southern California in bioinformatics research in acollaborative and international setting; (2) disseminate the research outcomes at conferences andin peer-reviewed journals; (3) encourage and prepare undergraduate students
Paper ID #38271Creating Employer-Driven Information Technology SkillStandards, the Process, and the ResultsAnn Beheler Ann Beheler has been in the Information Technology industry for over 30 years, and she currently leads several National Science Foundation grants including the IT Skill Standards 2020 and Beyond project, the National Convergence Technology Center (a National IT Center), and the Building Pathways to Innovation project. All work builds on many previous NSF and DOL grants. Ann has corporate experience at Rockwell, Raytheon and Novell; has led her own consulting firm; created and taught in the first
high school students – machine learning models for disease forecasting usingopen-source software (ML Project) [7] and biofeedback in virtual reality immersiveenvironments (VR Project). We also established a mentorship program that provides studentsopportunities to explore emerging engineering innovations and technologies in healthcarethrough a combination of co-/extracurricular activities and networking opportunities. Wetargeted students from underrepresented groups, with limited exposure to medical devices,biotechnology, and other healthcare areas, and with different levels of study. Through theseefforts, parity was achieved by gender and grade level across the different projects. Given theproject scope (i.e., ML, open-source data, VR
research involving numeric simulation, such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD)and Finite Element Analysis (FEA), as well as interactive simulator development using the Unity3D game engine. A cohort of 11 teachers participated during the summer of 2021 and includedteachers and instructors from Indiana and Illinois high school teachers and community colleges.Research projects involved industrial collaborations with local steel industry partners.The project kicked off with a 6-week in-person research experience hosted at the Center forInnovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) at Purdue University Northwest. Theteachers worked with faculty and research staff mentors and graduate students on researchprojects in the areas of blast
Student Mentor Award in 2018, and was inducted into the Virginia Tech Academy of Faculty Leadership in 2020. Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 19 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award, with her share of funding being nearly $3 million. She has co-authored 2 book chapters, 34 journal publications, and more than 80 conference papers. She is recognized for her research and teaching, including Dean’s Awards for Outstanding New Faculty, Outstanding Teacher Award, and a Faculty Fellow. Dr. Matusovich has served the Educational Research and Methods (ERM) division of ASEE in many capacities over the past 10+ years including serving as Chair from 2017-2019. Dr. Matusovich is currently the Editor-in-Chief of
(STEPS).Erin Cortus (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)Jacek Koziel (Professor) (Iowa State University of Science and Technology) Jacek Koziel is serving as a Professor at Iowa State University, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. He leads and collaborates on multidisciplinary projects on the nexus of agriculture and the environment. His team develops and tests strategies to enhance the efficiency of livestock production systems and reduce the environmental impacts of animal production. Dr. Koziel received M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology in 1989 and M.S. in Environmental Quality Engineering from the University of Alaska in Anchorage. He earned a Ph.D. in Civil
assignment needs to be clearly defined and properly assigned to students. The nature of educational activities and projects assigned to construction students is not entirely aligned with collaboration features, and, therefore, educators should particularly define projects and assignments that promote collaboration and teamwork aspects in students. This study aims to report on different features of collaboration efforts between two programs. The research question was how a collaborative environment I perceived by students from different majors. A quantitative method in fall 2021 was employed to highlight various students’ perceptions of the subject. The results indicate that program identity, trust
Paper ID #38410Making to the Future: An Innovative Approach toUndergraduate Science EducationS. Catherine S. Key Dr. S. Catherine Silver Key hails from the Midwest, having been born and raised in St. Louis, MO. She received the Muriel E. Babcock Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Biological Sciences upon graduating magna cum laude with her B.S. in 1988 from the University of Missouri at St. Louis. She worked for one year as a research technician at Washington University in St. Louis on the Human Genome Project before moving to North Carolina to pursue her Ph.D. in the Department of Microbiology and
of Engineering is aiming to tackle theseissues concurrently. In a first pilot run of a small slice of the new program, students developed aspace mission concept to change the power dynamics around water quality in northern Canada,giving communities direct control of data to measure their water quality and quantities. Thedesigned mission had to be implementable sustainably, with the community engaged at everystage. This concept is being developed into a full 4-year program, where students will choose amanaged path through project activities that give them all the core and complementary content ofa traditional space program. Students will design, build, launch and operate a CubeSat mission,with a community, every 4 years, to address a societal
computational topology and computer science education. She is the PI of two large NSF-funded projects that aim to bring computer science to rural and American Indian students in Montana through storytelling.Stacey Hancock Stacey Hancock is an Associate Professor of Statistics at Montana State University. Her primary research interests lie in statistics and data science education. Currently, she is Co-PI on two large NSF grants that aim to bring computer science to rural and American Indian K-12 students in Montana through storytelling and the Indian Education for All curriculum.Mengying Jiang Mengying is a Ph.D. student in Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences at Utah State University. Her research interests focus
qualified to receive a merit-based admission offer to M.Sc. program without taking the nationwide entrance exam in Water Science and Engineering at the University of Tehran. In her final year of the undergraduate program, she was chosen for an exchange program. She did her last-semester internship in Switzerland. Her project is titled " Panorama of Water Pollutant Monitoring Systems in Switzerland." In her project, she investigated water quality measurement methods in surface water, particularly rivers and lakes, and assessed the gap between current water quality measurement techniques and requirements in the future. According to her background, she believes that to overcome recent global issues, such as climate change
The Ohio State UniversityIntroductionUrban gardens support the communities they host in numerous ways. Community supportincludes strengthening sustainability through collaborative social engagement. Socialengagement in community contexts have historically expanded to the university setting. Our labgroup, the Inclusive Community Based Lab (iCBL), is one of many collaborators whohave initiated a partnership with the Charles Madison Nabrit Memorial Garden (CMNMG) inColumbus, Ohio, which aims to explore the potential of engineering projects in support of urbangardens and shows much promise. Existing university-community engineering programs arepredominately focused on research or student learning. The research and student learningperspectives are
. Especiallycommercially available computer algebra systems have become ubiquitous tools, althoughthere is some concern that they may detract students from understanding core mathematicalconcepts. Such an undesirable effect can be avoided by making use of high-levelprogramming languages in mathematics education. Computer programming does not onlystrengthen problem solving skills and logical and sequential reasoning, it also provides a highdegree of flexibility and an ample scope for applications in teaching and learning.Here we present an example of the synergistic effect of the interaction of computerprogramming and mathematics in undergraduate engineering education within the frameworkof team-oriented project-based learning. The students of an Engineering
undergraduate research projects. I then moved on to Michigan State University where I took a position as a teaching specialist concentrating on undergraduate classroom instruction. I finally settled at York College. I have been at York for over ten years and feel as if I have found a place where the focus on teaching and students aligns well with my background and interest. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Machining Experience in a Freshman Mechanical Engineering ClassAbstract While working as a mechanical engineer does not necessarily require that a person havemachining experience, this paper provides evidence as to
Paper ID #38037Mixed results for gendered patterns in confidence of teamsuccess and collective efficacyRebecca Matz Becky Matz is a Research Scientist on the Research & Development team at the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan. She directs and supports research projects across CAI’s portfolio of educational technologies. Becky has research experience in assessing the efficacy of software tools that support student learning and success, analyzing quantitative equity disparities in STEM courses across institutions, and developing interdisciplinary activities for introductory
important impact on students, though onlinestudents are likely underrepresented in undergraduate research. The Research Scholars Programuses existing support systems of the campus while also building new components. These newcomponents developed for this project are a research mentoring program, a workshop series, anda guided independent study course. The Research Scholars Program formalizes the process foronline students at the Worldwide campus to participate in undergraduate research with a goal ofhaving students publish and present their work.IntroductionResearch indicates that due to access limitations, distance students are likely underrepresented inundergraduate research, a high impact practice that offers disciplinary learning gains [1], [2
people worldwide playing video games [1]. Asignificant percentage of those 3 billion people were high school and college-aged [1]. Videogames are becoming a normal sight around the world. In the past decade, the world has seen theintroduction of budget-friendly SBCs (Single Board Computers), microcontrollers, 3d printers, andmassive contributions from the open-source community. [1, 2, 3, 4] This has made the design andimplementation of a DIY handheld video game console more affordable and realizable.The main component of the project consists of an SBC, an operating system to run on the SBC, aHID (Human Interface Device), a power system, a 3d printed case, a display, and speakers. TheSBC used in this project is a Raspberry Pi 4B, however almost
typical chemical engineering undergraduate corecurriculum has not adapted to prepare students for the multiple needs encompassed by thechemical industry. Lack of industry-relevant examples/topics and applications in the coursecontents results in less motivated and/or engaged students. Students therefore often struggleto identify with the profession and are not ready for the workforce when they graduate. ThisNSF PFE: RIEF project examines a unique experience where a student-faculty-industryintegrated community is created to help bridge the gap between industry needs and thecompetencies developed within chemical engineering programs.The project's main goal is to better understand how implementing up-to-date industryproblems into one of the
engineering educators to make changes intheir curriculum to provide engineers who are career ready when they hit the workforce(Agrawal 2016). One possible such change is toward student-centric learning, which can take avariety of forms. The most common of these is experiential learning, in which a student learnsthrough an experience that either consists of or mimics a “real-life” experience, such as aninternship or an industry-sponsored project. Another less common student-centric tool isdifferentiated learning or differentiated instruction, in which some aspect of the classroom istailored to the needs of specific student groups.For years, experiential learning has been at the core of engineering education through capstonecourses, labs, and real
their personal lives. The students aresurveyed after each of seven guest lectures using quantitative and qualitative measures. Resultsshow that students reported valuing these trainings with respect to each category, with the valueto their professional careers being the highest ranked. This study shows students approve oflearning leadership topics through guest lectures even when assigning varying degrees of valuefor each lecture and each of the three categories. However, students do not understand how thesetopics can relate to their project such that they can apply these trainings for the development ofthe skills. This study will help define better practices for leadership education within engineeringcurriculums to help determine whether