Paper ID #38803Preliminary Reflections and Assessment of the 2022 Chemical EngineeringSummer SchoolDr. Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University Margot Vigeant is a professor of chemical engineering at Bucknell University. She earned her B.S. in chemical engineering from Cornell University, and her M.S. and Ph.D., also in chemical engineering, from the University of Virginia. Her primary researcDr. Daniel Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Daniel Anastasio is an associate professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received a B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2009
both engi- neering education and design thinking, her research focuses on how Latinx students develop an identity as an engineer, methods for enhancing student motivation, approaches for faculty leadership develop- ment, and methods for involving students in curriculum development and teaching through Peer Designed Instruction. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Shaping the Engineering Leadership Research Agenda: Results of a 2022 Special SessionAbstractEngineering leadership (EL) research publication has seen significant growth coinciding with the ever-increasing recognition thatleadership development is an essential component of undergraduate engineering student
presents the NextGen roadmap to address theparticipation of underrepresented minorities in the STEM disciplines by Alumni participants ofthe programs, now represented in the Professoriate, the K-12, Industry and Agency settings. Theupdated responses to the 2022 survey will be presented along with data from the LinkedIntracking data.IntroductionParticipation from all communities across our nation is a national imperative for the US toremain competitive and US higher education programs must produce more graduates in theSTEM disciplines. A comprehensive evaluation of Alliance programs nationally in 2006 by theUrban Institute provided a blueprint and recommendations building on best practices by NYCLSAMP members (1991-2004) [1]. In the past two and a
sets have become more pervasivein educational research. In this paper, we present a systematic review of 302 papers published inJEE from 2012 to 2022. Specifically, we examined which quantitative methods are used in JEEto develop a picture of the state of quantitative methods in engineering education. The resultsfound that while a large number of studies used basic statistical testing, there is a trend of moreadvanced quantitative methods being used over the years.Introduction Recent decades have witnessed a continued rapid advancement in engineering educationresearch. There has been growth in the number of engineering education departments, degreeprograms, and research centers, as well as a rise in engineering education-focused
the areas of Mechanics of Materials as well as in Engineering Education. As hobbies, he travels extensively and writes stories and poems in English, Spanish and Bengali. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 20232023 ASEE Annual Convention, Baltimore MDEngineering Materials Related Courses at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (UPRM) Beforeand After Hurricane Fiona Crossed the Island in September 2022ASEE Life MemberUndergraduate StudentABSTRACTOn September 18, 2022, a Sunday afternoon, hurricane Fiona entered Mayagüez with a tangential speedof 150 mph and dwelled for longer than five hours since she moved with a linear velocity of only about 5mph. Our campus was totally devastated and there
.[19] Markle RS, Williams TM, Williams KS, deGravelles KH, Bagayoko D and Warner IM(2022) Supporting Historically Underrepresented Groups in STEM Higher Education: ThePromise of Structured Mentoring Networks. Front. Educ. 7:674669. doi:10.3389/feduc.2022.674669[20] Dang, K.V., Francois, R., Ackley, S.F., Irish, A. M., Mehta, K.M., Bailey, I., Fair, E.,Miller, C., Bibbins-Domingo, K., Wong-Moy, E., Glymour, M. M., Morris, M. D., ARandomized Study to Assess the Effect of Including the Graduate Record Examinations Resultson Reviewer Scores for Underrepresented Minorities. Am J Epidemiol. 2021;190(9):1744–1750[21] Andrade, P., Hoogland, G., Garcia, M. A., Steinbusch, H. W., Daemen, M. A., & Visser-Vandewalle, V. (2013). Elevated IL-1β and IL-6
approved by the University at Buffalo Institutional Review Board. The invitation toparticipate was only extended to specific classes that used OEMPs in various formats (as in-classassignments, projects, homework assignments, etc.).3.1 SurveyStudents were invited to take a survey about OEMPs either via QR code displayed during classor a link sent out through their learning management system. The survey was distributed viaQualtrics and included a number of questions about students’ experiences with OEMPs. In thiswork we are focused on a single question designed to measure students’ affective pathways; thequestion as presented in Spring 2022 is shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Survey question on Qualtrics given to students in Spring
mechanicalengineering (MEEN) students will also affect civil (CEEN) and architectural (AEEN)engineering students, and vice versa. Having both departments working together on this projectincreases its long-term impact.The Certificate on Standards for Material Testing, Characterization, and Applications is atranscripted certificate offered at the undergraduate and graduate level. The undergraduatecertificate became effective in Fall 2022 and appears in the 2022-2023 undergraduate catalog.The graduate certificate became effective in Spring 2023 and will appear in the 2023-2024graduate catalog. The proposals for both the undergraduate and graduate certificates were routedsimultaneously; the date of publication is a result of TAMUK internal processes. To earn
in relation toclassmates, and to their identities as engineering or computer science students.” Relatedly, wehave also begun asking facilitators in their end-of-semester surveys about their sense ofbelonging and roles as mentors.Beginning in Spring 2022, the training workshops have increasingly stressed the primaryimportance of building community, structuring inclusion, and providing mentorship for enrolledstudents. We posit that group collaboration, with a sharing of perspectives and challengesrelated to cognitive work, requires a parallel or preceding focus on structuring welcoming andinclusive learning environments. These ‘affective’ aspects are related to emotional engagementand can include shared interest, attitudes, values and finding
courses gradually decreased from 85-90% to 55-60 % in large classes. In 2016 theuniversity established an “Instructor-initiated Drop policy”. The policy allows instructors to dropthose students who exceeds the absence or missed assignment limits for the class described andspecified in the course syllabus. The newly established “Instructor-initiated Drop policy” wasadopted and enforced in three different courses taught from fall 2018 through fall 2019 semesters.The policy improved class attendance, completion of homework assignments, and student passrates. During the COVID pandemic the university suspended the “Instructor-initiated Droppolicy” and did not re-initiated it until fall 2022. In teaching upper division courses in fall 2021and spring
) insummer 2022. The objective of this SBP is to increase academic motivation of the studentparticipants, and increase retention using high impact design activities. The program enrolledunderclassmen from the TAMUK COE and potential engineering transfer students fromnearby community colleges and universities. Extracurricular Bridging Programs identified asa student success strategy by other engineering colleges served as an impetus for the SBP in anNSF IUSE grant [1-3]. The intent of this paper is to share the results of the third annual SBPin the NSF IUSE grant implemented at TAMUK, and to inform and solicit feedback fromother undergraduate engineering education experts. Since this edition of the SBP wasconducted in a hybrid mode, while the
to facilitate student engagement with the content, instructor, andfellow students. This approach leveraged the social-constructivist learning theory: a connectedcommunity of learners with classroom peers and co-construction of knowledge where theinstructor’s role is that of a subject matter expert who facilitates learning. To examine the impactof mobile devices on student learning in this two-year study (year one fall 2021 - spring 2022), thefollowing research questions were addressed, hypothesizing improvements in the areas ofengagement, enhancement of learning outcomes, and extension of learning to real-life engineeringscenarios: (1) Does mobile device use facilitate engagement in thermal-fluid science coursecontent? (Engagement), (2) Does
Paper ID #38506Social Engagement of First-time Freshmen and Transfer Students One andTwo Years Post-COVIDMrs. Olivia Reynolds, Washington State University Olivia Reynolds is an assistant professor at Washington State University. She earned her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Washington State in 2022 with research focused on developing and evaluating low-cost, hands-on learning tools demonstrating heat transfer and fluid mechanics principles. Reynolds is now teaching the first-year introductory engineering course for Washington State and is involved with college- wide first-year programming and retention efforts.Ms
, quarantine, and increased connectivity with remote-work, it is possible thatsome students’ perceptions of globalization and culture may have been impacted. The purpose ofthis study is to characterize the extent that COVID-19 may have had an effect on thedevelopment of student global competencies upon arrival into a study abroad program. Studentglobal perspectives are assessed using the Global Perspectives Inventory (GPI) and comparedpre-COVID (2020) and post-COVID (2022) for a study abroad program. Thus, the study seeks toanswer the following research question: How do students’ global perspectives vary betweenpre-COVID and post-COVID? Data was quantitatively analyzed using Mann-Whitneynon-parametric t-tests to compare groups from 2020 and 2022
severalreasons, including the database access to several indexed journal databases, its analysis tools, andits search capabilities.Two main searches were targeted for comparison across all disciplines: the first was on the term“soft skills” for the years 1980–2022, which returned 1042 documents. The second was on theterm “professional skills” for the same years 1980–2022, which returned 692 documents. 1980was chosen as the initial year so as to predate the timeframe before the term “soft skills” becamepopular.Four main analyses were completed based on the results that were returned from Scopus: (1)publication trends by year; (2) publication trend by year by discipline, with a particular focus onengineering; (3) publications by subject areas; (4
began a directed content analysis (DCA) on publicly availableTikTok content about being neurodivergent (n = 100 TikToks). We used a priori codesdeveloped in a previous study during summer of 2022, which included a thematic analysis ofsimilar TikToks about neurodivergence (n = 200 TikToks). We present our preliminary results of20 TikToks to demonstrate the transferability of the previously developed codebook. Our currentresults indicate that the codebook is transferable with one code emerging from the analysis.Keywords: Neurodiversity, Transferability, Qualitative Research, and Social Media Analysis1. Introduction: Understanding Neurodivergent Experiences in EngineeringThe purpose of this work-in-progress research paper is to determine the
implemented in 2021 and 2022. The 2021 programfocused on immersing teachers in authentic AI projects, while the 2022 program focused ondeveloping teachers’ foundational knowledge before joining a specific AI research project.Teachers in both summers took an orientation in the first week. In the 2021 summer program,teachers participated in one of the four research projects, including AI application in cancerdetection, AI algorithm, architecture and circuit, and device from Week 2 mornings. Theygathered in the afternoons to share their research, participate in instructional workshops anddiscussions, and develop lesson plans for middle- and high-school students. What changed in the2022 summer program was the morning research component. Teachers learned
. is research interests include paral- lel and distributed computer systems, cryptography, engineering education, undergraduate retention and technology used in the classroom. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Assessing Various Pedagogical Features of Remote Versus In-Person Iterations of a First- Year Engineering Makerspace CourseAbstractThis evidence-based practice paper is a follow-up to an ASEE 2022 conference proceeding thatwas focused on the challenges in development, in addition to resulting student perceptions upondelivery, of a remote iteration (Spring 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic) of a conventionallyhands-on, active learning-based makerspace course; of
project students presents a number of progresses on the attainment of the ABET StudentOutcomes. This paper reports the development and implementation aspects of this course.1. IntroductionIn Fall 2022, a required subtractive manufacturing course has been improved with a term projectfocused to service learning. The intention was to develop and implement practices tied to servicelearning and enhance the course students’ learning and success by implementing a servicelearning – focused term project. Service Learning is a teaching and learning approach thatconnects academic course to community-based problem solving practices [1]. Service Learninghas been proven as a successful student-centered learning activity in a high number ofEngineering and
for the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program. Her research interest focuses on changing the deficit base perspective of first-generation college students by providing asset-based approaches to understanding this population. Dina is interested in understanding how first-generation college students author their identities as engineers and negotiate their multiple identities in the current culture of engineering. Dina has won several awards including the 2022-2023 Outstanding Research Pub- lication Award by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division I, 2018 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Best Diversity Paper Award, 2019 College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award
in the student engagement policiesof higher education institutions [14].While other “[r]esearch suggests that higher education students who have a greater sense ofbelonging tend to have higher motivation, more academic self-confidence, higher levels ofacademic engagement and higher achievement” [7], a 2022 study by Pedler, Willis, andNieuwoudt investigated the relationship between university students’ sense of belonging andtheir motivation, retention, and enjoyment of their university experience. They found that“students who frequently considered leaving the university without completing their degree (i.e.,dropping out) had a significantly lower sense of belonging that students who did not” [7], while“university students with a higher sense
project is open-ended and requires the students to make a series ofassumptions, depending on the data available, to complete their technical analyses. Further, thestudents must deliver their analyses through technical memoranda, reports, and presentations.This course structure follows Wiggins’ framework for authentic assessments [1, 2].The objectives of the present work-in-progress study are to assess the impact that interacting withmuseums has on the technical and professional development of the students. Two cohorts ofstudents are studied, the first cohort is currently (2022-2023 academic year) taking the aerospacestructures courses at Clarkson University, while the second cohort took the courses during the2021-2022 academic year. Two cohorts
usagesurveys administered to makerspace users at a large public university during the three semestersfollowing the start of the pandemic (Fall 2020, Spring 2021, and Spring 2022) is used here toinvestigate. COVID-19 restrictions present during Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 were mostlyloosened in Spring 2022. The makerspace is modeled as a bipartite network, with student andtool interactions determined via end-of-semester surveys. The network is analyzed usingnestedness, a metric primarily used in ecology to evaluate the stability of an ecosystem andproposed here as a quantitative method to evaluate makerspace health. The surveys used tocreate the network models also provide validation, as students were asked to share tools usedduring the semester in
P. Students make their choices on a form which is checked andapproved by the instructor as shown in Figures 3 for fall 2022.Figure 1. Project Description Handout (Spring 2022) Figure 2. A Sample HYSA Advertisement (January 2023)Students are taught the basic concepts of present and future worth. After about five to seven weeks,stocks are “sold” in class (Figure 4) using the online prices then, and the HYSA balance is “cashedout” by calculating its own future value. The future worth of the HYSA is certain, but the futurevalues of the stocks vary widely. The sum of both proceeds is the overall future value (F). Manystudents are surprised to realize that for many of them the F can be easily less than the P.Next, students
faculty members using Spring 2022 Instructor 1’s materials Fall 2022 100% flipped, face-to-face and taught by Instructor 1 Table 2 – Summary of out-of-class and in-class activities Semester Out-of-class activities In-class activities Three videos (a mini lecture and two Concept questions via polling example problems) feature of Blackboard Required notetaker (collected) Quick review Fall 2020 McGraw-Hill LearnSmart reading Grade homework (flipped- remote) assignment
twoofferings of a required course for all majors in thermodynamics was compared. The first sectionused was taught in Spring, 2020, and ended just before the COVID shutdown. This was the firstattempt at teaching two sections simultaneously. This was done using Zoom classrooms andsuffered from equipment difficulties. The second section used was taught in Spring, 2022 aftermuch had been learned. In this class the instructor was able to use stand-alone equipment andhad far fewer technical difficulties.Students are given a comprehensive, in-class final examination. This exam covers quite a bit ofmaterial and is hard for students to complete in the time allowed. High scores of 90-100% maynot be a reasonable expectation. The score does give a relative
: Using Workshops to Scaffold InterdisciplinaryResearch, Collaboration, and Community BuildingAbstractCo-creation in academe can take multiple forms. In this research, the co-creation focus is oncollaboration between faculty and graduate students to develop educational modules. Thisactivity is designed to improve graduate education and prepare students for conducting graduateresearch. In previous work presented at ASEE 2022, we discussed benefits and challenges ofparticipating in the co-creation process. This current paper focuses on how we took lessons fromour first year and transformed them into a structure to better support interdisciplinary research,collaboration, and community building.We will discuss how we supported the process of co
in Large Sections Anna K. T. Howard, Azadeh Dashti Cole NC State UniversityAbstractThe best paper in the Mechanical Engineering Division at the 2022 ASEE Annual Meeting inMinneapolis showed that student learning increased with weekly quizzes rather than dailyhomework.1 The authors’ work built on several recent papers showing that mastery learning withmultiple attempts at each quiz increased student success.2-4 Engineering Statics at NC StateUniversity has long included daily homework assignments, so the pivot to weekly quizzes willneed to be adopted over multiple semesters and adopted for large enrollment sections.This work-in-progress paper details the methods we used to
(MET) program. The work isa close collaboration between engineering and education faculty, and in alignment with all thefive Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) for ABET Criteria for Engineering TechnologyPrograms.The course selected for this PBL - EML implementation is Applied Fluid Mechanics, a four-credit course with a lab component. It is the second in the fluid mechanics sequence and coverstopics like pipeline systems, pump selection, and flow of air in ducts.During the spring and fall 2022 terms, the authors studied the role of the previously introducedPBL & EML exercises covering the fluid flow through pipeline systems and the flow of air inducts. For example, one exercise asked the students to design a pump storage hydropower
practices and innovative approaches discussed will evidence the work inprogress towards an improved, integrated learning experience for engineering technology students.Finally, current results will support prior findings and provide new evidence for engineering educationpractices in community colleges.Stackable Certificates and DegreesIn the Fall of 2022, Mt. SAC began offering 12 new certificates of achievement and 6 new associate ofscience degrees in the discipline of Engineering Technology. These certificates include Technical Sales,Engineering Fundamentals, Engineering with Emphasis in Chemical and Materials EngineeringApplications Level 1, Engineering with Emphasis in Chemical and Materials Engineering ApplicationsLevel 2, Engineering with