education to work with educators in the USA and abroad. She holds a B.A. in physics, a B.A. in sculpture, and an M.T. in secondary science education from the University of Virginia; a Ph.D. in education from the University of Maryland; and is a certified STEAM integration specialist. Dr. Shirey is passionate about helping teachers and students grapple with complex problems in novel ways, such as using science and math content with art practices and awareness to approach real-world engineering challenges.Dr. Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alejandra J. Magana, Ph.D., is the W.C. Furnas Professor in Enterprise Excellence in the Department of Computer and Information Technology with a courtesy appointment
manufacturing landscape.As the demand for automation in assembly lines and manufacturing processes continues to rise,we recognize the importance of providing our students with relevant certifications [1, 2]. Our goalis to train and certify our faculty in the latest technologies, enabling them to guide students indeveloping integrated smart manufacturing systems that utilize industrial robots and PLCs fortasks like material handling, painting, assembly, and CNC machining. According to studies byDeloitte and The Manufacturing Institute, the skills gap in manufacturing may leave an estimated2.4 million positions unfilled over the next decade [3]. As the US manufacturing industry embracesIndustry 4.0 [4] and digital transformation, there is a growing
strength of materials courses for 12 years and has been leading the efforts focused on support, global engagement, and academic integrity as Assistant Dean since 2014. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: Development of an innovative undergraduate engineering academic advising modelThis work in progress describes the re-imagination and re-design of the Pennsylvania StateUniversity’s College of Engineering undergraduate academic advising model. Currently, themajority of in-major students are advised exclusively by faculty members. To improve supportfor students while also better supporting and engaging faculty with academic advisingresponsibilities, the
Paper ID #37283Board 111: A Systematic Review of Instruments Used to Evaluate theEffectiveness of the Entering Mentoring CurriculumMs. Ha Pho, University of Massachusetts Lowell Ha Pho is the Program Director for the Public Health Informatics and Technology (PHIT) Workforce De- velopment program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell). In this role, she oversees a $3.2 million federal-funded program aimed at creating and training undergraduate and graduate students in PHIT. In research, Ha is an integral member of the team, responsible for designing and implementing AMPP, a mentorship training for faculty
Paper ID #38526Nuestro Impacto: An Insider Look into the Connections between Our PastExperiences and Current Teaching and Mentoring PracticesDr. Idalis Villanueva Alarc´on, University of Florida Dr. Villanueva Alarc´on is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at the Uni- versity of Florida. Her research areas of interest are hidden curriculum, multi-modal methods, mentoring, and professional development.Dr. Laura Melissa Cruz Castro, University of Florida Dr. Laura Melissa Cruz Castro is an instructional assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at University of Florida.Dr
institutions to develop aQuality Enhancement Plan (QEP), which must focus on improving specific student learningoutcomes and/or student success. Our SACSCOC accreditation was most recently reaffirmed in2016 and our QEP, EDGE: Enhanced Discovery through Guided Exploration, was designed toenhance student learning by infusing creative inquiry (CI) throughout the undergraduateexperience. With EDGE, we implemented an integrated curricular and co-curricular plan thatenabled our students to develop the skills to formulate CI questions, decide on proper approachesto address them, explore relevant evidence, and produce and present their findings or creations.From 2016-2021, 170 EDGE course grants were funded in all eight of our Colleges or Schoolsfor faculty
$88 billion dollars’ worth of damages in the tumultuous period [1]. The United NationsHuman Refugee Agency estimates that over 1 million Iraqis are living in protracted situations andover 2 million remain internally displaced [2]. Yet, the nation has been on a steady path towardreclamation, reformation, and rebuilding of its historical, cultural, and social infrastructure [3].Education has an important role to play in supporting a country’s economic recovery after yearsof conflict and instability[4], a fact that is not lost to citizens of the republic [5]. Particularly, highereducation has a critical role in providing career development opportunities that translate intosuccessful integration in community development in both stable and
engineering courses. Empathic concern refers to themotivational and behavioral components of empathy that are often interpreted as care or concern[3]. This form of empathy is a foundational component in building helping relationships and haspositive impacts when integrated into classroom environments [4,5].This paper explores how the broad concept of empathy is applied in engineering education andguides faculty through the theoretical foundations of empathy as an interpersonal skill. We willintroduce three forms of empathy – cognitive, affective, and behavioral [3,6] and highlight threecomponents of empathic concern (understanding, non-judgment, and compassion) that are usedin forming helping relationships [7]. An integrated conceptual framework is
-progress paper, we describe our efforts to implement a coach and peer-to-peer mentoringmodel to provide structured faculty development in entrepreneurial mindset (EM) integration throughmakerspaces.As faculty members try to innovate and update their classes, a recent merger of the Maker movement andthe Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM) movement has provided specific training and opportunities to revitalizethe engineering curriculum. Studies have suggested facilitating EM projects with the makerspace areexcellent opportunities to develop student skills in areas related to entrepreneurial mindset such asopportunity recognition, learning from failure, stakeholder engagement, and value creation [1, 2]. Whilemakerspaces are a proven conduit for EM, they are
), Interior Design and Construction (ID+C) and Operations and Maintenance (O+M) specialties. Additionally, he holds an accreditation with the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), as a Construction Documents Technologist (CDT).Dr. Hariharan Naganathan, Wentworth Institute of Technology Dr. Hariharan Naganathan, an Assistant Professor of Construction Management at Wentworth Institute of Technology, has made significant contributions to sustainable construction practices through research on energy analytics of buildings and the integration of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) in construction education. As a passionate educator, Dr. Naganathan develops a curriculum that com- bines theoretical knowledge
classroom environment. This furtherdemonstrates the crucial role of community when committing to pedagogical changes. In otherwords, a lack of solidarity has the tendency to create a stale culture which recycles antiquatednotions of teaching. The sentiments illustrated by P46 suggest that EBIP-awareness shouldperhaps begin in graduate school, which would proactively normalize the use of alternativeteaching innovations, as opposed to reactively finding a mentor after becoming an instructor.They further go on to state, “...that was probably the first time where I really felt like I reallyhad to build my own curriculum. I had to do all of the grading. I had to do thelecturing…and then, um, in, during my postdoc years, again, really didn't get
ledincluding a process of learning, reflection, and support by colleagues. One way in which it canbe effective for faculty to acclimate is by doing small implementations through micromoments.Micromoments are rapid and easy active learning implementations that encourage students’learning. These activities can help support faculty who often struggle with competing demandsand lack of time, limiting improvement in teaching aspects. This work-in-progress paper showsthe authors’ reflections and suggestions to engage faculty in promoting micromoment activitiesin lecture-based teaching.At the University of Dayton - an R2 university, the lead engineering faculty started a FLC tosupport the integration of entrepreneurially minded learning (EML) using the KEEN
as a group, and allowing for a post-critique of the teaching to allowthe teacher to get feedback on their teaching approach. We have created a protocol for thisapproach that we are happy to share.One key aspect to note about an FLC is the goal is not to provide a specified curriculum thatimproves teachers by prescribing skills and knowledge. Instead, the goal is for a learningcommunity to have a focused discussion with respect to a formalized theme (as prescribed by Cox[22]), with the participants helping guide the experiences.Proposed Evaluation of InterventionOur FLC organization is the mechanism by which we use board games to enable and guideteachers’ experiences of learning again in compartmentalized 2-hour meetings. Our overallresearch
behavior in learning environments. His academic training was in Physics and Philosophy before he turned to science (partic ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Faculty Workshop on Teaching SustainabilityDespite the urgent need to integrate sustainability throughout the engineering curriculum, mostfaculty have little to no training or confidence in doing so. We report on a 4-day pilot facultyworkshop delivered in January 2023 by an interdisciplinary group of faculty at a large mid-Atlantic R1 university designed to help engineering instructors do this. After substantial effort tocreate a mutual understanding around the diverse approaches we as faculty bring from ourrespective
psychology emphasizing applied measurement. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Addressing New ABET General Criteria Focusing on Diversity, Equity, and InclusionIntroductionIn fall 2021, ABET released proposed changes to the General Criteria for accreditingengineering programs, including (a) definitions for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and (b)changes incorporating a basic grasp of these concepts to the curriculum (Criterion 5) and faculty(Criterion 6). While some may see the explicit inclusion of DEI as a radical revision of ABETcriteria, a historical perspective shows that the proposed new requirements are an incrementalreform stemming from a steady evolution of ABET’s integrating professional
inquiry framework for research and practice, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016, p. 22‒34. [Online]. Available: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/purdue/detail.action?docID=4710094[6] R. E. Brown, “The process of community-building in distance learning classes,” J. Asynchronous Learn. Netw., vol. 5, no. 2, p. 18‒35, 2001, doi: 10.24059/olj.v5i2.1876.[7] T. Anderson, R. Liam, D. R. Garrison, and W. Archer, “Assessing teaching presence in a computer conferencing context,” J. Asynchronous Learn. Netw., vol. 5, p. 1‒17, 2001.[8] D. Howlett et al., “Integration of a case-based online module into an undergraduate curriculum: What is involved and is it effective?,” E-Learn. Digit. Media, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 372–384, Dec. 2009
Coordinator with the Department of Applied Physical Sciences at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Education and Workforce Coordinator/Graduate Assis- tant at PowerAmerica and FREEDM System Center of North Carolina State University, and as a middle school teacher for Wake County Public School System (North Carolina).Dr. Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Richard Goldberg is a Teaching Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the De- partment of Applied Physical Sciences at UNC Chapel Hill. He is developing a new interdisciplinary engineering minor and major at UNC. He is interested in integrating engineering with the liberal arts and an entrepreneurial mindset. He
the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Her role in the College of Engineering at UNL is to lead the disciplinary-based education research ini- tiative, establishing a cadre of engineering education research faculty in the engineering departments and creating a graduate program. Her research focuses on the development, implementation, and assessment of modeling and design activities with authentic engineering contexts; the design and implementation of learning objective-based grading for transparent and fair assessment; and the integration of reflection to develop self-directed learners.Mrs. Katie Mowat, University of Nebraska, Lincoln I am an engineer who loves to work with people, learn about new ideas and
, faculty continue to engage in interdisciplinarygraduate education, but limited research has explored what accounts for this engagement. Tothat end, this paper explores the perspectives of faculty recently facilitating an interdisciplinarygraduate certificate program at a large, public land-grant university to understand facultydecision-making related to interdisciplinary education.To explore this issue, we use Lattuca and Pollard’s model of faculty decision-making [4] toanalyze semi-structured interviews with five faculty members of a current NSF-fundedinterdisciplinary graduate program. The framework describes the three influences of facultydecision-making: individual, such as values and beliefs; internal, such as departmental cultureand
worked as the Education Project Manager for the NSF-funded JTFD Engineering faculty development program, as a high school math and science teacher, and as an Assistant Principal and Instructional & Curriculum Coach.Dr. Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University Ann F. McKenna is the Vice Dean of Strategic Advancement for the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, and is a professor of engineering in the Polytechnic School, one of the seven Fulton Schools. Prior to joining ASU, she served as a program director at the National Science Founda- tion in the Division of Undergraduate Education, and was the director of education improvement in the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern
institutions," in 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2019.[9] D. U. Silverthorn, P. M. Thorn, and M. D. Svinicki, "It's difficult to change the way we teach: lessons from the Integrative Themes in Physiology curriculum module project," Advances in physiology Education, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 204-214, 2006.[10] M. Lande and S. S. Jordan, "Methods for examining the educational pathways of adult makers," in 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2014, pp. 24.903. 1-24.903. 13.[11] M. A. de Carvalho-Filho, R. A. Tio, and Y. Steinert, "Twelve tips for implementing a community of practice for faculty development," Medical teacher, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 143- 149, 2020.[12] S. C
Paper ID #37038Case Study: Encouraging Faculty Adoption of New Grading SoftwareDr. Ben Mertz, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Ben Mertz received his Ph. D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2010 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2005. He spent 7 years as a part of a lecturer team at Arizona State University before joining the Mechanical Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman as an Assistant Professor in 2018. His research interests in Engineering Education include teaching teamwork skills and implementing non-traditional content delivery
❏ Include a diversity/inclusive statement and land acknowledgment in your course syllabi - Make course names and descriptions inclusive so they correspond with everyone - Add pronouns and inclusive language to syllabus - but not as separate thing, as integrated into the syllabus so it becomes normalized (and talk about it) - Resources: Sample Inclusive Teaching Statements for the Course Syllabus ❏ Clarify the role of the instructor during your first-day instruction -- as a facilitator of learning as opposed to an authority figure - Share your personal story and motivation with the class - go beyond your professional titles. Students tend to feel connected with instructors who are willing
? Learning Environment Relationships Does the instructor integrate faith [BYU is a faith-based institution] into the course and inspire students in their learning? Are instructor-student interactions appropriate, respectful, inclusive, and motivating to students? Does the instructor foster positive and supportive student-student interactions and ensure respectful discussions of challenging issues? Settings Does the instructor use the classroom, lab, studio, etc. to create an effective setting for inspiring learning? Does the instructor create an atmosphere that motivates students to be active and engaged learners? Does the instructor create an atmosphere of civility and respect that welcomes
interests. Learningobjectives likely focus the course and allow effective assessment of whether the students arelearning the material. The instructor specifically teaches the big ideas, not just the details, andshows the students the structure of the content they ae learning. Often there’s an effort to showthe students where they can apply this material beyond the course. The instructor focuses onexplaining, not just covering the material and actively engages the students with thinking aboutthe content. This is apparent in the assignments as well as the lectures.Inspired teaching – This level describes courses students look forward to. The classes areinteresting, students are engaged, content feels relevant and fits the curriculum well
, higher-level reasoning, differentiating views ofothers, and teamwork [2], [3]. They are also highly effective with individual studentaccountability [4]. In addition, they have proven to be successful pedagogies within STEMeducation, in particular with regards to achievement, persistence, and attitudes [5].In May 2009, Lawrence Technological University (LTU) embarked on an eight-year facultydevelopment initiative that would modify 75% of the courses in the engineering curriculum toinclude active collaborative learning (ACL) and problem-based learning (PBL). Besidestraditional engineering courses, such as statics and design, the modified courses include those inthe general education core curriculum, such as calculus, history, literature