mechatronicintegration is necessary to ensure engineering students can compete in the workplace of thefourth industrial age after graduation. Project-based learning engages students with a learningexperience that is hands-on and genuinely interesting.In addition to the abovementioned skills, it has become crucial for contemporary engineers toacquire a solid background and proficient ability to program computers as these skills are neededin industry and engineering designs [7]. However, it has been reported that learning to programis hard and programmers suffer from a wide range of difficulties and deficits [3], [8], [9]. Thisartifact is manifested by high dropout and failure rates in programming courses [9].In this evidence-based practice paper, we propose a
social realities,provides accurate accounts of their lived experiences, and provides useful extensions of theory(here, how engineering ethics and DEI connect in engineering). This paper thus explores andelucidates research quality considerations associated with our research design andimplementation. Identifying what strategies promote research quality is, in itself, a critical topic 2of discussion in engineering education. By considering and elucidating our strategies to promoteresearch quality whilst investigating mental models, we hope to provide guidance for othereducators who perform similar qualitative research studies.In the overarching
University Elliott Clement is a doctoral student at Oregon State University. His current research is using grounded theory to understand identity and motivation within the context of capstone design courses. He is also part of a research team investigating context-specific affordances and barriers faculty face when adopting evidence-based instructional practices in their engineering courses.Dr. Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology Prateek Shekhar is an Assistant Professor - Engineering Education division at New Jersey Institute of Technology. His research is focused on examining translation of engineering education research in prac- tice, assessment and evaluation of dissemination initiatives and
cybersecurity, as applied to a variety of do- mains including healthcare, finance, and critical infrastructure protections. His recent focus has been on improving student preparation for overall career success.Dr. Mihaela Sabin, University of New Hampshire Mihaela Sabin has taught a variety of computing courses designed to facilitate learning activities that value students’ diverse lived experiences. Her current research includes computing education and cur- riculum development, with emphasis on professional competencies and faculty role modeling. She has contributed to the AI field of constraint satisfaction with a new representational model based on condi- tional constraints. Sabin chaired the ACM/IEEE Computer Society
in flipped classroom methods, the team includes a third-personeducational researcher (Andrea Medina) focusing on high-impact classroom practices. There arethree instructors in the study: Instructor A, Instructor B and Instructor C. Instructor A is the leadinstructional designer and learned FC and active learning from the Transforming STEMTeaching Faculty Learning Program (FLP) hosted virtually by the University of California,Berkley. Instructor A has publications in iterations of the flipped classroom model [20], [21].Instructor C received a grant on diversity-centric learning and project-based learning. InstructorA and C taught years of courses in the flipped classroom modality before the study. Instructor Bhas less training than Instructor
No 159 74% Freshmen 79 37% Sophomores 7 3% Student Status at Juniors 18 8% [Blinded for review] Seniors 101 47% Graduates 10 5%Notes: The gender and race distributions of the sample reflect those of the student population atthe institution where the research is conducted. This institution is designated as a
engineer and civil works supervisor in the telecommunication industry. He serves as a graduate research assistant (GRA) in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alabama. He is proud to be a member of Dr. Siyuan Song’s esteemed research group in the Safety Automation and Visualization Environment (SAVE) lab. Sepehr’s research focuses on his areas of interest, which include occupational safety and health, workforce training, and engineering ed- ucation. He is also involved in developing training materials and programs aimed at enhancing safety in the construction and general industries. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023
within chemically modified, biomimetic hydrogels and was awarded the Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award by the university’s graduate office for her work. After graduating, she continued her research in a tissue engineering/ biomaterials laboratory until accepting a teaching position at Marian University where she currently teaches Physics I, Physics II, Biophysics, and will soon be developing courses related to biomaterials. In addition to teaching, Tanja also plays a large role in the community outreach of the E.S. WSOE through directing events such as the Central Indi- ana Regional Science and Engineering Fair and the annual INnovation Through Engineering Residential Summer Camp. Through her efforts, Ms. Greene
adaptability skills.Capstone instructors can better prepare students by providing appropriate educational resourcesduring the capstone and developing best practices for industry mentors to help studentsappropriately scope project goals.How Design Self-Efficacy Makes a DifferenceStudents’ ability to self-learn and apply new knowledge to solve problems emerged as being keyto positive perceptions of what they learned about engineering design, as exemplified by onestudent: “I feel like initially the project scared me and I questioned my ability to handle it, but eventually I realized that even if I don't know some of the software and concepts that we need to use, I can learn them and contribute to the progress of the project.”Students
motivation and their learning experiences. Her projects include studies of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and their development of problem-solving skills, self- regulated learning practices, and epistemic beliefs. Other projects in the Benson group involve students’ navigational capital, and researchers’ schema development through the peer review process. Dr. Benson is an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Fellow, and a member of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), American Educational Research Association (AERA) and Tau Beta Pi. She earned a B.S. in Bioengineering (1978) from the University of Vermont, and M.S. (1986) and Ph.D. (2002
effectiveness in teaching than it is in research where metrics likeh-indices, research expenditures, and Ph. D. students graduated, provide a quantitative measureof impact. Teaching, lacking such metrics, does not have the same broad recognition ofscholarship (and effort towards training) that research does. When teaching is recognized, it isoften a local award—such as a departmental or college honor—than something that istransferrable between institutions. In fact, many stories exist (and have existed) for decadesabout teaching awards being viewed in a negative light by the tenure and review processes asthey indicate time that might have been spent on technical pursuits (that next paper, that nextexperiment, or that next grant proposal) which are
ASEE’s Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. With over ten years of experience in educational programming, communities of practice and stakeholder convenings, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, Roc´ıo has served as principal investigator or co-investigator in numerous federally funded projects. Roc´ıo holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University, and B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de las Americas, Puebla (UDLAP) in Mexico. Prior to joining ASEE, Roc´ıo served as a faculty member at UDLAP’s chemical and food engineering department, and as a graduate fellow at the U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on
Paper ID #36989Work in Progress: Design Activities in a Summer Engineering ProgramImplemented in Both Virtual and Hybrid ModalityDr. Matthew Lucian Alexander P.E., Texas A&M University - Kingsville Dr. Alexander graduated with a BS in Engineering Science from Trinity University, a MS in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University. He worked for 25 years in environmental engineering consulting befDr. Michael Preuss, Exquiri Consulting, LLC Michael Preuss, EdD, is the Co-founder and Lead Consultant for Exquiri Consulting, LLC. His primary focus is providing assistance to
Associate Teaching Professor and the Vice-Chair for Undergraduate Education in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at UC San Diego. In addition to research related to Automata Theory and Computability education, she works on projects that support professionalization pathways for students, including industry internships, TA development, and ethics and communication. Her research and teaching have work has been supported by grants and awards from UC San Diego, NSF, and industry partners.Kristen Vaccaro, University of California San Diego Kristen Vaccaro is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Cali- fornia San Diego, where she is also a member of the Design Lab. Her
Paper ID #37815Developing Post-pandemic Learning Community on an Urban CommuterCampusProf. Lily R. Liang, University of the District of Columbia Dr. Lily R. Liang is a Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Master of Science in Com- puter Science Program at the University of the District of Columbia. Her research areas include computer science education, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and digital image processing. She has mentored dozens of graduate and undergraduate students in research and K-12 outreach activities. She is a fellow of the Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership program (CASL
. Vipperman, “Designing At-home Laboratory Experiments Using Smart Phones and Basic Test Equipment for Senior Mechanical Engineering Students”. ASEE Virtual Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2021.[7] O. A. Owolabi, J. Ladeji-Osias, M. Shokouhian, O. S. Alamu, S. W. Lee, G. B. Oguntimein, A. Ariyibi, H. J. Lee, K. Bista, M. T. Dugda, S. Ikiriko, C. Chavis, “Best Practices for the Implementation of Home-based, Hands-on Lab Activities to Effectively Engage STEM Students During a Pandemic”. ASEE Virtual Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2021.[8] H. Shen, D. Fan, L. Huang, Y. Gao, H. Lian, J. Zhao, H. Zhang, “Effects of microwaves on molecular arrangements in potato starch” RSC
Figard is a graduate student in Engineering Education and Systems Design and Universal Experi- ence (UX) Design at Arizona State University.Dr. Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis Kenneth Reid is the Associate Dean and Director of Engineering at the R. B. Annis School of Engineering at the University of Indianapolis. He and his coauthors were awarded the Wickenden award (Journal of Engineering Education, 2014) and Best Paper award, Educational Research and Methods Division (ASEE, 2014). He was awarded an IEEE-USA Professional Achievement Award (2013) for designing the B.S. degree in Engineering Education. He is a co-PI on the ”Engineering for Us All” (e4usa) project to develop a high school engineering course
meetings with mentors; extensiveprofessional development seminars; formal research training including daily reflection journals,poster presentations and technical writing with a faculty member. REU students completed twodeliverables: a research project and an open-ended Arduino engineering design project. Initially,students chose their research projects from a list of available opportunities. Once a match wassecured, students worked in their research labs daily with their graduate student and facultymentors.A list of students’ engineering research projects included:1. Accelerating Operations on Graph Neural Network2. Computational Design of Single Atom Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction3. Information Theory to Pinpoint Causal Links
University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering. Her research interests include the impact of instructional practices on student learning and motivation, and sources of within-person variation in motivation and self-regulated learning.Dr. Tareq A. Daher, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Tareq A. Daher is the Director of the Engineering and Computing Education Core for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Engineering. Tareq earned his B.S in Computer Science from Mu’tah University in Jordan. He earned his M.A and PhD in Educational Studies with a focus on Instructional Technology at UNL. Dr. Daher collaborates with Engineering faculty to document and research the inte- gration of innovative classroom
perspective. Recently she has successfully led and supported Biomedical engineering and Systems Design engineering programs at the University of Waterloo to apply the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) graduate attribute and continuous improvement approach to the programs. That intrigued her to dig deeper into teaching-learning pedagogy. The abrupt changes that the pandemic brought to the education system, were a trigger for her to realize that change is coming to how we do things. However, before we jump into applying a change, we should understand the impact of the change from all stakeholders’ perspectives.Lisa LachutaDr. Christine Moresoli, University of TorontoDr. Rania Al-Hammoud, University of Waterloo
backgrounds [9]. Thus, teamwork always emphasizes the importance ofcooperation and negotiation among individuals. Regarding teamwork competence in globalengineering education, we must consider cultural diversity and impact within team-basedengineering practice [10].With increasing globalization, foreign-born professionals comprise a growing share of anycountry's STEM workforce. Most of these foreign-born professionals have completedundergraduate degrees in their mother countries, which makes cross-cultural teamworkcompetence more significant in improving the efficiency of the global engineering workforceenvironment. Therefore, it is imperative and necessary for engineering education research tofocus on understanding how teamwork skills are formulated
. Though the student’slearning outcomes are assessed prematurely, the proper impact of such implementation might takeextended periods when these students advance to upper-level courses. Hence, promoting students’communication capabilities in engineering courses would require future evaluation. However,herein students develop technical writing and oral communication skills individually andcollaboratively. Documentation formats consist of process writing exercises, executive summaries,scientific research reports, and other forms of engineering communication. The approach presentedmay prompt a feasibility study for specific integration of communication competencies intraditional coursework in other engineering programs. Therefore, induce a
takenfollowed best practices for surveys in social research [36] while specific survey questions wereadapted from literature sources mapped in the conceptual framework. A separate paper(forthcoming) describes and critiques the survey in more depth.2.1 Survey Development and AdministrationAs discussed above, the survey was developed to address concepts and constructs in theconceptual framework. Questions were developed based on a combination of existing theoriesand instruments and interview findings. Because this is part of a pragmatic mixed-methods studyseeking exploratory quantitative relationships to interrogate the “why” of in subsequent narrativeinterviews, we have not performed extensive psychometric analyses. We did follow bestpractices in
Paper ID #38784Engineering Students’ Perceptions of Learning Effectiveness:Implications from the Lived Experiences Amidst a Mixture of In-Personand Online InstructionDr. Qin Liu, University of Toronto Dr. Qin Liu is Senior Research Associate with the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include engineering students’ learning experiences and outcomes, including competency development and career pathways.Dr. Greg Evans P.Eng., University of Toronto GREG EVANS PhD, P.Eng, FCEA, FAAAS is
will seed future conversations on the topics of engineeringidentity and teamwork.First, our work has demonstrated the need to draw from multiple frameworks of engineeringidentity when carrying out research in this area. For example, our survey was designed to rely ontwo definitions of engineering identity: Tonso’s uni-dimensional definition of “belonging as anengineer on campus” [5] and the multi-dimensional definition of engineering identity used byHazari, Godwin, and others consisting of performance/competence, interest, and recognition[13], [15], [28]. Our interviews showed that these two approaches to engineering identity may behelpful as initial measures of a student’s engineering identity, but that students’ own identitiesare frequently
. Thus, we wonder: To what extent does engaging studentsin integrated engineering design and physics labs impact their development of computationalthinking? We have incorporated engineering design within a traditional introductory calculus-based physics lab to promote students’ conceptual understanding of physics while fosteringscientific inquiry, mathematical modeling, engineering design, and computational thinking.Using a generic qualitative research approach, we explored the development of computationalthinking for six teams when completing an engineering design challenge to propose an algorithmto remotely control an autonomous guided vehicle throughout a warehouse. Across fiveconsecutive lab sessions, teams represented their algorithms using
Paper ID #37633Opportunity Gaps for Women in Chemical Engineering: A QuantitativeCritical InvestigationProf. Eric Burkholder, Auburn University Eric Burkholder is an Assistant Professor in the departments of physics and chemical engineering at Auburn University. He completed a PhD in chemical engineering at the California Institute of Technology studying the physics of soft active matter. He then transitioned into STEM education research during his time as a postdoc at Stanford Univeristy. Eric’s research focuses on the intersections of assessement, problem-solving, and equity in the undergraduate and graduate STEM classroom
Assessmentfor Team-Member Effectiveness (CATME) [24], an online tool that assists instructors in formingstudent teams based on best practices, and students stayed in their assigned team for theentire semester.Learning the Basics of the Engineering Design Process: Teams worked on two short designprojects prior to the larger 10-week humanitarian engineering project. The purpose of thesetwo projects were to familiarize students with the engineering design process and designthinking in a low-stakes environment. Students were asked to design a ping pong ball launcherand a toy that moved like something from nature (a bio-inspired design project).Humanitarian Engineering Project: The 10-week project included in this study asked studentteams to design the
compriseundergraduate and graduate students at different stages of their studies, and all participatingstudents are graded and receive credit toward their degree for at least two years. Students choosefrom a wide variety of VIP teams based on personal interest. Participation in VIP teams providesthe time and context for students to [5]: • acquire in-depth experience and insights within their field of study; • learn and practice research and professional skills; • make substantial contributions to real-world projects; and • experience different roles on large, multi-disciplinary teams.The VIP structure provides opportunities for students to develop leadership and collaborationskills through peer support and peer management, which provide students
for teaching highly technical concepts. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Considerations for Software-defined Radio Use within a Project-based Learning SubjectAbstractIn this paper we reflect on the use of software-defined radio (SDR) within a project-basedlearning (PBL) subject at the master’s level that incorporates a semester-long wirelesscommunication design project. PBL as a pedagogy is an important tool for addressing disparitiesexisting between the capabilities with which engineering students graduate and those demandedby employers. Ideally, it enables ‘dual impact’ activities in which both technical and professionalskills can be developed concurrently