theseintegrated courses on student learning. Students have been receiving FANUC certificates formaterial handling and operation through the Industrial Robotics class. Now, they have theadditional option of obtaining FANUC Robot Operator licensing I and II through NOCTI, whichwill serve as an added certification beyond the standard course completion certificate. If thisintegration is successful, the future goal is to include MET students and develop an automatedassembly system with vision capability for CNC parts and manufacturing.Research Question and Assessment PlanThe main research question that we are planning to address is “How does the integration of"Automation & PLC" and "Industrial Robotics" courses, combined with faculty
Award, The Nevada Women’s Fun Woman of Achievement Award, and the UNR College of Engineering Excellence Award.Dr. Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and their learning experiences. His projects involve the study of studenMr. Derrick James Satterfield, University of Nevada, Reno Derrick Satterfield is a doctoral candidate in Engineering Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on engineering graduate students’ experiences and motivation centered on career planning and preparation
beyond robotics including Human-Machine Teaming and Cybersecurity.IntroductionDeveloping a diverse Artificial Intelligence workforce is a critical national need 1. This isrecognized by government funding agencies 2, and there is a focus on increasing participation ofunder-represented groups3 and addressing the gender gap4. A particular interdisciplinary spaceinvolving multiple engineering disciplines, mathematics, and computer science is Swarm AI-machine learning techniques to control groups of robots (called swarms) to accomplish a task.This involves skills such as mechatronics, mechanical engineering, sensors and signalprocessing, wireless communications, computer networking, machine learning, control theory,path planning and optimization, and
differentinstructor (2017−19 average 4.5I, 4.3C). Students reported that the class “modeled andencouraged problem-solving strategies” more in 2022 (4.9) than in 2021 (4.0). Better studentsatisfaction was shared by UCD (89%, 4.8I, 4.8C) versus the evaluation results frompre-pandemic instructors (2009-19 average 3.7I, 3.8C). Our results complement recent researchon PBL-related improvement on self-reported learning [11], confidence [11], and perceived value[12] in biomedical engineering education.The redesigned lectures are planned to be continually implemented in both sites. Moretrack-record in time and the high enrollment (typically > 80 in UCD) will help us with finding thesignificance in student performance while understanding whether the improvement in
planning and design work from concept through prototype. • Provide collaboration space to foster an inclusive environment and to build community.A relatively small space was identified on campus (~600 sq ft.). The awarding of internal grantsallowed for the space to be outfitted with work benches, whiteboards, a projector, hand tools, andother items essential for student innovation. A 3-D printer is available for modeling andprototyping.The space is also equipped with computers and monitors for virtual meetings and has been usedfor calls with international partners. There are currently workstations for two different projects tobe in the lab simultaneously. A simple but critical edition was a shelf and storage system fordifferent Humanitarian
study. Peer support and advisement was also found to bedecisive in terms of keeping up with course work, planning and executing research projects, andother initiatives that the participants took part in, including planning in relation to STEM studiesand career. As one participant put it, “[it is] not so much about which class or when to take aclass, but more about what do I do next.”From the interviews, it appears that SEER was successful in creating a supportive community,which nurtured its participants amidst a welcoming and encouraging environment. It alsobrought forth multiple support networks comprised of peers, alumni, mentors, and researchers,which helped to sustain productive relationships among participants. The community
,over 5,000 students were enrolled in the Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering andEngineering Technology (SPCEET). Like KSU, SPCEET attracts a diverse student body relatedto race. Nearly 24% of students identify as African American and 15% as Hispanic. When genderis considered, 21% of SPCEET students identify as women. SPCEET comprises ninedepartments, including CEE, the study’s target department. The CEE department enrollment wasover 700 students during the Fall 2022 semester. Of these students, 21% were African Americanand 20% were Hispanic. The department outperformed the college with women representation atjust over 27%.C. Community Engagement Event (Planning)A planning effort was launched approximately 2 months prior to the
asinstrumental approaches [21], organizational communities [25], and engineered formal CoP [22].Because of this wide range in definitions and implementations of CoPs, it is important to definethe CoP that was used in this study.This community is on the less formal side of the spectrum. It is a group of professors who allteach engineering labs and have a strong interest in improving their students’ writing skills andlaboratory reports. The participants described above volunteered to participate and receivedfunding to attend the first meeting of the CoP. This community plans to meet annually to shareideas and support each other’s efforts to improve engineering writing.The first meeting took place face-to-face on the campus of Washington State
designers on diffusion rates. To betterunderstand the adoption data that has been collected, surveys were sent to training participantsafter the school year had started to better understand how they intend to use or are using theinformation from the trainings. While intentions to behavior changes do not always correlatestrongly to actual behavior changes, articulating specific things they intend to do does increasethe likelihood of the intentions being realized [17]. The relevant questions in the survey were: • Even before participating in this workshop, I planned to use Gradescope in at least one of my courses during the upcoming year. (1: strongly disagree; 2: disagree; 3: neutral; 4: agree; 5: strongly agree) • After
up earlier to get them ready. The days that hedoesn’t go to school he asks why he doesn’t have school. I have to plan for those days…Sometimes it doesn’t come out as planned. I have to think about what to do. Things change,emergencies come up… I have a Plan A and Plan B just in case” (Family 31). Family relationship building—Another common theme across all seven families wasparents perceiving and leveraging the engineering activities and engineering design practices tosupport family collaboration and build relationships among family members, including siblings,spouses, or extended family members. As one parent stated when reflecting on the most valuableaspect of the program: "El tiempo juntos, aprender juntos uno del otro. Las ideas
different than typical campus events is that these sessionsare tailored to STEM Core student interest and availability. The STEM Core team plans theworkshop schedule around the Bridge program and STEM Core academic schedule, i.e., test dates,busier times of the semester, etc. This is meant to be fun and exciting for students, not an extratask that might be stressful for students to attend.STEM Career AwarenessSTEM career industry awareness is a focus of the STEM Core program from the moment studentsbegin participating in the bridge program, as they are tied to specific employers wherever possible.During summer 2022, sites completed ORISE modules in additive manufacturing andcybersecurity tied to research being conducted at national labs. The bridge
strategies can be categorized into threeoverarching themes: planning, facilitation, and explanation. Planning strategies are those that aninstructor uses when developing an activity and can include getting or incorporating studentfeedback into their activities. Facilitation strategies are those that an instructor uses during theactive learning activities to help better engage the students in the activity, such as walkingaround the room and answering questions. Explanation strategies focus on how an instructor canintroduce or give context to an active learning activity such as an instructor relating the activityback to the lecture or describing why they are doing the activity in the first place. Much of the previous research focused on active
populationinteractions but needed to justify how this would be accomplished. Responses included variouscombinations of mask mandates, percentage of retail closures and travel restrictions. Manystudents were initially concerned with only bringing down the death stock in the stock and flowmodel, however, this prompted a foreign student to share his experience of not being able to seehis family for three years, leading to a very valuable conversation about the effects of policymaking on the population.In both of these activities, the DEI component was not assessed directly as part of the coursegrade although future plans include incorporating this into the grading rubric. Anecdotally, therewere some very valuable learning moments for both the students and
, and readily analyzed, so wecould compare observations to faculty and student reports of engagement. Thus, we consideredexisting observation protocols. At first, we planned to use OPTIC, but pilot observations atmultiple institutions with POGIL, lecture, and laboratory classes, revealed that OPTIC workswell for POGIL, but not for lecture. Similarly, COPUS focuses on practices involving clickerquestions and Peer Instruction and is less suited for POGIL. Other protocols had similarlimitations - SEcLo and ELCOT focus on engineering, while PORTAAL and OSE focus onspecific settings. We liked protocols that coded widely used, lower-level practices (e.g., SPOT).We liked how OPTIC coded similar interactions at different levels — within teams
foster ML self-efficacy within these three audiences,as shown in Table 1. Table 1. Lao’s Learning Outcomes Adapted from [8]Knowledge Skills AttitudesGeneral ML Knowledge ML Problem Scoping InterestKnowledge of ML Methods ML Project Planning Identity and CommunityBias in ML Systems Creating ML Artifacts Self-EfficacySocietal Implications of ML Analysis of ML Design Intentions and Results Persistence ML Advocacy Independent Out-of-Class LearningWhile limited
Paper ID #39852Earning Daisy Girl Scout Robotics Badges with a Hands-on Soft RobotGripper Design Activity (Resource Exchange)Lucy BrizzolaraElizabeth Ann McNeela Bioengineering undergraduate student interested in the effects of outreach programs and curriculums on engineering enrollment.Thomas Tran, Thomas Tran is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Bioengineering department. He plans to attend the University of Chicago and pursue a Master’s in Molecular Engineeging. His research focuses on utilizing soft robotics as a means to expose K12 students to engineering
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initiative; share their personal opinions, make suggestions, and contribute to the design process. 7. Perform quantitative and qualitative analyses of peer reviews and create a plan for mitigation of design flaws and making improvements. 8. Seek expert opinions and stakeholders' input; 9. Work in teams and responsibly share workload; communicate effectively and produce good quality results; 10. Learn new skills and techniques and applied them successfully during the implementation of the design.Student DemographicsFourteen (14) students were enrolled in the first offering of this course, and their demographicsare provided in Table 1. The course was designed for juniors, but one senior elected to take it(concurrent with
mobile device use increase learning of identified difficultconcepts in thermal-fluid science courses as indicated by increased achievement scores?(Enhancement) and (3) What are student perceptions of using mobile devices for solving real-lifeproblems? This poster will provide an overview of the research plan and describe year 1 resultsand some preliminary research efforts based on year 2. This work is supported by the NSF:Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (RIEF) (Award#2106345).Major Project GoalsTo address the three primary research questions, achieve the project goal, and gain competency insocial science research, the PI Dr. Krishna Pakala, a faculty in a traditional engineering disciplinein a midwest university is working with the
to describe this type of assessment plan may vary, including Standards Based Grading orSpecifications Based Grading [3], the end result is the same: students are given multipleopportunities to show mastery at a particular skill or course learning objective.Intuitively, this approach makes sense, especially when engineering programs themselves areevaluated on a continuous improvement plan for ABET accreditation [6]. However, it is not oftenthe case in higher education in the United States to see a constant learning cycle presented to thestudents. While most instructors would agree that student learning is the highest priority, manycourses still offer a limited number of high-stakes assessments, which ultimately represent asignificant
teams, composed of graduate students and faculty, are engaged in the co-creation ofeducational modules about cyber-physical systems (CPS). In this paper, we focus on the ways inwhich we support teams as they navigate the co-creation process.Our interdisciplinary teams are involved in projects with two major outcomes. In addition todeveloping educational modules, the first major outcome, teams also plan a study related to theirCPS topics with the goal of writing and presenting an academic paper, the second majoroutcome. During the 2022-2023 academic year, we have three teams composed of students andfaculty from three universities: the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML), the University ofMassachusetts Dartmouth (UMassD), and the University
happens sooner or later than usual • Include paths and ramps in the design of coastal structures so the beach remains accessible to wheelchair users • Prioritize cost minimization above all else to reduce the financial burden on taxpayers • Minimize the areas of the beach that are modified to avoid disturbing wildlife habitat as much as possible • Plan construction timelines such that no activity takes place on Sunday mornings, when a local church conducts a weekly religious service on the beachTraining engineering students to regularly recognize and incorporate stakeholder values in designis especially relevant considering ABET outcome 3.4: “an ability to recognize ethical and professional
courses, yet these are typically taught in isolation from corebiology and physiology classes. We argue that computational modeling can be used as a tool forunderstanding these concepts. Using coding and modeling as a tool also exposes students to awider range of applications for computer programming and provides them with opportunities toapply computational thinking to real-world applications. We plan to continue innovating ourcourse and move towards more accessible tools, such as Jupyter Notebooks, CVSim [8], andCircAdapt [9], as platforms for enhanced learning of cardiovascular function in BME curricula.
project consists of teams of two fourth-year medical students as team leaders at thisnew engineering-based medical school. There are 32 medical students that will be enrolled in thecapstone 2022-2023. In the academic year 2021-2022, 16 medical students participated in thisintegrated curriculum. We expect that enrollment will approach a steady state in this fourth yearof the school’s operation. The students will design, fabricate, and develop a business plan for abroad-scoped project that aims to solve a need that the students have identified during theirrequired clinical rotations in their third-year year.Exploring opportunities for the integrated modelConcurrently running three capstones is resource intensive (projects, course staff, design labs
BEE program continue to collect student, tutor, and instructor feedbackand plan to implement changes to the program annually. One change for the 2023 BEE programis to limit the number of assigned problems solved during class. Doing this will allow the tutorsto have more material to cover with the students in a smaller setting. This will also encouragestudents to work more problems on their own, thereby helping them to retain the math topicsbeing taught and should result in increased scores in their first calculus course.The academic team plans to develop an educational research plan for the program and gauge theeffectiveness of aspects of the program, particularly for underrepresented groups. One hurdle forthis endeavor (and institutional
Engr Design & Synthesis I Full-year project Y4, Wi Civil Engr Design & Synthesis III Full-year project Y4, Sp Civil Engr Design & Synthesis III Full-year project This project took place in the Introduction to Design course during the spring of the freshman year. The course is built around team projects. Students are randomly assigned to teams of 3- 4 students to work on projects for real clients. Example design projects include a playground for a county park, site layout for an expanding company, and a handicap accessibility plan for an older building. Teams meet with the client to develop an understanding of the client’s goals, develop options to meet those goals
Paper ID #37721Work in Progress: A Survey of Artificial Intelligence EducationalResources for Pre-College EducationEisa A. Khawaja, Alpharetta High School Eisa Khawaja is currently a junior at Alpharetta High School in Alpharetta, Georgia. He plans to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering. He is also interested in Artificial Intelligence and participated in an AI Scholars summer program.Dr. Hoda Ehsan, The Hill School Hoda is Chair for Engineering and Computer Science Department and the Director of Quadrivium Design and Engineering at The Hill School. She holds a Ph.D in Engineering Education from Purdue University
from one another, and gain hands-on experience in the field of robotics.This will not only enhance their STEM education but also foster a more inclusive and diverseSTEM community that will be especially useful for preparing this next generation for their future.2. Planning Phase and Team AssemblyPrior to the start of the training, the planning phase was completed to ensure that the students willgain the best learning experience. This included creating a task list as well as resource andcommunication plans to establish the roles and responsibilities of the team members with the priorknowledge that they will be assembled from different schools around Qatar to work together as ateam. The following steps taken are part of the general program
undergraduate researcher at the Clemson University Institute for Engaged Aging. Here, she works under the SHARRP Lab’s Dr. Lesley Ross and Dr. Christine Phillips on studies involving healthy aging. Outside of research, she works as a certified nursing assistant and is currently training to be a registered behavioral technician in order to perform ABA therapy for children diagnosed with Autism. As a student hoping to pursue a future career in the medical field she enjoys being able to see how these studies directly affect those who participate in them. She believes that seeing participants take something new away from a research study is a reward in and of itself. After graduation from Clemson, she plans to attend medical
from 2009 up to and including the first semester of 2022, regardingstudents who had completed at least ten semesters at the university. Students who, due totransfers from other institutions, had passed many courses at the time of entry were discardedfrom this study. Students who had graduated but who, according to the study plan prior to2017, did not have graduate status due to a failure to submit the required dissertation and/orundertake the necessary internship were also discarded. In addition, students were eliminatedwho, despite having graduated, had experienced some form of health condition (pregnancy,mental disorder, among others) that prevented them from enrolling in courses for more thansix consecutive semesters during the period of