perspectives and is a key part ofeffective and inclusive engineering outcomes. In engineering education, divergent exploration isoften applied within idea generation; however, many other stages in engineering projects maybenefit from divergent exploration, such as defining problems, identifying stakeholders, selectingproblem solving approaches, and understanding potential implications of engineering decisions.Professional engineers often struggle to identify and manage diverse perspectives, and little isknown about the practice of divergent exploration in engineering projects. To investigate, weinterviewed a mechanical engineer about her exploration practices in a past professional project.From her striking examples of divergent thinking and barriers
University as a faculty member. As a licensed professional engineer in the states of Connecticut and California, Dr. Jiang has been involved in the design of a variety of low-rise and high-rise projects, including office towers, retails, hotels, courthouses, and theatres according to the U.S. and international building codes. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC), Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), and American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).Dr. Zhuwei Qin, San Francisco State UniversityDr. Jenna Wong, San Francisco State University Dr. Wong is an Assistant
innovative pedagogies that can help enhancethe employability of students. In response to this need, an exploratory study was conducted at asatellite campus of a large, Midwestern research-focused university. The intervention includedthe implementation of an entrepreneurially minded and communication-focused project,developed by the instructor of an upper-level undergraduate manufacturing course. Post-completion of the project, a metacognitive reflection assignment was administered to theparticipants and subsequently, data was collected. Participant responses were qualitativelyanalyzed using thematic analysis which led to the discovery of three themes: (1) identifyingvalue in nature-inspired design, (2) confidence in communication and self-expression
Paper ID #39533Board 353: On ACCESS Program Support for Students’ Academic Successinthe Cybersecurity FieldProf. Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, West Virginia University Dr. Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova is a Professor at the Lane Department of Computer Science and Elec- trical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. Her research interests are in software engineering, cybersecurity, and data analytics, as well as in higher education focused on these areas. She has served as a Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator on various NSF, NASA, DoD, and in- dustry funded projects. She leads the B.S. in
developed and ran for 8 years a faculty-led international program to Brazil focused on Sustainable Energy and Brazilian Culture. This program educates students on the effects of various energy systems and the challenges of social and environmental justice in developing countries. In 2017, Dr. Pfluger moved into the ChE department where she implemented improvements in the Transport 2 Lab and Capstone courses. She assists Capstone students to develop dynamic design projects that ad- dress and help solve real-world, global challenges. Dr. Pfluger has served as the AIChE Student Chapter Faculty Advisor for 10 years and is chair of the AIChE Student Chapter Committee. She is a Math- works Teaching Fellow and has won serval
, appreciation of trust and stronger connections askeys to stronger teams, and an association of stronger teams with better teamwork, affectingproject outcomes. Their reflections highlight how teams and stories may be used together toaugment student connections and project outcomes, adding value both to the learning experienceand outcomes, and, in so doing, to future academic and professional project experiences.Ultimately this creates students who are more self-aware and proficient in collaboration, identifymore deeply with the profession, and can integrate the 3Cs into their work.Introduction and Literature Review Typically, higher education is centered around the cognitive domain, i.e., the developmentof knowledge and skills. Bloom’s taxonomy
generally aim to engage studentsin exciting and rewarding research and professional development experiences to motivate them topursue careers or advanced degrees in the sciences, technology, engineering and math (STEM).Unlike most other types of summer internships, REU programs are typically very student-focused.The faculty interactions, projects, activities, seminars, tours, etc. are purposely designed togenerate a positive impact on the student participants. This is certainly true of the NSF-fundedAutomotive and Energy Research and Industrial Mentorship (AERIM) REU program at OaklandUniversity [9], which so far has involved a total of 112 undergraduate students - more than half ofthem women - from 76 different universities across the United
. Austin B. Asgill received his B.Eng.(hons) (E.E.) degree from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, his M.Sc. (E.E.) degree from the University of Aston in Birmingham, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Flor ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Wireless Battery Management System (Design, Build & Test)AbstractAs part of the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE), and Engineering Technology (ET)Curriculum, Applied Design Projects for senior students in their final year augments their educationand training in research and research methods. It represents the centerpiece of the ECE-ETcurriculum's professional component and follows ABET-IEEE
Work in Progress: Update on the Impact of Secure and Upgrade Computer Science in Classrooms through an Ecosystem with Scalability & Sustainability (SUCCESS) Keywords: Research Practice Partnership; Computer Science Education; Rural Participation in Computer ScienceAbstract: This Work in Progress Paper provides an update on the Secure and Upgrade Computer Sciencein Classrooms through an Ecosystem with Scalability & Sustainability (SUCCESS) project, an NSF-funded(#2031355) Computer Science (CS) educational Research-Practice Partnership (RPP) whose shared goal isto provide high quality CS educational opportunities to all middle school students in a rural area
both teaching and research. Inthis paper, I share my personal journey of developing a PKM system with some tips and tricksI’ve learned along the way.My Personal Knowledge Management SystemMy journey toward implementing a knowledge management system started with a desire tobetter organize the literature sources for my research projects. I had used reference managers foryears, but each had limitations such as cost, portability, and searching. All the referencemanagers are great for what they were designed to do: collect information into a database tocreate citations. Beyond that they vary in their features for notetaking, highlighting articles, etc.After conducting research at three different institutions with licenses for three different
Paper ID #39229Engagement in Practice: Better Preparing Students for Community-EngagedEngineering by Restructuring an Academic Program, Minor, and Curricu-lumDr. Kristen M. Conroy, The Ohio State University Dr. Kristen Conroy has a PhD in Biological Engineering from Ohio State University. Her main area of fo- cus is sanitation. She has worked with partner organization, UNiTED, to teach courses where engineering students focus on collaborative projects in Kpando, Ghana. She also teaches the Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Capstone, Energy in Biological Systems, and the Introduction to Humanitarian Engineering
adaptability dimension, Dealing with Uncertain and UnpredictableSituations [15], due to the uncertainty managers described engineers feeling about the changingnature of their job role. However, each manager's recollections were associated with a differentcause (e.g., project cancellation, company merger, market change), resulted in a differentoutcome, and featured varying levels of detail. By choosing three situations from which to createa composite narrative, a complete story that succinctly touches on multiple challenges related toadaptability but is still grounded in the data could be told.Following the same methodology, I developed each composite narrative using two to fourexcerpts from the manager interviews. First, I categorized the critical
player in the future direction ofengineering education. HCD offers a promising approach to promote situated learning inengineering design projects, and to facilitate students’ learning of modern engineering skills.Many higher education institutions are seeking ways to integrate HCD into their engineeringprograms. This integration should be done in a way that supports and complements existinglearning objectives of established programs. However, doing so is challenging given that eachengineering course has its own unique opportunity areas and needs. Thus, there is a significantneed to develop tools and methods which support this endeavor. We have developed anevidence-based human-centered engineering design (HCED) framework to facilitate
our communities, orthe structure of our political and economic systems — tend to have the least influence on thosedecisions and how they are made. Design justice rethinks design processes, centers people whoare normally marginalized by design, and uses collaborative, creative practices to address thedeepest challenges our communities face.” [1]. Two core tenets of the Design Justice movementare that “absolutely anyone can participate meaningfully in design,” and “those who are directlyaffected by the issues a project aims to address must be at the center of the design process.” [4]Engineering education community and design researchers generally agree that pedagogicalinnovations are needed to ensure that current and future technologies are
infiltrates many areas of engineering andscience. Yet within engineering programs, students often have few opportunities to developexpertise in data science or even to explore how data science is relevant to their degreespecializations. This paper reports on an NSF-funded study of a program that prepares STEMstudents to engage with data science in coursework and then mentors them as they secureinternships and complete a capstone that demonstrates their application of data science expertise.Drawing on a mixed-methods study, including student reflections, capstone project assessment,and survey reporting, this paper suggests not only that students make deep connections betweentheir existing majors and data science but also that students trained in our
developing skills in leadership, collaboration, creativity, and innovativethinking (Paray and Kumar, 2020; Isabelle, 2020; and Rodriguez and Lieber, 2020). Rodriguezand Liber (2020), in particular, call out the goals, and potential benefits, of entrepreneurshipeducation. They highlight the ways that entrepreneurship education in high schools can, andshould, be linked to the development of skills linked to design-thinking, to thinking towardinnovative practices and processes, and the ways that entrepreneurship programs can be a‘gateway’ to actual entrepreneurship projects. As we examined curricula from several differenthigh school programs, we saw the connection of the assignments, readings, and projects to theskills-development listed above
bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He is currently the Lab Manager for the Ashesi Resourceful Engineering Lab (AREL), where he super- vises and supports both educational and engineering-based research projects. As part of being the Lab Manager at AREL, Jeremiah has spearheaded unique projects to develop the fluids lab. He also plays a vital role as the mechanical designer for an emerging up-cycling and down-cycling textile firm. Jeremiah believes in diligence.Gordon Adomdza Dr. Gordon Kwesi Adomdza is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Ashesi Uni- versity. He teaches courses that use Design Thinking to develop innovative concepts for new ideas and business models. He is the faculty lead
University. He is also the Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and Founding Project Director of a HSI Title III project funded by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) at FAU. His distinguished career in academia and industry has many notable accomplishments focused on research and industry partnerships, and national models of excellence in multi-institutional and sustainable STEM Pipeline. For 13 years, Dr. Zilouchian served as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and the Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies at FAU’s College of Engineering and Computer Science. His sustained contributions and research projects total more than $9M with funding sources from the
project on ethical andresponsible research and practices in science and engineering undertaken at a large publicuniversity in the southwestern United States. The objective of this research is to improveinstructor training, interventions, and student outcomes in high schools and universities toimprove awareness and commitment to ethical practices in STEM coursework. The paper willdescribe the progress made in several components of the grant: i) Preliminary analysis ofmeasures of ethical knowledge, reasoning skills, attitudes, and practices of several hundredundergraduate freshmen and seniors, correlated with demographic data based on data captured inthe first year of the grant; ii) Progress made in the development of the concept of “ethical self
to work in groups to complete projects, which fosterscollaboration and teamwork skills. They help to prepare students for their future careers byexposing them to the safety training, tools, equipment, and processes that they will encounter intheir future professional engineering practice.Since 2000, there have been reported research on exploring virtual laboratory in engineering andscience. A virtual engineering laboratory is presented in [3] for hybrid electric vehiclestarter/alternator experimentation. A virtual laboratory environment is developed in [4] for anelectronic circuits course. Using interactive TV and the internet, Gurocak [5] created a newapproach for distance delivery of a Manufacturing Automation laboratory course. Compared
Loyola University Maryland. Dr. Lowe earned her Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics from the University of Pennsylvania. At Loyola she has taught all levels of lectures and labs for undergraduate physics majors. Her grant-funded teaching projects have included robotics in the introductory physics lab and the development of physics of medicine modules. Over the years, she has conducted research at Loyola on fluid flows in large, curved ducts and in the microcirculation; multiplexed identification and quantification of DNAs on the surface of microscopic beads using flow cytometry; molecular dynamics simulations of proteins and lipid membranes; and atomic force microscopy measurements on DNA/protein complexes
Engineering DesignProgramConstanza Miranda, PhD 1*, Elizabeth Logsdon, PhD 1, Amadea Martino Smith 11 Johns Hopkins University, Biomedical Engineering DepartmentABSTRACTThis is a work in progress. To instruct design abilities in undergraduate engineering students, it iscommon for programs to engage in problem-based learning projects. In addition, project-based instructionis often done with students in teams and these teams have formal or informal leadership structures. In thiscontext, the success of the student project is usually attributed to the mindset of the leader, managementstyles, team dynamics that are cultivated by the leader, as well as a clear team structure and goals. Thisvertically operating leadership model is manifested as an
Paper ID #39156Development and Use of an Adaptable Arduino-Based Control System forBench-Top Process Control ExperimentsDr. Stacy K. Firth, University of Utah Stacy K. Firth is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah. In her role, she focuses on Engineering education in grades K-12 and undergradu- ate education. She has developed an inclusive curriculum for a year-long Engineering exploration and projects course that is now taught in 57 Utah high schools. She also developed and provides professional development workshops for Elementary and Secondary science
Department at a private, mid-sized university was awarded theNational Science Foundation (NSF) Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer ScienceDepartments (RED) grant in July 2017 to support the development of a program that fostersstudents’ engineering identities in a culture of doing engineering with industry engineers. TheDepartment is cultivating this culture of “engineering with engineers” through a strongconnection to industry and through changes in the four essential areas of a shared departmentvision, faculty, curriculum, and supportive policies.As we conclude this project, we are auditing all the activities we did throughout our project. Inthis audit, we review our activities with an eye toward what was particularly impactful for us
Paper ID #36883Creating an Undergraduate Multidisciplinary Design Research Team toAchieve Zero EnergyProf. Darrell D. Nickolson, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis Darrell Nickolson serves as an Associate Professor at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology on the Indianapolis campus and also is a member of the design team at Curran Architecture. Professor Nickolson teachers Architectural Technology, Interior Design, and BIM coursework, and he leads students in community-based experiential learning design projects and most recently solar energy research. ©American Society for
Paper ID #37891Board 321: Integrating Design Thinking and Digital Fabrication intoEngineering Technology Education through Interdisciplinary ProfessionalLearningDr. Christopher Russell, Northern Virginia Community College Christopher Russell is the Information and Engineering Technologies Project Manager at Northern Vir- ginia College. His research focuses on developing novel methods of integrating digital fabrication into formal and informal STEM instruction. Currently, he manages two NSF ATE awards - Makers By Design, a design thinking professional learning program for interdisciplinary groups of educators, and Product
and is aleading center in the development of new bio-based polymer materials. KPRC is aninternationally recognized center for chemistry and materials science with a specialization invegetable oil-based polymer research and development. KPRC engages the academic communityat PSU through research projects and other educational activities for faculty and students. EachPET-185 General Plastics cohort tours Tyler Research Center to learn about its analyticalcapabilities. Since 2018, KPRC has supported PET-586/687 (Senior Project I/II) students byproviding access to key instrumentation for polymer analysis including: differential scanningcalorimetry, thermogravimetric analysis, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, tensile testing,and scanning
also focuses on faculty professional development and is a co-director of the Professional development for Emerging Education Researchers (PEER) Institute.Dr. Scott Franklin, Rochester Institute of Technology Scott Franklin is a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the CASTLE Center for Advancing STEM Teaching, Learning & Evaluation at Rochester Institute of Technology. His educa- tion research includes projects on the development of identity and affiliation in physics majors throughout their undergraduate career, and, separately, how physicists express conceptual meaning in mathemati- cal formalism. He has co-directed the PEER faculty development program for four years, integrating
laboratory experiment, but italso has disadvantages, namely students have less class time to learn the fundamentals of twovast fields of study—statistics and measurement.Initially, the content of the IDE’s Data Analysis course was organized in series, focusing onmeasurement topics first and statistical concepts second. This sequential model had twomajor disadvantages. First, because the measurement and data acquisition content wasconcentrated at the start of the semester, many students struggled to remember what they“learned” in the first part of the class when they completed their culminating project later inthe semester, in which they designed their own experiment and then collected and analyzedtheir own data. This phenomenon illustrated that
Paper ID #39295Online Engineering Management Master’s Program—Lessons LearnedDr. John T. Tester, Tennessee Technological University Dr. Tester has expertise in Engineering Design with interests in Engineering Management, rapid pro- totyping, manufacturing processes, biomechanics, and engineering education. Dr. Tester’s scholastic interests frequently integrate undergraduate engineering education with applied research projects. He has actively supported the SAE intercollegiate competition series for over 20 years as a faculty advisor, at two universities in two states.Dr. Mazen I. Hussein, Tennessee Technological