students. Students are also required to co-enroll in a one-credit mechanics of material laboratory course where they conduct experiments to reinforce the concepts discussed in the lecture. • Structural Analysis: Junior-level three-credit lecture course that is required and a prerequisite for reinforced concrete design for civil engineering students. • Reinforced Concrete Design: Senior-level three-credit lecture course that is required and a prerequisite for both the civil engineering senior capstone design course and a bridge design technical elective. • Structural Steel Design: Senior-level three-credit lecture course that is a technical elective offered once per academic year.Completion of these courses leads students to a
. The ROLE program at the HSI supports engineeringsophomore, junior, and senior-level students in developing research skills needed in technicalfields; interpersonal skills needed to be successful employees; and academic and professionalskills that are transferable in their decisions to enter graduate studies or the professional world.ROLE students learn technical skills through hands-on activities in a laboratory setting; receivenear-peer and faculty mentorship from individuals with similar cultural and linguisticbackgrounds; attend culturally relevant workshops that support academic, interpersonal, andprofessional growth; and participate in outreach events within the local community and K-12school environments. This study will work
resourcesavailable to support their work goals. This might include having adequate staff support to allowfaculty to excel in their teaching and scholarship work: The staff critical from every perspective. They support … the advising side; we have laboratory facilities where staff are critical in making sure that the facilities are up and running and information technology that everything is working the way it should. (Female faculty member, doctoral university)On the other hand, tight budgets or some management decisions left faculty feeling frustrated andunable to do their jobs in a way that was satisfying for pursuing their autonomy: So it’s a direct result of having resources cut and creating an almost toxic
schedule was modified to include two 75-minute recitation periods and one 50-minutelecture/assessment period each week for a total of 3 class meetings in a week. The number of coursecredits did not change, but the additional 50-minute period was assigned as a mandatory section that hadto be added for the students taking each course. The justification for additional seat time is similar to howphysical laboratories are viewed within the Carnegie unit system—the out-of-class time associated withrecitation time is less than pure lecture because a lot of the work is done in class.One implication of this approach was that we needed different rooms for lecture and recitation. A quirk ofthe university’s classroom reservation system resulted in needing to
-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI Grad: 08/2014 Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Grad: 08/2007 BachelorDr. Phapanin Charoenphol, Texas A&M University Phapanin Charoenphol is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. She earned her M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She teaches thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, engineering laboratory, and senior design studio courses. Her research interests include engineering education and targeted drug delivery. In 2022, she was awarded the ASME Best Teacher Award and earned the ACUE Certificate in Effective College
Tech- nical State University (2018). She is an Assistant Professor and Program Director of Information Sci- ence/Systems in the School of Library and Information Sciences at North Carolina Central University, Lab Director for the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Equity Research (LAIER), Co-Director for the Center fOr Data Equity (CODE), an AAAS IF/THEN ambassador, and an Office e-Learning faculty fellow at North Carolina Central University. Her research focuses on utilizing machine learning to identify sources of misinformation on social media and on improving fault detection in autonomous vehicles. Dr. Grady advocates increasing the number of women and minorities in computer science. She believes that
in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. She is the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Thermofluidics for Clean Energy. In 2008, she received the inaugural Bullitt Environmental Fellowship for leadership in the environmental field. She was awarded the I.W. Smith Award for Outstanding achievement in creative mechanical engineering within 10 years of graduation (2011) and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Early Researcher Award (2012). She is the Director of the Thermofluids for Energy and Advanced Materials (TEAM) Laboratory working in fuel cells, electrolyzers, and subsurface geology. In 2014 she became a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering and was
design opportunities.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to first and foremost recognize the United States Military Academycadets who participated in the Timber Truss Engineering Design Project from 2017-2022. Theauthors would also like to thank all laboratory technicians and faculty from the Department ofCivil and Mechanical Engineering who supported execution of the project. The views expressedin this work are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or positionof the United States Military Academy, Department of the Army, Department of Defense, orU.S. Government.References[1] J. Lawson, M. Kam-Biron, and B. Perkins, “Used the Most, Taught the Least. An Analysis of Current Wood Engineering Education in
MechanicalEngineering laboratories for manufacturing and design. The informal nature of the space is tofacilitate a low barrier to entry for students, so that a larger quantity can begin developing skillsbefore outgrowing it and moving on to more appropriate labs and projects in other areas of thecampus. Figure 1: Library Makerspace Figure 2: ME Manufacturing and Design LabMechanical Engineering Manufacturing and Design LabsThe Mechanical Engineering department serves as the most striking contrast to the LibraryMakerspace, nearly to being the complete opposite in regard to management and history. Withinthe context of the school, the mechanical engineering department has consistently been thelargest and one of the oldest departments for
in cell, developmental and molecular biology. She has mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate students as well as postdoctoral fel- lows in her laboratory. In the Graduate School she oversees over 9.000 students in masters, specialist and doctoral programs. She is responsible for all academic and administrative matters related to graduate education at FIU. She has served as the Executive Editor for the journal Pigment Cell and Melanoma Re- search and is currently in its editorial board. She has served as a member of grant review panels for NSF, NIH, and AHA and is currently on the NIGMS TWD review panel. She has been funded by NIGMS, NIAMS and AHA and is currently the PI of FL-AGEP and co-PI of an NIGMS T32
postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before starting her academic career at Oklahoma State University (OSU), where she was an assistant professor 2014-2020 and then a tenured associate professor until January 2021 before moving to UB. Dr. Ford Versypt leads the Systems Biomedicine and Pharmaceutics Laboratory. She was the 2020-2021 Chair for the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division (CHED). Dr. Ford Versypt has been recognized with the NSF CAREER Award, ASEE CHED Ray W. Fahien Award and Joseph J. Martin Award, and AIChE CAST Division David Himmelblau Award for Innovations in Computer-Based Chemical Engineering Education. She is an Academic Trustee of Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering Corporation
careergoals: “I plan to pursue a PhD in biomedical engineering in the areas of tissue engineering andregenerative medicine. I ultimately hope to pursue a position in a research laboratory in industry,specifically in the pharmaceutical industry.”Students’ self-positioning as research assistants and agentic positions occurred over time inprevious examples when reflecting on their research experience. They prioritized theirresponsibilities as research assistants and recognized their research identity development throughgaining and practicing skills in order to be a better engineer or in an engineering research-relatedposition.DiscussionOur results demonstrate students took up varied positions when reflecting on technical work andresearch experience, and
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customizing bandages for newborns to making easier-to-openpill bottles. The making process exists as improvisation, readily addressing problems in apractical manner in the best interest of the patient.Global Open Science Hardware (GOSH) movement also reveals the ingenuity of people outsidetraditional halls of power, that being academia and big industry firms. One of these events, “Theuse of the speculum in a practical way – Transfeminist Hard Lab” sought to teach participantshow to run a test for HPV using only vinegar [52]. During COVID-19, GOSH organizers workedto reverse-engineer personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical/laboratory equipment aspatented models of production left hospital workers short of vital tools. This was something
works that arereviewed and criticized in a public way among them, On the other hand, even thoughcivil engineering students are also evaluated individually, there is a slight group work insubjects that require laboratories, an activity that is reflected in the reduction of theaverage of individualism as opposed to architecture students.From the results of table 3, we obtain interesting data since the means between bothstudy groups are close to each other, thus there is no significant difference in terms ofindividualism and even though both careers are still on the higher side of the spectrum,there is a greater similarity. These results may be due to how these students had theireducation during the pandemic, being students who had most of their
Valentina Rojas, University of FloridaSara is a senior civil engineering undergraduate student with a focus on construction at theUniversity of Florida. She is pursuing her bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering aswell as her construction management certificate. She is working as a research assistant in theSimmons Research Lab and the Weil Hall Structures & Materials Laboratory. Her researchinterests include leadership in engineering, the inclusion of minorities in the constructionindustry, and the development of sustainable materials at low cost. Building a Leadership Toolkit: Underrepresented Students’ Development of Leadership- Enabling Competencies through a Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates
positioned to apply their self-discovered knowledge on Byte Orderingto bigger problem sets as practice exercises. And this extends to their lab experiences. Next, students will work on laboratories created around software in CSE gatekeeping courses,such as the RISC-V assembler and runtime emulator RARS [77]. Having been introduced earlier to Page - 6Inquiry, they are expected to apply the scientific method to advance their own understanding, reflectingand documenting their questions and experiences at every stage of the lab. Regarding the framework for ITL shown as an example in Figure 3, questions can surface overthe exact time
University Dr. Bruk T. Berhane received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Mary- land in 2003. He holds an M.S. in engineering management from the George Washington University and a Ph.D. in minority and urban education from the University of Maryland. In 2003, Bruk was hired by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL), where he worked on nanotech- nology and microsystems. In 2005 he left JHUAPL for a fellowship with the National Academies and researched methods of increasing the number of women in engineering. Later that year, he briefly served as a mathematics instructor in Baltimore City High Schools. From 2005 through 2018, Dr. Berhane directed
alsofeatured opportunities to develop a shared lexicon for ARDEI concepts and interrogate one's ownidentity and positionality.By making this a required course, we set the expectation that considering the societal impacts ofresearch is an important and natural part of the entire research process. We chose to expand anexisting professional development course for graduate students that originally solely coveredtopics like laboratory safety, library use, grant writing, and communication, to include ARDEIand social justice content. Into this predominately passive content, we added active and complexreflections and discussions of identity, bias, and (in)justice. We believe that developing thisreflective skill early sets students up to think about social
rated application materials for a laboratory manager position. Thematerials had been randomly assigned either a male name or a female name and were otherwiseidentical. The faculty (both male and female) rated the male candidates significantly morecompetent and hirable than the identical female candidates. The faculty assigned higher salariesto the male applicants than to the female applicants. Males were given a 14% increase in meansalary over the females. The faculty also offered less career mentoring to the female candidatethan the male candidate. Interestingly, the gender, scientific field, age, and tenure status of thefaculty were not significant in these results. The observed gender bias seems to be pervasiveamong all faculty.It was found
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roles within higher education; secured over $5.5M support for STEM education research; and led several program development efforts, including: a childcare facility at a federal research laboratory, an M.S. Molecular Biology/Biotechnology degree program at a small internationally-focused teaching insti- tution, and a first-year engineering program and a B.S. Engineering Technology degree program at an R1 research institution. She has been recognized for her teaching, advising, and service, and as an Exemplary Faculty Member for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.Prof. Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, West Virginia University Dr. Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova is a Professor at the Lane Department of Computer
classroom in general.The participants in this study indicated that it is important to them that teaching strategiespromote collaboration and discussion in class. Accordingly, Kovarik, Robinson, & Wenzel [19]state that when students engage in collaborative activities, they are more likely to form newfriendships with their classmates, both in lectures and in the laboratory. In turn, this encouragessocialization and can result in students identifying study partners with whom to connect outsideof class time. In addition, collaborative work helps people to practice verbal and writtencommunication skills. All this enhances self-efficacy and sense of belonging. Related to this,participants suggested that the frequency of field activities should be
engineering today.He extends his argument in a critique of the common practice of blaming teachers and facilitiesfor the apparent inadequacies of high school physics instruction and focuses instead on thesystem that allows colleges to dictate curricular design in high schools through entrance exams.The cure, he argues, is not “better prepared teachers, better laboratory facilities, better apparatus,and an attendant who is mechanically inclined” [p. 545]. A much better remedy is “knowingboys, understanding schools, and having some idea of what a problem in education looks likeand of how to go about to solve it” [p. 545]. He also emphasizes the role of enthusiasm andmotivation in education: “when enthusiasm and right motive precede, not only is the
, The Boeing Company (Space Division), Alcatel, USA (Alcatel-Lucent) and the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). My professional goals consist of achieving the position of Senior Executive Service (SES) member within the Department of Defense (DoD). Afterwards, I would like to pursue either a research position at a national laboratory, think-tank, or board of directors and/or academia as a second career. I am a certified scuba diver, I enjoyed skydiving, trying different foods/eating, traveling the world, live sporting events/comedy shows, attending events such as Homecoming at Prairie View A&M University, spending time with my family, friends, fraternity brothers, and love ones!Dr. Janie M. Moore, Texas A&M
Paper ID #36928Synthesizing Indicators of Quality across Traditions of NarrativeResearch MethodsMr. Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Pennsylvania State University Fourth-year doctoral student at Pennsylvania State University in the mechanical engineering department. Member of the Engineering Cognitive Research Laboratory (ECRL). Current research topics include grad- uate school attrition and persistence.Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University Catherine G.P. Berdanier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Penn- sylvania State University. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry from The