Michael A. Butkus is a professor of environmental engineering at the U.S. Military Academy. His research has been focused on engineering education and advancements in the field of environmental engineering.Lt. Col. Andrew Ross Pfluger P.E., United States Military Academy Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Pfluger, U.S. Army, is an Associate Professor and Academy Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at the United States Military Academy. He currently serves as the director of the Environmental Prog ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Influence of Group Learning in Environmental Engineering: A Curriculum and Course-level
, and Computing (CEISMC). She is involved with engineering education innoMr. Jeffrey H. Rosen, Georgia Institute of Technology After 14 years in the middle and high school math and engineering classroom where Mr. Rosen was working on the integration of engineering and robotics into the teaching of the core curricula classrooms. He has now been at Georgia Tech’s CEISMC for the pasDr. Marc Weissburg ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A Case Study Investigating High School Teachers’ Implementation of an Engineering-focused Biologically Inspired Design Curriculum (Fundamental Research)AbstractThis research study explores teachers’ implementation of an
Paper ID #37522Understanding the Impact of an LSAMP Scholar ProgramDr. Yang Lydia Yang, Kansas State University Yang Lydia Yang is an Associate Professor of Quantitative Research Methodology at College of Educa- tion, Kansas State University. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction from Florida Inter- national University. Her research interest include quantitative educational research design and statistical analyses, Q methodology, and recruitment and retention in STEM fields.Dr. Brenee King, Kansas State UniversityDr. Amy Rachel Betz, Kansas State University Dr. Amy Betz is the Assistant Dean for Retention
by requiring students to take an existing security course from another program (i.e.Computer Science, MIS, etc.). It could be accomplished by adding a new course to the curriculumspecifically to address security. With any of these methods, however, it should be visible to the publichow the program integrated security through catalog entries.Many factors potentially would impact this decision. In some cases, there are several shared courseswith an associated computer science program. The CAC ABET criteria for Computer Science was revisedin 2019 [14] to specifically call out the that the curriculum must include “Principles and practices forsecure computing.” In these cases, a single shared course for both software engineers and computerscience
et al. found that to enable teachers to teachCS and CT in an integrated manner, teachers need support staff, physical resources, willingness toexperiment, and the ability to notice student responses. Teachers faced many obstacles thatimpeded successful integration of CS and engineering into the elementary curriculum. Theystruggled to justify the time spent on CS and engineering when it was not part of standard,state-mandated curriculum. Despite the obstacles, support staff of PD researchers was a veryhelpful resource that enabled integration.3 MethodologyTo mitigate these challenges, it is first important to identify promising practices and techniques soteachers can be trained in those practices. We wanted to learn more about what
an MS and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of MissouriRolla. Dr. Ertekin has also been a Certified Manufactur- ing Engineer (CMfgE), awarded by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) since 2001, and a Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) awarded by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) since 2004. In addition to positions in the automotive industry, Dr. Ertekin has held faculty positions at Western Ken- tucky University and Trine University. In 2010, he joined Drexel University’s College of Engineering as an associate clinical professor. He has been instrumental in course development and the assessment and improvement of the Engineering Technology (ET) curriculum, including integrated
Paper ID #37596Work in Progress: Integrating Engineering Design Projects into EarlyCurricular Courses at a Hispanic-serving InstitutionDr. David Hicks, Texas A&M University-Kingsville David Hicks is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Before joining TAMU-K he served as Associate Professor and Department Head at Aalborg University in Esbjerg, Denmark. He has also held positions in research labs in the U.S. as well as Europe, and spent time as a researcher in the software industry.Dr. Michael Preuss, Exquiri Consulting, LLC Michael
Leoncio Caban ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Integrating Servingness in a Mini-Capstone Project: Resilient and Sustainable Emergency Housing Design Emergency housing has become a necessity in Puerto Rico due to the size and frequency of extreme natural events such as earthquakes and hurricanes that affect the island. The Resilient Infrastructure and Sustainability Education – Undergraduate Program (RISE-UP), funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) has developed an interdisciplinary curricular sequence to educate students to design infrastructure to withstand the impact of natural disasters. Three campuses of our
sustainability in the curricula; 3) integrating sustainability as a concept in currentdiscipline-based units and redesigning the essence of the unit considering sustainabilityconsiderations; and 4) designing new programs as part of faculties and schools targetedexclusively at sustainability topics. These four changes include components of two of the threetypical ‘phases of pedagogy activity’ described by Desha et al. [9] that compose engineeringcurriculum renewals towards sustainability, known as ad hoc exploration and the flagshipapproach. These two phases exemplify changes where there is an initial commitment to includesustainability topics, but the curriculum remains almost unaltered. Desha et al. included anadditional phase called integration, when
Performance Evaluation of an Ongoing Integrated Program for Recruitment, Retention, and Graduation of High- Achieving, Low-income Engineering StudentsAbstractThe present paper reports an update on an NSF-funded S-STEM program currently in its lastyear at the University of Illinois Chicago. Lessons learned during the project implementation arealso listed in the paper. A summary of the paper materials will be presented at the ASEE 2023Annual Conference and Exposition as part of the NSF Grantees Poster Session.The project's objectives are 1) enhancing students' learning by providing access to extra and co-curricular experiences, 2) creating a positive student experience through mentorship, and 3)ensuring successful student placement in
Paper ID #38696Board 104: An Accelerator of Human Innovation Integrating ContinuousImprovement and Lean Philosophy into Innovation Program forUndergraduate StudentsDr. Omar H. Albalawi, University of Tabuk Omar H Albalawi is an Assistant Professor of Industrial engineering at the University of Tabuk’s” Indus- trial Engineering Department.”, Tabuk city, Saudi Arabia. Dr.Omar received his MSc and Ph.D. in Indus- trial Engineering from Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. His interests include engineering innovation, entrepreneurial engineering, lean manufacturing, engineering economy, renew- able energy
to solve complex problems in the FEW nexus. These experiencesallow us to develop an integrated systems thinking curriculum at the graduate level.Course StructureThe NRT Integrated FEW Systems course introduces students to systems thinking, with specificapplication to the FEW nexus in Western Kansas. The course establishes a knowledge base thatstudents build upon through educational and experiential components of the NRT traineeship.Course materials integrate engineering, economic, and social sciences systems, with focus on theunique challenges of enhancing rural resource resiliency in FEW systems. This course is a one-credit hour required course to NRT students that meets once a week for 50-minute class. It hasbeen offered every fall
Paper ID #37408Board 195: A Comparison of an Integrated Nonlinear Storytelling andSimulation-Based Learning Game Module Assigned Outside-the-Classroomversus Inside-the-ClassroomAshley SeamonMarcus JamesZoe MouchantafDr. Omar Ashour, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend Dr. Omar Ashour is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College. Dr. Ashour received the B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering/Manufacturing Engi- neering and the M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) in 2005 and 2007, respectively. He received his
and building guitars. In Hunter-Doniger, T. (Ed.), STEAM Education: Transdisciplinarity of Art in the Curriculum. NY, NY: NAEA.21. Tillman, D., An, S., Boren, R., & Slykhuis, D. (2014a). Building model NASA satellites: Elementary students studying science using a NASA-themed transmedia book featuring digital fabrication activities. J. of Comp. in Math. and Science Teaching, 33(3), 327-348.22. Tillman, D. A., An, S. A., & Boren, R. (2015a). Assessment of creativity in arts and STEM integrated pedagogy by preservice elementary teachers. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 23(3), 301-327.23. Tillman, D. A., An, S. A., & Robertson, W. H. (2019b). The relationship between formal and informal learning. In J. C
engineering to liberal arts students [3] orof adding liberal arts to the engineering curriculum [4]. During the 1980’s, the SloanFoundation’s New Liberal Arts Initiative made grants totaling $20 million in order to develop aset of courses that integrate technical and quantitative literacy into traditional liberal arts studies[5].Many small liberal arts colleges have tried to offer an engineering option through the adoption of3-2 programs [6]. Experience has shown, however, that very few students ultimately pursue the3-2 route for a number of reasonsfor instance, they want to continue participating in athleticsor they want to graduate with their friends. Other colleges have added engineering majors. Forinstance, Hope College in Michigan added
,pedagogical and student experiences. Similarly, with a focus on an engineering thermodynamics course,Riley [5] motivates the use of liberative pedagogies in engineering education by relating pedagogy tostudents’ prior experiences, student responsibility and authority, including ethics and policy, decenteringwestern knowledge systems.Institutional and Data Collection ContextThe student co-authors of this paper, who are currently in their sophomore year, are enrolled in anundergraduate engineering program developed around the intellectual theme of “human-centered”engineering. The program integrates the university’s liberal arts curriculum with an experientialengineering curriculum emphasizing societal responsibility.For the liberal arts requirement of
. Changes in the engineering curriculum thus come as part of a widerrethinking of pedagogical practice across the university.Along with the imminent implementation of new ABET criterion, the combination of the latestrevision to the university’s strategic plan, the growing number of students majoring in STEM,the Engineering Department’s desire to better integrate itself within LUM’s liberal arts core, anda nationwide reckoning of systemic biases that shape our historical present—all of these togetherhave served as an important impetus for radically rethinking LUM’s engineering curriculum,starting with EG 101: Introduction to Engineering. p. 3III. EG 101: Then and NowPrior to the revision of EG 101, few
parts of the university. Reflecting on the 1955 Grinter Report, Sheryl Sorby, Norman L. Fortenberry, and GaryBertoline suggest a need for a revolution in engineering education, writing: “Over the years, we educators have done some tinkering around the edges, such as adding in a capstone design project, or replacing Fortran with other programming languages – but the basic structure of the curriculum remains unchanged even though our students can now find information on their phones that might have taken us hours to track down in the library.”3There is no doubt about the need for technical training, but how engineering educatorsincorporate nontechnical skills also has an impact on creating a well-rounded
).This situation necessitates environmental engineers who understand transportation engineeringand transportation engineers who are familiar with the solutions for environmental engineeringissues. In this background, an undergraduate environmental engineering program can incorporatecomponents in its curriculum and research to address transportation-related environmentalproblems. This inclusion can be done in two ways: 1. Developing a transportation engineeringminor in an environmental engineering program; 2. Enhancing the existing environmentalengineering curriculum with transportation components. In addition, an EnvironmentalEngineering for Transportation certificate program can also be developed for practicingenvironmental and transportation
Title: Consensus Building Method for Expert Crowdsourcing of Curriculum TopicsAbstractState of the art curriculum development efforts are done with a committee often consisting oftwo to four faculty members but are commonly undertaken by the assigned course instructor.However, the small number of faculty participants in the curriculum development effort canyield an out-of-date and insufficient curriculum for students entering the industry workforce [1],[2], [3], [4]. Crowdsourcing has been used to gather more input from domain experts consistingof faculty and industry professionals [2], [3], [5]. However, these efforts can yield large amountsof inputs from various crowd workers resulting in additional time required for the
changes to anarchitectural engineering program in the Midwest. Responses were collected across 52 closedand eight open-ended items to gain an industry perspective on the relative importance of coursetopics in the curriculum, the selection of Architectural Engineering (AE) degree concentrationoptions, the format of graduate degree capstone projects, and the factors that AE&C employersconsider when hiring graduates and experienced employees. The curriculum changes inspired bythis survey are presented together alongside the program’s previous AE curriculum to morethoroughly characterize the program attributes that are desired by the AE&C industry.IntroductionThe Architectural Engineering (AE) program considered in this study is at the
’ learning experiences through teaching innovations, curriculum design, and support of undergraduate student research. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Oral Assessments as an Early Intervention StrategyAbstractOral assessments, i.e., one-on-one interview-style questioning by an instructor, have been shownto be powerful pedagogical tools. Their main benefits include the ability to assess conceptualmastery in depth due to their adaptive dialogic nature, in addition to improving students’ verbalskills and serving as a tool to support academic integrity. However, assessments not only play animportant role in measuring the level of students' understanding, but the assessment method
Paper ID #37425Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion through Culture-RelatedDesign in First-Year Engineering Curriculum: A Work in ProgressDr. Lisa K. Murray, Western New England University Lisa K. Murray is currently an Assistant Professor of Practice in the first-year engineering program at Western New England University (WNE). She currently serves as a co-advisor for the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) at WNE. She is an alumnus of WNE. She holds a BS in Biomedical Engineer- ing, Masters in Education and a Masters and PhD. in Engineering Management. Her research interests are in engineering education
self-esteem and self-confidence. In contrast, when we integrate practical-orientedlearning methodologies and experiential learning with the curriculum in the class to improvestudents’ creativity and help students to learn from previous experiences and avoid repeating thesame mistakes. The common factors leading to a lack of integrating experiential learning [9], • Lack of faculty experience and techniques. • Insufficient educational spaces and equipment • Not paying attention to parallel and additional experiences • Insufficient class management by the educators and techniciansAnother way to compensate for and overcome the lack of practical experience and hands-onskills is to seek an opportunity for internships or coops
curriculum andprofessional development programs in the future. In addition to the most frequently used fields for PCK models in the literature (contentknowledge, general pedagogical knowledge, and contextual knowledge), our study come up withengineering integration PCK domain distinctively due to engineering’s interdisciplinary nature.Similarly, Yeter (2021)’s results also demonstrated that unit-specific content knowledge andinterdisciplinary application were distinctive domains in his instrument development study to elicitelementary teachers’ engineering PCK. To sum up, we hope that the framework of EIPCK willguide educational practitioners and researchers in the development of an instrument to elicitteachers' pedagogical content knowledge
students. Additionalintegration of FWV occurred in homework 3 about the design process (the Floating City was themost popular scenario), homework 8 on data science, and homework 9 on creativity andinnovation (again, as an option among multiple choices). The final culminating essay assignmentincluded a prompt that mentioned FWV, although students were not required to discuss FWV.There were 32% of the students that discussed FWV as something that inspired them about civilengineering, and another 23% discussed FWV more generally. The results indicate that FWVmay be effective in stimulating student interest in civil engineering, and can be integrated insimple ways that do not require major changes within a course.IntroductionCivil engineers play an
Paper ID #38568Vertical Integration of Teamwork Skills from Sophomore to Senior andBeyond!Dr. Mohammad Waqar Mohiuddin, Texas A&M University Possesses a multidisciplinary background in Mechanical Engineering (B.S. and M.S.) and Cardiovascular Physiology (Ph.D.). Currently working as an Instructional Assistant Professor in the J Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Areas of expertise and interest in- clude biomedical and mechanical system design, electromechanical systems, computer-aided engineering analysis, and mathematical modeling of physiological systems. Before joining
politicalsolutions.Engineering for One Planet (EOP), an initiative catalyzed by The Lemelson Foundation andVentureWell, seeks to remove the barriers to integrating sustainability into the engineeringcurriculum while prioritizing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice principles. The goal is totransform engineering education to ensure that all future engineers across all disciplines areequipped to design, build, and create in environmentally and socially sustainable ways. Criticalto this process is ensuring historically minoritized and marginalized groups become engineersand/or engage in the prioritization and creation of solutions. This paper examines the work ofEOP to date, and approaches needed to accelerate the desired fundamental and systemic changesto
, 11]. A significant fraction of asoftware project’s budget can go towards code quality [12], and the need for better softwareengineering practices is becoming important in STEM at large [13]. As introductory computingcourses serve an increasingly broad range of students, disciplines, and applications, and thesetraditional metrics may not provide sufficient insight into what is best for students’ learning.Teaching at a small engineering college with no formal computer science program and a heavilyproject-based curriculum, we are especially aware of the limitations of traditional metrics oftenused to evaluate first courses in programming and computer science. As we explain later in thispaper, our first course in computing, which we dub Software
various facets of this evolving technology in the ETcurriculum. Integration of emerging technologies, such as Industry 4.0, technological skills tomeet the demand of the regional workforce can be accomplished by few methods. One suchmethod is integration of professional publications in the coursework. This paper will elucidatethe results of successful implementation of Industry 4.0 concepts in ET curriculum through apilot summer course, Control Systems. Additionally, the authors aim to present the opportunitiesfor expansion to include other professional journals for continued implementation in the variousconcentrations of ET.This paper aims to discuss and present the key findings in the following areas: (1) Explicateintegration of student