. Common practice in Aerospace Engineering whentreating variability in material elasticity is to simply take the average value. In cases wherefailure depends on elasticity (such as with buckling) [7], the use of the average results in elevatedrisk for structures and any users of those systems [5].This research was motivated initially by these observed trends in Aerospace Engineering.However, the goals of this project are to understand how engineers across disciplines react tovariability. The following sections describe the frameworks used to frame the research, resultsfrom two studies under this project umbrella, and implications from across the studies. The goalof this paper is to describe the behavior of targeting the consequences of variability
Paper ID #39319Board 2A: WIP:Opportunities in Cultural Dimensions between Architectureand Civil Engineering students in EcuadorDaniel Cartuchevictor R viteriDr. Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ MiguelAndres is an Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering at Uni- versidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with emphasis in Sustainable Construction from Virginia Tech, and two Grad- uate
submission. The final project (big open circle) requires afull-length report without peer review or revision. All labs require the completion of prelab reading and pre-lab quiz on Canvas before starting.The pre-labs and homework assignments take up 15% of the course grade. After each lab, studentsturn in a post-lab log sheet, which is more like a ‘structured lab notebook’ with required dataanalysis and interpretation but not to be graded for writing quality. I use the post-lab log sheet asan assessment tool for the content knowledge of the lab, and the log sheets are worth 20% of thecourse grade. Students do not need to write a formal lab report for each lab. A formal lab reportis assigned for each module of the course, each worth 15% of the
LS# LS Description P1 P2 P3 1 Leveraging web-based interactive methods to measure student understanding and adjust synchronous lecture content accordingly in real time. 2 Use of case-studies where students problem solve historical or hypothetical situations in course assignments (projects/homework/etc.) 3 Fostering collaboration and group work among students in class. (This could be assigning group projects, pairing students to work together on homework, creating “break-out rooms” for students to work on problems in synchronous class meetings or office hours.) 4 Introducing lessons (either synchronously or asynchronously) by presenting
• Research focused on integrated K-5 CS and/or CT (all aspects) • Research with a focus on K-5 studentsGiven the tens of thousands of articles returned for just the first article search (33,402), it wouldhave been impractical for our team to manually review each of them. There is a law of diminishedreturns for Google searches, and, for practical reasons, we chose to limit our manual search to thefirst 100 articles from each keyword search, providing us a robust set of 900 articles to manuallyreview. We decided upon 100 given 1) the newness of the field and our hypothesis that we wouldnot find many articles that meet our search criteria and 2) staffing and project scope.We chose the years 2015 through 2022 to align with the White House
pedagogy of using game elements and/or gamedesigns to motivate student learning and promote a growth mindset [1][2][3]. Gamification canbe done in either large or small scopes. Small scope gamification activities usually involvedesigning an individual class activity or assignment in a certain game format, which is verycontext specific. On the other hand, large scope gamification refers to gamifying an entirecourse. Many STEM courses share similar structure (lectures, labs, assignments, projects, etc.),which makes a generic course gamification framework possible.This paper provides a generic framework to gamify a college-level course. Even though theframework can be implemented to turn all course components into game elements, the focus ofthe paper
construction project to avoiddelays and rework.FacilitiesThe lab space is comprised of a 1,440 square-foot room with a storage area next to the lab on thefirst floor of a new technology building that houses the construction management program. Theroom is well lighted and has a concrete floor slab, worktables with stainless steel tops, caseworkand shelves for storage and a large integrated exhaust hood that vents to the building’s roof.There are two stainless steel sinks in the room. One is a standard 30-inch double basin kitchensink and the other is a larger four-foot double basin industrial sink. Just outside the lab space is alarge exterior concrete apron work area, complete with a grated washout pit and hose bib forcleaning tools and equipment used
., and Finkelstein, N.D. (2020) Epistemic stances toward group work inlearning physics: Interactions between epistemology and social dynamics in a collaborativeproblem solving context. Physics Education. arXiv:2005.02425Kajfez, R. L., Mohammadi-Aragh, M. J., Clark, A., Sassi, S., and Petrie, J. (2019, June), Board29: Initial Qualitative Exploration into First-Year Engineering Community and Identity. The2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2—3231Knapp, H. (2018) Intermediate Statistics Using SPSS. SAGE Publications, Inc.Leslei I. (2021) Conflicted: How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes. HarperCollins.Loignon, A (2022) Comments made during the Advisory Board Meeting for the NSF Project #[Blind for
ethics pedagogy.Engineering Ethical Reasoning Instrument (EERI)Zhu and colleagues [15] created EERI to measure moral decision-making in design projects. TheEERI is based on Kohlberg’s moral development theory and relies on micro and macro ethics inengineering. Similar to DIT-2 and ESIT, EERI is also a scenario-based assessment instrument:The instrument presents design scenarios that were adapted from students’ design projects andasks students to select the action that they would most likely take in the situation. After studentsmake a decision, they are also asked to rate a series of items how important each item was inmaking their decision.The authors utilized a mix-method approach to validate the instrument. The EERI instrumentwent through
been discussionin the literature on the lack of flexibility or empathy from engineering faculty [12], there has beenlittle else on the influence that faculty and staff might have on student’s beliefs about seeking helpfor their mental health. Therefore, this work highlights how both explicit and implicit messagingfrom engineering faculty and staff influence student beliefs about seeking help for their mentalhealth.MethodsData reported in the present manuscript are derived from a larger mixed-methods project that usedthe integrated behavioral model to explore undergraduate engineering students’ mental healthrelated help-seeking beliefs [11].Recruitment and ParticipantsAs part of a comprehensive study on engineering undergraduate mental health
inclusion,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 110, no. 2, pp. 371–392, Apr. 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20391. 9. A. Minichiello, O. Lawanto, W. Goodridge, A. Iqbal, and M. Asghar, “Flipping the digital switch: Affective responses of STEM undergraduates to emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Project Leadership and Society, p. 100043, Feb. 2022, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plas.2022.100043. 10. O. Lawanto, A. Iqbal, W. Googridge, A. Minichiello, and M. Asghar, “Emergency remote learning: Developing an understanding about online learning features and Students’ feelings,” International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 38, no. 5-B, pp. 1629–1642, 2022. 11. J. Mirabelli, A
and has since moved into the Computer Engineering Department. His areas of interest have branched out to include web applications for teaching and learning, as well as new approaches to digital- to-analog converters with first and second order holds.Prof. Dominic J. Dal Bello, Allan Hancock College Dom Dal Bello is Professor of Engineering at Allan Hancock College (AHC), a California community col- lege between UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. At AHC, he is Department Chair of Math- ematical Sciences, Faculty Advisor of MESA (the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement Pro- gram), and Principal/Co-Principal Investigator of several National Science Foundation projects (S-STEM, LSAMP, IUSE). In
than $40million in NSF engineering education research projects (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/). CIshave been developed and deployed in engineering education environments using variousvalidation methods [2], [3], [7], [10]. These methods however do not mention efforts to look atquestion context when developing the concept inventories. In addition, because CI developerswrite the questions specifically to assess students’ conceptual understanding of the topic in a‘real-world’ context, there is potential that not all students would have the same exposure orrelatability to the context [11]–[13]. Thus, the questions have the potential to perpetuatecontextual bias through sociocultural norms[11], [12], [14]. National organizations that
higher in the Southand lower in the Northeast as seen in Figure 3. Figure 3 The nonfarm quit rate (millions) by region (data for December 2022 is projected) [6].Low unemployment leads to rising wages. High turnover often means training lessknowledgeable and less experienced workers at a faster pace in order to replace workers leavingat a faster rate. There can be a negative impact on workers remaining with their employers whomay perceive they are being left behind or being underpaid [21]. High turnover can also have anegative effect on a company’s image, which can make it even harder for them to hirereplacement workers.One of the well-documented effects of the Great Resignation is an increase in remote working[24]. This provides more
, indicating they spent asubstantial time studying around others. The fifth floor was occupied the least, perhaps reflectingthat it is a silent floor with no talking or group study allowed.Activities conducted while in the libraryWhen engineering students come to the library, what are they doing? How much time do theyspend on each activity? As noted in Table 3, 77% (n=65) of the engineering students reportedspending time in frequent or very frequent individual study, while 42% (n=35) said they used thelibrary for very frequent or frequent group study.Table 3: Frequency of library use for the following tasks. Team Group Individual Take a Library Usage Project Study Work
scholarship of teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). More specifically, her current engineering education interests include entrepreneurial mindsets, user-centered design, project-based learning, and broadening participation in STEM particularly for populations historically underrepresented in STEM fields. As a teacher-scholar, Dr. Hargrove-Leak is passionate about applying what she learns in her re- search in the classroom, while mentoring undergraduates in research projects driven by their personal and professional interests, and in service in the local community to get young people excited about STEM. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023
ranging from academics, NSF PIs, in- dustry leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals to students or high-schoolers starting out with Computer Sciences, helping them strategize and broaden participation, as well as explore, understand, and apply emerging technologies. Sreyoshi is committed to broadening participation among underrepresented mi- norities in engineering and serves as a Senator at the Society of Women Engineers. She is also part of the Advisory Board at the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and serves as an Advisor to the leadership at Sisters in STEM. Sreyoshi frequently collaborates on several National Science Foundation projects in the engineering education realm, researching engineering career
required forstudents across all years of the undergraduate AE program, and students were only required toenroll in the AE Seminar course for a minimum of 6 semesters during the undergraduate AEprogram. Through its first two years of implementation, the course invited practicingprofessionals to present unique projects in building design that excited students about their futurecareers. Since then, the AE Seminar course has also served as a gathering place to address theundergraduate AE student body with important announcements, reminders, and opportunities.Often, instructors also recognize recipients of student and design competition awards to helpfoster a student culture of achievement, excellence, and celebration of others. The course meetsthree
specifically to him. Out of this ˜$12m, ˜$5.45M has been allocated to the University of Toledo. These projects have been funded by various agencies including the NSF (National Science Foundation), AFRL (Air Force Research Lab), NASA-JPL, Department of Energy, and the State of Ohio. He also played a critical role in the cultivation of a private gift to support the CSTAR lab for cyber security research. He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed journal, conference, and poster papers. He has also served as a reviewer for several high impact journals and as a member of the technical program committee for several reputed conferences.Xiaoli Yang ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023
Northeastern University.Dr. Susan F. Freeman, Northeastern University Susan Freeman, is a member of Northeastern University’s first-year engineering facutly, a group of teach- ing faculty expressly devoted to the first-year Engineering Program at Northeastern University. The focus of this team is on providing a consistent, engaging and hands-on experience for first-year students, hoping to excite and inspire them in the first step of their journey. There is a strong team, continuously improving on project-based curriculum for the first-year and beyond. Sudan Freeman is also the Associate Dean, Undergraduate Education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Meaningful
Michigan, Ann Arbor Andrew DeOrio is a teaching faculty member at the University of Michigan and a consultant for web and machine learning projects. His research interests are in engineering education and interdisciplinary computing. His teaching has been recognized with the Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize, and he has twice been named Professor of the Year by the students in his department. Andrew is trying to visit every U.S. National Park. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Office Hours, Demographic Groups and COVID Heidi Huang*, Kevin Yan*, Andrew DeOrio Department of Electrical Engineering and
-0805) Mechanical/Mechanical EngineeringTechnology/Technician, which is defined as, “A program that prepares individuals to apply basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of engineers engaged in the design and development phases of a wide variety of projects involving mechanical systems. Includes instruction in principles of mechanics, applications to specific engineering systems, design testing procedures, prototype and operational testing and inspection procedures, manufacturing system-testing procedures, test equipment operation and maintenance, and report preparation.” [8].This CIP is related in the CIP-SOC Crosswalk [9] to the SOC (17-3027) MechanicalEngineering
between fundingreceived, or expected, from external grants. To help resolve issues related to spaces for studentwork, projects, and labs, the recommendations were focused on clearly identifying safety issuesrelated to the activities allowed in the spaces, the time of the day the spaces are open to students,and the need to have secured access and monitoring of the spaces. Other recommendations madeby the workshop participants included taking advantage of surplus or rotated equipmentprograms that federal labs and some industry partners may run to help reduce the funds that theprograms themselves must provide.Five of the seven statements in this theme fall into a potentially more informative pattern. Inaddition to being rated a 4 or 5 with a
” for teams [2] and in 2021 ABET proposed changes to Criterion 5 and 6, focusedon curriculum and faculty, that specifically highlight DEI [1]. While the commitment to JEDI inengineering curriculum is clear, the task of embedding this knowledge into engineering courses,many of which traditionally contain highly technical content, may seem overwhelming.To help engineering and computer science programs tackle this issue, an NSF funded five-year,multi-institutional project was run with the purpose of developing activities to embed intechnical curriculums that both promote inclusive engineering identities within undergraduatestudents and highlight the benefits of diversity in professional environments [3], [4], [5]. Theproject has led to dozens of
, environmental engineering and energy provide relevant examples of real-world problems that are tangible to K-12 students and can be explored in the classroom to createauthentic learning opportunities [11]. Exposure to environmental engineering technologiesengages students in engineering problem solving while helping them understand the importanceand relevance of the sustainability issues the technologies are addressing. Previous studies haveshown increased student interest and performance in STEM classrooms as a result of project-based learning that addresses real-world issues in sustainability and utilizes sustainabletechnologies in the classroom [11], [12].II. Research QuestionsThis study created a partnership among researchers, K-12 educators and
. She also earned a graduate certificate in human-centered design (HCD) from the Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program at Virginia Tech. Marie’s interest in values and engagement in professional cultures also extends to innovation and its experts.With Matthew Wisnioski and Eric Hintz, Marie co-editedDoes America Need More Innova- tors?(MIT Press, 2019). This project engages innovation’s champions, critics, and reformers in critical participation.Dr. Aubrey Wigner, Colorado School of Mines Aubrey Wigner is an assistant professor at the Colorado School of Mines where he teaches engineering design, entrepreneurship, and systems design.Dr. Dean Nieusma, Colorado School of Mines Dean Nieusma is Department
importance of relying on real-world behavior to guide understandingand engineering design.One of the guiding principles for the design of lab activities for this project was that lab activitiesare most effective if they align closely with concepts and principles taught in class. In addition,lab activities should allow students to visualize, experience, and clarify confusing concepts. Tothis end, equipment should be as simple as possible so that students don’t get lost in aspects ofthe experiment that are not at the core of the phenomena studied. Unnecessary programs, gad-gets, tools, or assembly should be avoided when possible. Further, sufficient equipment needs tobe provided so that students can all conduct experiments first-hand, rather than
in their ability to learna particular course’s material and their confidence in the instructor’s ability to teach thematerial. The paper is part of an overall larger project investigating if changes inteaching practices can change student self-efficacy in engineering [1]. Therefore, thefollowing gives a background on self-efficacy, and relates it to students’ confidence intheir learning and to their instructors’ teaching. Also, the following explains howteaching practices can influence students’ confidence. Self-efficacy theory, which has a significant impact on how students view theirown abilities as learners, emphasizes that people’s confidence in performing a certaintask depends on four types of experience: previous success
Paper ID #39848Analysis of Student Motivation in an Introductory Engineering TechnologyGateway CourseHernan David Moreno Rueda, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)Kevin Michael SimonsonProf. Jeffrey J. Richardson, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) At Purdue, Professor Richardson teaches courses in electric vehicle technology, prototype construction / project development and management, and courses in embedded microcontroller sequence. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Professor RichardProf. Eddy Efendy, Campbell University Eddy Efendy currently teaches Mechanics of Materials in the Engineering
, Yang et al. [24] developed ‘AI for Kids’ for kindergarten students. Thecurriculum highlights AI using an embodied project-based approach. The curriculum theme is“AI and Ocean Protection,” which was determined based on children's interests given theirlocation (Hong Kong). The learning activities within the curriculum integrate music, language,STEAM, and literacy. Children learned about AI by listening to stories and picture books andreviewing specific vocabulary in the stories. Children learned about AI's thinking and trainingprinciples through picture books and games with graphics cards and manual materials. Incontrast, Dai and colleagues [25] curriculum development was a collaborative project initiatedby six computer science teachers and an