Science Foundation. We used many agileprinciples for building and sustaining the cohort, which is scaffolded around the students'academic studies and their simultaneous work on an externally sourced software developmentproject. We discuss how the agile principles were applied in practice in this S-STEM project,how they helped build a cohesive student cohort, and how they helped bring the softwaredevelopment project to a successful completion. This report describes the work in progress,which is limited in scope by the software project duration and the number of participants.IntroductionThe Computer Science Department at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) offers aMaster of Science program in Software Engineering to better address the needs
. He is an author of numerous research papers and presentations in these areas. He has worked on undergrad- uate education research projects sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin. Dr. Aliyazicioglu is a member of the IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and ASEE. Aliyazicioglu is faculty advisor for the student chapter of the IEEE. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Sensor Fusion Algorithms and Tracking for Autonomous Systems Abstract This paper discusses the results and experiences of an undergraduate senior project sponsored by an industry. The project focused on applying sensor fusion and localization algorithms to generate highly reliable and accurate
professionalmasters’ workplace readiness in China, each of which exemplifies a major approach in organizingthe practical studies for professional master’s students in engineering: The first case examines a“practice base,” a broker institution that connects students to companies that are committed to theeducational objectives determined by the participating universities. In the second case, theuniversity provides a list of options for practical studies, each linked to a partner company, forstudents to choose. This paper adopts the double case study method, focuses on how universities and partneringinstitutions negotiate common interests and ensure the sustainability of the partnerships throughpractices of matching students to projects, articulating
Paper ID #38359Community-University Relationships in Environmental EngineeringService-Learning Courses: Social Network Vectors and Modalities ofCommunicationHannah Cooke, University of Connecticut Hannah Cooke is a doctoral student in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Science Education at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include critical, antiracist science teaching that works to dismantle systems of oppression. Currently, she is a research assistant on the DRK12 project COVID Connects Us: Nurturing Novice Teachers’ Justice Science Teaching Identities, which uses design-based research to
-creation by developing a series ofworkshops to scaffold student learning. Scaffolds are instructional methods and interventionsthat are designed to foster skill development by allowing for interactions between what studentsalready know and what they have yet to learn. These workshops were designed using the tenetsof the gold standard project-based learning (PjBL). The PjBL framework is itself a scaffold thatis designed to build research competencies.Specifically, to introduce a challenging problem or question, we created multiple technicaloverviews of the cyber-physical system theme of interest that would constitute the eventualeducational modules. We scaffolded sustained inquiry by developing a workshop usingtechniques from the Right Question
design courses are typically project-based, where students work inteams to address a “customer-provided” problem and develop real working solutions. This typeof project-based learning requires that students synthesize knowledge and apply skills to anopen-ended design problem. The open-ended nature of “customer-provided” problems thatstudents encounter in capstone design courses contrasts with the structured and constrained“instructor-provided” problems seen in their earlier coursework [1], [2]. Solving complex,unstructured problems is an essential skill for a working engineer, but it requires a differentskillset than that which is needed to solve the standard textbook problems typically seen inclassrooms [2]–[6]. Solutions to textbook problems
key leadership positions. Dr. Matusovich is recognized for her research and leadership related to graduate student mentoring and faculty development. She won the Hokie Supervisor Spotlight Award in 2014, received the College of Engineering Graduate Student Mentor Award in 2018, and was inducted into the Virginia Tech Academy of Faculty Leadership in 2020. Dr. Matusovich has been a PI/Co-PI on 19 funded research projects including the NSF CAREER Award, with her share of funding being nearly $3 million. She has co-authored 2 book chapters, 34 journal publications, and more than 80 conference papers. She is recognized for her research and teaching, including Dean’s Awards for Outstanding New Faculty, Outstanding
Paper ID #39195Curriculum Development in Renewable Energy and SustainabilityDr. Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Ali Zilouchian is currently the Director of Applied Engineering Program and a Research Center Director at Keiser 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
Mariajose Castellanos1 and Neha Raikar1 1 Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyIntroduction/MotivationNovel practices are being implemented that deviate from the typical in-class instruction with anemphasis on applying classroom learning to real-world situations. Internships are a great way toenable the implementation of this objective. They provide hands-on experience and help connectthe subject matter to practical applications. In experiential learning, students learn by doing andreflect on their learning [1]. Creative projects can help accomplish this goal. In this work, webring the benefits of the internship experience to the
work closely with national labs and industry to maintain course projects with real ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 AFRL Career STREAM implementation at NMT (Work in Progress)AbstractThe New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT) partnered with the Air ForceResearch Laboratory (AFRL) to provide a STEM experience for late-year high school students.This paper will evaluate the program in terms of implementation, results of apprentice growth,and lessons learned. The AFRL NM Career STREAM program aims to provide an industrialenvironment on a college campus, demonstrating what a career would be like, to apprenticescoming from rural New Mexico and other underserved groups. The paid
institutions evenwhen most courses, particularly in STEM, have returned to face-to-face or hybrid instruction.Although the impetus for this project was the COVID-19 pandemic which forced institutions ofhigher education everywhere to move to an online remote teaching and learning format, and assuch negatively affected STEM fields which require hands-on labs and access to instrumentation,remote learning still remains part of most courses today.We describe continuing efforts to create learning environments and materials to support remotehands-on engaged student learning off-campus at two Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) toenable and enhance student learning beyond the institutional walls. The approach utilizesInternet of Things (IoT) kits as remote
, including being able to effectivelyself-regulate their own learning and take responsibility to understand and apply engineering.In 2015, the Electrical Engineering Department at a University of South Florida (USF)university in the U.S. initiated the Taking Responsibility to Understand Engineering (TRUE)initiative as part of a department cultural transformation program.The TRUE initiative was one of multiple elements in the transformation, and within theinitiative, the implementation of TRUE projects was a key programmatic activity. TRUEprojects bring together students, faculty, industry, and community to engage in doing real-world problem-solving during the 4-year undergraduate program. Students take responsibilityto self-regulate, learn, and apply
, instructors haveintegrated a second phase of the design challenge into a studio course. The two-phased version ofthe challenge has provided an opportunity for the authors to study the student work developedbefore instruction, and the influence of design critiques and feedback on the results of the secondphase.The Design Days challenge for 2022 was for students in groups of 4 to design a piece of outdoorfurniture for a given site on campus. Student teams were tasked with building a full-scaleworking mock-up of their design using limited supplies. At the end of a 48-hour design sprintearly in the term, student teams presented their mock-ups to panels of professors and industryguests to receive feedback.One month later, the project was reintroduced to
theimpact of self-guided final projects. Farah et al. [9] similarly address the needs of non-STEMmajors by presenting work developing computational thinking via a single web application. Thisapproach requires no software installation and minimizes the challenges of working withmultiple applications including integrated design environments, digital education platforms, andfile system management.This paper presents a course building upon student competency in computational thinkingacquired during prerequisite work. These students expand their learning and expertise tointegrate various applications and technology stacks through robotics. Developing the ability tointegrate contributes to both student satisfaction and professional competency.Robot
program's model of providing curriculum and equipment through STEP and students'work in a technology, engineering, and design education program integrating a pilot electric dragster (e-dragster)project as a work-in-progress. Furthermore, the paper will communicate initial challenges and successes withinformation on how the program can share resources with the pre-college engineering education community toenhance learner technological and engineering literacy.STEM Partnership Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) partnerships demonstrate STEM concepts andprovide pre-college engineering education experiences unavailable in several schools (1). Partnerships, such as thesupporters of STEP, model a collaborative effort to solve
chapter atUND.Kiley House, University of North Dakota Kiley House is a first-year student in the Biomedical Engineering B.S. program at UND.She is also pursuing a minor in chemical engineering.Mckenna Matt, University of North Dakota Mckenna Matt is a second-year student in the Chemical Engineering B.S. program atUND and is also pursuing a minor in biomedical engineering. She is a member of the Society ofWomen Engineers and the Chemical Engineering Chapter at UND.Abstract: Innovation-based learning (IBL) is a classroom structure that lets undergraduate studentschoose their own focus in projects while relating it to the core principles of the course. It takes ahands-on approach, allowing students to work on projects that have an
Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder, where she teaches Senior Design and thermo-fluids courses. Her teaching philosophy focuses on student preparation for engineering practice – incorporating industry and alumni interactions into curricular and co-curricular activities. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Managers and Engineers: Impact of Defined Roles on Shared Leadership in Capstone DesignAbstractThe aim of this study is to learn how the assignment of project roles in engineering capstonedesign teams influences leadership skills such as accountability, communicating a vision,teamwork, role identity, and management, along with a measure of
project is open-ended and requires the students to make a series ofassumptions, depending on the data available, to complete their technical analyses. Further, thestudents must deliver their analyses through technical memoranda, reports, and presentations.This course structure follows Wiggins’ framework for authentic assessments [1, 2].The objectives of the present work-in-progress study are to assess the impact that interacting withmuseums has on the technical and professional development of the students. Two cohorts ofstudents are studied, the first cohort is currently (2022-2023 academic year) taking the aerospacestructures courses at Clarkson University, while the second cohort took the courses during the2021-2022 academic year. Two cohorts
, civil and environ- mental engineering, and general engineering. He has won several awards for excellence in instruction; most recently the Saul K. Fenster Award for Innovation in Engineering Education. His research focuses on increasing diversity in STEM education and the STEM workforce. He has received multiple grants to run workforce development training programs as well as undergraduate research experience programs to train underrepresented minority and first-generation students. He is the Founding Director of NJIT’s Grand Challenges Scholars Program. He also has worked on several research projects, programs, and initiatives to help students bridge the gap between high school and college as well as to prepare
interests are community-based learning, open-ended laboratory experi- ments, teamwork, collaborative and active learning, and Transport Phenomena computational modeling.Kelly Bohrer, University of Dayton Kelly Bohrer is the Executive Director of the ETHOS Center, a community engagement center connecting students, faculty, and staff with NGOˆa C™s around the world for technical projects as part of immersions, teaching, and scholarly activity. She also is thDr. Matthew Dewitt, University of Dayton Matthew DeWitt is a Distinguished Research Engineer at the University of Dayton Research Institute. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering from The Ohio State University and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from
pedagogical techniques to facilitate student learning.Christopher M. StanleyDr. George D. Ricco, University of Indianapolis George D. Ricco is an engineering education educator who focuses on advanced analytical models applied to student progression, and teaching first-year engineering, engineering design principles, and project management. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Review of a Design Methodology in a Client-Based, Authentic Design CurriculumAbstractThe curriculum at a small, urban, private school is centered around a series of hands-on, client-based design courses called DesignSpine®. Projects are developed and completed through theentire
Engineering at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU). She joined PVAMU right after she obtained her Ph.D. degree in Com- puter Engineering from Mississippi State University in 2003. Her research interests include image and video processing, data compression, wavelets, computer vision, remote sensing, and computing educa- tion. Her projects are currently funded by NSF, United States Department of Agriculture, and Department of Education.Dr. Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University Bugrahan Yalvac is an associate professor of science and engineering education in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture at Texas A&M University, College Station. He received his Ph.D. in science education at the Pennsylvania
worked as the Education Project Manager for the NSF-funded JTFD Engineering faculty development program, as a high school math and science teacher, and as an Assistant Principal and Instructional & Curriculum Coach.Dr. Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University Ann F. McKenna is the Vice Dean of Strategic Advancement for the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, and is a professor of engineering in the Polytechnic School, one of the seven Fulton Schools. Prior to joining ASU, she served as a program director at the National Science Founda- tion in the Division of Undergraduate Education, and was the director of education improvement in the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern
utilizecompetencies developed in the first three years of the curriculum in the solution of a complexdesign problem.Educational excellence requires exposing students to the current edge of research. To ensure thatstudent projects are along the same trajectory that the industry is moving, educators mustcontinually introduce emerging techniques, practices, and applications into the curriculum. Thefields of Internet of Things (IoT) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are growing rapidly, andthere is increasing interest in providing undergraduate students with a foundation in these areas.This paper presents IoT and WSN projects that our undergraduate computer and electricalengineering students have done in their senior capstone course in wildfire
(CSUB). He recei ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 CORE FEATURE EXTRACTION WITH COMPUTER VISIONI. Introduction This work details the senior project capstone experience of a group of undergraduatestudents at the California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB), a medium-size, comprehensive,Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). The work is novel and potentially commercializable in thefield of energy conversion and petrochemical extraction. A thorough description of theirmethodology is provided, and their results show promise. In addition, we discuss the curriculumand project management structure that enabled an undergraduate senior project group to interfacewith oil and gas companies to
specialized fields and address the needs of a quickly evolving environment [3].Research regarding these interdisciplinary product teams found that they can improve projectperformance especially regarding meeting budget costs and developing a quality product [4]. Inaddition, when individuals face challenges in a team environment when trying to produce asuccessful output, they have opportunities to improve their project management skills, develop abroad perspective on problem solving, expand their social and business networks, and buildresilience [3]. These qualities to manage a team are coveted by many in industry, especially atthe management level [8].However, having students participate in academic teams to solve a problem or complete a projectdoes
Education, 2023 TUNING THE PARAMETERS: A MARITIME-TUNED MACHINE LEARNING COURSE0: AbstractIn machine learning (ML) education, the choice of which datasets to utilize for studentassignments and projects is critical for student success and meeting course learning outcomes.Poorly chosen datasets leave students disinterested and questioning the applicability of ML inreal-world situations specific to their intended endeavors post academia. Additionally, somedatasets demand much effort for preprocessing and a steep learning curve for understanding,which detracts from the ML experience and leaves students frustrated. As maritime and marineengineering programs expand to include ML in their curricula with the plan of
determined as an “engineering”.Developing Collaborative PartnershipsAn increasingly interconnected global economy demands collaborative opportunities andpresents unique challenges, compounding the need for broadly educated engineers that are well-versed in intercultural competency. OSU’s Humanitarian Engineering program equips graduatesto meet these challenges through community-engaged learning and high impact educationalexperiences.In preparation for equity-minded and ethical collaborative engagements, the partnership structureand relationships have been carefully and thoughtfully established over multiple years inresponse to past project and partnership challenges. At times, well-intentioned university-forgedrelationships with partner communities
,encouraging problem solving, and identifying skill weaknesses among participants in botheducational and workplace settings [1]. Historically, practitioners have also used this model tosupport peer-to-peer learning, in which community members learn from and encourage eachother [2], in both teacher education [1] and technology use [3], two paramount components of acollaborative makerspace like the BeAM Makerspace. CoP research shows that peer-to-peerlearning paired with product-based work yields better knowledge retention and personalaccountability amongst users [2][4]. Eager to encourage these outcomes in its own staffmembers, the BeAM Makerspace designed CoPs that would incorporate adaptiveteaching-projects to improve both the collaboration between
, Architectural Technology, and a Master’s in Facility Management. His field experience includes residential and light commercial construction. He has been an architectural designer as well as superintendent for single and multi-family residential construction projects. Mr. Ray worked as an engineering design manager in the Building Components Manufacturing Industry for over fifteen years.Elizabeth Freije, Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis Elizabeth Freije is Program Director and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Technology at Purdue University, Indianapolis. She received her BS in Computer Engineering Technology with a minor in Mathematics. She received her Masters in Technology at Purdue