simulator's solution can be broken down into two types; power flow and fault study. Studentsare guided by the instructors to produce a program that is well constructed using object-orientedprogramming best practices. This can be seen in the class diagram in Figure 3. Figure 3: Class DiagramFinal ProjectThe final project is open-ended and allows students to implement a form of renewable generationinto their simulators. Solar and wind are suggested but any form of generation not previouslycovered. As an example, for solar generation, the students are given the following instructions • You are to integrate the solar PV system to into your system. This system is required to be connected to bus 7 at least 10
Engineering. In the past, she has taught at Johns Hopkins University in Bal- timore, MD and at Penn State University in Scranton, PA. Before joining academia, she worked for over 15 years in many reputed consulting firms such as Weidlinger Associates, BA&C, and WBCM in MA, NJ, and MD respectively. Her work experience included analysis, design, and construction supervision of buildings, bridges, and other structures.Dr. Maria Chrysochoou, University of Connecticut Maria Chrysochoou is a Professor and Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Peer Observation Practice to Enhance
relationship is different [7]. A healthy ecosystem, in our framework, is one inwhich everyone is valued and supported according to their own individual needs. These needsare greatly impacted by systems of social oppression, which disproportionately affect ourstudents. We also recognize that these systems of oppression are active within the universityitself, and even within our own classrooms. To build STEM educational systems that prioritizeequity and justice, we require the development of the critical consciousness [see 8] necessary forfaculty to begin to understand how systems of oppression are reproduced, albeit oftenunintentionally, within their own classrooms. To this end, the Eco-STEM project has developedCommunities of Practice for faculty and
established based on a robust evaluation of all direct and indirect cost dataand the impact of factors external to the control of all stakehold-ers. Integrating cost projectionsthroughout the phases of project development are critical for the construction team to achieve acompleted project within the realm of the Owner’s budget.Integrating Cost Projection into Architectural Design Instruction Design requires thought and skill, but the ability of designing within budgetary restraints is astrategic successful outcome for a design professional and should be taught to students accord-ingly. Lee [8] stated “Research finds that what one commonly sees in architecture schools is theseparation of academic minds from the world around them.” In her paper
calculated rapidly, sometimes even providing livedesign feedback depending on the scale of the problem. Design solutions can then be explored byboth architects and engineers for qualitative and quantitative properties. These tools have beenused in previous research as a viable environment for design decision making [6], [7], [21], [22].Professionals have also used parametric modelling in practice when iterating design performanceanalysis, such as ARUP [23] and Foster + Partners [24]. In addition, computational thinking hasbeen incorporated in student education [25], and parametric models have been used as teachingtools to improve learning [26] and support STEM education [27], [28]. Thus, even though exploration in a parametric design tool
research and educational activities – reflecting the values, beliefs, and ways ofthinking that lead toward sustainable development in the context of engineering and engineeringeducation. The Minor will be highly informed by best practices for user-centered design,introducing opportunities for self-reflection, trial and error, and action-taking through a student-centered project-based learning approach that recognizes that students are in transition toadulthood. A robust stakeholder engagement process will be undertaken to align activities withgoals, involving three undergraduate mentors per year as co-designers and co-facilitators.Although the Minor will be open to all students with basic qualifications, unlike traditional minorsthat require
percent of the students that graduate each year in civil and mechanical engineering were transfer students. Close to half of the students that graduate at UMKC are transfer students, and yet as an institution, it behaves like it caters to first-time full- time students. [UMKC stakeholder]DiscussionAs Black and Gregersen (2002) noted, seeing a need for change is not enough, stakeholders mustbe ready to move toward implementing change. Our S-STEM project has recently joined anNSF-funded S-STEM Hub initiative, Practices and Research on Student Pathways in Educationfrom Community College and Transfer Students in STEM (PROSPECT S-STEM). As part ofPROSECT, MCC and UMKC will develop a professional learning community (PLC). PLCs
beenpreviously documented in ASEE Prism [1], which is quoted below. “ASEE President Sheryl Sorby’s speech at the 2020 Annual Conference outlined a vision for both the organization and engineering education that reflects more diversity and equity. In light of this vision, as well as the societal momentum toward dismantling White supremacy and racism, ASEE has launched a Year of Impact on Racial Equity. Many aspects of engineering culture have origins and practices that center Whiteness and exclusivity. However, we are all caretakers of this culture and can either protect exclusionary traditions or strategically design models that better meet the diverse challenges and needs of our society. In order to
an emphasis on broad integratedtransdisciplinary knowledge.Furthermore, this paper describes an experiential college preparatory program for high schoolseniors embedded in an engineering company and reports the outcomes of a longitudinal studyover four and half years. The study gathered feedback from three secondary graduate cohorts onwhat knowledge content and learning practices in their secondary program were most helpful intheir success at the postsecondary level. Forty-eight secondary students entered the program,with forty-two completing it. The study also discusses the impact of low student-to-teacher ratiosand teacher experiences in transforming experiential knowledge into acquirable studentknowledge.The research offers insights on
. students to the basics of programming before branching into This paper presents task force results from a collaboration major-specific computing courses. CS I covers the fundamentalbetween faculty and academic support specialists. The paper concepts and skills of programming in Java. Students learn andfocuses on two high-impact areas of improvement: standardizing develop skills in problem-solving, algorithm development, pro-curricula and building support scaffolding outside the classroom. gram design and structure, code documentation and style, andThe results, a comprehensive course blueprint, include coreresources for a first-semester computing course and recommen- testing and debugging. Topics include data types and
only 13% of these degrees. Nevertheless,it is important for us to share the activities and strategies we incorporate within our college tofoster a sense of self-identity rooted in community impact for all engineering students.Recruiting minorities to pursue engineering degrees is an important and necessary action forinstitutions to increase diversity and inclusion in engineering programs. Early recruitment ofminorities for engineering programs has been long advocated to promote equity and inclusion inthe field of engineering [1]. Researchers concluded that this practice could be beneficial inpromoting diversity, increasing the number of minority students in engineering fields, andreducing the attrition rate of these students. Recent studies
continueadopting academic and community partnerships as an effective student learning model. 6References [1] A. Dominguez, H. Alarcon, and F. Garc´ıa-Pe˜nalvo, “Active Learning Experiences in Engineering Education,” 2019. [2] M. Prince, “Does Active Learning Work? a Review of the Research,” Journal of engineering education, vol. 93, no. 3, pp. 223–231, 2004. [3] A. Shekar, “Project-Based Learning in Engineering Design Education: Sharing Best Practices,” in 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2014, pp. 24–1016. [4] M. L. Fioravanti and et.al, “Integrating Project Based Learning and Project Management for Software Engineering Teaching: An Experience Report,” in Proceedings of the
- neering Education and Future Professoriate. MiguelAndr´es’s research includes sustainable infrastructure design and planning, smart and resilient cities, and the development of engineers who not only have strong technical and practical knowledge but the social awareness and agency to address global humanitarian, environmental, and social justice challenges. For him, social justice is a concept that should always be involved in discussions on infrastructure. Related to STEM education, Miguel Andr´es is in developing and applying contemporary pedagogies for STEM courses, teaching empathy studies in engineering as a tool for innovation, and assessing engineering students’ agency to address climate change. Currently
. Finally, we hope to evaluate the impact of theintervention on students’ perceptions of their responsibility to address these issues as engineers.Site & ParticipationEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University is a private, not-for-profit, PhD-granting university withan emphasis on higher education for the aviation and aerospace industries. Research for thisstudy was completed at the XXXX, residential campus, which is a mid-sized, historically Whitecampus, with a predominantly male student body and an annual tuition costs of over $42,000.Our current study includes a total of eight sections of senior capstone design courses fromdifferent degree programs in the College of Engineering. Four sections were identified as thestudy group (two sections of
talent. Or, provide sharedshares “to translate some of those best or promising practices over so folks can use that to evaluatewhat they’re doing, make corrections, adjustments and changes and see if we can see some changein the numbers moving forward.” Finally, the varied way shared measures were discussed in theinterviews regarding previous experiences is supported by research that states shared measures areone of the most challenging of the CI conditions because of varied programmatic goals [19].4.1.4 Mutually Reinforcing Activities (MRA)We examined MRAs for mission alignment and coordination of services. Successfully definingthese MRAs means understanding the value proposition for both sides of a partnership. Manyof the members bring a
overarching themes to deepen the participants’ understanding oftheir experience: 1) perception of experience and 2) application of new knowledge. From thosethemes, the six reflection prompts were designed to facilitate higher-order cognitive processes[1]. Each prompt captured an aspect of the associated theme [see Appendix A.]. Fellows wereallowed to select the one that best fits their experience for that week. Prompts can be selected nomore than twice. This flexibility allowed for contextualized growth and personalized meaning-making. Questions varied from self-analysis of daily tasks and recognizing the benefits ofstruggling with a task to highlighting the differences between knowledge garnered in theclassroom versus in the research environment
, lack of free study resources, and limitedinvestment by students in studying. The survey respondents “expressed the need for a creditedFE review course to relieve the burden of identifying and accessing study materials, self-teachingexam content not covered in courses, and reserving studying time on top of large course loads.”The survey also revealed the students’ need to have sufficient access to exam preparationmaterial and knowledge of the exam process. The lack of visible department-provided studymaterial might be why many students rely on external study materials such as Youtube videosand the NCEES practice exam.To the authors' best knowledge, there is no study evaluating the impact of SDLMs to preparestudents to take the FE exam in
’ impacts on sense of belonging across genderIntroductionThis complete evidence-based practice paper examines the extent to which targeted curricularand co-curricular activities impact first-year students’ sense of belonging in engineering, andwhether these impacts differ by gender identity. The study used a quasi-experimental, mixedmethods design wherein quantitative and qualitative data were collected from first-year studentparticipants in a grant-funded scholarship program (Scholars – the “treatment” group), withquantitative data also collected from a matched group of first-year students who were notprogram participants (Comparison group). This study was a subset of a larger research projectattached to the
the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental and socialcontexts” require faculty to include content and experiences for engineering students todemonstrate their abilities in addressing these broader impacts. Our chemical engineeringdepartment has structured the core curriculum for the last 20 years in a series of six sequencedPillar courses (5-6 credits) [1], [2], [3], [4], five of them with a companion lab course (1 creditunit) [5], and the capstone process design course integrated with a course on Ethics and Safety (2credits). In order to directly and quantitatively assess the achievement of these student outcomes,competency is measured in a variety of required courses across our curriculum using variousassignments
again after the ban, and considers that schools within a state are likely tobe related (e.g., drawing from a similar population). These models include fixed effects (such asthe presence or absence of a ban - that is, a variable that can only attain certain values) andrandom effects (such as the cumulative qualities of different states that impact the outcomes inthat state differently from other states).For each gender-racialized category (2 genders x 5 racial categories = 10 fits), several MLMswere fit to the data for all 6 states, and the best model was determined by the lowest BayesianInformation Criterion (BIC). The BIC approach considers how well the model fits the data, butpenalizes for each additional factor added to the model. This
Paper ID #37639Board 64: Work in Progress: Update on the Impact of Secure and UpgradeComputer Science in Classrooms through an Ecosystem with Scalability &Sustainability (SUCCESS)Prof. Lynette Michaluk, West Virginia University PI, is a social sciences researcher at the West Virginia University Center for Excellence in STEM Edu- cation. Her research interests include broadening access to and participation in STEM. She is Co-PI of the National Science Foundation KY-WV Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation and Research Scientist for Secure and Upgrade Computer Science in Classrooms through an Ecosystem with
Assistant Professor in Mathematics at Navajo Technical University (NTU) as well as the Program Advisor for the Mathematics Program at NTU. His current research focuses on technology-enhanced active learning in college mathematics for tribal students. He works developing lessons and curriculum to promote students’ interests in learning mathematics. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses about mathematics. He received his doctoral degree in the Science, Technol- ogy, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Strand of Teaching Learning and Culture Program at The University of Texas at El Paso in 2014 under the mentoring of Dr. Judith Munter.Alice Carron, Blue Marble Institute of Space Science Alice Carron is a Science
career.The outcome of these highly competitive proposal submissions can affect the productivity andinterests of researchers at all career stages from graduate students to tenured department heads.Beyond the individual factors, funded proposals can influence the direction and growth of eachdiscipline and general scientific knowledge and priorities based on the tendency for fundedresearch to be published in highly ranked journals and to be highly cited [1]. The outcome ofthese grant proposal submissions is typically reliant on peer review. However, reviewers oftenreceive minimal training on best practices of peer review, and the criteria upon which reviewersmake their recommendations are poorly understood [2].These issues are likely in part to blame
he earned his master’s degree in civil engineer- ing. He also worked as a project Analyst with AgileP3 after graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) in civil engineering from Covenant University, Nigeria. Adebayo has taught courses in Trans- portation and Chemistry at Morgan State University as part of his commitment to the STEM profession. He has attended conferences across the Transportation engineering field.Dr. Steve Efe, Morgan State University Dr. Steve Efe is an Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director of the Center for Advanced Transporta- tion and Infrastructure Engineering Research. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering in Civil Engineering with a major in Structural Engineering and minDr
workspace, and others hadincreased personal finance concerns as a result of the [4].With this intensified focus on our “classrooms” during the pandemic, one must wonder: what arethe long-term impacts this has had on our teaching? In this study, we seek to identify the specificways engineering faculty at an elite university have refined their traditional face-to-face coursesbased on their experiences during the remote teaching phase of the pandemic.MethodsThe participants for this study were limited to faculty within the College of Engineering at theGeorgia Institute of Technology. To achieve a sufficiently large sample size of participants and togain initial insights to changes in teaching, a survey-based study was designed. The survey
videos, presentations, andadditional written materials which compose a “EM in Research 101” package. This “EM inResearch 101” package will address common questions students have about engaging in researchas well as introduce EM 101 concepts in the context of research. The series of videos will beprofessionally produced. These videos will be short, inviting, and targeted to addressing keyresearch and EM topics as well as sparking a passion for impactful work. Written materials mayinclude reflection exercises and group modules utilizing EML for giving students a sense of howand why engineers conduct research.The goal of Efficient Team Training is to make research training more efficient, fosterentrepreneurial-minded thinking through well-designed
promotion and tenure process.Within the library, more money could be allocated to course reserves, though this is unlikely tobe the most sustainable solution. Between the library and the school of engineering, the mostequitable and long-term solution would require investing both time and money in developingopen and accessible textbooks and course materials. Overall, the focus should be on empoweringstudent’s learning, and ensuring they have access to the materials they need to meet their learningoutcomes.Future ResearchAdditional directions for research include a faculty facing survey regarding what factorsprofessors consider when choosing texts, or a study that follows the textbook expenses ofindividual engineering students and the impacts of that
converging to select an application, called solution mapping [7]. Althoughsolution mapping practices are demonstrated in several fields within engineering, engineeringstudents have limited exposure and training in solution mapping as their curriculum mainlyfocuses on problem-first design processes. As a result, limited evidence-based design strategiesand tools are available to support curriculum development and training for our students.Using design strategies is important in supporting engineers to adopt evidence-based approachesto achieve design success [11]–[15]. In this study, we examined cognitive strategies used byengineering practitioners for solution mapping. Recent engineering studies have focused ondeveloping best design practices to
., vol. 62, pp. 142–148, 2019.[22] C. Cartwright, M. Stevens, and K. Schneider, “Constructing the learning outcomes with intercultural assessment: A 3-year study of a graduate study abroad and glocal experience programs,” Front. Interdiscip. J. Study Abroad, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 82–105, 2021.[23] L. Krishnan and L. Jin, “Long-Term Impact of Study Abroad on Intercultural Development,” Perspect. ASHA Spec. Interest Groups, no. Query date: 2022-06-01 18:56:09, 2022, doi: 10.1044/2021_PERSP-21-00128.[24] N. Pearse, “An illustration of deductive analysis in qualitative research,” in 18th European conference on research methodology for business and management studies, 2019, p. 264.[25] V. Braun and V. Clarke, “Thematic analysis
, and as such we are heartened by these findings. Implementing this new first yearprogram was an enormous, complex task. The general results showed that students gainedvaluable skills and a strong sense of belonging in our College. Students’ praise for each other,their instructors, the undergraduate learning assistants, and the graduate teaching assistants wasparticularly satisfying, because it matched our student-centered priorities, and our framingassumptions that the best learning and engineering happens in healthy communities. Weacknowledge that there is still much work to continuously improve and adapt our program tomeet the diverse needs of our students, and we are committed to this effort.References:[1] D. Morrell. “Design Of An