Paper ID #37151Board 286: ”Exploring Other People’s Mind, Exploring Your Own Mind”—AStory of Divergent Thinking from Mechanical Engineering PracticeLaura R. Murphy, University of Michigan Laura is a PhD Candidate in Design Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her work inves- tigates inclusive design processes, developing strategies for practicing engineers to more deeply account for diverse perspectives during design activities.Dr. Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the
Paper ID #38348Board 301: Growing Entrepreneurially Minded Researchers with New Prod-uctDevelopment in Applied Energy: NSF REU Comparison of TraditionalDelivery vs. VirtualDr. Lisa Bosman, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Bosman holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering. Her engineering education research interests include entrepreneurially minded learning, energy education, interdisciplinary education, and faculty professional development.Dr. Jason Ostanek, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Jason Ostanek is Assistant Professor at Purdue University in the School of Engineering Technology (SOET). Dr. Ostanek leads the
Paper ID #37343Board 225: Building a Culture of ”Engineering with Engineers”Prof. Yen-Lin Han, Seattle University Yen-Lin Han is an Associate Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Seattle University. Dr. Han received her BS degree in Material Science and Engineering from National Tsing-Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan, her MS degree in Electrical Engineering and her PhD degree in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southern California. Her research interests include micro- scale molecular gas dynamics, micro fluidics, and heat transfer applications in Microelectromechanical
engineering programs to develop anentrepreneurial mindset among their engineering students with the belief that this will lead tothem being more productive and innovative whether their career path leads them into establishedindustry (becoming “intrapreneurs”) or later as entrepreneurs.While this trend toward developing more entrepreneurially minded engineering students issupported by global economic trends and a rapidly changing work environment, one factor hasbeen largely overlooked in this process. Statistically, most entrepreneurial ventures fail, withdisproportionately large value being created from a minority of entrepreneurial endeavors [8].Given this fact, until we find ways to drastically increase the success rate of entrepreneurialventures
Engineering Education, vol. 34, pp. 1726-1740, 01/01 2018.[18] F. T. Villavicencio, "Critical Thinking, Negative Academic Emotions, and Achievement: A Mediational Analysis," 2011.[19] M. H. Immordino‐Yang and A. Damasio, "We Feel, Therefore We Learn: The Relevance of Affective and Social Neuroscience to Education," Mind, Brain, and Education, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 3-10, 2007, doi: 10.1111/j.1751-228X.2007.00004.x.[20] N. L. P. Stedman and A. C. Andenoro, "Identification of Relationships between Emotional Intelligence Skill & Critical Thinking Disposition in Undergraduate Leadership Students," Journal of Leadership Education, vol. 6, no. 1, 2007, doi: 10.12806/V6/I1/RF10.[21] D. Bairaktarova and A. Woodcock, "Engineering Student’s
Paper ID #38895Board 400: The impact of Oral Exams on Engineering Students’ LearningDr. Huihui Qi, University of California, San Diego Dr.Huihui Qi is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engi- neering at the University of California, San Diego.Dr. Minju Kim, University of California, San Diego Minju Kim is a postdoctoral scholar at the Engaged Teaching Hub at the UCSD Teaching+Learning Com- mons. Minju received her Ph.D in Experimental Psychology at UC San Diego. With Engaged Teaching Hub, Minju has designed TA training materials for oral exams and have conducted quantitative
navigation experiences.Lara Hebert, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign Assistant Director of Engineering Outreach and Public Engagement at the University of Illinois. She brings to this position and this initiative expertise in teacher education and curriculum design.Dr. Meagan C Pollock, Engineer Inclusion As an engineer turned educator, through her company, Engineer Inclusion, Dr. Meagan Pollock focuses on helping others intentionally engineer inclusion™ in education and the workforce.Dr. Lynford Goddard, University of Illinois, Urbana - ChampaignDr. Luisa-maria Rosu Luisa-Maria Rosu is the Director of I-STEM (Illinois Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) Education Initiative and a Research Associate in
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Transforming Engineering Education for Neurodiversity: Epistemic Communities as Infrastructure for ChangeAbstractA growing body of literature suggests that neurodiverse learners, including students with autism,ADHD, and dyslexia, may possess strengths that are highly desirable within engineeringdisciplines, such as systems thinking, creativity, and 3D visualization skills. However, despitethe potential of neurodiverse individuals to leverage these assets to contribute to innovativesolutions to engineering problems, they remain highly underrepresented in engineering majors.With this in mind, a department-level initiative was established to radically transform theeducational
Paper ID #39182Board 411: Thinking Inversely in Engineering Design: Towards anOperational Definition of Generative Design ThinkingMr. John Zachary Clay, The University of Texas, Austin Research assistantXingang Li, The University of Texas, AustinOnan DemirelDr. Molly H Goldstein, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign Dr. Molly H. Goldstein is a Teaching Assistant Professor and Product Design Lab Director in Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the Grainger College at the University of Illinois. She is also courtesy faculty in Mechanical Science and Engineering, Curriculum & Instruction (College of Education
Paper ID #39450Board 261: Effectiveness of Vertically-Integrated Project Teams inTackling an Engineering Grand ChallengeAvinash DandaProf. Bruce L Tai Dr. Tai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor in 2011 and spent 4 years as research faculty on multidisciplinary manufacturing topics from healthcare to automotDr. Vinayak KrishnamurthyProf. Mathew Kuttolamadom, Texas A&M University Dr. Mathew Kuttolamadom is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M
and promotes the integration of engineering and computational thinking [24],[25]. However, the field lacks specific tools to translate these aspirations to educational practices.A decade since the publication of the NGSS, exemplary engineering activities have yet to beidentified and published [26].Here, we propose a framework for explicitly connecting computational thinking practices withengineering design. We consider the three main phases of CT - problem decomposition,abstraction, and algorithmic thinking - and how these map to problem definition, needs finding,and solution generation in engineering design. With these analogs in mind we have developed acrosscutting framework that links NGSS goals with scientific inquiry, CT, and
does your identity relate to your experience in engineering education? 4. What’s one thing you wish was different about engineering education? 5. What’s one thing you would tell a person like you, or your professors, if you could?To gain an initial understanding of the experiences described by each participant, a member ofthe research team read through the transcripts, relistened to the recording, and noted standoutstories and moments of emotional salience. A narrative script was assembled by the researchteach according to narrative analysis and dissemination methods (Boklage et al., 2019; Kellam etal., 2015; Secules et al., 2018a) for participants with the following goals in mind: 1) preservingthe meaning, continuity, and emotional
JHU attended the AspireSummer Institute (ASI), an immersive professional development experience for faculty offeredby the NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Aspire Alliance. Through this training, CMUand JHU embraced identity-affirming mentorship as a strategy to address the color evasiveperspective of their engineering schools that overlooks racial differences and emphasizessameness [2]. The two schools also developed a draft action plan that focused on building eachschool’s capacity to be equity-minded using the Inclusive Professional Framework for Faculty(IPF). Following the ASI, CMU, JHU, and NYU began meeting weekly to share learnings fromthe institute, discuss policies and practices related to faculty advancement at each institution
community college teams and the university teams quite awhile to speak the same language. • Collaborations can result in improved advising structures for engineering transfer at both sending and receiving institutions. • Holding events such as college-specific articulation conferences with community college partners can facilitate critical conversations between institutions related to how courses translate (or not) across institutional contexts. • Four-year institutions should consider the extent to which their curriculum is unnecessarily complex. Curriculum adjustments within four-year institutions should keep transfer students in mind. • Universities need to consider how transfer students can get
burdensome and time-consuming task forundergraduates [12-15].The difficulty of writing becomes more obvious to engineering undergraduates in engineeringlab courses. According to the survey results from StClair et al. [16], many engineeringundergraduates felt that the writing skills they had learned in prior courses were helpful limitedlywhen writing lab reports. They declared that the aspects of laboratory reports are unique fromother types of writing in college. A focus group study [17] indicated similarities and differencesbetween writing assignments in first-year composition and engineering laboratory courses. Thesimilarities include writing for an audience with a purpose in mind, employing rhetoricalappeals, and using evidence as support, while
traditionally underrepresented.MethodsPreviously, we implemented soft robotics curricula in a variety of K12 contexts [18]–[20]. In this pilotstudy, we (1) delivered a four-day curriculum that focuses on representing engineers from a broad rangeof identities in course materials and (2) piloted an Institutional Review Board (IRB) approvedquantitative survey of subject related identities and demographic data. The goal of this pilot was toevaluate our experimental methods for ease and clarity of implementation.Implementation The goal of this study is to broaden students’ definitions of who can do robotics. To thatend, we revised our introductory curriculum, being mindful of the individuals in the field that wehighlight by giving examples of women and
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Paper ID #38058Board 327: Investigating Role Identities of Low-Income EngineeringStudents Prior to Their First Semester of CollegeDr. Ryan Scott Hassler, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Associate Teaching Professor of MathematicsDr. Catherine L. Cohan, Pennsylvania State University Catherine Cohan, Ph.D. has been a research psychologist for over 20 years. Her areas of expertise include engineering education, retention of underrepresented students, measurement, and assessment. She is currently an Assistant Research Professor and coorDawn Pfeifer Pfeifer ReitzJanelle B Larson, Pennsylvania State University
developed for the program support ESP’s goals to: 1) create a diverse andwelcoming STEM climate on the FCC campus through events and media that encourage broaderparticipation, 2) increase participation in engineering among economically disadvantaged studentsthrough targeted outreach and recruitment, 3) increase persistence of engineering students alongdiscipline specific pathways to transfer and graduation from four-year universities through a seriesof structured support interventions, and, 4) establish on-going collaborative transfer supportprocesses between the FCC engineering program and CSU-F.With these goals in mind, ESP’s success is evaluated based on achieving the following objectives: 1. Increase engineering degree and/or certificate
those involved when choosing to return toparticipants for further consent. The research design of the SDA project was presented at theAmerican Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) National Conference [2]. Theimportance of positionality of the researchers is further explored in [3].Lessons from the Mini-ProjectsOverall, three significant results have emerged from the work to date: 1. Ethical considerationsNeither original research study was designed with SDA in mind, leading to extendednegotiations with university review boards. Ideally, researchers could plan for SDA prior to datacollection, first carefully considering whether the planned data could and should be available forSDA and, then, as appropriate, defining the project scope
, specialized faculty support the instructors in each course. Elements supportingeach of these threads exist in each of the courses, increasing in maturity across the first threecourses, and culminating in application of these skills in the fourth-year course: Capstone Design.RQ2: What pedagogies appear to be more effective in advancing multiple learning objectivessimultaneously? To address this question, individual instructors are given the opportunity to engage withspecific pedagogies identified to support holistic engineers and EM: problem-based learning, the3Cs of entrepreneurially minded learning, value sensitive design, and story-driven learning.Problem-based learning is an approach to problem solving that is primarily student-driven and
) situated within the transfer transition, and one (Trying to Fit the Full-time Profile)situated at UMKC.MCC ObstaclesUncertainty about Engineering Major and/or UMKC referred to the reality that MCC studentswere often unsure of which major to select. Even if they selected engineering as a major, theysometimes struggled to select an engineering specialty. As study participants described: [A barrier is] the length of time that people can be spinning in the washing machine without deciding exactly what they want to do, without completing all the prerequisite coursework to get into a particular major … If you do a transfer major, you are basically taking general education classes, which both means that you can change your mind
that faculty need immersive training in cultural responsiveness, and that suchtraining is the lowest hanging fruit [3]. Furthermore, Mack and colleagues clearly document thebreadth and depth of the cultural disconnect between engineering faculty and their students,explaining that this problem cannot be fixed with a checklist, and instead call for the cultivationof mindfulness among faculty [4].One reason that attempts to change faculty behaviors fail may be how independently facultyoperate in the classroom. Any attempt to shift teaching practices cannot rely on top-downmandates, but instead needs top-down support with bottom-up encouragement from colleagues,accompanied by a shift in the overall culture of a college of engineering. By providing
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Science (MAS) program, which involves system-based courses that evaluate domestic and international agricultural system resilience. Dr. Motschenbacher holds a PhD in Soil Physics (2012, Univ. of Arkansas), an MEd in Higher Education Administration (Middle Ten- nessee State Univ., 2007), and a BS in Agribusiness (Middle Tennessee State Univ., 2007). Academic po- sitions she has held include Postdoctoral Researcher in Biosystems Engineering (Iowa State Univ., 2013), Instructor/Adjunct/Assistant Professor of Practice of Soil Science (North Dakota State Univ., 2014-2022), and Associate Director of the Office of Teaching and Learning (North Dakota State Univ., 2016-2022). Within the past 15 years, she has designed and
Paper ID #39191Board 399: The Freshman Year Innovator Experience (FYIE): Bridging theURM Gap in STEMDr. Noe Vargas Hernandez, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley Noe Vargas Hernandez researches creativity and innovation in engineering design. He studies ideation methods, journaling, smartpens, and other methods and technology to aid designers improve their creativ- ity levels. He also applies his research to the desDr. Arturo A Fuentes, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley Arturo Alejandro Fuentes is a Professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas Pan Amer- ican. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S
Paper ID #38450Board 194: A Community-Driven Process for Developing NSF Review Pan-elistsDr. Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato Rebecca A. Bates received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington. She also received the M.T.S. degree from Harvard Divinity School. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Integrated Engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato and is a Fellow of ASEE.Dr. Lisa Benson, Clemson University Lisa Benson is a Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University, and the past editor of the Journal of
Trust Well 1H-9,” 2019.[2] United States Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), “Investigation Report: Organic Peroxide Decomposition, Release, and Fire at Arkema Crosby Following Hurricane Harvey Flooding,” p. 154, 2018.[3] United States Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), “Final Investigation Report Caribbean Petroleum Tank Terminal Explosion and Multiple Tank Fires Caribbean Petroleum Corporation (Capeco) Key Issues,” pp. 71–73, 2009.[4] J. Stransky, C. Ritz, C. Bodnar, E. Dringenberg, and E. Miskioglu, “MIND THE GAP! …between engineers’ process safety beliefs and behaviors,” in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, 2022.[5] United States Chemical
describe individuals who possess the abilityto identify opportunities, consider alternative options, and take action in uncertain conditions.They persevere through uncomfortable situations by willingness to accept and learn frompossible failure. The Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN) introduced the termentrepreneurially minded engineers to indicate people who “appreciate societal values ofproducts they create and persist in an orientation towards customer needs,” [7] and “have highentrepreneurial self-efficacy and show tendency towards risk taking, persistence, autonomy,achievement, and leadership” [8].To successfully develop an entrepreneurial mindset, students must be placed into experientialand project-based learning situations that
Paper ID #39398Board 209: Adaptive Expertise: A Potential Tool for Supporting S-STEMStudent Retention and GraduationDr. Alexander John De Rosa, University of Delaware Alex De Rosa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware. His research focuses on improving the educational experience through the creation and promotion of new teaching tools and techniques. Alex is particularly interested in the areas of deeper learning and knowledge transfer, where he is working to help students better apply their knowledge and skills in new contexts, including in their future