TwoAbstractIn this paper, we aim to summarize our efforts to understand how the identities of civil andmechanical engineering students engaged in capstone projects relate to their engagement indesign activity. Building upon our previous introductory study, we share insights from thecontent analysis of interviews with civil and mechanical engineering students engaged incapstone design courses and report initial findings related to how students’ self-perception asengineers impacts their role within the capstone team.IntroductionIn this paper, we summarize the initial results from a wider study funded through the NSF RFE(awards No. 2138019 and No. 2138106) program exploring engineering students' engagementand motivation in capstone design
create student learning opportunities. He has also represented UTEP to external academic organizations such as Texas Tech University of Health Sciences Center. In addition to his work, Thomas is also contributing to a book on creativity in classrooms with a simulation chapter and conducting research in Medical Simulation. Currently, he is developing his dissertation proposal on mixed reality. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Employing the Rio Grande Basin as a Resource for Encouraging Hispanic- Americans to Pursue Engineering Education Work in Progress Abstract This paper describes a project wherein engineering education focused on investigation of the Rio Grande Basin
Sinclair Community College. He is a proud graduate of Dayton Public Schools. Dr. Long has a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Wright State University and Ohio State University. He also has a Ph.D. in STEM (Engineering) Education from Ohio State. Dr. Long has interned with Toyota and he owns a small education-based company. For more details see: leroylongiii.com ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Research Initiation: Expanding the Boundaries of EthicalReasoning and Professional Responsibility in Engineering Education Through Critical NarrativeIntroductionThis paper provides a brief summary and overview of a research project completed through NSFGrant No. 2024973[1
the specific context of engineering consulting by studying one mid-size, Canadianengineering services firm. More specifically, the research question we seek to address is who isidentified as a leader inside engineering consulting firms and why; for example, what skills,qualities or other attributes are recognized within the firm? By examining engineering leadershipin situ, we acknowledge the prospect that “engineering leadership” may be impacted by thecontext in which it is practiced. This work will support engineering educators in furtherunderstanding engineering leadership, particularly for Capstone, design, and other problem-based, project-based courses where students are meant to be situated in replicated professionalpractice
challenges that are important for all engineering students toconsider.ExamplesChemical Engineering at Northeastern UniversityAn international, interdisciplinary, month-long, faculty-led program in Brazil, focused onsustainable energy was designed to provide experiential learning opportunities todiscuss technical engineering concepts in relation to social, cultural, and environmentalissues. A holistic pedagogical framework was used to develop the program’sdeliverables and educational content. The three main program elements are coursecontent, company/government/community visits, and a company project. Thepedagogical elements were combined and scaffolded to ensure that the learningoutcomes from the courses connected to the site visits and were applied
related to her interests in engineering education and graduate student success. Luchini-Colbry is also Co-Director of the national CyberAmbassadors training project and Director of the Engineering Futures Program of Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, which provides interactive seminars on interpersonal communications and problem solving skills. The CyberAmbassadors and Engineering Futures Programs includes a national network of volunteer facilitators who conduct hundreds of sessions serving thousands of STEM students and professionals each year.Dr. Dirk Joel-Luchini Colbry, Michigan State University Dr. Dirk Colbry is a faculty member in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering
Paper ID #42109Board 185: ”Someone has Invested in Me to Do This”: Supporting Low-IncomeStudents to Persist in STEM Through a NSF S-STEM GrantDr. Rachel Funk, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Dr. Funk has served as a research scientist with the Center for Science, Mathematics, and Computer Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) since 2021. She specializes in research about student experiences. Dr. Funk currently serves as the project coordinator and lead researcher of a S-STEM grant seeking to better understand factors that influence the persistence of students in STEM.Jim Lewis, University of Nebraska
performance and material behaviorwhen exposed to the combustion product flow-field.Consistent with the typical operational characteristics of a hybrid rocket, the CHRD system utilizes asolid fuel grain and fluid type oxidizer. The solid fuel grain is composed of Acrylonitrile ButadieneStyrene (ABS) plastic produced using simple 3D printing approaches and the oxidizer is gaseous NitrousOxide (N2O) or Gaseous Oxygen (GOX / O2). As a result of the conversion into a high temperature testingsystem, the baseline CHRD system, as developed in the undergraduate senior project series, hasundergone modifications and upgrades to develop it into a testbed used to evaluate experimental hightemperature materials produced by MARS on behalf of academic, government
multiple research projects that involve transdisciplinary collaborations in the field of engineering, medicine, and technology, as well as research on teacher preparation and the conducting of evidence-based practices in multiple contexts. Jennifer’s publications appear in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, and Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities. Before joining the CTE, Jennifer was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education at Towson University. Prior to joining higher education, she was a special education teacher at the Kennedy Krieger School
technologies, processes, and policies in organizations.Katherine Scharfenberg, Northwestern UniversityDr. Jill Hardin Wilson, Northwestern University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work in Progress (WIP): Rewriting capstone - The unexpected solution to our assessment problemAbstractIndustrial engineering capstone courses provide students the opportunity to apply the technicaltools they learn in their major classes to a real-world project. To effectively demonstrateunderstanding of learning objectives, students must communicate clearly to a wide range ofaudiences, including instructors, other team members, and the project client. Full assessment oflearning objectives may
Paper ID #41828Integrating BIM into Sustainable Design: Perception and Awareness of Architectureand Construction Management StudentsMr. Tran Duong Nguyen, Georgia Institute of Technology Tran Duong Nguyen is a licensed architect and master planner with more than 12 years of experience in various project management stages. He has conducted research on Sustainable Design and Energy Efficiency, focusing on Building Information Modeling (BIM), Digital Twin (DT), and Modular Construction (MC). Tran is also working on developing performance certification techniques for green building rating systems and Life Cycle Assessments. He
human-centered design approach, (2) the intersection of socialjustice and design thinking, and (3) the implications of design choices on historicallymarginalized groups. Course artifacts, student reflections, and instructional team reflections areused to understand the growth in mindset of the students and instructor through this course.Additionally, these resources are used to present key learnings for future implementation.This project focused on examining systems. Groups historically excluded from engineering,including people of color, disabled, LGBTQ+, and women, were recentered through the humancentered design process. Students evaluated engineering systems for exclusion and ideated on thesource of these design flaws. In doing so, they
conducted to measure friction and wear rate betweenmaterials. Also, these evaluations should consider temperature, humidity, and other criticalconditions that could affect the results. The data collected should be analyzed to determine theeffects of various metals and components on friction and wear. Finally, the results should becompared to theoretical predictions.The engineering technology curriculum envisioned this project as part of experiential learning.The project team should discuss the results and draw conclusions based on the data. They shouldthen present their findings and make recommendations to the appropriate stakeholders. Finally,they should demonstrate teamwork, proper scheduling and organization that ensures the successof the
, and financial aid, working with the faculty and administration of two major public university systems and their urban and flagship campuses. He has published well over a hundred technical papers, and received 7 patents, supported by over $12 million in external grants from NASA, NIH, NSF, Rolls-Royce, and others. He pioneered research in novel pressure-gain combustion systems. He also pioneered project-enhanced active learning in gateway STEM education, with federal grants for pedagogic research and student training. He previously led research and development at two small companies, and he founded a new start-up to commercialize his research. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and he has served overseas as
end of itsfunding period. The results of this evaluation build upon the previously reported findings ofinterviews in a prior ASEE conference paper [1]. The PQI’s goal is to build national capacity forSTEM education research by engaging technical STEM from across the U.S. in cohorts thatparticipate in an 8-week course on qualitative and mixed methods educational researchtechniques, followed by engagement in several communities of practice and other opportunitiesto continue supporting participant research projects and building participants’ confidence aseducational researchers. This project was funded based on impact rather than research orknowledge generation; thus, this paper will report on the impacts of the PQI in terms ofparticipants
-minded learning (EML) strategy has been of recent interest incollegiate-level courses to encourage an application-focused framework of thought. EMLapproaches to coursework involve the development of assignments or projects that lead studentsto actively think and participate in designing and justifying the practical application of products.For biomedical engineering (BMEG) students, this approach has value due to the high degree ofimportance that design in healthcare and commercial BME-related ventures entails. We created anEML project in a sophomore-level biomechanics course that aimed to develop entrepreneurialskills through designing an orthopedic implant using biomechanical concepts. We have previouslydemonstrated that this approach increased
and human performance. Dr. DeGoede teaches upper-level undergraduate mechanical engineering using mastery-based assessment models and project-based learning, design courses, and first-year multidisciplinary courses.Dr. Rachel Koh, Smith College ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Impacts of social and equity-centered instruction on students’ ability to navigate related tradeoffs in systems-level designAbstractEngineers effective at creating value for society must frame their work through a lens of equityand social justice. They need to identify who is affected positively and negatively by theirsolutions across all stages of development: manufacture, distribution, use, and
challenges of the engineeringprofession. Through equipping the educators with this resource, we aim to reinforce the ethicalfoundation of young engineers, ensuring they are well-prepared to uphold the highest standardsof integrity as they embark on their professional journeys.IntroductionEngineers have a major responsibility for protection of public welfare and the environment dueto the nature of engineering projects and designs being closely related to both (Bielefeldt, 2022).Engineering education has long recognized the importance of integrating ethics instruction intothe curriculum to prepare future engineers for the ethical challenges they may face in theirprofessional careers. For this reason engineering educators have been developing modules
course sequence over the 2021-2022 and2022-2023 academic years to determine the effect of EM-focused instruction and first-yeardesign projects on EM growth. We analyzed responses in a pre/post manner within theseacademic years and holistically analyzed across academic years. We used the cross-year analysisto address the impact of curricular changes. Finally, we provide implications and pedagogicalapproaches that can support the development of an EM in the future.2. BackgroundThe Ohio State University (OSU) partnered with KEEN in 2017 and has since integrated EMLacross several courses in its engineering curriculum. This initiative first began with the redesignof the First Year Engineering Program (FYEP) standard course sequence. Alterations to
Paper ID #43262Board 130: An International, Bilingual Engineering Design Course: Faculty/StudentExperiences and Lessons LearnedDr. Jorge Ivan Rodriguez-Devora, University of Georgia Dr. Rodriguez serves as the industry capstone project coordinator for the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. He is a faculty member of the School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering.David Emory Stooksbury, University of Georgia I am an atmospheric scientist with a background in agriculture, astrophysics, and applied statistics that turned up in an engineering program. My major engineering
engineering students. The course contains active learning and project-based learningcomponents. Specifically, a smart flower pot device was integrated into the lectures of the courseas an active learning platform. In addition, the course incorporates team projects involving designof smart products. The agile method, often used in software development companies, isintroduced to the mechanical engineering students to manage their project development process.The paper concludes with assessment details from the first offering of the new course.1 IntroductionToday, there are many consumer smart products in our lives such as smart door locks, bike locks,smart kitchen appliances, irrigation controllers, smart thermostats (e.g. Nest), and Amazon Echo,just
Students in an Introductory Mechanical Engineering Course toSucceed in StaticsAbstractThis research explores scaffolding strategies employed at Washington State UniversityVancouver to support first-year students in succeeding in an introductory mechanicalengineering course, with a particular focus on their subsequent performance in Statics. As inmany undergraduate engineering programs student retention has been a concern, especially in thelower division of the mechanical engineering program. In the past two years the introductorymechanical engineering course has been redesigned to prepare students for the rest of theirengineering curriculum by incorporating several design projects, involving senior students andfaculty as mentors, and giving
fundamental understanding of the research area andthe basis for our study's objectives: (1) to better understand how engineering faculty membersperceive their participate in communities of practice for teaching innovation supported by anannual funding program and (2) to make the program better to enhance the communities ofpractice. The findings from previous studies provide a foundation for understanding thepotential impact of the EIP program on student learning outcomes, faculty development, andinstitutional change.MethodsIn Fall 2023, we conducted a faculty survey to examine how engineering faculty perceived theirexperience in the education innovation program.We aim to investigate how faculty members evaluated their experience on the EIP projects
Surveying Equipment Using Cost-Sensitive Devices to Promote Innovative Mapping Solutions in Undergraduate EngineeringAbstractEngineering applications typically use mapping products as input for developing solutions.Several levels of data acquisition can support engineering projects, such as orbital, aerial, andterrestrial data gathering. Considering the terrestrial level, the way to acquire data can be static,where the equipment is at a fixed position during the measurements, or kinematic (mobile), inwhich a platform carries the equipment during data acquisition - in movement. Terrestrial mobilemapping systems (TMMS) usually have sensors assembled in a vehicle that collect data whilemoving, and nowadays, these systems
Paper ID #42865Board 199: An Overview of VADERs (Virtual/Augmented-Reality-based DisciplineExploration Rotations)Mr. Jae Hoon Ma, Georgia Institute of Technology JaeHoon Ma is a Ph.D. student in the School of Building Construction at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently working as a research assistant and project coordinator for the VADERs project (NSF #2202290).Ece Erdogmus, Georgia Institute of TechnologyErica Ryherd, University of Nebraska, LincolnProf. Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Heidi A. Diefes-Dux is a Professor in Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska
have focused on learning and discovery in areas related to HVAC, indoor air quality, human thermal comfort, and energy conservation. While working in industry, he oversaw maintenance and management programs for various facilities including industrial plants, high rise residential and commercial buildings, energy audits and condition surveys for various mechanical and electrical and systems. He has conducted several projects to reduce CO2 fingerprint of buildings by evaluating and improving the energy practices through the integration of sustainable systems with existing systems. Professor Shehadi also has an interest in air pollution reduction and in providing healthier environment by analyzing the various
lineanalysis, hierarchical control, and network communications. Problem sets related to these topicswere assigned. In order to improve motivation and learning, application-oriented and hands-onPLC design labs and projects were developed. Click Koyo Model C0-12DRE-2-D PLCs were usedin the course.Evaluations were based on student surveys and course evaluations. The course was first offeredin Summer 2022 and again in Summer 2023. Overall 19 students have taken the course. Allstudents finished the PLC labs and projects and took the survey. The results are that 95% ofstudents “agree” or “strongly agree” that PLC labs and projects helped them to apply coursematerial to improve thinking and problem solving, and 89% of students “agree” or “strongly agree”that
in the School of Applied Engineering and Technology at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas - Austin, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and a BS in Electronics and Communication Engineering from India. Dr. Shekhar also holds a Graduate Certificate in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Prior to his current appointment, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan. He is the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher Award at the University of Michigan; and serves as a PI/Co-PI on multiple projects funded by the National
(constituents, customers) into the team responsible for developing the project. This integrationallows the project requirements to be adjusted during the development process, providing anopportunity to adapt and respond to the needs of the stakeholder in a timely manner. In addition,the regular reviews by customers, and other stakeholders, and the continuous feedback resultingfrom these reviews improves the quality of the final product. Figure 1. Scrum Process (Sutherland and Schwaber, 2007)Figure 1 presents the major components of the Scrum framework. In this framework, there areseveral opportunities for the stakeholders to provide feedback throughout the projectdevelopment process [5]. The following is the list of these feedback
Natascha Trellinger Buswell is an associate professor of teaching in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, Irvine. She earned her B.S. in aerospace engineering at Syracuse University and her Ph.D. in engineering education at Purdue University. She is particularly interested in inclusive teaching conceptions and methods and graduate level engineering education.Jacqueline L. Huynh, University of California, Irvine ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Preparing the Future Aircraft Design Workforce: Filling Knowledge Gaps Using Engineering Design ToolsAbstractUpholding the current and projected growth in the aerospace industry