. This was achieved using two parts; the first consisted of multiple-choice andtrue-false questions, while the second required short answers and the designing of partialsolutions using C++ on Canvas. Note that Canvas does not provide a special editor for codingbut a simple textbox. Students could navigate only forward for the first part and forward andbackward through the questions in the second part and were allowed to use handwritten notesduring the test. No other restrictive software or options were used other than Honor system thatstudents may be trusted to act in accordance with an honor system and to formally or informallyattest that they have not violated academic integrity.[7]- Second Type (Open Digital Resources): It had also two
founded on EML. Mini-EML Adventure modules are designed for flexibility for adoption into the classroom,overcoming a barrier for integrating EM into the curriculum as a whole. Instructors can chooseone or more from course-specific lists and modify as necessary, facilitating the use of creativeinstructional material. The material does not require significant reordering of instructor content,reducing the barrier of adoption. Just as importantly, these adventures are designed as moreengaging, open-ended content than traditional examples and homework problems normallyfound in textbooks. They are designed to enhance student engagement and impact the way that astudent understands their value in their future professions.ConclusionsThe collaborative work
integrate with an open application-program interface from computing environments suchas C, ROS (Robot Operating System), or MATLAB. Although this paper focuses on a wheeledmobile robot, some of these characteristics would still stand. One-quarter of the respondents statedthat they taught their course with an articulated manipulator while another one-quarter usedground-based indoor mobile robots.2.3 Unified Robotics Curriculum Berry et al. [2] proposed that the benefits of robotics to all ages could be improved withthe creation of a unified curriculum that translates to multiple backgrounds. The authors concludethat having a standard framework for a robotics curriculum may provide a means to assess theeffectiveness and value of robotics
,socioeconomic status is frequently absent in conversations on access and success in engineering[10]. Engineering serves as an opportunity for upward mobility for low-income engineeringstudents, as well as an opportunity for LIS to bring diverse perspectives to solve engineeringproblems [11][12]. However, in the pursuit of an engineering degree, high-income students arefive times more likely than LIS to graduate within six years [13].Within education, researchers link sense of belonging to a variety of significant student outcomesincluding retention, persistence, major choice, and career path [14][15][16]. Sense of belonginghas previously been defined as the “experience of personal involvement and integration within asystem or environment to the extent
technology, materials science, 3D printing, experiments, and product design. My interests include systems design, and systems engineering within the field of additive manufacturing.Dr. Marwa AbdelGawad, Texas A&M University at Qatar Dr. Marwa AbdelGawad is an Instructional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar. She earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University (USA), where her research focused on examining the impact of microstructure on the corrosion response and mechanical integrity of magnesium alloys used in biomedical applications, specifically orthopedic implants, which resulted in the publication of several papers in prestigious journals and presentations at conferences
Chair at The Citadel. He previously taught mechanical engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the United Military Academy and his M.S. and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching interests are in mechatronics, regenerative power, and multidisciplinary engineering.Dr. Alyson G. Eggleston, Penn State University Alyson Eggleston is an Associate Professor in the Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Director of Evaluation for the Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Her research and teaching background focuses on program assessment, STEM technical communication
often express that belonging to a supportive community positivelyinfluences their mental well-being [8,9]. Recognizing and addressing the unique needs ofstudents with ASD is integral to creating an environment conducive to their academic successand overall well-being [8,10]. In particular, improving self-advocacy skills are linked to positiveretention rates in college for students with disabilities [11]. Implementing targeted supportmechanisms, such as assistance with executive functioning skills and promoting community-building initiatives not only facilitates academic success but also enhances the overall collegeexperience for individuals with ASD.EASE ProgramASU has developed a free program, Employment Assistance and Social Engagement (EASE
(n = 22). As described above, academic goals usually focus on math skills. Affective goalsoften focus on confidence, social integration, motivation, and similar constructs. Figure 7: Summer bridge program goals. Study ResultsThe most commonly reported result was an improvement in student retention. Studies also foundpositive effective results, including high levels of satisfaction with the program, intent to persist inSTEM studies, improved self-efficacy, sense of belonging, confidence, motivation, sense ofpreparedness for future studies, and understanding of the engineering profession. There were alsoreports of improved academic skills, including spatial reasoning, metacognition, and math. Nullor negative
moved from theory toreal-world applications, and the need for skilled engineers has grown. Therefore, many collegesand universities are strategizing ways to provide students with hands-on experiences to developthe needed practical skills in industry. One of the pillars of I4.0 is human-machine interactionwhich includes robotics and automation. Undergraduate degrees need to provide appliedknowledge of robots that use modern controllers and other integrated hardware rather than theclassic robotic design. The curriculum should provide the students with real-world experienceswith real hardware. This paper presents the steps of designing and constructing a reconfigurableand affordable industrial robotic arm platform that can be used to teach
Paper ID #41460Promoting Diversity in Welding Engineering Technology through the Mediumof ArtDr. Mary Foss, Weber State University Dr. Mary Foss is an Associate Professor in the Department of Manufacturing Systems Engineering. With a background in industry, she saw a disconnect between classroom learning and the real-world experience she needed once joining the workforce in the Aerospace Engineering industry. As a result of her industry experience she incorporates project-based learning throughout her curriculum and service and scholarship interests as a means of developing skills in problem solving, engagement, and
Paper ID #43744Work-in-Progress: Chemical Engineering Students’ Representational Fluencywhen Designing in the Context of Fluids MechanicsDr. Ruben D. Lopez-Parra, University of New Mexico Ruben D. Lopez-Parra is a Post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of New Mexico. His Ph.D. is in Engineering Education from Purdue University, and he has worked as a K-16 STEM instructor and curriculum designer using various evidence-based active and passive learning strategies. In 2015, Ruben earned an M.S. in Chemical Engineering at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, where he
Mentored Research Experiences to Engage Underrepresented Minority Students,” AIDS Behav, vol. 20, no. S2, pp. 249–257, Sep. 2016, doi: 10.1007/s10461-016-1392-z.[4] M. R. Mackiewicz, K. N. Hosbein, D. Mason, and R. Ajjarapu, “Integrating Scientific Growth and Professional Development Skills in Research Environments to Aid in the Persistence of Marginalized Students,” J Chem Educ, vol. 100, no. 1, pp. 199–208, Jan. 2023, doi: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00633.[5] L. Kingsford, R. Mendoza, J. Dillon, C.-A. Chun, and K.-P. Vu, “Broadening and Diversifying the Behavioral and Biomedical Research Workforce through Early Access to an Undergraduate Research Training Program.,” UI J, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 1–24, 2022.[6] A
Climate 11.1 IntroductionSTEM educators are an integral part of the STEM ecosystem because of their role in preparingSTEM professionals [4]. Just as important to industry, are the educators who cultivate andinfluence the intellectual prowess of future STEM professionals. Diverse instructors in STEMalso aid in decreasing barriers to accessing STEM and thus increasing student retention in STEMfields [5]. Furthermore, how educators within STEM espouse their values about the importanceof STEM has a culminating effect for students’ persistence and overall achievement in STEMacademics [6]. Instructors’ perception of the STEM field and its culture attached
characterizestudents’ prior knowledge and experience with the design process, we conducted a curriculumreview of published course catalogs. This curriculum review aims to inform survey developmentthat can be applicable to a broad set of institutions. The curriculum review sought to assess (1)what percentage of upper-division mechanical design courses require an explicit prerequisite orcorequisite course in design and (2) how that background compares to other core mechanicalengineering subjects. The prerequisite chain for all courses was followed as far back asinformation was available (to courses such as statics and first year math and physics). Weadditionally flagged programs that included a prior design course in their curriculum but did notdesignate that
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aerospace engineering program (Likert-scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree). a. There is a conflict between my personal values and the job opportunities available in the aerospace engineering industry. b. The ethical curriculum I have received in my aerospace engineering courses so far has prepared me to engage in respectful and challenging dialogues with my peers. c. My aerospace engineering professors include discussion of complex societal issues in our class time. d. In today’s world, an engineer has no responsibility for how the technology that they develop is ultimately used. e. I am concerned that I will have to take an aerospace engineering job that does not
Paper ID #43827Board 17: Work in Progress: Promoting Equitable Team Dynamics in aSenior Biomedical Engineering Design CourseDr. Jennifer H Choi, University of California, Davis Jennifer Choi is currently an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at UC Davis. In addition to teaching core undergraduate courses, Jennifer is aimed at integrating engineering design principles and hands-on experiences throughout the curriculum. She has interests in engineering education, and curricular innovation. Prior to joining UC Davis, Jennifer taught in the BME Department at Rutgers University, and
. She also serves as Director of the Craig and Galen Brown Engineering Honors Program. She received her BS, MS, and PhD from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M. Kristi works to improve the undergraduate engineering experience through evaluating preparation in areas, such as mathematics and physics, evaluating engineering identity and its impact on retention, incorporating non-traditional teaching methods into the classroom, and engaging her students with interactive methods.Dr. Michael S Rugh, Texas A&M University Michael S. Rugh is an Associate Research Scientist for the LIVE Lab at Texas A&M University. He has a B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction. He received the
pedagogy, fairness in AI, disinformation, social justice addressing theinequities of society, and ethics/professionalism topics. In most of these topics, equity incomputing is still forming and not widely seen as an integral part of the discipline.N. Washington [31] discusses the glaring omission of non-technical issues from the CScurriculum that would allow CS students, and future professionals, to understand, analyze, andoffer solutions about the inequity and lack of representation that exists in computing. Dr.Washington argues that there is a need for all CS students to have a level of cultural competenceso that students can begin to understand, critically analyze and look for solutions that willimprove equity in our field. Another CS Educator
Opportunities in STEM (TAPDINTO-STEM); Co-PI of NSF EEC ”RFE Design and Development: Framing Engineering as Community Activism for Values-Driven Engineering”; Co-PI of NSF CISE ”EAGER: An Accessible Coding Curriculum for ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Paper ID #41881Engaging Underserved Students with Special Needs in Afterschool Programs”; co-PI of NSF INCLUDES:South East Alliance for Persons with Disabilities in STEM, Co-PI of NSF CE 21 Collaborative Research:Planning Grant: Computer Science for All (CS4ALL)).Dr. Marghitu was also PI of grants from Center for Woman in Information Technology, Daniel F
Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology Abstract Sum-of-Products (SOP) expressions are two-level representations of Boolean functions consisting of an OR sum of AND terms. There exist many methods of SOP synthesis, but the Karnaugh map method is the most frequently taught in undergraduate curriculum. Unfortunately, most traditional approaches to teaching Karnaugh map-based SOP minimization are not very engaging for the learner. To increase student engagement, game-based approaches to teach- ing are increasingly being used to supplement traditional teaching methods. There has been limited research into extending such game-based teaching ap- proaches towards SOP minimization with Karnaugh maps. This paper pro
). Essentiallyservingness is a metric of the efforts to support student inclusion and thriving, a metric in whichthe role and work of Latine and Hispanic TFF are integral. We derive this question and ourprojects broader motivation from Garcia (2019, p. 4) who argues that, “Moving from servignessas a theory to an actual practice requires learning with and from HSIs that are currently 10implementing these practices.”. We see this work as looking to those who are contributing mostto servingness within the classroom to explore how and how much they contribute to highereducation institutions' servigness, as well as to how these institutions can best support them
internships have been implemented, research has revealed that they are often‘just a formality and going through the motions’ (Du et al., 2017).WIL in engineering education is not new, and well-established practices, such as sandwichdegree offerings in the UK, cooperative education in North America, and WIL in Australianuniversities under the National Strategy for WIL, offer valuable references (Edwards et al.,2015; Luk & Chan, 2020). There has been significant discussion among both engineeringeducation researchers and practitioners on learning experiences from these well-establishedmodels (Lin & Geng, 2019; Cai et al., 2019; Qie et al., 2019). In the French engineeringeducation model, WIL is an integral part of the curriculum, with
began to focus more on strategies for cultivating teachers’ abilities and competencies using AI technologies, highlighting the role of AI in enhancing teaching effectiveness. Example: Teachable Machine by Google is an AI project that allows users, including educators, to create machine learning models without coding. This tool can be used by teachers to introduce students to the concepts of machine learning, demonstrating AI’s adaptability and its role in educational innovation. • Future Directions and Multidisciplinary Integration: Looking ahead, the research is expected to move towards practical knowledge and multidisciplinary integration. The emphasis is on the role of AI in enhancing teachers
. She explores how the integration of school safety strategies with disciplinary practices, often under zero-tolerance policies, blurs the lines between them, suggesting that both are byproducts of the school-to-prison pipeline.Dr. Roberta Rincon, Society of Women Engineers Roberta Rincon, Ph.D., is the Director of Research and Impact for the Society of Women Engineers. She is responsible for overseeing the research activities for the organization, including collaborative research projects with external researchers and dissemination of SWE research through academic conferences, the SWE Research website, and the annual SWE State of Women in Engineering magazine issue. She is the Principal Investigator for the NSF
and engineering identities. Many other universities host engineering summer camps formiddle and high school students and employ engineering undergraduate students as campcounselors. These camps are designed for students with minimal previous exposure toengineering. In this research study, we explore the impact of working as a counselor in thesecamps on counselors’ Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) assets and self-defined characteristicsof an engineer. Five summer camp counselors in one institution’s 2023 summer camp programsparticipated in post-camp semi-structured interviews about their experiences as counselors. Twocounselors identified as Black/ African American and three as Hispanic/ Latino/a/é; twoidentified as women and three as men
various infrastructure inequity issues as well as indicated a highermotivation to work toward systemic change. The findings of this study would motivate educatorsto develop tailored educational strategies for increasing awareness of infrastructure inequalityand preparing the forthcoming construction workforce including marginalized constructionprofessionals with the skills required to ensure an equitable, sustainable, and resilientinfrastructure system.Introduction and BackgroundCommunities across the United States are increasingly experiencing the devastating impacts ofextreme weather events and changing climate conditions. The National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration reports that in 2021 alone, there were 20 weather disaster events
Paper ID #43087Undergraduate Engineering Education: Creating Space for Multiply MarginalizedStudentsDr. Janne Mishanne Hall, Morgan State University Dr. Janne Hall is an adjunct at Morgan State University and Texas Southern University. She teaches undergraduate electrical and computer engineering courses. She is also a committee member for the implementation of new engineering programs and curriculums for existing programs. Dr. Hall earned a BS in electronic engineering and a MS in computer science from Texas Southern University, and a PhD in electrical engineering from Jackson State University. Dr. Hall worked as a RF
has mentored dozens of graduate and undergraduate students in research and K-12 outreach activities and is the Director of the Excellence in Computing and Information Technology Education (ExCITE) program. She is a fellow of the Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership Program (CASL) and the Opportunities for Under-Represented Scholars (OURS) post-graduate institutional leadership certificate program and an alumna of the Frontiers of Engineering Education program (FOEE) of the National Academy of Engineering. She has been serving on the Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) Capital Area Regional Network steering committee since 2016.Rui Kang Rui Kang is Professor of Secondary Education (6-12) of Georgia College &
within these streams, and whether these opportunities affect real-timeproblem-solving for streamers. Additionally, we aim to identify the different types of interactionswithin the stream and how they lend themselves to forming an informal learningenvironment.Through studying human and social aspects of development, we aim to make severalcontributions to software engineering education research by: • observing the types of interactions in development live streams and how they impact a streamers’ software development practices • discussing the benefits of live streaming as a form of knowledge transfer, where knowledge transfer occurs, and who initiates transfer within a live streamThis work aims to better understand the human and