different undergraduate research projects. He then moved on to Michigan State University and took a position as a teaching specialist concentrating on undergraduate classroom instruction. Scott finally settled at York College of Pennsylvania. He has been at York College for over ten years and feels as if he has found a place where the focus on teaching and students aligns well with his background and interests.Dr. Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania Stephen Wilkerson (swilkerson@ycp.edu) received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1990 in Mechanical Engineering. His Thesis and initial work was on underwater explosion bubble dynamics and ship and submarine whipping. After graduation he took
outcomes.Results indicated positive attitudes and their enthusiastic time investment. The at-home projectsenhanced learning, fostered critical thinking, and aligned with evolving engineering educationpriorities. In future iterations, we plan to allocate more time and extend project timelines forgreater learning experience.Keywords: Unit operations laboratory, at-home experiments, critical thinking, bridging corecourse silos.1. INTRODUCTIONIn the 2022 report, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicinerecommended an increased emphasis on experimental learning to facilitate effective connectionsamong core courses, often referred to as 'the silos' [1]. ABET also mandates that students acquirethe skills to design and conduct experiments
earlyin their academic careers. With the primary construction materials being from readily available componentsand craft supplies, the project can easily be implemented in both college and high school learningenvironments with limited resources. The completed robot design involves three main functionalchallenges; maneuverability, ability to pick up small objects, and storage of the objects. Students’ robotswill then compete in a simulated biological environment, with small objects that can be placed at differingheights to vary the task difficulty and represent food sources at multiple elevations. Each team of studentswould be tasked to strategically design their robot to optimize performance in a competition for points. Tooptimize their robots
Paper ID #43658Board 417: Understanding the Implementation of the STEM-ID Curricula inMiddle School Engineering Classrooms (Fundamental)Dr. Jessica D Gale, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Jessica Gale is a Senior Research Scientist at Georgia Tech’s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC). As a member of CEISMC’s Research and Evaluation Group, Dr. Gale’s recent work explores the development, implementation, and effectiveness of innovative STEM and STEAM curricula and programs. Dr. Gale’s research spans and often connects diverse subjects within K-12 education including: project
educational research and publishing projects across computer science, mathematics, engineering, and sciences, including the first Web Calculus text, The Analytical Engine Online (PWS Publishing, 1998), and Schaum’s Interactive Outline Series (McGraw Hill, 1994–2000). She was a defining force behind Mathcad software and the educational version Studyworks. She is the author of papers, articles, and book chapters on technology adoption in traditional classrooms, citizen science, and more recently on collaborative technologies in STEM software. Her research interests include data visualization, collaborative learning technologies, and novel STEM educational interfaces for formative learning and assessments.Dr. Jutshi Agarwal
Oxford, OHIntroduction I n educational settings, collaborative learning has emerged as a cornerstone of teachingpractice, emphasizing the importance of group work in fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and knowledge retention. Within engineering programs, where teamwork and interdisciplinary collaboration are integral components, the efficacy of group formation strategies directly influences the learning outcomes and overall educational experience of students. Recognizing the role of optimized group formation in enhancing inclusivity and promoting collaborative learning environments, our project aims to address this imperative need by developing an innovative application
Administration (MBA) from Temple University, and Engineering Education (PhD) from Virginia Tech.Dr. Matthew A Witenstein, University of Dayton Matthew A Witenstein is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Educational Administration at University of Dayton ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Collaborative Research: Research Initiation: Assessing Global Engagement Interventions to Advance Global Engineering Competence for Engineering Formation1. IntroductionThis paper summarizes the work performed during the first year of a collaborative ResearchInitiation in Engineering Formation (RIEF) project focused on assessing the formation of aglobal learner mindset in
outreach programs. She also serves as Co-PI of the NSF ITEST-funded Build a Better Book Teen Internships project, which engages youth from underrepresented backgrounds in the design and fabrication of accessible books, toys and games for children with visual impairments. Stacey is passionate about inspiring and supporting kids and teens to ask questions and find creative solutions for real world problems, and in diversifying the future STEM workforce by expanding opportunities for youth to explore STEM fields. Prior to joining CU Boulder, Stacey taught biology at a small liberal arts college in New Hampshire and led science outreach efforts at the University of Arizona’s BIO5 Institute. She received her Ph.D. in
Paper ID #43578Board 286: Formative Assessment of Equity and Inclusion in Student TeamsAndrew Moffat, University of Michigan Andrew Moffat is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan, working with the Engineering Education Research Unit and Center for Academic Innovation on an NSF-funded project to assess the effectiveness of Tandem, an in-house software platform designed to support and nurture teamwork skills in undergraduate engineering students. Andrew has a background in education research and evaluation, having previously worked on a project at the University of Leeds, UK, evaluating an
developing graduate and faculty programs in infrastructure research. He was awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship in 2020 to collaborate with colleagues at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) to develop solutions for more widespread implementation of precast prestressed concrete in housing and infrastructure applications. He is currently at the IIT-M in this capacity for a second visit of the Fulbright Flex Option project. He is the Coordinator of the Minor in Engineering Sustainability at Mizzou and serves as the Director of the Mizzou Engineering STEM Scholars’ Program, a project funded by the US National Science Foundation. His research interests include sustainable
, Texas 75701 mbiswas@uttyler.edu1 aadityakhanal@utyler.edu2, psundaravadivel@uttyler.edu3AbstractCourses based on experiential learning provide an excellent avenue to promote problem-solving andcollaborative skills among the students in STEM. However, the current engineering curriculum does nothave sufficient project-based learning emphasizing collaborative research on renewable energy to supportthe government’s goal of Net Zero emissions by 2050. So, this work-in-progress presents the results fromour recent implementation of project-based learning assignments to existing courses to model and analyzerenewable energy systems while introducing machine learning methods. We used assignments and selectedprojects to introduce concepts related
Ocean Engineering at ESPOL. Prof. Andrade has been working with these two communi�es for manyyears and has developed a strong rela�onship with the community members. The trip was made in lateMay 2023 with the course scheduled to be taught during the month of July 2023. In addi�on to Drs.Singh and Andrade, Dr. Jorge Duque and Prof. Eduardo Cas�llo, two professors in the mechanicalengineering department (where Dr. Singh was based during his Fulbright appointment at ESPOL). Prof.Duque had previously worked on a mechanical engineering project with the Barcelona community andProf. Cas�llo had experience with entrepreneurship, having started his own company.During the visit to the communi�es, Dr. Singh was introduced to community leaders as well
undergraduate and graduate courses, representing Academic Technologies. Gemma currently serves as the Curriculum Development Lead in a collaborative research project, funded by the National Science Foundation, with faculty at the University of Texas El Paso, University of Miami, and Florida International University focused on undergraduate engineering education at Hispanic Serving Institutions.Dr. Ines Basalo, University of Miami Dr. Ines Basalo, Associate Professor in Practice in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Miami, received her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Columbia University and has taught since then. She is actively involved in the undergraduate education of students at the College of
device quality and regulatory processes, innovation, and entrepreneurship to University of Illinois at Chicago Biomedical Engineering Students and Medical Students the University of Illinois College of Medicine Innovation Medicine Program. Research interests focus on the emulation of realistic medical device design in education and the quality assessment of educational design projects for between-project comparisons.Dr. Miiri Kotche, The University of Illinois at Chicago Miiri Kotche is the Richard and Loan Hill Clinical Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago and currently serves as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs in Engineering. Her research interests center on experiential
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Using AI Chatbots to Produce Engineering Spreadsheets in an Advanced Structural Steel Design CourseAbstractEngineers have historically embraced the use of technology to increase efficiency, reduce errors incalculations, and produce high quality projects on a shorter timeline. The Excel spreadsheet is aprime example of how engineers embraced technology for those reasons. Excel has been a staple inproducing an immeasurable number of engineering calculations. However, humans have alwaysbeen responsible for spreadsheet development and, unfortunately, humans will inherently produceerrors within spreadsheets. But what if an engineer can reduce the number of errors and produce
initial outcomes of acollaborative course in which 3rd year undergraduate product design students work together witha 4th year biomedical engineering capstone course to design medical devices. The course hasbeen run two times and based on the project outcomes and the student experiences in the firstiteration, substantial changes were made for the second iteration of the course.The biomedical engineering capstone course lasts for an entire school year, but the collaborationwith the product design students is only designated for one semester. The first iteration of theinterdisciplinary collaboration took place during the spring semester of the capstone course.Because the biomedical engineering capstone involves primarily prototyping in the
-class work time. The students were able to seek helpfrom the instructor, TAs, and their peers to complete these assignments. Students were given at leastthree attempts to demonstrate mastery on Level 1 computer apps skills (Tab. 4). Eight skills (Tab. 2; -HW) were developed to motivate the students to regularly watch the lectures, attend class, andcomplete homework assignments. Essentially, these eight homework skills provided a “participation”grade for this system. Finally, a semester long project, described elsewhere [10], accounted for a totalof four skills. For comparison, a table relating the 2021 mastery-skills to the 2023 skills is provided inAppendix 3. Table 2: 2023 Mastery
within the major and the university. Students buildskills for success by creating a time management plan, learning how to access universityresources, meeting with their faculty advisor regularly, and developing a plan for success in anupcoming assignment and reflecting on its effectiveness afterwards. Two design projects fosterteamwork and problem-solving skills. Students collaborate in teams to accomplish a predefinedtask, honing their ability to work effectively to deliver a project and communicate results.The purpose of this paper is to describe the course and assignments in detail, present analyses ofstudent retention and engagement, and present faculty and student reflections on the coursecontent and management. We use this information to
Carle Illinois College of Medicine. His research focuses primarily on engineering design/Bio Design collaboration in transdisciplinary teams. He has used and developed tools to study the alignment of products and services with organizational processes as an organization seeks to address needs and bring new products and services to the market.Dr. Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University Sirena Hargrove-Leak is a Professor of Engineering at Elon University. The mission and commitment of Elon University have led her to explore the scholarship of teaching and learning in engineering. More specifically, her current engineering education interests include entrepreneurial mindsets, user-centered design, project-based
traditional written exams should be avoided. Team-based projects [7] are highly encouraged, especially those which are multi-disciplinary [8]. Many entering freshmen are unprepared for rigorous academic study; thus, the Intro course should address how to be successful in college [9]. Beyond academic preparedness, retention is improved by generating enthusiasm for engineering [10] and by fostering a sense of community amongst students [11].A popular idea at many universities is the integrated curriculum -- common objectives andassignments overlapped with non-engineering courses that students take at the same time as theirengineering courses. One school paired three engineering faculty with three English-composition
Python in the introductory computing course. The course topics and learning goalsfor the course were not changed, and course lectures were only changed to reflect the change inprogramming language.This paper compares student achievement between classes that took the MATLAB-based versionof the course and those who took the Python-based version. Students in the two versions weregiven very similar exams and final project problems so that their achievement of course goalscould be compared.This work is the first phase of a longer-term project intended to assess the digital literacy ofWestern Carolina Engineering graduates. Students’ programming skills will be assessed as theyprogress through the four-year engineering curricula. A particular focus of
onbest practices and leading industry trends. To the AEC industry’s leading providers of critical thinkers,creative solution makers and future leaders, AE programs adopt a myriad of teaching strategies. The coreof AE programs revolve around providing a realistic design and construction experience for students thatsimulates industry, with senior capstone projects commonly being the location for such an experience. Upto now, much has been researched on capstone delivery, but often excluded in this research are AE programsdue to the small cohort size, as say compared to mechanical engineering. This paper is the third in a seriesof AE program benchmarking, where the initial paper looked at general formulations, delivery, and projectutilization
Paper ID #43664Leveraging the ASCE ExCEEd Modelto Design a Course on Sustainable InfrastructureDevelopmentCapt. Matthew Glavin, United States Military Academy Matthew T. Glavin is an Instructor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point and an active duty Army Engineer Officer. He is a graduate of West Point (B.S. in Civil Engineering), Missouri S&T (M.S. in Engineering Management), and Northeastern University (M.S. in Sustainable Building Systems). He is a Project Management Professional, LEED Accredited Professional in Building Design and Construction
like need-finding and feels-like prototyping. This studyis performed across two offerings of the new class “Augmenting Human Dexterity” at theUniversity of California at Berkeley; it serves as a case study of the lessons presented, andresulting perceptions of its instructors and students. In the class project, students participate inneed-knower identification and recruitment processes. In this preliminary study, we ask: what canstudents learn through this process? Given only a small handful of student groups produce aphysical device that can be given to the need-knower at the end of the term for daily use, we ask:how do students portray this expectation? With the lessons provided, students expand theirunderstanding of disability and accurately
Black (15%), Hispanic/Latinx (12%), and women (17%) [2].Approximately 62% of veterans are first generation students [3]. With 36% reporting a service-connected disability, post-9/11 veterans have the highest number of service members whoseparate from the military with a disability of any veteran cohort in history [2]. These factors, incombination with technical interests and skills, maturity and life experience, and leadership andteamwork training, make SVSM ideal candidates for supporting engineering education inmeeting workforce demands well into the 21st century [4].1.2 Project Goals and Work PlanThis NSF CAREER project aims to advance full participation of SVSM within higherengineering education and the engineering workforce. The project
Flexibility IP SCAFFOLDING Zone of Learner Assistance Learner Assistance Towards Independence OF Proximal Instructor Active Learning Peer Learning PLP Project or Exam INSTRUCTION Development Weeks 1-4 Weeks 1-4 Week 5 Student: Faculty ASSESSMENT OF • Non-technical core competency • Formative & summative feedback on model PERFORMANCE AND • Improved understanding of • Feedback on student interactions
. Their current project is CourseNetworking (or CN), an academic social networking and learning platform, which has been used by the NSF Urban STEM Collaboratory project to connect student scholars from three urban universities and facilitate their STEM identity development through ePortfolio building and digital badges. Mengyuan has an EdD in Instructional Systems Technology with a research focus on social learning and innovative learning technology.Tony Chase, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Urban STEM Collaboratory: 5 Years of Lessons LearnedAbstractThe Urban STEM Collaboratory is an NSF-funded S-STEM project
Paper ID #41392Social Justice within Civil and Environmental Engineering: Curricular Interventionsand Professional ImplicationsDr. Rebekah Oulton, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Rebekah Oulton, PhD, PE, LEED AP, ENV SP is an Associate Professor at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. Prior to Cal Poly, she worked as a professional engineer and project manager for a civil engineering consulting firm. Her technical research addresses advanced treatment methods to target emerging contaminants during water and wastewater treatment
purpose of this practice paper is to suggest a mechanical engineering reasoning diagram(MERD) for equitable teaching in writing-intensive engineering labs 1. Reasoning diagrams aredesigned to describe concepts and the relationships among these concepts in a structured andvisual way. In order to facilitate engineering thinking among undergraduates, a MERD wasdeveloped in this study to capture engineer experts' narratives about their projects and the logicof key Mechanical Engineering (ME) concepts. The model of engineering thinking would alsodemonstrate rhetorical moves of the technical writing process of engineering; this mentalmodeling relates metacognitive knowledge to disciplinary writing. A more explicit way ofteaching lab writing might have
environments, andpublic health, who are as well versed in professional skills as they are in technical skills is thechallenge we face as engineering educators.This paper describes a new civil engineering curriculum designed to meet these challenges. Ournew curriculum, that was the result of a multi-year effort, is centered around a “design spine”.The design spine, series of eight courses, is expected to improve the development of professionalskills, improve fluency with data analysis and computing skills, improve critical thinking skills,and integrate systems thinking through project-based learning. The design spine helps connectand integrate the separate subdiscipline courses typical of most civil engineering curricula as asystem of systems.The