Development Studies, Emily utilizes participatory approaches to increase engineering awareness and community agency throughout the design process. Emily integrates feminist and anti-racist methodologies into the classroom as well, finding new ways to engage students’ whole selves into engineering work.Dr. Samantha Lindgren, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Samantha Lindgren is an Assistant Professor of Sustainability Education in the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is affiliated faculty in the Grainger College of Engineering in Agricultural and Biological Engineering and the Technology Entrepreneurship Center, and the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives program.Dr
. Not only do these practices help to support a strong foundation for educational action research studies, they also serve as a foundation for an educational culture within which transformative learning can occur. 2. Experiential design courses should be used to teach integrated skills, and also these courses should be extended throughout the curriculum in a way that allows for maximum scaffolding, possibly beginning as early as the freshman year in some form. 3. More broadly, experiential opportunities should be developed that complement engineering programs and empower students to build integrated practical and professional/interpersonal skills, to participate in an inclusive, supportive engineering
Tissue Engineeringcourse. Our guiding research questions are:(1) How did learners' perceptions of VR labs vary across lab types?(2) To what extent did the perceived utility value and tool efficacy of the VR lab modulespredict learners’ perceived satisfaction with the learning experience across different labtypes?Study Course ContextThe Tissue Engineering course where these labs were integrated is an elective course offeredfor students in Biological and Biochemical Engineering degree programs. The goal of thecourse is to provide a foundational understanding of the areas of science and engineeringinvolved in the design and development of replacement tissues and organs for the body. Thecourse, although primarily taken by undergraduates in the
Paper ID #41826Work in Progress: Transformation Course-Based Undergraduate ResearchExperience (T-CURE)Dr. Heather Dillon, University of Washington Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education.EC Cline, University of Washington Tacoma Associate Professor in Sciences and Mathematics, and Director of ACCESS in STEM, an NSF S-STEM supported program that supports students in natural science, mathematics, and engineering at UW Tacoma.Dr. Emese
significant number of students fail to maintain crucial mathematical skills,impacting their success in physics. Notably, concerns have arisen from engineering majors whoexpress displeasure in being required to take math classes as part of the engineering curriculum.While math and engineering professors may find this objectionable, it is a reasonable concern,given that mathematics is often taught as an abstract discipline, and students need to grasp itsrelevance to their future roles as engineers.To address this issue, we have initiated the development of an Integrated Curriculum, startingwith two pairs of courses: MATH 140 (Calculus with Analytic Geometry I) paired with PHYS211 (General Physics: Mechanics), and PHYS 212 (General Physics: Electricity
leadership aligns withtraditional, vertical leadership (one leader at the top of an organization), they are less likely toself-identify as a leader or to identify their colleagues as leaders [5]. Furthermore, manyengineering faculty do not feel prepared to teach leadership to engineering students [6]. Yet,Knight & Novoselich [7] found that students believed leadership education more impactful whenit was taught within required curriculum, leaving broad opportunity for integrating leadershipdevelopment concepts into the required courses taken by engineering students. Plus, leadership isbest taught in context, such as in a group setting where the group shares a set of goals [7]. Designcourses provide a prime opportunity for students to integrate
experience varies across majors,the one feature that is consistent across all capstone offerings is the emphasis on a team-basedapproach that mimics the industry work environment. While the intent of these capstone coursesis to provide students with a means of applying and integrating core concepts within theirdiscipline to a complex problem, the importance of using these courses as a “training ground” forintroducing, practicing, and refining team-centric, professional skills that will be critical forstudents’ future career success can not be understated. In fact, the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) specifically identifies the need to emphasize these “soft”skills within the engineering curriculum as part of its Criterion 3.3
Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, focuses on advancing written, visual, and verbal communication skills. Her research centers on affect theory and its application to technical communication, specifically information design. Jill studies how to enhance the effectiveness of pedagogical documents by incorporating principles from affect theory. Through her work, she aims to empower students, fostering an environment where they actively shape their communication interactions, including teamwork and ethical discussions. By integrating these principles, she goes beyond traditional methods, ensuring that students not only learn but also take an active role in shaping their communication experiences.Christian Sims, Georgia
Paper ID #43999Research on Engineering Ethics Education in China’s Science and EngineeringUniversitiesDr. Huiming Fan, East China University of Science and Technology I am an associate professor from the Institute of Higher Education, East China University of Science and Technology. I got a Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University in 2014. My research interest includes: engineering eduction research, university-industry collaboration.Xinru Li ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Research on Engineering Ethics Education in China’s Science and Engineering
academically [1], [2]; academic environments can significantly affect students’ sense ofbelonging more broadly [3], [4]. In the past decade, makerspaces have emerged as a criticalspace for informal learning on college campuses, fostering creativity and curiosity inundergraduate students through hands-on projects and activities. The Learning Factory at ThePennsylvania State University has been an active makerspace for students and the communitysince 1995. While the space started as a 3,500 sf building ([5], [6]), it has recently grown to over40,000 sf integrated into the new 105,000 sf Engineering Design and Innovation Building, wheremost cornerstone and capstone courses are taught. These courses have always incorporatedmaking into the curriculum, but
], [12]. Walther et al. [2] presented a model of empathy in theengineering context with three core dimensions of empathy as a skill, practice orientation, and“professional way of being”. In professional engineering contexts empathy and other related softskills are necessary for productive teamwork, communication to funders and investors, beingprofessionally ethical, and generally meeting the requirements for being a licenced professionalengineer [13], [14], [15].A need to build and integrate empathy in a professional context is not unique to engineering,many professions foster and embed empathy instruction within the curriculum, such as socialwork [16], nursing [17], teaching [18], where processes are relatively well established at thecurricular
Zampaloni, University of Wisconsin, Platteville ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Entrepreneurial Minded Learning in a Core Junior-Level Mechanical Vibrations CourseAbstractThis paper describes the implementation of a project that incorporated prototyping and theentrepreneurial mindset into a core, junior-level Mechanical Vibrations course in the mechanicalengineering curriculum. The course underwent an update that included the modification of ahands-on prototyping project integrating aspects of the entrepreneurial mindset into the projectrequirements starting Summer 2021. The project required that all aspects were verified usingtraditional theoretical relationships, were
experience, comprising curricularexperiences, classroom experiences, and out-of-class experiences [21]. Curricular experiencesencompass students’ unique coursework patterns, their choice of an academic major, the extentof their integration into the field, and their participation in additional academic experienceswithin the general or major field curriculum. (e.g., internships, cooperative education, studyabroad). Classroom experiences include, among other things, types of teaching methodsstudents experience in their classrooms. Finally, students’ out-of-class experiences which includestudents’ living arrangements during school, their level of engagement in co-curricular activities,study hours, family and work commitments, and the support they
,interdisciplinary community where the contributions of non-academic educators are not onlyrecognized but also integral to the organization's evolution. This change would lead to morepractical applications of research, greater diversity in perspectives and expertise, and a moreprofound impact on the engineering education landscape. Meagan Pollock: "We should be an organization of practitioners who might also do other things like research... One of my greatest joys is turning research into practice... If ASEE were more inclusive... I would feel more valued, included, and affirmed for my contributions." Sreyoshi Bhaduri: "I’d expect to see increased collaboration, more research, potentially more money/funding... behavioral economists or IO
Paper ID #41801Meritocracy and Colorblindness: The Perpetuation of Whiteness in EngineeringEducation Through False NarrativesDr. R. Jamaal Downey, University of San DiegoDr. Joel Alejandro Mejia, The University of Texas at San Antonio Dr. Joel Alejandro (Alex) Mejia is an associate professor with joint appointment in the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies and the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Mejiaˆa C™s work examDr. Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego Diana A. Chen, PhD is an Associate Professor and one of the founding faculty members of Integrated
M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Michigan State University. Before starting at Duke, she worked for Horizon Research, Inc. as an external evaluator for STEM education projects.Dr. Alicia Nicki Washington, Duke University Dr. Nicki Washington is a professor of the practice of computer science and gender, sexuality, and feminist studies at Duke University and the author of Unapologetically Dope: Lessons for Black Women and Girls on Surviving and Thriving in the Tech Field. She is currently the director of the Cultural Competence in Computing (3C) Fellows program and the NSF-funded Alliance for Identity-Inclusive Computing Education (AiiCE). She also serves as senior personnel for the NSF-funded Athena Institute for
ofperformance, so this study uses a self-efficacy questionnaire designed to understand what levelof self-efficacy students feel towards project management, including specific areas within projectmanagement such as leadership, time management, multitasking, overcoming obstacles, having abackup plan, researching past projects, testing systems, and data analysis. The questionnaire alsoaims to determine their experiences in their past coursework, registered student organizations,and work experience that have helped them gain an understanding of how the concepts of projectmanagement integrate to create a successful project. For first-year courses, the survey asks aboutexperiences in high school and prior to beginning college, while the fourth-year survey
responded to students’isolation through an increase in office hours in the subsequent semester following initial reportsof student isolation. The trends in the data are used to make recommendations for civilengineering instructors on how to integrate learning communities into the classroom experienceduring normal and disrupted times.Keywords: Sophomore, Junior, Syllabi, Document Analysis, Civil EngineeringIntroductionLearning communities in classroom settings act as support systems for students, facilitatingincreased motivation, student success, and feelings of belonging. Instructors create learningcommunities in the classroom by incorporating teamwork and group projects into their coursedesigns as well as making themselves available, by way of
Paper ID #44324Tactile Learning: Making a Computer Vision Course Accessible throughTouched-Based InterfacesDr. Seth Polsley, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Dr. Seth Polsley is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, with his academic home in the School of Computing. His research focuses on the combination of intelligent systems design and human-computer interaction in order to support novel educational and universal computing experiences.Ms. Amanda Kate Lacy Amanda Lacy is a PhD student at Texas A&M University in the
experience that may ormay not be informed by effective strategies. And in this ad-hoc model, when scientists-in-training seek help to be better communicators, in our experience it’s often too late in thedevelopment of their communication task to integrate best practices into the novel design of thespecific piece of communication. At best, specific flaws may be triaged. Rarely is sciencecommunication integrated into a curriculum that addresses specific needs of science trainees inreal time. And, to our knowledge, science communication training has not been delivereduniversally through all levels of an institution – faculty to postdocs to graduate andundergraduate students – therefore, there is no common approach within an organization. As aresult
Boomer is a graduate student completing his master’s degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan. His focus in engineering education research has been towards bridging the gap between the undergraduate engineering curriculum and engineering industry practice.Cindy Wheaton, University of MichiganDr. Aaron W. Johnson, University of Michigan Aaron W. Johnson (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department and a Core Faculty member of the Engineering Education Research Program at the University of Michigan. His lab’s design-based research focuses on how to re-contextualize engineering science engineering courses to better reflect and prepare students for the reality of ill-defined
Paper ID #42621Enhancing Understanding and Retention in Undergraduate ECE Coursesthrough Concept MappingProf. Yang Victoria Shao, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Yang V. Shao is a teaching assistant professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She earned her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Prof. Shao has research interests in curriculum development, assessment, student retention, and student success in engineering, developing innovative ways of merging engineering fundamentals and research
in theiruniversities in terms of funding (S3-NU3; S11-NU10), learning materials (S7-NU6;S2-NU2), soft and hardware relevant to electronic design (S4-NU4; S5-NU5; S8-NU7).As discussed above, the OIPI initiative is not merely an open platform aggregatinghigh-quality open educational resources. More importantly, the facilities from SUniversity designed systematic learning and curriculum plans which ‘transformed thescattered raw materials worldwide to comprehensive and coherent knowledge contentsand flow’. (S7-NU6) As our participants recognized that ‘accessing resources is the firststep leading to success’, (S6-NU6) the accessibility to learning opportunities provided bythe OIPI initiative is the precondition for candidates’ learning and
additionally provide example nodes with python scripts that showcase the use of sensor readings like odometry or laser data. 2. Kinova Gen3 lite: the newest and most compact member of the Kinova ultra-lightweight robot series. The Gen3 lite is a 6 degree-of-freedom robotic arm, with an integrated 2-finger gripper, ideal for light manipulation and mobile applications; it comes with a quick-connect base that easily attaches the robot’s base to a surface. It is a more affordable option compared to the Gen3 version which includes a carbon fiber exterior, integrated torque sensors in each joint, and an integrated vision module. However, its cost-effective and ultra-lightweight presentation, provides the necessary tools to
engineers. The main research question this poses is how doesconcept mapping affect STEM students' understanding of entrepreneurial mindset?ABET Computing Criteria lists these three student outcomes: 1. Communicate effectively in a variety of professional contexts. 2. Recognize professional responsibilities and make informed judgments in computing practice based on legal and ethical principles. 3. Function effectively as a member or leader of a team engaged in activities appropriate to the program’s discipline. [2] 1In order to implement these principles effectively, the research team integrated an activity that
engineering,with some courses being taught in a multi-campus instructional (MCI) format. Although wellestablished in some areas, managing and delivering a new program in a multi-campus formatpresents several challenges, exacerbated by COVID-19, administrative hurdles, culturaldifferences between campuses, and institutional context including lab equipment.Two case studies representing two courses in the manufacturing engineering curriculum areexamined with an emphasis placed on challenges encountered, adaptation to a changing teachingenvironment, and student experience of teaching and learning. The course instructors areinterviewed with narratives examined through an interpretivist paradigm using inductive thematicanalysis to explore themes
completedentrepreneurship. In the second iteration, product design students had not yet completedentrepreneurship and were currently taking ergonomics, and biomedical engineering studentswere currently taking entrepreneurship. So, by the time they took the collaborative capstonedesign course, the students had completed 8-10 credit hours of common coursework, somedelivered by product design faculty and some by biomedical engineering faculty.The biomedical engineering faculty members who originally advocated for this joint curriculumwanted to provide a human-centered design perspective for their students by integrating designthinking in undergraduate biomedical engineering curriculum. Our university is a comprehensiveuniversity which includes a medical school on the
Paper ID #43332Using AI Interactive Interfaces in Design of Machine Elements EducationCan Uysalel, University of California, San Diego Can Uysalel is a Ph.D. graduate student researcher working at UCSD Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His research interests include materials characterization, machine learning, and STEM education.Zachary Fox, University of California, San Diego Zachary Fox is an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Student & Researcher working under the UC San Diego Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department. Hos research interests include mechanical failure design and
technicalengineering course can be perceived as an additional load or “tack on'' by both instructors andstudents. Furthermore, in addition to these structural barriers, sociotechnical content does not bydefault include a justice perspective. As such, an intentional focus on justice is necessary whendesigning pedagogical changes toward more holistic engineering education.In response to these challenges and needs, we were funded by the NSF to conduct a research andpedagogical project in which we are integrating justice components throughout a first-yearcomputing for engineers course. Instead of revising an ethics course or tacking on sociotechnicalcontent to a traditional course, we chose to embed justice into our redesign of the “technical”class as much as
Paper ID #43645Unpacking Whiteness and Racialization in Engineering: A Multimodal DiscourseAnalysis of Social Media PostsDr. Joel Alejandro Mejia, The University of Texas at San Antonio Dr. Joel Alejandro (Alex) Mejia is an Associate Professor with joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering and the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at The University of Texas at San Antonio. His research has contributed to the integration of critical theoretical frameworks in engineering education to investigate deficit ideologies and their impact on minoritized communities, particularly