and Space Studies (TCESS), a NASA University Research Center, and Director of the UPRM Laboratory for Applied Remote Sensing and Image Processing (LARSIP). Dr. Velez-Reyes is a strong advocate on promoting access to excellent higher education to all students particularly those from socioeconomically disadvantage backgrounds and underrepresented populations. He is a board member of the Inclusive Engineering Consortium and is actively engaged in initiatives that promote diversity equity and inclusion in engineering education. He has held faculty research-internship positions with Air Force Research Laboratories, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Furthermore, he is a member of the Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta
Abstract Chemical engineering is a complex interconnected major. Just as chemical engineers have broken complex processes into unit operations, the chemical engineering curriculum has been broken up into courses. The organization of these courses varies amongst institutions and are based on years of prior teaching and research. Despite this, there have been calls to reevaluate the curriculum from both in- dustry and academia. We propose a graph-based representation of curricula in which topics are repre- sented by nodes and topic dependencies are represented by directed edges forming a directed acyclic graph. This enables using graph theory measures and tools to provide formal ways of evaluating a curriculum. Additionally, the
Pacific Southwest Section. He received the Outstanding Teaching Award for the ASEE/PSW Section in 2022.Dr. Jens-Uwe Kuhn, Santa Barbara City CollegeJason Curtis, Cuesta CollegeChristine L Reed, Allan Hancock CollegeEva Schiorring, STEMEVAL Eva Schiorring has almost two decades of experience in research and evaluation and special knowledge about STEM education in community colleges and four-year institutions. She presently serves as the external evaluator for four NSF-funded projects. TheSean Marc Gottlieb, Allan Hancock CollegeSarah Hulick, Cabrillo CollegeFrancisco E Jimenez, Cabrillo CollegeGabriel Cuarenta-Gallegos, Cuesta CollegeDr. Leila Jewell, Monterey Peninsula College Leila Jewell is a professor of Physics at Monterey
being teaching focused.[8]The University of North Texas metrics of performance over the 2003-2023 period are reflectiveof growing science and engineering value in urban areas. A new college of engineering wascreated in 2013 with Materials Science, Computer Science and Engineering Technology formingthe founding departments. New non-doctoral granting departments of Mechanical and EnergyEngineering and Electrical Engineering were subsequently created with provision of doctoralgranting across the majors enabled by 2015. In 2017 a new department of biomedicalengineering was added. The University attained the highly research active doctoral degree publicuniversity R1 status in 2015 and maintained it in 2018 and 2022. While many R1 schools willhave a
engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. Scott’s research relates to accessible and inexpensive engineering equipment for laboratory education.Wendy Cagle, Western Carolina UniversityDr. Andrew Ritenour, Western Carolina University Andrew Ritenour is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering + Technology at Western Carolina University (WCU). In addition to teaching in the field of electrical engineering, he coordinates the senior engineering capstone program which is a multidisciplinary, two-semester course sequence with projects sponsored by industrial partners. Within this role, he focuses on industrial outreach and the teaching and assessment of professional skills. Prior to joining WCU in 2018
teaches a range of courses from the introduction to engineering course to the upperclass courses on water/wastewater treatment, air pollution engineering and scDr. Sheryl H Ehrman, San Jose State UniversityChang-yu Wu, University of Florida Professor Chang-Yu Wu received his BS from Mechanical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University and PhD from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. His teaching and research interests range fro ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work in Progress: ADVANCE Strategic Partnership for Alignment of Community Engagement in STEM (SPACES)OverviewThe Strategic Partnership for
marginalizedpeople. While there are current efforts to improve high school student’s interest in the STEMfield (e.g., Yeter et al., 2023; Burley et al., 2016; Youngblood et al., 2016), the availability ofinfluential people with different backgrounds and mentoring programs are essential resources foroffering direction, encouragement, and motivation (Chemers et al., 2011; Shapiro & Williams,2012). Scholars and policymakers emphasize the significance of early experiences and support infostering teacher’s teaching confidence (Hammack et al., 2024; Moonga et al., 2023) andstudent’s interest, confidence, and foundational skills in pursuing STEM careers (Burley et al.,2016; Yeter et al., 2016), the various obstacles experienced by underrepresented groups in
Paper ID #41727Board 357: Psychosocial and Skills-Based Outcomes of Participating in VerticallyIntegrated Projects (VIP)Craig O. Stewart, University of Memphis Dr. Craig O. Stewart is a professor of Communication at the University of Memphis.Dr. Chrysanthe Preza, The University of Memphis Chrysanthe Preza is the Kanuri Professor and Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Memphis, where she joined 2006. She received her D.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998. She leads the research in the Computational Imaging Research Laboratory at
highlighted the application of AI in robotics, enhancing the The following year, participants combined the Raspberry interactive experience by teaching participants to constructPi with an Arduino Nano to create sophisticated IoT sensors hardware and data sets for their knowledge databases, Figuresand subsystems. Projects featured a baby minder that reported 8 and 9. Fig. 8. 2018: Building TJBots Fig. 10. 2019 Survey Data Recording Helmet Fig. 11. 2019 Smart Watch Fig. 9. 2018: Laser Cut TJBotsI. 2019: An International FAU Hack-a-Thon Event: IOT
Studies. She has served as Chair of her department and Associate Dean for Equity, Inclusion, and Faculty. Dr. Peele-Eady’s research examines African American students’ learning and identity formation and, more broadly, the social, cultural, and linguistic contexts of teaching and learning. Her publications appear in several peer-reviewed journals and edited books, including the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, the Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and the Handbook of the Cultural Foundations of Learning.Prof. Tahira Reid, Penn State University Dr. Tahira Reid Smith (publishes under ”Reid”) is a Professor at Pennsylvania State University in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Design
Scholarship (CES) or Community Engaged Research (CER). Ultimately, high qualityCE can span all of the traditional faculty activities of teaching, research, and service. While thisis a win-win in terms of beneficial impacts, it can also pose challenges in the faculty promotionand tenure process where academia traditionally compartmentalizes these activities and research-intensive institutions place outsized weight on the importance of research. In STEM fields,fundamental research (including laboratory experiments and numerical modeling) is oftenviewed as more scholarly than applied research. CES/CER is at risk of being devalued undertraditional academic standards [5-6] given its dual purpose of real-world benefits forcommunities.CES is increasingly
Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez is an associate professor at Texas A & M University in the College of Education and Human Development in the department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture. In her research, she is interested in the assessing STEM interventions onDr. Rachelle M Pedersen, Texas A&M University Rachelle Pedersen is a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M studying Curriculum & Instruction (Emphasis in Engineering & Science Education). She has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Curriculum & Instruction from Texas A&M University and a B.S. in Engineering Science (Technology Education) from Colorado State University. Her research focuses on motivation and social influences (e.g. mentoring and identity development
isone of the most sought-after qualities that an employer hopes to find [4]. Teamwork skills are alsohighly related to leadership skills [2,5] which are important for engineers in industry [4,5,6].Students are given an opportunity to practice leadership skills through teamwork in engineeringcoursework [7,8]. Teamwork itself is a practical skill for engineers, and it teaches many othertangible skills such as leadership, conflict resolution, and communication through itsimplementation [2,5,9,10]. Lab reports are commonly used in engineering education to teach avariety of skills, including but not limited to, technical writing, communication, time and projectmanagement, and teamwork. These various skills are developed when engineers write ab
this field.Ishita Tandon, University of ArkansasTimothy J. Muldoon, University of Arkansas Dr. Timothy Muldoon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Muldoon teaches the Clinical Observations and Needs Finding, the Biomedical Instrumentation, and the Biomedical Microscopy courses within the Department, and also serves as the Undergraduate Coordinator. Dr. Muldoon’s research interests include engineering education, miniaturized optical imaging and spectroscopy approaches for endoscopy applications, and metabolic imaging of the tumor microenvironment.Dr. Mostafa Elsaadany, University of Arkansas Dr. Mostafa Elsaadany is a Teaching Assistant
Paper ID #43863Enhancing Engineering Capstone Design Preparedness: A Systematic CurriculumApproachDr. Pun To (Douglas) Yung, Syracuse University Douglas Yung is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Syracuse University and serves as the Director for the Bioengineering undergraduate program. He completed his B.S. in electrical engineering and mathematics at UCLA in 2003 and later pursued a Ph.D. in bioengineering from Caltech in 2008. Following this, he spent time at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, working on sensor development
laboratories to promote workforce development. Furthermore, he has collaborated on an NSF grant project that explores integrating cybersecurity principles and virtual reality technology in additive manufacturing education. Dr. Ojajuni’s research has been recognized with numerous awards, and his findings have been disseminated through publications in respected peer-reviewed journals and presentations at academic conferences.brian Warren, Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical CollegeFareed Dawan, Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Dr. Fareed Dawan received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University (LSU) in 2014. In 2006, he earned his Masters of Engineering
. Crouch, and E. Mazur, “Peer Instruction: Results from a range of classrooms,” Phys. Teach., vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 206–209, Apr. 2002, doi: 10.1119/1.1474140.[9] I. dos Santos Belmonte, A. V. Borges, and I. T. S. Garcia, “Adaptation of physical chemistry course in COVID-19 period: Reflections on Peer Instruction and team-based learning,” J. Chem. Educ., vol. 99, no. 6, pp. 2252–2258, Jun. 2022, doi: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00529.[10] T. Gok and O. Gok, “Peer Instruction in chemistry education: Assessment of students’ learning strategies,” Learn. Strateg., vol. 17, no. 1, 2016.[11] M. F. Golde, C. L. McCreary, and R. Koeske, “Peer Instruction in the general chemistry laboratory: Assessment of student learning,” J
high-speed flow control applications. The National Science Foundation has supported Dr. Solomon’s research through grants such as the Research Initiation Award, Excellence in Research (EiR), and Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE). He was selected as a summer faculty research fellow at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in 2019 and 2020.Dr. Lauren E. Beckingham, Auburn UniversityKaren McNeal, Auburn University Dr. McNeal conducts research in geoscience education investigating how people think and learn about the Earth. She conducts quantitative and qualitative methods to assess people’s understanding, perceptions, and behavior about complex environmental systems
mastery. Additionally, the list was trimmed to exclusivelyinclude only vehicle balance elements during the development of the course, as it becameapparent that the initial vision for material coverage was too ambitious. As initially conceived, theplanned content was too large for the available high school interval of 50 min of daily classes andwas reduced to an appropriate length, focusing primarily on the balance and ground contactfeatures of off-road vehicles. An ASM instructor, who primarily teaches freshmen and notassociated with the development of the modules, was recruited to review the modules initially andhelp adjust the rigor of the lessons to an appropriate level.Table 1 – Off-road vehicle balance module educational outcomes. 1
Paper ID #42370Training Teachers to Employ Design and Analysis of Computer Experimentsfor Research on Sustainable Building DesignMrs. Laura Thomason, Mansfield ISD/The University of Texas at Arlington Long time middle school teacher who is still on a quest to continue in my personal education. I participated in the RET project with UTA last summer and while I learned so much, the experience allowed me to impact my classroom teaching. Currently, I teach at Jerry Knight STEM Academy in Mansfield, TX. I get to teach advanced 6th, 7th, and 8th graders in multiple STEM electives.Prof. Victoria C. P. Chen, The University of Texas
Paper ID #41099Text Mining Analysis for Assessing Washington Accord Graduate AttributeProfiles through Techno-Socio Project-Based Learning ProgramMr. Hiroyuki Ishizaki, Shibaura Institute of Technology Hiroyuki Ishizaki is a Visiting Professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT), a leading Japanese engineering school. His research interests include multidisciplinary teaching and learning, cross-cultural competence, collaborative online international (COIL), technopreneurship, and project/problem-based learning methods. As a Director of the Malaysia Office, he has been expatriated in Malaysia since 2014 and leading
describe the structureof the course as a whole, provide detailed descriptions of two units in the course to illustrate howcomputational models can be used to teach core MSE concepts, and discuss how this approachdiffers from the traditional approach.1 Background: computation in MSE, ABM in education, and learning theories1.1 Computation in MSEComputational materials science and engineering (MSE) dates to at least the 1980s, and in thepast 20 years the MSE community has begun to recognize the crucial importance ofcomputational tools in accelerating the development, discovery, and design of new materials.There is widespread consensus among academics, national labs, and industry that computationwill play an increasingly important role in MSE and that
Paper ID #43928Promoting Equity and Cognitive Growth: The Influence of an AuthenticLearning Assignment on Engineering Problem-Solving SkillsDr. Boni Frances Yraguen, Vanderbilt University Boni Yraguen is an Instructional Consultant with the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching. Boni is passionate about engineering education. She has led and participated in various educational studies on the impact of student reflections, authentic learning assignments, the use of technology in the classroom, and graduate education.Elisa Koolman, University of Texas at Austin Elisa is a Ph. D. student at the University of Texas at Austin. They
pollinators. His educational research interests include effective teaching techniques for enhancing engineering education, global engineering and international perspectives, thinking and working in multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary ways, cyberlearning and cyber-environments, service and experiential learning, mentoring, peer-mentoring, teaming and collaborative learning.Prof. Reginald F. Hamilton, Pennsylvania State UniversityDr. 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
differential equations presentsa uniquely difficult challenge for teaching and learning the subject. To emphasize the importanceof understanding the depth of the numerical algorithms and options available in a commercialCFD solver such as Fluent, coding projects are relied upon. To facilitate a thorough investigation of CFD at a level in which undergraduate studentscan be successful, MATLAB Grader was used to build an understanding of the standard CFDnumerical algorithms during the Fall 2023 term. Lectures consisted of a combination of writingon a board usage, PowerPoint slides, and MATLAB Live Scripts or active sessions of MATLABprojected to the front of the class. Laboratories consisted of active sessions of Ansys Fluent withPowerPoint
Mexico where he became professor and Provost & EVP for academic affairs between 2011 and 2018. Since 2018, he is the Executive Vice President for Research at Georgia Tech & professor of ECE. Professor Abdallah conducts research and teaches courses in the general area of systems theory with focus on control and communications systems. His research has been funded by national funding agencies, national laboratories, and by various companies. He has also been active in designing and implementing various international graduate programs with Latin American and European countries. He was a co-founder in 1990 of the ISTEC consortium, which currently includes more than 150 universities in the US, Spain, and Latin
Paper ID #42682EmPOWERing a Sustainable Energy Future through Interconnected Curricularand Co-Curricular PedagogiesProf. Jeffrey M. Bielicki, The Ohio State University Dr. Bielicki is the Program Director and Principal Investigator of the OSU EmPOWERment Program on convergent graduate training for a sustainable energy future. He is also research lead for Sustainable Energy for the OSU Sustainability Institute and he runs the Energy Sustainability Research Laboratory where he and his students research issues in which energy and environmental systems and policy interact, specifically on topics related to carbon management
Education and M.S. in Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, and her B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from the Colorado School of Mines.Dr. Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines Jon A. Leydens is Professor of Engineering Education Research in the Division of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines, USA. Dr. Leydens’ research and teaching interests in engineering education focus on social justice and sociotechnical thinking. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024The Prestige Game: Making Visible the Mental Health Effects of Institutional Prestige Seeking on Underrepresented STEM StudentsIntroduction and Literature ReviewThis critical theory
exchanged between researchers, although they have notbeen easily searchable or available to the public until the early days of the internet.First established at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1991, the pioneering arXiv repositoryenabled the sharing of high-energy physics preprints [13]. This open access platform is nowhoused at Cornell University. arXiv paved the way for the proliferation of other preprintrepositories across disciplines over the subsequent three decades, such as bioRxiv and medRxiv[14].These repositories are excellent at featuring recently-posted articles but lack optimization forsearching with specific syntax and facet limiting, which engineering librarians are accustomed todoing.In the last five years, traditional subscription
PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UBC. Her research focuses on equity issues in engineering education, particularly looking at the impacts of engineering outreach programs on historically marginalized groups in STEM.Shouka Farrokh, University of British Columbia Shouka Farrokh is an undergraduate student pursuing Psychology at The University of British Columbia. She contributes as a research assistant in Engineering Education projects focusing on STEM Outreach initiatives.Dr. Katherine Lyon, University of British Columbia Katherine Lyon is Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Katherine’s research merges sociology of education