students.On the other hand, some tools aim to reduce barriers to entry; for example, work by Weinhart etal. [19] provided comprehensive, easy to follow documentation for projects with differing levelof difficulty (i.e., simulation/code complexity).One strategy to develop beginner friendly tools is to use object-oriented coding and a high-levelinterface to interact with a low-level program, seen in Windows-Yule et al. [20] and Casas-Orozco et al., 2021 [21]. Utilizing Python to pass commands to LAMMPS greatly reduced thecomplexity and allows the user to focus on the problem they are simulating rather than syntax.Python’s advantages include dynamic types (i.e., the Python interpreter will automatically castdata into the correct type as it passes into a
socialresponsibility. Course creation and revisions incorporated EOP learning outcomes; many of theserevisions took effect in Autumn 2023. Additionally, one of the core courses of our proposedspecialization will be offered on a satellite campus beginning Spring 2024.The EOP framework provided the guiding principles for the proposed specialization. Theseprogrammatic elements balance student learning with community impacts while weavingSustainability, Intercultural Competence and Cultural Awareness into a core tenet of engineering.Further, the EOP mentorship program was instrumental in guiding the project participants increating buy-in from stakeholders across the university enterprise.IntroductionThere are many dimensions to sustainability, and our pedagogical
Texas at El Paso. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computational Science Program. He has years of research experience in different projects in the field of image data mining, machine learning, deep learning, and computer simulation for industrial and healthcare applications. In addition, Dr. Rahman has taught various engineering courses in industrial and manufacturing engineering. His research area covers advanced quality technology, AI application in smart manufacturing, health care applications, computational intelligence/data analytics, and decision support systems.Christopher Colaw, Lockheed MartinProf. Tzu-liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso Dr. Bill Tseng is a Professor and Chair of the Department of
in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Seattle University. She earned her PhD degree from University of Denver specializing in renewable energy and smart grids. Her research focus is on renewable energy integration into smart grids, ensuring efficient energy management and grid stability, aiming for a sustainable impact. She is a member of IEEE, ASEE and SWE and has worked on several NSF and NREL funded projects. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Teaching Digital Logic in the Quarter-Based EE CurriculumIntroductionCourses on digital logic are an essential part of all Electrical and Computer Engineeringcurricula. With the advent of FPGAs, the use of a
the curriculum and teaching in the freshman engineering program and the mechanical engineering program. She is also the Co-Director of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) at ASU. In this role, she focuses on student support and tracking, curriculum, program requirements, as well as programming for current students in GCSP. Dr. Zhu was also involved in the ASU ProMod project, the Engineering Projects in Community Service program, the Engineering Futures program, the Global Freshman Academy/Earned Admission/Universal Learner Courses Program, and the ASU Kern Project. She was a part of the team that designed a largely team and activity based online Introduction to Engineering course. She has also co-developed
thiswork and how these informed the design of the survey, including the reasoning behind usingself-efficacy measures. We will also present our early analysis of the validity of this tool and itsutility in measuring HCED learning. Findings from this paper cover data collected at thebeginning of the Fall 2023 semester. Future work will include pre/post comparison andlongitudinal analysis. Design is a central part of engineering and continues to play an important role inengineering undergraduate education [1]–[3]. Design projects have been positioned in thefreshman and senior years as cornerstone and capstone projects [1], [4]–[7]. Beyond thesedesign-focused courses, many engineering courses employ a project-based learning approach,often
Paper ID #43103 Arthur Hoskey is a Professor of Computer Systems at Farmingdale State College in New York. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the City University of New York Graduate Center and received his B.A. in Psychology from the State University of New York at Purchase. Dr. Hoskey worked as a software engineer prior to starting his academic career. Dr. Hoskey’s primary line of research has been around innovative pedagogical methods. One line of research was a collaboration with faculty from multiple State University of New York colleges on a project to explore and develop a semi-standardized and accessible introduction to computer science course (SUNY IITG funded research), focused on teaching
biased based on the data used to train the program, which can lead to unfair or inaccuratefeedback. ChatGPT can unfortunately be vulnerable to causing security risks, which may lead todata breaches and sensitive information of students being leaked. With the rising popularity ofChatGPT, just like any other online resource, the over-reliance on it could lead to a decline inindependent problem-solving skills and critical thinking in an academic setting.This research project aims at understanding the students’ perspectives on the use of ChatGPT inengineering. This topic is relevant, timely, and important as ChatGPT as created sufficient stir ineducation. By exploring students’ experiences and perspectives, we aim to shed light on differentaspects
Paper ID #42216Developing a Team-Based Regulatory Framework for Mobility EngineeringProfessionalsMs. MAN LIANG, University of Maryland College Park Man Liang is a PhD student in Civil Engineering at the University of Maryland. She has over 3 years of working experience as a civil engineer conducting independent engineering designs for residential, commercial, institutional projects in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Texas, and etc. She specializes in site surveys, roadway engineering, pavement design, traffic analysis, site layout, site grading, sustainable stormwater management, utility connections, erosion and
this problem by keeping the evaluation team separate from the REU program’s leaders and faculty mentors, and by keeping students’ decisions to participate in the research confidential. · Confidentiality: In addition to typical protections, participants’ identities must also be kept confidential from their research mentors. Accordingly, we carefully deidentified the survey and interview data (e.g., when students mentioned their demographics or research projects). · Consent: Wylie proposed asking students to sign consent forms to participate in the study. The IRB judged that this was unnecessary because the data would be collected from the students anyway (for evaluation), so using those data for research fell
Paper ID #43899Stories of Appalachian Engineers: A Phenomenographical Study of AppalachianStudents’ Quest for Success in Undergraduate Engineering ProgramsMr. Matthew Sheppard, Clemson University I earned my B.S. in Industrial Engineering and my M.S. in Mechanical Engineering; both at Clemson University. I have several years’ experience as a Manufacturing Engineer supporting process improvements, machine design, and capital project management. Now, I have entered into the Engineering and Science Education PhD program at Clemson University in tandem with teaching hands-on engineering principles in an undergraduate
Systems Engineering (IMSE) Department at The University of Texas at El Paso. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computational Science Program. He has years of research experience in different projects in the field of image data mining, machine learning, deep learning, and computer simulation for industrial and healthcare applications. In addition, Dr. Rahman has taught various engineering courses in industrial and manufacturing engineering. His research area covers advanced quality technology, AI application in smart manufacturing, health care applications, computational intelligence/data analytics, and decision support systems. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Virtual Reality
, and has been honored practice advising undergraduate EPICS service-learning teams. Having community-oriented discussions at Purdue, working with human-centered design in her own research, and mentoring student teams inspirited her drive to center community member and partner voices within academic discussions. She is excited to continue learning from leaders in EPICS and partnering institutions while applying to industry and academic positions.Sukrati Gautam, Purdue University I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. in Computational Environmental Technology at Purdue University. I am experienced Teaching Assistant at Engineering Projects in Community Services (EPICS). I am exploring human decision making behavior using ML
Paper ID #41504Warehouse Augmented Reality Program (WARP): A Web Tool for WarehouseDesign and Operation EducationEric John Estadt, Pennsylvania State University Eric J. Estadt is a senior at The Pennsylvania State University - Abington Campus. He will be graduating in the Spring of 2024 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. His responsibilities in this project was leadership, development, and statistics. He worked on development since February 2022. In the Spring and Summer of 2023 he worked on the methodology and statistical results of the experiments seen in this paper. Continuing in the Summer of 2023 he took
. Matthew G. Green, LeTourneau University Matthew Green serves as Associate Dean in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at LeTourneau University in Texas. His objective is to practice and promote engineering as a serving profession. He has taught and developed design courses for all undergraduate years, and has taught courses such as Dynamics, Thermodynamics, and Machine Design. Past projects include remote power generation, design methods for frontier environments, enhanced engineering learning, and assistive devices for persons with disabilities. He coordinates ABET accreditation activities for LeTourneau University. ©American
, hands-on components stimulate curiosity. This creates astimulating learning atmosphere that encourages in-depth exploration of the underlyingtechnological concepts and piques curiosity. When compared to more passive learning methods,experiment-centric pedagogy has been demonstrated to boost motivation, peer-learning, andretention [13]. Following a study on learners' experiences after exploration and experimentation,Connor et al. [14] emphasized that project-based pedagogy frequently contains implicit biasesthat limit learning, either in terms of the procedures followed or the expected results. This wouldresult in predictable outcomes that do not promote divergent thinking and creativity [14]. Thisleads to the authors providing evidence that
University. She is the co-PI and co-Director of the NSF-funded Engineering for US All (e4usa) project and Executive Director of e4usa, the non-profit. Dr. Klein-Gardner is a Fellow of ASEE. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 High School Students’ Perspectives on Mathematical Modeling in the Engineering Design Process (RTP)AbstractMathematical modeling skills are essential for engineers to solve real-world problems. Whilethere is a growing emphasis on pre-college engineering education, it remains unclear howpre-college students utilize and perceive mathematical modeling within the engineering designprocess. Engineering for US All (e4usa) is dedicated to crafting engineering
variouscomponents as “edutainment” tools.This camp had twelve students, two instructors, and one volunteer teaching assistant.The students were aged between 8-11 years old, with most students aged between 8and 9. Two students were diagnosed on the autism spectrum and one student wasdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Four of the students werefemale.Students were assessed for spatial skills with a timed test on Monday before theyplayed with any of the core components, and assessed again with the same test onFriday after completing the 4-day program. Each day began with a lecture onengineering design principles which explored the concepts of projections and theircorrelation with pictorial and multi-view orthographic representations
eyewear; the semi immersive also allows users to look at thephysical or real world (this occurs when they look away from the projection screen where the models andinteractive environments are projected). The fully immersive environment can be experienced with moreexpensive environments and technologies; this includes wearing a 3D headset such as in an HTC Vive orOculus Rift platform. In such a fully immersive context, all reference to the real world is removed and theuser can interact with the virtual or simulated environment in whichever direction or angle the user turns heror hir head. can also be described as 3D VR/Mixed Reality based environments in which users can interact atmultiple levels of immersion: non-immersion, semi-immersion, full
simulation, such as the representation ofcontinuous signals and discrete (digital) signals using the sampling theorem. This project makesuse of the state-of-the-art design principles and techniques to create a user interface and virtualenvironment that are user friendly, efficient, and effective for learning. Integration of existingthird-party software libraries is another crucial component in the rapid development of virtuallabs. This project successfully integrated SPICE, a popular circuit simulator, as the backend ofthe virtual lab, greatly expediting the overall development. This paper will discuss the techniquesfor integration of third-party software to achieve interoperability between different software.While our current development focuses on
may feel like a scaled down version of the regularbig University campus, but in theory it is expected to provide the same resources for labs, same ifnot better-quality higher education, similar student opportunities for internships, projects,conferences, etc., in industry and academia. The students graduating from satellite campusesshould feel the same confidence in securing their dream job, like any other big-Universitygraduate, based on the knowledge and skills they have acquired during their years at the Satellite-University campus. The path to success of a diverse group of undergraduate students in a remotelocation, with the primary aim of effective provision of higher education, is a combination of afew hurdles, failures, and many
Paper ID #41624Preparing Future Generations for Executive Leadership Roles in TechnicalOrganizationsMr. Richard (Rick) Warren Blank, Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals Richard W (Rick) Blank, B.A., B.S., M.S. Mr. Blank is a Lecturer in the Engineering for Professionals Master of Engineering Management Program at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. In this program he teaches Planning & Managing Projects; Finance, Contracts, & Compliance for Technical Professionals; Strategic Communications in Technical Organizations; and Executive Technical Leadership. He also holds an appointment as the
graduation and during their early-career in a way that is conducive to their own growth andthat of the UES. Engineering programs encouraging collaborative research projects, internships,co-operative experiential learning, and mentoring expose UES to timely, real-world challengeswhere students are able to flex their engineering muscles, fostering a sense of their ownengineering identity.9,10 The role of the mentor in these programs is to serve, direct, and validatethe success of engineering students by fostering a culture of innovation and adaptability toengineering challenges. The leadership development promoted by the mentoring curriculumserves to increase the personal knowledge of mentors while preparing them to better serve inmanagement
the Promotion of Science Research Grants 24K06133 and the Shibaura Institute of Technology Grants for Educational Reform and Research Activity in the AY2024. Her current main research interests are: 1) how including humanities courses in an engineering education curriculum can help students to gain flexibility, and an appreciation of equity, and a greater richness of ideas; and 2) systematic issues impacting the effectiveness of engineering education, specifically in the context of project-based learnings for the engineering education. Below are her recent presentations at international conferences: ASEE 2023, WERA 2023, 2022, 2019, APAIE 2023, 2022, IIAI DSIR 2021, 2020. She obtained the Multidisciplinary
Department of History at the Rochester Institute of Technology and has taught at RIT for 15 years. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024WIP: Navigating Epistemological Borders: Considerations for Team Teaching at the Intersection of Humanities and STEM This paper is a part of a larger project designed to better equip engineering students withempathetic attitudes. While our larger project focuses on the student experience and measuringempathy levels, this paper focuses on the teaching of such a course. Specifically, this paperexamines what we are terming two humanities-driven STEM (HDSTEM) courses taught at twodifferent institutions (Texas Tech University and Rochester Institute of
advanced degrees in science andengineering from prestigious American universities, and they trained me for academic successfrom a young age. I went to regular school during the day, but nights and weekends were dedi-cated to family school, a school in which my parents pushed me beyond any public curriculum.They tutored me personally, never outsourcing my education to teachers or private tutors, and Ireaped the fruit of their labor. I graduated from one of the best public high schools in the countryat the time and from the best engineering undergraduate program in the world. I also completedmultiple research projects during my undergraduate program, and I had stellar letters of recom-mendation from both course instructors and research advisors. I
experiences and lessons learned in the design and development of aprofessional development course designed for first year graduate students in an interdisciplinarycomputational science program, under an NSF S-STEM grant funded project titled "AcademicSupport, Career Training, and Professional Development to Improve Interdisciplinary GraduateEducation for the Next Generation of Computational Scientists and Engineers". Herein wediscuss the development and implementation of this two-semester course sequence (1 credit eachsemester). The course modules included (a) Understanding the academic challenges, goals andtimelines in the interdisciplinary computational science program, (b) Individual DevelopmentPlanning, (c) Career Exploration, (d) Communication
the “why”, to thinkabout alternative explanations and to explain their reasoning [14]. Joughin identifies threegeneral classes of oral assessment [14]:(1) presentation, such as an in-class presentation on a topic or as part of a group project(2) application, such as the OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) innursing/medicine involving simulated patient interaction(3) interrogation, such as within an undergraduate or graduate course where the student isquizzed by one or more examiners.Our focus here is on the latter class: “interrogation” (although we will mostly try to avoid thisterminology due to its negative connotations). Studies have shown that the strength of these oralassessments is in its ability “to distinguish superficial
andpractice were present in this particular educational environment. More specifically, I wanted toexamine the relations of design and explore how students ethically negotiated these relations asthey completed their design work. This project comprised my doctoral research [1].During the 2015 and 2017 Fall semesters and the 2018 Spring semester, I attended each twice-weekly class meeting either in a classroom or at the course’s community partner’s facilities.During the two-hours and twenty-minute classroom meetings, both the students and theirinstructor, who had warmly accepted my request to be a participant observer in her course,welcomed my active participation in discussions about course content and our sharedexperiences working with the community
theirexperience through additional competencies, and develop a project that showcases andsummarizes their experiences to external facing audiences.It is expected that by the end of the course, students will be able to: ● Describe their growth in and mastery of competencies in the context of their undergraduate experiences ● Develop their social capital by working with a professional mentor to ask salient questions, receive meaningful feedback, and discuss [or evaluate] challenging decisions about their personal and professional future ● Design a set of guiding principles and values for their personal and professional futures and use their guiding principles and values to: ○ Describe what being an