research area. He is currently the academic and research coordinator with the African Center of Excellence on New Pedagogies in Engineering Education (ACENPEE), Ahmadu Bello University Zaria; a World Bank funded Development Impact project with the aim of scaling up post graduate education at the MSc/PhD levels through regional specialization and collaboration in the West African Sub-region. Adrian is a registered Engineer with Council for Regulation of Engineering Practice in Nigeria (COREN), a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, a member of the American Society for Civil Engineers as well as the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMG).Fatai Olukayode Anafi, Ahmadu Bello
specificuniversity [7]. \ Figure 2: Conceptual Framework, adapted from Goldschneider (2023)This study seeks to address the following research questions: 1. In what ways, if any, do students’ pre-college socialization experiences influence their anticipatory sense of belonging to both their chosen university and their chosen discipline? 2. How do students’ anticipatory senses of belonging impact their eventual enrollment decisions?Broader Project BackgroundThe data used in this study are drawn from a broader pool generated as part of the UnderstandingKnowledge and Student Agency (UKSA) project, a collaborative effort between six
. Clarification of teachingwith blended learning [20]. methods in engineering education based on the use of technology andThe intentional design of blended learning environments digital media.using evidence-based practices has the potential to greatlyimprove learning efficiency by combining online self-study with traditional classroom teaching[21]–[23]. Blended learning has been proven to be highly advantageous for the field of engineeringeducation, specifically in cases where learning is centered around project-based activities [24]. Inthe context of chemical engineering design, the implementation of blended learning has been
Paper ID #43210Choreographing Virtue: The Role of Situatedness and Layering in BuildingMoral Muscle Memory in Engineering Ethics EducationDr. Sergio Guillen Grillo, University of Virginia Sergio GUILLEN ´ GRILLO, Ph.D., is an experienced public policy, conflict resolution and democratic deliberation scholar and practitioner who has worked extensively in social and environmental policy issues. He is an Assistant Professor in Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He has worked as a Project Director and Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at the Foundation for Peace and Democracy (FUNPADEM). He
Approach to affective, Orientation-Reflective Value Awareness Empathetic Electrical Engineering Courses [31] behavioral Being- Whole Profession Empathic approaches in engineering capstone Skill- Perspective Taking, Mode Switching cognitive, design projects: student beliefs and reported Orientation-Epistemological Openness, Reflective Value Awareness, Commitment to behavioral behavior [32] Values Pluralism Empathy and ethical becoming in biomedical
physical and material characteristics”[55](p. 227). In graduate school, the different settings students operate within as they develop contain microsystems that can include interactions with advisors and peers, departments, as well as activities like coursework, research projects, and extracurricular projects related or unrelated to their field of study; they can also include students’ relationships with family members within their home, as well as with coworkers and a supervisor within a place of employment[50], [53], [56], [57]. These different interacting settings (andtheir microsystems) contain various patterns of or expected, appropriate kinds of activities, roles, and
through a socialidentity lens, either feeling fortified in her engineering identity through her promotion and therecognition of her engineering leadership by her peers, or an erosion of her engineering identitywhen her career track and sociotechnical skillset is compared with “nuts and bolts” engineerswho graduated from her program. In our analysis, we will use these theories to identify andinterpret the different ways in which engineering graduates across an intersectional gender/racevariable understand their professional identities and the factors that influence them.Research MethodsData & Variables of InterestThis study uses data collected from a larger project titled “More than Recruitment & Retention:Tracking Inequity in Engineers
my country in order to even start thinking about things like the work we are doing in the Center. So as of now, I think our focus should be first on developing technology in the U.S., making sure it actually works. Still, this is a really complex task we have. It's nice and everything being the pioneer, but there's so many challenges to this because you're dealing with unknown variables the entire time, and new things to solve. First, we have to focus on specific things in order to—if we want to advance it even more. And after we have that, we can start thinking about how we can apply this in other places. Now, personally, I'm of the belief that this might be like, like COVID. We just need any one of these projects to work
education research.Andrea J Kunze, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Faculty and Staff Ideas and Expectations for a Culture of Wellness in EngineeringMental health challenges are a growing concern in engineering education. A culture thatpromotes wellness in engineering could support both student and faculty psychological health.As part of a larger, ongoing project on the mental health and wellness of undergraduateengineers, our team has investigated how stress and culture interact in engineering education toproduce environments that promote hardness over wellness. We posit that faculty and staff areinfluential stakeholders
–student interaction data, where the frequency of online interactions proved to betterindicate student persistence and success than did the length of interactions. And the study by Aguiaret al. (2014) [14] predicted persistence using first‐year engineering students' electronic portfolios,extracting information about their course engagement through their reflections about engineeringadvising, project updates, and engineering exploration throughout the course. Using attributesrelated to student activities such as assignment skips, assessment performance, and video skips andlags to predict student dropout in online courses, while the study by Halawa et al. (2014) [15] wasable to successfully flag 40%–50% of students who dropped out of the course
design courses or project work courses,those easily encompass teamwork, leadership, and creativity.” This is supported by research thatsuggests that problem-based learning, which is used in design courses, allows for simultaneousprofessional and technical skill development [12]. One of the participants noted how coupled theskills can be together and hard to assess them separately. EF added: So I think that those (communication) are some of the more important soft skills that are a little bit difficult to assess. And I find that they’re difficult to assess because they’re difficult to decouple from the technical content. Meaning if someone is going to do a great job presenting awful technical work, it’s very difficult
Role in Personalized Learning and Assessment," two notable studiesoffer substantial insights. The first study, conducted by [8], presents a unique perspective onintroducing machine learning concepts to first-year undergraduate engineering students. Thisexploratory study is significant for its use of authentic and active learning tools, including a publicGoogle site repository and a course project. The methodology adopted by [8] is innovative, as itengages students in an introductory algorithms and MATLAB programming course. The study’sfindings indicate an increased recognition of the importance and usefulness of machine learningamong students, though it also reveals perceived challenges in grasping these concepts. Theapproach employed by [8
freely available tostudents and practitioners, ensuring the work is shared and adapted freely, and aiming for thebroadest possible audience. Second, multiple authors expressed a desire to maintain some levelof control over their work. This includes concerns about commercial use, wanting properattribution, and retaining creative control. Third, some authors indicated that their license choicewas influenced by recommendations from library staff and university policies or was simply thedefault option provided by the authoring platform they were using.Authoring Support:When asked about authorship teams, over half of responding authors wrote their OER alone, andseveral also mentioned being self-motivated for their projects. A slightly smaller group
, participants noted that projects were the hardest part ofthe course due to their size relative to their other assignments. One participant stated, “We wouldhave like after every week on Sunday, we would have these little Python activities we had to dothat were like two lines long. But then we would have projects that were like 80 lines of code. Itwas just a lot”. Finally, the professors and their behaviors played a role as well. One participantnoted how the professor was not helpful in making the course easier because he only repeatedwhat was in the assigned videos, but failed to provide any new information. Another participantnoted that the professor’s behavior directly decreased her self confidence because he assumedthey knew material that she did
Paper ID #43641Expanding the Broadening Participation in Engineering Focus to IncludeData on Nontraditional StudentsMr. Joseph Ronald Sturgess, Florida International University Joseph Sturgess is a Ph.D. student in the School of Universal Computing, Construction & Engineering Education majoring in Engineering Education at Florida International University, where he also serves as a graduate research assistant contributing to various projects supporting post-traditional students and transfer students. His research interests include community college-minority serving institution partnerships, transfer students, post
CTCs with ~1CTC for every 100,000 red blood cells (RBCs). This topic was selected because of the strongclinical significance, but also because some of the technologies in development to separate cancercells from other cells (e.g., RBCs and other healthy cells found in the vasculature) use a size- orshape-based separation approach which nicely links to one of the areas of expertise of chemicalengineers (which is highlighted in the lecture).Figure 1. Organization and lecture materials for Bioengineering 101. (A) Organization of theactivity included six days of in-class instruction by the author with each day having a specificfocus. (B) Design project statement and criteria the student teams needed to follow. (C) Summaryof the allowed materials
investigates students’ math reasoning. She designs tasks to help students to expand their math reasoning, and she studies how instructors and departments transform practices to grow students’ math reasoning.Marie E. Evans, University of Colorado Denver Marie Evans draws her experience from working across different sectors, from domestic and international nonprofit work to education and technology. She partners with teams by facilitating and implementing creative processes and collaborates on initiatives and research projects with social good emphasis. She’s worked with cities, non-profits, medical professional teams, K-12 groups, and more. She supports the research process with extensive experience engaging diverse
sought to develop authentic, project-based learning experiences for his students in his courses. Dr. White also serves as the accreditation lead for the chemical engineering program at UC Davis.Sara Sweeney, University of California, Davis Undergraduate Program Coordinator ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Wellness Course for Engineering StudentsAbstractEngineering programs are often rigorous, with high expectations and workload. As a result, poorself-care habits might be perceived as part of the engineering identity, where rigor, stress, andsuffering are considered norms of being an engineer. This perception has been studied byscientists, and literature data suggests
assessment process for a developing country. He has developed several global collaborations and currently involved in a number of projects in different countries.Sunzia Sultana, University of Michigan, Flint I am currently working as a full-time Software developer. I completed my Masters in Computer Science & Information System at University of Michigan-Flint ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Development of a Procedure to Avoid Plagiarism in Scholarly WorkAbstractManaging scholarly work such as papers, proposals, and other similar documents can pose achallenge to graduate students, new academic professionals as well as experienced researchers.The complexity increases when the
“connectsstudents and professors in different countries for (online) collaborative projects and discussions”as part of their coursework [4]. Models such as COIL accelerated during the COVID-19pandemic. However, the authors contend that a virtual study experience is about as appealing asubstitute for a program with travel as would be virtual honeymoon in Hawaii. This may be whysince the pandemic’s global shutdown, in person experiences have sharply rebounded with morethan 1000% growth in physical mobility of students from U.S. HEIs in 2021-2022, while virtualstudy abroad is not embraced with the same excitement among students [5]. Regarding the scaleof engineering student participation, data prior to the 2020 travel disruption indicated that from2018-2019
engineering andengaging students sequentially from enrollment through graduation. We explore these in the pre-pandemic, post-pandemic, new HSI designation macro changes in the University. The resultsindicate that students are benefitted from having administrators, faculty and full-time staff worksynergistically to communicate information that can be accessed by students without needing anappointment/commute and to grow a students pathway to lifelong learning through research isbest enabled through student-student direct engagement.IntroductionThe need for the Engineering and Computer Science graduates in the workforce is high.[1]National STEM occupation growth is projected to surpass growth in all other occupations. [2,3]Nearly all STEM jobs require
Department of Civil Engineering in Baltimore, Maryland. Adebayo formerly worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus, where he earned his master’s degree in civil engineering. He also worked as a project Analyst with AgileP3 after graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) in civil engineering from Covenant University, Nigeria. Adebayo has taught courses in Transportation and Chemistry at Morgan State University as part of his commitment to the STEM profession. He has attended conferences across the Transportation engineering field.Dr. Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University Dr. Oludare Owolabi, a professional engineer in Maryland, joined the Morgan
. Oerther Missouri University of Science and Technology, 1401 North Pine Street, Rolla, MO 65409 Sarah Oerther Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College, 4483 Duncan Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110AbstractIncreasingly civil engineers are being asked to incorporate a more inclusive meaning of “public”(i.e., who) and “public value” (i.e., inherently moral concepts) when planning, designing, andsupervising the construction and maintenance of building and infrastructure projects. One way toimprove the meaning of public and value is to borrow from the adjacent profession of nursing.Nurses are well-known patient-centered care, whether the patient is an individual, a
engineering andComputer science at LSU. The project, Preparing Resilient Individuals to Succeed in Engineering(PRISE), creates a scholarship to meet the financial needs of underprepared, low SES students forsuccess in an engineering program (e.g., not calculus ready and low Advanced Placementcoursework). This project works to fill the gap between a student’s high school academicpreparation and those skills needed to be a successful engineering student. Currently, many XXstate high school students are not receiving sufficient academic preparation in mathematics andstudy skills to be successful in engineering, particularly in “high need” / low SES regions of thestate. This paper provides an overview of the program and results through the first two
require ethics instruction: Principles of Engineering Design, a lowerdivision class, and Engineering Design Project II, an upper division class that is the second halfof the yearlong senior capstone project. Engineering codes of ethics are introduced in Principlesof Engineering Design, and the connection between these codes and the general educationcontent from Core is discussed in detail in the subsequent sections. In Materials Science andEngineering, an upper division elective, students are given assignments to consider the past andfuture impacts of materials development on society and to consider how the production ofmaterials and applications of materials might promote or violate various ethical standards. InStatics, a lower division
opposed to the average page views by the lower quartile.This is an expected outcome if one assumes pages views as a proxy for student engagement andthus performance. This trend is less pronounced for the Nano course, however, where the pageview averages for different quartiles often overlap. A secondary trend is that the average pageviews spike right before a major assessment for iTFS. This, however, is not the case for Nano. 6The average page views during the project phase is highly dependent on the type of the projectassigned. The instructor's insight here is that for iTFS, the majority of the efforts relied onexternal resources, whereas for Nano, the majority of the project required interaction
the Department of Engineering Technology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee. His education includes two Master of Science degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Electronics and Control Engineering. He has been actively involved in higher education leadership in various capacities as a Dean, Department Chair, PI, Project Director, and a faculty member since 1997. He has served as the PI / Project Director for multiple agencies including NSF, DOL, DOD, and Perkin’s Grant. His research interests include Industrial Automation Systems, VLSI, ASIC, and FPGA. Other areas of interest are Higher Education Leadership and Accreditation including ABET. ©American
challenges are uniquely unpredictable and impressively varied. Biomedical engineerswill encounter machine learning models contaminated with significant bias [15], to new drugswith limited effectiveness, to implantable or wearable technologies that impact human health.Our students need to be ready for the complexities we can only imagine.The progression starts in freshmen year where students pursue a design project for a real clientthat encourages students to embrace failure through learning, fostering humility and encouragingstudents to discover the complexity of the world they live in. In year two the progressioncontinues by encouraging students to develop their curiosity, uncovering how materials aresourced for biomedical devices and implants and
; Chris Ferekides Dept. of Electrical Engineering, *Dept. of Psychology, University of South Florida Tampa, Florida, United States Abstract This paper presents the second year results of the work supported by the National Science Foundation’s Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (IUSE/PFE: RED) Program under the project titled "IUSE/PFE:RED: Breaking Boundaries: An Organized Revolution for the Professional Formation of Electrical Engineers." Specifically, this part of the study looks at action-state orientation and its impacts on student success. The first-year results were presented at the 2023 ASEE Conference in Baltimore, MD with the academic paper titled "Predicting Academic Performance for Pre/Post
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).Dr. David Hall, Louisiana Tech University David Hall develops and promotes project-based engineering courses. He believes that projects build intuition and confidence which are important for the effective application of engineering fundamentals and for the development of robust technology solutions.Dr. Krystal Corbett Cruse, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Krystal Corbett is the First-Year Engineering Programs Coordinator and Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Louisiana Tech University. She is also the Co-Director of the Office for Women in Science and Engineering at Louisiana Tech. ©American Society for Engineering Education