Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Lisa Graham Robeson, Ohio Northern UniversityYe Hong, Ohio Northern UniversityDr. Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern University Dr. Stephany Coffman-Wolph is an Assistant Professor at Ohio Northern University in the Department of Electrical, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science (ECCS). Previously, she worked at The University of Texas at Austin and West Virginia University Institute of Technology (WVU Tech). She is actively involved in community outreach with a goal of increasing the number of women in STEM and creating effective methods for introducing young children to CS concepts and topics. Dr. Coffman-Wolph’s research interests include: Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Logic
Paper ID #42554Use of Sentiment Analysis to Assess Student Reflections in StaticsDr. Amie Baisley, University of Florida I am an Instructional Assistant Professor at the University of Florida teaching primarily 2nd year mechanics courses. My teaching and research interests are alternative pedagogies, mastery-based learning and assessment, student persistence in their first two years, and faculty development.Chiranjeevi Singh Marutla, University of Florida ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Use of Sentiment Analysis to Assess Student Reflections in StaticsIn a flipped
. She leads the Environmental Resource Sustainability group, which studies themes related to environmental and water resources engineering, atmospheric water harvesting, waste-to-energy technologies, and environmental remediation. Her work integrates and highlights science communication and community needs-based research. Her passions include designing hands-on learning tools and leading public outreach initiatives for STEM awareness and engagement among all levels of learners.Sydney Donohue Jobe, University of New Mexico Sydney Donohue Jobe works as the Outreach Coordinator and Education Specialist for the Center for Water and the Environment and the Accelerating Resilience Innovations in Drylands Institute at the
Stephanie Wortel-London. Equity in the who, how and what of computer science education: K12 school district conceptualizations of equity in ‘cs for all’initiatives. In 2019 research on equity and sustained participation in engineering, computing, and technology (RESPECT), pages 1–8. IEEE, 2019.[20] June Ahn and B Quarles. Technology and education in the united states: Policy, infrastructure, and sociomaterial practice. In Convergence: US Education Policy Fifty Years After the ESEA and the HEA of 1965. Harvard Education Press, 2016.[21] Anthony S Bryk, Louis M Gomez, Alicia Grunow, and Paul G LeMahieu. Learning to improve: How America’s schools can get better at getting better. Harvard Education Press, 2015.[22] CSTA &
Paper ID #42251Board 44: CampNav: A System for Inside Buildings and Campus NavigationMr. Jiping Li, University of Toronto Jiping Li is an ECE undergraduate at the University of Toronto.Zhiqiang Yin, University of TorontoDr. Hamid S Timorabadi P.Eng., University of Toronto Hamid Timorabadi received his B.Sc, M.A.Sc, and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He has worked as a project, design, and test engineer as well as a consultant to industry. His research interests include the applicati ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work In Progress: CampNav: A
green channel correlation method for versatile identification.Miah Abdullah Sahriar1†, Mohd. Rakibul Hasan Abed1†, Ratchanok Somphonsane2, Houk Jang3,Chang-Yong Nam3, Saquib Ahmed5,6*1 Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering (MME), Bangladesh University ofEngineering and Technology (BUET), East Campus, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh2 Department of Physics, School of Science, King Mongkut’s Institute of TechnologyLadkrabang, Bangkok 10520, Thailand3 Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York11973, USA5 Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology, SUNY – Buffalo State University, 1300Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, USACenter for Integrated Studies in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Paper ID #42166WIP: Teaching Evaluations for Teaching ImprovementsDr. Sarah Lynn Orton P.E., University of Missouri, Columbia Dr. Orton is an associate professor in Civil Engineering and is an active member of the American Concrete Institute and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Dr. Orton also serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Civil and Environmental ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 WIP: Teaching Evaluations for Teaching ImprovementsIntroductionThe evaluation of effective and inclusive teaching remains an elusive issue across manyuniversities [1
Paper ID #42964Breaking Barriers: Promoting Motivation, Engagement, and Learning Successamong Biology Undergraduates from Minority BackgroundsMs. Blessing Isoyiza Adeika, Morgan State University Blessing ADEIKA is a Doctoral student at Morgan State University currently in the Doctor of Engineering Program. She has an interest in teaching student basic concepts by adopting an Experiment-centric approach to it. She also is currently working towards being a Data Scientist - AI/ML Expert and hopes to use her skills to proffer solutions in the Medical, Financial, Technology and any other Sector she sees a need to be filled
of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, Milwaukee Wisconsin USA: ACM, Mar. 2010, pp. 97–101. doi: 10.1145/1734263.1734297.[2] “CS2023 – ACM/IEEE-CS/AAAI Computer Science Curricula.” Accessed: Aug. 18, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://csed.acm.org/[3] O. T. Virkki, “Performance and Attrition in Information Technology Studies; A Survey of Students’ Viewpoints,” in 2023 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), May 2023, pp. 1–9. doi: 10.1109/EDUCON54358.2023.10125231.[4] N. Herbert, “Impact of Student Engagement on First Year ICT Performance,” in 2017 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), Dec. 2017, pp. 1085–1090. doi: 10.1109/CSCI
Lucy Arellano Jr., Ph.D.,Associate Professor, The Gevirtz School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, SantaBarbara, California 93106-9490. email: lucya@ucsb.edu. phone: 805.893.8706. Abstract In the pursuit of enhancing the success of students in science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) fields, understanding the intricate network of factors influencing theirachievements is crucial. This phenomenological study investigates the multifaceted network offactors influencing the success of students in STEM, with a specific focus on a Hispanic ServingInstitution (HSI) community college in Southern California. Through faculty interviews and studentfocus groups, the
business challenges with technology solutions). His research focus are in cyber executive management, expert crowdsourcing, and decision analytics. Brian is also the Deputy Vice President for Digital Engineering Programs at Parsons Corporation.Nirup M. Menon, George Mason University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Doing Before Graduating: Experiential Learning with Part-time Internship & Grants Brian K. Ngac, PhD Nirup Menon, PhD Instructional Faculty & Dean’s Teaching Fellow, Professor, Information Systems & OperationsInformation Systems & Operations Management Management
current research focuses on integrating project management processes in undergraduate education. Her main goal is to understand how work management and product development practices widely used in industry can be modified and adapted to streamline undergraduate STEM education.Dr. Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University Alejandra J. Magana, Ph.D., is the W.C. Furnas Professor in Enterprise Excellence in the Department of Computer and Information Technology and Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Effectiveness of Scrum in Enhancing Feedback Accessibility among Undergraduate Research Students: Insights from Integrated Feedback
Paper ID #42423Board 267: Enhancing Urban Mobility: SmartSAT’s Impact on Public TransportationServices and Commuting ExperienceDr. Jeong Yang, Texas A&M University, San Antonio Dr. Jeong Yang is an associate professor of computer science and cyber security in the Department of Computational, Engineering, and Mathematical Sciences at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. She is also a director of the Center of Information Technology and Cyber Security. Her current research is focused on the areas: 1) Intelligent applications of cloud-based AI services to discover effective use of AI technologies, 2) AI-powered secure
Paper ID #42697Envisioning and Realizing a Statewide Data Science EcosystemDr. Karl D. Schubert FIET, University of Arkansas Dr. Karl D. Schubert is a Professor of Practice and serves as the Associate Director for the Data Science Program at the University of Arkansas College of Engineering, the Sam M. Walton College of Business, and the Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences.Shantel Romer, University of ArkansasStephen R. Addison, IEEE Educational ActivitiesTina D MooreLaura J Berry, North Arkansas CollegeJennifer Marie Fowler, Arkansas State UniversityLee Shoultz, University of ArkansasChristine C Davis
Review of Higher Education, vol. 22, pp. 55-72, 1998.[5] A. B. Diekman, E. R. Brown, A. M. Johnston, and E. K. Clark, "Seeking congruity between goals and roles: A new look at why women opt out of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers," Psychol. Sci., vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 1051-1057, 2010.[6] E. Clark, E. Brown, A. Johnston, and A. Diekman, "Seeking congruity between goals and roles: A new look at why women opt out of STEM careers," 2017.[7] E. S. Weisgram and R. S. Bigler, "Effects of learning about gender discrimination on adolescent girls' attitudes toward and interest in science," Psychol. Women Q., vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 262-269, 2007.[8] R. H. Wade, "Feeling Different: An examination of
Paper ID #41308Toward Better Understanding of the Fundamental Theorem of CalculusJuan David Yepes, Florida Atlantic UniversityDr. Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Raviv is a Professor of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University. In December 2009 he was named Assistant Provost for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. With more than 30 years of combined experience in th ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Work-in-Progress: Toward Better Understanding of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus Daniel Raviv and Juan D. Yepes
Paper ID #43957A Powerful Labs Environment for Computer Science CoursesDr. Chi Yan Daniel Leung, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand Chi Yan (Daniel) Leung is the Content Software Engineer (Labs lead) at zyBooks. He oversees the content creation and maintenance of labs across different titles at zyBooks. Before joining zyBooks, he was a lecturer at the School of Engineering at the University of California at Merced. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Vision from the University of California at Merced.Joseph Mazzone, zyBooks, A Wiley BrandMs. Efthymia Kazakou, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand Efthymia Kazakou is Sr. Assessments manager at zyBooks
acrossdifferent entities within an institution and across institutions. To increase skills in data analysisfor staff and faculty, our institution, The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), started aninitiative to institutionalize the systematic use of data and knowledge to develop and implementinitiatives designed to increase the success of students in Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM) disciplines, particularly those from underserved communities. Theories ofchange note the complex set of factors that influence such outcomes [1] [2]. Our institutionidentified key progress metrics related to STEM programs and began diagnosing emergent issuesthat arose from data analysis. In addition, UTEP administers a student climate survey with
support.Introduction“There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” Richard Feynman (1960)Artificial intelligence (AI) methods are revolutionizing undergraduate science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education through early forecasting of end-of-semesteracademic performance [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. These methods typically leverage numeric features ofstudents’ academic trajectories to train AI models. The advent of Transformer-based [7] largelanguage models (LLMs) [8, 9, 10, 11] has significantly expanded the potential for cross-domainapplications due to their extensive knowledge bases [12, 13] and complex task-solvingcapabilities through basic reasoning [9, 14, 15] and planning [16]. Fine-tuning these LLMs viatransfer
York. With a primary research focus on Game Theory and Social Networks, Dr. Dean also harbors a keen interest in Machine Learning classification. Passionate about mentoring undergraduate students, she has guided many in the realms of Game Theory and Machine Learning. Additionally, Dr. Dean has contributed her expertise as a judge at regional events such as the New York State Science and Engineering Fair (NYSSEF) and the WAC Lighting Invitational Science Fair.Dr. Moaath Alrajab, Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York Moaath Alrajab serves as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Systems Department at Farmingdale State College, SUNY, New York. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of
efforts.Dr. Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University Alejandra J. Magana, Ph.D., is the W.C. Furnas Professor in Enterprise Excellence in the Department of Computer and Information Technology and Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Investigating How Student Attributes and Behaviors Relate to Learning Outcomes in a Free Online Python Programming CourseAbstractStudents learning a programming language in a free, online environment are faced with severalchallenges - beyond the difficult material, the content must hold their attention and keep themcoming back when there is no credit and there
Paper ID #42316Board 300: Impact of Virtual Reality on Motor-Skill Performance in Childrenwith Autism Spectrum DisorderNgoc Chung Tran, Orange Coast CollegeIrene X Liang, Cornell University Irene X. Liang is a sophomore majoring in Cognitive Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University. She has a strong interest in behavioral and computational neuroscience and aspires to pursue graduate studies in psychology.Ting A&M University-San Antonio LiuDr. Damian Valles, Texas State University Dr. Damian Valles is an Ingram School of Engineering Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor at Texas State
, you try to make differentprototypes for things. I was familiar with the general engineering process and what it would belike sort of.”Grace: “And there was also a program in San Diego called Marine Technology Society. . . . Andthey would place high school students and internships. So I was able to do a small internship overthe summer for six weeks. And I didn’t know anything, so I wasn’t very useful, but just having theexperience of being in the office and seeing what everyone else is doing was pretty interesting.And that definitely gave me a good amount of experience, I think too, going into university.Another woman (White/Caucasian) testified to the importance of early start with CS/coding.Her experience translated to growth mindset
of these results. After viewing one presentation,student agreement to the statement “I want to become a grade 7-12 teacher.” increased.Implications: Results indicate that using GFO resources can increase student interest in andperceptions of grade 7-12 teaching as a career. Future work includes analyzing the repeated 2023effectiveness study and growing the network of faculty who share these resources to encouragemore students to explore and join the profession and inspire young minds.Introduction & BackgroundState of the Teaching Profession: The Unites States is facing a shortage of qualified middle andhigh school science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers in nearly everystate [1]. K-12 STEM education forms the
background in consumer software and technology. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work-in-Progress: Keys to Success for an Alternative Grading Scheme in a Large Enrollment Differential Equations CourseAbstractIn this work-in-progress paper, we describe the key changes we made to our efforts to implementa standards-based, mastery-based grading scheme in a large enrollment Differential Equationscourse at an R1 university. In this continuation of prior work, we have addressed many of thechallenges we faced in our first effort to transition from traditional grading to an alternativegrading scheme in this course.In the first version of our implementation of an alternative grading scheme, we
(4), 719-744.[2] Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education. (1999). Transformingundergraduate education in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. Washington, DC:National Academy Press. Henderson, C., Beach, A., & Finkelstein, N. (2011). Facilitatingchange in undergraduate STEM instructional practices: An analytic review of the literature.Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 48(8): 952-984.[3] Kroeper, K.M., Muenks, K., Canning, E.A., & Murphy, M.C. (2022). An exploratory studyof the behaviors that communicate instructor mindset beliefs in college STEM classrooms.Teaching and Teacher Education, 114, doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2022.103717[4] Muenks, K., Canning, E. A., LaCosse, J., Green, D. J., Zirkel, S
STEM courses can help students developcultural awareness as well as strategies to navigate the differences effectively.Keywords: undergraduate students, STEM, intercultural competenceIntroduction and BackgroundIn this era of the 21st century, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)education has gained paramount significance. Projections indicate that the U.S. economy willwitness an addition of approximately 1.4 million STEM-related jobs by the year 2030 [1].Notably, the median wage for STEM occupations is roughly double that of other professions inthe economy. Consequently, higher education institutions advocate for increased enrollment inSTEM programs. The increasing globalization of the workforce and the collaborative nature
community events: • First Family Night (November 2019) was a collaboration with a mathematics education professor who brought college students (pre-service teachers) to present culturally relevant math activities to family leaders. • STEAM Night (March 2020) was a collaboration with high school teachers and students who presented interactive math, science, engineering, and art activities. • Spring Break Tutoring (March 2020) AVE Frontera family leaders and cofounders collaborated to provide tutoring services in math and reading to children. • Support for families to use Zoom, Google Classroom (May 2020) Youth leaders provided technology support to families who had children in Elementary that needed
outcomes and optimize educational processes. Husain Al Yusuf holds an M.Sc in Computer Engineering from the University of New Mexico and brings over fifteen years of professional experience as a technology engineer, including significant roles in cloud computing and infrastructure development at a big technologies company and financial services industry. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Optimizing Transfer Pathways in Higher Education Yiming Zhang, Gregory L. Heileman, and Ahmad Slim {yimingzhang1, heileman, ahslim}@arizona.edu Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
action(s). The final and fourth aspect is the pause to engage in metacognition and reflectupon the actual actions and outcomes, and how these experiences fit into or conflict with theindividual's intentions and plans. Opportunities to engage in any of these four components ofBandura's agency model related to professional and disciplinary identity can be positive forstudents [2], but an emphasis on identity work is rarely considered in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate programs.Seeking mentors, reflecting on one's professional identity, and building a professional networkthat spans several employment types all require a sense of agency among interdisciplinarygraduate students who are already focusing energy on the