prepare students with the necessary skill sets to be self-reliant and ready for real-world and industry challenges. Therefore, extensive solutions tobridging this gap are vital to creating a holistic engineering curriculum in which students caneffectively acquire the skills that the industry demands.Professional Formation in Engineering (PFE) CoursesAcknowledging these necessities, the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University ofSouth Florida designed a series of three courses called Professional Formation in Engineering(PFE), 1 credit hour each, to support students in learning and integrating professionalcompetencies and efficiently achieving their personal goals. These courses are designedsequentially, so elements from PFE 1 will
provided by an industry, government, or academic sponsor. In 2014the course had 10 teams, and a wide variety of projects, from remote sensing to mechanicaldesign to propulsion. Table A1 in the appendix gives further project details. Note that at this timethe projects were advised by a team of 8 faculty members, and project teams were roughly 9students.In the fall, student teams utilized requirements, trades, and analyses to develop a detailed design.In the spring, teams built, integrated, and tested the design to verify requirements. Student teamsfabricated components within the machine and electronics shops on campus and integrated theirsystems in project build spaces. Students then performed testing using facilities and hardwarewithin faculty
examining the balance between curriculum enhancement and team experience, thispaper delves into the dynamics of unifying these teams under a single banner or body, and thepotential benefits or drawbacks of such an approach. Experience programs that successfully unitediverse teams like these could serve as models for improving other departments on campus oreven enhancing engineering curricula. By incorporating the principles and practices of theseoverarching bodies that collaborate with engineering teams, there is potential to enhanceeducational experiences across various disciplines.Research MethodsThe primary research method employed in this paper is qualitative, semi-structured interviews[4] with student participants, focusing on analyzing each
that is embedded in an AerospaceEngineering curriculum. PBL focuses on writing assignments that are authentic, situationalassignments in response to real project demands rather than responding to hypotheticalsituations. To generate enthusiasm for the course, the topics chosen for each of the writingassignments were selected to be of personal and/or professional value to the students.Based on the results of student surveys, this paper documents the improved capability forstudents to present technical information and convey meaning more precisely by using a PBLapproach. This improved capability is the result of students being exposed to situational,professional and STEM-specific writing tasks. Both quantitative and qualitative results from acase
as polytechnicinstitutions. Engineering has not, however, been broadly embraced by liberal arts institutions,often being seen as being overly career-focused and not sufficiently broad in its educationalapproach. Liberal arts institutions also tend to be much smaller in size, which can make itchallenging to furnish an engineering program with the specialized facilities and equipment itrequires. Furthermore, liberal arts institutions typically have comparatively larger core curricula,which can make it challenging to design a robust engineering curriculum that is completable infour years.A few small engineering colleges exist (e.g. Harvey Mudd, Rose-Hulman, and Olin College)whose enrollment ranges from a few hundred to a couple thousand
accreditation bodies as an integral part of engineering ethics. For example, the ABETcriterion pertaining directly to ethics evolved from a mere “understanding of professional andethical responsibility” in Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000) to “an ability to recognize ethicaland professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, whichmust consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, andsocietal contexts” in the ABET 2019–2020 cycle. The “broad education necessary to understandthe impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context” in EC2000 was joined bythe economic and environmental contexts, in addition to “an ability to design […] to meetdesired needs within
Paper ID #43892Positive Leadership: An Intentional Approach to Faculty Leadership DevelopmentDr. Heidi M Sherick, University of Michigan Dr. Heidi Sherick has worked in higher education for 30 years. Currently, Heidi is the Director of Leadership Development in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. She provides one-on-one coaching for faculty in new executive leadership roles as well as for newly promoted faculty (Assistant to Associate).Valerie N Johnson, University of MichiganMs. Heather Wagenschutz, University of Michigan ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Positive
Engineering in 2009 from the Imperial College of London and his doctoral degree in 2020 from the University of Georgia, College of Engineering.Jack Yang, New York University Tandon School of Engineering ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 An Interactive Platform for Team-based Learning Using Machine Learning ApproachAbstractThis complete evidence-based paper explores the feasibility of developing an interactiveplatform with chatbot feature to facilitate project-based learning. Teamwork pedagogy is widelyused in engineering courses, particularly in first year (cornerstone) and senior-year (capstone)design courses, but also across the curriculum. Faculty have several
Paper ID #43871Work-in Progress: Aligning an Engineering Hands-On Learning Programto College Strategy: Reducing Implementation Barriers to Support Faculty,Students, and Their SuccessMs. Rachel Sharpe, University of Colorado Boulder Rachel Sharpe is a Senior Engineering Projects Consultant at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. Rachel’s work as a senior engineer has allowed her to collaborate with faculty members across seven departments, contributing her expertise to the development and successful implementation of over thirty hands-on lab activities. Rachel has overseen the
learning experience.This research answers the following two questions to improve student learning: (1) Whichinteractions or tasks within the virtual lab consume the most time? (2) What segments posesignificant challenges for participants to navigate or comprehend? This study uses informationfrom how people look around in VR to create assistive instructions with AI. These instructionswill help with steps that are hard to find in VR or activities that are difficult to complete in VR.This sophisticated analysis and AI mix is a big step for 3D printing lessons in VR.The paper explores an innovative educational component integrated into a course project at theauthors’ university. They focused on teaching students about 3D printing process parameters
Paper ID #44219Progress Report on BE-TEC: An NSF S-STEM ProjectDr. Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University Afsaneh Minaie is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Utah Valley University. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. all in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include gender issues in the academic sciences, embedded system, internet of things, wireless sensor network, and robotics.Dr. Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University Reza Sanati-Mehrizy is a professor of Computer Science Department at Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah. He received his M.S. and
Paper ID #42145An Educational Simulation for Understanding Atomic Force Microscopy ImageArtifactsDr. Rachel Mok, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rachel Mok is an instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, specializing in the theory and simulation of bacterial dynamics. As a graduate student, she was a teaching assistant for 2.005, an undergraduate course on thermal-fluid engineering, for many semesters. Through this experience, she realized her passion for teaching. She currently develops online courses and education tools that
challenges in training interdisciplinary scholars; even in an established interdisciplinary program like IDR, developing interdisciplinary graduate students grapple with the influence of disciplinary microsystems– whether they were engineering or nonSTEM based, and often at the expense of their interdisciplinary work.Introduction or at least two decades, U.S. agencies have called for a sustained source of interdisciplinaryFresearchers who can integrate research methods, theories, vocabularies, and cultures across fields. Researchers and educators have responded, aligning graduate settings and curricula to develop this interdisciplinary professoriate[1], [2], [3], [20], [21
Paper ID #43337Material and Energy Balances and Character Development: An Investigationof Student Responses to Intentional Virtue Education in a Traditional ChemicalEngineering CourseDr. Victoria E Goodrich, University of Notre Dame Dr. Victoria Goodrich is a Teaching Professor in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department at the University of Notre Dame. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Notre Dame. In her role as a teaching professor, she teaches hands-on courses across the chemical engineering curriculum. Her educational
Paper ID #42032Work-in-Progress: The Unique Impact of an Interdisciplinary ExperientialLearning Program on Undergraduate STEM Students’ Career ReadinessDr. Rea Lavi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rea Lavi received his Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. He is Lecturer and a Curriculum Designer with the NEET program, School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, where he teaches thinking skills to undergraduate students. His research interests in STEM education involve the fostering and
the solution in some cases.Further integration of expertise from other disciplines might improve this.The importance of creating effective, psychologically safe teams to be successful in anyendeavour has been a common theme in leadership literature and a common focus of engineeringleadership research [36]. As students tackle increasingly complex problems, the ambiguity of thechallenges makes framing and scoping critical, and team members must work hard to collaboratein the face of uncertainty. Further, splitting the work up as a team is not an option, as the systemsthemselves - and the tools used to illustrate them - are interconnected. Instruction in systemsmapping processes and tools can help students to facilitate that collaboration
Paper ID #41796Assessing the Motivation and Emotion Levels of First-Year Engineering StudentsEnrolled in an Academic Writing CourseDr. Aparajita Jaiswal, Purdue University Aparajita Jaiswal is an Intercultural Research Specialist with CILMAR, Purdue University. Her research endeavors revolve around exploring strategies for seamlessly integrating intercultural learning into both regular curriculum and study abroad programs. Aparajita actively engages in offering guidance in developing research studies, curriculum enhancements, and assessment methods pertaining to integration and cultivation of intercultural competence. Her
Paper ID #44356Effective Strategies for New Faculty from the Perspective of an AssistantProfessor in the Early-Career StageDr. Yuzhang Zang, Western Washington University Yuzhang Zang is currently an assistant professor in the department of Engineering and Design at Western Washington University since Fall 2022. She was a visiting assistant professor at Valparaiso University from Aug 2021 to May 2022. Yuzhang received her Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng.) in Electromagnetic Field & Wireless Technology Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in 2014, Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at
students' active participation and consider their background and previous experiences.Recommendations- For Educators: Integrating actual case studies and applied projects that reflect workenvironment challenges is recommended, especially in courses aimed at students with noprevious work experience.For Institutions, it is suggested that teachers be trained and provided with resources to facilitatethe adoption of active methodologies and foster an educational culture that values and promotesapplied and collaborative learning.- For Future Research: It would be beneficial to explore how individual student differences, suchas work experience, influence the effectiveness of different active learning methodologies andhow these strategies can be optimized
demonstratehow ChatGPT could serve as a valuable guide for students [29]. Davis et al. performed a similarstudy with questions suited for introductory programming courses in C [30]. Other researchershave explored students’ use of LLMs and their varied perceptions. Liu et al. integrated AI toolsin an introductory course (Harvard CS50) to aid teaching and learning [31]. A user study byVaithilingam et al. explored how students and programmers utilize and perceive Co-pilot [32].Considering that students use Copilot to learn code, Puryear and Sprint investigated its impact onstudents’ code learning process within introductory computer science and data science courses[11]. In another online introductory programming course, Hellas et al. assessed the
meet-and-greet eventbetween students and BAE200 faculty member was a key activity that contributed to helpingstudents select a degree concentration and think about career opportunities.References[1] A. Baker et al., “Preparing the Acquisition Workforce: A Digital Engineering Competency Framework,” in 2020 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), Montreal, QC, Canada: IEEE, Aug. 2020, pp. 1–6. doi: 10.1109/SysCon47679.2020.9275661.[2] R. Mansbach et al., “Reforming an undergraduate materials science curriculum with computational modules,” Journal of Materials Education, vol. 38, no. 3–4, pp. 161–174, 2016.[3] D. Ahmed, M. Nayeemuddin, T. Ayadat, and A. Asiz, “Computing Competency for Civil Engineering Graduates: Recent
learnable skill, an orientation of practice, and an aspectof professional being. Elements of each construct of empathy are integrated into each of the threedimensions of the model for empathy in engineering (MEE). Within the dimension of empathy as a learnable engineering skill, there are fivecomprising components: affective sharing, self and other awareness, perspective taking, emotionregulation, and mode switching. Affective sharing relates to the cognitive process by which oneshares the emotions of another; self and other awareness moves one from the cognitive processto the affective by experiencing another’s emotions; perspective taking relates to the behavior ofadopting another’s point of view. The component of emotion regulation, has
learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(23), 8410- 8415. https://www. pnas. org/content/pnas/111/23/8410. full. pdf[19] Finkenstaedt-Quinn, S. A., Petterson, M., Gere, A., & Shultz, G. (2021). “Praxis of writing-to-learn: A model for the design and propagation of writing-to-learn in STEM.” Journal of Chemical Education, 98(5), 1548-1555.[20] Bereiter, C., & Scardamalia, M. (1987). “An attainable version of high literacy: Approaches to teaching higher-order skills in reading and writing.” Curriculum Inquiry, 17(1), 9-30.[21] Sampson, V., & Walker, J. P. (2012). “Argument-driven inquiry
Paper ID #44080Work in Progress: An ”Engineering for Everyone” Class that IncorporatesModeling, Simulation, and Biomimicry into the Engineering Design ProcessDr. Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina Richard Goldberg is a Teaching Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Applied Physical Sciences at UNC Chapel Hill. He is developing a new interdisciplinary engineering minor and major at UNC. He is interested in integrating engineering with the liberal arts and an entrepreneurial mindset. He teaches a variety of classes for first year students, seniors, and everyone in between
consequences (vicarious reinforcement). ● Learning involves observation, information extraction, and decision-making, ● Learning is an active interaction where cognition, environment, and behavior mutually influence each other (reciprocal determinism).Social learning theory using the 3C Model:This study incorporates the 3C model of social learning [13] and it is defined as Content,Connection, and Collaboration. In the learning field, content creation is crucial to achieve preciselearning. Instructors should create content by setting learning objectives for effective training[14]. The integration of a social learning aspect requires the instructors to clearly state thedesired learning outcomes while concurrently establishing a
work and find classes tobe more useful [3]. ESE is also integral for the entry into engineering programs and thepersistence to continue [4]. EJ is an individual’s capacity to determine and execute tasks that willhave a predicted outcome [5, 6]. When engineers work in the real world, many times projectswill require the engineer to come up with solutions which cannot be found inside of codes ormanuals. When following a structural engineering firm, the engineers were able to analyzebuilding plans and make changes to designs based on previous knowledge [7]. An engineer maybe an expert when using codes and references but cannot be a competent engineer if lacking EJ[8]. During an engineering student’s curriculum, EJ should be developed incrementally
associated with the formation in an integrated way. Withinthis type of literature, the student perspective is typically treated as a static or predictive outcomefor success/persistence or failure/attrition in computing, for example [15], [16], [30]. We add tothis pathway literature by broadening the range of student information to consider knowledge,interest, and perspectives on their career pathways, and we treat the student perspective data as adependent variable of interest rather than a predictive variable, similar to [1], [17], [31]. Thisintegrated ecosystem and pathways operationalization allows us to respect and value theperspective of students while also considering how the student perspective on computing careersmight be limited or naïve
engineering students enrolled in anexperimental multi-disciplinary program described the impact of key program elements on howthey experienced failure, perceived risk, and embraced learning as an iterative process. In thisproblem-based, hands-on and mastery-assessed program, students iterated and worked throughfailure as part of their learning process. These real-world applications and projects wereinherently multidisciplinary, because they challenged students to draw on and integrate theirmastery of essential course outcomes related to physics, statics, calculus 3 and circuits. Thispilot was too small to support generalizable inferences, but preliminary findings point to keyprogram elements for future research exploring how the participants
, andproject development of the participants. This paper will also focus on the continued use of remote internshipsand experiential opportunities as a High Impact Practice to engage students at an urban commuter universityacross all majors.BackgroundHigh Impact Practices (HIPs) have been shown to be effective in retention, persistence, and overall studentsuccess [1-5]. These practices include activities such as undergraduate research, service learning, experientiallearning opportunities, internships, study abroad, collaborative projects and writing intensive courses. Theseactivities have been found to be very beneficial for underrepresented students. Institutional resources,curriculums and student body demographics limit the effectiveness of the
affected: “At the time, I guess I should have asked who are the stakeholders, because it was my first time in charge of an engineering project at a company. And I guess I assumed all the information given to me is all the information I needed, which was very wrong. I should have asked what actually is at stake here? Who's affected by it? How critical is it to have it done by this deadline? How much testing do they need to do when it's no longer in my hands and in someone else's hands? So I think I started further understanding the project and its necessity to the launch more and more as I attended more meetings, and more engineers were asking how we were going to integrate this sensor, who needed to