postdoctoral research scholar at The Pennsylvania State University focusing on community informatics. She earned her PhD in computer science and applications from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech), where she was a IBM Research Fellow and won an IBM Research Dissertation Fellowship. As a graduate student, her research and perspectives were featured in the New York Times and Computerworld. She is affiliated with the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), based in Washington, DC. The CDC targets students and faculty with the focus of increasing the number of minorities successfully transition- ing into computing-based careers in academia, federal laboratories, and industry. As a CDC
small-scalelaboratory experiences within a lecture-based course. A number of different assessment methodsare on-going with this course.1. Introduction Circuits courses for non-majors typically have some of the highest enrollments of anyengineering course since they are required by so many majors. Viewed as “service courses” byboth students and instructors, these courses are often taken grudgingly by students because theyare required out-of-major courses and are often taught by adjunct instructors or GraduateTeaching Assistants. Thus, they are pedagogically a challenge to teach due to low student andinstructor motivation levels. The motivation for blending this course was to provide consistency across sections, allowfor in-class
transfer, vapour-liquid equilibrium in fluid mixtures, refrigeration, compressors and pumps, and she has taught both junior and senior engineering courses for over 1500 students. Her current interest is in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Dr. Yan is a registered P.Eng. with APEGBC and has served as a reviewer for various international journals.Dr. Vladan Prodanovic P.Eng., University of British ColumbiaDr. Ray Taheri Academic Background • Aug. 2002 Ph.D. In Materials Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Univer- sity of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Thesis Title: Evaluation of Electroless Nickel- Phosphorus (EN) Coatings • Feb. 1990 Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical
including serving as director of the Georgia Tech Air Quality laboratory from 1988 to 2008. He currently serves as deputy director for Research and Technology Transfer for National Center for Transportation Productivity and Management at Georgia Tech.Dr. Caroline R. Noyes, Georgia Institute of Technology Caroline Noyes is trained as an educational psychologist, and her education and work have focused on assessing student learning both in and outside of the classroom. Experiences in both academic affairs and student affairs provide her with a holistic understanding of the modern university and a broad collection of assessment methodologies suitable to a variety of situations. As her intellectual pursuits turned in
Undergraduate Teaching Award, a 2000 recipient of the UWM College of Engineering and Applied Science Outstanding Teaching Award, and a 1998 recipient of the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educa- tional Award. Dr. Reisel is a member of ASEE, ASME, the Combustion Institute, and SAE. Dr. Reisel received his B.M.E. degree from Villanova University in 1989, his M.S. degree in mechanical engineer- ing from Purdue University in 1991, and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 1994.Ms. Marissa Jablonski, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Marissa R. Jablonski is a PhD Student of Civil/Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee (UWM). She serves as program coordinator of the National Science
summer program at Carnegie Mellon) and currently sits on the Board of Di- rectors for the PGSS Campaign, a nonprofit that is responsible for raising the funds to finance and sustain the program.Sarah Marie Robb, Robert Morris University Sarah Robb is a graduate student at Robert Morris University in the Engineering Management MS pro- gram. She recently completed a BS in Engineering at Robert Morris with concentrations in mechanical and biomedical engineering. Graduating with honors, she has also successfully passed the Fundamen- tals of Engineering (EIT) exam. She has participated in summer research at Vanderbilt University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and most recently worked as a teaching assistant for the
State University’s Salina campus. A Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE) and a Certified Enterprise Integrator (CEI), she teaches lecture and laboratory courses in the areas of computer- aided design, manufacturing, and automation. Ms. Morse earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and an M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Auburn University, where she also worked with Auburn Industrial Extension Service. Her work in industry in- cludes engineering experience in quality control, industrial engineering, and design and development functions for automotive parts manufacturers in North Carolina and Germany.Dr. Doug Carroll, Missouri University of Science and
Paper ID #9650Towards Improving Computational Competencies for Undergraduate Engi-neering StudentsDr. Claudia Elena Vergara, Michigan State University Claudia Elena Vergara is a Research Scientist in The Center for Engineering Education Research (CEER). She received her Ph.D. in Plant Biology from Purdue University. Her scholarly interests include: improve- ment of STEM teaching and learning processes in higher education, and institutional change strategies to address the problems and solutions of educational reforms considering the situational context of the par- ticipants involved in the reforms. She is involved in
. This was in contrast to France where in 1795 the École Polytechniquehad been established and had set a model for the scientific education of engineers in Europeand America.” [3, p 1: see also 4]. The great civic (red brick) universities were founded fromthe middle of the century. Even so the number of engineers produced through theirdepartments of engineering was small.1.4. In parallel during the nineteenth century there evolved a system of voluntary elementaryeducation that had begun in the eighteenth century. It had a religious orientation andparticular mention should be made of the Sunday School Movement that had as its objectivethe teaching of children from the poorer classes to read the Bible. But from 1795 someschools for industry were
Company and Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer with Intuit in Silicon Valley. Dr. Schar has a BSS from Northwestern University, an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering is from Stanford University.Dr. Sarah L. Billington, Stanford University Sarah Billington is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineer- ing at Stanford University. Her research group focuses on sustainable, durable construction materials and their application to structures and construction. She teaches an undergraduate class on introductory solid mechanics as well as graduate courses in structural concrete behavior and design. Most recently she has
Paper ID #9669A Multidisciplinary MOOC on Creativity, Innovation, and Change: Encour-aging Experimentation and Experiential Learning on a Grand ScaleDr. Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Kathryn Jablokow is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Design at Penn State University. A graduate of Ohio State University (Ph.D., Electrical Engineering), Dr. Jablokow’s teaching and research interests include problem solving, invention, and creativity in science and engineer- ing, as well as robotics and computational dynamics. In addition to her membership in ASEE, she is a Senior
; conduct experiments in more than onetechnical area of civil engineering and analyze and interpret the resulting data; analyze and solve well-defined problems in at least four technical areas appropriate to civil engineering; design a system,component, or process in more than one civil engineering context; apply principles of sustainability indesign; apply principles of project management; explain basic concepts in business, public policy, andleadership; analyze issues in professional ethics; and explain the importance of professional licensure.2. FacultyThe program must demonstrate that faculty teaching courses that are primarily design in content arequalified to teach the subject matter by virtue of professional licensure, or by education and
all children, including those who are not minorities or children of poverty. Theimplementation of sound, research-based strategies that recognize the benefits ofdiversity can build a better future for all of us. Engineering curriculum and instruction inthe kindergarten to the twelfth grade classroom (K-12 engineering education) can serveas a vehicle to teach other content areas in a cross-curricular fashion.8 Additionally,certain engineering curricula have been found to impact learning in the specific contentareas of mathematics and science. 23 The Next Generation Science Standards 9 calls for a Page 24.36.4learning environment that is student
RF communications equipment and 19 years of teaching experience in engineer- ing and technology undergraduate programs. His research interests include in digital image processing, biomedical signal processing and engineering education. Page 24.854.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 LEARNING OUTCOMES OF INTRODUCTORY ENGINEERING COURSES: STUDENT PERCEPTIONSAbstractThis paper evaluates the learning outcomes of an introductory level engineering course andcompares the assessment data of these outcomes to student self-evaluation of the achievement
minimize barriers to engineering for Native Americanstudents.IntroductionThe National Research Council has released the Next Generation Science Standards for K-12education. For the first time, engineering is represented in K-12 standards. The intent of this shiftis to better prepare young students to pursue pathways in science, engineering, technology, andmathematics. With this change comes the responsibility to design a learning progression ofengineering content that fits within science curricula. Posing a challenge, science curricula aretypically designed from the views of Western modern science. This represents a limitedperspective of science teaching because it adheres to a universalist model and does notincorporate alternative ways of knowing
, University of Maine John Thompson is an Associate Professor of Physics and Cooperating Associate Professor of STEM Education, and a member of the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education at the University of Maine. He is co-director of the UMaine Physics Education Research Laboratory, a research group of over a dozen faculty, postdoctoral research associates, graduate students, and undergraduates. His research focuses on the learning and teaching of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics at the upper division, and student understanding at the physics-mathematics interface. He is very interested in cross-disciplinary studies of specific topics.Donald B. Mountcastle, University of Maine Donald Mountcastle is an
Paper ID #8969The PhD Advising Relationship: Needs of Returning and Direct-PathwayStudentsMs. Erika Mosyjowski, University of MichiganDr. Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Assistant Research Scientist and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the College of Engi- neering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research focuses on idea gen- eration, design strategies, design ethnography, creativity instruction, and engineering practitioners who return to graduate school. She teaches
university education. Perhaps this is most clearly evident in the type ofengineers certain companies employ and perhaps the statistics on employment may show a biastowards employing graduates from particular institutions in specific industry sectors. Educators have reported on the benefits of experiential, hands-on, student-directed learning[1-4] and the effects of design courses in engineering [5]. Engineering educators have used field Page 24.1198.2trips, laboratory investigations, and interdisciplinary activities that enrich and extend thecurriculum [6, 7]. Such designing of authentic experiences into courses and curricula are
laboratory access iswithheld until all team members complete the assignments.IntroductionThe Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) Program1-4 is an innovative educationalinitiative at the College of Engineering of the University of Florida (UF). In weekly classesspanning two consecutive academic semesters, (eight months), students from various engineeringand business disciplines are taught how to design products and processes. Then, working in smallmultidisciplinary teams under the guidance of faculty coaches and industrial liaison engineers, Page 24.1240.2the students design and build an industrial product or design a manufacturing process
creative genius. CUP Archive, 1990.[10] C. Kamii, “Teaching for thinking and creativity: a Piagetian point of view,” Lawson AE Ed, pp. 29–58, 1980.[11] G.-A. Amoussou, E. Cashman, and S. Steinberg, “Ways to Learn and Teach Creativity and Design in Computing Science,” in Proceedings of the 2007 Symposium on Science of Design, New York, NY, USA, 2007, pp. 12–13.[12] Z. C. Qian, S. Visser, and Y. V. Chen, “Integrating user experience research into industrial design education: interaction design program in Purdue,” in Open Catalyzing Innovation, Washington, D.C., 2011.[13] C. Lorenz and T. J. Peters, The Design Dimension: the new competitive weapon for product strategy and global marketing. Blackwell, 1990.[14] M
teaching and learning in engineering, and the cognitive development of graduate and undergraduate students.Miss Qunqun Liu Qunqun Liu is a graduate student in the Graduate School of Education at Shanghai Jiaotong University. She obtained a B.S. in public administration from China Agricultural University. Her current interest focuses on the cognitive development of engineering graduate students.Dr. Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette Monica F. Cox, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education and is the Inaugu- ral Director of the College of Engineering’s Leadership Minor at Purdue University. She also serves as the Executive Director of the International Institute for
, University of Michigan John Younger, MD, is a Professor and Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine. In addition to being a practicing physician, he leads a research laboratory focused on issues re- lated to bacterial fouling of materials. In the context of human health, the work concentrates on infections of implanted medical devices. In other contexts, his work focuses on ways to prevent, or even facili- tate, bacterial interactions with engineered surfaces. Examples of the former include preventing fouling of industrial surfaces. An example of the latter is the development of new technologies to enhance the detection of low-level bacterial contamination in clinical samples and food.Prof
Brent, R. “The Intellectual Development of Science and Engineering Students Part 2: Teaching to Promote Growth.” J. Engineering Education, Vol. 3, No. 4 (2004): 279-291.16. Gasper, B. J. and Gardener, S. M. “Engaging Students in Authentic Microbiology Research in an Introductory Biology Laboratory Course is Correlated with Gains in Understanding of the Nature of Authentic Research and Critical Thinking.” J. Microbiology & Biology Education, May 2013, p. 25-34.17. Gottesman, A. J. and Hoskins, S. G. “CREATE Cornerstone: Introduction to Scientific Thinking, a New Course for STEM-Interested Freshmen, Demystifies Scientific Thinking through Analysis of Scientific Literature.” CBE-Life Sciences Education. Vol. 12. (2013): 59-72.18
Paper ID #10538The Integration of Building Codes into the Architecture Design ProcessDr. Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Ahmed Cherif Megri, Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering (AE). He teaches capstone, lighting, electrical, HVAC and energy design courses. He is the ABET Coordinator for the AE Program. His research areas include airflow modeling, zonal modeling, energy modeling, and artificial intelligence modeling using the support vector machine learning approach. Dr. Megri holds a PhD degree from INSA at Lyon (France) in the area of Thermal Engineering and ”Habilitation
University and a Professorial Re- search Fellow at Central Queensland University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineer- ing students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by over $12.8 million from the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation and his team received Best Paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008 and 2011 and from the IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011. Dr. Ohland is past Chair of ASEE’s Educational Research and Methods division and a member the Board of Governors of the IEEE Education Society
naturally, or to continue to (and past) the scheduled end of the session.The set of guiding questions for each group included: What are the objectives of the first-year engineering programs? Why isn’t there a common set of objectives for the first year engineering courses? What would we consider to be the best practices for first year engineering program? For example, should we teach Matlab/Excel rather that introducing students to the disciplines? If students were so successful in High School, why is there so much emphasis on success? What do we mean by success? Are there any of these objectives that are hard to assess? How might we assess them? Is there anything that we think should be a best practice that isn’t
Paper ID #9001Emerging Impact on Graduation Rates/Times From A Summer EngineeringEnrichment ProgramDr. Robert W. Whalin, Jackson State University Dr. Robert W. Whalin, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Director, Coastal Hazards Center, Jackson State University. He is Director Emeritus of the Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS. He received his PhD in Oceanography from Texas A&M University in 1971 and is a Registered Professional Engineer. Dr. Whalin was Director of Army Research Laboratory (1998- 2003; Adelphi, MD), and Technical Director /Director of Waterways Experiment Station
to fill ingaps in student knowledge. It is important to keep the activities exciting and varied when teaching theprogram module. For success with this activity the student will need to learn how to develop thesoftware so the vehicle can move with no problems. The students will learn how to code for the different vehicle settings. All of the settings have to be programmed and coded to work together.Concluding RemarksIn conclusion, it can be stated that with proper guidance, monitoring and diligent care, thetechnology students can be exposed earlier to Xcode, Cocoa framework, Objective-C designpattern, Bluetooth development platform. This will go a long way in motivating them,1eliminating their fear, improving their understanding
the mobile clinic through fundraising efforts.Fig. 1.4 Midwife using portable ultrasound after learning from the biomedical and mechanicalengineering studentsIn July 2013, the leadership institute team traveled to Ghana to collaborate and help facilitate theinitial use of the clinic. This team consisted of a biomedical engineering student, environmentalengineering student, mechanical engineering student, and pre-health student. The team spent aweek preparing the vehicle for use and teaching engineers and doctors on the technical uses ofthe vehicle. They explained maintenance along with reasons for engineering certain aspects inorder to share their vision of the clinic use. The team also collaborated with the director of thehospital to develop
directs its focus at the five major innovation skills used by experts but doesnot explain which of these skills are more important and how these behaviors are linked to eachother. We are looking to fill those gaps related to these five skills. The purpose of this paper is todevelop a better understanding on innovative skills through a content analysis of experts andexamine the possibilities of further study in applying it to teaching future engineering students. “One’s ability to generate innovative ideas is not merely a function of the mind, but also a function of behaviors. This is good news for us all because it means that if we change our behaviors, we can improve our creative impact” 1.MethodsWe conducted a quantitative