of a balancedpedagogical approach, that is, the one that integrates experiential learning with traditionalinstruction.One promising way to enhance self-efficacy is through the implementation of hands-onpedagogical approaches that actively engage students in experiential learning. Hands-on learning 2involves activities like Capstone projects, field exercises, modeling, simulation exercise andlaboratory experimentation, providing students with tangible experiences that reinforce theoreticalconcepts. A primary purpose of hands-on activities is to provide learners with actual experiencesthat allow them to apply engineering skills in real-world
workshops was also discussed in the United States. The main outcomesfrom the UK workshop discussions, actions taken since the “Access to Engineering Education”workshop, and how challenges identified in the “Experiential Learning and Teamwork”workshop have been addressed to date in a capstone engineering design project course at the UKinstitution were presented to the U.S. group. Then, further discussion and opportunities forcollaboration, other similar activities, and new ideas were solicited. The workshop was furthersupported by individual and small group meetings with 12 faculty and staff membersrepresenting five units, including two engineering schools, one science school, a College-levelinstitute for teaching and learning, and a student-facing
personal andprofessional settings. Another example is the ‘Professional Continual Learning’ module in ECEGR 3710, a spring quarter course forstudents in their junior year. It is at this point that many students begin thinking about post-graduation pathways and exploringopportunities to strengthen their career preparedness. Finally, ECEGR 4870, the first course in a three-quarter senior design (capstone)sequence and a key touchpoint before students enter the workforce, seemed well-suited for the ‘Social Responsibility’ and ‘Bias andMicroaggression’ modules.Table 1: Pilot Implementation Plan for AY 2024-25. An overview of the modules highlighted is included in this paper.Course Course Title Quarter Program Curricular Outcome
militarism inengineering culture, as well as the material reliance of engineers on the military industrialcomplex for employment that Riley details in Engineering and Social Justice [11]. Forengineering majors, most companies at our career fairs and sponsors of capstone projects weredefense contractors. I personally got placed in capstone projects that were for defensecontractors, interned at a large defense contractor in my last summer, and worked there as amechanical engineer for a year before going to grad school. It really felt like all my options foremployment were defense-related in some way, and all the experiences I gained in my programas a mechanical-focused engineering major was geared towards the defense industry. I actuallytried for a
onlyunderstand how systems work but also articulate or apply principles in new contexts. The QKDlab, for instance, prompted students to abstract concepts about photon polarization,measurement, and error detection into a functional mental model of quantum-securedcommunication. Similarly, the poster project required students to generalize learning acrossmodules into novel applications, promoting higher-order thinking and deeper conceptualmastery. Finally, students engaged in Active Experimentation through the design andimplementation of their own research projects, an essential capstone that allowed them to testand apply their ideas independently. For many participants, this was their first opportunity toengage in self-directed research using advanced lab
, the better. Previous research surrounding the engineering readiness gap has covered topics such asactive, collaborative, and project-based learning in which students are expected to solve anengineering problem while working in teams. The traditional coursework in an engineeringundergraduate degree plan teaches technical and core classes in a sequence while laterintroducing capstone projects that combine the technical and professional skillsets needed todevelop an industry-sponsored project during the senior year. The proficiency of concepts suchas teamwork, communication, project management, and professionalism are expected to be usedin senior-level engineering design classes but may not have been emphasized through thetraditional
flexibility makes PMKS+ a versatile tool, suitable for use in capstone or final projects, not just at WPI but also at other universities. • Collaborative: The application should facilitate sharing and collaboration, enabling groups to work together on a single linkage. PMKS+ allows users to save, export, and share their designs with others, promoting the exchange of ideas and fostering a collaborative learning environment. This feature is particularly valuable in educational settings, where students often work in groups and benefit from discussing their designs with their peers and instructors. • Accessible: PMKS+ should be compatible with multiple operating systems, require no downloads
48500 covers the following topics: an introduction to embedded real-time operating systems, with anemphasis on embedded system software development, tasks, inter-task communications andsynchronization, as well as network software.Students in both ECE 43700 and ECE 48500 are assigned written homework assignments, online quizzes,hands-on projects, and both middle and final exams.ECE 40500 is the first course of a two-semester sequence of senior capstone design. It provides studentswith experience in the process and practice of electrical/computer component/system design from conceptthrough final design. Emphasis is placed on teamwork, project management, and oral and writtencommunication.General lectures on issues important to the engineering
analyze the RPG results of studentstaking these sections as recommended by a scholar reviewing an earlier draft of this paper.Many of our 1000 intro courses in engineering focus on design projects and hands-on activitiessuch as performing lab experiments in class together in EE 1000 and then collaborativelydocumenting the findings in a formal lab report. There is also a design project where studentsdetermine the best arrangement of solar cells to create a solar panel to particular specificationsfor building a solderable power supply that many students use in their future classes. It has beenoften observed that students continue to use this EE 1000 power supply even into their EE 4800Senior Capstone project course. As phenomenal as this has been
begin their PhD training and is a hallmark of our commitment to our early engagementstrategy.During Impact Week, we collaborate with key partners across the university to jump start studentsuccess in each of the Impact Training key areas. We collaborate with our university’s Center forScience Communication Research to build elements of storytelling in science communication.We also partner with our Lundquist College of Business to infuse innovation andentrepreneurship training, with a focus on assessing societal needs and understanding keyconcepts such as market pull vs technology push [9]. We translate these fundamental conceptstowards the process of designing research projects that can lead to transformative discoveriesthat have high potential
upcomingcurriculum adjustments.6. Conclusion and RecommendationsBecause the FE data consistently shows a below-average performance on ethics questions, VMIcan consider alternative means to improve students' professional engineering ethical formationand, in turn, FE exam performance. First, VMI can consider tracking how students apply ethicalframeworks in capstone projects or internships to observe and evaluate the integration of ethicsinto engineering practice. Surveys or interviews with alumni can also offer valuable insights intothe long-term impact of ethics education on professional practice. Alternative approaches in theclassroom may include more case study analysis using codes of ethics, structured reflectiveessays to focus on professional issues
research interests are in biomicrofluidics as well as engineering education. Her recent projects have emphasized mentorship of women and underrepresented students and creating engaging learning environments that promote students’ sense of belonging, persistence, and success in engineering.Dr. Sebastian Dziallas, University of the Pacific Sebastian Dziallas is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of the Pacific. He previously served as a founding faculty member at Fulbright University in Vietnam. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Kent and a B.S. in Engineering from Olin College of Engineering. His research interests in computing education research include using
: the practice of certain canonical problems in acertain collection of subjects is supposed to habituate the student into a certain way of thinkingthat we think constitutive of a physicist, chemist, or other flavor of scientist. But science alsoventures out into the unknown, past the canonical problems and the canonical experiments, andso students need to be formed in ways of handling these more ambiguous situations where rightcourse of action is not clearly defined. Many undergraduate science curricula includeopportunities for such formation, often in advanced laboratory courses or capstone/senior thesiscoursework. Assessment of these formational outcomes is possible, but not as straightforward asfor technical outcomes. The question then is
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incorporating this research into standard methodology courses withinECE and STEM programs—particularly capstone design projects—studentsgain hands-on experience with emerging technologies and power gridinfrastructure protection. The study supports the development of skills indata analytics, system modeling, and cybersecurity, ultimately enhancingstudents' technical expertise and problem-solving abilities in a rapidlyevolving engineering landscape.Specifically, the research focuses on investigating the vulnerabilities ofsmart grid networks to false load-flow data injection, and discussesimprovements in detection and mitigation strategies to strengthen gridresilience. The study contributes to critical aspects of security, monitoring,and predictive
follow-up [14]and purposeful, guiding intervention has been discussed [15], as simply giving students resourcesisn’t enough. For students in another study, the frame of rating the effectiveness of thereflections was in the lens of students improving their weaknesses to ‘master’ specific topics ofthe course, where students with reflection assignments based on their feedback tended to havehigher quality final projects compared to their peers with no reflection [16]. Specific coursespreviously studied in relation to the implementation of reflections in the engineering classroominclude capstone design [17], heat transfer [18], and engineering service-learning [19], [20], [21].Though each of these studies provides a different perspective on
/IoT security can be introduced at different academic levels, starting with basic systemmodeling and networking courses and progressing to advanced threat analysis and securesystem design courses. Capstone projects can be expanded into course projects that applystudents’ theoretical knowledge and practical skills to real-world problems, such as protect-ing a smart grid or countering cyberattacks on industrial control systems. Multidisciplinarycollaboration provides a holistic understanding of CPS/IoT security, the modules encouragecollaboration across engineering, computational science, and information technology disci-plines. Incorporating these modules into current curricula can enhance student engagementand learning outcomes while ensuring
of the course content. A basic framework of engineering design is introducedin the very first Introduction to Engineering course that all engineering majors complete. Thedesign process and attribute terminology from Engineering Design: A Project BasedIntroduction [9] is introduced in the first-semester introductory course and expounded upon ingreater detail in the upper-level design courses. The upper-level design courses consist of a two-course sequence (Engineering Design I and Engineering Design II). Nominally, students takeEngineering Design I during their third year of study and take Engineering Design II (CapstoneDesign) during their fourth year of study. Capstone Design builds upon the curriculumintroduced in Engineering Design I, but
Quarterly.Taylor Alexis Hobbs, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - PrescottChanel Davis, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott Chanel Davis is a junior aerospace engineering student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona. She is a Patti Grace Smith Fellow and a Brooke Owens Fellow, with internship experience at BryceTech and United Airlines. Chanel’s research focuses on equity in engineering education, emphasizing increasing representation and access in software and computer engineering. Her previous research on improving belonging and inclusion in group projects is now being implemented in all introductory engineering courses at her university. She has presented her work at the National
proposeddemonstrates that the problem was still ill-structured. However, in many cases, iteration did notseem to lead to refinement of ERs, which would limit traceability/evaluation through validationand verification stages. The variety of material possibilities also suggests an abductive approach.The authors conclude with guidance, including the importance of emphasizing social aspects ofthe project. Indeed, for first year design projects, when students may have highly variedbackground experiences and limited technical knowledge, sociotechnical projects still provideaccessible ways to gain experience with framing design problems. Likewise, in another first-yearservice-learning course, students framed problems based on their interactions withstakeholders
how particular humanities opportunities lead to particular outcomes isexactly what is needed to make evidence-based arguments about the importance of this teaching.The Engineering and Humanities Intersections study responds to this gap by observing studentexperiences as they learn across disciplines to better understand how these learning experienceswork to support the outcomes that are associated with a liberal arts education, namely enablingtransdisciplinary competencies—communication, teamwork, project management,professionalism—and broadening mindsets—an ability to understand alternate epistemologiesand others’ perspectives, an appreciation of the social and environmental context of engineeringwork, self-awareness and ethical reasoning
Engineering and Computer Science launched GirlSET to address this issue andinspire more young women to pursue careers in engineering. A key feature of this camp was itsmultidisciplinary approach, exposing participants to nine different areas of engineering throughhands-on activities, lab visits, showcases of selected Capstone projects, and industry-led sessions.Additionally, the camp aimed to raise awareness about the gender gap in engineering by hostingWomen in Engineering panel discussions.3- Program Design and ImplementationThe GirlSET summer day camp, designed as a two-week program, introduces girls to various areasof engineering and computer science, and benefits from strong support from multiple stakeholders,including faculty members
themexplaining their identity formation as an engineer, and many more. Capstone assessments for thesemester are also included in the realms of systems engineering, co-op/project experience, andpublic speaking. Professors and facilitators divide the duties of assessing these deliverables forboth content and delivery, offering constructive feedback on how to learn and grow in theseskills and connecting them to their current work.Program Development & AssessmentThere are numerous ways in which all faculty and staff engage with and take ownership of theprogram's educational model. Their most overt inclusion is through departmental and program-specific continuous improvement meetings or “summits” that occur at the end of each semester.These semester
. They completed a joint capstone project that required the unique knowledge of both setsof students. They worked in mixed groups with automated arc welding equipment to additivelymanufacture a structure or component of their choosing. The flexible project direction facilitatedeach student expressing their interest areas and revealed what knowledge and experience theybrought from their own backgrounds, such as intuition about influences of welding torch angle(welders) or robot programming methods (engineers).This paper reports on two iterations of the project with two different student groups. Studentswere introduced to the FOK concept during the first day of the joint project and had theopportunity to map their own FOK and learn about each
solving, instructional material design, teacher training, and gender studies. She teaches undergraduate courses in environmental management, energy, and the fundamentals of industrial processes at the School of Engineering, UNAB. She currently coordinates the Educational and Academic Innovation Unit at the School of Engineering (UNAB). She is engaged in continuing teacher training in active learning methodologies at the three campuses of the School of Engineering (Concepci´on, Vi˜na del Mar, and Santiago, Chile). She authored several manuscripts in the science education area, joined several research projects, participated in international conferences with oral presentations and keynote lectures, and served as a referee
students. He actively involves his students in research projects, providing them with hands-on experience in the field of engineering. His work not only contributes to the academic community but also aims to solve real-world engineering problems. Professor Raja’s research interests include the development of new materials and the application of computational methods to understand and predict the behavior of solid materials under various conditions. He has published several papers in reputable journals and presented his findings at international conferences. Outside of his academic responsibilities, Daniel Raja is passionate about community service and often participates in initiatives that promote STEM education among
design process, from conceptualization to testing and evaluation.Results from the ISE measurement instrument show significant increases in six of eight ISEfactors exclusively in the research group. Reflective responses support these results and highlightthat active and experiential learning with integrated design elements can be augmented byleveraging technology, leading to a challenging and yet fulfilling and meaningful learningexperience.IntroductionEngineering education is undergoing a critical shift to integrate experiential and design-basedlearning into traditionally analytical curricula [1–3]. Although first-year engineering courses andsenior capstone projects often emphasize creativity and innovation, second- and third-yearcourses
Pediatrics and American Chest Society.LaDeidra Monet Roberts, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityDr. Christopher Arena, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Chris is a Collegiate Associate Professor at Virginia Tech in the Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics (BEAM) Department. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Virginia and Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech, both in Biomedical Engineering. He teaches senior design, clinical needs assessment, and biodesign fundamentals. Chris is passionate about collaborations that facilitate student experiential learning opportunities and his research is focused on medical devices, with ongoing projects in the areas of lymphedema treatment
’ global character through study abroad education. She developed and continues to work on Engineering Moment, a classroom-based podcast project about the social role of engineering, and Vision Venture, a co-curricular interactive video series exploring students’ engineering identities, agency, and purpose after graduation. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Evaluating the Future Self Continuity Questionnaire for use in Engineering Education ResearchIntroductionIndustry’s report that recent graduates are not fully prepared for the workforce—framedvariously as a “misalignment” of skills, a lack of professional capabilities, and a general“readiness gap”—has been well
for faculty development,” in Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2024.18. L. Al-Zube, and S. Dorris, “Board 13: Work in progress: Clinical immersion model for biomedical engineering undergraduate students with experienced nurses,” in Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2023.19. D.B. Oerther, “Leveraging the NAM’s ‘getting nurses on boards coalition’ to promote NAE’s ‘changing the conversation’ campaign,” in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018. [Online] Available: https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--30771.20. A. Zahraee, “Preparing successful professionals through an applied interdisciplinary capstone project between engineering technology and nursing,” in