cognitive load by improving instructional design. While this is aneffective and important approach, it ignores some other sources of cognitive load that could alsobe minimized. This oversight risks perpetuating inequities by failing to account for the uniquecognitive challenges faced by marginalized students.Significant research has been done to explore how marginalization can be minimized in theclassroom, but that research is generally viewed through the lens of equity and inclusion insteadof cognition. However, as shown in this paper, marginalization and identity related concerns alsohave a cognitive effect on students. Therefore, the approaches used to minimize marginalizationcould potentially be just as effective for improving the learning of
, Ohio.Ms. Annie Abell, The Ohio State University Annie Abell is an Assistant Professor of Practice at The Ohio State University in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. Abell received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from Valparaiso University and a MFA in Design Research & DevelopmentMr. Russell K. Marzette Jr., The Ohio State University Russell K. Marzette Jr. is an Assistant Professional of Practice at The Ohio State University in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Work in Progress: Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Renewal Process at Ohio State UniversityAbstractIn late 2019, the
Paper ID #47688Bridging Information Literacy and Data Science: A Collaborative Approachto Project-Based LearningAbimelec Mercado Rivera, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus Abimelec Mercado Rivera is a Puerto Rican doctoral student and graduate research assistant in the Engineering Education Systems and Design program at Arizona State University. Abimelec received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM) in 2016. After working in the aerospace industry, he returned to the UPRM for his MS in Mechanical Engineering in 2017, where he pursued ways to
Paper ID #48090Do you need an ethical framework? Examining and negotiating ethical standardsusing students’ personal moral perspectivesDr. Benjamin Daniel Chambers, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Ben Chambers is an Assistant Collegiate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. His research focuses include the interactions of non-humans with the built environment, the built environment as a tool for teaching at the nexus of biology and engineering, and creativity-based pedagogy. He earned his graduate degrees from Virginia Tech, including an M.S. Civil Infrastructure
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recorded in a manual of best practicesfor future interventions in communities with similar contexts. This paper proposes the adaptationof the methodology to co-design humanitarian engineering interventions between students,faculty advisors, interested stake holders and communities. All of these for communities arelocated in the Andean mountains. The authors discuss the possible factors driving the results, thenext steps and explore the avenues academia could take for future co-design service trips tosemirural Andean communities. Implications for research and practice are provided.IntroductionAccording to the World Health Organization there are billions of people who do not have accessto safe water, proper sanitation, and electricity [1]. In the
to implement timelyinterventions. Data on program outcomes, such as career placements and graduate schoolenrollments, further illustrate the program’s impact and inform its ongoing development.Dissemination and Broader ImpactsThe results and best practices of the CSMP program are widely disseminated to benefit thebroader higher education community. Presentations at conferences such as those hosted by theConsortium for Computing in Small Colleges (CCSC) and the ACM Special Interest Group forComputer Science Education (SIGCSE) share insights with educators and policymakers. Peer-reviewed publications contribute to academic discourse on STEM education, particularly in thecontext of community college transfers and underrepresented groups.The
.), Ed., A framework for K-12 science education: practices, crosscutting concepts, and core ideas. Washington, D.C: The National Academies Press, 2012.[18] National Research Council (U.S.), Ed., Next Generation Science Standards: For States, By States. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2013. doi: 10.17226/18290.[19] P. Sengupta and U. Wilensky, “Learning Electricity with NIELS: Thinking with Electrons and Thinking in Levels,” Int. J. Comput. Math. Learn., vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 21–50, Apr. 2009, doi: 10.1007/s10758-009-9144-z.[20] M
and project scoping after the activity. This paper describes the steps taken to developthese surveys, including privacy and validity concerns, for what we feel is a pivotal projectmanagement activity in the CS capstone. These steps included deploying the surveys toapproximately 70 student learners across two sections of Senior Design during the Fall 2024semester. Results are presented along with a qualitative analysis of student feedback. Studentresponses have been anonymized given the small sample size because providing demographicinformation such as gender identity and ethnic background would identify certain individuals andinvalidate the research-exempt status of this project’s IRB. Considerations for improving thesurveys for future
graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning to understand engineering students’ identity development. She has won several awards for her research including the 2021 Chemical Engineering Education William H. Corcoran Award, 2022 American Educational Research Association Education in the Professions (Division I) 2021-2022 Outstanding Research Publication Award, and the 2023 AIChE Excellence in Engineering Education Research Award.Dr. T. Michael Duncan, Cornell University
English as a Medium of Education(EME) at the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG), and their peers at a range of UK universitieswho teach Engineering using English as second language. The research focussed inparticular on the following two research questions, the first as a necessary foundation for thesecond: • RQ 1: How does gender impact the teaching of engineering in the Global South? Do engineering academics perceive other barriers, beyond gender? • RQ 2: What are female engineers’ experiences relating specifically to language-use in the classroom?We were interested in exploring the extent of L1 use at IUG (i.e. Arabic), and whetherteachers viewed the use of Arabic in the classroom as a way of overcoming a perceiveddeficit, or
Paper ID #48352Advancing AI Education: Curriculum Development in Florida’s Two-YearState Colleges for Student Career AdvancementDr. Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University Ali Zilouchian is currently the Director of Applied Engineering Research Center and Program Director at Keiser University, He was the founding Director of a $4.5 Million Dollars grant from DOE entitled: aˆ CœAn Articulated Community College-University FraDr. Nancy Romance, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Romance is Professor of STEM Education in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and a graduate faculty
-Champaign I am currently the Associate Director of Assessment and Research team at the Siebel Center for Design (SCD) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I work with a group of wonderful and talented people at SCD’s Assessment and Research Laboratory to conduct research that informs and evaluates our practice of teaching and learning human-centered design in formal and informal learning environments. My Research focuses on studying students’ collaborative problem solving processes and the role of the teacher in facilitating these processes in STEM classrooms. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 WIP: Assessing Aerospace Students’ Human-Centered Engineering Design
Practice (CoP), with the goal to steer students to addressthe essential underlying concept, yet in a manner that is not too suggestive of the correct answer.Indeed, prior research indicates that question wording [15] and “surface features” [16] cangreatly influence where students place their attention in answering questions. The results of thisstudy suggest that changes of wording can have tangible effects on how students interpret andrespond to questions, particularly the degree to which they address the key underlying issue.Therefore, it is important for instructors to use deliberate language in developing, deploying, anddiscussing such questions.2. MethodsThe Concept Warehouse’s ConceptTest under examination can is hereafter referred to as the
setup for producing Chladni patterns was highly successful. It performedwell during the Long Night of Research and demonstrated that this setup, combined with theimpact hammer test (Figure 19), effectively engages audiences. Figure 19: Setup of the impact hammer test at the Long Night of Research 2024As far as the actual addressees of the workshops are concerned, we have not yet gainedsufficient experience to be able to propose a defined approach. The participants of theworkshops are made up of different age groups and come from different types of schools. Sofar, we have approached the group dynamics and interests of the children in every school classthat has visited us and tried to react to them in the best possible way.It can at
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Norwich University teaching classes in the areas of circuits, electronics, energy systems, and engineering design. His research interest is in energy systems, specifically battery electric vehicles and their impact on the electric grid. Cross received degrees from the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Vermont.Ali Al Bataineh, Norwich University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Future-Ready Students: Validating the Use of Natural Language Processing to Analyze Student ReflectionsIntroductionFirst-year Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) students from Norwich University andVirginia Military Institute
-perceived interests and skills to actual contributions in a team setting. Thefindings may be useful in informing strategies for improving team formation and offer insightsinto preparing students for more effective collaboration in professional environments.CATME is an acronym for Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness system.The software provides instructors with research-based survey tools to effectively form studentteams and evaluate team dynamics. The CATME web-based tools assist instructors inimplementing best practices when managing student teams. CATME has been used by nearly 1.5million students from over 2,200 institutions around the world [2]. The research team whodeveloped CATME developed a web-based instrument to
werefrequently used for large-scale surveys and data analysis, as seen in studies like Foote et al.[20] and Landrum et al. [37], which analyzed instructor adoption patterns and instructionalclimates. Qualitative approaches, such as case studies and thematic analysis, were employedto provide in-depth insights into specific practices, barriers, and instructor experiences,exemplified by Koretsky et al. [34] and Tharayil et al. [67]. Mixed-methods research, such aswork by Lund and Stains [41] and Tinnell et al. [70], combined surveys, interviews, andclassroom observations, offering a more comprehensive perspective on the factorsinfluencing instructional change.Furthermore, an intriguing departure from the norm was observed in Hayward and Laursen’sstudy [27
IntroductionOur engineering and higher education curriculum’s complexity is greater than this projectcontends to explore. However, there are many trends in modern society that we believe must beaddressed in our curriculums in the short term for our students’ benefit: 1. A broad education that includes understanding how computing technologies as tools and essential infrastructure of our world impacts all of us. 2. Modern industry seeks a diverse workforce as this diversity impacts all facets of design. We need to help teach this diverse workforce. This includes pushing the narrative so that all walks of human life can see themselves as engineer, which seems to be directly linked to early efficacy within the fields [1] [2
Engineering and Science. He has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and Master’s and Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Iowa State University. He was a post-doctoral researcher at University of Notre Dame and worked in industry for several years prior to joining Detroit Mercy. Dr. Das has taught a variety of courses ranging from freshmen to advanced graduate level such as Mechanics of Materials, Introductory and Advanced Finite Element Method, Engineering Design, Introduction to Mechatronics, Mechatronic Modeling and Simulation, Mathematics for Engineers, Electric Drives and Electromechanical Energy Conversion. He led the effort in the college to start several
reported in existing studies. This examination takes a human factors approach anddescribes and compares existing solutions. The categorization and exploration of teaching materials is not a frequently researched fieldand while many educators have individual solutions for their class that spread to otherinstitutions via word of mouth, there is very little formal evidence outlining best practices in thefield. The findings of this review will offer valuable insights for educators, researchers, anddevelopers, providing a foundation for designing more effective teaching tools that align withevolving educational needs. By addressing these gaps and building on identified best practices,this research aims to contribute to the advancement of
suchas autonomous systems, advanced data analytics, and artificial intelligence [15]. This approachensures that graduates are well-prepared for the growing demands of the UAS industry, which hasbeen identified as a critical area for workforce development [5].Applicability and Suitability of UAS for Aviation and Aerospace Education and TrainingAs discussed, ERAU-W integrates drones as educational tools across various courses andprograms, providing students with hands-on experience in uncrewed aircraft systems.Particularly, in the undergraduate program Bachelor of Science in Uncrewed & AutonomousSystems (BSUS) students engage in designing, building, and flying a variety of uncrewed aircraft,gaining practical experience with industry-grade
interact with the phenomenon of the technology gap to producemarginalization in the highly technology-dependent discipline of engineering education.Therefore, there is a need for an evaluation of how extensive the impact of marginalization onapplications of constructive alignment has been, and subsequently the development of anupdated model of constructive alignment that addresses issues of marginalization.1. IntroductionConstructive alignment is the pedagogical concept that students learn better when the learningoutcomes, learning activities, and assessments in an educational offering are designed holisticallyto support one another and allow students to demonstrate their understanding as directly aspossible [1]. Introduced by Biggs in 1996 [1], a
research interests are in bringing together rigid body kinematics and machine learning for design of mechanisms and robots. He has published 109 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers and his research has been funded by National Science Foundation (NSF), NY-state SPIR, NY-state Center for Biotechnology, Sensor-CAT, SUNY Research Foundation, industry, Stony Brook University, and SUNY Office of Provost. He received A.T. Yang award for the best paper in Theoretical Kinematics at the 2017 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference and the MSC Software Simulation award for the best paper at the 2009 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) . He is the recipient of the Presidential Award for
Morin (she/her) graduated from the University of Dayton with a bachelor’s degree in Middle Childhood Education and completed her Master’s and Ph.D. at NC State in Engineering and Technology Education. Megan’s research interests in faculty development, pedagogies, assessment, and teaching developed because of her previous work with NC State Education and Workforce Programs and as a North Carolina middle school teacher. Dr. Morin will start as the Associate Director for Engineering Faculty Advancement in June 2023. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Entrepreneurially Minded Learning (EML) Micromoment Activities Generated Using Students' Experiences in a Fluid Flow and
physics and engineering education. In addition to his teaching and research endeavors, Mr. Halkiyu has actively engaged in various community service projects. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Time Management Challenges Faced by Online Students in Higher Education: A Mixed-Methods StudyAbstractThis mixed-methods study explores the time management challenges encountered by onlinestudents in higher education, focusing on how these challenges vary across demographic groupssuch as age, gender, ethnicity, and educational background. As online course enrollmentscontinue to grow, it is essential to understand these challenges to design effective instructionalinterventions
Ischools and detailing significant findings (e.g., statements ranked high, statements consistentlyranked neutral, etc.). We will then examine the post-reflection responses following anexplanatory mixed methods analysis design (i.e., using qualitative data to expand uponquantitative findings). We will use best practices in qualitative data analysis to uncover trends orthemes within the data, using both open-coding and guided coding leveraging EVT-STV. Oncewe have reviewed the data and trends for students from Title I schools, we will replicate theseanalyses in data samples with (1) students from high income schools and (2) all responses. Thesetwo groups will be used to compare against the findings from students from Title I schools todetermine if
minority student success." in J.Appl. Res. High. Educ Vol 14.2, pp. 660-678, 2021.[7] B. Bradford, M. Beier and F. Oswald, “A meta-analysis of university STEM summer bridgeprogram effectiveness,” CBE Life Science Education, vol. 20, no. 2, April 2021.[8] K. Kendricks, A. Arment, K. Nudunuri, C. Lowell, “Aligning best practices in studentsuccess and career preparedness: an exploratory study to establish pathways to stem careers forundergraduate minority students,” in J. Res. Technol. Careers., vol. 3, no. 1, January 2019.[9] L. Cancado, J. R. Reisel, and C. M. Walker, “Impacts of a Summer Bridge Program inEngineering on Student Retention and Graduation”, in Journal of STEM Education: Innovationsand Research, vol. 19, no. 2, Jun. 2018.[10] J. R
property, global economic shifts,and the societal impact of automation.Additionally, the overwhelming student enthusiasm for shaping and leading these discussionshas highlighted the importance of enhanced student involvement. Future events will providemore opportunities for students to present research, moderate panels, and contribute reflections,ensuring their voices remain central to these dialogues.A more in-depth focus on ethics and equity will also be essential, particularly as AI progresses atan unprecedented pace, raising new challenges related to fairness, transparency, andaccessibility. Addressing these issues holistically will help provide a balanced understanding ofAI's benefits and risks, encouraging thoughtful engagement from both
Teaching,and Thriving Interactions with PhD Students and Postdocs. These workshops were created through acollaborative process involving regular consultations across three universities but with differentimplementation strategies at each alliance institution. To design realistic scenarios and address challengesspecific to STEM faculty and students, the team drew on a variety of sources, including: journal articles,surveys, and resources [7,8]; discussions with faculty, confidential interviews with PhD students; bestpractices from diversity and inclusion research, guided by experts from the Center for the Integration ofResearch, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL); and best practices in Inclusive Teaching from Emy Cardoza,Director, Global Diversity