US Department of the Interior, they signed anagreement with ANSEP that allows for the direct hire of ANSEP students [10]. This includedgarnering industry and research laboratory positions, not only in remote locations of Alaska butalso nationally. This increase gave students more options to explore multiple areas of theirchosen STEM discipline and could help students discover more career possibilities. Internshipsare considered a way to have contact with one or more professional mentors [11]. Interns alsohave opportunities to learn from seasoned professionals, discover new areas of interest they hadnot considered, and possibly have a “foot in the door” for professional positions after graduation[11]. It also serves as a way of bringing more
, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for sevDr. Milo Koretsky, Tufts University Milo Koretsky is the McDonnell Family Bridge Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and in the Department of Education at Tufts University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Phrasing Matters: A Case Study in the
Engineering Programs Paperpresented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. 10.18260/1-2—46471[3] Nagel, R. L., & Pierrakos, O., & Nagel, J. K. (2013, June), A Versatile Guide and Rubric toScaffold and Assess Engineering Design Projects Paper presented at 2013 ASEE AnnualConference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia. 10.18260/1-2--19141[4] Sidler Kellogg, R., & Mann, J. A., & Dieterich, A. (2001, June), Developing and UsingRubrics To Evaluate Subjective Engineering Laboratory and Design Reports Paper presented at2001 Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 10.18260/1-2—9105[5] P. Brackin, and J. D. Gibson. "Capstone design projects with industry: Using rubrics to assessstudent design reports." 2007
. Koloutsou-Vakakis, K. Pattaje. CASE STUDY: Integration ofPython programming in a civil engineering laboratory course. Civil Engineering Division., 2025ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Canada [Accepted].[26] M. L. Matthews, S. Koloutsou-Vakakis, A. S. Stillwell. CASE STUDY: Project-basedintegration of societal context with engineering communication and computational thinking in anupper-level civil and environmental engineering course. Civil Engineering Division., 2025 ASEEAnnual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Canada [Accepted].
% regolith and25% potting soil, and 100% regolith. Each mixture was measured to weigh approximately 2500grams. Two spinach seeds were planted equidistantly in each container. Horse manure, serving asfertilizer [20], was incorporated at 1% of the regolith simulant content by weight. To ensurereliability, an additional replicate control was included for the MLM-1 simulant (Figure 2). Figure 2. Top view of regolith simulants experiment set-up with the spinach plants and rocksThe experiment was conducted in a controlled laboratory environment equipped with an indoorFarmBot Express, which was monitored and managed via the FarmBot web app. FarmBots arecomputer numerically controlled (CNC) robots, similar in design to 3D printers, and are poweredby
. Matthew West, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Matthew West is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining Illinois he was on the faculties of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at StanfoProf. Mariana Kersh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mariana Kersh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Health Innovation Professor in the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine, and Director of the Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory. She also serves as co-chair of the Integrative Imaging Theme of the Beckman Institute
provided drafts in each case and received technical and non-technical feedbackfrom instructors to guide revisions and completion of their work.MSE pedagogy: Laboratory courses (alongside design/capstone courses) are traditionally one of the mainplaces in engineering curricula where students are required to deal with open-ended problemsand design their own solutions. Even though the experiments per se are somewhat closed-endeddue to logistical and equipment constraints, we took inspiration from senior design courses indeveloping writing assignments with realistic business scenarios wherein students would beaccountable for delivering salient information to (imagined) clients and employers, rather thanteachers. Because students had to make
Multirobot Systems," in IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 26-44, Feb. 2020.20 Vega L., Buscaron, C., Schwartz, E. M. and Arroyo, A. A., “MILyBots: Design and development of swarm robots”, Machine Intelligence Laboratory, University of Florida, 200821 Madni, A & Jackson, S., “Towards a Conceptual Framework for Resilience Engineering”, Systems Journal, IEEE, 2009 3. 181 - 191. 10.1109/JSYST.2009.2017397.22 E. Stachew, T. Houette, and P. Gruber, “Root Systems Research for Bioinspired Resilient Design: A Concept Framework for Foundation and Coastal Engineering,” Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 8, Apr. 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.548444.23 M. E. C. Bento, “Design of a Wide-Area Power
the number of different engineering majors which requireEngineering Statics (hereafter referred to simply as ‘statics’), the three-credit course is taughtduring both standard academic semesters during the year – fall and spring – and has annualenrollments typically exceeding 1200 students. The course is generally taken by engineeringstudents in their third or fourth semester, dependent on their first-semester math courseplacement, and has the following enrollment requirements: 1) completion of Introduction toClassical Physics I (‘Physics I’, 5 combined credits of lecture and laboratory), and 2) completionor concurrent enrollment in Calculus II (4 credits). Statics has been taught for the past severalyears by the same instructional team with a
fostering the persistence and retention of low-income engineering transfer students.Dr. David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine David A. Copp received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the University of California, Irvine in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining UCI, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and an adjunct faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. His broad research interests include
. Theeight topics include communication, the engineering profession, math skills and application,design, global interest, professional skills, academic success, and engineering-specifictechnology/tools [28]. At NJIT, the cross-disciplinary FED course covers all eight categories. Itfeatures engaging and comprehensive lessons designed to provide students with a strongfoundation in engineering principles, practices, and the design process. Through a combination oftheoretical instruction, culturally responsive teaching, and hands-on experiences, students developcritical skills in design thinking, effective communication, and the use of engineering tools. A keycomponent of the course involves laboratory sessions held in a state-of-the-art makerspace
]. These studies explore specific locations within higher education, such as laboratories[26],classrooms [27], disciplines [28], and administrative settings, offering insights into the livedexperiences and practices that define academic life. Certain concepts from the social sciences can help illuminate what convergence educationis and how it functions. One useful anthropological concept is liminality, which refers to atransitional or transformative state of being—an "in-between" phase where structures are loosened,identities are reconfigured, and new possibilities emerge. Liminality has been used to studyintermediary roles in higher education, such as students who navigate between peers andprofessors as they prepare for and move towards
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Urbana Champaign. In addition to a BS in Materials Science and Engineering, He earned his graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering building origami robots and studying how design teams reach shared understanding. His current focuses on the theory behind engineering design and the integration of Human-Centered methods into existing engineering design paradigms.Mr. Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois Urbana-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
,” International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 1779-1790, 2022.[41] D. L. Santos and S. R. Mooring, “Characterizing mindset-related challenges inundergraduate chemistry courses,” Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 99, pp. 2853-2863,2022.[42] M. Wilson-Fetrow, V. Svihla, B. Burnside, and A. Datye, “Course-based undergraduateresearch experiences in a chemical engineering laboratory promote consequential agency,”Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 100, pp. 3752-3763, 2023.[43] Q. Huang, T. Willems, A. Kaur, K. W. Poon, B. Samarakoon, and M. R. Elara, “Apedagogical approach of “Learning from Failure” for engineering students: observation andreflection on a robotics competition (RoboRoarZ-Edition2),” IEEE International Conference
rooms and laboratories of the engineering and computer science departments in order to create as many authentic contextual factors, e.g., social, situational, and temporal circumstances, as possible. • To support social comparison, the activities are designed mono-educational for female pupils only. Additionally, the group setting gives multiple models in performing the task with a variety of further differing characteristics. • To reduce a potential attributional error, i.e., attributing success not to one’s own capabilities but to external factors, e.g., (task difficulty, fortuitous, or external aids), especially external aids are reduced to a minimum after implementing the needed capabilities
’ Laboratories of Canada (ULC), CanadianGeneral Standards Board (CGSB), Accessibility Standards Canada (ASC), and the Bureau denormalization du Québec (BNQ). SCC accredited international SDOs include, among others, theAir-conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI), ASTM International, CompressedGas Association (AGA), IEEE, and NSF International. CSA maintains more than 3,000 activestandards and codes in 57 sectors. In addition to developing standards, CSA also provides testingand certification services.ULC is the second oldest SDO operating in Canada. Established in Chicago in 1894, UL beganoperating in Canada in the early 1900s. In 1920, ULC was incorporated in Canada to meet thegrowing demand for safety standards and testing services
.3. doi: 10.1109/FIE.1997.632748.[5*] A. Magleby and C. Furse, “Lab Report Writing (And Teaching!) Made Easy,” presented at the 2008 Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2008, p. 13.832.1-13.832.7. Accessed: Dec. 12, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/lab-report-writing-and-teaching- made-easy[6*] A. T. Melvin, “Implementation of Undergraduate Coaches as a Student Resource in a Laboratory Course,” ASEE Annu. Conf. Expo. Conf. Proc., 2023, [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0- 85172120630&partnerID=40&md5=ce7409f241b23cee6c1bf0fd48f534ac[7*] K. M. Kecskemety, A. H. Theiss, and R. L. Kajfez, “Enhancing TA Grading of Technical Writing: A Look Back to
of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) summer camps to findwhich camp structure better fosters student interest in STEM fields and disciplines. One campstructure features more activities throughout the day for a shorter period of time, while thesecond involves longer sessions with fewer activities overall. In the summers of 2023 and 2024,18 and 19 students, respectively, participated in week-long summer camps covering ECEconcepts and practices. Each camp, lasting four to five days, included hands-on activities, toursof ECE laboratories, and a week-long group project where students built circuits using theSparkFun Inventor’s Kit. The students worked in groups during the project phase, each with anundergraduate mentor who facilitated and
to Pfennig, from a sociological point of view, all of this support for STEM educationcould be interpreted as a critique of STEM education in schools with its frequent lack of technologyeducation. The semi-professional equipment in out of school student laboratories and sciencecenters, the professional supervision, the project character and above all the opportunity forindependent design, research and experimentation with new pedagogical concepts such asresearch-oriented learning (according to OECD [9] and Projektgruppe [10]) provide a strongcontrast the conventional school setting.Related WorkOne of the attempts to compare individual attitudes and determinants for a pro-MINT careerdecision was conducted by Heine [4]. The primary aim of the
Paper ID #48201This is our community: Designing for Rightful Presence in middle schoolengineering (Fundamental)Mrs. Virginia Swindell, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Virginia Swindell is a 3rd year Ph.D. student focused on the engineering education component of STEM (K-12) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Previously, she served for fifteen years as a Mechanical Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Munitions Directorate at Eglin Air Force Base. In that position, she was immersed in the design, development, and demonstration of traditional munitions (and non-traditional micro
students in focus in the United States higher education institutions. In addition, Mr. Halkiyo is interested in broadening the participation of engineering education in Ethiopian universities to increase the diversity, inclusivity, equity, and quality of Engineering Education. He studies how different student groups such as women and men, rich and poor, students from rural and urban, and technologically literate and less literate can have quality and equitable learning experiences and thrive in their performances. In doing so, he focuses on engineering education policies and practices in teaching and learning processes, assessments, laboratories, and practical internships. Mr. Halkiyo has been teaching different Civil
Dr. Genaro Zavala is Associate Director of the Research Laboratory at the Institute for the Future of Education, Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey. He collaborates with the School of Engineering of the Universidad Andr´es Bello in Santiago, Chile. A National Researcher Level 2 (SNI-CONACYT), he has over 20 years of experience in educational research. His work spans conceptual understanding in physics, active learning, AI in education, and STEM interdisciplinarity. He leads initiatives on faculty development, competency assessment, and technology-enhanced learning. With 100+ publications, he integrates educational psychology, digital transformation, and sustainability. Dr. Zavala also pioneers projects using neuroscience
our collaborativeanalysis: (1) academic trajectory, (2) parental background, and (3) family support. Eachsubsection presents the results via an overview and a selection of interview quotes andfollows this up with a short interpretation from the authors. Following this thematicpresentation, we present two “back-stories,” in more detail, featuring notable experiencesof two participants.Academic trajectoryBefore enrolling in the chemical engineering or biotechnology degree program, nine ofthe eleven participants had completed a Technological Specialization Course (CET) atthe same institution where they now studied. In Portugal, a CET is a short-cycle highereducation program [21] that in this case led to a laboratory technician diploma; it was
“helpful and affirming” and that it was “nice to know that [they are] notgoing to get friction from people [they] have to see every day.” When prompted to expand on thesignificance of having cisgender peers witness them and validate their identity, Sky explainedthat “it’s really important because if your workplace is stressful or harsh or toxic, then you’re notgoing to come in and you’re not doing to do your best work ... and not having to deal with stufflike that is really great.” Because Sky received affirmation through gender validation, they wereable to pursue their degree in the absence of a toxic laboratory work environment. Gili shared asimilar example of support from a cisgender graduate student peer, explaining that they would“check in
/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for-accrediting- engineering-programs-2025-2026/ 6. Ashley Ater Kranov, Rochelle Letrice Williams, Patrick D. Pedrow, Edwin R. Schmeckpeper, Steven W. Beyerlein, Jay McCormack, A Direct Method for Teaching and Measuring Engineering Professional Skills: A Validity Study for the National Science Foundation’s Research in Evaluation of Engineering and Science Education (REESE), 2013 ASEE International Forum, Atlanta, Georgia, June 22, 2013, https://peer.asee.org/17207 7. Vibhuti Dave, Stephanie Claussen, Tyrone Vincent, Megan Sanders, Measuring Changes in Students' Engineering Practice Skills in a Project-Based Laboratory, 2021 ASEE Annual Conference, Virtual
California, Santa Cruz Tela Favaloro is an associate teaching professor for the Baskin School of Engineering at UCSC where she works to establish holistic interdisciplinary programming centered in experiential learning. Her Ph.D is in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in the design and fabrication of laboratory apparatus and techniques for electro-thermal characterization of sustainable power systems as well as the design of learner-centered experiential curriculum. She is currently working to develop an inclusion-centered first-year engineering program in hands on design and problem-based learning to better support students as they enter the engineering fields. ©American Society for
first place. For example, in environmentalengineering laboratory courses where students collect their own data, how do they use GenAI tohelp them decide what to use the data for, what approaches to use to process the data, and thenexecute their plan (e.g., Excel workflow or Python code)? The present study aims to address thesegaps by examining what motivates students to choose to use GenAI tools or not and how studentschoose to integrate GenAI tools into their project workflow working with unstructured data andprogramming tasks. For those who do choose to use GenAI, we explore how it affects theirlearning, problem solving approach, and overall performance on these assignments? Finally, byfocusing on CEE education, this study aims to learn