was only relevant to certain students or was catered forthe mechanical engineering students. These complaints have reduced after implementing the newcontent with plans to continue improving the curriculum in the future.3 CHARACTERIZING THE CURRENT PROGRAMMost capstone programs enroll students in a two-semester fall-to-spring course sequence thatprepares them for their STEM careers by focusing on real-world problems provided by industrysponsors. Over 90% of capstone projects come from industry partners, with approximately 60%being multidisciplinary. For students seeking a December graduation, there is a special section ofthe course informally known as "Concurrent Capstone." This 6-credit hour option allowsstudents to enroll in both Capstone 1
processes [2]. For this reason, it isalso important to carefully design hands-on activities to promote a positive interest andmotivation in students to perform the activity and hence to learn from it [3] [4]. Teachingmodules can be created to increase student learning in STEM concepts, using activities thatstudents can enjoy while learning mathematical reasoning [5], suggesting that this can be used topromote conceptual learning and retention. Moreover, well-planned workshops can also helpimprove scientific skills, promoting a better understanding of STEM concepts [6]. This workhypothesizes that teaching modules that include hands-on activities can enhance conceptretention in the BME field, by allowing students to learn and retain the concepts to
, “Understanding by Design,” 2006, Pearson: Merrill PrenticeHall.[5] D. Fadda and O. Rios, “Online Computer Aided Design Class,” 126th ASEE AnnualConference and Exposition, June 15-19, 2019, Tampa, Florida, USA[6] D. Fadda, R. Vinay, and O. Rios, “Online Development Plan for an Applied ThermodynamicsCourse,” Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress andExposition, October 29-November 2, 2023, New Orleans, LA, USA, IMECE2023- 112320[7] NCEES Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam, https://ncees.org/exams/fe-exam/[8] L. Blank and A. Tarquin, Basics of Engineering Economy, 3rd Edition, McGraw Hill, 2021,ISBN10: 1259875989, ISBN13: 9781259875984[9] Honorlock Proctoring, https://honorlock.com/[10] ChatGPT, https://openai.com/chatgpt
concentratedpresentation. This raises important questions about how publication venues might need to evolve toaccommodate different types of RtD work.The contrast between Shroyer's planned RtD approach and Coppola and Turns’ retrospectiveapplication demonstrates RtD's versatility. While Shroyer explicitly embraced RtD during her designefforts, Coppola and Turns retrospectively applied RtD frameworks to understand existing practice.This suggests RtD's value not just for new design work but for making sense of establishededucational practices. Despite these different approaches, both studies culminated in frameworks -Shroyer's framework for configuring a seeing-across-projects experience and Coppola's temporalframework - showing a specific way that RtD can create
, this is not always thecase for design classes, where assessments typically involve creating reports orgenerating numerical data, tasks that can be easily verified. In the context ofmechanical design, the focus is on producing a feasible design plan and often afunctional prototype, tasks that require creativity and problem-solving rather thansimple replication.While many students show strong interest in mechanical design, they oftenstruggle to acquire the necessary knowledge to achieve their design goals. Theadvanced capabilities of artificial intelligence, such as organizing ideas andgenerating concepts, can help overcome these challenges, especially during theconceptual phase. Additionally, AI features like grammar correction and
and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Dr. Feldman developed informatics metrics to quantify performance of clinicians when using digital diagnostic tools. He has published in Radiology, Academic Radiology, IS&T, SPIE, and RESNA. As a Latino and native Spanish speaker, born in Peru, Dr. Feldman has created markets and commercialized innovative telemedicine products in Latin America for medical device companies, including Orex Computed Radiography, Kodak Health Group, and ICRco. Dr. Feldman also served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program where he led the strategic planning and migration to EPIC Electronic Health Records system and novel meaningful use implementations through
also posed challenges. One student noted “procrastination kicksin without the strict deadlines.” They managed to submit all the work, “but was under lots ofstress towards the end.”. By the end of the semester, all students completed every assignment, andthe quality of their work remained consistent throughout. Survey results showed 61% of studentsfavored flexible deadlines to allow more time for planning and revisions, while 41% preferredstrict deadlines to avoid procrastination. Additionally, 49% wanted reminder emails frominstructors to monitor progress. (Students were allowed to select more than one option for thisquestion, resulting in a sum of all response rates of over 100 percent.)Self team formation for collaborative project: In ME 417
momentum we have built. The relationships, practices, and creativeapproaches fostered through GATHER have generated significant value that will continuebeyond the formal project timeline.We plan to maintain connection through periodic virtual gatherings, including continuing RadicalHope Circles as an informal space for reflection, mutual support, and learning. Communitymembers have expressed strong interest in sustaining collaborative networks, sharing resources,and leveraging the arts-based activities and storycrafting practices developed during the grantperiod. Additionally, project resources—including facilitation guides, arts-based activitytemplates, and community-building protocols—have been made openly accessible, supportingreplication and
Components: During the six-week summer experience, RET participants work on manufacturingresearch projects in collaboration with undergraduate and graduate students and under the mentorship of facultymembers. Below are three sample projects:Physical Manufacturing Simulation: This project involves developing hands-on simulation activities for thedifferent manufacturing paradigms (craft production, mass production, mass customization, and personalizedproduction). Teachers develop the instructions for the simulations, run the simulation with participants during thesummer and refine the simulation based on feedback from the participants, and then take back these lesson plans totheir classrooms. Figure 1 shows sample visual instructions from the craft
Agile methods represent a paradigm shift from rigid, plan-drivendevelopment to a more flexible and iterative approach.The dynamic and complex nature of the IoT systems results in frequent changes in the softwarecomponent, which makes Agile development particularly effective. Specifically, an IoTapplication often involves hardware, software, networks and cloud infrastructure. Agile supportsiterative integration of these diverse components, therefore it can ensure that hardware andsoftware are working together seamlessly at every stage. By accommodating rapidly changingrequirements, and supporting continuous improvement, Agile enables teams to deliver reliable,scalable, and user-centric IoT solutions efficiently. Therefore, in our new IoT course
professor at the Department of Computer Science at Central Connecticut State University. He earned his PhD from the Center for Advanced Computer Studies of the University of Louisiana in 1999. Results of his doctoral research have been applied to network planning and industrial simulation. Dr. Kurkovsky served and continues to serve as a PI on a number of NSF-sponsored projects, including four S-STEM grants, three IUSE grants, and an REU Site grant. He also received funding from NIH, NSA, and ACM. He has an established record of over 100 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of software engineering, mobile computing, and computer science education.Nathan Sommer, Xavier University Nathan Sommer has taught software
they cited several barriers to making desiredchanges, including lack of time for making and implementing course revisions, drastically variedcourse types, and challenging student characteristics, such as disengagement, absenteeism, andprioritizing grades over learning. Thus, some faculty cited examples of having been forced tokeep their instructional practices the same, though they planned to improve them in the future.Min stated, I want to ask students for each topic how well they know, like you need to know how much you know […] I think it's one of the teachings in the workshop, is recognize how much you know already. And then you know how to put the effort in, I think. So basically, now you have all the concept map
at University of Wisconsin – Platteville. He received his Ph.D. in Systems and Engineering Management from Texas Tech University. Gana’s research interests are in engineering education, learning analytics, and novel use of data analytics in decision making.Ingrid Scheel, Oregon State University Ingrid Scheel is a Project Instructor at Oregon State University. She works to teach from an integrated sociotechnical perspective in engineering science and design courses. Her focus is systems engineering and program management. Scheel has experience in small business strategic planning and risk assessment, designing and deploying fiber optic sensors and sensing systems, prototype development, instrumentation, data
? and/or research? academic year?University ofNotre Dame Yes No 0 Yes 1 Yes 1 YesUniversity ofLouisville Yes Yes 7 Yes 3 Yes 2 YesYoungstown Application in Courses planned, but notState University process Yes 1 Yes 1 No. 0 yet offeredTable 2 Institutional CapacityTwo of the
. Promote Ethical Research Practices: Educate students on the importance of ethics in human subject experiments. Ensure compliance with Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocols and address ethical considerations in AI and human-subject research. 7. Develop Research and Presentation Skills: Conduct experiments, interpret preliminary results, and present findings through a poster session at the URSR symposium.Structure • Duration: June 1 to July 27, 2024 • Weekly Schedule: o Meetings every Tuesday to review data format, and plan statistical analyses. o Hands-on activities focused on fNIRS data preprocessing, Python script development, and statistical testing.Highlights
important to note that this research is still in progress, with plans for additional surveys tofurther explore students' preferences. Given ChatGPT 4.0's strong proofreading abilities, it wasemployed to correct grammatical and spelling errors and enhance the clarity of the text [10].ConclusionsThe findings from this study demonstrate that ChatGPT 4.0 has considerable promise as asupportive educational tool for enhancing MATLAB programming skills. A significant majorityof students (77.2%) indicated that ChatGPT effectively improved their coding comprehension andproblem-solving abilities through real-time feedback and the clarification of complex concepts.The use of ChatGPT also substantially reduced debugging time for most students (81.8%),although
Kubernetes cluster. We never transmit student data to external APIs or third-partyservices, thus minimizing any risk of leakage. The script evaluate_llama.py encapsulatesthis offline inference process by loading the final JSON (produced by csv_to_json.py),using a local Llama installation for text generation, and then saving the results into a CSV.This approach gives us full control over data handling: ● Immediate Anonymization – Before or during the CSV-to-JSON conversion, identifiable student fields (e.g., names, emails) are replaced or hashed (planned for the next iteration) to ensure no personally identifiable information is exposed to the language model. ● GPU Acceleration – We execute the model on an NVIDIA A100 GPU, making it
Paper ID #47156Impacts of a Pre-college STEM Outreach Program over Time (Evaluation)Dr. Bin (Brenda) Zhou, Central Connecticut State University Dr. Bin (Brenda) Zhou is a Professor in the Engineering Department at Central Connecticut State University. Her research enthusiasm lies in quantitative analyses and modeling techniques, and her field of expertise is transportation planning and engineering. She recently dedicated herself to STEM outreach activities to promote STEM in youth, especially historically underrepresented groups. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Impacts of
toacknowledge that developing identification with people who are perceived as psychologically orgeographically distant requires more extended interventions in surrounding lesson plans andsupplementary materials that prepare students to immerse themselves in a different culture”40.We examine avatars within computing-infused lessons to provide insight into how novicecurriculum creators may start to consider diversity and inclusion within their work. This is aproxy to help determine where the baseline of consideration for diverse groups may be for thesecreators. When a group is invisible or not included in the lesson materials, there is lessopportunity for more in-depth culturally-responsive pedagogical approaches to beimplemented.MethodsDataWe start our
for the establishment of a “workforce pipeline”. The NQI act also establishedthe Subcommittee on Quantum Information Science within the House Science, Space, andTechnology Committee . This subcommittee published the Quantum Information Science andTechnology Workforce Development National Strategic Plan in 2022, which provides guidanceon the development of such a “pipeline” and calls for higher education to support thatdevelopment [2]. A necessary step in continued development of courses and programs to supportthe QISE workforce pipeline is an assessment of the current state of QISE education [3].Although quantum mechanics has traditionally been rooted in physics, QISE is inherentlyinterdisciplinary, drawing significant contributions
foundelsewhere. Next, the curriculum is analyzed in terms of its philosophical foundation as amultidisciplinary program. After that, data is presented on perceptions of the curriculum from theprogram's students. This data came from formal interviews. Specific research questions for thisportion of the paper are: 1) What are the perceived benefits and drawbacks of aninterdisciplinary, human-centered engineering program?, 2) What topics, courses, and practicesare perceived as the most and least valuable?, and 3) In what ways is it perceived that programgraduates will graduate with advantage and with disadvantage?Introduction The founding of Boston College's Department of Engineering was a multi-year processinitiated in 2014 [1]. Formal planning work
accessibility and acceleratesproduct development.Table 1 (below) outlines the case studies and experiential learning activities included in the firstpilot and planned for the next iteration of the course. It is important to note that the case studiesand activities listed are tailored to our institution and its unique stakeholder needs. The mainpedagogical contribution of this paper and course lies not in the novelty of these specific pairs, butin the overall design framework, which aims to build student self-efficacy in navigating andleveraging technologies in an era of rapid technological growth. Other institutions and programscould adapt this framework by selecting case studies and hands-on activities that align with theirown objectives and the needs
LAU’s strategic plan and launching new programs such as Engineering PreMed and Chemical Engineering. A Professor of Mechanical Engineering, he has led ABET accreditation renewals, curriculum modernization, and major lab expansions. His research focuses on turbulence modeling and CFD for wind energy. He holds degrees from METU and Lehigh University and serves as an ABET evaluator representing ASME.Dr. Pierre Rahme, Lebanese American University Dr. Pierre Rahme is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering and the director of the VIP Program at the Lebanese American University (LAU). He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toulouse. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical
, training programs should emphasize collaborativeskill-building and exposure to entrepreneurial networks (Hayter et al., 2016; Cai et al., 2021).For faculty, training should focus on managing academic and entrepreneurial responsibilities,including strategic planning, resource allocation, and navigating complex commercializationpathways (Miller et al., 2018).ReferencesAbreu, M., & Grinevich, V. (2013). The nature of academic entrepreneurship in the UK:Widening the focus on entrepreneurial activities. Research Policy, 42(2), 408–422.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2012.10.005Amofah, K. and Saladrigues, R. (2022). Impact of attitude towards entrepreneurship educationand role models on entrepreneurial intention. Journal of Innovation and
account of themethodological and conceptual decisions underpinning a research design of a planned andongoing study. This methods paper underscores the importance of research design as a reflexiveand intentional practice, contributing to the growing scholarship on inclusive methodologies andlaying the groundwork for future empirical studies on the professional formation and retention ofwomen of color in engineering.Objectives and ContributionsThe primary objective of this paper is to provide a detailed account of a reflexive andintentionally constructed research design, with the aim of: 1. Aligning methodological choices with the study’s goal of uncovering the strategies women of color use to navigate engineering cultures; 2. Contributing
Paper ID #48458From Bachelor’s to Master’s: Growing Student Engagement in AcceleratedECE PathwaysDr. Pelin Kurtay, George Mason University Pelin Kurtay is Professor and Senior Associate Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at George Mason University. She currently heads the ECE Department’s undergraduate curriculum development efforts and other initiatives related to the development of new programs, recruitment, retention, and planning efforts.Smriti Patwardhan, George Mason University Smriti K Patwardhan is an award-winning academic advisor with over 15 years of experience in higher
calculate agreement.AnalysisResearch questions required both quantitative and qualitative analyses of participants’ responses.The free-response question was analyzed deductively using Villanueva and Nadelson’s threecategories: Mediator, Designer, and 21st Century conceptualizations of engineering. 1. Mediator: Engineers use science, math, and technology. 2. Designer: Engineers solve problems and invent, plan, and design industrial processes. 3. 21st Century: Engineers’ work has real-world applications in service of society [10].Responses were coded using framework analysis [13] and the categories were expanded toinclude overlapping conceptualizations as shown in Figure 2. Participant responses wereanalyzed for categorical alignment and
student fosters SRL, and motivation andemotion serve as possible internal factors a student engages when fostering SRL.Information Processing Theory of SRLThe Information Processing Theory of SRL [4] is a cyclical process in which a student (1)identifies a learning task (e.g., studying for an upcoming test), (2) plans accordingly (e.g.,determines when and how to study), (3) performs the learning task (e.g., engages in specificstudying activities or taking the test), (4) and reflects in order to adapt appropriately to achievetheir learning goals more effectively. This process is distinct for each student, but in general,students engage in this cyclical process to foster adaptive learning behaviors. In challengingcourses in particular, it is
smoked. Instead, these individuals may have been subject tooccupational exposures or air pollution. In particular, long term exposure to particulate matter ofa size of 2.5 nanometers or smaller (PM2.5) is a risk factor for COPD. Wildfire smoke –including both controlled burns as well as uncontrolled fires – is an environmental exposure thatis immediately informative to students of civil engineering (as the University is located inproximity to a National forest where both managed and unmanaged fires create smoke that isregularly observed) [17].DiscussionCivil engineering includes planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance ofbuilding structures and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels
MERIT project. Her research interests include Sustainable Energy, Green Manufacturing, Quality Control, and Multi Objective Decision Making and Optimization as well as Engineering EducaDr. Larry Peel PE, Texas A&M University - Kingsville Larry Peel received an A.S. from Snow College, in engineering, a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Utah State University, an M.S. in engineering mechanics from Virginia Tech, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University. He has tDr. Michael Preuss, Exquiri Consulting, LLC Michael Preuss, EdD, is the Co-founder and Lead Consultant for Exquiri Consulting, LLC. His primary focus is providing assistance to grant project teams in planning and development