and a middle school mathematics teacher at a Title 1 school in Waco, TX.Dr. Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University Dr. Johannes Strobel is Director, Educational Outreach Programs and Associate Professor, Engineering & Education at Texas A&M, College Station. He received his M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Information Science & Learning Technologies from the University of Missouri. His research/teaching focuses on engineering as an innovation in pK-12 education, policy of STEM education, how to support teachers and students’ academic achievements through engineering, engineering ’habits of mind’ and empathy and care in engi- neering. He has published more than 140 journal articles and proceedings papers in
found in a traditional high schoolprogram, specialized courses that include an introduction to research method and twoTechnology and Engineering courses, and a University- or industry-based research mentorshipthat starts in the summer of the 10th grade and culminates in a senior capstone project. TheIntroduction to Research method class is designed to provide students with a vital, year long,full-emersion experience into the processes and activities involved with scientific andengineering research and practices. The Technology and Engineering courses, in 10th and 11thgrades, introduce students to the technology tools and their applications in science andengineering practices through modern, hands-on experiments. These courses integrate a
theresources of a large public education system to make a difference and to serve a student body thatis otherwise unable to pursue higher education in electrical engineering. We will also share ourcomprehensive model of program supports and how we plan to measure the usage, effectiveness,and long term impact of those supports over time. 1. IntroductionThe Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Stony Brook University seeks to educateengineers who will possess basic concepts, proficiency in using modern tools, and necessary skillsto maintain the technological and economic competitiveness of United States. Our faculty istotally committed to this vision and understands that the realization of this goal requires anexpansion of the traditional
servicefrom the university to the community, to viewing them as engagements of mutual benefit.As such, a key objective of the WAVES project was to develop a program that wouldadvance student learning for both K-12 students and university undergraduates. To thisend, students from two undergraduate classes played critical roles in developing materialsfor WAVES, as well as working directly with the fifth graders on the day of the event.Details on these two courses are provided below.Special Topics Course: Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, andMathematicsAn interdisciplinary 200-level special topics course through the Engineering, Science,Technology, and Society series entitled, “Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering,Arts, and
discussedwhether we need to see the students via streaming video for their talks and interactions.However, working with the learning technology team, we found that live video orstreaming is not reliable enough due to the wide locations of our participants. Over theyears, we have had people connecting from remote fields, small rural towns, the middleof Africa, and the suburbs of Shanghai. Truly, video streaming is a detriment in thesemoments (as of this writing) because of poor (or no) connections. So we stick with whatworks: audio, slides, and the active functionalities our meeting platform can provide.The basic course cycle: OverviewOver the normal 16-week semester, these graduate engineering students have much toaccomplish in our course. Not only are
the early 1990s1 , Malcolm argued that students perception towards engineering was considered more of atechnically oriented, they did not understand the socio-economic context and benefits ofengineering. Accordingly, preferences of introducing of engineering design to K-12 educationprograms were emerged to provide a venue and experience demonstrating engineeringconnections to human needs 2. STEM is actually an integration of four disciplines in which technology and engineering arelayered onto standard science and Mathematics curricula resulting in cohesive curricula in whichbarriers are removed between the four disciplines. Although wide spectrum of scientific knowledge and socio-economic advances are based ontechnological developments
Paper ID #13961What is global preparedness? Arriving at answers in collaboration with stu-dent engineers working with underserved communities globallyDr. Bhavna Hariharan, Stanford University Bhavna Hariharan is a Social Science Research Associate at the Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. Her field of inquiry is Engineering Education Research (EER) with a focus on engineering design for and with underserved communities around the world. For the last nine years, she has worked on designing, implementing and managing environments for interdisciplinary
) program has a focus on increasing the numbers of underrepresented minorities (URM) who will get STEM PhDs and go on to become professors and enhance the nation’s competitiveness.1 By examining the roles that graduate student AGEP participants from disciplines other than science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) play in engineering education in general, and to become engineering education faculty, researchers and advocates in particular, it is imperative to know and understand the motives which drive this phenomena. Historically serving students within STEM fields, the AGEP for our state, PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP, has taken the initiative to broaden its reach to include participants from various disciplines that
authentic contexts forlearning and enables students to make connections among the STEM disciplines, as well assupports developing knowledge and skills within and across the STEM disciplines8. Engineeringis a critical element of integrated STEM education as it can be seen as a vehicle to teach andlearn science and mathematics1. At the K-12 level, engineering education should (1) include andemphasize engineering design, (2) incorporate important and developmentally appropriatescience, mathematics, and technology knowledge and skills, or (3) promote engineering habits ofmind which are the general principles of K-12 engineering education1. Successful implementation of any integrated STEM program is related to the curriculummaterials used9
engineering to pursue a career in education. For the past 5 years, Brian has taught various levels of high school physics, mathematics, applied technology, and robotics. Brian joined Sparkfun Electronics to help integrate ”tinkering,” electronics, and computational thinking into the classroom. One of his goals is to help teachers to de-mystify how household consumer electronics work. With a few simple tools, classrooms can excite and encourage students to explore the possibilities of microcontrollers, electronics, and physical computing. Brian Huang has a Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign and a Masters in Education from the University of Colorado
obtaining her MBA, Laura became the Director of Corporate Purchasing and was a financial analyst in Investor Relations. Laura left the utility to become the Director of Women’s Sports at STX, Inc., a sporting goods manufacturer where she became the holder of four patents. Returning to the classroom once again, Laura obtained a Masters in environmental engineering from UMBC and became an Affiliate Professor for Project Lead The Way. Laura is now the Engineering Department Chair at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) where she has built an engineering technology program and dou- bled the size of the engineering transfer program by stimulating interest in high school students, training PLTW teachers, and
Paper ID #13227An Exploratory Study of the Role of Modeling and Simulation in Supportingor Hindering Engineering Students’ Problem Solving SkillsUzma Shaikh, Purdue University Uzma Shaikh is a Graduate Student in the Department of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. She is currently working as a Research Assistant in the field of Computer and Education Technology. Shaikh’s research focuses on using visual simulations along with scientific inquiry learning for understanding concepts related to unobservable macroscopic phenomena.Dr. Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West
Paper ID #11490Project-based learning in a high school pre-engineering program: Findingson student achievement (RTP, Strand 3)Todd France, University of Colorado Boulder Todd France is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is part of the Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education Program and helps teach and develop curriculum at a high school STEM academy. His research focuses on pre-engineering education and project-based learning. Page 26.1265.1 c American Society for
creative self-efficacy. Results ofthe study found no association between students’ self-efficacy and their creativeoutcomes. This study also reported on the inter-rater reliability of the web-based versionof the CAT and its discriminant validity. Results proved that the web-based version of theCAT is a valid and reliable means of measuring student’s creative outcomes. The resultsand implications for K-12 technology and engineering education are discussed in thisreport. IntroductionNot only is creativity seen as an essential component of human cognition, its promotionis essential to a global economy and creating globally competitive citizens ([1]; [2]). Thecultivation of our high school students as innovative
is the past chair of the IN/IL section. He is a fellow of the Teaching Academy and listed in the Book of Great Teachers at Purdue University./ He was the first engineering faculty member to receive the national Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning. He was a co-recipient of the National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education and the recipient of the National Society of Professional Engineers’ Educational Excellence Award and the ASEE Chester Carlson Award. He is a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and the National Society of Professional Engineers.Mrs. Jean M. Trusedell, EPICS Jean Trusedell is a
Paper ID #13934The Impact of Summer Research Experiences on Community College Stu-dents’ Pursuit of a Graduate Degree in Science and EngineeringMs. Lea K. Marlor, University of California, Berkeley Lea Marlor is the Education and Outreach Program Manager for the Center for Energy Efficient Electron- ics Science, a NSF-funded Science and Technology Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She manages undergraduate research programs to recruit and retain underrepresented students in science and engineering and also outreach to pre-college students to introduce them to science and engineering career opportunities. Ms
Paper ID #11520Experiential Learning Framework for Design and Development of Environ-mental Data Acquisition System Enhances Student Learning in Undergradu-ate Engineering CoursesMr. Xavier Shastri Domnique HenryDr. Lei Zhang, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Dr. Lei Zhang received his Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering on 2011 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Since 2012 he is working in the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore. His main research interests include image processing, autonomous system, optical SoC/NoC architecture, and on-chip optoelectronic
collaboration Page 26.974.2 agreements and support for each other’s research and grant proposals, 17 distinctive projectswith these community partners, and four spinoff research projects.Background21st century jobs require a new set of skills, many of which are connected to the science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.1 Colleges and universities seek topromote academic excellence but are also responsible for developing students as active citizens.To meet future needs and to grow knowledge capital, there must be investment in technology andsupport for programs that promote innovation and spur leadership. Colleges and universities
- oping and maintaining the hybrid version of that class, and researching improvements methods to teach programming to incoming freshmen using new technologies. She also researches means to incorporate more engineering mathematics and physics into the programming course, as this specific programming course is ”for engineers”.Dr. Heidi M Steinhauer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach Heidi M. Steinhauer is an Associate Professor of Engineering, Department Chair of the Engineering Fundamentals Department, co-advisor for the only all-women’s Baja SAE Team, Founding Member of FIRST (Female Initiative Reaching Success Together), and former director for GEMS (Girls in Engineer- ing, Math, and Science). Dr
, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates to ensure the future success of the state’sworkforce. In addition, there is a necessity to develop the quantity and quality of Georgia’s P-12science and mathematics teachers. This study focuses on evaluating early education teachers’willingness to receive STEM education training, receive assistance with introducing andimplementing STEM concepts to their students on a daily basis in their classrooms, and also toidentify challenges to their willingness to embrace new curriculum concepts. A survey wasdeveloped to assess teachers’ comfort levels with science, technology, math, and scienceeducation, and their willingness to receive additional training, if necessary, in one Title I Georgiaelementary
learning.The groundwork underlying this paper represents the initial steps toward those goals.AcknowledgementsThe authors gratefully acknowledge numerous helpful discussions with Dr. Kurt Fischer and Dr.Theo Dawson.Bibliography 1. Borrell, B., Speaking Out on the "Quiet Crisis". Scientific American 2011, 305 (6), 94-99. 2. Gates, J., S. James; & Mirkin, C., Encouraging STEM Students is in the National Interest. The Chronicle of Higher Education June 25, 2012, 2012. 3. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, 2011, Retrieved at: http
school classrooms, and also on advancing the use of knowledge building pedagogy in higher education. His most recent article (2013) is entitled ”Tasks and Talk: The Relationship Between Teachers’ Goals and Student Discourse,” in Social Studies Research and Practice.Prof. Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, M.S. Civil Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, is professor of physics and civil engineering technology at Springfield Technical Community College. She focuses on developing meaningful educational strategies to recruit and retain a diverse student body in engineering and designs innovative learning environments at all levels of the engineering pipeline
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 2003, where he was a National Defense Science and Engineer- Page 26.880.1 ing Graduate (NDSEG) Fellow, and a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, in 2006. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Design Center Colorado Founder/Director of Graduate Programs in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado in Boul- der, CO. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Surgery and an affiliate position c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015
undoubtedlycapturing students’ interest, they were also shifting focus away from the more-importantengineering-relevant learning goals in the academy. An administrator addressed this issue, notingthat because project-based learning had been trickling down to the lower grades of the schooldistrict, courses needed to shift their emphases to improve students’ skill-sets. She stated, “Nowit’s really about, okay, what technical skills – math, science, technology – do you need to be ableto truly access engineering at a higher level. . . . Because if we just keep having kids build stuff,well they’re done, they got that. I mean after fifth grade, they’ve got that
Paper ID #11813A systematic review of undergraduate engineering students’ perception of thetypes of activities used to teach electric circuitsMiss Nicole P Pitterson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Nicole is a PhD. Candidate in Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a M.Sc. in Manufac- turing Engineering from Western Illinois University and a B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Technology, Jamaica. Her research interest is eliciting conceptual understanding of AC circuit concepts using active learning strategies.Dr. Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette
researcher in STEM at Ca˜nada College. Her research interests include understanding how students become involved, stayed involved, and complete their major in engineering and STEM majors in general, particularly for students in underrepresented populations.Mr. Nick Patrick Rentsch, Canada College Nick Rentsch is an adjunct professor of physics, engineering, and computer science at Ca˜nada College, Skyline College, and San Francisco State University. He received his M.S. degree from San Francisco State University in embedded electrical engineering and computer systems. His educational research interests include technology-enhanced instruction and the development of novel instructional equipment and curricula for enhancing
assessment is not simply on whether or not students “get theright answer,” but on how they acquire science and engineering knowledge and skills in the questfor optimal design solutions. Engineering design assessment thus requires innovative solutionsthat can track and analyze student learning trajectories over a significant period of time.Sophisticated data mining technologies originally developed for scientific and businessapplications provide such solutions.Year 1 Project Goals and ActivitiesOBJECTIVE #1: Advance the data collection capability of a CAD platform to create a “goldmine” of educational data. The Concord Consortium team has expanded the logging capacity ofEnergy3D to generate varieties of learner data. These efforts helped transform
Paper ID #11523Feedback in Complex, Authentic, Industrially Situated Engineering Projectsusing Episodes as a Discourse Analysis Framework – Year 3Dr. Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in Chemical Engineering. He currently has research activity in areas related engineering education and is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher-level cognitive skills in engineering problem
. Additionally, it presents analyses from three waves of student surveys from over 250undergraduates that were conducted in Fall 2013 through Fall 2014. Forty-three (64%)engineering faculty participated across the same period of time. Analyses highlight therelationship between faculty knowledge and student perception of the classroom learningenvironment as they relate to student learning outcomes.IntroductionImproving engineering education is a challenging and persistent national issue that hasimplications for the number and quality of future U.S. engineering and technological workforce.Indeed, there is a significant amount of research that attempts to identify what specific aspects ofengineering education can be improved and strategies for reaching
(Pri- mary – Bioengineering: Affiliated - Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Science and En- gineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry) as well as the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Rohit received dual B.Tech. degrees (in Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science and Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi in 1996 and his doctoral thesis work at Case Western Reserve University (Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering) was in the area of polymer spectroscopy. He then worked as a Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (2000-2005) in the area of biomedical vibrational spectroscopy. Rohit has been at Illinois