understand the real economic and socialimpact of engineering in this century. Another target goal to be achieved is to foster among themthe entrepreneurial mind to pursue other opportunities than finding a job in a company [6]. For theuniversity the final goal is to attract more students and enlarge the number of students inengineering programs. Besides this, by law, universities should provide services to thecommunity, what serves for both student’s practical period and society access to consultancy inengineering that is very expensive otherwise. For the City Hall, this is another community servicefunded by federal government, which could be turned into votes for future elections.Project statusThe groups and the director of the project are doing
Paper ID #14626Sources of Anxiety among Engineering Students: Assessment and MitigationDr. Paul M. Yanik, Western Carolina University Dr. Paul Yanik is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at Western Carolina University. His areas of research include human-robot interactions, assistive devices, pattern recognition, machine learning, and engineering education.Dr. Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University Yanjun Yan received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Tech- nology (China), and the M.S. degree in Applied Statistics and the Ph.D. degree in
habits of mind.Engineering habits of mind refer to the values, attitudes, and thinking skills associated withengineering and include systems thinking, creativity, optimism, collaboration, communication,and an attention to ethical considerations. Wing (2006) also connects computational thinking toengineering thinking, as she defines computational thinking as not simply programming but theoverlap between mathematical thinking and engineering thinking. Likewise, Barr andStephenson (2011) compare computational thinking capabilities across computer science,mathematics, science, social studies, and language arts. For example, learning to implement aparticular algorithm in a computer science context would be analogous to following anexperimental
at a brain-surgery level of detail, but rather from the perspective of immediate application outside of medicine and inside of engineering education. • Suggesting ways in which faculty can use that “Neuroscience 101” knowledge to help students, mostly at the advising level, study smarter – be more effective and efficient. • Presenting examples, reinforced with exercises, of whole-brain tools discovered by the author. These methods engage both cranial hemispheres and the conscious and subconscious minds and enable students to be more creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial.The words creative and innovative have already been used and will appear again in thispaper, along with create and
Paper ID #16594Experimental Centered Pedagogy Approach to Learning in Engineering: AnHBCU’s ExperienceDr. Mohamed F. Chouikha, Howard University Dr. Mohamed Chouikha is a professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer- ing at Howard University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado–Boulder. Dr. Chouikha’s research interests include machine learning, intelligent control, and multimedia signal processing communications for secure networks, among other areas. He also focuses on enhancing recruitment and retention of underrepresented minorities in the
Paper ID #14697Exploring Interviews as Validity Evidence for the Engineering ProfessionalResponsibility AssessmentDr. Nathan E Canney, Seattle University Dr. Canney teaches civil engineering at Seattle University. His research focuses on engineering educa- tion, specifically the development of social responsibility in engineering students. Other areas of interest include ethics, service learning, and the role of the public in engineering decisions. Dr. Canney re- ceived bachelors degrees in Civil Engineering and Mathematics from Seattle University, a masters in Civil Engineering from Stanford University with an emphasis
mechanical. Students entered civil engineeringto build things, environmental engineering to help the environment, and mechanical engineeringbecause they like math and science. Both civil and environmental engineering students changedtheir mind in their senior year and felt that an impact on society was the most important.13Differences seen between disciplines appear negligible for men, but can vary for women.17There have been limited findings on the details of gender differences for choosing engineering.Several studies have found women place a higher value on motivation from mentor or parentalinfluence.12,17,18 These studies have also found that men are more motivated to study engineeringby intrinsic behavior.12,17 Each of these findings provides
their experience.Summary and “Next STEPS”The reconstruction of the STEPS program was essential to recruit underrepresented students. Thenew format was well received and shows great promise. Key lessons learned in delivering thenew curriculum and key lessons learned in extending the population participating in the informalengineering outreach program will be incorporated in successive offerings of the program. Therevamped 2015 STEPS offering follows a 2014 STEPS offering in which the content anddelivery of STEPS was significantly updated to reflect current pre-college science andengineering education research. Specifically, engineering design, engineering practices,engineering habits of mind, and best practices for engineering career exploration
Paper ID #15423Using Multi-Image Presentations to Enhance Continuing Engineering Edu-cationDr. Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Co. LLC Charles E. Baukal, Jr. has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, an Ed.D., and Professional Engineering License. He is the Director of the John Zink Institute which offers continuing professional development for engineers and technicians. He has nearly 35 years of industrial experience and 30 years of teaching experience as an adjunct. He is the author/editor of 13 books on industrial combustion and is an inventor on 11 U.S. patents.Dr. Floyd B. Ausburn, Oklahoma State University
Generation. Journal of Mechanical Design, 136(5), 051009. http://doi.org/10.1115/1.40269516. Svihla, V., Petrosino, A. J., & Diller, K. R. (2012). Learning to Design: Authenticity, Negotiation, and Innovation. International Journal of Engineering Education, 28(4), 782.7. Fila, N. D., Purzer, Ş., & Fernandez, T. M. (Under review). How engineering students characterize their innovative design experiences.8. Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Mind in Society: The development of Higher Psychological Processes. (M. Cole, V. John-Steiner, S. Scrbner, & E. Souberman, Eds.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.9. Rogers, E.M. (2003). Diffusion of innovations (5th ed.). New York, NY: Free Press.10. Amabile, T. M
Paper ID #15756Becoming Boundary Spanning Engineers: Research Methods and Prelimi-nary FindingsProf. Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is Associate Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He is also an Associate Director of Purdue’s Office of Global Engineering Programs, leads the Global Engineering Education Collaboratory (GEEC) research group, and is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from
Paper ID #16973A Principlist Approach for Thinking About the Social Impacts of Engineer-ingDr. Jonathan Beever, University of Central Florida Jonathan Beever is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and faculty with the Texts & Technology Program at The University of Central Florida. He has held postdoctoral positions with Penn State’s Rock Ethics Institute and with Purdue University’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering before joining UCF. He has held fellowships with the Kaufmann Foundation, the Aldo Leopold Foundation, and the Global Sustainable Soundscape Network. Jonathan works and publishes at the intersection of
Paper ID #14867Enhancing the Pedagogy of Bio-inspired Design in an Engineering Curricu-lumDr. Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University Dr. Jacquelyn K. Nagel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at James Madison University. She has eight years of diversified engineering design experience, both in academia and indus- try, and has experienced engineering design in a range of contexts, including product design, bio-inspired design, electrical and control system design, manufacturing system design, and design for the factory floor. In 2012, Dr. Nagel was recognized by the National eWeek Foundation
Paper ID #14862Ethnic Student Organizations in Engineering: Implications for Practice fromTwo StudiesDr. Julie P Martin, Clemson University Julie P. Martin is an assistant professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University. Her research interests focus on social factors affecting the recruitment, retention, and career development of underrepresented students in engineering. Dr. Martin is a 2009 NSF CAREER awardee for her research entitled, ”Influence of Social Capital on Under-Represented Engineering Students Academic and Career Decisions.” She held an American Association for the Advancement of Science
. Censusstatistics, demonstrating a strong need for increased efforts in both recruitment and retention inorder to achieve parity.22, 23, 24 The discussion in this paper will examine real world orbits in thecontext of academic orbits, and an Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate(AGEP) professional development program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, thatis designed to broaden participation in engineering and other STEM fields.2.0 Real World OrbitsThe word “orbit” often brings to mind the celestial phenomenon where massive objects such asplanets, moons, and stars, seem to revolve around one another. Orbital mechanics is a complexmathematical discipline beyond the scope of our discussion in this work, however, we willhighlight
Paper ID #17110Experiencing Real-world Multidisciplinary Software Systems Engineering throughAircraft Carrier SimulationProf. Dan Tappan, Eastern Washington University Dan Tappan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Eastern Washington University. He has been a professor of computer science and engineering for 11 years, before which he spent a decade in the defense industry as a software and systems engineer, mostly involved in the modeling and simulation of weapon systems. His main research areas are software and hardware systems engineering, especially for aviation and military applications with embedded
Paper ID #14972An Earthquake Engineering Education Research Methodology for Game-Based LearningMs. Abigail Christine Perkins, Texas A&M University Abigail C. Perkins has a B.S. and M.S. in physics and is a former physics instructor. She is a Ph.D. candidate in curriculum and instruction, specializing in game-based learning for science and engineering education. Her research interests include game-based learning research and development methodologies for 21st century science and engineering education.Gary T. Fry Ph.D., P.E., Texas A&M University Dr. Gary Fry is Director of the Center for Railway Research at Texas A
solution to this problem in the form of a new approach tolab courses that emphasizes relevancy to the student and student participation in devising the lab.We maintain that labs designed with these two elements in mind, along with a set of guidingprinciples we discuss, increase the likelihood of deep and lasting learning in the student. Weclose with a proposal to implement labs of this nature not only in engineering and physicalscience courses, but in certain mathematics courses as well, with the intention of deepeningstudent learning and retention of mathematical concepts.The Problem: Shallow Learning“Education’s what’s left over after you’ve forgotten everything you’ve learned.” James Conant As an undergraduate physics major, the first
Paper ID #14759Integrating Literature and Problem-Based Learning in a First-Year Engi-neering AcademyDr. Susan McGrade, Indiana Institute of Technology Dr. McGrade is a Professor of English at Indiana Institute of Technology, where she teaches a range of classes from First-Year Composition to African American Literature. She often works closely with the College of Engineering, and has developed both an integrated model for English instruction within a Software Engineering program, and a problem-based learning curriculum for a First-Year Engineering Academy. She is also the current NSBE Chapter Advisor
Technically Speaking3and Tech Tally,4 sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and theTechnology and Engineering Literacy Assessment, developed for all K-12 students as partof the National Assessment of Educational Progress carried out by the US Department ofEducation5. These works developed and elaborated on the elements of technological andengineering literacy that should be achieved by all Americans. In the time since 2000, theNAE has also produced The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the NewCentury6,7. The Engineer of 2020 advocated an effort to clarify and establish engineers as“as broad-based technology leaders, in the mind of the public and prospective students.”Similarly, the NAE’s Changing the Conversation: Messages
arts through the studio-baseddesign pedagogy. In order to design technically feasible and socially acceptable products andservice, students combine the methods and tools from a variety of disciplines, such as designthinking (e.g., mind-mapping), engineering technology (e.g., Arduino), and cultural studies (e.g.,ethnography). In contrast to the focus on problem solving in typical engineering classrooms,teaching in PDI emphasizes problem finding. PDI students usually start their design projects bystudying the relevant objectives and constraints from rich and heterogeneous real-world context,such as the shortage of food and clear water in underdeveloped regions and the stagnation ofpublic schools in American cities. Students also critically
Paper ID #16581Understanding the Effects of Transferring In Statics Credit on Performancein Future Mechanics CoursesDr. Jacob R Grohs, Virginia Tech Jacob Grohs is an Assistant Professor in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech with Affiliate Faculty status in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics and the Learning Sciences and Technologies at Virginia Tech. He holds degrees in Engineering Mechanics (BS, MS) and in Educational Psychology (MAEd, PhD).Ms. Michelle M Soledad, Virginia Tech, Ateneo de Davao University Michelle Soledad is a doctoral student and graduate research assistant in the Department of Engineering
Paper ID #15634Physics Jam, a Physics Preparation Program to Increase Student Performanceand Success in Introductory Physics Courses ˜Dr. Courtney Hadsell, Canada College I graduated with my PhD in Physics from The University of North Carolina in 2013. I am currently a physics instructor and physics program services coordinator at Ca˜nada College. I have a deep passion in promoting understanding and success for physics students thought pre-semester and continuing academic support. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Physics Jam, a Physics Preparation
liberal education2 he argued, in a development ofKrupczak et als paper, that “the defining characteristic of liberal education was “enlargementof mind. This “enlargement” was achieved by the capacity to perceive inter-relationshipsbetween the areas that comprise “universal knowledge” as it is currently understood. Itfollows that consideration of the “product” (technological literacy) without consideration ofthe “process” (engineering literacy) is not a liberal education.”5 Using the model he hadpresented in the earlier paper (exhibit 3) he argued that the solution to engineering problems(the technology) required not only knowledge of engineering science and the mechanics ofmanufacturing but an understanding of the ways of thinking in such areas
Paper ID #14736”Turning away” from the Struggling Individual Student: An Account of theCultural Construction of Engineering Ability in an Undergraduate Program-ming ClassMr. Stephen Douglas Secules, University of Maryland, College Park Stephen is an Education PhD student at UMD, researching engineering education. He has a prior academic and professional background in engineering, having worked professionally as an acoustical engineer. He has taught introduction to engineering design in the Keystone Department at the UMD A. James Clark Engineering School. Stephen’s research interests include equity, culture, and the
management. 4 Leadership SkillsOur thinking about leadership skills follows the work of two teams of engineering leadershipresearchers. John Farr and his colleagues were the first to identify leadership qualities relevant toengineers. These include: big thinker, ethical and courageous, masters of change, risk taker,mission that matters, decision-maker, uses power wisely, team builder and good communicator35, 36 . While this list of competencies was developed with an audience of engineers in mind,Simon Pitts and his colleagues took their list a step further by generating it in collaboration withprofessional engineers working in industry. Pitts et al
Paper ID #14610Investigating and Comparing Two Different CAD Methodologies to CreateTop-down AssembliesDr. Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University Ibrahim Zaid is a professor of mechanical, industrial, and manufacturing engineering at Northeastern Uni- versity. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Akron. Zeid has an international background. He received his B.S. (with highest honor) and M.S. from Cairo University in Egypt. He has received var- ious honors and awards both in Egypt and the United States. He is the recipient of both the Northeastern Excellence in Teaching Award and the SAE Ralph R. Teetor
Paper ID #15222’Lion Leadership Lessons Video Series’ - Delivering Engineering LeadershipLessons to a Broad AudienceDr. Dean H. Lang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Lang is currently the Associate Director of the Engineering Leadership Research Program at Penn State University. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University, an MBA from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Kinesiology with a focus on Biomechanics from Penn State University. Dr. Lang’s previous professional experiences and research interests range from mechanical engineering facilities design to research that
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, and cultural objects and ideas.Dominic Francis GelfusoDr. Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dean Nieusma is Associate Professor in Science and Technology Studies and Director of the Programs in Design and Innovation at Rensselaer. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Contextualizing 3D Printing’s and Photosculpture’s Contributions to Techno-Creative LiteraciesIntroductionAutodesk CEO Carl Bass, upon the 2011 release of Autodesk’s free “123D” CAD-to-3D printingsoftware, claimed that the future of design innovation would be found not within the engineeringindustry, but from the ranks of creative, tinkering consumers. “There are tens of thousands