Year Fig. 6: Average of students grades in Structures I in the CEE curriculum. The ratio of EAP students to all students were 7/10, 6/7, 11/13, and 4/15 for 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. One of the individual courses in the CEE is Structures I (CIEG 314, an introduction tostructural analysis) which has some common topics as those discussed in the projects of the EAPactivities. The ambassadors have shown a better performance in the course and the average of thefinal grades in the course, as shown in Fig. 6, validates this assessment. The graduation rate,measured by the years for the bachelor’s degree completion, is presented in Fig. 7. The EAPstudents finished their bachelor’s degree in CEE in sorter or at least equal time, compared
design for the development of the new Basic Engineering course (now UNIV 1301) for engineering at UTEP for the Engineering, Science and University Colleges. Devel- oped over 5 new courses, including UTEP technology & society core curriculum classes specifically for incoming freshman with a STEM background. Dr. Perez was awarded the 2014 ”University of Texas at El Paso award for Outstanding Teaching”. Dr. Perez has thirteen years of professional experience working as an Electrical and Computer Engineer. leads a team to provide technical support to faculty and students utilizing UGLC classrooms and auditoriums. Dr. Perez is committed to the highest level of service to pro- vide an exceptional experience to all of
Paper ID #17997Implementing Design Thinking into Summer Camp Experience for High SchoolWomen in Materials EngineeringMs. Kaitlin I. Tyler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Kaitlin is currently an Education Fellow with the Granta Education Division. She received her PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign under Professor Paul Braun. Her research was split: focusing on manipulating eutectic material microstructures for optical applications and examining how engineer- ing outreach programs influence participants’ self-perceptions of engineering and self-confidence. Her interests lie in materials education
Paper ID #18368Year 2: The Missing Piece to the Classroom of the Future - The Ability toScale Down to Scale UpMr. Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso Pedro worked in the manufacturing industry as a Quality Control Engineer for some years before acquir- ing his current position as an Instructional Technologist at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). For over ten years in this role, he has worked with a team of managers that oversee various learning environments in the Academic Technologies Department at UTEP. He leads a group of more than 30 mul- tidisciplinary student employees that help support a
paradigms by providing asset base perspectives for understanding this community.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE
Adjunct Pro- fessor in the Bioengineering Department in Utah State University. Her multiple roles as an engineer, engineering educator, engineering educational researcher, and professional development mentor for un- derrepresented populations has aided her in the design and integration of educational and physiological technologies to research ’best practices’ for student professional development and training. In addition, she is developing methodologies around affective management of curriculum, instruction, and research mentoring in engineering students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Who are we? Beyond Monolithic Perspectives of Latinxs in EngineeringLatinxs, a
Computer Engineering at Temple University specializing in electrical machines and power systems, multimedia tutoring, and control and optimization of dynamic sys- tems. His current research focuses on security of cyber-physical systems based on multiagent framework with applications to the power grid, and the integration of an intelligent virtual laboratory environment in curriculum. He is a member of IEEE, ASEE, and Sigma Xi.Walid Saad, Virginia Tech Walid Saad received his Ph.D degree from the University of Oslo in 2010. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor and the Steven O. Lane Junior Faculty Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he leads the Network Science
Paper ID #18414In Support of Student Academic Success with Technology: The Student ViewProf. Susan L. Miertschin, University of Houston, College of Technology (MERGED MEMBERSHIP WITHCOE) Susan L. Miertschin, M.Ed., M.S.I.S., is an Associate Professor teaching in the Computer Information Systems program at University of Houston. Her teaching interests are in the areas of (1) information systems applications development and the complementary nature of back-end developer and front-end developer skill sets and (2) managing IT services. Her research interests are program and student as- sessment, the impact of instructional
fuels testing, and in areas related to the recruitment of women into aviation. He has worked on methods for re-integrating hands-on skills into engineering and engineering technology education. He was a team member on an international working group studying inappropriate crew response to engine malfunctions. Prior to coming to Purdue, he was a field engineer for a major aerospace corporation, and worked closely with major airframe and turbine engine OEM’s. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Developing an Aeronautical Engineering Technology Course for Commercial Space Operations (CSO)AbstractPurdue University’s Aeronautical Engineering Technology (AET) program
(LSAMP), aiming at increasing the number of underrepresented minority students successfully completing high quality degree programs in STEM disciplines. A product of one of the very programs that she currently directs, LSAMP, Shannon holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, a master’s degree in Safety Engineering, and a doctorate in Interdisci- plinary Engineering, all from Texas A&M University. With research interests rooted in engineering education, the learning styles of engineering students in par- ticular, Shannon’s tenure at Texas A&M is and has been rooted in the mentoring of both undergraduate and graduate students. Currently an advisor for the Texas A&M National Society of Black
. Researchers in both academia and industry have published literature on deliverystrategies. Some of the more prominent strategies used in higher education are lecture, casemethod, discussion, active learning, cooperative learning, integrating technology and distancelearning [1]. In this article our focus will be on both Teacher Centric and Student Centric methodswith a focus on the effective and efficient delivery of the active learning tools that we havedeveloped. The active learning tools are the results of an industry-academia partnership with anunderstanding that the knowledge and experience gained through these tools would be directlyapplicable in the workplace. Hence to effectively impart required knowledge appropriate andeffective delivery
authors propose aprocess for facilitating team creation in an organic fashion amongst students by collecting andproviding information about student interest on a per project basis as well as on each student’sskills. This allows students to gauge the interest levels of potential teammates for projects theyare interested in as well and choose teammates that have complementary skills, thus maximizingtheir potential for success. To measure the efficacy of this system, post-process data analytics wasutilized to gauge the utility of the proposed method to help form student teams. Findings fromthese analyses are discussed along with opportunities for future improvements.IntroductionAlmost all ABET accredited undergraduate engineering programs feature a
integrated waste-to-energy system, Environment- Enhancing Energy (E2-Energy), that simultaneously produces biofuel, treats wet biowaste and captures carbon dioxide via algae growing and hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). Wan-Ting’s ongoing work fo- cuses on upgrading of the HTL biocrude oil converted from wet biowaste into transportation fuels by distillation, esterification, thermal cracking, and hydroprocessing with catalysts. Wan-Ting has been a SWE member since 2012 and is aiming for a future career in academia.Chaoyang Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignProf. Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rohit Bhargava is Founder Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana
Paper ID #19774Computer Simulations Developed to Improve Understanding of Thermody-namic PrinciplesDr. David G Alexander, California State University, Chico Dr. Alexander’s research interests and areas of expertise are in teaching pedagogy, capstone design, renewable energy systems, thermal sciences, vehicle system modeling and simulation, heat transfer, new product development, entrepreneurship, and technology transfer. He is PI and adviser of the Department of Energy Collegiate Wind Competition 2016. He is also working on an undergraduate research project modeling solar cells using a thermodynamics approach and analyzing
addressingthese needs, MERIT takes a collaborative approach incorporating faculty from the Colleges ofArts & Sciences and Engineering under the leadership of a highly qualified team. The MERITproject consists of two primary components, an Engaging Mentoring and Tutoring (EMT)program and a three-week Summer Research Program (SRP). The EMT tackles the bottleneckcourses in the first two-year of engineering curriculum that are taught outside of engineeringcollege. Faculty members from Engineering and Arts & Sciences worked together to createhands-on learning modules involving engineering concepts for selected bottleneck courses.Supervised by the bottleneck course instructors, junior and senior engineering students usedthese modules to mentor and
persistence rate within the college is only ~45% and the sixyear graduation rate within the college is similar at ~43%. Many students do not remain withinthe college for even a full year, as the second fall persistence rate is only 70-75% [1]. These datashow a significant portion of enrolled first-year engineering students do not remain within theprogram long enough to be exposed to foundational engineering content, which starts in thesophomore year with engineering specific courses. A current goal of the college is to improvethese retention statistics.Additionally, many students do not develop the necessary software skills required to usecomputational tools such as MATLAB, which are integral to success in the curriculum. Studentswho do not develop
was to detect not just use of practices but the attitudes towardspecific practices. What was found lacking in the research literature canon was an instrumentdetecting dispositions about specific strategies. Because it had been informally observed thatfaculty members may integrate one student-centered strategy but not another, it was preferred toevaluate dispositions per strategy. Attitudes are generally considered a precursor toimplementation1; however, some literature points to how the use of classroom strategies is whatdrives attitudes2. The practical interest was to determine if the professional development wasaffecting faculty dispositions about specific classroom strategies. To achieve this goal, a newinstrument was developed, the Value
Professor at Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, in Nov. 2014, Jan. 2016, and Nov.-Dec. 2016. His areas of interest in- clude power system applications of power electronics and integration of renewable energy resources. Dr. Mehrizi-Sani is an editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, and IEEE Power Engineering Letters. He is also an editor of Wiley International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems. He is the Chair of IEEE Task Force on Dynamic System Equivalents and the Secretary of the CIGRE Working Group C4.34 on Application of PMUs for Monitoring Power System Dynamic Performance. He was a recipient of the WSU VCEA Reid
Paper ID #18987Development and Implementation of an Introduction to Research Winter In-ternship Program for Underrepresented Community College StudentsProf. Nicholas Patrick Langhoff, Skyline College Nicholas Langhoff is an associate professor of engineering and computer science at Skyline College in San Bruno, California. He is also a co-investigator for multiple grant projects at Ca˜nada College in Redwood City, California. He received his M.S. degree from San Francisco State University in embedded electri- cal engineering and computer systems. His educational research interests include technology-enhanced instruction
. in Electrical Engineering. He is currently a faculty member at Twin Cities Engineering which is in the department of Integrated Engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato.Prof. Jacob John Swanson, Minnesota State University, Mankato Jacob Swanson is an Assistant Professor of Engineering in the Department of Integrated Engineering at Minnesota State University Mankato and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechan- ical Engineering at the University of Minnesota (UMN). He was previously a Research Associate in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests include undergrad- uate engineering education, internal combustion engines and emissions, gas-phase
importance that all students receive high quality educationalexperiences in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields so that they becomedesigners and creators of our technology-rich future instead of being mere consumers oftechnological products.There are numerous on-going educational programs that seek to integrate and infuse varied mannerof technologies in STEM instruction and learning (e.g., computers, internet and mobileapplications, robotics, etc.). Recent research1,2 has shown that robotics can serve as an effectivepedagogical tool in STEM education. Educational robotics kits have been shown to enhancestudent engagement in STEM content.3 Moreover, robotics is known to stimulate excitement andencourage participation of students
ruralearthen block housing. Hand tampered cores were dried, cured, and tested for compressivestrength. Thermal tests were also conducted on the cores. The students also developed a designfor mechanically compressing earth blocks, an improvement over the hand tamping process usedby the rural South African community.How the service learning projects integrated into the curriculumLSU. The first-year course BE 1252 is one of two courses in the core curriculum that involvesservice-learning. A junior level service-learning course in biomaterials requires students to workwith a middle or high school teacher to develop a grade-appropriate interactive lesson on anengineering property. Students work in groups to create an interactive lesson, with
seven-weekcourse that is required for freshman-engineering students. An integral part of this new course isan interdisciplinary project-based experience, which according to the literature, has shown to bean effective way to improve learning in freshman as well as upper level courses[4-10]. Previouswork in project-based, hands-on learning experiences shows that restructuring of the freshman ASEE 2017 Conference year can allow for education of the freshman students so that engineering analytical tools canquantify what is already understood in a qualitative sense. Since the course is by nature multi-disciplinary, we found it to be well suited for aneducational experience on entrepreneurial minded
that has been taught by the capstone engineering professors. Three years ago, wedecided to bring in outside experts to lecture on topics such as project management, ethics andstandards to augment the training for our capstone students. The following year we decided toextend this concept and turned to experts trained in the field of business communications tobetter train students in how to effectively operate as a team.This paper describes an ongoing pilot project to integrate professional training on teamdynamics, team conflict and team leadership into our existing engineering capstone curriculum.Business Communications professors from the School of Management developed curriculum andpresented to engineering students in the Biomedical and
work; team processes and decision-making; ethical reasoning, constitution, and processes; engineering design; technology and its impacts on organizational and personal life; network analysis; as well as organizational identity, identification, and culture.Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Carla B. Zoltowski is an assistant professor of engineering practice in the Schools of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue. Prior to this she was Co-Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue where she was responsible for developing curriculum
educator and an engineering professor workedtogether to design and teach an undergraduate honors course to students from multipledisciplines at the University of Cincinnati. We discuss our planning process, share our courseassignments, discuss challenges encountered, and reflect upon outcomes for our students. Weexplain how the course enhanced interdisciplinary collaboration, fostered deep discussion, andinvestigated the links that connect artistic and scientific disciplines. We believe that throughintentional integration of engineering and art, students gained experience in a variety of modesof inquiry. They developed creative research approaches, problem solving skills, and innovativehabits of the mind that will serve them in their respective
Paper ID #19309Moving Towards Individual Competence From Group Work in Transdisci-plinary EducationDr. Colin M. Gray, Purdue University, West Lafayette Colin M. Gray is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology and a Fellow in the Educational Research and Development Incubator. He holds a PhD in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University Bloomington, a MEd in Educational Technol- ogy from University of South Carolina, and a MA in Graphic Design from Savannah College of Art & Design. His research focuses on the role of student experience in informing a
engineering design and led multi-institution teams in the development and testing of curriculum materials and assessments for engineering design learning. He is also the owner of Verity Design Learning LLC, a publisher of instructional materials for design reviews and teamwork development. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Davis received his PhD in Agricultural Engineering at Cornell University.Ms. Sarah Winfree, The Ohio State University Sarah Winfree is an undergraduate research assistant in the Department of Engineering Education at The Ohio State University. She joined the University in August 2013 working towards a Bachelor of Science degree in Food Engineering. Her career includes
integrate, but could be present in service-learning or engineering design via suchmethods as hands-on project construction. If the students are able to understand the ethical issuesat the core of their design project, this authentic context may help to drive their motivation cyclefor learning; the extent to which students can exercise autonomy and choice in the experiencemay also enhance their motivation and learning.The use of a combination of teaching methods may also relate to targeting different ethical topicsor issues via different methods. In an analysis of cross-counting topics and teaching methodconvergence among the 61 individuals who only taught ethics in capstone courses, differenceswere found in the teaching methods that corresponded to
developed design based curriculum for multiple K-12 teach PDIs and student summer camps.Dr. Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University Dr. Kimberly G. Talley is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Technology, Senior Research Fellow and Maker Space Co-Director for the LBJ Institute for STEM Education and Research at Texas State University, and a licensed Professional Engineer. She received her Ph.D. and M.S.E. from the University of Texas at Austin in Structural Engineering. Her undergraduate degrees in History and in Construction Engineering and Management are from North Carolina State University. Dr. Talley teaches courses in the Construction Science and Management Program, and her research