rm focused on the evaluation of the use and deployment of technology assisted teaching and learning. Throughout her career, she has served as an external evaluator for a number of NSF-funded projects associated with faculty development, community building, peer review of learning materials, and dissemination of educational innovation. She was PI for the project ”Learning from the Best: How Award Winning Courseware has Impacted Engineering Education.” This research focuses on determining how high quality courseware is being disseminated and what impact it is having on the culture of engineering education as measured by changes in student learning, teaching practices, and the careers of the authors of these
throughout her career. Lola obtained her bachelor of science from Brown University in biology where she conducted research studying tissue engineered heart valves. She took her master of science from the joint department of biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University studying the stroke pathology in children with sickle cell anemia. She went on to complete her PhD in biochemistry as a NSF Graduate Research Fellow solving the structure of proteins involved in HIV. Immediately following the completion of her PhD, Dr. Brown began postdoctoral research in biomedical engineering at Yale University. Her highly interdisciplinary training and skill set, which combines biomedical engineering, structural bi
students to explore and learn on their own under theguidance of the instructor.2. Course DesignFor both courses, in addition to covering technical content, we arranged at least one guestspeaker session in each course. The speakers were invited from the industry who are seasonedsoftware developers for the respective technologies. For the Kinect application developmentcourse, we invited an additional guest speaker to talk about career development andentrepreneurship. Our intention was to inspire our students to not only be a life-long learner, butalso become an entrepreneur to create something useful for the humanity using their technicalknowledge and skills.We first created the iOS application development course in fall 2010, soon after
information needs. The projects also provided acomprehensive design review of two library spaces, including proposals for possible extensiverenovation, from an engineering perspective.Literature ReviewSenior design capstone projects are common within engineering education as a tool to synthesizewhat students have learned throughout their undergraduate program4 and to gain additionalvaluable “soft skills”5, 6 such as teamwork and communication skills, and to model the engineer-client relationships that will be needed in their professional careers. According to Goldberg7,senior capstone projects are “the most important courses our engineering students will take intheir undergraduate programs. They provide students with an opportunity to apply what
courses, and studies the use of context in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Com- puter Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant ”Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s ”20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014, and received a Presidential Early
based approach that incorporates more traditional content knowledge and theory with a variety of hands-on applications4, 5 • Diversity Obstacle: assumptions of a prior familiarity and expertise with programming, robotics, machining, tool usage, etc. Strategy: start all students off at “ground zero” and emphasize collaborative peer support networks vs. competition4, 5 • Diversity Obstacle: failure to paint a broad picture of employment and career opportunities in engineering Strategy: offer a general engineering degree inside a traditionally liberal arts institution that requires all students to complete a broad common core7, 8 and emphasizes content integration across disciplines6
Paper ID #20380Incorporating Polymer Engineering in the ClassroomProf. Sarah E Morgan, University of Southern Mississippi Dr. Sarah Morgan is a Professor in the School of Polymers and High Performance Materials at The University of Southern Mississippi. She joined The University in November of 2002 after a fourteen year career in industrial R&D in engineering thermoplastics, at GE Plastics locations around the world. Morgan’s current research focuses on polymer surfaces and interfaces, including composites, nanocom- posites, and bioinspired materials. She was named a POLY Fellow by the Polymer Chemistry Division of
the Mechanical and Materials Department at the Uni- versity of Nebraska - Lincoln. He Is the former CEO of the Hexagon Composites, Lincoln operation. Mr. Dick has held various engineering and executive positions in the defense and automotive industries throughout his career. He received a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and a MS degree in Engineer- ing Mechanics both from the University of Nebraska. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Mechanical Engineering Capstone Projects in Rehabilitation DesignAbstractWe report results of a multi-year project aimed at offering socially relevant capstone designprojects (with a rehabilitation engineering focus) to mechanical engineering
available to guide the student if questions arise involving futureemployment. STEM Scholars are also offered career preparedness options, and encouraged toseek out summer internships as opportunities for experiences that expose students to their chosenfield.EVALUATION:STEM Scholars students have to maintain scholastic goals and involvement expectations whilein the program and receiving financial benefit from the scholarship program. Meeting theseobjectives while maintaining a full-time schedule is the key to meeting the goal of graduating intwo years, while being academically sound and financially debt free. Success in this program isdetermined by tracking student retention and graduation rates, and surveying what studentspursue after graduation
online professional masters program, courses in genomics and genomic technologies, and creates laboratory experiences. She also performs educational research and aimed at continually improving student learning and outcomes, and conducts research in online education to improve access to bioengineering education for students at various times in their careers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Work in progress: Building Engineering Skills for the Genomics Revolution, a Genomics Technologies and Analysis Course for Biomedical EngineersOver the past decade, development of next-generation sequencing technologies has led todramatic changes in how
baseline assessment of faculty attitudes and dispositions towardintegrating sustainability in engineering curricula.Engineering Students’ Professional Responsibility AssessmentSenior engineering students within one department at the PI’s institution were asked to completean updated and validated survey instrument, the Engineering Professional ResponsibilityAssessment (Canney, et al.). The survey was administered via Qualtrics and emailed to 144students; 35 completed surveys were analyzed. Results indicated that student’s choice ofengineering major was significantly motivated by: the passion for and aptitude in science andmath; interest in problem solving; good career choices; contribution to societal problems such asclimate change; and, the
Engineering from the University of Illinois in Urbana- Champaign.Dr. Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Robin S. Adams is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University and holds a PhD in Education, an MS in Materials Science and Engineering, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering. She researches cross-disciplinarity ways of thinking, acting and being; design learning; and engineering education transformation.Dr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) enay Purzer is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education. She is the recipient of a 2012 NSF CAREER award, which examines how engineering students
practice in a variety of career paths. (p. 15) Consistent with the Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula, the Accreditation Boardfor Engineering and Technology (ABET)10 also highlighted the following skills required acrossengineering and technology programs along with technical skills: effective communication;functioning on multidisciplinary teams; problem solving; understanding the impact of solutionsin global, economic, environmental, and social contexts; and lifelong learning. In a recent mixed-method study, Caskurlu, Exter, & Ashby (2016) 11 found that computing professionals fromvarious industries believe that problem solving, critical thinking, lifelong learning, teamwork,and interpersonal skills are as important as technical and
. This goal is achieved throughengaging engineering students in design exercises and experiences throughout their academicundergraduate careers. The CASCADE project provides student support in an innovativeconfiguration of cascaded peer-mentoring. This program exposes freshman students to theengineering design process with vertically aligned design experiences through the sophomore andjunior years. Cascading vertically, undergraduate seniors mentor juniors, juniors mentorsophomores, and sophomores mentor freshmen. The objectives of the CASCADE project are to:1) infuse concepts of the design process across all four levels of the engineering undergraduatecurriculum (i.e., freshman through senior), 2) increase first-year, second-year, and third
refers to an educationalsystem that equips the learners with entrepreneurial abilities via the development of entrepreneurialawareness, entrepreneurial thinking, and entrepreneurial skillsets, of which the objective is to makestudents in colleges and universities behave like entrepreneurs and to equip them with the knowledge,skills, and personalities needed for their future careers through cultivating entrepreneurial mind,attaining entrepreneurial knowledge, and experiencing the entrepreneurial process (Zhang, 2007; Liu,2008).[6][7] Bae et al (2014) & Tingey et al. (2016) argue that entrepreneurship education is aboutdeveloping entrepreneurial attitudes and skills, with the purpose of increasing motivation forunder-resourced groups to
Assistant Professor of engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of En- gineering at Arizona State University. He teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Com- puter Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering
, stakeholder analyses, mass balance,sewage treatment, material properties and selection, sewage properties and conveyance,statics and stress, filtration and chemical precipitation) while playing the roles ofengineers, industrialists, elected officials, workers, scientists, public health officials,inventors, and city residents. In this course we introduce the entrepreneurial mindset to apopulation of students who may not think they are interested in the subject. Our role-playing game (RPG)-based approach is intended to attract students to entrepreneurialthinking and to introduce them to STEM-humanities integrative study, project-basedlearning, and other disciplinary content they may not have considered important to theirengineering careers. Near the
important factor in persistence to degree completion. For example, somestudies report that the diversity gap in STEM participation may be attributed more to perceptionsand beliefs than to academic preparation or achievement levels [1-5]. To the extent that suchperceptions and beliefs form an inaccurate (or “negative”) vision of a future engineering career,curricular approaches that aim to form a more “positive” vision may be warranted. Theseapproaches can be pedagogical, such as collaborative and project-based learning [6-8], content-based by aiming (for example) to expose the positive contributions of engineering to society [9-12], or both. All other things being equal, curricular features than can foster among students amore positive
and in academia for 3 years.Dr. Christy Bozic, University of Colorado, Boulder Christy Bozic Is the Stephen M. Dunn Professor of Engineering Management and Faculty Director of the Undergraduate Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, an M.B.A. in Marketing, and a Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering Technology. Dr. Bozic builds upon her extensive industry experience to develop undergraduate curriculum to better prepare undergraduate engineers for careers in business and engineering management.Seth Murray, University of Colorado, Boulder Seth is an engineer and entrepreneur. He specializes in small business development, mechanical design and manufacturing
institution], my entire week was spent either in class or studying/doing homework. I had no idea how unprepared I was for the workload of engineering at [receiving institution].Other students suggested that faculty at their sending institution could provide more support,while others felt that career advising would have helped them prepare to transfer. A smallnumber of students also suggested creating a community of likely transfer students so that theycould walk through the process together.Differences Between Vertical and Lateral Transfer Students. The biggest difference betweenvertical and lateral transfer students’ responses to this question is that lateral transfers were morelikely to leave the question blank – about one third of them
- uate and graduate courses in power electronics, power systems, renewable energy, smart grids, control, electric machines, instrumentation, radar and remote sensing, numerical methods, space and atmosphere physics, and applied physics. His research interests included power system stability, control and pro- tection, renewable energy system analysis, assessment and design, smart microgrids, power electronics and electric machines for non-conventional energy conversion, remote sensing, wave and turbulence, nu- merical modeling, electromagnetic compatibility and engineering education. During his career Dr. Belu published ten book chapters, several papers in referred journals and in conference proceedings in his ar- eas
on whether and how their observations fit theirbeliefs about what engineers do and how engineering works. The resulting written ethnographytargeted an audience of high school juniors interested in engineering as a potential career,persuading these prospective engineering students of assertions or claims about engineering withevidence from onsite observations.The final and most ambitious project assignment was to modify or develop a new toy for ReachServices’ Lending Library. Reach Services is an organization that provides comprehensiveservices to individuals and families of all ages facing a wide spectrum of challenges anddisabilities. In particular, the lending library provides toys for parents, teachers, and therapists toborrow to help
industrysimulation “COINS” to integrate project management practices into multiple courses in thecurriculum at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Simulations also encourage autonomy as studentsrespond to situations based on their own thoughts, motivations, and desires (Arnold, 1998;Kachaturoff, 1978). As students are required in a simulation to work through the problems theyface, their thinking must move beyond basic recall and they must use higher-order thinkingskills, such as the application and analysis of information, and evaluation of decisions andchoices made by themselves or others (Wheeler, 2006). The construction industry is anexperience-oriented field where students need experiences to learn general knowledge they willneed in their career. Some experiences
Engineering Education, and is a member of the editorial board of Learning and Instruction. In 2006 she was awarded the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER grant award and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the President of the United States. She has conducted and advised on educational research projects and grants in both the public and private sectors, and served as an external reviewer for doctoral dissertations outside the U.S. She publishes regularly in peer-reviewed journals and books. Dr. Husman was a founding member and first President of the Southwest Consortium for Innovative Psychology in Education and has held both elected and appointed offices in the American
), freshman students begin their studies within theirchosen major, typically taking an introductory engineering course specific to their discipline.For undecided engineering students, they have the option to start in a general engineeringprogram to help them select a major. FIT has had great success using this general engineeringmodel to improve student retention and time to graduation; however, improvement can be madein preparing students to be innovative, entrepreneurial-minded professionals. The purpose of thispaper is to describe the activities focused on exposing students to the entrepreneurial mindset andpreparing them for engineering careers. An introductory course in the General Engineeringprogram comprises both a lecture and a lab component
include Computational Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, and Product Design and Development. He has taught several different courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, has over 50 publications, is co-author of one book, and has done consulting for industry in Mexico and the US. He can be reached at Karim.Muci@sdsmt.edu.Dr. Mark David Bedillion, Carnegie Mellon University Dr. Bedillion received the BS degree in 1998, the MS degree in 2001, and the PhD degree in 2005, all from the mechanical engineering department of Carnegie Mellon University. After a seven year career in the hard disk drive industry, Dr. Bedillion was on the faculty of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology for over 5 years before joining
participate in thestudy. The interviews of five participants are used in this preliminary analysis (Table 1).Table 1. Participant key demographics. Interviewee Degree Career/Position (Pseudonym) Daniel Technology Design Engineer Jack Aerospace Engineering Research and Development Lola Chemical Engineering Product Researcher Matt Mechanical Engineering Senior Materials Engineer Ronald Chemical Engineering Senior material Product DeveloperInterviewsThe participants were interviewed about the tools and techniques they use to solve
survey. Nearly one-third of them left comments describing relatedexperience at their workplace. We also interviewed a number of senior female engineers whoshared their experiences with implicit bias during their career. We conducted statistical analysis(ANOVA, regression analysis) and text analysis of the quantitative and qualitative data. Findingsfrom both data sources showed that women and people of color experienced more implicit bias atwork than white men.Regression analyses showed that, after controlling for age, education, workplace seniority, andacademic status, women still reported more Prove-It-Again, Tightrope, and Maternal Wall bias,and Asian and African-American engineers reported more Prove-It-Again and Tightrope bias,than their
% lower than males at LSU. The same confidence issues that ethnicminorities feel might explain this small decrease. The stigma that engineering is a maledominated career field can subconsciously affect female students by reducing their confidenceand self-efficacy, and a correlation clearly exists between self-efficacy and success in STEMfields (11, 12).2.3 The LSES Minority Students of low socioeconomic status (LSES) have to overcome many barriers to gettingan education that other students do not face. These students are often solely responsible forpaying their own way through college, having to work full-time jobs while taking a full load ofdifficult classes. These students often have additional financial burdens that can make the path
treat- ment processes, and water education. She is involved in outreach programs for K-12 students to increase the participation of Hispanic female students in STEM fieldsDr. Gerri Cole, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017An Innovative Approach to Recruit and Retain Historically Underrepresented Students in EngineeringAbstractThe Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields do not usually attract firstgeneration, low-income, and minority students (such as women, Hispanics, and AfricanAmerican, etc.). There are various ways to increase the number of minority students’participation in STEM careers, but one of the most frequently