Walther is an Associate Professor of engineering education research at the University of Georgia and the Founding Director of the Engineering Education Transformations Institute (EETI) in the College of Engineering. The Engineering Education Transformations Institute at UGA is an innovative approach that fuses high quality engineering education research with systematic educational innovation to transform the educational practices and cultures of engineering. Dr. Walther’s research group, the Collab- orative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), is a dynamic interdisciplinary team that brings together professors, graduate, and undergraduate students from engineering, art
how the assignments fit together in service of theoverarching goals of the program. A handout will be created to provide engineering faculty withan at-a-glance overview of the categories and assignments to help them choose appropriateassignments for their students. See Appendix 5 for the list of assignments grouped by thematiccategory.Future stepsThis project is an ongoing process with several major steps that are either currently underway orwill be soon. As discussed in the previous section, promoting the portfolio to engineering facultyis of the utmost importance. Without faculty endorsement, students will be unlikely to completeany of the IL assignments. Outreach to the key faculty members and program administrators inCOE will be used to
- out-of-school activities.A key component in the development of the out-of-school-time framework is that theseprograms should generate a positive atmosphere, conducive to learning and exploring, thatdoes not resemble or look like the traditional school setting where students spend the vast partof their day [9]. For many students, as presented in the report on the “2009 High SchoolSurvey of Student Engagement,” in-school framework is not the place where they want to beand learn. More than 66% of the surveyed students asserted that they are bored every day. Atrend identified in this survey was that an open-ended question, Question 35, resulted innegative feedback. “Negative comments about schools were quite common in response toQuestion 35
approach still leaves two questions unresolved.First, it is unclear whether it is realistic to expect that the global codes of ethics be used to guideengineering practice in different countries, beginning with their introduction to students informal coursework and later as guidelines for conduct in the workplace. Second, given thatAmerican societies encourage their members to apply their codes of ethics universally, theirforeign colleagues might know very little (if anything) about these codes. It might therefore beineffective or unfair for two sides of a collaboration to have an unbalanced understanding of thecodes of ethics that are supposed to guide their collaborative engineering practice. And third,there is the question of how to avoid
undergraduate students (2 from community colleges, 1 from a 4-yearuniversity) are challenged to solve real-world Navy engineering design problems over a periodof eight weeks during the summer. Each team is assigned a UCSB graduate student, from arelevant STEM field, and a Navy engineer that serve as mentors. From Monday throughThursday, student teams work at the Base in Port Hueneme on their separate projects. OnFridays, students come to UCSB to attend career exploration and professional developmentseminars, as well as a course in engineering innovation, designed to stimulate creative thinkingand problem-solving. The program culminates with a Design Challenge Award, where teamspitch their project to a jury of faculty and Base engineers. Key
(DTU). Each summer, these* Refer to the webpage for more information on the Summer School: https://pire.soe.ucsc.edu/universities host an intensive, four week course housed in Electrical Engineering (UCSC, DTU),Biological and Agricultural Engineering (UC Davis), and Energy and Environmental Planning(AAU). The program is open to selected senior undergraduates, graduate students and morerecently professionals in any discipline from US and European Institutions; participants areadmitted based on their academic qualifications, creativity and commitment to renewable energyand sustainability assessed through the submission of an essay and interview. The bulk of theactivity takes place in the summer during a three week, in-person workshop preceded
globally focused career with the need to work withpeople from a variety of technical and diverse backgrounds. This trend has been reflected inengineering pedagogy with a rise in teaming experiences in first-year and capstone designcourses of engineering curriculum in the U.S.1 Additionally the ABET EAC Student Outcomescurrently require students to have “(d) an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams”2. Evenwith recently proposed changes to the following criterion, “(7) An ability to function effectivelyas a member or leader of a team that establishes goals, plans tasks, meets deadlines, and creates acollaborative and inclusive environment,” ABET Student Outcomes still emphasize the need forengineering students to be able to work in diverse
finding internships to every cohort during their first program semester.They also offered a service called “interview stream” for students to practice interviewing skills.Invited experts spoke on topics such as personal finance and ethical issues. Local speakers withSTEM industry experience talked to students about careers in forensics and clinical laboratories.COMPASS scholars attended two presentation and discussion sessions with Dr. Theresa Duelloof the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has significant experience advising students andplanning for graduate school. The Collegial Academy of the North Carolina Academy of Science(CANCAS) workshop held off-campus at Pfeiffer University offered plentiful opportunities forCOMPASS scholars to learn
-Hulman Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Bioengineering and Ph.D. in Engineer- ing and Science Education from Clemson University.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
, scholar and researcher. He currently holds the TI-Professorship in Analog Engineering and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering. His re- search emphasis on industry-based issues, solved within an academic context, has attracted significant external funding. Up until now, he has graduated 31 PhD students and 11 of them hold academic posi- tions in leading Universities in the world. He along with his students have received numerous best paper awards from the IEEE Industry Applications and Power Electronics Society. His primary research inter- ests are in advancing power electronic converter designs to address complex power management issues such as: active harmonic filtering, adjustable speed
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
traditional REU model (A) andthe VisREU Site model (B) for student research teams. This arrangement fostered collaborationamong team members, an appreciation of the visualization process and an understanding of therole visualization plays in discovery and analysis for both the undergraduate researcher and forthe research team.Figure 1. Traditional REU student research team model (A) versus VisREU student researchteam model (B). Dashed lines in (B) indicate the REU mentoring and collaboration structurewithin the VisREU Site. Complementary outcomes of the VisREU Site are to (1) explore visualization as aconduit for collaboration, and (2) educate faculty researchers regarding the benefits ofintegrating data visualization into the systematic
fewest at 337. Figure 1(b)provides insights into the number of undergraduate engineering students per teaching faculty(both tenure track and non-tenure track). Western Kentucky University has 46.3 students perteaching faculty member and both Tufts University and Olin College have only 6.0.An indication of the resources available per student at each of the institutions is shown in Fig.1(c), which is a graph of endowment per total number of undergraduate students. The figureshows a range from $3.1M per student at Stanford down to $92 per student at Western KentuckyUniversity. Obviously, there is a wide range (4 orders of magnitude) along this particular axis.The variation in the 4-year institutional graduation rate (not just in engineering) is
Engineer- ing and Science Education from Clemson University.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) Educational Research
process itself are explained in theprior paper1 and the reader is referred to that work to examine in conjunction with this paper foran expanded set of case studies and the context they might need to understand some of thevocabulary used here.Additional jargon related to this paper includes the phrase, “start-up package.” This refers to theoffer that is made to a faculty member who is joining a unit, for example as an assistantprofessor. This package will normally state the salary and contract, but might also include,depending on the future research activity expectations of the faculty, funds to allow the facultymember to buy needed equipment, conduct travel, hire graduate students, etc. It might alsopromise support of one or more graduate
Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. An active member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), he has a strong interest in creating new student-centered, engaging approaches to STEM education. As an Innovation Advisor to Elsevier’s Academic Engineering Solutions Library Advisory Board (AES-LAB), he has been the lead content developer for the 2016 Elsevier Engineering Academic Challenge and the 2015 Knovel Academic Challenge.Mr. Jay J. Bhatt, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Jay Bhatt is responsible for building library collections in engineering subject areas, outreach to fac- ulty and students, and teaching information and research skills to faculty and students in
commit to academictasks, as well as persevere during challenging academic tasks. Research has connected efficacybeliefs to educational processes and outcomes such as academic major selection, scholasticachievement, persistence, and long-term, post-graduation career decisions.20-24 2Most of the literature on academic self-efficacy comes from the field of educational psychology.However, engineering education literature has embraced the value of promoting high academicself-efficacy, especially when promoting engineering students’ academic goals, success, andcareer interests. For example, based on findings from an engineering education study
them to drawconclusions at multiple levels of analysis: 1) the underlying biophysical substrata of the cognitive systemand 2) how students are experiencing and regulating their emergent emotional states. Similar to the Lorenz system example, Hilpert and colleagues (2013, 2014) have used differentialequation modeling to produce simulations of how students plan for a future career in engineering as theyenter young adulthood. Their work is an example of how dynamic modeling can be used to examinestudents planning, self-regulation, and problem solving. They integrate interviews, surveys, and studentdrawings of timelines of their lives to produce dynamic models for how students’ goals shift with regardto 1) what they value in the future
of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s ”20 Faculty Under 40” in 2014, and received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama in 2017. Dr. Jordan co-developed the STEAM LabsTM program to engage middle and high school students in learning science, technology, engineering, arts, and math concepts through designing and building chain reaction machines. He founded and led teams to two collegiate Rube Goldberg Machine Contest national championships, and has appeared on many TV shows (including Modern Marvels on The History Channel and Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC) and a movie with his chain reaction machines. He serves on the Board of the i.d.e.a. Museum in
, J.S. (2014) Data First: building scientific reasoning in AP chemistry via the concept development approach, J. Chem Ed., http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed500027gAlice Chow, Rice University Alice Chow is an Associate Director for Research and Grants for the Rice University Office of STEM Engagement. She conducts research in K-12 STEM education on topics such as impact of teacher profes- sional development programs on student achievement and attitudes.Dr. Carrie Obenland, Rice University Dr. Obenland is the Assistant Director for Outreach and Research at the Rice Office of STEM Engage- ment. She as her PhD in Chemistry from Rice University, as well as her Masters. Her graduate work was focused on chemical
advising, career guidance,and faculty support are frequently reported by students who leave an engineering program(Seymour et al., 1997, Meyer et al., 2014). Regardless of these challenges it is important forengineering programs to be aware of these realities when developing and implementing retentioninitiatives.Temple University’s Project SOARTraditionally, Temple University has responded to the issue of low rates of success and retentionin its engineering courses and programs by providing support interventions for strugglingstudents. In fact, at Temple we have robust student support services, including tutoring, examreview sessions for select courses, peer assisted study sessions, coaching on academic skillsdevelopment, a writing center, and
ABET defines Program Educational Objectives as “broad statements that describe whatgraduates are expected to attain within a few years of graduation; program educational objectivesare based on the needs of the program’s constituents.” The program constituents are interestedparties, person or groups having an interest in the performance or success of the program.Strictly using this definition, constituents of an engineering education program, may includealumni, employers, local industry, faculty and students. However, faculty and students areinternal to the program and may have limited perspective of what graduates are expected toattain a few years after graduation, with the exception of faculty in a program with a highpercentage of its
business environment and students need exposure to these team types as partof their education. Students in our programs should have an awareness of the types of teams andhow they function in an organization. Common team types found in the literature are: Functional teams perform specific functions in an organization. Sometimes they are called department teams. These teams have members from the same department or work area who meet regularly. Individuals relate to a specialty or focus he or she has mastered, with everyone working toward achieving goals outlined in the company’s mission statement. A manager holds the primary responsibility, with subordinates reporting to this person. Often, these are permanent
’ problemsolving and decision making skills (CRLT, n.d.). The curricula in business, law and medicalschools have been based for decades on the analysis of real world cases; however, this has notbeen the case in engineering. We believe that what-if case studies of social and societal issueshave the potential to not only bring URM and women students into the engineering fold, butalso to make our mainstream engineering students more involved and intellectually morecurious about social issues.We need to provide a ready-to-use platform for such explorations at the university level. Itshould help nudge engineering faculty members and students to become more open tocollaboration with colleagues in liberal arts. This ‘platform’ at our university has been a multi
include primingstudents for subsequent ‘design spine’ courses and their final-year BME capstone experience, anddeveloping interactive project-based teaching at scale. The two faculty who teach this course(Frow, Smith) have co-developed the content over the past two years; we also meet biweeklyduring the academic year with faculty members teaching the other BME ‘design spine’ courses, tocoordinate program content and learning outcomes across courses.Our semester-long course focuses on global healthcare markets and device design for low-resourcesettings. The course revolves around an open-ended, team-based design project (Smith et al. 2005).A core aim is to foster curiosity and creativity1 in students’ first formal experience of engineeringdesign
: A Case StudyThe context of this case study is the development of a technology-focused, transdisciplinaryprogram at a large research-intensive Midwestern university. This program is part of a largerinitiative supported by the university to experiment with new educational approaches. The visionfor this initiative was to prepare students to succeed across their future career—which mayinclude jobs that do not exist today. A group of interested faculty fellows were charged withinvestigating new educational approaches that met the values of: (a) viewing the student as awhole person; (b) welcoming diversity and access for all; (c) student autonomy; (d) risk-takingas an important component to learning; and (e) openness fostered through sharing
skillsets in waysthat would be pertinent for cover letters, personal statements for graduate school, or ininterviews. Prior to the workshop, students were prompted to write a mini professional“snapshot” that summarized their personal and professional skills. In the workshop, studentspracticed delivering their snapshots orally to peers for feedback on novelty and clarity. Theworkshop was led by a faculty member in our college of humanities and social sciences whoteaches a course on strategies for communicating a public, professional ethos.Week 3. Workshop 3. “The Delivery: Novel Research Talks.” This workshop aimed toprepare students for their final “Speak Up!” activity: a public, three-minute research presentation(3MRP)--3 minutes, 3 slides max, 3
- St. Louis Section. He has eight years of formal experience with K-12 engineering education.Dr. Shannon M. Sipes, Indiana University Shannon M. Sipes is an instructional consultant in the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning at IU. In this role she provides professional development and individual consultation services for faculty with questions regarding their own teaching and student learning. Prior to her current role, she has served as the director of assessment helping faculty members with SOTL projects and classroom assessment. Shannon holds B.S. and M.A. degrees in psychology and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction with a focus on higher education.Mr. Jacob W. Benton, Primoris Services Corporation
assessment – can be assessed as a performance of an individual student (author judgment) ABET – important to ABET accreditation (existing and proposed criteria) [3] Industry value – valued by industry (combined survey data) Institution importance – typically valued by educational institutions (TUEE 2nd workshop) [9] Student value – valued by students (TUEE 2nd workshop) [9] Industry dissatisfaction – reported by industry as lacking in graduates (TUEE 1st workshop) [1]Table 3 shows a decision matrix used to consider each outcome in the light of these factorsimportant to assessment in capstone design courses. A weighting for each need (1 to 5) isassigned in column two. A score indicating how well
one if I'm lucky. They are also responsible for assessing the technical merit of the student's final report. The course coordinator moderates this mark." [AUS31] "One faculty member runs the course and does the bulk of the assessment. Other New Zealand faculty members supervise student design groups." [NZ3] "Informally." [NZ8]3.5 Projects and TeamsFigure 12 displays the range of sources of capstone design projects for Australia, New Zealand,and the United States. Faculty research and industry/government were the two most popularchoices. Strikingly, 100% of respondents from New Zealand reported use of faculty research as aproject source, compared to Australia’s 76%, and the