the letter grade of “HD” (highdistinction – the highest letter grade) at UNSW, while it is only converted to the letter gradeof “B” at ASU. In practice, it is important to properly prepare students’ minds regarding thesespecial arrangements.Since the participating students were all first-year engineering students, the instructor alsoattempted to evaluate whether and to what extent their skills meet the various requirementsand constraints of a globally distributed team. The evaluation was conducted based on theinstructor’s subjective observations, against the benchmark of the third-year engineeringstudents in another global course [9]. Firstly, most of the students had demonstrated strongcommunication skills. In particular, since there is no
Paper ID #18938Developing Multiple Strategies for an Inclusive Curriculum in Civil Engi-neeringDr. Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University Dr. Stephanie Farrell is Professor and Founding Chair of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University (USA) and was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland). From 1998-2016, Stephanie was a faculty member in Chemical Engineering at Rowan. Dr. Farrell has contributed to engineering education through her work in experiential learning, focusing on areas of pharmaceutical, biomedical and food engineering. She has been honored by the
from that university are pursuing research to study the enculturation ofstudents to the engineering profession. Enculturation is the process by which an individual learnsthe traditional content of a culture and assimilates its practices and values (Richard et al., 2016).In the study, we began by being mindful of the culture, norms and behaviors of the universityand engineering department. From the initial study, we arrived at enculturation factors that havecontinued to serve as the framework for our research. The university is conservative and richwith traditions that influence the norms and behaviors of the students, faculty and staff.Additionally, the college of engineering is actively engaging its nearly 17,000 students to pursuehigh impact
excluded.Of those who said the curriculum did change their minds there were several themes: I have more knowledge about the impacts that can be made by engineers and/or how they can help (20) I know now more about ethics and the care that must be taken when making decisions (13) I now have a desire to make a positive contribution to the world (6) I realized I must think about society as a whole/culture/local traditions (5) This class confirmed my choice of major/career or gave me knowledge about my future career (4) I have more knowledge of the problems that need to be addressed (3) I realize we need to see the big picture/global impacts and connections (3) I have a new world view (3
Paper ID #17810Technology Choices of Undergraduate Engineering Students for Solving Cal-culus QuestionsDr. Emre Tokgoz, Quinnipiac University Emre Tokgoz is currently an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at Quinnipiac University. He completed a Ph.D. in Mathematics and another Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Univer- sity of Oklahoma. His pedagogical research interest includes technology and calculus education of STEM majors. He worked on several IRB approved pedagogical studies to observe undergraduate and graduate mathematics and engineering students’ calculus and technology knowledge since
the United States in 2015.3 However, only a subset of these new engineering graduatesgo on to careers in the engineering field. Based on the 2006 National Survey of RecentCollege Graduates (NSRCG), 60% of those who graduated with engineering degreesbetween 2002 and 2005 were employed in engineering positions (based on self-reportedjob type classification).4 Reasons for working in a field unrelated to one’s degreeincluded “job in highest degree field not available,” “change in professional/careerinterests,” and “pay/promotion opportunities,” keeping in mind that these are broadcategories with little visibility into what precisely happened, for example, when a job inone’s field was not available, or what about pay or promotion led a graduate to
Paper ID #19299Evolution of an Introductory Electrical Engineering and Programming CourseProf. Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University Branimir Pejcinovic received his Ph.D. degree from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a Pro- fessor and former Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education at Portland State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering department. In this role he has led department-wide changes in curriculum with emphasis on project- and lab-based instruction and learning. His research interests are in the areas of engineering education, semiconductor device characterization, design and
surverys and select comments of interest. The administrator selected thefollowing comments from the following survery request: “List any positive actions you wouldtake in school based on what you learned today”“I'm gonna take a coding class next year in school”“This activity in general opened me up to a whole new world of knowledge.”“ I will be more open minded to learn new things in school related to engineering and science ingeneral."These quotes show that the activity was successful in achieving its goals. When asked how theactivity could be improved, some of the responses included:“Provide a list of vocabulary”“More templates, but not too much”“Slow down the pace since a lot of people were behind”“Maybe slow the pace down”These suggestions
Paper ID #19346Creating a Psychological Profile of Successful First-Year Engineering Stu-dentsDr. Danielle D. Gagne, Alfred University Dr. Gagne is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Alfred University. Although her formal training is in discourse processing, her professional interests in learning and cognitive theory have provided op- portunities to serve as a consultant for classroom and program assessment across disciplines. In 2010 she served as Project Faculty for a U.S. Department of Education grant for Preparing Leaders in the Educa- tion and Training of the Next Generation of School Psychology Practitioners, and
design lifecycle Engage in community-based educational activitiesWith these goals in mind the Capstone Experience was designed so a team of three or fourstudents would form small “consulting engineering” companies and then, over the course of twoquarters (six months), work on projects submitted by companies in the area.The student teams are mentored by an engineer or manager at the company and “managed” atour university by part-time faculty from the local industrial talent pool. The Capstone facultybrings the necessary real-world experience and soft skills, such as creating and trackingschedules that students need to execute their projects within the allotted time.In Capstone I the student team creates their development contract. It is then
reflection depends on the instructor’smotivation for introducing reflection in the first place. While assessment seems appropriate forreflections geared towards understanding of course content, integration of bodies of objectiveknowledge, and application of foreign bodies of objective knowledge to the field of engineering,it could be argued, as sources indicate above, that with other purposes – such as personaldevelopment or self-assessment – students would be more truthful if they did not anticipate beingassessed or even needing to turn in their reflections. However, one must keep in mind the pointalready cited: assessment, even of subjective reflections, may help students improve theirreflection skills.c) Factors in Successful ReflectionA number
Paper ID #19972A Case-Study Approach to Interlink Humanities with Engineering EducationDr. Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University Ravi Shankar has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madi- son, WI, and an MBA from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL. He is currently a senior professor with the Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Florida Atlantic Uni- versity. His current research interests are on K-12 education, engineering learning theories, and education data mining. He has been well funded by the high tech industry over the
Paper ID #18325Engineers’ Imaginaries of ”the Public”: Content Analysis of FoundationalProfessional DocumentsDr. Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech Yanna Lambrinidou is a medical ethnographer and affiliate faculty in the Department of Science and Technology in Society (STS) at Virginia Tech. For the past 10 years, she has conducted extensive research on the historic 2001-2004 Washington, DC lead-in-drinking-water contamination. This work exposed wrongdoing and unethical behavior on the part of engineers and scientists in local and federal government agencies. In 2010, Dr. Lambrinidou co-conceived and co-developed the
Paper ID #18282Case Studies of Problem Exploration Processes in Engineering DesignMs. Jaryn Studer, Iowa State University Jaryn Studer is a Graduate Research Assistant at Iowa State University pursuing her M.S. in Human Computer Interaction. She received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering at West Virginia University. Her research interests include design and strategies to develop creative thinking.Dr. Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton (2003) and a Ph.D. in
Paper ID #20572Time Management for Faculty: A Framework for Intentional Productivityand Well-BeingDr. Amy B. Chan Hilton, University of Southern Indiana Amy B. Chan Hilton, Ph.D., P.E., F.EWRI is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and a Professor of Engineering at the University of Southern Indiana (USI). Her interests in- clude teaching and learning innovations, faculty and organizational development, environmental systems analysis, and applied optimization. Prior to joining USI, Dr. Chan Hilton served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation with experience in the
Paper ID #18098The RED Teams as Institutional Mentors: Advice from the First Year of the”Revolution”Dr. Jeremi S. London, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Dr. Jeremi London is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Arizona State University. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue Uni- versity. Prior to her PhD, she worked in quality assurance and logistics roles at Anheuser-Busch and GE Healthcare, where she was responsible for ensuring consistency across processes and compliance with federal regulations. For four consecutive summers
) who, in turn, has in mind a set of users(or customers) for whose benefit the designed artifact is being developed” [10].In the work presented in this paper, “engineering design” refers to situations where an individualor team begins with a fairly vague notion of a problem or a set of needs that their design willaddress, as opposed to a situation where a very strict set of immutable requirements are handedto the team at the start. For example, a team could be tasked with designing a system to detectthe posture of a user sitting in a chair and use that information to improve posture. Or, a studentcould be tasked with designing a system to automatically detect bruised bananas as they speed byon a conveyor belt. Or, a team could be tasked to
Paper ID #18957Best Practices for Developing a Virtual Peer Mentoring CommunityDr. Courtney June Faber, University of Tennessee Courtney is a Research Assistant Professor and Lecturer in the College of Engineering Honors Program at the University of Tennessee. She completed her Ph.D. in Engineering & Science Education at Clemson University. Prior to her Ph.D. work, she received her B.S. in Bioengineering at Clemson University and her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University. Courtney’s research interests include epistemic cognition in the context of problem solving, researcher identity, and mixed
therefore significantly underestimates the total value being generated in unlicensed usage over this time period.’ A market of which 15% is $25 billion would be a $166 billion market.85In analyzing how Lamarr and Antheil moved from disconnected knowledge of weapons, radios,and pianos to the emergent notions of frequency hopping and synchronization, one of theconsultant’s to the author of the Hedy Lamarr story, an inventor and engineer, explains what ittakes to connect unrelated concepts for invention: “‘the inventive process follows a cascade ofideas and thoughts interconnected from previous concepts that for the most part lie separate,unconnected and unrelated. It takes a clear state of mind, which is usually someone thinking`outside
Paper ID #18611Work In Progress: Knowledge Integration to Understand WhyProf. Tom Chen, Colorado State University Tom Chen received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh. After spending 4 years with Philips Semiconductors in Europe, he joined the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Colorado State University. Prof. Chen published more than 180 journal and conference papers in the areas of analog and digital VLSI design and CAD for VLSI design. Prof. Chen served as the General Chair of 2015 IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, and as the Guest Editor of IEEE Trans. on Computer- Aided
Paper ID #18147Developing a Shared Vision for Change: New results from the Revolutioniz-ing Engineering Departments Participatory Action ResearchDr. Cara Margherio, University of Washington Cara Margherio is the Senior Research Associate at the UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE). Cara serves as project manager for program evaluation on several NSF- and NIH-funded projects. Her research interests include community cultural wealth, counterspaces, peer mentoring, and institutional change.Dr. Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler, Ph.D., is the director of the University of
STEMcareers [16, 17, 18]. Program teachers offer varied, hands-on projects in their engineeringclassrooms that are practical, but also community minded, artful, or even musical. This approachto an introduction to engineering course is theorized to attract the creative problem solver neededto succeed in the field of engineering. See Appendix A for the ENGR 102 HS teachingobjectives and learning outcomes. While the focus of this paper is gender and student self-efficacy, much more information about ENGR 102 HS in comparison to other dual creditprograms, the quality of instruction and the logistics of the EPICS High community serviceprogram and the GC DELI online units can be found in previous work by the authors [1, 15, 19,20, 21].During a given
Paper ID #18114High School Extracurricular Activities and Camps Related to Engineering,Math and Science: Do They Help Retention and Performance in Engineer-ing? (Fundamental)Dr. Nora Honken, University of Cincinnati Nora is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Department at The University of Cincin- nati. She holds a PhD in Educational Leadership and Organizational Development for the University of Louisville, a MS in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University and a BS in Industrial Engineer- ing from Virginia Tech. She also has extensive industrial experience.Dr. Patricia A. Ralston, University
pedagogical goals in mind. One goal is to provide an opportunity for students todeepen their learning of science and engineering concepts. Another goal is to experienceactivities that mimic those of an engineer. In both cases, ambassadors seem to be refining theircapacity to convey technical content in ways that appeal to specific (non-technical) audiences,which is very much aligned with the overall goals of the ambassador program. The activity design process demonstrated the potential for this aspect of ambassadortraining to further undergraduates’ thinking as subject matter experts and communicators to non-technical audiences. Most of the ambassadors gave specific examples of how the content of theirpresentation was manifest in the hands-on
Paper ID #19169Engineering (verb) Diversity: Using the Engineering Design Process to Defineand Intervene in the Issue of Undergraduate Diversity at the Institution LevelProf. Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware Dr. Buckley is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Delaware. She received her Bachelor’s of Engineering (2001) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware, and her MS (2004) and PhD (2006) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked on computational and experimental methods in spinal biomechanics. Since 2006, her research
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
mindfulness and its impact on gender participation in engineering education. He is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and teaches the course ME310x Product Management and ME305 Statistics for Design Researchers. Mark has extensive background in consumer products management, having managed more than 50 con- sumer driven businesses over a 25-year career with The Procter & Gamble Company. In 2005, he joined Intuit, Inc. as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer and initiated a number of consumer package goods marketing best practices, introduced the use of competitive response modeling and ”on- the-fly” A|B testing program to qualify software improvements. Mark is the Co-Founder
Education Lab advised by Prof. Sheri Sheppard. Her work focuses on fostering mindful awareness, empathy and curiosity in engineering students. Beth completed a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2010 and a MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford in 2012.Dr. Tua A. Bj¨orklund Dr. Bj¨orklund focuses on supporting idea development efforts in product design, entrepreneurship and teaching in higher education. She has been a part of creating the Aalto University Design Factory, an experimentation platform for students, teachers, researchers and practitioners in Finland. Currently Dr. Bj¨orklund is a visiting Fulbright scholar at Stanford University, working at the Center for Design Research
Paper ID #19194Graduate Automotive Engineering Education Innovation – Deep Orange Pro-gram Collaborative Industry Partnerships Enable System Engineering BasedApproach for Project-Focused LearningDavid Schmueser Ph.D., Clemson University David Schmueser joined CU-ICAR in August 2013 as Adjunct Professor of Automotive Engineering. He also is a consultant to the US University Program at Altair Engineering, where he served as University Program Manager, 2007-2015. He received his BS and MS degrees in Engineering Mechanics, and a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering, all from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Prior to
Paper ID #18272Work in Progress: Engineering Invisible Mountains! Mental Health andUndergraduate-Level Engineering Education: The Changing Futures ProjectDr. Jane Andrews, Aston University Dr Jane Andrews is currently a Senior Lecturer in Engineering Education at the School of Engineering & Applied Science, Aston University, UK. The only Sociologist in the UK to hold a lectureship in Engi- neering, Jane’s research interests include all aspects of engineering education with a particular focus on elementary level engineering education and gender issues within engineering.Prof. Robin Clark, Aston University