. However, as aninherently interdisciplinary activity, no single discipline provides the breadth demanded byrobotics in the future. Truly smart robots rely on information processing, decision systems andartificial intelligence (computer science), sensors, computing platforms, and communications(electrical engineering) and actuators, linkages, and mechatronics (mechanical engineering).Thus, a broad technical education is needed. In effect, robotics engineers must use systemsthinking, even early in their careers. Given the above motivations for a robotics degree, a teamof WPI faculty members from the departments of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer1 No precise and widely-agreed upon definitions exist for either Mechatronics or Robotics. We
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. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering students’ identity devel- opment. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty
in the INSPIRE Institute at Purdue University. Dr. Moore’s research is centered on the integration of STEM concepts in K-12 and postsecondary classrooms in order to help students make connections among the STEM disciplines and achieve deep understanding. Her work focuses on defining STEM integration and investigating its power for student learning. Tamara Moore received an NSF Early CAREER award in 2010 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 STEM Content in Elementary School Students’ Evidence-Based Reasoning Discussions (Fundamental)Introduction and backgroundScience
ascomputer programming or PCB design; expressing new or rekindled interest in science andengineering topics; acknowledging the value of new professional relationships. Because thesurvey was anonymous it is not possible to directly attribute quotes to individual students;however, a sample of quotes is as follows:"My time as an intern provided me with amazing work experience in the field of aerospaceengineering.""Maryland Space Grant Consortium definitely has affected my career path tremendously. Beinghere has helped me understand my likes and dislikes and also what I would want to do for futurestudies. It has also exposed me to the different aspects of engineering and connected me withother engineers as well.""It broadened my horizons by placing me
. If individuals mustexpend a great amount of time and effort to accomplish a goal, then they are more likely tochoose an activity that they feel capable of performing successfully and that will lead to a moreattainable valued outcome rather than wasting their time in a self-perceived futile endeavor [37].The expectancy value theory of motivation holds that people engage in activities to accomplishgoals because of the perceived value associated with their likely outcomes. For example, if theinstructional topic is perceived by the student as relevant and valuable in attaining a sought aftergoal, the student will be motivated to perform [13, 31]. It’s common in career and technicalprograms that too many students fail to see the relevancy in
and SurgeryDr. Margaret June Slattery, Pennsylvania State University Margaret Slattery Ph.D., has been a faculty member at Penn State University in Biomedical Engineering since 2007 and her career has focused on undergraduate students and their academic experiences. She currently is directing a new office within Undergraduate Education aimed to increase the visibility and support for General Education while helping to implement a new General Education program for all PSU undergraduates. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 The Impact of a Creativity-Focused Biomedical REU on Students’ Conceptions of Research and CreativityAbstract: Research
Design from Stanford University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Entrepreneurial Management. Prior to joining Mines she spent 20 years as a designer, project manager, and portfolio manager in Fortune 500 companies and smaller firms in the Silicon Valley and abroad. She is passionate about bringing the user-centered de- sign principles she learned at Stanford and in her career to Mines’ open-ended problem solving program, and is working with others on campus to establish a broader integrated context for innovation and design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Increasing Student Empathy Through Immersive Stakeholder
Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) HQ in Paris,France in 2007 and later ran the Chemistry programme and International Year of Chemistry 2011 andthereafter the Engineering programme. The Engineering Programme is working with countries, interna-tional partners and program experts to strengthen engineering education through curricula development,hands-on training and capacity building. In line with UNESCO’s global priorities on Africa and Gen-der Equality, it focuses on women and Africa. Rovani is passionate about women in engineering andencouraging more youth to pursue careers in engineering.She previously worked at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Paris on a biofuels strat-egy and also at the Wuppertal Institute of Climate Change in
-Marcos School ofEngineering at the University of San Diego is working to produce and disseminate a model forredefining the engineering education canon with the goal of developing “ChangemakingEngineers.” One of the strategies for achieving this goal is to infuse traditional engineeringclasses with new materials that address this changemaking theme. The goal is for students todevelop the same fundamental skills that they currently acquire, but to see better how these skillscan be applied to problems and situations that don’t appear in traditional textbooks. This greaterperspective will encourage some students to pursue non-traditional career paths, and other topractice with greater awareness of the impact of engineering on society.In Fall 2017
international experiences including study abroad, internships,volunteer work, and faculty-led study tours. Western faculty plays an active role in their student’slives, not only in the classroom but also through advising student groups, supporting individualstudent career aspirations, and mentoring programs. The Engineering & Design Department atWWU is a new department formed in 2014 out of the former Engineering Technology departmentas part of a state-funded effort to transition the engineering technology programs to accreditedengineering programs. The department offers five undergraduate-only programs withdistinguished faculty in each program; the Electrical Engineering (EE) program, theManufacturing Engineering (MfgE) program, and the Plastics
Guidelines are imperative for undergraduateeducation and the subsequent professional career. However, due to the lack of active learningtools and the dearth of engaged student learning, software engineering education may not beeffectively delivered, resulting in non-coverage by the instructors or non-retention by thestudents of the required software engineering knowledge area. A three years NSF TUES grantawarded to the authors institute in 2013 has specifically addressed these pedagogical issues. Theproject which involved partnerships in academia and industry developed 44 delivery contacthours of new Active Learning Tools, deployed to enhance knowledge delivery and retention inSoftware Verification and Validation (SV&V), specifically in these
amount of ambiguity, necessary collaboration, sociotechnical complexity, andpersuasion needed: Many [of the interviewed engineers] felt frustrated because they did not think that their jobs provided them with enough technical challenges. Others felt frustrated because they thought that a different career choice might have led to a job that would enable them to make more use of the advanced technical subjects they had studied in their university courses. Many of them were actually planning to leave their career in engineering. In our research, we found that more experienced engineers, those who had stuck with it for a decade or more, had mostly realized that the real intellectual challenges in engineering
Paper ID #21527The Third Edition of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge: An Updateand OverviewDr. Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama Kenneth J. Fridley is the Senior Associate Dean for the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama. Prior to his current appointment, Fridley served as Professor and Head of the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alabama. Dr. Fridley has been recognized as a dedicated educator throughout his career and has received several awards for his teaching efforts, including the ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, with courtesy appointments in Computer Science and the School of Architecture + Design. He is the co-director of the Virginia Tech E-textiles Lab and the associate director of the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. His research and teaching interests include wearable computing, electronic textiles, and interdisciplinary design teams for pervasive computing. In 2006 he was selected for the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
techniques c. Long-term collaborative partnerships with university faculty and industry representatives2. Student Outcomes (indirectly from their teacher’s experiences) a. Students having more positive STEM influences which encourage them to pursue careers in these areas b. Students being more engaged in the classroom due to better developed authentic classroom activitiesThis year, it was also important to continue establishing a professional learning community forthe in-service teachers. Since two cohorts have completed the program, an adequate amount ofteacher resources has been developed that can be shared with all the past and current participants.MethodologyThe evaluation design uses Kirkpatrick and
for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the American College of Clinical Engineering.Dr. Icaro Dos Santos Dos Santos, Milwaukee School of Engineering c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Work-In-Progress: Streamlining Biomedical Engineering Design ProcessThe Accreditation Board for Engineering Technology (ABET) Criterion 5 states that an ABET-accredited undergraduate engineering program must incorporate a capstone design process tobetter prepare its graduates for various engineering careers [1]. The most common pedagogicalapproaches to teaching design focus on a Problem-Based Learning and are centered around aspecific problem to be addressed, and include general capstone courses covering
research, especially for students from groups that are underrepresented in scienceand engineering majors and careers [1]-[6]. For example, students with research experience tendto have stronger problem-solving skills and are more likely to go to graduate school and pursue acareer in science or engineering. But scholars know little about what actually happens duringstudents’ research experiences that creates these desirable outcomes. Understanding howstudents learn and develop a sense of belonging in engineering by joining a research communitywill shed light on important issues of engineering education and professionalization and informstrategies for how research communities can better support students from underrepresentedgroups. We hypothesize
the President. 2. Brass LF, Akabas MH, Burnley LD, Engman DM, Wiley CA, Andersen OS. Are MD– PhD programs meeting their goals? An analysis of career choices made by graduates of 24 MD–PhD programs. Academic medicine: journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 2010 Apr;85(4):692. 3. Chan LS. Building an Engineering-Based Medical College: Is the Timing Ripe for the Picking?. Medical Science Educator. 2016 Mar 1;26(1):185-90. 4. Dalkey N, Helmer O. An experimental application of the Delphi method to the use of experts. Management science. 1963 Apr;9(3):458-67. 5. Hsu, C. C., & Sandford, B. A. (2007). The Delphi technique: making sense of consensus. Practical Assessment, Research &
results suggest that more instruction on opportunities forprocess and utility water recycling should be incorporated into the Design II curriculum.SummaryLess than a quarter of our students avail themselves of any industrial internship opportunityduring their undergraduate career at TAMUK; an industrial internship is not a requirement in ourundergraduate degree program. Additionally, roughly one half of the students in our chemicalengineering curriculum come from parts of our state where there are numerous refineries andchemical process plants, while the remainder come from nearby areas of our state where there isno refinery or chemical process industry whatsoever. Based on this information, only a smallfraction of our students may have been
at NC State since 2000, Dr. Bullard has won numerous awards for both teaching and advising, including the ASEE Raymond W. Fahien Award, the John Wi- ley Premier Award for Engineering Education Courseware, NC State Faculty Advising Award, National Effective Teaching Institute Fellow, NC State Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award, George H. Blessis Out- standing Undergraduate Advisor Award, and the ASEE Southeastern Section Mid-Career Teacher Award. She is a member of the editorial board for Chemical Engineering Education and serves a Director of the Chemical Engineering Division of ASEE. She will be a co-author, along with Dr. Richard Felder and Dr. Ronald Rousseau, of the 4th edition of Chemical Process Principles. Dr
executive summary.Student recruitment and number of S-STEM scholarships awardedStudents were recruited primarily through email flyers and classroom visits. We found thatclassroom visits were more effective than email flyers because classroom visits providedstudents an opportunity to interact with us and get their questions answered. Students submittedtheir applications online, which included their resumes, statements of career goals, transcripts,and other documents. A six-member Selection Committee was formed to review all studentapplications. The Committee also worked closely with our university’s Financial Aid Office andobtained the information of unmet financial needs of each student applicant. The Committeeselected student awardees based on a
Paper ID #22468Work in Progress: A Study of Transparent Assignments and Their Impact onStudents in an Introductory Circuit CourseDr. Jack Ou, California State University, Northridge Jack Ou received the Master Degree in 2001 and the Ph.D. degree in 2005 from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He joined Sonoma State University in 2011 and California State University Northridge in 2015. Prior to starting his teaching career, he held several industry positions at Lucent Technologies, Anadigics, Vitesse Semiconductor, IBM and Lyric Semiconductor. His primary area of research is analog and radio frequency integrated
endeavor. The Corner is located on Fifth Avenue where five (5) consecutiveblocks on this main thoroughfare have been dubbed the "Corridor of Innovation".The Corner is described on the Penn State New Kensington (PSNK) web site as: “The Corner Launchbox program and coworking space concepts were made possible in part by a seed grant of $150,000 from Invent Penn State, a Commonwealth-wide initiative to spur economic development, job creation and student career success, and a partnership with Westmoreland County. Penn State New Kensington used the grant to create a unique model that melds entrepreneurship, coworking space and community-driven economic development to revitalize the city. The result is the first
. Kitsantas, “The effect of a horseshoe crab citizen science program on middle school student science performance and STEM career motivation,” School Science and Mathematics, vol. 114, pp. 302–311, 2014.7. I. Azjen, Attitudes, Personality and Behavior. Chicago, IL: Dorsey, 1988.8. I. Azjen, “The theory of planned behavior,” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, vol. 50, pp. 179–211, 1991.9. J. A. Maxwell, Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2013.10. D. Harper, D. “Talking about pictures: A case for photo elicitation,” Visual Studies, vol. 17, pp. 13–26, 2002.11. S. R. Brookfield, “Using critical incidents to explore learners’ assumptions,” in Fostering Critical
program commented that the ethics session was always theleast attended because “the idea was either that it’s not important or who cares or this is allobvious stuff and I don’t need to think about it.” These comments show the challenge ofteaching ESI when students are not interested in learning about it and/or they do notappreciate its value.ResistanceInterviewees also discussed challenges they encountered when students explicitly expressedresistance or pushback to learning about ESI. One professor who teaches a required one-credit professionalism course in industrial engineering mentioned “anything that’s not aformula or calculation, there are a few students who just think when we stray away fromthat, we’re somehow harming their potential career
, designing and redesigning lectures, and learning solutions to the legion ofissues students bring to them in their classes8. The third irony is perhaps the most peculiar and tragic of the three. Many institutions(and the academic departments within them) ask their least experienced faculty (typically, newassistant professors or lecturers) to teach large courses in their first few years8,22. Often thesecourses have many hundreds of students and are, by virtue of their size, among the mostchallenging to teach effectively13,36,62,48. Yet many senior faculty members view teaching thesecourses as a rite of passage, challenges that all faculty members must experience at early pointsin their careers regardless of their ability or interest. The
redacted]anditwasverystressful,butIwenttothe firstsafezonereceptionduringNSO[NewStudent Orientation]andthat'swereImetmostofmy friendsforthefirsttime 4. Fullywelcoming Ihaveneveroncefeltbelittled,judged,oroutof placebyanyoneIhaveencounteredwhileon campusformysexuality/orientation. 5. Fullywelcoming Ihavealwaysfeltwelcomedat[nameofinstitution redacted]regardlessofmysexualorientationor genderidentity. 6. Fullywelcoming Ihadnoproblemsthroughoutmyentire[nameof institutionredacted]career
types and associated methodologies.” Health Information & Libraries Journal, 26(2), 2009, PP. 91-108.[9] M. P. Labre, E. J. Herman, G. G. Dumitru, K. A. Valenzuela & C. L. Cechman, “Public health interventions for asthma: An umbrella review, 1990-2010”. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 42(4), 2012, pp. 403–410.[10] J. K. Seida, M. B. Ospina, M. Karkhaneh, L. Hartling, V. Smith & B. Clark, “Systematic reviews of psychosocial interventions for autism: An umbrella review.” Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 51(2), 2009, pp. 95–104.[11] L. S. Dix, “Minorities: Their underrepresentation and career differentials in science and engineering: Proceedings of a workshop.” Washington, D.C.: National
situationswith flexibility and imagination [3], [6]-[10].As well, the increasing complexity of work environments – due both to higher task variety andvolatility, and to higher levels of required knowledge [11] – makes the development of adaptiveexpertise an urgent priority for today’s post-secondary students, particularly engineering students(e.g., [9]-[10]). Static subject expertise is no longer sufficient for a successful career, if it everwas. Current students will need to be employees who can take their subject expertise and apply itin novel ways: invent new procedures, solve novel problems, and/or combine their insights withthose of other fields [11] - [14]. Moreover, rapid technological change and economic shifts havemade the ability to respond
part of their research experiences. From thislist of potential codes, codes were identified based on what was found in Phase II interviewtranscripts. These include activities such as constructing knowledge that is new to participant ornew to field, collaboration, testing ideas, and dissemination. Some codes reflect students’attitudes and beliefs, such as career goals or plans; challenges they faced when doing research;and aspects of mentoring or supervision. Other codes reflect aspects of students’ experiences,such as recognition, failure, gaining skills, or feeling a sense of gratification. These codes will beparticularly important for Phase III of this project, in which we will identify ways to transfer ourfindings to instructional practice