education in informal, traditional, distance, and professional environments. Dr. Goodridge currently teaches courses in ”Teaching, Learning, and Assessment in Engineering Education” and ”Engi- neering Mechanics: Statics.” Dr. Goodridge is an engineering councilor for the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) and serves on ASEE’s project board. Dr. Goodridge actively consults for projects includ- ing the development of an online curriculum style guide for Siemens software instruction, development of engineering activities for blind and visually impaired youth, and the implementation and investigation of a framework of engineering content to incorporate into P-12 engineering education. c American
thatwork experience helped students recognize the importance of the ability to collaborate withothers. There was an increased appreciation of the importance of the ability to explain ideas toco-workers who might have a different or no technical background. Students also felt that workexperience contributed to their boldness in stating opinions and asking questions about aspects ofgroup work as well as of professors. This differed from their undergraduate experience, wherethey did not ask for clarification from either fellow students or professors. Work also taught thedifference between teamwork as experienced in the workplace and group work in school.Students who had not had work experience tended to approach projects which were meant to be agroup
developmentThis research is a part of a larger, 5-year study conducted to understand approaches toengineering integration in science curricula and classes. The research takes place within anNational Science Foundation funded project in which approximately 200 teachers of science ingrades 4–8 participate in develop engineering-based STEM integration curricular units forimplementation in their classrooms and later to be published online. Each summer, 50 teachersparticipate in a 3-week summer institute and then receive support through coaching andmentoring during the subsequent academic school year. In the summer workshops, teachersexplore engineering design and engineering practices through completing a variety of activities.An engineering education
it has twice the course content. The entire portfolio was due at a single date within thefirst month of classes.In Autumn 2017, a new training model was developed and implemented. Rather than having asingle portfolio, TAs were required to complete every assignment for the semester with a duedate two weeks before that topic was taught in the class. The main projected advantage of thenew model is that it ensured all TAs were personally familiar with every assignment rather thanrelying on them to look at the assignment and solution independently before class. Additionally,this new model was designed to alleviate issues with procrastination. In the past, if TAs waitedtoo long to start the portfolio, there may have been a huge spike in their
MS (1980) and DE (1983) degrees in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University. His educa- tion and research interests include project management, innovation and entrepreneurship, and embedded product/system development. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Assessing the Effects of Authentic Experiential Learning Activities on Teacher Confidence with Engineering ConceptsAbstractThere is a growing concern in the US about the lack of student interest and aptitude inscience, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines. Research indicates thatengineering and technology integration in K-12 improve students’ content understandingand skill development, understanding of
and engineering design and for increasing the diversity and inclusion of engineering education.Dr. Rucha Joshi, Purdue University, West Lafayette Rucha received her BS in Biotechnology from Kolhapur, India and thereafter came to Vanderbilt Uni- versity to work on her MS developing smart bio-materials for drug delivery applications. A biomedical engineer with expertise in biomaterials, tissue engineering, and drug delivery, Rucha is now pursuing post-doctoral research in biomedical engineering education. She is passionate about STEM pedagogy, design thinking, project-based learning and educational entrepreneurship.Prof. Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette Patrice M. Buzzanell is a Professor in
; student engineering identity development; institutional diversity and equity policy; history and theory of higher education.Dr. Erin E. Doran, Iowa State University Dr. Erin Doran is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Iowa State University.Dr. Sarah Rodriguez, Iowa State University Sarah Rodriguez, PhD, is an assistant professor of Higher Education at Iowa State University. Dr. Ro- driguez’s research addresses issues of equity, access, and retention for Latina/o students in the higher education pipeline, with a focus on the intersections of gender and race/ethnicity for Latinas in STEM. She has experience coordinating large-scale interdisciplinary research projects focused on engineering and other STEM
undergraduate courses in Mathematics, graduate courses in Education, and is a thesis advisor on the master and doctoral programs on education at the Tecnologico de Monterrey. Her main research areas are: models and modeling, use of technology to improve teaching and learning, gender issues in STEM education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 STEM-oriented students’ perception of the relevance of physicsAbstractWe present initial findings from an ongoing project regarding the factors that influencesecondary and high school students to pursue a professional engineering career. In this article,we offer data from the analysis of a questionnaire administered to high school students
Paper ID #21970The American Society of Civil Engineers’ Canon 8: Codifying Diversity asEthicsDr. Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Rice University Canek Phillips (P’urepecha) is a postdoctoral research associate at Rice University in the Brown School of Engineering. Canek’s research interests broadly relate to efforts to broaden participation in engineering. Currently, he is working on a project to improve mathematics education for visually impaired students.Dr. Yvette E. Pearson P.E., Rice University Dr. Yvette E. Pearson holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and M.S. in Chemistry from Southern University and A&M College and a
Famagusta, Cyprus. Her areas of expertise are performance-based modeling, project delivery methods, communication networks, and uncertainty and risk analysis in design and construction of transportation projects. She also has industrial experience as a project manager in multiple building construction projects. Dr. Kermanshachi has con- ducted several research projects which were awarded by Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and Construction Industry Institute (CII). Dr. Kermanshachi has received several prestigious national and regional awards, including the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Professional Service Award, ASCE Excellence in Education
and sensors formeasuring common engineering quantities such as pressure, strain, temperature, etc. In addition,this course serves as the primary lab experience in thermofluids, covering experimentaltechniques for measuring heat transfer coefficients, analyzing heat exchanger efficiency, andmeasuring wind turbine behavior in a wind tunnel. A term long group project requires students todevelop, execute, and report on a measurement experiment of their own choosing. This course isdesigned to particularly prepare students for their senior year capstone design experience bygiving them practice in open ended projects and higher level analysis skills. The author hastaught this course as the sole instructor since Fall 2010.ME4505 has seven major lab
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Department of Mechanical & Indus- trial Engineering and the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead). She completed her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) studying product development decision-making during complex industry projects. Dr. Olechowski completed her BSc (Engineering) at Queen’s Univer- sity and her MS at MIT, both in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Olechowski studies the processes and tools that teams of engineers use in industry as they design innovative new products. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engineering Students and Group Membership: Patterns of Variation in
Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect conceptual change and associated impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and per
through this can be effective in transforming studentunderstanding of how CAD inflects engineering design output.Background and ContextThis project was motivated by a set of three distinct but intersecting forces: 1) Demand by ourstudents to add CAD instruction to an established social sciences-centered design and innovationundergraduate programming (the Programs in Design and Innovation, or PDI); 2) Recognitionthat PDI faculty were weak with CAD tools, and thus there was a need to teach CAD from theperspective of our strengths in human-centered design and design thinking; and 3) A fundingopportunity to support faculty who sought to integrate interactive educational technologies intotheir teaching. The authors pursued the funding opportunity by
Paper ID #23334Adaptive Expertise: The Development of a Measurement InstrumentDr. Janna H. Ferguson, Northeastern University Dr. Ferguson designs assessments and analyzes data related to student learning and its relevance to stu- dent success. Focusing on how experiential learning and co-curricular education works in conjunction with traditional academic environments, Dr. Ferguson works to develop, plan, implement, and evaluate meaningful assessments across multiple learning environments and provides support for projects related to institutional assessment.Jennifer Lehmann, Northeastern UniversityDr. Yevgeniya V
datafor student communication skills, technical expertise, and even things like global,economic, social understanding of engineering. Industry partners are often providers ofthis opinion. The measures need to be taken in a structured manner.Some programs create special instruments to provide direct measure data on studentperformance. If the curriculum is covering all of the student outcomes, there should beenough indicators embedded in the curriculum that specially created additional activitiesare not necessary. The most available and versatile embedded indicators18 are the resultsof course activities such as quizzes, texts, projects, laboratory experiments, presentationsand papers. The course event needs to correlate directly to the student
classroomelectronic response devices, assigning group and individual projects, using the flipped classroomconcept, and offering mandatory recitation periods. This paper briefly describes the teaching andlearning schemes attempted, the advantages and disadvantages of each scheme, and theeffectiveness of each scheme. The most promising scheme has been unique homework problems,and this is supported by comparing exam grades when homework problems were assigned fromthe textbook.Introduction:Preparing graduates for engineering employment and practice is the most important function ofengineering education. Graduates are expected to have the basic knowledge, and the ability tosolve new engineering problems that they might not have seen before. The traditional
providers, such as Project Lead The Way (PLTW) andEngineering Is Elementary (EiE), offer comprehensive curricula and professional learningopportunities in engineering education. These programs are high quality and provide an entrypoint into engineering education for K12 teachers with turnkey curricula; the engineering designlessons and activities are prescriptive and vary in the degree to which they explicitly address thescience concepts and skills inherent to the design problem. Moreover, PLTW and EiE are notexplicitly designed to address the performance expectations of NGSS. These performanceexpectations are intended to be the benchmark by which students’ proficiency of the grade-appropriate disciplinary core ideas, practices, and crosscutting
result of SDI application, the Introduction to Circuits course at QU provides students withfoundational knowledge in DC and AC circuits, as well as some building-block knowledge forfuture courses in Mechatronics, Controls, and Data Acquisition (motors, generators, diodes,strain gages, voltage regulators, and op amps). Finally, through a design project, students applythe knowledge and skills learned in the course and lab to design, simulate, prototype, build, andtest a multi-output DC power supply. The final circuits are embodied with Printed Circuit Boards(PCBs) which the students design.The success of this course is assessed by comparing our students’ perception of their circuits-related abilities to those of students from a nationally-regarded
Collaboration, Experiential Learning, and Design ThinkingGiven the national and local significance of public infrastructure decline and current policydebates over how to fund replacement and repair, we developed a course that explicitly focusedon the problems with Syracuse’s aging wastewater system [24], [25]. In order to provide contextand relevance, we used a collaborative framework to create an experiential learning project inwhich student teams collaborated with local stakeholders to explore the real world challenges ofmaintaining wastewater systems in a resource-constrained city. In addition, we integrated adesign thinking process to engage students in empathy/ethics-based methods and approaches toproblem solving.Collaborative FrameworkThe course
research spans education and practice, working on the in- tegration of community research into project based learning. Her work overlaps areas of GIS mapping, global sustainable urbanism, design and creativity. She undertook a Fulbright in Valpara´ıso, Chile, to investigate, and map, devices of landscape as inspirations for the orders of community space. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Mapping as Design-Thinking: Can GIS Help Engineering Students Approach Design?AbstractSpatial site design, accessed through GIS mapping, teaches three-dimensional data analysis skillsinvaluable for the contemporary engineering student. Integrating design-thinking
, integrating sustainability and professional ethics into the engineering curriculum, and communication of science and engineering concepts to non-technical audiences.Dr. Marialuisa Di Stefano, Utah State University Marialuisa Di Stefano is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Utah State University, advancing research projects on bilingual education in New England and in Puerto Rico. She is an education researcher and advocates for historically marginalized groups in elementary education. Her research interest lies in bridging perspectives between transnational civic education, bilingual education, and STEM education, and how such intersections may lead to a more equitable education system. During the last 5 years, she worked
writing through specific practices” [3].Meaningful writing is the careful integration of writing, not merely “Informative writing to theteacher-as-examiner in the genre of a short-answer exam [which] does little to truly initiatestudents to the primary purposes and audiences in the writing of their disciplines” [7]. The initialbaseline of writing perceptions built in this work serves as a step to examine whether and howwriting might be incorporated into the NACOE curricula and can provide a model for others tofollow.Project Motivation and ApproachThis research project did not begin as an examination of writing in engineering. Rather, it beganas an investigation into the learning practices of two different communities the lead authoroperated in
U.S., with50% receiving formal accommodations for their ADHD at their home university. The distributionof majors was as follows: Electrical Engineering = 3, Mechanical Engineering = 2, ComputerScience Engineering = 3, Chemical Engineering = 1, and Engineering Physics = 1. Twoparticipants indicated a dual major: one with philosophy and one with mathematics.The program combined a ten-week traditional summer REU research experience with closementorship, specially designed seminars, workshops, and roundtable discussions to address thestrengths and needs of participants. The specific objectives of this REU Site were to: • Provide an in-depth undergraduate research experience in a project related to cyber or physical infrastructure security
graduate courses in teacher action research and gender and culture in science education. Her research interests include girls’ participation in science and engineering; teacher’s engagement in action research; and science teachers’ integration of the engineering design process to improve science learning.James Lehman, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. James D. Lehman is a Professor Emeritus of Learning Design and Technology and former Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Purdue University. He is member of the leadership teams of two current NSF-funded projects, Science Learning through Engineering Design (SLED) and Profes- sional Development for Computer Science (PD4CS). He holds a B.S. and M.S. in
do so by analyzing papers published with the ASEE annualconference proceedings. To assist the imagining of new possibilities, I then suggest twoways of reformulating empathy in the engineering context.Literature ReviewA prehistory of empathy in engineeringAccording to psychologist Lauren Wispé, empathy was studied in a variety of disciplinesthroughout the 20th century, and the fields in which empathy drew intense attentionshifted from time to time. In the 19th century, Germans used the word “Einfühlung” inaesthetics theory to describe the process in which a viewer projects oneself into the objectof beauty. At the turn of the century, “Einfühlung” migrated out of aesthetics and becamea choice for psychologists to describe the ability to
Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Springer received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University, his MBA and Doctorate in Adult and Community Education with a Cognate in Executive Development from Ball State University. He is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP), Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR & SHRM-SCP), in Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR), and, in civil and domestic mediation. Dr. Springer is a State of Indiana Registered domestic mediator. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 After Action Review of a U.S.-Based M.S. Degree Program Delivered in Kilimanjaro, Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
began teaching at the University of Utah later that year. He has taught one or more classes at the university every year since that time, including seven years he spent working in industry. Since 2000, he has primarily taught introductory circuits courses. His research interests, which have recently been revived, focus on spiking neural networks.Prof. Angela Rasmussen, University of Utah Dr. Angela Rasmussen is the Director of Mentoring and Advising, Director of Electrical Engineering Senior Projects, and Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Utah. Dr. Rasmussen graduated with a B.S. in Computer Engineer(1996), summa cum laude and top student in her
new engineering education strategies as well as the technologies to support the 21st century classroom (online and face to face). He also has assisted both the campus as well as the local community in developing technology programs that highlight student skills development in ways that engage and attract individuals towards STEAM and STEM fields by showcasing how those skills impact the current project in real-world ways that people can understand and be involved in. As part of a university that is focused on supporting the 21st century student demographic he continues to innovate and research on how we can design new methods of learning to educate both our students and communities on how STEM and STEAM make up
Paper ID #21654Civil Engineering Students’ Views on Infrastructure in the U.S.Dr. Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC Dr. Carol Haden is Vice President at Magnolia Consulting, LLC, a woman-owned, small business special- izing in independent research and evaluation. She has served as evaluator for STEM education projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Arizona Department of Education, among others. Her ar- eas of expertise include evaluations of engineering education curricula and programs, informal education