approval was obtained with a protocol that allowed only project PIs access to student identifying data. Theproject PIs then aggregated certain markers (e.g., condensing individual ethnicities to a single underrepresentedminority status flag) and made de-identified data available to the rest of the research team. De-identified data werelinked to survey responses by a study id. Initial major selection was requested during pre-orientation for the collegeof engineering. The data set also contains first choice of major as well as final enrolled major for each student.First-year engineering students at this institution are accepted into the general engineering program and once specificcourse requirements are complete, they become eligible to declare an
Teaching Assistant in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She received her B.S. in Civil Engineering and M.Eng. in Environmental Engineering from Utah State University.Ms. Jessica Deters, Virginia Tech Jessica Deters is a PhD student at Virginia Tech in the Department of Engineering Education. She holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics & Statistics and a minor in the McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs from the Colorado School of Mines. Jessica is engaging in projects that emphasize the sociotechnical na- ture of engineering with a focus on social justice and diversity. She aims to educate the next generation of engineers to understand and value the social, political, economic, environmental, and human
Paper ID #23047Fitting In Across STEM: Comparing Science/Math and Engineering/TechnologyStudents’ Perceptions of Their Fields and FuturesHeather Lee Perkins, North Carolina State University Heather entered the Applied Social and Community Psychology program in the fall of 2014, after com- pleting her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati. She has participated in various research projects examining the interaction between stereotypes and science interest and confi- dence, their influence upon womens’ performance in school and the workplace, and their presence in the media and consequences for
Minitab 18® for analysis.All aspects of the project were reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB)for research involving human subjects. Additionally, students gave signed permission to usedata from the two instruments and survey in this paper. Under no circumstances were studentmindset profile scores shared with other students. Total revenue for the food truck simulationwas displayed on a projector screen for all students to see during gameplay, i.e., leaderboard.ResultsWe first examined the data to determine if there was a correlation between class year (freshmenversus upperclassmen) and how well the students performed on the Food Truck Challenge.Although there turned out to be no significant correlation between revenue
numerical heat transfer, fluids, and magnetohydrodynamic simulations and facilitating undergraduate students to engage in similar projects. He is also focused on the implementation of engineering freshman design experiences. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Generating Automated Problem Sets for Rapid Content Delivery and Adaptive Learning ModulesAbstractProblem solving plays a critical role in the education of young engineers. Word problem sets area vehicle that educators use to teach and assess that skill. While textbooks, problem repositories,and online learning systems provide a host of interesting problems there will always be a need togenerate new problems to
education. More specifically, her research looks at utilizing quality management tools such as Six Sigma DMAIC and Total Quality Management (TQM) to improve pre-collegiate and collegiate STEM education. Prior to UAPB, Dr. Fletcher served as the Senior Manager for the Summer Engineering Experience of Kids (SEEK) program and the Director of Pre-college Programs for the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). Additionally, she spent time in industry holding technical and operations-based roles and has experience with outreach projects focused on STEM education and mentoring.Dr. Vishodana Thamotharan, Florida International UniversityMs. Atalie Garcia c American Society for Engineering Education
, Mississippi State University Emily Wall is a summa cum laude Industrial and Systems Engineering 2015 graduate of Mississippi State University, and a 2012 graduate of Itawamba Community College. After college, she accepted a position as a Research Engineer at Mississippi State University’s Institute for Systems Engineering Research, located in Vicksburg, MS, on the campus of the Engineering Research and Development Center. While at ISER, her research areas include lean six sigma practices and applications, manufacturability, virtual reality applications and Mississippi economic improvement projects. She is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and is a graduate student at Mississippi State University pursuing her doctorate in
served as the president of the California Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation. During her tenure, she was responsible for encouraging undergraduates, particularly minority students, to participate in scientific laboratory research. Prior to attending Drexel University, Magdalene was employed as the Assistant Director of Teaching Laboratories in Drexel’s Biology department and as an adjunct professor at Rowan University. Magdalene’s current projects include the Philly Scientists, a mobile application for increasing biodiversity in urban Philadelphia, the Pittsburgh Learning Commons, an educational non-profit focusing on STEM education in informal settings, and Europa Universalis IV, a
developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 A Graduate Student Pedagogy Seminar in Chemical EngineeringIntroductionTeaching is an important but often challenging activity for graduate students. In the role ofgraduate teaching assistants (GTA), they impact the learning experience of undergraduatestudents, but they also gain a set of knowledge and skills beyond what they learn in class orthrough research. Typical duties for GTAs vary and can range from conducting
sections andthe graphical approach. During teaching the Mechanics of Materials course, it had been noticedthat some students had difficulty in effectively drawing the S/B diagrams. Even during seniordesign projects in their senior year, it was still found that some students had some difficulty indrawing the S/B diagrams. The method of sections [1,2] can be used to determine fully the shear force and bending momentat any cross-section of beams and to draw the S/B diagrams. When there are several externalforces on a beam, the beam must be divided into several segments. The method of sections willbe used repeatedly in each segment. Since it is tedious and time-consuming to use this method,the graphical approach for drawing S/B diagrams is introduced
]. AIP report, Equipping Physics Majors for the STEM Workforce, https://www.aip.org/statistics/reports/equipping-physics-majors; https://www.aip.org/commentary/aip- career-pathways-project-equipping-physics-majors-stem-workforce [5]. Haridas Kumarakuru, Naomi Ridge and James G. O′ Brien “An Analysis of Students’ Reflections on Engineering Physics II (Electricity and Magnetism), With a View to Improving Student Experience and Outcomes.” Proceedings of 2017 ASEE Northeast Section Conference. [6]. Bala Maheswaran “A New Teaching Approach for Ancient Engineering Physics: Master Physics via Mastering Physics! A Study and Survey” American Society for Engineering Education, Paper ID #8735, June 15-18, 2014
BS in Civil Engineering from the United States Military Academy and MS and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan.Dr. Chris Swan, Tufts University Chris Swan is an associate professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Tufts University. He has additional appointments in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engagement, service-based projects and using an entrepreneurial mindset to further engineering education innovations. He also does research on the development of reuse strategies for waste materials.Dr. Tanya Kunberger
required to complete 3 labreports that summarize the experiments performed in lab and a written course project that describeshow the techniques used in lab could be used to produce a therapeutic protein that treats a disease(e.g. insulin for diabetes). Each of these assignments goes through a draft/revision process inwhich a first draft is submitted, marked up by the instructor for technical content andspelling/grammar, and then the students have 1 week to prepare the final draft of the report. Toemphasize the importance of brevity and clarity, each report is limited to only 2 pages of text, withfigures and references included on additional pages. Protein Organism Color Supplier Cat
his department since 2008, and he also acts as the Project Director for the NSF Bridge Program in his department. In the past he served as the Graduate Director and as the Undergraduate Director in his department, and he directed the NSF-LSAMP program on his campus during 2009-2014 and also directed the NSF-LSAMP Bridge-to-Doctorate pro- gram on his campus during 2010-2013.Prof. Jianzhong Su, University of Texas at Arlington Dr. Jianzhong Su is professor and chair of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington. He received his Ph.D. in 1990 from University of Minnesota under Professor Hans Weinberger and he has been in higher education for over 27 years. He is an applied
domestically and internationally. His work spans various engagements with engineering ed- ucation, including collaborations with the Royal Canadian Navy on resiliency projects, graduate students on multi-institutional studies of teaching assistant efficacy and engineering curriculum planning, as well as using sentiment analysis and natural language processing to interpret large-scale student feedback. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Bridges and barriers: A multi-year study of workload-related learning experiences from diverse student and instructor perspectives in first-year engineering educationIntroductionThis paper reports on the work of a multi-year
graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree and Aerospace Engineer- ing and Mathematics minors from Kennesaw State University in December of 2017. As a student at Kennesaw State, Andrew volunteered as a member of the Kennesaw State Aerial Robotics Competition Team where he founded the SAE AeroDesign Team and served as SAE Team Captain, and Team Pilot. Under Andrew’s leadership, the SAE AeroDesign Team designed, built, tested, and flew several large- scale radio-controlled airplanes capable of carrying a substantial payload. Additionally, Andrew served as Structures Designer and Pilot for the Sting One Owl Mascot Project where he designed, built, and flew a five-foot by five-foot hexa-copter drone designed to emulate
to continue developing further proposed taxonomies in mechanical engineering andother related engineering disciplines, as we continue to build problems that we plan to share onthe OPL.This work lays the foundation for educators to more easily contribute to and utilize the growingbody of open-source mechanical engineering problems in WeBWorK.AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank Dr. Michael Swanbom, Louisiana Technical University, for early supportof this project; Mr. Jim Sibley at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Faculty of AppliedScience Centre for Instructional Support for proposing some of the keyword categorysuggestions; and Dr. Srikanth Phani, UBC, for sharing his syllabus and textbook suggestions foradvanced
first or second year graduate students as per the applicationrequirements for NSF GRFP, and are U.S. domestic students. We used pseudonyms to protectparticipant identities.In the results and discussion sections of this paper, we focus on one participant, Fred, as heprepared his NSF GRFP application materials over ten hours of real-time screen-capture data. Weelected to focus on one participant in order to highlight the methodological aspects of the dataanalysis and presentation. The data represented is ten hours worth of real-time writing data. Infuture work, we will compare the real-time maps across multiple participants. B. Data CollectionAfter consenting to participate in the research project, all participants were given two licenses
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and monitor grader reliability.An SBG CourseSBG was initiated in a large (N = 1500-1650) first-year engineering (FYE) course at a Mid-western U.S. university in Spring 2013 and has undergone revision since. The FYE course in thisexample was required for all engineering students. In this course, students learned how to useMATLAB to solve engineering problems as well as represent and model data. For the first two-thirds of the semester, students completed weekly problem sets. For the remaining third of thesemester, the students completed weekly milestones associated with a team-based data analysisand modeling project. Students met twice a week for 110 minutes in a classroom designed foractive learning.The organizational structure of the course
peer leader. These topicsbecome the basis for the formation of new practice groups. Each group then designs theirapproach to investigating the topic and plans for ways to present this new information. Thepurpose of the final project is to share the knowledge they have researched or generated withothers in the course support community as a whole (Community of Practice).Training our peer leaders to model self-directed learning approaches in their sessions is the firststep toward supporting students as they transition into college and develop skills in reflecting onchallenges and adapting to improve success. We have intentionally designed our peer leadertraining course to immerse new leaders in a self-directed learning environment, by allowing
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students are ableto experience quality laboratory learning and also be prepared for modern industry demandsand a globally-connected workplace culture.AcknowledgmentThe work reported in this article contributes to a larger research project on laboratorylearning in Science and Engineering that is supported by the Australia Research Councilthrough grant DP140104189 for which Human Research Ethics approval has been obtainedfrom Curtin University (Approval Number: RDSE-61-15). The authors wish to express theirgratitude to both institutions.The authors also wish to acknowledge the contribution of the University of Technology,Sydney for allowing the use of their remote laboratory rigs for the purpose of this study.References[1] D. Lowe, S. Murray, D
the matter is theEarth’s capacity to sustain a burgeoning global population which makes increasing demands onlimited resources [5]. Projections of resource exhaustion continually change based onimprovements in technology and consumer behavior. In 2017, global resource consumptionovershot the sustainable rate of use of a year’s worth of the Earth’s resources by early August.This day, observed as Earth Overshoot Day, occurs earlier each year [6]. At the present rate, thehuman population will consume two years’ worth of the Earth’s resources that can be sustainablyreplenished each year by 2034. Thus, ensuring a healthy environment in the future requiresembracing environmental sustainability. We define environmental sustainability as the ability
. The expectation based on multipleother works was that institutions with an honor code would have the best handle on academicintegrity issues [2],[3]. The results were that Benedictine College and East Carolina University’sresults were most like previous studies of colleges that have honor codes in place, while TheCatholic University of America (the institution without a formal honor code) was most similar toprevious studies of colleges without honor codes in place [4]. A 1994 study by Grahamconcluded there were no statistically significant differences between religious institutions orcommunity college students’ attitude toward cheating and perceived amount of cheating [5]. Oneaim of this ongoing project is to capture a sufficient cross
, theteacher transitions to think about how to design for those characteristics. As part of the researchstudy, teachers were provided kits for soft robotic fabrication, which can be arranged in a varietyof configurations with different motion [19, 20]. However, based on the materials available,some of the design ideas may not be feasible. Subsequently, the teacher leads a discussion aboutmaterials and processes, balancing between creativity and feasibility. Following a demonstrationof how to safely work with silicone rubber and the mold kits, students work in pairs on thedesign project. They are encouraged to learn through two main channels: 1) via research on theinternet (sites such as www.softroboticstoolkit.com) and 2) via hands-on prototyping
Paper ID #21856Investigating Student Perceptions of an Engineering Department’s Climate:The Role of Peer RelationsDr. Susannah C. Davis, Oregon State University Susannah C. Davis is a postdoctoral research associate in the School of Chemical, Biological and Envi- ronmental Engineering at Oregon State University. She received her Ph.D. and M.Ed. from the University of Washington, and her B.A. from Smith College. She is currently working on the NSF-funded REvolu- tionizing engineering and computer science Departments (RED) project at OSU. Her research focuses on organizational learning and change, particularly in higher
development project in responseto a sponsor customer’s needs. The Academy requires foundational core courses for all studentsprovide a broad and thorough general undergraduate education in basic sciences, engineering,humanities, and social sciences [6].The SE Program is governed by a board comprised of the heads of the seven cooperatingacademic departments and an SE academician holding the title of Director of SystemsEngineering. The Director of SE also chairs a working level committee of teaching facultyrepresentatives from each SE-cooperative department. Program modifications, includingassessment changes, typically begin in the SE Committee as proposals that are ultimatelypresented with recommendations to the SE Board for dispositioning. Assessment