gives us a snapshot of the diversity of thecurrent student body prior to fully implementing programmatic changes that are planned as part of theRED project. We plan to collect data each year to assess how well our goals of increasing diversity,creating a culture of inclusivity, and increasing the persistence of diverse types of students in the programare being met. This information will inform the design of other activities such as a mentoring program,capstone design, and supporting mid-year content courses and sophomore “springer” courses. Insightsrevealed in interviews have identified evaluation components for these courses, addressing specific issuesof bias, faculty feedback, inclusive teamwork practices and professional skills. Future work
innovationprojects. Sally had over 30 encounters with faculty and other students, and upon reflection wasconvinced that she could talk about her project with her eyes closed.The following semester, not only was she able to present her solar panel on Industry Day, but herclear explanation and enthusiasm led a company representative to contact her faculty member todiscuss sponsoring her capstone project. Sally was also made leader of the school-based servicelearning project in which she had to contact teachers to set-up attendance days, email teammembers to ensure they could attend, and act as the spokesperson and reporter for her group(experiential leadership). The teachers all knew Sally from her great work and positive outcomesand were eager to work with
the study of the skeletal response to mechanical loading. As a Mechanical Engineer, she worked on facility design projects involving mechanical systems that included heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and energy conservation systems, as well as R&D of air conditioning equipment for Navy ships. Additional research interests have included the investigation of relationships among components of the indoor environment, occupants, and energy usage. Specifically, the effects of the indoor environment on occupant health and well-being and in parallel, how socially-mediated energy-saving strategies can increase awareness of energy use and/or in- crease energy saving behaviors. Dr. Lang’s current research interests
Paper ID #27563Collaborative Autoethnographic Study of a Large-Scale Flipped ClassroomImplementation with Multiple InstructorsRobyn Paul, University of Calgary Robyn Paul PhD student at the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary where she also works as the Program Evaluation and Planning Specialist. She is the team lead for the faculty on all matters related engineering education including teaching and learning, curriculum development, Capstone design and engineering accreditation. Robyn just completed master’s degree in engineering education where she is looking at the impact of engineering leadership
University’s Board of Trustees. At Virginia Tech, he also serves as Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Engineering Education. His research interests are: Higher Education Finance and Administration; STEM Education; Migration and Immigration issues in education; and Quality Assurance.Mr. Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury, Virginia Tech Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury is a PhD student at Virginia Tech in the department of Engineering Edu- cation. Tahsin holds a BSc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from IUT, Dhaka and has worked as a manufacturing professional at a Fortune 500 company. He is actively engaged in differ- ent projects at the department involving teamwork, communication and capstone design with a
Paper ID #26657Designing NGSS-Aligned Lesson Plans During a Teacher Professional Devel-opment Program (Fundamental)Mr. Sai Prasanth Krishnamoorthy, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Sai Prasanth Krishnamoorthy received his BSEE from Amrita University and M.S in Mechatronics from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Mechanical En- gineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, serving as a research assistant under NSF-funded RET Site project. He conducts research in Mechatronics, Robotics and Controls Laboratory at NYU and his research interests include swarm robotics, computer
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- sistence. The other is on the factors that promote persistence and success in retention of undergraduate students in engineering
, Computer Graphics, Materials Science and laboratory courses. Since 2015 she has been actively involved in the University of Miami College of Engineering’s ”Redefining Engineering Education” strategic plan on educational innovation. As part of this plan, Dr. Basalo worked with 2 other faculty members to organize inaugural Senior Design Expo in May 2017, an exposition where over 200 senior students showcased their Capstone projects to the University of Miami community, alumni and industry leaders. Starting in 2016 and through her work with the University of Miami’s Engaged Faculty Fellowship program, Dr. Basalo incorporated an academic service component into the final project for a sophomore-level Measurements Lab course
the summer of 2018 and ran for thefirst time during the fall of the 2018-19 academic school year. The lab will help students staycurrent with the advances in fluid power technology and support capstone senior projects,elective courses, and undergraduate research. Additionally, it will reinforce the fundamentals ofautomatic control systems in the associated required senior level course. The main objectives ofthe lab pertaining to the automatic controls course are to: 1. Prepare students to work on real-world motion control applications by providing them with hands-on experiences applying control system design ideas and concepts. 2. Expose students to electromechanical and fluid power hardware. 3. Educate students about the benefits
. Joshua A. Enszer, University of Delaware Dr. Joshua Enszer is an associate professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has taught core and elective courses across the curriculum, from introduction to engineering science and material and energy balances to process control, capstone design, and mathematical modeling of chemical and environmental systems. His research interests include technology and learning in various incarnations: electronic portfolios as a means for assessment and professional development, implementa- tion of computational tools across the chemical engineering curriculum, and game-based learning.Dr. Tia Navelene Barnes, University of Delaware Dr. Tia Barnes is
at the University of New Haven where she is currently teaching in the Tagliatela College of Engineering and coordinating a college-wide initiative, the Project to Integrate Technical Communication Habits (PITCH).Jenna Pack Sheffield, University of New Haven Jenna Sheffield holds a PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English from the University of Arizona. Sheffield is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Haven where she also directs the Writing Across the Curriculum program. Her research in composition pedagogy and theory and writing program administration has appeared in publications such as Computers and Com- position International, Computers and Composition Online
Division’s call for papers evenincluded “design projects outside of the 1st year and senior capstone courses” as an “emergingtopic of particular interest”. The BME design sequence at the institution studied includes threedesign-related courses in addition to the Introduction to Engineering and senior design courses.The second course in this design sequence is the undergraduate laboratory course, but the design-related task was not introduced in detail until after collection of student definitions. Since thisstudent population was the furthest removed from a design-related course assignment, it followsthat they would have the lowest frequency of design-related phrases in their definition of BME(12%). The coding scheme utilized in this study
. workforce: Students who study one year on a U.S. campus can become eligible for joining the U.S. labor market (see 1+1 option in Section 2.4). Figure 1: Degree program overview2.2 Program CurriculumThe course schedule for the M.S. in ECE degree program is shown in Figure 1. There are eightcourses spread over four semesters plus two capstone project courses, which are offered in thesecond and fourth semester. The entire program duration is four semesters, which is approximately16 months, as a full semester is offered during the summer.This program meets the same requirements as the residential M.S. in ECE offered on the UMassAmherst campus. The admission and degree completion requirements are identical, and the
Paper ID #25445Techno-economic Modeling as an Inquiry-based Design Activity in a CoreChemical Engineering CourseDr. Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico Jamie Gomez, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer III in the department of Chemical & Biological Engineering (CBE) at the University of New Mexico. She is a co- principal investigator for the following National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects: Professional Formation of Engineers: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF) - Using Digital Badging and Design Challenge Modules to Develop Professional Identity; Professional Formation of Engineers
Education, 2019 The Impact of Integrating Making Activities to Cornerstone Design courses on Students’ Implicit Theories of Making AbilityAbstractA person’s implicit theories in a certain domain are known to have a direct influence on thatperson’s performance, behaviour, self-esteem, enjoyment and sense of belonging to the domain.This paper explores the role of implicit theory in engineering students’ beliefs about the nature oftheir making abilities and their self-identification as makers. This is done by assessing if acollaborative project-based engineering design course built on making activities can contribute toinfluencing students to have a growth mindset about their making abilities. Data from full-timeengineering undergraduates
introduce students to local engineers who areinterested in sharing their experience and providing advice to the students. Some mentors specifyveterans, especially if they are veterans themselves. Some will use the event to recruit interns fortheir temporary needs in their organizations.Capstone Leadership. One of the easily observed and experienced aspects of veteran studentswithin the classroom is their performance within these high stress teams both as members andleaders. The Citadel has documented previously the anecdotal impact of the veterans withincapstone teams [10], but last year the faculty began to assess leadership of each team member,especially the assigned leader during each grading period, of the capstone team as part of theleadership
applicationof the momentum theory as well as the buoyancy theory in the real life and to increase thestudents’ interest on fluid mechanics, a physical jet boat laboratory exercise was created. A jetboat is a boat propelled by a jet of water ejected from the back of the craft.The Jet Flow laboratory setup presented herein was first developed two years ago, in spring 2017,as a Capstone project entitled “Fluid Forces Test Bench” (see Figure 2) by four MET students,and later improved by including a force sensor instead of a digital force meter. The jet boatmodel was 3D printed using a polymer material and assembled with a nozzle at bottom pointingto the left of Figs. 2, 3, and 5. The water is pumped in through a plastic tube mounted on the topof the boat
. He is interested in motivation of engineering students, peer-to-peer learning, flat learning environments, technology assisted engineering education and experiential learning. He is the coordinator of the industry sponsored capstone from at his school and is the advisor of OU’s FSAE team.Prof. Yingtao Liu, University of Oklahoma Dr. Yingtao Liu is an assistant professor in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma (OU). Before joining OU, he was an assistant research scientist in the AIMS center at Arizona State University from 2012 to 2014. His research expertise include the development, ad- vanced manufacturing, and application of lightweight composites and nanocomposites
- gineering, capstone design, HVAC, thermodynamics, waste management, professional development, and engineering teaching. Her research interests include energy, the environment, and engineering education. She is assistant dean for teaching and learning in the College of Engineering. She is a second-generation woman engineer.Dr. Teresa A. Johnson, Ohio State University Teresa A. Johnson, Ph.D. is an assistant director and the Coordinator for Assessment and Curriculum Design at the University Center for the Advancement of Teaching at The Ohio State University. She earned a doctorate in Microbial Ecology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has taught in the sciences at Butler University and at the College
Paper ID #27319Integrating Entrepreneurial Mind-set into First-Year Engineering Curricu-lum through Active Learning ExercisesDr. Chad S. Korach, University of Mount Union Chad Korach is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Engineering at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio.Dr. Joshua Gargac, University of Mount Union Joshua Gargac is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, OH, where he advises the mechanical engineering senior capstone projects and SAE Baja team. In addition, Dr. Gargac teaches first-year engineering courses
], theauthors presented the development of an introductory mechatronics course for the students whohad completed their second year at the community college and planned on pursuing a bachelor’sdegree in an engineering discipline. In [23], the authors investigated the application ofagile methods enhancing mechatronics education through the experiences from a capstone course.In [24], Consi proposed a versatile platform for teaching mechatronics that considered a middle-ground approach seeking a compromise between free-form and set-piece projects that maximizedexposure to core mechatronics concepts while minimizing peripheral tasks, and importantly,preserving a good measure of creativity, and so forth.3.3 DBR ApplicationsResearch on DBR with applications
Students’ Interest in Their CoursesIn addition to the potential benefits in terms of student engagement, there is also a correspondingbenefit for the department’s industry partners. The department’s current industry engagementefforts focus on design project sponsorship, large-scale events, and opportunities for one-on-onementorship. Those efforts provide a broad range of opportunities for industry to engage with thedepartment, while also providing some insight into the kinds of opportunities that could bevaluable and that are not included in the current model. The push to increase the use ofindustry-based examples across the curriculum is unique in that it focuses specifically on classesthat haven’t traditionally been highly industry-based, and in
University (Fort Collins, CO, USA) in 2018. There she gained experience working as a graduate teaching assistant for computer aided engineering, biomedical engineering capstone design, and biomedical engineering introductory classes. She served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow for the College of Engineering during the 2016/2017 academic year. Nicole is currently a instructional post-doctoral fellow in the Transforming Engineering Education Laboratory within the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. Her engineering education interests include collaborative active learning, assessment methods and accreditation, and curriculum design. c American Society for Engineering
mastery experiences.Fourth, the mitigation of negative interpretations of somatic and emotional states during the taskcan help develop self-efficacy. Physical and psychological experiences such as increased heartrate and rapid breathing before a presentation, or tiredness of muscles after exercise, can eitherbe interpreted as a positive performance-enhancer or as something to be avoided. Reframingnegative interpretations of these states can build self-efficacy directly and encourage moremastery experiences.Contextual examples of each of Bandura’s four sources of self-efficacy in undergraduateengineering education: first, mastery experiences could consist of completing practice problemsto master theory, engaging in project work and hands-on
and laterbecome motivated by the good in the world that can result from application of engineering.One of the alumni, Karl, traveled to Nicaragua as part of a senior research project, which hadgrown out of an international service-project in his senior capstone design course inenvironmental engineering. He noted: …poverty, it's one thing to know about it, it's one thing to study about it, … but it's a whole other thing when you are immersed in it and then... if you take it a step further and think how can I help these people, other than just be in poverty and experiencing that...just for me it was an eye-opener… And so I just realized, ...I wanna go this path.... There's a lot more need for a guy doing water and sanitation work than
paired F/T-LEARN cohort (FTIC students only for F-LEARN comparisongroup, transfer students only for T-LEARN comparison group); 2) first academic term ofenrollment is similar to the paired F/T-LEARN cohort; 3) declared as STEM in their first term(see Appendix A for a list of CIP codes that map to STEM majors for this project); 4) have notparticipated in another Living-Learning Community or other Enriching Learning Experience(e.g. honors in the major, National Merit Scholars, mentoring programs, etc.); and 5) have acumulative GPA similar to the F/T-LEARN cohort (high school GPA for FTIC; previousinstitution GPA for transfer students), which was done by computing the minimum andmaximum high school GPA or previous institution GPA for the F/T-LEARN
Paper ID #27165Research Paper: Where Do We Meet? Understanding Conference Participa-tion in a Department of Engineering EducationMr. Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury, Virginia Tech Tahsin Mahmud Chowdhury is a PhD student at Virginia Tech in the department of Engineering Edu- cation. Tahsin holds a BSc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from IUT, Dhaka and has worked as a manufacturing professional at a Fortune 500. He is actively engaged in different projects at the department involving teamwork, communication and capstone design with a focus on industrial engineering practice.Ms. Ashley R. Taylor, Virginia Tech
Internet of Things, it is vital, with respect to U.S. manufacturing, that we produce graduateswell prepared to fill the professional manufacturing jobs of the future.The multidisciplinary nature of the degree program is highlighted in the paper, as are the program’s corecompetencies and skill set development emphases. In addition, the various industry partnershipsformed to-date under the AMSI umbrella, with a view to supporting the degree program in a sustainablefashion, are highlighted.1. Introduction.As has been noted by various industry analysts, including Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute [1],more than 2 million manufacturing jobs are projected to go unfilled in the U.S. over the next decade.Only around 40% of a projected 3.5 million
Operations experiments, and incorporating Design throughout the Chemical Engineering curricu- lum. She currently works as a freelance Engineering Education Consultant and Chemical Engineer. She is the Project Manager for NSF grant #1623105, IUSE/PFE:RED: FACETS: Formation of Accomplished Chemical Engineers for Transforming Society, for which she is advising and coordinating assessment.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information & Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical & Biological Engineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is
support of military connected students. Dr. Springer is the President of the Indiana Council for Continuing Education as well as the Past-Chair of the Continuing Professional Development Division of the American 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.Dr