excellence. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Making Inspired by Nature: Engaging Preservice Elementary Teachers and Children in Maker-centered Learning and BiomimicryIntroductionMakerspaces, innovation labs, and creativity spaces are gaining traction in K-12 schools andcommunity centers. This exploratory project, Making Inspired by Nature , brings together the artof making, the disciplined practices of design thinking, and the creative practices of biomimicryto engage preservice teachers and children in building innovative solutions to real worldproblems. To achieve this, this project is (a) building and evaluating digital resources andhands-on activities for engaging elementary children in
Paper ID #24833Student Perceptions of Teamwork SupportDr. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios.Dr. Laura K. Alford, University of Michigan Laura K. Alford is a Lecturer and Research Investigator at
of practicum courses in collaboration with the industry in China. He has been awarded Shanghai 1000-Telent Distinguished Professor status (2017). The CFE has launched a major initiative called the Technology Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development (TESD), the defining philosophy for several entrepreneurship projects for social development in the Belt and Road region. He has been the founder Director (2013-2016) of the WHO Collaborating Centre on eHealth at the University of New South Wales (UNSW)-Australia where he is an Honorary Professor in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine (SPHCM). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 From
the way that goals are established andaddressed. Feisel and Rosa [12] identify a fundamental problem in that there appears to be nooverall agreement on the goals of engineering lab courses (p. 6), and they note that statedobjectives do not clearly translate into actions that can be taken and assessed in a class. Theirdiscussion also points out that the introduction of increasingly powerful computers andincreasingly complex lab equipment has introduced distractions, with the risk that projectinstructions and student attention may come to be dominated by the instrumentation rather thanby the system under study. Ernst’s classic article [1] speaks to a similar concern with projectgoals, pointing out that many instructional lab projects are
Paper ID #26217What Can We Learn from a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site?Three Perspectives on Big Data and Data ScienceDr. Stephanie Boggess Philipp, University of Louisville Dr. Philipp is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Middle and Secondary Education at the University of Louisville. She spent eight years as a project manager for various environmental and geo- physical exploration firms and then as many years as a middle and secondary science teacher in chemistry and physics. She is a liaison between the Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Teacher De- velopment and the Center
received all of his degrees from Purdue University, including his PhD in Engineering Education, Master of Science in Civil Engineering, and Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. Justin is the Program Chair-Elect of the American Society for Engineering Education’s Liberal Education/Engineering & Soci- ety Division and the vice chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Committee on Sustainability subcommittee on Formal Engineering Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 What Do Students Learn About Innovation?IntroductionInnovation is a complex construct. It spans a variety of processes and tasks [1,2], project andproduct outcomes [3,4], personal
and development of high-power rocketry systems providing the students with experientiallearning opportunities to develop critical skills and knowledge in designing, building, and testingrocket subsystems. Current projects include a modular solid propellant research engine, anintegrated flight tested solid propellant engine, design and analysis of rocket recovery systems,as well as several others. The student-led rocketry lab currently has nearly 50 students, andfaculty advisers not only from the undergraduate engineering programs, but also from four otherschools at the university. The lab has established partnerships with expert mentors from localRocketry Association and with the university’s chemistry department to permit the safe mixingof
Paper ID #26983Emerging Support Systems for Entrepreneurship Education in the Contextof an Ambitious National Reform in Chilean Engineering SchoolsMiss Macarena Ver´onica Zapata P.E., Universidad de Chile Macarena Zapata Pizarro received her Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering at Universidad de Chile and Master degree in Management and Public Policy at Universidad de Chile. She serves as coordinator of the Armonizaci´on Curricular Area in Ingenier´ıa 2030 project for the Facultad de Ciencias F´ısicas y Matem´aticas of the Universidad de Chile. Her research interests include entrepreneurship, innovation, technology
University. She teaches the Cornerstone of Engineering courses to first- year students as well as courses within the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. She is a recent recipient of the Outstanding Teacher of First-Year Students Award and is interested in research that compliments and informs her teaching. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Preparing First Year Engineering Students for a Career where Communication Skills MatterAbstractThis complete evidence-based practice paper describes the techniques used in the project basedfirst-year Cornerstone of Engineering courses at Northeastern University to address the need forbuilding communication
discusses the impacts of various course assignments and activities that were used toincrease student motivation and learning. The courses selected for the study are Quality Analysisand Design of Experiments courses, which are offered as required courses in the industrialengineering graduate program at the University of New Haven. The assignments and activitiesinclude term project, term paper, homework, in-class exercises, quizzes, exams, library trainingand factory visit. In an earlier pilot study in the Quality Analysis course, scaffolding -aninstructional strategy that enables students to build on prior experience and knowledge as theywork towards mastering higher level skills- was employed using these activities andassignments, and the impact on
exploring the approach to enable students with competencies of digital thread and digitaltwin in the courses of MANE 205-Manufacturing Processes I, MANE 201-Sophomore Lab, andMANE 315-Automation at VSU. The current approach includes: 1) lecture and lab project ondigital design and assembly of a product, 2) enable digital thread and digital twin learninglaboratorial environment.3.1 Lecture on Digital Design and Assembly of a ProductAt Virginia State University, MANE 205, which is offered in Fall annually, is the gate way courseto Manufacturing Engineering program. The MANE 205 traditionally focuses on materialproperties and some manufacturing processes such as casting and metal forming. The instructornoticed that the course content has a lot
. Dr. Traum coordinated MSOE’s first crowd-funded senior design project. He also co-founded with students EASENET, a start- up renewable energy company to commercialize waste-to-energy biomass processors. Dr. Traum began his academic career as a founding faculty member in the Mechanical & Energy Engineer- ing Department at the University of North Texas - Denton where he established a successful, externally- funded researcher incubator that trained undergraduates to perform experimental research and encouraged matriculation to graduate school. Traum received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he held a research assistantship at MIT’s Institute for Soldier
and educational applications. Dr. Zhou has conducted a large number of funded research projects totaling over $21 million and collaborated with many experts from over 110 organizations including academia, national laboratories, and industries. Dr. Zhou has published more than 350 technical papers, five copy- righted CFD codes, and two patents. She has received numerous awards including the R&D 100 Award in 2004, the Medal Award by the American Iron and Steel Institute in 2005, the J. Keith Brimacombe Memo- rial Lecture Award by the Association of Iron and Steel Technology (AIST) in 2010, the 2012 Chanute Prize for Team Innovation, and the Gerald I. Lamkin Fellow Award for Innovation & Service 2017-2018
to Fortune 500 sized companies in the fields of government electronics (satellite communications, smart munitions, radar, drone), biomedical (pace- maker, drug pump, deep brain stimulation), semiconductors (PIC microcomputers), energy IT (smart electric meters, domestic and international). Most recently Instructed college level engineering courses for 7 years.Ms. Celia . Jenkins, Cochise College As STEM and Recruitment Coordinator, Jenkins is responsible for STEM student support in university transfers and in job placement, research opportunities and internships. Jenkins is the PI of the NSF ASAP Project Based Engineering grant with Arizona State University. Jenkins has increased enrollment in Engineering from
launched the Technology, Research, and Communication (TRAC) Writing Fellows Program, which has grown into an organization of 80 discipline-based peer writing tutors who, in total, work with more than 1,300 students at Lehigh each semester. His research interests include topics in writing across the curriculum, composition theory, argument theory, and peer learning with a special focus on writing fellows programs.Dr. Siddha Pimputkar, Lehigh University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019WIP: Integration of Peer Communication Fellows into Introductory Materials Science CoursesAbstractThis study is a work in progress. The purpose of this project was to enhance the
helpalongside an engineering faculty member and for open build time (currently all day Fridays),where individual students or student teams can come into the makerspace for peer assisted helpwith any aspect of their projects.3) Human-Centered Design & Societal Needs: Utilizing human-centered design for societalneeds was chosen to engage first-year students through the impact engineering can make to helpsociety. The goal was to engage and excite students by bringing them into being part of thesolution for designing and prototyping for the purpose of helping humanity. The 7-step human-centered design process shown in Figure 2 was created for the Engineering Design & Societycourse [1] to support both integration of human centered design and cover
students who attend our school while already working full time or returning frommilitary service. The first years of using a new approach to teaching always have uniquechallenges. The computer faculty made decisions about what was important to address in the firstyear of the curriculum, and what projects to use to keep students engaged in and excited aboutthe field of computing. Since the studio model radically departs from the single instructorclassroom lecture model, multiple professors were utilized in the same freshman studio course,each bringing in their own unique areas of expertise.Along with the studio model, electronic portfolios were implemented for the assessment ofstudent learning, as a benchmark that students must pass to advance to
currently a partner in a small start-up venture. He received his BS degree in electrical engineering (1975) from California State University, Sacramento, and his 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.Dr. Jay R. Porter, Texas A&M University Jay R. Porter joined the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University in 1998 and is currently the Associate Dean for Engineering at Texas A&M - Galveston. He received the BS degree in electrical engineering (1987), the MS degree in physics
and evaluation of an engineering design-themed SummerAcademy program geared towards exposing high school students, especiallyunderrepresented and underserved groups, to science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) fields and careers. The goals of the engineering design activities wereto (i) improve students’ competence in science and engineering, (ii) nurture students’enthusiasm for science and engineering, and (iii) create student interest in research or otherscience and engineering-related careers. The program targeted rural counties surroundingproject site and served eighty-one (81) students who received thirty-six (36) hours of hands-on STEM learning experience. Project evaluation data was gathered through StudentFeedback
integrate a set of “risk and resilience” focused coursesinto engineering education for workforce towards a hazard-resilient built environment. A set ofthree individual courses, namely, 1) Introduction to Risk and Resiliency in Engineering, 2)Reliability and Optimization Methods in Engineering, 3) Sensing and Data Analytics forInfrastructure Systems will be developed and incorporated into curriculum. These three courseshave been designed to be help address the fundamental knowledge and techniques needed forengineers to conduct the assessment, design and management of engineering systems to achievehazard resilience. The paper provides details about the rational and course objectives, coursecomponents, and sample course projects for design and
project course to replace physical interaction.Keywords: E-learning, Electrical Engineering, LabVIEW, Logixpro, Multisim, Matlab, Onlineteaching, Senior Project, TIMS, VHDL, Wireshark1-INTRODUCTIONOnline learning requires the student to participate and learn virtually via computer, as opposed toin a traditional classroom environment. Though online learning is not for everyone, it's importantfor prospective students to determine whether or not it's something they would like to pursue.Online learning has become an increasingly common choice for many people pursuing education[4, 7, 8, 9, 10]. The following are advantages and disadvantages for online learning:Advantages-Online learning provides flexibility because students are able to work when it's
Paper ID #27685Student Perceptions of High-Impact Learning Activities and Teaching Strate-giesDr. Veera Gnaneswar Gude P.E., Mississippi State University Veera Gnaneswar Gude is a faculty member of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department in the Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University. He has degrees in Chemical (B.S.) and En- vironmental Engineering (M.S., Ph.D.) disciplines with over 18 years of academic, industry, and research experiences on various Chemical and Environmental Engineering projects. He is a licensed professional engineer and a board certified environmental engineer (BCEE). He
spring semester of 2018,although an on-line version had been available for several semesters prior. Students in theflipped classroom attended a weekly two-hour session on campus where they would have accessto an instructor to answer questions about material presented in the videos, work problems andoffer hands-on learning[11].To facilitate the hands-on learning, each student was required to purchase an Arduino kit[12].The students throughout the course of the semester built the circuits described in the kit’stutorials. At the end of the semester, the students were required to complete a project based onthe Arduino. As a result, they became acquainted with micro-controller hardware and software,as well as, many different peripherals such as LEDs
broadly, making analysis of the overallimpacts of these programs difficult. An examination of the literature in this space yields severalstudies addressing the various impacts of RET programs on teachers and students [2] - [6].However, the overall body of knowledge in this space is still somewhat limited considering thenumber of teachers who have participated in these programs. Currently, the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) reports 81 active RET sites [7]. These are three-year grants generallysupporting 10 teachers per year, for a total of nearly 2500 teachers participating in RETprograms solely based on active project grants.This study attempts to build on the body of knowledge by analyzing how the authenticity andscientific rigor of the RET
Cardella, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Monica E. Cardella is the Director of the INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering and is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is also the Director for Pre- College Education for the Center for the Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources (CISTAR).Dr. Maryanne Sydlik, Western Michigan University Dr. Mary Anne Sydlik is a Research Emerita involved in the external evaluation of a number of federally funded projects. Dr. Sydlik’s interests are in supporting efforts to improve the educational experiences and outcomes of undergraduate and graduate STEM students. She is or
Paper ID #27668Board 71: The Computer Science Professionals HatcheryAmit Jain, Boise State University Amit Jain is the Chair of the Computer Science Department at Boise State University. He was the lead for the IDoCode project that helped to embed high quality computer science in Idaho high schools. The IDoCode project was funded by a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation. He serves on the statewide Governor’s working group that has developed Computer Science standards for Idaho K-12 schools. He is also the lead on the CS Professionals Hatchery project, a $2 million dollar project funded by the
Projects. He is currently taking manual and CNC classes at Laney Community College in Machine Tool technology. Mr. Steffan Long: Mr. Steffan Long is the head machinist at the California State University Maritime. He received his BA in Liberal Arts from the University California Santa Cruz. He teaches intro and advanced courses in machining as well as supervises the manufacturing of the ME Senior Design Projects. Mr. Adam Link: Mr. Adam Link is a senior in Mechanical Engineering at the California State University Maritime. Mr. Sean McPherson: Mr. Sean McPherson is a senior in Mechanical Engineering at the California State University Maritime. Mr. Scott Wettstein: Mr. Scott Wettstein is a senior in
projects were well balanced. On average, the studentsshared that the biological concepts were a bit more difficult than the mechanical engineeringconcepts (65% v/s 62.5%). Standardized pre-/post-summer experience surveys were also usedto assess the impact of the course modifications on the participants’ scientific self-efficacy andimpression of research (Survey of Undergraduate Research Experiences, SURE) [18]. Theresults from the SURE survey at the end of the Summer 2018 show that out of the 21comparative learning gains, the EGGN 122 freshmen and sophomore were higher than thenational average in 11 and lower than the average in 5 gains. In response to the survey results,the last semester of the program involved improving the students’ preparation
may be a useful means to introduce valuable engineering skills. Aservice-learning course structure developed to achieve engineering skill development ispresented along with course evaluation data from the first semester of its implementation.A problem-based course model [2] is used to demonstrate service-learning’s potential. Courseoutcomes aim to provide project management and engineering skills. An evaluation wascompleted using an adapted form of Gelmon et al. [3] pre- and post- test service-learning surveyto better understand student perceptions of the course on 1. Engineering skills, 2. Learning, 3.Aspirations, and 4. Social responsibility. The data suggests that students who completed boththe pre- and post- surveys thought the course was
- sign and Engineering). His engineering design research focuses on developing computational represen- tation and reasoning support for managing complex system design. The goal of Dr. Morkos’ research is to fundamentally reframe our understanding and utilization of system representations and computational reasoning capabilities to support the development of system models which help engineers and project planners intelligently make informed decisions at earlier stages of engineering design. On the engineer- ing education front, Dr. Morkos’ research explores means to integrate innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering education through entrepreneurially-minded learning, improve persistence in engineering, address