programs embedded inengineering schools in the United States and Canada. The authors expand on previousscholarship by Kathryn Neeley, Caitlin Wylie, and Bryn Seabrook in “In Search of Integration:Mapping Conceptual Efforts to Apply STS to Engineering Education,” as presented at the 2019ASEE annual conference, to examine how STS is incorporated in engineering education. WhileNeeley, Wylie, and Seabrook focused on broad trends within a single, large professional society(ASEE), this study focuses on two particular embedded STS programs, with an emphasis on howthe research team describes STS for engineers and encourages meaningful integration. What does the field of STS offer engineering students? What core STS concepts andapproaches do we teach
multidisciplinary nature ofpower quality presents an opportunity to integrate various aspects of energy and power systemsresearch. The power quality research and related-education activities are prepare a new kind ofpower engineer, able to meet the energy challenges of the 21st century. Power quality are linkingpower systems, power electronics and contemporary energy and power issues in order to createan integrated perspective of today energy and power systems. Current research plans are centeredon the power quality impact of integrating alternate energy sources to the power distributionsystems. The educational aspect can provide alternatives for a renovation of energy education byimplementing power quality activities in the power engineering curriculum
and extend our resources to as many underprivilegedschools as possible. The expansion of our outreach program guarantees a unique learningexperience that will strengthen students’ foundations in core STEM subjects.ConclusionOrganized by undergraduate students, the Bit Project outreach program grants teachers access toresources for easy integration of project-based learning into their classes. An analysis of the firstimplementation of the outreach program received positive feedback and promise for long-termcontinuation at the school. As a student-led effort, Bit Project recruits new curriculum developersand outreach coordinators every academic quarter, ensuring a continuous stream of lesson plans.Feedback from volunteers and teachers on
Brunhaver et al. [19] produced similar findings about the difficulty ofassessing EM content in courses using the existing KSOs. The solution to this problem ofmeasurability proposed in that study was to develop an assessment of self-reported studentunderstanding of EM. The recommendation from this present study is to instead modify orredefine the objectives used to integrate EM content into curriculum to be measurable, ratherthan measuring it using a separate assessment tool.Although the sets of objectives analyzed in this study were difficult to use for the purposes ofmeasuring the EM content of courses, they can be used in other ways, including to help guide theprocess of generating EM course objectives. These objectives can also be useful for
University of Portland.References1. Newberry, B. Experimentally determining mass moment properties. 2008 Annual Conference& Exposition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania2. Raviv, D., & Barb, D. R. A visual, intuitive, and engaging approach to explaining the center ofgravity concept in statics. 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, Florida3. Kaul, S., & Sitaram, P. Curriculum design of statics and dynamics: An integrated scaffoldingand hands-on approach. 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia4. Brake, N. A., & Adam, F. A. Integrating a 3-D printer and a truss optimization project instatics. 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana5. Mayar, K. Re-design of engineering mechanics
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, postgraduate training in Computer Systems Engineering, and many years of experience teaching and developing curriculum in various learning environments. She has taught technology integration and teacher training to undergrad- uate and graduate students at Arizona State University, students at the K-12 level locally and abroad, and various workshops and modules in business and industry. Dr. Larson is experienced in the application of American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #29194 instructional design, delivery, evaluation, and specializes in
interaction is worth exploring in the curriculum. 4.75 If integrated into the process of If integrated into the process of structural engineering, BIM can structural engineering, BIM can streamline and quicken the timeline for 3.40 streamline and quicken the timeline for 4.63 design of the structure. design of the structure. Knowledge of BIM gives students an Knowledge of BIM gives students an advantage over other university advantage over other university programs when searching for summer
graduates (52%) considered theirwritten and oral communication skills to be strong [6]. In a parallel survey, only 9% of industryrepresentatives considered the communication skills of recent mechanical engineering graduatesto be strong. These results suggest that student and recent graduate perceptions ofcommunication on the job are not aligned with actual expectations.There are several strategies that programs have developed in an attempt to remedy thisdisconnect [7]. In many programs, there has been a push towards integration of communicationacross the curriculum, where communication skills are emphasized in a broader range ofengineering courses. Additionally, some engineering programs have developed partnerships withEnglish, communication or
, Montana State UniversityMrs. Elaine Marie Westbrook, Montana State University Elaine Westbrook received a B.S. in Chemistry from Kennesaw State University in 1993. After a decade in industry, she turned her attention to education and taught secondary science for the following decade. In 2014, she received a Masters in Science Education from Montana State University. She is currently a doctoral student in the Education department at Montana State and researches gender differences of informal STEM education in rural areas.Dr. Nick Lux Lux, Montana State University Dr. Nicholas Lux has is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in MSU’s Department of Education. His teaching and research interests are in the
renewable energy should be incorporated in the “middle years” and throughout theengineering curriculum with fossil fuels moving to a lower priority or elective status. We hopethat our new class will help to better meet students’ expectations and serve as an example forothers of an integrated approach to this topic. As one student said in our survey, “The issue ofhow to sustainably produce energy is one of the biggest and most complex that my generationwill have to deal with.” We could not agree more.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank Dr. Jan Dewaters for help in adapting her survey. Partial supportfor this work was provided by the USA National Science Foundation's Improving UndergraduateSTEM Education (IUSE) program under Award No
approaches in STEM education. Dr. ElZomor has been integrating innovative and novel educational paradigms in STEM education to support student engagement, retention, and diversity.Mr. Piyush Pradhananga, Florida International University Piyush Pradhananga is a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). Piyush holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Tribhuwan University (TU). Following his graduation in 2016, he joined a leading real estate corporation in Nepal as the site engineer working on a multi-million project. He later joined a research firm based in London where he worked as an En- gineering Graduate Researcher. Piyush is currently a Graduate Research Assistant at
assist teachers with student engagement, helping them to be successful throughout the STEM pipeline. A few of these key areas include enhancing student’s spatial abilities (k-12 and higher education), integrating ser- vice learning into the classroom, implementing new instructional methodologies, and design optimization using additive manufacturing.Dr. Charles D. Eggleton, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Dr. Charles Dionisio Eggleton is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Uni- versity of Maryland Baltimore County. He has twenty-two years of experience teaching theoretical and laboratory courses in thermo-fluids to undergraduate students and was Department Chair from 2011 - 2017
-world problems from a system-level perspective, developing an appreciation for the inter-connectedness of engineering principles and concepts, in which project requirements must beoptimized to reach desired system performances and functions [1-5]. On the other hand, there aregrowing expectations and needs for sustainability, guiding the balance between projecteconomics, societal and environmental factors, all of which influence system design specificsand characteristics. For students to explore this paradigm, it is imperative that project-basedlearning experiences be integrated throughout their undergraduate education. Senior designcourses fill a critically important role in the engineering curriculum, forming a bridge betweenacademia and
, humanitarian practice, peace, and sustainability. We have developed thesematerials to support our Mechanical (ME), Electrical (EE), Integrated (IntE), and Industrial &Systems Engineering (ISyE) degree programs. New courses include Engineering and SocialJustice, Engineering Peace, Community-Based Participatory Apprenticeship, User-CenteredDesign, and an Integrated Approach to Electrical Engineering. Modules or other content havebeen incorporated in courses including Circuits, Materials Science, Operations Research, SixSigma - Process Improvement, and Robotics. Existing courses in the curriculum whichincorporate materials designed to help students become Changemaking Engineers byincorporating sociotechnical elements are summarized in Table 1
Batrouny is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University. Her engineering education research interests include upper elementary engineering education, integrated science and en- gineering, collaboration in engineering, and decision making in engineering. For her Master’s thesis, she uncovered talk moves used by 4th grade students that fostered collaborative, disciplinary decision-making during an engineering design outreach program. For her dissertation, she intends to explore the ways in which team mental models function in teams of novice engineers and how novice engineers can be trained to collaborate more effectively on diverse teams.Dr. Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University Kristen Wendell is
employability or “soft” skills of potential hires before or during employment? How can AM programs assess whether students possess these skills? Where in the AM program curriculum should employability skills be integrated?2) What technical competencies are most lacking in recent AM graduates? How do employability skills rank against technical skills in the workplace?3) How have AM employers compensated for employees’ technical or employability skills gaps?4) What are the biggest challenges employers face in recruiting and hiring AM technicians for their organizations? How have AM rural employers overcome these recruiting or hiring challenges?In addition, further research might include an employer survey to ascertain employability
multidisciplinary team setting where “(1) each team member serves in awell-defined role in the team; (2) each team member brings a particular expertise to bear insolving the problem; and (3) the scope of the problem is sufficiently broad that no one teammember could successfully solve the problem alone [8, p. 20].”ABET addressed the liberal arts through a professional component by requiring “a generaleducation component that complements the technical content of the curriculum and is consistentwith the program and institution objectives [6, p. 2].” ABET directed that program outcomesand student assessments demonstrate that some of the skills related to the liberal arts as having:(1) “an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility”; and to (2
single offering of a course) at a single institution. As long as the majorityof papers report on a single intervention or single institution, with little reference to what otherinstitutions are doing, coherence in the scholarly conversation will be an elusive goal. The “one-off,” as we might call it, creates a publishable unit but gains significance for the broaderscholarly community only when it is integrated into a larger pattern of practice and assessment.To identify areas for potentially strategic action, we focused papers that either demonstrated orsuggested potentially more impactful ways of organizing research and publishing oncommunication in engineering. One example of a potentially more impactful design was“Preliminary Investigation of
and lessons learned from the first iteration of the developed engineering PD.Professional Development ImplementationThe PD participants consisted of seven high school science teachers (two female and five male),with focuses including biology (four participants), chemistry (two participants), and physics (oneparticipant). The teachers represented four different high schools, all suburban with one being aTitle 1 school. The courses they teach follow a traditional science curriculum built around thestate adopted NGSS. The participants were recruited through the professional network of amember of the research team. Each participant received a stipend for their participation in the PDand their integration of the engineering problem-framing
towards STEAM that are aimed at early childhood, and many earlychildhood educators choose to work with that age group if they are particularly intimidated byscience and engineering [4]. This paper proposes introducing STEAM topics early in students’education by integrating project-based design and engineering curriculum into elementaryschool, starting with students from age six.There has recently been a push to include engineering design as part of core curriculum in K-12and use it for college or career readiness [13, 16, 17, 18, 19]. Challenging children to engagewith problem solving and teamwork at an earlier age helps build their critical thinking andinterpersonal skills [20]. Nurturing children’s creativity is essential for future success
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processing concepts by building a slow, stable circuiton a breadboard, and scaling to higher frequencies on paper, once the concept is understood. Butthis model is difficult to apply even to the most basic power conversion circuits; while signalprocessing functions are often available as discrete components, most modern power circuits arehighly integrated out of necessity. While it is possible to base a lab exercise on an off-the-shelfmonolithic power converter, much of the operation is hidden, and quality oscilloscopes andcurrent probes are out of reach for many schools. This paper presents the development of severalhands-on lab exercises in power electronics that are designed to provide hands-on, intuitiveexperience with concepts such as thermal
engineering skills of K-12 learners.Dr. Morgan M Hynes, Purdue University at West Lafayette Dr. Morgan Hynes is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity and Director of the FACE Lab research group at Purdue. In his research, Hynes explores the use of engineering to integrate academic subjects in K-12 classrooms. Specific research interests include design metacognition among learners of all ages; the knowledge base for teaching K-12 STEM through engi- neering; the relationships among the attitudes, beliefs, motivation, cognitive skills, and engineering skills of K-16 engineering learners; and teaching engineering. American c
) proposed a Universal Architecture Curriculum that combinedtopics in outer space and terrestrial architecture to benefit both disciplines.Architecture curriculum is rapidly evolving due to advancements in fabrication technologies andblurring of disciplinary boundaries. The scope for space architecture within terrestrial architecturalcurriculum has only gained more valence. In this spirit, the education of future space architectsand engineers may be best achieved by infusing existing architecture and architectural engineering(AE) programs with a degree or specialization in OSA. This paper provides the motivation andimportance of integrating OSA in architecture and AE curricula. The author expects to supplementthis paper in future with academic
Paper ID #29371Solutions for Hiring Manufacturing Technology InstructorsProf. Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology Dr. Karen Wosczyna-Birch is the Executive Director and Principal Investigator of the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing, an National Science Foundation Center of Excellence. She is the state director for the College of Technology, a seamless pathway in technology and engineering from all 12 public community colleges to 8 public and private universities. Dr. Wosczyna-Birch has expertise with both the recruitment and persistence of under represented populations, especially women, to pursue
curriculum changes inengineering programs[10]. Despite all of this, I found it challenging to find papers documentingsuccessful interventions based on these changes.Colleges and universities are increasingly turning to the development of an inclusive culture byapplying frameworks like Inclusive Excellence, a model of diversity and inclusion that“anticipates critical appraisal and recognizes historical and contemporary challenges [11].” Thisframework, when adopted across an institution allows for more collective action. At Universityof Arizona Libraries, their Diversity, Social Justice and Equity Council (DSJEC) was created toalign with the institution’s priorities based on an Inclusive Excellence Model [11, p. 67].In approaching this work, I looked
Paper ID #31347Challenges of Developing a New Engineering Drawings Course for CivilEngineersMr. Bradley James Schmid, University of Saskatchewan Brad Schmid is an assistant professor in Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering at the Univer- sity of Saskatchewan. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Challenges of Developing a New Engineering Drawings Course for Civil EngineeringAbstractThe landscape of engineering graphics and design have changed substantially in the last twentyto thirty years, yet in many ways the courses and curriculum have often not
has been limited curriculum development that heavily integrates the SDGs into engineeringproblem-solving.Beyond the SDGs themselves, there is heightened interest in the role of technology andengineering in addressing what has traditionally been considered “social” problems [8], [9],above and beyond simply addressing basic human needs [1]. Engineers may even be moreeffective if they embrace a role as a “bridge” between the stakeholders and the policymakers inimplementing solutions to such challenges [3], or even serve as policymakers themselves indesigning and effecting social change [10]. To effectively take on these nontraditionalengineering roles, engineers themselves must stretch beyond a traditional engineeringbackground. Issues such as
Oklahoma State University. She spent 12 years teaching secondary science and engineering in Oklahoma, and is a 2014 recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.Dr. Nick Lux Lux, Montana State University Dr. Nicholas Lux has is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in MSU’s Department of Education. His teaching and research interests are in the area of educational technology. He has worked in the fields of K-12 and higher education for 18 years, and currently teaches in the Montana State University Teacher Education Program. He has experience in educational technology theory and practice in K-12 contexts and teacher education, with a focus on STEM teaching and