education. In reviewing early attempts at K-12 engineering education, theNRC found that including engineering in K-12 education has numerous benefits including:improved learning and achievement in science and mathematics; increased awareness ofengineering and the work of engineers; understanding of and the ability to engage in engineeringdesign; interest in pursuing engineering as a career; and increased technological literacy. 2Initially individual states led the effort to include engineering in K-12 education. More recentlyattention has shifted to the national level by integrating engineering design into the NextGeneration Science Standards (NGSS) at the same level as scientific inquiry. The NRC notesthat the insight and interest students gain
/ Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a two-strand research program fo- cused on (1) authentic assessment, often aided by interactive technology, and (2) design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Amber Gallup, University of New MexicoDr. Sung ”Pil” Kang, University of New Mexico Sung ”Pil” Kang is an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico. His academic interests include change management, change model validation, and mindset evolution. He may be
ethically, intellectually, andprofessionally prepared to serve their country and humanity. It offers Bachelor of Sciencedegrees in nine majors including civil engineering and all cadets must graduate in four years.Approximately 12% of the Class of 2020 are Civil Engineers (typically 10 – 15% for any givenyear). The civil engineering curriculum is broad and provides a solid background in thestructures, environmental, geotechnical, and construction sub-fields of civil engineering.Graduates pursue a number of different career paths and many of them serve in the United StatesCoast Guard (USCG) as practicing civil engineers, pursue professional licensure, and attendgraduate programs in civil engineering. Emphasis is placed on balancing theory and
when a path is notstraight. Middle school is not only a prime time for adolescences to develop their 3D spatial skillsbut also a pivotal time for developing interest in STEM [8], [9]. Specifically, students’ pathwaysin the future have been found to be influenced by the experiences one has in middle school [10]For example, when eighth graders had expectations for a STEM-related career, they were 3.4 timesmore likely to earn a STEM related undergraduate degree compared to students without similarexpectations [11].Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM)The Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) is an established framework that is used to describecurriculum adoption in K-12 educational settings [12]. CBAM consists of three components: (1)Levels
, improving accessibility and creating novel methods that encourage new learning opportunities and foster vibrant learning communities.Prof. Karin Jensen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Karin Jensen, Ph.D. is a Teaching Assistant Professor in bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include student mental health and wellness, engineering stu- dent career pathways, and engagement of engineering faculty in engineering education research. She was awarded a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for her research on undergraduate mental health in engineering programs. Before joining UIUC she completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Sanofi Oncology in
default behavioral responses to some degree. For better and worse,each person brings a myriad of life experiences shaping their perceptions and traits. Educatorsmust therefore be cognizant that learners will have varied backgrounds that will influence theirapproach to learning new or developing resilience competencies.Second, resilience is dynamic and fluid. A person’s current reality - the context of one’s currentcareer path, educational process and learner age group, health, career or family dynamics - allshape resilience responses. The challenge for educators is to identify and facilitate opportunitiesto more deliberately mentor resilience as part of the active learning experience. This isespecially important in engineering and technology
work helpsexcite and motivate them for what lies ahead. It has been shown that instilling passion andenthusiasm in students early in their careers positively affects their educational experience. [5]Additionally, design courses can incorporate a variety of subjects, thus helping students learn howto integrate information, make connections across disciplines, and develop holistic solutions tocomplex problems. Teaching rapid prototyping in conjunction with design can significantly enhance students’experience with the design process. An exhaustive literature review on teaching design for additivemanufacturing within makerspaces is presented in Jariwala et al. [6] Rapid prototyping is a usefultool for design visualization and verification
students to industrial systems engineering (ISE) principles using the Mr. Potato Headtoy to engage the students in active learning with a manageable product. One goal of a first-yearengineering program is to effectively introduce students to a variety of engineering disciplines sothat they can make appropriate choices for their careers at an early stage, but for somedisciplines, creating engaging lab experiences can be challenging. This paper introduces the ISElab presently being used by an honors first-year engineering program at The Ohio StateUniversity. The focus of the lab is to introduce the ideas of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigmaas well as different manufacturing systems used in industry. The lab was originally created inconjunction with
finding aligns with anotherstudy finding that students’ emotional health declines over the beginning of their college career[19]. Many students also expressed a somewhat neutral or negative sentiment about beingaccepted to the engineering college, noting that it was something that was expected of them orwas simply not exciting to them. Several students discussed finances when discussing theirfeelings about starting school, even though only one student used a word related to finances onthe survey. Most students discussed finances in a positive way (in that they received financial aidor a lower tuition at this university) but one student discussed it as being a detriment to theirexcitement about starting college.The fact that the focus group
engineers, demonstrate the importance ofincluding ill-defined problems in the engineering curriculum. While it is absolutely valid thesestudents would feel frustrated or anxious when encountering their first or second ill-definedproblem, their idea that engineering problems are math problems, and therefore have one rightanswer does not match what students will experience in their engineering careers. Previousstudies have shown junior and senior students see ill-defined problems as workplace problemsand well-defined problems as school problems [10], so it could be these students have not havehad enough professional experiences to have developed a sense of the engineering field yet. Oneof these two students interviewed seemed to understand this idea
and graduate students through their engagement in laboratories,discussion sections, and mentoring activities. It is essential to train graduate students in effectivepedagogy, including teaching methods that promote student-centered learning, reflective teachingpractices, and engagement of a broad diversity of students. This investment in graduate studenttraining pays dividends in an enhanced learning environment for students now and in the future asgraduate students go on to careers that often include teaching and mentoring as core skillsets.This paper details an instructional improvement project targeting a pedagogy course for first-yeargraduate students in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at a large, public, research
endeavors. However, examining vocation can provide a frameof reference for individuals that seek to live their authentic selves while engaging in a particulartrade or profession, including those outside of religious settings. Vocational decisions involvenot only thinking about a career, but also about the community, discourses, values, andrelationships that encompass the quest for meaning and purpose in life. Thus, the integration ofvocational education in engineering curricula can be very transformative for students as itencourages them to reflect on, and even reconcile, their values and their engineering identity.Research indicates that certain aspects of engineering education curricula, such as thedepoliticization of engineering and the myth of
of 1-10, how creative you are, what would you say and why? Do you think this influenced how you solved this problem? 6. Have you had an engineering internship thus far in your undergraduate career? If Yes: Did you encounter and/or work on solving complex and open-ended problems (i.e. ill-structured), similar to the one you just worked on? If yes, please explain. Did this impact how you went about solving this problem? 7. Have you been asked to solve complex and open-ended problems (e.g. design problems) in your classes? If yes, please explain. Do you think this impacted how you went about solving this problem? The codes were developed by five members of the research team iteratively throughout asemester. Each transcript was coded by
engineering career there has been a major disconnect between learning the theory and applying it, so we felt that if you are ready to combine those 2 into something applicable, man that learning sticks.Similarly, participant # 3 (civil and environmental engineering) provides a good overview of thebenefits of the program in the development of professional skills and the incorporation of designto learn how to become an engineer: … I think we put a lot of emphasis in professional development, because we think that is something really important that in the foundations of engineering class is not emphasized enough. Not everyone does [living learning community] so some students miss out on those
mastery of thecourse material regardless of their homework assessment results. It is unknown whether thatmastery carries on to their careers, but it still good that the students have better mastery of thecourse material while taking the course. But why is this the case? We propose three possibleexplanations, all of which may contribute to the improved performance. First, there is the simpleobservation that the use of the homework quiz method promotes better course attendance, at leaston the days when quizzes are being given. As nearly half the classes in which new coursematerial is covered has a quiz, improved attendance exposes a larger number of students to thelecture on this new material. Simply put, attending well-prepared lectures may aid
. Additionally, researchhas shown that one of the best ways to teach professional skills such as communication is withindisciplinary courses; this strategy makes the material more relevant to students' career goals. Thispaper will explore the first phase of a multi-year study on the use of an active learning approachcalled student-centered learning to build communication skills in a graduate-level nanotechnologycourse offered in a department of mechanical engineering. In the course, students developpresentations as a means of understanding current trends, emerging research topics, relevantapplications, and fundamental science and technology concepts related to nanotechnology.MotivationThe aim of this research is to determine the efficacy of peer
. Educ. Res., vol. 97, no. 6, pp. 287–298, 2004.[7] S.-M. R. Ting and R. Man, "Predicting academic success of first-year engineering students from standardized test scores and psychosocial variables," Int. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 75–80, 2001.[8] J. C. F. De Winter and D. Dodou, "Predicting academic performance in engineering using high school exam scores," Int. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 27, no. 6, p. 1343, 2011.[9] B. D. Jones, M. C. Paretti, S. F. Hein, and T. W. Knott, "An analysis of motivation constructs with first‐year engineering students: Relationships among expectancies, values, achievement, and career plans," J. Eng. Educ., vol. 99, no. 4, pp. 319–336, 2010.[10] R. Steinmayr, A. F. Weidinger, M
construction safety, and in particular Prevention through Design. Upon graduation, he worked for four years as an Assistant Professor at UNC-Charlotte. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA, USA).Dr. Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University Dr. Elif Miskio˘glu is an early-career engineering education scholar and educator. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (with Genetics minor) from Iowa State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University. Her early Ph.D. work focused on the development of bacterial biosensors capable of screening pesticides for specifically targeting the malaria vector
engineeringprograms has grown by about 15%, from 1837 in 2009 [7] to 2114 in 2018 [8]. It is harder totrack the proliferation of non-tenure-track positions in chemical engineering, though by oneaccounting, the number of permanent non-tenure track faculty across all engineering disciplineshas nearly doubled in this time [9]. Most non-tenure-track faculty are hired to focus on teaching,and some universities deliberately connect these teaching faculty with incoming tenure-trackfaculty to set them with teaching resources early in their career [10] [11].The goal of this work is to describe a specific grassroots collaboration between a non-tenure-track associate professor (Professor A) and a tenure-track assistant professor (Professor B) todesign a new senior
role as project manager, Sarah worked as the SEI Coordinator for a local high school and has also developed an inclusion program for Migrant and Immigrant students that utilized co-teaching and active learning as keystones of the program. She began her educational career as a high school teacher, teaching courses in English, math, and science.Kristi Glassmeyer, Arizona State University Kristi Glassmeyer is a Ph.D student in Educational Policy and Evaluation at Arizona State University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Review and Assessment of an Evidence-Based Professional Development Program to Promote Active Learning Pedagogical Practices in the ClassroomAbstractA
optimization and decentralized control of microgrids.Dr. William C Farrow, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. WILLIAM C. FARROW has been teaching at the Milwaukee School of Engineering full time for 10 years in the Mechanical Engineering department. Besides teaching courses related to engineering design and engineering mechanics he works with students pursuing aerospace career goals. Dr. Farrow has worked for McDonnell Aircraft Comp., Eaton Corporation’s Corporate Research Division, and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab as a Faculty Research Fellow. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Robot Racing from Targeted Kit-based Components to a Functional
through college.Dr. Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University Kristen Wendell is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Associate Professor of Education at Tufts University. Her research efforts at at the Center for Engineering Education and Out- reach focus on supporting discourse and design practices during K-12, teacher education, and college- level engineering learning experiences, and increasing access to engineering in the elementary school ex- perience, especially in under-resourced schools. In 2016 she was a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). https://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/faculty/kristen- bethke-wendellProf. Chris Buergin
momentum transfer; medical product and process modeling; biomaterials; and entrepreneurship, innova- tion and commercialization in engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Spicing Up Instruction of Professional Topics in Biomedical EngineeringFull preparation for careers in the medical device industry requires that biomedical engineersenter the workforce with not only design and technical skills but also working knowledge oftopics such as device regulation, standards, intellectual property, healthcare economics, anddocumentation. There is growing demand for engineers who possess a combination of bothtechnical knowledge and understanding
this debate include the attractiveness of the career forprospective students, the retention of those students who enter the program, the diversity ofstudents in the program, and then the degree of fit between program outcomes and the needsof the workplace. Within this debate it is generally assumed that the curriculum is the arenain potential need of reform [3]–[5]. Curriculum reform deliberations tend to operate at arelatively high level, with a central tension between “theory” (engineering and basic sciencecontent) and “practice” (professional skills, often in project type context) [6].A relatively recent focus for global curriculum discussions has been the spread of outcomes-based criteria for accreditation through the mechanism of the
engineering education, workforce development and faculty professional development. As for the Impacts of Technology on Society, her technology-optimization focused research includes solar energy and digital manufacturing.Jennifer Brinker, Northeast WI Technical College Jennifer Brinker’s teaching emphasizes learning from real-life projects. She recognizes and teaches the importance of saving energy, money and the environment, along with meeting customer comfort and pro- duction needs. She holds a Master’s Degree in Land Resources and Energy Analysis and Policy from UW-Madison and achieved Certified Energy Manager (CEM) certification. Jenny has conducted hun- dreds of commercial energy audits since beginning a career in
experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgement to draw conclusions. 7. An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.Engineering students who gain genuine facility in the above seven competencies will likely haveimpactful subsequent careers. Consequently a Program’s commitment to systematically fosterstudent attainment in SO 1-7 is a worthy enterprise.2. Create seven SO oversight committees, one for each ABET SO.The foundational component of our Program’s CI regimen is its seven standing SO 1-7 oversightcommittees (SO-1, SO-2,…SO-7). Each committee consists of three or four faculty members,and each committee has oversight responsibility for the SO in its purview
. 2Workshop objectives and general description:The two-week camp is part of a consortium project that includes research, education andoutreach programs. More specifically, this program has several objectives:1) Train high-school students to use the Autodesk Inventor™ 3D CAD computer program, tocreate technical designs, and teach them how to print designs in 3D using 3D printers.2) Improve students' STEM skills and Improve students' communication skills3) Bridging the gap in industry and research laboratories in terms of human resources andqualified personnel.4) Introduce high-school students to advanced manufacturing (AM) applications to increase theirinterest in pursuing university degrees that would prepare them for careers in AM.Each year, the
, these meetings provide opportunities for the authorsto discuss other important topics both professional and personal. Therefore, in addition toproducing scholarship outputs, this collaboration has also developed to be a source of bothprofessional and personal support to its members. This is particularly important since the authorsare in different stages in their careers, have different cultures and are in different types of highereducation institutions; therefore, they offer each other unique perspectives. The group serves adual role of both professional development (in terms of research and scholarship output) andprofessional/personal support (including other professional topics the authors encounter in theworkplace).The guidelines document is
Paper ID #29453The Impact Detector Project: Mechanical and electrical worlds collideDr. Dale H. Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus Dale H. Litwhiler is an Associate Professor at Penn State, Berks Campus in Reading, PA. He received his B.S. from Penn State University, M.S. from Syracuse University, and Ph.D. from Lehigh University all in electrical engineering. Prior to beginning his academic career, he worked with IBM Federal Systems and Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems as a hardware and software design engineer. He is also a registered professional engineer and an instrument-rated private pilot
timeso that even mild mental health problems can have a long-term detrimental effect [2]. Asadolescents and young adults, students begin to separate from their parents and make decisionsregarding peer group affiliations, intimate relationships, and educational choices. Depression canalter these career decisions and educational and vocational progress. Kessler et al. [2] wrote: …we estimate that more than 7.2 million people in the United States prematurely terminated their education because of early-onset psychiatric disorders, and only a fraction will later complete either high school or college….There are many societal consequences, such as less training of the workforce, less capability of full functioning in