systems. He has conducted several projects to reduce CO2 fingerprint of buildings. His current work focuses on sustainable energy resources. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Refrigeration Cycle Educational Training Unit DevelopmentABSTRACTRefrigeration cycles are vital in today’s industrial and domestic life. Many applicationsincluding, but not limited to, residential air conditioning, shopping malls heating ventilation andair conditioning, and food and liquid refrigeration operate with refrigeration cycles. Studentsgraduating with a mechanical engineering technology degree, such as associate, bachelor, ortechnical certificate need to have sufficient hands on experience with
bythe year 2050, and asked the important question of how are we going to feed that many people.The report put tangible boundaries around a “Wicked Problem” that was otherwise difficult tograsp [2]. The topic of feeding a rising global population has since been at the center of thepublic attention, and is a primary driver behind this research project, which stemmed from theNSF initiative, Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems (INFEWS) [3]. The focus on providing for a sustainable future also had rippling effects into the world ofserious games with over 60 video games coming out related to sustainability since 2006 [4]. Thetopics of these games are wide ranging but many adopt the model principles of the Triple BottomLine
aprecursor to creating change. Each of these change strategies and the related groups of changetactics are discussed in more detail below. CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGY REFLECTIVE TEACHERS • Making specific pedagogical changes including course redesign and • Developing specific spaces and social opportunities for students developing classroom projects to encourage students’ professional formation and academic success, and development of leadership skills • Including undergraduate TAs on project teams and encouraging
. Otherplans included graduate study in STEM fields, professional school (e.g. medicine or law), orother jobs not in engineering fields.Respondents were classified as feeling like they belong or feel like an engineer (Q13 of thesurvey) if they selected “Somewhat Agree”, “Agree”, or “Strongly Agree”. Most respondentsreported that they feel like they belong in the school (86%) and their major (84%), and theyfeel like an engineer (80%). Interestingly, 67% of respondents who agreed that they feel likean engineer indicated that the experience that made them feel that way occurred at their ownuniversity (i.e., UVA).Research-Experienced RespondentsExcluding capstones and course-structured laboratory projects, 39% of respondents (n = 303)have participated in
design, and Berland et. al’s [22] Epistemologies in Practice framework forcharacterizing considerations for building knowledge that contribute to how students engagemeaningfully in scientific practices. For the purpose of this project, we needed a framework that would be useful forobserving direct evidence of learning and allow for robust transferability across various learningexperiences over time. An added complexity is that engaging with engineering design to learnscience and using engineering design to create a science lesson plan for elementary educationstudents are two different activities that require preservice teachers to engage with engineeringdesign from two different user perspectives – first, as a learner of science, and
clear in The Engineer of 2020 and it is also a central part ofthe Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge, 3rd Edition. Many programs provide an opportunityfor students to demonstrate creativity and innovation in their capstone projects but few providefoundational instruction or opportunities to hone creativity skills throughout the curriculum.Inspired by the need to develop creative and innovative engineers and encouraged by theliterature about how the necessary skills and attitudes can be developed through education, thispaper describes how creativity has been deliberately and explicitly integrated in a requiredsenior-level civil engineering course. Although early in implementation and assessment, the datasuggests that integrating creativity into
papers on these subjects. His research awards include a Microsoft Research Software Engineering Innovation Foundation Award and an IBM Faculty Award. Tilevich has earned a B.A. summa cum laude in Computer Science/Math from Pace University, an M.S. in Information Systems from NYU, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. At Virginia Tech, Tilevich leads the Software Innovations lab. The lab’s research projects have been supported by major US federal funding agencies (i.e., NSF, ONR, AFOSR) and private industry. Tilevich is also a professionally trained classical clarinetist, with experience in orchestral, chamber, and solo performances.Dr. Simin Hall, Virginia Tech Dr. Simin Hall is a research
actively engaged in different projects at the department focusing on teamwork and leadership competencies in engineering.Dr. Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Homero Murzi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He holds degrees in Industrial Engineering (BS, MS), Master of Business Administration (MBA) and in Engineering Education (PhD). Homero has 15 years of international experience working in industry and academia. His research focuses on contemporary and inclusive pedagogical practices, industry-driven competency development in engineering, and understanding the barriers that Latinx and Native Americans have in engineering. Homero has
enacting the newpolicy effectively and sustaining it over the long term. The project includes three areas: 1) policyand process clarification for both tenured and teaching-track faculty; 2) creation of a mid-careermentoring and professional development system for all full-time faculty at the Associate rank;and 3) bias awareness and mitigation. This paper shares work-in-progress and early outcomesspecific to policy and process clarification for tenured faculty. This work is significant because itshows the potential of promotion reform to elevate teaching and community engagement in waysthat may also advance goals of gender equity. Simultaneously, it reinforces the need for deeperchange in cultures and alignment of values and practices across levels
modelling of electrochemical energy storage devices.Dr. Hamid S Timorabadi P.Eng., University of Toronto Hamid Timorabadi received his B.Sc, M.A.Sc, and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He has worked as a project, design, and test engineer as well as a consultant to industry. His research interests include the application of digital signal processing in power systems. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020WIP: Exploring Pedagogical Alternatives for Incorporating Simulations in an Introductory Power Electronics CourseAbstractIn Fall 2018, we developed LabSim, a set of circuit simulators for a
for the Center of Enhancement for Engineering Diversity where she taught a seminar for first-year female engineering students and coordinated precollege outreach events. As a researcher, she has previously served as a Graduate Research Assistant on the VT PEERS project studying middle school students reg- ularly engaging in engineering activities. In addition, she dedicates her spare time to exhibiting at the Virginia Tech Science Festival and hosting several sessions for the Kindergarten-to-college (K2C) Initia- tive.Dr. Jacob R Grohs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Jacob Grohs is an Assistant Professor in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech with Affiliate Faculty status in Biomedical
ITinfrastructure hosting these endpoints thus limiting effective support.The ECU team leading the service enablement project needed a solution that will enable it and the projectstakeholders to have the visibility necessary to manage the assets, the infrastructure and the serviceinvolved in this offering. The goal is to gain this visibility and enable self-governance without requiringsignificant commitments from the IT teams at each of the locations, either in terms of configuration andpolicy changes or in terms of direct support. 4This problem statement spurred two cross-departmental projects: • The development of an Edge Computing platform
Paper ID #31529Diversifying the Engineering Pipeline through Early Engagement ofNeurodiverse LearnersMs. Constance M. Syharat, University of Connecticut Constance M. Syharat is a Research Assistant at the University of Connecticut as a part of the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (NSF-RED) project, ”Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engineering Innovation”. In her time at the University of Connecticut she has also worked as a Research Assistant for NSF CAREER project ”Promoting Engineering Innovation Through Increased Neurodiversity by Encouraging the Participation of Students with ADHD” and
Paper ID #29859Initiatives to financially, academically, and socially supportunderrepresented minorities in STEM disciplinesDr. Anitha Sarah Subburaj, West Texas A&M University Dr. Anitha Subburaj is an Assistant Professor at West Texas A&M University. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2014 from Texas Tech University, where she worked as a Research Assistant on the project, ”Advanced Battery Modeling and Evaluation”. She received her ME degree from Anna Uni- versity, India in 2007. She held a position as Assistant Professor, at Kumaraguru College of Technology, India for three years. Her areas
University. He has published over 50 articles in different journals and conference proceedings. He has served as an investi- gator for research projects sponsored by National Science Foundation, Ford Motor Company, and the US Army. Before working at Indiana State University, he was a faculty in the University of Louisville for 10 years. He also has over four years of industrial experience. He received his D. Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lamar University (USA) in 1999, M.Sc. in Materials Engineering from Isfahan Uni- versity of Technology in 1991, and B.Sc. in Metallurgical Engineering from Tehran University in 1988. He is a member of ASEE, ASME, and ATMAE.Dr. M. Affan Badar, Indiana State University M
and an incumbent graduate student for the 2020-2021 year. He works on the project titled ”CAREER: Actualizing Latent Diversity: Building Innovation through Engineering Students’ Identity Development,” assisting with narrative analysis and interviews, helping to understand the identity trajectories of latently diverse students. He received his Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Harding University with honors, where he participated in the Beyond Professional Identity (BPI) research group, studying frustration in first- and second-year undergraduate engineering students. He also served as the BPI lab manager during 2017-2018. He is also a Society of Personality and Social Psychology Undergraduate Research Fellow
. What themes emerge from studies’ findings about the impact of outreach on undergraduates?Method The first steps were to develop inclusion and exclusion criteria for the review. Criteria forincluding the papers were fourfold: (1) describe programmatic outreach efforts from one or morecolleges of engineering to K-12 audiences, (2) include undergraduate engineering students asambassadors or mentors, (3) take place within the continental United States, and (4) includeevidence of impacts on the undergraduate students. In other words, papers were excluded if they(1) described undergraduate involvement in service learning, affinity group, or communityengagement projects, (2) included undergraduates simply as chaperones or creators of
to a ”culture of disengagement” from the ethical dimension of engineering work among students in the engineering profession. His Ph.D. project is funded by the NSF and is concerned with promoting and im- proving engineering students’ ethical behavior and sensitivity through on-campus student organizations. His academic interests include mental health, international development, human rights, and engineering ethics. Currently, his ambition is to work within an international organization such as UNESCO and to be an advocate for promoting science and technology as critical tools of sustainable development as well as to participate in the dialogue between scientists, policy-makers, and society. Luan enjoys traveling
learning). The social, behavioral and cognitive theoriesthat underpin cooperative learning support students to share their motivation and work towards acommon goal, and structure new knowledge by linking to existing knowledge. Another exampleis project-based learning, defined as self-directed and collaborative work to apply knowledge to alegitimate problem [12]. Problem based learning is commonly used as the model in capstonedesign courses for engineering majors, where students apply their previously gained knowledgeto a final year project [13], and work in small groups to solve a problem in a self-directedmanner [14].2.2 – Models of expertise sharingDistributed expertise within an educational setting, with its roots in Lave’s situated
University, where she studies teachers’ experiences as they learn about robotics, how they envision incorporating robotics in their curriculum and challenges that they face.Dr. Vikram Kapila, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering Vikram Kapila is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (NYU Tandon), where he directs a Mechatronics, Controls, and Robotics Laboratory, a Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics and Entrepreneurship, a DR K-12 research project, and an ITEST re- search project, all funded by NSF. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests include K-12 STEM education, mechatronics, robotics, and con
, in 2013, and the M.S. degree in robotics engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), MA, USA in 2018. He is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree in robotics engi- neering from WPI, USA. His research interests include human motion modeling, planning and analysis, human-robot and human-machine interaction.Dr. David M. Auslander, University of California, Berkeley David M. Auslander is Professor of the Graduate School, Mechanical Engineering, University of Califor- nia at Berkeley. His interests include mechatronics, real time software, and mechanical control. Current projects are building energy control, satellite attitude control, mechanical system simulation, and en- gineering curriculum. He
forward an overview of our effort tointroduce and grow the digital transformation and IBL in the mechanical engineering (ME)curriculum.At the University of Hartford, the first computational skills are obtained in a graphiccommunication course and an engineering computer application course taken by all engineeringmajors in the freshmen year. The former incorporates AutoCAD, and the latter consists ofcomputer programming, data science, and tools for solving problems (MATLAB, MS Excel). Formechanical engineering majors, another computer-aided design (CAD) course withSOLIDWORKS and ANSYS is encountered in the junior year. Most ME capstone projects aresourced from and sponsored by local industry and have at least one component that requiressimulations
Advisor to the UMES Chapter of Sigma Lambda Chi, the Internal Honor Society for Construction. He is a past President of the Eastern Shore Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Professor Arumala is actively involved in Community Development projects and in research into sustainable Alternative Building Ma- terials and Renewable Alternative Energy Use in Buildings.Dr. Joseph Nii Dodu Dodoo, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Dr. Joseph D. Dodoo (co-PI): Research interest in astrophysics began in 1994 with a summer faculty internship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, under the auspices of Universities Space Research As- sociation. The association continued until November 2003. The research work at NASA
Paper ID #30707Ways of Experiencing Ethics in Engineering Practice: Variation andFactors of ChangeDr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Carla B. Zoltowski is an assistant professor of engineering practice in the Schools of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Education, and Director of the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program within the College of Engineering at Purdue. She holds a B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue. Her research interests include the professional for- mation of
practices to support all students. Dr. Kouo is currently engaged in multiple research projects that involve multidisciplinary collaborations in the field of engineering, medicine, and education, as well as research on teacher preparation and the conducting of evidence-based interventions in school environments.Dr. Medha Dalal, Arizona State University Medha Dalal is a postdoctoral scholar at Arizona State University. With an educational journey that has spanned multiple disciplines including Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and a doctorate in Education, Medha is interested in research at the intersections of engineering, technologies, and education. Three thrusts that define her research interests include, ways
Paper ID #31280Work in Progress: Professional Development Module in First-YearEngineering CourseDr. Olukemi Akintewe, University of South Florida Dr. Olukemi Akintewe is an instructional faculty in the Medical Engineering Department at the Univer- sity of South Florida. She received a B.E. degree in chemical engineering from City College of New York, CUNY, a M.Sc in materials science and engineering from the Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of South Florida. Dr. Akintewe’s research focuses on project- based learning in engineering education; engineering predictive assessment
institutions, working together virtually and globally to innovate and create products formarket consumption. This model has been successful during its lifespan by preparing studentsfor the global workplace [5]. Another useful industrial model for creating an innovation-basedwork atmosphere is Lean Startup. A Lean Startup model includes quickly brainstormingsolutions, building prototypes, taking measurements, and learning what did and didn’t work forfuture project iterations. This model works by making ideas into products quickly and efficiently[6]. Finally, there are also academically focused innovation-based curricula that have been usedby initiatives such as the Biodesign Innovation Process. The Biodesign Innovation Process worksthrough three phases
for Social Scienceswithin the university core. This required the course to conduct some surveys and analyze the datain a meaningful way, and this activity had to be a reasonable percentage of the course content.Fortunately the four-credit course structure permits this to happen and still retain sufficient classtime and activities to explore project management, the functions of an engineering team within thecontext of a business operation, and aspects of entrepreneurship. The course allows the engineeringstudents to have a basic understanding of business principles and terminology.3.2 ABET AssessmentWhile much of the liberal arts core does not directly contribute to ABET assessment, the courseon Engineering and Technology Ethics will be used
Fall 2019, as well as performance inofferings of the same estimating course before OER implementation.BackgroundConstruction Management involves the study of courses in areas of practice such as plan readingand production, cost estimating, safety, scheduling, and project management. Students are oftenrequired to purchase textbooks, equipment, and software for these courses at great expense. Theauthor has previously considered [1] the high level of expenses for engineering and technology,in general, and Construction Management, in particular, and the high rate of increase in the costof these over time through a number of sources. These included costs of over $300 for individualtextbooks [2] and over $1200 a year [3], and a rate of increase of
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. Kathryne Newton, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Dr. Kathy Newton is an Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Faculty Success for the Purdue Poly- technic