designing and implementing technology-infused learning environments that provide youth an opportunity to learn about themselves, others, and to gain insight into interpersonal dynamics.Dr. Jessica Sperling, Duke University Dr. Sperling leads the Applied Research, Evaluation, & Engagement area of Duke University’s Social Science Research Institute.Megan Gray, Duke University Megan Gray is a Research Analyst in Evaluation and Engagement at Duke University’s Social Science Research Institute (SSRI). She serves as a project manager and researcher for both qualitative and quanti- tative evaluation and research efforts, in partnership with community-based programs as well as campus- based initiatives. Megan came to
for discussion prompts. The discussion prompts promoted repetition inlearning in that they allowed students to apply practical understanding for the second time. Toincrease a sense of community, discussion groups were limited to 30 students, which resulted in atotal of four discussion groups. In addition, in preparation for the team-based project (4 studentsper team), one person from each time was assigned to each discussion group. This modifiedapproach to the Jigsaw method [48] allowed students to gain a more wholistic perspective (of theentire class) in preparation for the team-based project.Third, this module culminated with a final team-based project. This final module project promotedrepetition in learning in that it allowed students to
SO2-1 1453 Ship Propulsion Design Propulson Plant Trade-off Submittal 7 3 7 0 2.00 13 10 0 0 2.57 4 2 10 0 1.63 0.188 environment, and vessel and crew/passenger safety. 1444 Ship Design/System Integration Crewing Submittal 10 7 0 0 2.59 4 19 0 0 2.17 0 0 16 0 1.00 0.794 1444 Ship Design/System Integration Final Project Report
studies at Georgia Tech, where he taught undergraduate courses for 7 years. His profes- sional activities have included projects in East Africa, Central America, the Middle East, Alaska’s North Slope, and throughout the ”lower 48 states.” His current activities at Texas A&M include a wide range of activities with particular emphasis on development of novel interdisciplinary curricula, courses, and experiences.Dr. Luciana R. Barroso, Texas A&M University Luciana R. Barroso, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. She currently also serves as the Director of Undergraduate
Paper ID #31142Implementing Interactive 3-D Models in an Entry Level Engineering Courseto Enhance Students’ VisualizationDr. Alexandra Hain, University of Connecticut Alexandra Hain is an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Connecticut in structural engi- neering. She received her PhD in Structural Engineering in 2019 from the University of Connecticut. She has used 3D modeling and virtual reality extensively in her research and is currently working on a project to extend the benefits of both augmented and virtual reality technology to undergraduate and graduate education.Dr. Sarira Motaref P.E., University
recommended that thestudents do the same for their own personal computer, as it seemed to be the least complicatedway to set up a full-fledged environment for programming in Python.We also chose to have the students do their Python programming in JupyterLab, a web-based,interactive graphical interface and development environment that allows for relatively seamlessintegration of live code, text, and graphics all in one platform (Project Jupyter, n.d.). JuypterLabis available as an installable package, but it also comes installed with Anaconda.The Arduino-Pymata approach to integrating hardware into ME 30 sufficed for the fall 2018 andspring 2019 semesters, however it was not an ideal solution, because to work with the Arduinohardware outside of the
explored on a 2D display or via a VR headset (if available); b. Processes in the virtual (simulation) environment that include multiple stations, and com- prise technical as well as organizational aspects; c. A set of products or entities that flow throughout the virtual environment and are processed (e.g., manufactured, assembled, stored, transported); d. A didactical concept that comprises formal and informal learning, enabled by own actions of the learners during and after virtual site visits/field trips based on remote active-learning instead of on-site learning. These represent problems/projects inspired by real-world situa- tions that the learner may face at future workplace.Since I-SBL essentially involves PBL
Paper ID #28586Electrical Energy Engineering Education for 21st CenturyDr. Radian G Belu, Southern University and A&M College Dr. Radian Belu is Associate Professor within Electrical Engineering Department, Southern University, Baton, Rouge, USA. He is holding one PHD in power engineering and other one in physics. Before joining to Southern University Dr. Belu hold faculty, research and industry positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. He also worked for several years in industry as project manager, senior engineer and consultant. He has taught and developed undergraduate
Massachusetts, Boston c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Examining shared understandings of design artifacts in upper elementary school engineeringIntroductionWith the implementation of the Framework for K12 Science Education and the Next GenerationScience Standards in the United States, engineering is increasingly prevalent in the pre-collegeclassroom (NGSS Lead States, 2013). A typical way to incorporate engineering into K12education is through collaborative engineering design projects (NAE & NRC, 2009). This typeof project often requires students to present the group’s design work in a single representation,usually a co-constructed physical object (NRC, 2009). Though we
Illinois in 2015. His research focuses on defects in materials using density-functional theory, and novel techniques to understand problems in mechanical behavior and transport.Prof. Andre Schleife, Andr´e Schleife is a Blue Waters Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineer- ing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He obtained his Diploma and Ph.D. at Friedrich- Schiller-University in Jena, Germany for his theoretical work on transparent conducting oxides. Before he started at UIUC he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on a project that aimed at a description of non-adiabatic electron ion dynamics. His research revolves around
-based, inquiry-based, project-based, and problem-basedlearning”, the MUST students not only learned the course content, but enjoyed the process [9].MethodsOpening DayStudents were randomly assigned to teams of four students prior to the start of the course; thesame teams were maintained throughout the semester, although they had permission to request achange. Within five minutes of the very first class, the teams were given a hypothetical situationand a problem to solve. The hypothetical situation was that an unknown molecule was infectingstudents on campus with a deadly disease (which turned out to be eerily predictive of theCOVID-19 pandemic). Teams brainstormed methods to solve one of the following: (1) Diagnose/identify the
Learning. In this position she provides professional development programming & support to faculty on their own teaching and student learning. Additionally, she consults on assessment, DBER, and other forms of teaching & learning research. Her disciplinary background is in experimental psychology as well as curriculum & instruction with a focus on higher education.Mrs. traci aucoin Traci Aucoin is currently the Lafayette Parish School System GEAR UP Project Director. She has worked in education for 30 years and has been a part of the GEAR UP initiative for seven years. She began her career as a high school biology and physics teacher before she moved into higher education where she served the University
of topics such as regulatory affairs [1] and engineeringstandards [2]. Although the combination of technical and “soft skills” can be an importantdistinguishing characteristic of biomedical engineers in industry, it is challenging to effectivelyteach students professional topics in an undergraduate biomedical engineering curriculum thatalso attempts to cover the breadth of engineering and life science topics that is the hallmark ofthe discipline.Recognizing the importance of professional topics, students are often required to implementthem in their culminating capstone design project. A common approach is to teach the topics inthe capstone design courses themselves, often by providing didactic sessions covering each topicjust before students
-2014, and the Herbert F. Alter Chair of Engineering (Ohio Northern University) in 2010. His research interests include success in first-year engineering, engineering in K-12, introducing entrepreneurship into engi- neering, and international service and engineering. He has written texts in design, general engineering and digital electronics, including the text used by Project Lead the Way.Max Mikel-Stites, Virginia Tech Max Mikel-Stites is pursuing master’s degrees in engineering mechanics and mathematics at Virginia Tech. He studies the biomechanics of hearing in parasitoid flies and is passionate about the physics of Marvel superheroes and scientific communication. His general research interests include biological
-12 educators to support engineering edu- cation in the classroom. She is also the founder of STOMP (stompnetwork.org), LEGOengineering.com (legoengineering.com) and the Teacher Engineering Education Program (teep.tufts.edu).Dr. Rebecca Deborah Swanson, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach Dr. Swanson is a postdoctoral research associate studying teacher learning in an online graduate-level engineering education program at Tufts University. Prior to joining the CEEO at Tufts, Dr. Swanson worked on research projects studying professional development of formal and informal science educators, learning through citizen science for adults and youth, and pre-service elementary teaching in informal science
and group problem solving, which was anideal fit for a research problem focused on providing better resources for a group of highlyinvolved, capable students with a lot of thoughts and ideas to contribute. The specific designthinking model used in the study was the nonlinear, five-step process popularized by Stanford’sd.school. An image showing the design thinking process is included below in Figure 1 [7].Figure 1: Stanford d.school Design Thinking ModelThis paper encompasses the first three stages in the design thinking process, stopping just shortof the prototyping phase. The prototype and test phases of the project are ongoing, but are largelyoutside the scope of what could reasonably be contained in this publication. Because the
or finished each assignment of the course. Below is an example: By forming a team at the beginning of the project, I learned the importance of ensuring that all team members have the same objectives when starting a project which will be of Page 6 of 21 value to me as I will have a better understanding of important considerations when working on junior engineering teams. It should be noted that students are trained to use the triple structure at the beginning of the semester so that they are skilled at applying it throughout the whole semester. When the learning statements are ready, they are uploaded to the text mining program together with other background
in the number ofstudents attending these sessions, important changes were made to the type of learningassessment. At first, the students were required to produce a portfolio related to their researchprojects that the librarians graded and to which they suggested ways of improvement. Thisevaluation method being time-consuming, it was changed to open-book exams. After a fewyears, the librarians decided to modify the assessment again to allow students to work on theirown projects. Moreover, a heterogeneous clientele posed some significant challenges. Forexample, the university has welcomed a growing international graduate student population thatdid not speak French. In response to these challenges and to institutional requests, the team
understand issues of diversity and inclusion in engineering. Specifically, she investigates how language influences who engages in the technical fields. She was recently awarded the Stanford DARE fellowship. Globally, she is part of the Galapagos research-practice partnership that seeks to improve the teaching of science for underserved communities through education for sustainability. Before coming to Stanford, she was a bilingual educator at Plano ISD. In Plano, she served in the Gifted and Talented Advisory Committee and the Elementary Curriculum Design team. Prior to starting her career in education, Greses was a project manager for engineering programs funded by the European nonprofits in the Caribbean. She holds a
. Thispaper resulted from the Fourth Future of Mechatronics and Robotics Education (FoMRE)Workshop held September 27-28, 2019 at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield,Michigan. This workshop was the final in a series of National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported academic and industrial workshops in a project that aims to define and promote theconcept of MRE as a distinct engineering discipline, build a community of MRE educators, andpromote diversity and inclusivity within the MRE community [2]. The project leaders write: “Our vision is that MRE will become one of the most impactful disciplines of engineering; attracting diverse and innovative students, graduating professional engineers who will design, develop, and
understand themethod used to identify students to boost, it is important to understand the course structure anddesign. The course was divided into three modules. The first and third module were project-basedand focused on the application of the engineering design process. During these two modules, thestudents also used the computer as a learning tool, with the first module focusing on Excel and thethird module focusing on SolidWorks. The second module was focused on engineering majordiscernment through exposure to each engineering discipline offered at the university. For the firstmodule, lectures consisted of both project-based concepts and Excel concepts. The Excel topicswere taught using a flipped-classrooms with the students watching videos
. Thomas UniversityRebecca Ann Leininger, University of Saint Thomas I am an education student pursuing a degree and license in 5-8 general science and 9-12 life science. I am a member of the Playful Learning Lab and work on many projects through Ok Go Sandbox, with the Minnesota Children’s Museum as well as working on the STEPs engineering camp here at the University of Saint Thomas.Dr. AnnMarie Thomas, University of St. Thomas AnnMarie Thomas is a professor in the School of Engineering and the Opus Colluege of Business at the University of St. Thomas where she is the director of the UST Center for Engineering Education. Her research group, the Playful Learning Lab, focuses on engineering and design education for
. When considering the riskinherent in a CAREER proposal, the investigator should look for the sweet spot, where there ishigh enough risk to be potentially transformative, while not so risky that there are serious doubtsas to whether or not the work can be completed or the work will not achieve its impacts. The content of the research and education activities should be novel enough to launch a career, not just any five year project. Consider and describe how insights from the integration of the research and educational plans have ability to transform some aspect of engineering education. Figure 1. The Three Dimensions of a Competitive CAREER proposalWhen we put these three dimensions together, we see there is
Engineering from the University of Illinois and PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University.Dr. Corey T Schimpf, The Concord Consortium Corey Schimpf is a Learning Analytics Scientist with interest in design research, learning analytics, re- search methods and under-representation in engineering, A major strand of his work focuses on develop- ing and analyzing learning analytics that model students’ cognitive states or strategies through fine-grained computer-logged data from open-ended technology-centered science and engineering projects. His disser- tation research explored the use of Minecraft to teach early engineering college students about the design process. American
master’s degree in Engineering and a bachelor of science in Construction Engineering from American University in Cairo. Dr. ElZomor moved to FIU from State University of New York, where he was an Assistant Professor at the college of Environmental Science and Forestry. Mohamed’s work focuses on Sustainability of the Built Environment, Engineering Education, Construc- tion Engineering, Energy Efficiency Measures and Modeling, Project Management, and Infrastructure Resilience. Dr. ElZomor has extensive professional project management experience as well as a diverse cross-disciplinary academic knowledge. Mohamed, distinct expertise supports fostering interdisciplinary research in addition to embracing innovative
Paper ID #29467Engaging Pre-College Students in Hypothesis Generation using a CitizenScientist Network of Air Quality Sensors (Work in Progress)JAMES A MOOREMatthew Dailey Matthew Dailey is a student at the University of Utah pursuing a B.S in Chemical Engineering. He is pursuing graduate school with a focus on biosensors.Mr. Zachary Wilhelm, AirU Zachary Wilhelm is pursing his undergrad in Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah and is aspiring to get his PhD to continue research to understand and address environmental challenges. For this project his primary focus was organizing visits to local schools and
current research interests include student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices, and the use of technology and innovative pedagogies on student learn- ing and success. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering education research, and she was part of a team that studied ethical decision-making in engineering students.Dr. Harry Courtney Powell, University of Virginia Harry Powell is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia. After receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering in1978 he was an active research and design
Transforming Undergraduate Education inEngineering (TUEE), a framework for developing Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities/Attitudes(KSAs) was proposed. In Phase I of the project [5], industry participants shared that they foundcurrent training of graduates to be inadequate to meet present industry needs and out of sync withfuture requirements. They identified core competencies and an array of skills and professionalqualities needed in a “T-shaped engineering graduate—one who brings broad knowledge acrossdomains, deep expertise within a single domain, and the ability to collaborate with others in adiverse workforce.” Among the 36 KSAs that were identified, 9 correspond to knowledge, 14 toskills, and 13 to abilities. Besides non-technical and interpersonal
Paper ID #30453Participants of the Cultivate ACCESS Program (Work in Progress)Rachel Ibach, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Rachel Ibach is a masters student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the Applied Science program. Her assistantship project focuses on increasing participation of underrepresented groups in STEM-related agricultural career fields through a mentoring and development program that engages high school youth with undergraduate students and industry professionals.Dr. Jennifer Keshwani, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Jenny Keshwani is an Assistant Professor of Biological Systems Engineering and
skills reported by respondents is listed in Table 2. Table 2. Skills reported by student leaders as gained through OHI/O participation Communication Multi-directional communication Email communication Leading without authority Delegation of tasks Organization Teamwork Team-building Community building Leadership Web development Budgeting Fundraising/talking with sponsors Time management Event planning Hacking/technology skills Problem solving Project managementOne student