honored as a promising new engineering education researcher when she was selected as an ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Recruiting More U.S. Women into Engineering Based on Stories from MoroccoIntroductionThe objective of this project is to examine the differences between Moroccan and Americancultures with regards to prevalent messaging about engineering. This examination will help usdetermine the factors that contribute to women's decisions to pursue engineering degrees athigher rates in Morocco and similar non-western cultures. Due to a partnership between ouruniversity and the International
Paper ID #28845Small Teaching via Bloom’sDr. Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary Dr. Marjan Eggermont is a Teaching Professor and faculty member at the University of Calgary in the Mechanical and Manufacturing department of the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary. She co-founded and designs ZQ, an online journal to provide a platform to showcase the nexus of science and design using case studies, news, and articles. As an instructor, she was one of the recipients of The Allan Blizzard Award, a Canadian national teaching award for collaborative projects that improve student learning in 2004. In 2005
skills students hoped to learn and/oraccomplish included programming, completing Calculus credits, mini-projects, working withother majors in projects, and coding. Social skills connected with academics included getting tomeet and connect with professors and mentors. Professional goals included visiting companiessuch as the New Balance Company, meeting environmental engineers, meeting inspiring peoplesuch as panel participants drawn from several local companies, and improving communicationskills. It is important to note that New Balance Company stood out, because this visit highlightedto students the varied nature of engineering careers that may be available to them. Finally,several responses emphasized social connections and getting used to
Education Annual Conference, Tampa, Florida, June 2019[3] E. Scott, R. Bates, R. Campbell and D. Wilson, “Contextualizing Professional Development in the Engineering Classroom”, Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Washington, DC, October 2010[4] J. Sharp, “Interview Skills Training in the Chemical Engineering Laboratory: Transporting a Pilot Project”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2008[5] J. Sharp, “Behavioral Interview Training in Engineering Classes”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, June 2012[6] E. Glynn and F. Falcone, “Professional Development for
Paper ID #28761Teaching concepts of ’scale-up’ from chemistry to chemical engineeringusing process flow diagrams (Resource Exchange)D’Andre Jermaine Wilson-Ihejirika P.Eng., BrainSTEM Alliance D’Andre Wilson-Ihejirika completed her B.Eng in Chemical Engineering at McGill University and her MASc. from the Centre for Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship (CMTE) at the University of Toronto. She worked for several years as a Professional Chemical Engineer in the Athabasca Oil Sands, before taking a Project Management role in Research & Innovation at York University. D’Andre is the founder the STEM education consulting
- versity of Chicago, 2018). His humanities scholarship has appeared in the journals Interdisciplinary Stud- ies in Literature and Environment, Environmental Humanities, Resilience and elsewhere orcid.org/0000- 0002-4526-6094). From 2013-2015, Dr. Emmett served as Director of Academic Programs at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany. He has taught humanities courses in interdisciplinary programs at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Ludwig-Maximilians- Universit¨at in Munich. He holds a Ph.D. in English (University of Wisconsin) and is a certified Project Management Professional.Dr. Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Homero
Clemson University. She has over ten years of construction and civil engineering experience working for energy companies and as a project management consultant. Dr. Simmons has extensive experience leading and conducting multi-institutional, workforce-related re- search and outreach. She is a leader in research investigating the competencies professionals need to compete in and sustain the construction workforce. Dr. Simmons oversees the Simmons Research Lab (www.denisersimmons.com), which is home to a dynamic, interdisciplinary mix of graduate researchers and postdoctoral researchers who work together to explore human, technology and society interactions to transform civil engineering education and practice with an
used by students in their lab reports relate to their comprehension oftheory? The objective of this research project is to investigate the connections between studentselection of information sources and the comprehension of theory in an engineering lab course.The results will provide instructors with a tool that provides multiple aspects and qualities toexamine when assessing the information sources students use in an engineering lab course.This study examined the types of information sources that students cited in their lab reports byfour facets that include format, author, editorial process, and publication purpose and comparedthem with a disciplinary evaluation of their technical reports. Classification of these facets wasbased on a
rewarded with a Nintendo Labo VR kit with the successful completion of his or herworkshop. Lessons learned from these workshops including the need of increasing the durationof the workshops and feedback from the participants are also included in this paper, and will beemployed in improving these workshops. The workshops will also be offered at the elementaryschool level and utilized in other outreach events such as Carnegie Science Center Sci-TechFestivals and the National Engineers Week events. The paper is concluded with future possibleoutreach project ideas, based on the technical programming content and ability of NintendoSwitch development environment and the Labo VR kits.Introduction and Literature ReviewNintendo Switch development
evaluations for projects ranging from consumer products to power systems. As a consultant she worked with over 75 different clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Prof. Wodin-Schwartz is passionate about teaching core engineering and critical thinking skills that apply to application driven problem solving. She is excited to work with students to help them understand not only the technical skills required of them as engineers but also the social, environmental, and physical implications of implementing technical engineering solutions. Her work with adding context to problems and projects her courses has lead her to receive teaching awards including the Russell M. Searle and Morgan Distinguished
thiscourse for their professional engineers and scientists, we were confident that the content of thiscourse would have value for engineering and science students.Figure 1. Timeline of actions that we took to build and develop the online resources. The items in blue representsteps we took to test our online resources. The items in green represent responses to those tests. The item in whiterepresents our initial innovation. Nothing significant occurred on the project in December 2019. Our starting point for the online resources (our initial innovation) closely followed thepopular textbook [3], with ten lessons representing the ten chapters and four supplementarylessons following the book’s four appendices. To create the films, we used a film
for engineering educators by providing atransferable, easy-to-implement reflection activity that can be implemented in any engineeringcourse that includes a presentation assignment.Reflection to Enhance Learning and AssessmentReflection as a teaching approach is becoming increasingly recognized in engineering education[1, 2], where it is often used to promote cognitive development and can help students learn morefrom projects, internships, and other educational experiences [3-7]. For example, a common in-class reflective activity is the “exam wrapper”: shortly after an exam, students articulate whatthey did that helped them do well on the exam and what they could do differently to improvetheir performance on a future exam.Recently, reflection
motivation to learning through domain-based problems[23]. One way proposed in literature [22] for bringing computational activities to students is byembedding them within STEM coursework that students are already required to take. We believethat engaging students through their existing STEM courses is a strategy that is much more likelyto succeed in increasing the interest and appeal of computational thinking.In another study [21] experimental activities related to statistics and mathematical projects keptstudents motivated and actively engaged in the process of learning, problem solving anddeveloping a better intuition for understanding complex mathematical concepts. The majority ofstudents appreciated this hands-on experience as a useful one, not
program, aninterdisciplinary team of faculty created a new minor in Applied Computing for Behavioral andSocial Sciences. A large number of diverse students are studying behavioral and social sciences,and the ability to model human behaviors and social interactions is a highly valuable skill set inour increasingly data-driven world. Applied Computing students complete a four-coursesequence that focuses on data analytics and includes data structures and algorithms, data cleaningand management, SQL, and a culminating project. Our first full cohort of students completed theApplied Computing minor in Spring 2019. To assess the success of the minor, we conductstudent surveys and interviews in each course. Here, we focus on survey data from the
learning, and support them in developing an intellectual identity”[12]. Students are also introduced to the biomedical engineering field and encouraged early on tobecome part of the BME community at Georgia Tech. Students complete nine focused reflectionassignments as part of our work toward teaching reflection as an engineering skill andscaffolding the students ability to reach the levels of reflection/critical reflection described byKember et al. [13]. Additionally, reflection is incorporated into the design projects anddiscussions throughout the course. BMED1000 was designed and piloted during the 2018-19academic year and is now running at full scale as a required course for entering biomedicalengineering majors. At the end of BMED1000
from an internal grant opportunity by a group ofalumna and friends of WPI to support women in STEM [1]. In the very first iteration of theprogram, the goal was to enable high school women to engage in hands-on STEM research instate of the art research laboratories under the guidance of women graduate student role modelsfor a semester (10-12 weeks).By having the research projects supervised by graduate students, we did not have to burdenfaculty members (although they needed to approve their graduate student’s participation in theprogram) and the graduate students had opportunity to develop their skills in scoping a shortresearch project and mentoring younger students. Furthermore, to compensate the graduatestudents for their time and effort, a
Clean Water through Chemical Engineering 4. Teachers Notes presentation slides a. Mechanical filtration background info (separation of cornmeal from water) b. Chemical filtration background info (removal of food coloring from water) c. Mechanical filtration experiment setup tutorial d. Chemical filtration experiment setup tutorialReferences1. Baldwin, J. Service Learning Project In Brazil: From Concept To Reality. ASEE AnnualConference, 2006.2. Pumphrey, S., Hoessle, A., Oerther, D. Service Learning At Cincinnati: Researching WaterTreatment For Emerging Economies. ASEE Annual Conference, 2006.3. Dacunto, P., Varriano, V. R., Ko, J. Project-based Learning in the Developing World: Designof a Modular
opportunity to lead a Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Principles of Engineering (PoE) course which is a project-based learning survey of the engineering discipline. Since the Summer of 2015 I have been privileged to work with the Texas A and M Sketch Recognition Lab (TAMU SRL) to evaluate two online tutorial tools (Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS)) currently under development, Mechanix and Sketchtivity, that provide immediate constructive feedback to the students and student-level metrics to the instructors. I presented on this work at the state and national PLTW Conventions and at CPTTE in 2016. I also spent 5 semesters beginning the Fall of 2015 in online courses learning how to construct and deliver online courses
was designed as part of a funded project tooffer a classroom experience that bridges the standard mechanical engineering or engineeringtechnology theoretical curriculum with the military experiences of the veterans so that theydevelop interest in engineering research and pursue an advanced degree in graduate programs.The second goal is to expose non-veteran engineering undergraduate students to various militarytechnologies and their defense applications and increase their knowledge and interest in defenseindustry employment. Based on these two goals, the class topics were broken down into twoareas: Military Technology Applications and Research Tools. The course was developed andoffered as a technical elective for all engineering undergraduate
institutions), while other, often newer, programs like biomedical (BME) and environmental(ENV) reach near parity in some schools. BME and ENV are often viewed as “helping”disciplines, which suggests why they may be more appealing to women students. Researchconducted as a means of evaluating a NSF project to attract more women to engineering showsthat young women are attracted to “helping” disciplines within engineering2. Anecdotal evidencefrom one institution suggests adding a “helping” discipline may be associated with a decline inthe proportion of women in a related traditional discipline (that is, the new disciplines mayattract women already in the engineering pipeline, rather than attracting women to engineeringwho would not otherwise be enrolled
activity for Applied Mechanics courses. She is coordinator and advisor for capstone projects for Engineering Technology.Kevin Frank, Drexel University Drexel University student studying Mechanical Engineering Technology. Currently on CO-OP and work- ing on the Unity3D implementation portion of this project.Ms. Ayanna Elise Gardner, Drexel University After graduating with her associate’s degree in Engineering Technology from Delaware County Commu- nity College in 2018, Ayanna transferred to Drexel University to continue her undergraduate career. Her interest in the hands-on applications of the Engineering Technology field was sparked during her time as an organizational-level helicopter mechanic for the United States
Paper ID #31052Let’s get ethical: Incorporating ”The Office” and engaging practicesinto an ethics module for capstone studentsDr. Joshua Gargac, University of Mount Union Joshua Gargac is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, OH, where he advises the mechanical engineering senior capstone projects and SAE Baja team. In addition, Dr. Gargac teaches first-year engineering courses, computer-aided design, kinematics and dynamics of machinery, design of machine elements, and manufacturing science. He received his BSME from Ohio Northern University and a PhD in
to health and safetyrisks, applicable standards, and economic, environmental, cultural and societal considerations”[2]. This definition has many similarities to the ABET definition [3]. Examples of the renewedfocus on engineering design can be found in many programs. These include the EngineeringDesign and Practice Sequence at Queen’s University aiming to create a four-year designsequence across all engineering programs [4]. Another example is the project-based spiralcurriculum implemented at Worcester Polytechnic Institute [5]. At the University of BritishColumbia undergraduate students have a general first-year program and then apply toengineering majors for their second-year of study. In the first-year engineering program, there isa two
Paper ID #29493Examining the Connection Between Student Mastery Learning Experiencesand Academic MotivationCara Mawson, Rowan University Cara is a graduate student pursuing her Ph.D. in Experiential Engineering Education (ExEEd) at Rowan University. Her research focuses on the relationship between gamification and motivation in undergrad- uate engineering students. Previously she earned a B.S. in Physics where she performed research in biophysics, astrophysics, and cosmology. In addition, she has taught science, computer science, and technology through Project Lead The Way at a middle school in Phoenix, Arizona.Dr. Cheryl
been no attempt previously to understand whether there is anyagreement across BME about what type of computing is important. While many universitiesoffer elective courses in computer programming that can expand students’ knowledge, thepresent project was done to determine the frequency of requiring different types of programmingcourses, and whether generalizations can be made about the state of undergraduate BMEeducation in this respect. Required computer courses for BME students can be assigned toseveral categories: 1) MATLAB, 2) object-oriented programming (e.g. Python, C++), 3)programming of microcontrollers for on board sensing or control of electromechanical devices,4) computer-aided design (CAD), sometimes used in conjunction with
werestereotypes based on the “double bind” of being a woman of color in engineering and leadership[12]. Finally, being unable to be authentic was also prevalent among the students of color in thisstudy. For example, a Latina woman discussed how she tailored her behavior when performingher leadership duties: “The way I converse, definitely a male thing. Because I definitely talk a littlebit differently when I'm with family and people I know very well.” Thus, failing to includeracialized and gendered experiences may overlook factors that can act as stressors on the leadershipexperiences and development of engineering students.AcknowledgementFunding for this project was provided by the National Science Foundation under grant EEC-ENG1738132. The views
. just communicate, just um, have a little bit problem.”Making Experiences of interactions and “In engineering especially, it is soFriends relationships with U.S students. hard to get close with people because you start talking to them and the subject just does not get any deeper.”Working in Academic experiences in “I was in high school we write ourTeams collaborating with U.S. peers in group paper by our own, and when I go here projects
ca- reers in engineering and technological disciplines. She has presented at numerous conferences throughout the United States and was an invited speaker at the international Gender Summit in Belgium in 2016.Wendy Robicheau Wendy has been Project Manager with the College of Technology – Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing since 2012. In that time she has developed a passion for making middle and high school students, faculty and counselors aware of the educational and career pathways that are possible in STEM and manufacturing through various outreach programs. She enjoys organizing outreach initiatives such as student symposiums, counselor workshops, and any other opportunities to spread the word
modules outside of class required extra work, it is not surprising that a significantproportion of students did not want more courses with integrated e-learning modules. Table 4 Average Student Ratings of e-Learning Modules Would you like to The instructor The assignment learn more reinforced what or the project I found professional skills you learned in was effective in the e
resume.Three students indicated a “Very high likelihood” of offering Candidate 2 an interview, while nostudents selected “Very low likelihood” for Candidate 2’s interview prospects. Candidate 2’sweighted mean evaluation was 3.44. When asked which traits stood out about Candidate 2,experience was again the most commonly included response, but the student evaluators alsoremarked on Candidate 2’s capstone project and programming language skills. Figure 3: Quantitative evaluation of Candidate 2 (“John”); N=16. Figure 4: Qualitative evaluation of Candidate 2 (“John”).Coding the qualitative traits assessment for each of the candidates highlights the disparity betweennon-technical and language skills for “Julie” vice