didn’t know that certain things needed to be done tofacilitate the building of a drone for agriculture. At the foundation of the capstone design is life-long learning and self-regulated learning. As the literature shows these skill sets are well suitedfor project-based curriculums. Students benefit from these problem-solving traits and ourgraduates are in demand in the local area manufacturing sector.As stated, this capstone requires research and knowledge in areas well outside the normal coursecurriculum for an engineering student. In doing this the students are forced toresearch/investigate best practices and design a drone for the purpose of agriculture research.During the course of study, opportunities to use drones for other purposes also
Engineering Education Assessment (i2e2a). In 2013, she became founder and owner of STEMinent LLC, a company focused on STEM education assessment and professional development for stakeholders in K-12 education, higher education, and Corporate America. Her research is focused upon the use of mixed methodologies to explore significant research questions in undergraduate, graduate, and professional engineering education, to integrate concepts from higher education and learning science into engineering education, and to develop and disseminate reliable and valid assessment tools for use across the engineering education continuum. American c Society for Engineering
Science.Dr. Susan Niki Ritchey, Texas A&M University Dr. S. Niki Ritchey is an Associate Professor of Practice at Texas A&M University. She earned BS and MS degrees in Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. She worked as a Research Engineering for Heat Transfer Research, Inc. conducting experimental research on condensation in heat exchangers. She currently teaches students how to program using Python in the first year engineering program. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: A Project-Based Learning Alternative for First Year Engineering StudentsAbstractSome
independently by the timethey graduate. Research in engineering education has demonstrated both the importance ofwriting in the engineering workplace and the extent to which new graduates struggle with thegeneric and rhetorical features of workplace writing [1], [2], [3]. The ME department establisheda committee of four engineers and one writing instructor to determine how better to preparestudents for writing in the curriculum and in their careers.As documented in a previous study, the committee first identified all of the courses in the MEcurriculum that included technical communication instruction. We then categorized thatinstruction by genre, including memos, presentations, reports, and technical drawings. Usingmemos as a starting point, we then
-winning mentors is the ability to establish and sustain a sense of challenge whilemaintaining meaningful engagement and a sense of achievement amongst students. This requiresan understanding of diverse student backgrounds, and can be transferred to other faculty via facultyconversations and mentoring.8 Undergraduate research is also a high impact practice for retainingstudents in the STEM disciplines.9 A review of nearly forty years of scholarship presents a complexportrait of the myriad factors that influence the undergraduate and graduate experiences of womenof color in STEM fields, providing guidance for advancing the status of women of color inSTEM.10 Best practices have been shown to succeed when transplanted to new universities.11,12This
Paper ID #30666A Systems Engineering Approach to Mentorship Program for Online Mili-taryand Veteran Engineering StudentsDr. Reza Rahdar, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Dr. Reza Rahdar, currently a full time faculty of the College of Aeronautics, have over 25 years of expe- rience in systems design/development, and engineering systems that include telecommunication systems and networks, Radio communications, air defenses systems, avionics systems, and Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS). Dr. Rahdar developed proficiency with systems engineering principles, pro- cess, and practices. He is an expert in taking
Paper ID #30904International Faculty Professional Development: Utilizing HybridEnvironments to Deepen Learning and Grow CommunityDr. Mary Slowinski, College of the Canyons Mary Slowinski is an educator/consultant specializing in educator-industry partnerships and collaborative learning research and design. She received her PhD in Learning Science from the University of Washing- ton with a dissertation on communities of practice for educators. Mary is PI and co-PI on National Science Foundation research and special project grants focused on industry/education partnerships. In addition, she has worked with several NSF
Paper ID #30515Implementation and Evaluation of Active Learning Techniques: AdaptableActivities for A Variety of Engineering CoursesDr. Jillian Schmidt, Missouri University of Science and Technology Dr. Jillian Schmidt is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She teaches primarily first and second- year engineering design courses, and her research interests include technology incorporation and team dynamics in project based courses.Dr. Nicolas Ali Libre, Missouri University of Science and Technology Nicolas Ali Libre, PhD
improve society, yet less than 100 people had read it. It felt like the effortwasn’t having the impact that I wanted. Further, there had been a couple of experiences atconferences in my professional field where other researchers dismissed or diminished ourgroup’s work. I was experiencing Imposter Phenomena9 episodes during conferences that hailedback to my days in graduate school. My students and I had recently received a scathing,unprofessional review for a manuscript10 and my satisfaction with the research treadmillplummeted, I came to the conclusion that I should instead focus on commercializing our workso that it didn’t remain buried in the literature and could be translated to improve society. Thesecond conclusion I came to was that if my
received her BS from Georgia Tech in 2006, double-majoring in Psychology and Management.Dr. Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Meltem Alemdar is Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist at Georgia Tech’s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC). Dr. Alemdar has experience evaluating programs that fall under the umbrella of educational evaluation, including K-12 educational curricula, K-12 STEM programs after-school programs, and comprehensive school reform initiatives. Across these evaluations, she has used a variety of evaluation methods, ranging from a multi-level evalua- tion plan designed to assess program impact to methods such as program monitoring
Biomolecular Engineering at NC State University where he teaches Senior Design, Material and Energy Balances, Unit Operations, Transport Phenomena and Mathematical/Computational Methods. He is the recipient of teaching and pedagogical research awards including the NCSU Outstanding Teacher Award, ASEE ChE Division Raymond W. Fahien Award and the 2013 and 2017 ASEE ChE Division Joseph J. Martin Awards for Best Conference Paper. Dr. Cooper’s research interests include effective teaching, process safety decision-making skills and best practices for online education.Dr. Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut Daniel Burkey is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Professor-in-Residence in the De- partment of
. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Understanding Design, Tolerating Ambiguity, and Developing Middle School Design Based LessonsAbstractWe have, over three years, developed a set of practices that helped move middle schoolmathematics, science, and special education teachers away from trepidation with engineeringdesign and toward comfort with ambiguity, confronting and reducing content knowledge gapsfor themselves and their students, and engaging a professional support network. Teachers needdeep understanding of the mathematics and science they will teach and knowledge of howstudents develop understanding of content, how to set significant learning goals, how to
for your attention. I am seeking your assistance, as director of the MET BS program at[Institution], with a research project to understand the role of and extract best practices for informationliteracy in ABET ETAC student outcome 3.g. ‘Ability to apply written, oral, and graphical communicationin both technical and non-technical environment; and an ability to identify and use appropriate technicalliterature.’I anticipate presenting the results at an upcoming ABET symposium and ASEE Annual Conference toshare best practices on addressing and assessing 3.g student outcomes.For the project, I would appreciate it if you could share the following information from your institution’smost recent ABET self-study: Criterion 4. Continuous
). She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University, a B.S. and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de las Americas, Puebla in Mexico. Rocio’s current efforts focus on engineering faculty and graduate student development, with particular emphasis on the adoption of evidence-based instructional practices. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Building a Safe Queer Community in STEM—It Takes a Village to Support a VillageIntroductionRecognizing the need to attract and retain talented individuals to Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) professions, the National Academies advocate
Internship Search ProcessAbstractThis research paper presents the findings from a study out of the University of Colorado Boulderfocused on using design thinking to improve internship search related resources and supports.The goals of the study were to 1) identify points of disconnect that students experience duringthe internship search process and 2) work collaboratively with student participants to identifyuseful, creative solutions. The identified points of disconnect can be viewed as potential points ofattrition, where students have the highest likelihood of dropping out of the internship searchprocess. By thinking strategically and creatively about how to address them, those points ofattrition can be converted into leverage points for positive
occupations engaged in developing sustainable communities,mostly in their role of creating practical solutions that enable communities to thrive.Nevertheless, research in the mid-2000s identified a need to address inadequacies in the technicaland generic skills of engineers needed to deliver sustainable communities. Generic engineeringcompetencies in this context are defined as attributes, competencies, or skills that are importantto graduates across all engineering disciplines. Communication and social skills are examples [3-4], but more broadly, the identified inadequacies represent gaps in project management andleadership skills needed to create and get buy-in for a community vision [5].Our work-in-progress explores how engineers develop awareness
focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering fos- ter or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering stu- dents’ identity development. She has won several awards for her research including the 2016 American Society of Engineering Education
that a value interest intervention may increase retentionfor students who receive a C in mathematics in their first semester at the J. B. Speed School ofEngineering. Curricular ways to improve interest in engineering include design-based learningexperiences, introducing current real-world engineering challenges, and connecting students topotential employers. Future work will include identifying or designing an interest interventionand measuring its impact with a controlled research design.In addition to designing an interest intervention for C-students, we plan to do several moreanalyses to get a better understanding of factors that influence retention at our engineeringschool. We will look in more detail at the relationship between test
managementcan become a challenge when issues occur. On one hand, current IT organizations are not well equippedto manage service overlays such as SaaS based solutions. On the other hand, SaaS based deliveryrelies on the good functioning of multiple management domains without cross domain visibility.In this paper we detail the work of designing and implementing a management platform for a conferencingservice launched by East Carolina University and distributed over multiple admin domains. The projectoffered a collaboration opportunity between students, graduate and undergraduate, from two distinctdepartments: Information and Computer Technology [1], and Computer Science [2]. The task assigned tothe team was to deploy a monitoring solution enabling
easternUnited States. The college has an Aviation Department that resides within a school that hasseveral technology and engineering programs. The Aviation Department has two degreeprograms accredited by the Aviation Accreditation Board International (AABI). These programsare a B.S. in Aeronautical Science – Professional Pilot, and a B.S. in Aviation Administration.The aviation administration program satisfies the criteria for what the AABI categorizes as anaviation management degree program. The graduates of the aviation administration program atthe college in this paper are typically interested in being hired for various levels of managementat airports and other aviation-based businesses located at or near airports. The intention of thispaper is to
AFB.Patricia Chaffey, University of Southern California Patricia Chaffey has had a passion for studying and designing interaction between humans and technology since her undergraduate career at Mount Holyoke College, and continues to pursue this interest at the University of Southern California. Some of her notable work includes developing a robotic learning companion and designing a simulation to study how people interact with swarms of robots using a virtual agent as an intermediary. Patricia has received awards to support her travel to conferences and leadership workshops, which include, but are not limited to, the 2018 ELIS Expanding Horizons award, and the 2017 Computing Research Association – Women Grace Hopper
Paper ID #30133Enlightened Education: Solar Engineering Design to Energize SchoolFacilitiesDr. Kenneth A. Walz, Madison Area Technical College Dr. Walz completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, while conducting electrochemical research on lithium-ion batteries with Argonne National Laboratory and Rayovac. His studies also included re- search with the University of Rochester Center for Photo-Induced Charge Transfer. Since 2003, Dr. Walz has taught science and engineering at Madison Area Technical College, where he serves as the director of the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education (CREATE
research projects. He has collaborated extensively with colleagues across the University on the design, analysis, and presentation of data from both surveys and experiments. He is a co-author on peer-reviewed publications and a co-PI on funded research projects each year. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses in statistical methods, regression analysis, statistical research design, and data analysis. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Towards Creating Motivationally Supportive Course Structures for Introductory CalculusAbstractThis paper reports the qualitative phase of a sequential explanatory mixed
designs and make revisions to improve them. Thismanner of effectively executing iterations of designs is conducive to an active and compellinglearning environment. In addition to communicating design concepts to others, rapid prototyping is also useful inverifying the feasibility of new design objectives. Through creating prototypes, students canexamine whether or not their designs operate as intended and might detect problems that wouldnot be apparent without a physical model. Thus, prototypes can be used for functional testing anddesign validation. [9]2. Course Design The course was designed with input from student staff of the Institute’s oldest student-runmakerspace, undergraduate and graduate research students, as well as recent
courses ranging from Intro to Civil & Environmental Engineering for first year students to a seminar on Profes- sional Practices and Ethics to seniors. He is also heavily involved with the online graduate program. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Integrating Ethics into the Curriculum through Design CoursesAbstractTo address shortcomings in traditional engineering ethics curriculum a series of assignmentswere integrated into a senior level steel design course. The goal of the ethics component beingintroduced in a steel design course was to improve student internalization of ethics curriculumthrough assignments that were relevant to the design class material and everyday
skills must be suited for the modern way of doing engineering and to the modernengineering business. One of the drivers for power engineering education at the graduate level isthe pertinence and excitement of research projects. However, the long term research work onmore difficult topics tends to be more motivational for graduate students and to encourageundergraduate students to pursue graduate studies in power and energy engineering. A full list ofgrand challenges is too expensive to produce, but a sampling below illustrates the types ofmaterial that excite and may serve to recruit) students. Among the new attractive research powerand energy areas are: conducting research to effectively develop and design commercial super-conductivity
CISTARcampuses that developed synergy between the University Program and the Pre-College Program.Program MentorsGraduate student mentors for all of these groups were CISTAR Graduate Fellows, a group ofstudent researchers who are supported through CISTAR to understand their impact on industryand the world by participating in professional development activities and a set of definededucational experiences. Mentoring university undergraduate students and high school studentsand teachers is a critical element of the CISTAR Graduate Fellow experience.Changes Made to Programs Based on Previous EvaluationAs the programs were developed for the second year of the center a series of design changeswere made in response to evaluation results and feedback from
) information for future space studyresearchers to use.Literature Review The focus of most studies on University spaces has been based on the studentengagement framework to explore the role of various study spaces on the university campus (e.g.[1], [2], [3], [4], [13]). Riddle and Souter [5] argued that current practices in designing studentstudy spaces ignore students’ perspectives and reproduce environments that are familiar but lesssuitable for active peer learning and learning supported by technologies that students prefer.Although many researchers have attempted to find the students’ perspectives through varioussurvey instruments, not many have used ethnographic surveys. A study by Harrop and Turpin[3], explored learners’ with photographic
the Electrophoresis.Mrs. Olivia Reynolds, Washington State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #30913 Second year chemical engineering doctoral student pursuing research on the development and dissem- ination of low-cost, hands-on learning modules displaying heat and mass transfer concepts in a highly visual, interactive format. Graduated from Washington State University with a B.S. degree in chemical engineering in 2017 and with an M.S. degree in chemical engineering in 2018.Katelyn Dahlke, University of Wisconsin - Madison Katelyn Dahlke received her B.S. in
impact practice.) With 90% or more of student respondentsindicating they have strengthened their desire to pursue an engineering degree, feel moreconnected to CSU Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering, and would recommend the SUREprogram to their fellow students, CSU has designated SURE as a high priority program tocontinue to fund in future years. While faculty input was not statistically significant, results didshow a strong interest in continued participation in the SURE program, with some faculty evenwilling to foot part of the bill for their SURE student in the future.Additional observations:While many students are willing to volunteer in research labs in order to get experience, bypaying the students for their research hours, SURE is