. IntroductionThis evidence-based paper assesses strategies for Research Experience for Undergraduates(REU) social program success. REU programs typically bring together students from across thecountry – or even around the world – to a university campus for the summer. While at thisuniversity, the students learn how to conduct real research in their discipline by actually doing it,under the supervision of a faculty mentor. Giving students exposure to conducting bona fideresearch allows them to determine whether they may be interested in pursuing a research career(and, to support this, continuing on to graduate-level education).Many students who participate in REU programs remember these programs long after theprogram is complete. The initial experience
sustainable exchangemechanism for people-to-people and cultural exchanges in the engineering technology field,and the failure of the exchanges to effectively interact among university-industry’ platformsas well as universities are weak in helping enterprises to promote Chinese engineeringstandards. Therefore, we propose a bilateral and multilateral mixed exchange mechanismwith government-led and multi-agents’ participation, integrating platform resources amonguniversity-industry, strengthening the promotion of China’s engineering standards, andimproving and studying China’s engineering standards.INTRODUCTIONInterconnection, production capacity cooperation, and people-to-people and culturalexchanges are the three pillars of the Belt and Road
Paper ID #29977Student Perspectives on Navigating Engineering PathwaysDr. Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Atsushi Akera is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY). He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania. His current research is on the history of engineering education reform in the United States (1945-present). He is a the current Chair of the ASEE Ad Hoc Committee on Interdivisional Cooperation; Chair of the International Network for
mental models [18]; Understanding [17]. Adaptation4.3.1 Dimension #1: IdentificationCDTL’s identification dimension assesses students’ readiness for team formation, which iscritical to the successful completion of the project and the maximization of team learning [23].Self-assessment of self-regulation strategies is the building block of this dimension.4.3.2. Dimension #2: FormationIn this CDTL dimension, team members start to participate in a cooperative and collaborativeprocess of team formation and functioning [18]. The team members move from individualproject goals to defining team goals, and as such, utilize the expertise of individual teammembers toward project work. Many constructs are used by researchers to measure thisdimension
, NRC, NASA and NSF, and generated over 50 journal and conference papers.Dr. Showkat Chowdhury, Alabama A&M University Dr. Showkat Chowdhury is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, AL. Dr. Chowdhury has extensive background in teaching undergraduate and graduate students in Mechanical Engineering, and performing research in the fields of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Pedagogy, Renewable Energy, Nano-Technology, Heat & Mass Transfer, and Com- bustion. He is managing multi-million dollar external research grants from NSF as PI. Previously, he worked as a Professor at Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) and at University
of New Mexico. Her research interests focus on computer-supported collaborative learning, learning sciences, online learning, and educational equity for multicultural/multiethnic education.Dr. 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 reached at pilkang@unm.eduKristen Ferris, University of New Mexico Kristen Ferris is a doctoral student at the University of New Mexico’s Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences program. Her research interests include change management and organizational citi- zenship behavior. She also is staff at
to grow at a faster rate than the demand for qualified graduates inother occupations. Despite the value and increasing necessity of STEM skills within today’ssociety and the 21st century workforce, substantial numbers of Americans still do not have equalaccess to postsecondary STEM education and, thus, have limited opportunities for STEM-relatedemployment and careers [4].Along with unequal access to STEM degree programs, researchers report stark differencesbetween traditional and nontraditional undergraduate enrollment and degree attainment in STEM,wherein nontraditional students consistently fare worse. Chen and Weko [5] found it was atypicalfor students who were older, financially self-supporting, or from low socio-economicbackgrounds to
Smart Environments for assisted living: a multidisciplinary collaboration in engineering and architecture educationAbstractThis paper presents a description of a collaborative project-based on the integration oftechnology development in the built environment for assisted living. The multidisciplinarycollaboration is developed as a cooperative commitment to provide support for cross-border,collective projects. It was initiated as a project based learning setting between undergraduateengineering students, and four years later the program shifted to include undergraduatearchitecture students and engineering master’s students. The learning experience opens the gateto a completely new collaborative setting, yet to be established
positiveattitude during their collaboration activities. The data set was provided by the Shark Lab at CSULong Beach and we gratefully acknowledge the support we received from the shark expertsthere, in particular the director, Dr. Chris Lowe, and Graduate Student, Patrick Rex. References1. M. LaalSeyed, and M. Ghodsi (2012) “Benefits of collaborative learning” Elsevier Proceedings - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 31, Pages 486-490.2. E.F., Barkley, K.P. Cross, and C.H. Major (2005). Collaborative learning techniques: A handbook for college faculty. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.3. D.W Johnson, R. Johnson, and K. Smith (1998). Active learning: Cooperation in the college classroom. Edina, MN: Interaction Book Company.4. D. Kantor (2010
sandwich (cooperative) principle of integrated periods of study and trainingin industry. The most popular was six months in industry followed by six months in collegein each of four successive years [4].A requirement of the NCTA was that all students for their diplomas should have participatedin programs of liberal study. This was reinforced in 1957 by a government edict that extendedthe idea of compulsory liberal studies to all levels of technical education even though muchof it was part time study [5]. By 1962 it was seen that the development of literacy, that is theability to read and write, was essential for the general education of all students. Thus, it wasthat in those colleges the term Liberal Studies came to be substituted by General
researchers, the amount of storage space was not the issue of concern, but rather it wasthe organization of the datasets that posed a logistical challenge. One faculty member mentionedthat neither they nor their associated graduate students or collaborative researchers have theskills, resources, and time available to organize data in a meaningful way. For some AE faculty,such an organization project would not be worth the effort anyway: “[If] we think the data's not really going to be used, and we're the only ones who's going to use it, that's a lot of effort to go to make all that information and organize it and then it's a waste of time if no one does it. So in the short term aspect to us, it doesn't help us. Too labor
culture, some students were able to thrive, while others’ low levelsof self-efficacy prevented them from having successful experiences. Since most REU studentsworked individually, opportunities for mutual support among research teams were not developed.This project determined to create research experiences that would address these issues. With aPBL approach in mind, engineering faculty members recruited students with a variety of STEMbackgrounds to work collaboratively on a complex problem in transportation engineering. Theresearch was intended to be a collaborative effort among students to reach their common goal.This paper has described the REU as it has developed over two years.During the first year of the project (summer 2018), the eight
students. In 2018 and 2019, she collaborated with Dr. Kavitha Chandra to utilize participatory action research (PAR) as an evaluation approach for the Research, Academics, and Mentoring Pathways (RAMP) summer program for first-year female engineering students.Prof. Kavitha Chandra, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Kavitha Chandra is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Professor of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering in the Francis College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She directs the Research, Academics and Mentoring Pathways (RAMP) to Success program that aims to estab- lish successful pathways to graduate school and interdisciplinary careers for new undergraduate students
lecture.IntroductionThis research paper explores the ways in which engineering postdoctoral scholars describe theappeal of pursuing a career in the professoriate. Scholarship concerning engineering careertrajectories presently lack the depth necessary to understand the arc of the career from student topostdoctoral scholar to professor (Jaeger et al., 2017; St. Clair et al., 2017; Su, 2013). Aninvestigation of this trajectory is critical for those invested in increasing the number ofunderrepresented minorities (URMs; African American, Latinx, and Native American) andwomen entering the professoriate and earning tenure. Researchers have found postdoctoraltraining is crucial for a scholar’s productivity and ability to compete for professorships (Andalibet al., 2018
onlineinstruction is video and/or reading based with little or no interaction among the students andinstructors. This has potential negative effects on: collaborative learning, instructor facilitation,and a student’s ability to seek and receive help in the moment [43]. Further, opportunities foractive learning and interactive experiences are limited due to lack of access to labs, equipment,and learning environments specifically designed for interactive learning [44]. There are alsominimal opportunities to explore the ‘hidden curriculum’ [45] and support students’development in areas other than technical content, such as participating in mentoring and thedevelopment of social capital, one of the keys to recruiting and retaining low-income, racial orethnic
-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Julianna Ge is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. At Purdue, she created and taught a novel course for undergraduate engineering students to explore the intersec- tions of thriving, leadership, diversity and inclusion. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, her research interests intersect the fields of engineering education, positive psychology, and human development to understand diversity, inclusion, and success for undergraduate engineering students. Prior to Purdue, she received dual bachelor’s degrees in Industrial Engineering and Human Development and Family Stud- ies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Team building & common purpose 5.80 5.74 NA 5.89 5.57H https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/G https://globeproject.com/study_2004_2007?page_id=data#dataNA = Saudi Arabia not among the 24 countries surveyed in the GLOBE projectThese global cultural frameworks provide insights regarding teamwork and caution againstsingular analysis of “international students”. Previous research on teamwork has been groundedin global cultural dimensions [e.g. 28-30]. Based on this research, one can posit potentialscenarios. For example, the uncertainty avoidance characteristic of Hofstede may indicate thatMiddle Eastern students will be less comfortable engaging in an open-ended design project oroverly rely on objective
the sciences.Dr. Jean S Larson, Arizona State University Jean Larson, Ph.D., is the Educational Director for the NSF-funded Engineering Research Center for Bio- mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics (CBBG), and Assistant Research Professor in both the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment and the Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation at Arizona State University. She has a Ph.D. in Educational Technology, postgraduate training in Computer Systems Engineering, and many years of experience teaching and developing curriculum in various learning environments. She has taught technology integration and teacher training to undergrad- uate and graduate students at Arizona State University
, as well as different age groups or ethnicities.Summer Engineering ProgramThis paper discusses a Department of Education-funded , GEAR UP project aimed at increasinginterest in STEM for middle and high school students and to prepare them for college. Thesummer program targets 6 to 12th grade students with a focus on students from underrepresentedminorities to participate in the project.The focus is on the evaluation of the pilot year of a summer engineering program wheresecondary students performed engineering activities in collaboration with engineering researchfaculty, as well as graduate and undergraduate students in various engineering fields. Studentsattending the camp had just completed 7th grade. Because of the intense nature of the
changethe market dynamics of CAD design through revitalization of the design curriculum. Thoughuniversities currently exhibit full design cycles across a variety of courses spread out in differentsemesters, it could be of major benefit for universities to integrate student extracurricular designteams as a part of the engineering curriculum. The ingrained collaboration required in designteams, as well as the cross-disciplinary interaction of students, academic mentors/advisors andindustry sponsors, is the most realistic analogue to the full end-to-end design cycle currentlypresent in an academic setting. In addition, since the competitive aspect of design competitionsto create superior designs push students to explore new/creative design avenues
Paper ID #30777Fostering inclusion and teaching equity in a Modern Physics forEngineers courseDr. Jessica R Hoehn, University of Colorado Boulder Dr. Jessica R. Hoehn is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Colorado Boulder. She received her PhD in Physics Education Research from CU, studying ontological, epistemological, and social aspects of student reasoning in quantum mechanics. Dr. Hoehn’s current research interests include connections between epistemology and group work in learning physics, the role of writing in lab classes, and students’ epistemological views about experimental physics. Generally, Dr. Hoehn
hasstrengthened the integration of government, universities, research institutes, and industryenterprises. The joint participation of many stakeholders has brought a large-scale,multi-layered and comprehensive educational reform. The Outstanding Engineers Plan has avery important role as a model and guidance for higher education in cultivating talents tomeet social needs, adjusting the structure of talent cultivation, improving the quality oftalents cultivation, promoting educational reform, and enhancing graduates’ employability.One important feature of the Outstanding Engineers Plan is “in-depth participation ofindustries and companies in the whole educating and training process”. The OutstandingEngineers Plan regards school-enterprise cooperation as
Paper ID #29351The Relationship between Teamwork and Innovation Outcomes in anEngineering Thermal Science Course: An Entrepreneurial MindsetSimulationMs. Thien Ngoc Y Ta, Arizona state university Thien Ta is a doctoral student of Engineering Education Systems and Design at Arizona State University. She obtained her B.S., and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. She has taught for Cao Thang technical college for seven years in Vietnam. She is currently a graduate research associate for the Entrepreneurial Mindset initiative at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Her doctoral research focuses on
University as a research assistant. His research interests include designing specialized hardware to accelerate applications on advanced FPGA platforms, developing network and communication algorithms on modern USRP/SDR platforms and prototyping ultra-low power nodes for IoT applications. Currently his main focus is on power consumption and performance optimizations for mmWave and THz communications. As part of the ’COSMOS educational team’, he designs exciting and interactive problem-based STEM learning experiences for K–12 students and teachers. The team organized a teacher professional development program, using wireless communications and NGSS to create hands-on engineering lessons and promote STEM. He was part of one
students. Participants from the students’ homecommunities indicated that there were few opportunities for students to learn more aboutengineering careers and provided suggestions for how colleges and universities could be moreinvolved with students from their community. Phase 3, scheduled for Spring 2020, will bring thefindings from Phases 1 and 2 back to rural communities via two participatory design workshops.These workshops, designed to share our findings and foster collaborative dialogue among theparticipants, will enable us to explore factors that support or hinder transfer of findings and toidentify policies and strategies that would enhance each community’s ability to supportengineering as a potential career choice.Project OverviewDespite
experience working on collaborative teams, particularly with students of other disciplines.Educators might incorporate industry collaborative organizational structures, but while there aresome aspects of collaboration used in industry that faculty can incorporate, often those modelsare complicated by the need to achieve academic goals. The potential benefits ofinterdisciplinary teamwork include development of communication skills and the incorporationof and exploration of a multi-layered, more creative solution from different viewpoints, whichneed to be balanced with students’ acquiring and incorporating new material and carving time forassignments that demonstrate student outcomes for accreditation. As the College of Engineering,Architecture, and
non-technical skills, the dataalso shows a slight change from ‘extremely important’ reasons and ‘somewhat important’reasons in two categories related to workplace learning, specifically: (1) gainingtechnical/engineering skills and (2) learning how to be a leader in the dynamic workplace. Thissuggests that by participating in the bootcamp and working together with cross-cultural teammembers in assigned projects, some students recognized that success of the projects depends notonly on the technical skills but also on how well they communicate their ideas to othercolleagues and how cooperative they are in accepting other opinions as well.Learning and ExpectationsFigure 6 shows that among the expectations that were ‘extremely important’ for
collaborationwith elementary school professionals measure the success of these goals. Collaborators includestudents and faculty from a college level civil and environmental engineering class and student,faculty, and administrators from two different elementary schools. Research is conducted withelementary school students and teachers and college faculty and students enrolled in specifiedcommunity-based learning and research courses at Lafayette College. These courses are part ofLandis Center for Community Engagement-sponsored program, Connected Classrooms.Connected Classrooms partnerships pair college classrooms with elementary school classrooms.College faculty and elementary school faculty collaboratively determine where the academiccontent of their
building up the next-generation engineers.Takuma Odaka, Kogakuin University I am a graduate student of the mechanical engineering program at Kogakuin university. My research interest; Educational Engineering, Physiological Psychology, Team Working, Team Education, Behavior Analysis. I specialize in creating measurement systems and analyzing data using languages such as Python and MATLAB. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Toward Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Japan: Developing Team-based Learning Experience and Its AssessmentAbstractOver the last ten years, the Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education (JABEE) hasincreasingly emphasized the importance of
Character Development for Rhodes Scholars. He is currently working with the Wake Forest Department of Engineering to integrate character into the undergraduate curriculum and leading a university-wide program to educate ethical leaders.Alana Demaske, Wake Forest University Alana Demaske is a second year graduate student at the Wake Forest University Department of Psy- chology. Her research focuses on personality factors related to well-being, including character, personal growth initiative, and psychological needs satisfaction.Mr. Carlos Santos, Wake Forest University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020