methods research designs for educational research.Dr. Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Ph.D., is Professor of Science and Engineering Education in the Department of Physics, Astronomy & Geosciences at Towson University. She has integrated engineering into courses for PreK-8 teacher candidates, developed and directed a graduate STEM program for PreK-6 teachers, and partnered with teachers to implement PreK-8 science-integrated engineering learning experiences. She has authored numerous engineering-focused teacher practitioner articles, chapters, and research articles, and presents her research regularly through the ASEE Pre-College Engineering Education Division, a division
funds for competitive education proposals, andrevising promotion and tenure requirements to emphasize education.Since curriculum reform is time-consuming, ECEN is actively recruiting graduatestudents for a joint teaching-research program to prepare Ph.D. students for academicpositions. Graduate students will be given opportunities to both teach classes anddevelop curricular materials in conjunction with more traditional research.Assessment: Measuring the impact on students and the programTo assess how emphasizing student development over knowledge acquisition affectsstudent learning, project evaluation is focused on three questions that reflect the maingoals of this project: 1) what are the gains and losses in student learning, particularly
those of prior years (Fig. 1). Graduation Rates For the incoming class of2004, the impact of EGR 101 on 6-year graduation rates is overwhelming (Fig. 2). Of thestudents who took EGR 101, 71% completed a bachelor's degree from Wright State University,and 52% completed theirdegrees in an engineeringor computer science(CECS) field. Thiscompared to rates of 40%and 15% for students whodid not take EGR 101.Based on tuition revenueassociated with increasedenrollment and graduationrates, the Wright Statemodel is now fullysustainable. Figure 2. Impact of EGR 101 on 6-Year Graduation RatesHighlights from a CCLI Phase 3 InitiativeA nationwide adoption
facilitate participation of a larger, more diverse student base.• Disseminate research products and findings to the broader engineering education community.II. MotivationA. The Lecture/Laboratory DisconnectIn curricula that teach EE concepts, hands-on laboratories that accompany circuit theory, signals& systems, and digital design courses are often scheduled separately, partly because textbooksoften adopt a written-work and software paradigm. Additionally, organizing students and topicsin laboratory-only environments is more efficient than interspersing hands-on assignments withlectures, so unless lecture and laboratory courses are paired, laboratories can be separated in timefrom their corresponding lecture material, making it difficult for
AC 2007-1192: SOPHOMORE YEAR IN CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTALENGINEERING AT ROWAN UNIVERSITY: INTEGRATION OFCOMMUNICATION, MECHANICS AND DESIGNWilliam Riddell, Rowan University William Riddell is an Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University. His research interests include design education, fatigue and fracture mechanics, transportation safety, and enegy efficiency. He is currently sophomore clinic coordinator for the college of engineering.Eric Constans, Rowan University Eric Constans is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Rowan University. His areas of interest include developing innovative techniques in engineering education and
best to reach out to the Wren’s intelligentaudience by engaging them in the experience of society’s encounter with technology through theages.This is a journey of emotional and intellectual importance, and your team’s music video shouldunderline The Wren’s thesis that societal and technological change does not occur in a smooth,linear or logical pattern, but rather in sometimes uncomfortable jolts.Bibliography[1] Vallino, James. 2003. Design patterns: Evolving from passive to active learning. Paper presented at 33rdASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Boulder, CO, http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2003/papers/1268.pdf.[2] Duffy, Thomas M., and Jamie R. Kirkley. 2004. Learner-centered theory and practice in distance education :Cases from
her early 30’s, educated as a special education teacher, and hadfacilitated 4-H classes for four years. Miss Sweet (code name) was a female of Pilipino descentin her mid-20’s and a recent STEM graduate. The third coordinator was a post-doc in scienceeducation conducting longitudinal research at the school. She did not attend every lesson.MethodsTo address our research questions, we utilized qualitative methods, often called interpretativephenomenological analysis (IPA)52,53 in engineering education, so we could best unveil andunderstand how students responded to empathy-infused lessons. Instruments included open-ended student surveys, lesson observations and coordinator interviews.Observations and interviews. Classroom observations and
Rock Ethics Institute where he is involved with ethics education and research on ethical leadership and decision-making and ethical organizational management.Eduardo Mendieta Eduardo Mendieta is professor of philosophy and acting director of the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State UniversityDr. Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University Thomas A. Litzinger is Director of the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State. His work in engineering education involves curricular reform, teaching and learning innovations, assessment, and faculty development. Dr. Litzinger has more than 50 publications related to engineering education
ABET‟s EC 2000.The paper then employs the historical perspective gained from this analysis to revisit thequestion of the relevance of engineering and liberal arts integration in the context of theoutcomes oriented approach to engineering education represented by ABET‟s EC 2000. Thispaper also serves as a historical introduction to a new initiative and educational research networkassembled by Deans Cherrice Travers and J. Douglass Klein at Union College for contemporaryexplorations in engineering and liberal education integration. Their efforts are also beingpresented at this year‟s conference.While the material presented here is also intended for publication in a historical journal, it iswritten up here in a way so as to provide practical
University: The mission of Stanford University’s d school (for design school) or, more formally, the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, is to enable students to be creative. Graduate students from all of Stanford divisions take courses. “Multi-disciplinary pools of teachers then immerse them in a system of innovative thinking, with specific goals for solving practical problems.”43 Key d school elements include a highly-flexible physical environment, interdisciplinary teams, and emphasis on constructing prototypes, as crude as they may be, in keeping with the “build to think” philosophy. According to David Kelley, the d school’s founder and leader, products created by the six-year old institute have
, student teams take aproduct from the concept stage to the manufacturing floor. In this course, lectures are rarelyused. Students are challenged to learn what they needed to accomplish their goals, rather thanhaving the instructors deliver all of the information that they might require. The fact that thestudents are working on their own product concepts may have had a positive influence on theirmotivation to learn as well. In a second course, at the graduate level, students are asked to “deepread” a technical paper related to the course. The students are given a methodology for deepreading a technical paper and are required to prepare a written evaluation of the paper. Themethodology is designed to assist the students in doing an “expert” level
served on two national industry standards groups and as core Team member, received two industry awards ”Cisco’s Optics Supplier of the Year” Award and ”IBM’s Quality Partner of the Year” Award. Dimitri is an Assistant Professor at Queensborough Community College (CUNY) and has a strong in- terests in leveraging instructional technology, Flipped Class Room Learning, and online student-centered pedagogy. He is a strong advocate of authentic industry partnering at several levels to enhance students’ job-readiness upon graduating. Dimitri’s recent research has been in Micro-Fluidics Systems for DNA sequencing applications. American c Society for Engineering
Professional Engineer in Wisconsin. His research interests include fiber reinforced polymer materials, accelerated bridge construction, and engineering education.Karl F. Meyer, U.S. Military Academy Colonel Fred Meyer is the Civil Engineering Division Director in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from USMA in 1984, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1993 and 2002, respectively. Fred has been a member of the USMA faculty for over eight years and teaches courses in basic mechanics, structural steel design, reinforced concrete design, and structural system design. He has served as a senior
agencies such as private industries and the foundations. She is also currently the immediate past National President of the National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program (NAMEPA); where her interest continues to be to develop partnerships for diversity. She has special research interest in the education of the underrepresented population in the STEM fields; focusing on teachers and students preparation, retention and persistence factors.Wraegen Williams PhD, University of Virginia Wraegen Williams completed her doctoral studies in Organic Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007. Currently, she is a Research Associate in the Center for Diversity in Engineering at the
a worthwhile endeavor for learning andmaintained positive beliefs about their skill development. However, the students’ perceptions ofthe course’s potential impact on personal values remained relatively the same. This suggests thatthe curriculum was effective considering its course outcomes. Ultimately, this paper provides anexample for curriculum design and evaluation that may help frame service-learning courses inthe future and encourage future research on attitude change in similar contexts.BackgroundIn 1979, Robert Sigmon defined service-learning as an educational approach reliant on“reciprocal education” achieved through interactions in the community [4]. Other early uses ofthe term described service-learning as a learning experience
AC 2012-5255: LESSONS LEARNED WITH TRANSATLANTIC UNDER-GRADUATE ENGINEERING DUAL DEGREE PROGRAMDr. Jan Helge Bohn, Virginia Tech Jan Helge Bohn is an Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech. He received his B.S. in computer science and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., in 1988, 1989, and 1993, respectively. Bohn’s research centers about geometric modeling, software engineering, and the engineering design process in a global context.Prof. Manfred J. Hampe, Technische Universitt Darmstadt Manfred J. Hampe is professor for thermal process engineering at the mechanical engineering depart- ment of Technische Universitaet
; Engineering Liv- ing Learning Community (LLC), Educating Engineering Students Innovatively (EESI) and Peer-Assisted Study Sessions (PASS). Dr. Caldwell also serves as the activity director for the Title III program Engi- neering Learning Community. Those collective programs have nearly doubled the first-year retention of underrepresented minorities at the college.Dr. Roxanne Hughes, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Dr. Roxanne Hughes is the Director of the Center for Integrating Research and Learning (CIRL) at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab). She has also directed the MagLab’s Diversity and Inclusion Programs from 2014 to 2019. She brings a breadth of experience in science teaching and infor
-judging (SJ) students prefer more conventional and traditional11 Pre-requisite for ECO-MGT 1 is Humanities and Social Science (HSS 101) and Freshman EngineeringDesign (FED 101). The HSS course is on writing skills, communications, and oral presentations and theFED class is an introductory design course taught with a practical “hands on” approach rather than thetraditional theoretical approach.12 For a number of students in the ECO-MGT I class, this was their first semester of college at NJIT.Previously, they were either in high school or were enrolled in a junior college. In such cases, we usedtheir high school GPA during their senior year or GPA of the courses taken in the junior college. We alsohave calculated an approximate GPA from
- ter resources engineering design and permitting. In addition to her corporate experience, Dr. Parks served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali, West Africa, supporting a local Non-Governmental Organization on water sanitation projects. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Classroom-based games for student learning and engagementAbstractIt is now generally accepted that active learning methods can help students learn material at adeeper level, and that students enjoy game-based learning. However, most game-based learningresearch has focused more on engagement benefits rather than learning, and many lackcomparison groups and details on procedures and assessment techniques. Research
early course on ”Mixer Selection, Scale-up and Design” was devel- oped into the Dow Mixing Manual and Mixing Course. Victor served for many years on the Executive Council of the North American Mixing Forum (NAMF), a division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). While in that capacity, he was invited to be co-editor as well as contributing author of several chapters of the world-acclaimed ”Handbook of Industrial Mixing: Science and Practice” published in 2004 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. In support of Dow’s commitment to achieving a diverse work force, Victor co-created the award-winning Building Engineering and Science Talent (BEST) Symposium at Dow to introduce doctoral and post-doctoral
Engineering Education Inno- vation Center, the First-Year program serves approximately 1,800 students annually in courses organized to ensure student success through rigorous academics in a team-based environment. His responsibilities include operations, faculty recruiting, curriculum management, student retention, and program assess- ment. Merrill received his Ph.D. in instructional design and technology from the Ohio State University in 1985, and has an extensive background in public education, corporate training, and contract research. He has made frequent presentations at conferences held by the American Society for Engineering Edu- cation (ASEE) and its affiliate conference Frontiers in Education (FIE). He is part of
AbstractThe National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program isspecifically designed to support workforce development that primarily takes place in technicianeducation programs offered at two-year colleges across the nation. Even so, NSF grant funding isinfrequently or never pursued by most two-year colleges even though there is a need for fundingto support high-cost, high-impact STEM programs. Since two-year colleges are focused onteaching vs. research, securing grants is seldom, if ever, required or recognized as important aspart of employee performance review, tenure, and promotion processes at these institutions. As aresult, technical/STEM faculty members typically do not have prior grant experience, nor dothey
over the last decade3.Industry, government, and education leaders continue to increase accountability in institutions ofhigher education4-7. Sustained reductions in the number of students interested in STEM forcesinstitutions of higher education to devise cost effective and outcome-rich strategies to recruit,retain, and graduate more students in the STEM disciplines8-9. Researchers continue to look forbest practices, or a combination of best practices, leading to greater student persistence. Leaderssupport faculty and student service staff in the creation of appropriate campus programming,such as learning communities and mentoring programs, to promote student success, increaseretention, and deepen student learning10-15.Learning communities
Inventors, the American Institute for Chemical Engineers, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.Valerie N Johnson Valerie N. Johnson has a doctorate in English literature and is the Managing Director of Dean’s Special Projects in the University of Michigan College of Engineering. At U-M since 2003, she helped launch Mcubed, a university-wide initiative that provides real-time seed funding for innovative research by interdisciplinary faculty teams, as well as the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID). She has won awards for her university teaching.Kaylee Smith Kaylee Smith has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a MS in Chemical Engineering from the
-signal circuits for biomedical applications.Mr. Tyler Sheaves, Intel Corporation Tyler Sheaves is a Ph.D. student at University of California, Davis and a graduate technical intern in the academic outreach division of Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group. In his position at Intel, he develops virtual FPGA-based learning applications and curriculum. In academia, his primary areas of research are hardware security, intellectual property protection, and digital integrated circuit design and verification. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Cloud Based Instruction Model for Electrical Engineering Courses – A Rapid Response To Enable Fully
developing their skills and interest in the STEM fields to ensuretheir success at the post-secondary level and beyond. The fundamental principles of E-CADEMY are based on a combination of best practices from research including: a project-basedlearning (PBL) curriculum, high dosage model, cohort of like-minded peers, engagement withSTEM professionals, and family engagement [4]-[8]. This paper provides an overview of theprogram’s component, student feedback and program model future considerations.II. Program Overview Project SYNCERE has provided equitable hands-on engineering experiences for morethan 20,000 underrepresented students in grades three through twelve since 2011. The goal of theorganization’s work is to create pathways for
Engineering from NITK, Surathkal, India. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY. She is serving as a research assistant under an NSF-funded DR K-12 project.Dr. Sheila Borges Rajguru, New York University Dr. Sheila Borges Rajguru is the Assistant Director at the Center for K12 STEM Education, NYU Tandon School of Engineering. As the Center’s STEM Educator and Researcher she works with engineers and faculty to provide professional development to K12 science and math teachers. In addition, she conducts studies that looks at embedding robotics and technology in K12 schools. As a former Adjunct Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and
The research team is author’s Johnson, Josiam, and Lee. As a research team, ourindividual positionalities impacted our interest in this research topic and how we view the SBP.Namely, for this study, we believe it is important to highlight our prior experiences with thecontext as suggested by works on positionality in engineering education research by Hampton etal. [20] and Secules et al. [21]. The research team for this study consists of individuals with arange of proximity to the SBP and students at the center of this study. Lee directed the SBP formany years during their time in graduate school and now serves as the Director of Research inthe DEP that hosts the SBP. Johnson has worked with the University DEP as a graduate assistantas well
EVANS is a Post Doctoral Fellow and Research Associate in the Evaluation Services center, College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Ohio, USA. Page 14.80.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 A NSF-Supported S-STEM Scholarship Program for Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Ethnic and Women Students in Engineering AbstractThis paper describes a scholarship project, funded by the National Science Foundation’s S-STEM Program, to enhance recruitment of underrepresented
critical examination of existing programs andpolicies and their impact on the academic and social experience of Latino/a/e students[2].Servingness is a term used to describe and qualify efforts in education to serve Latino/a/estudents [2]. Based on a comprehensive systematic review of HSI research, García, Núñez, andSansone [3] define servingness a multidimensional concept meant to assess how an institutionsupports the development of Latina/o/e students beyond degree completion. Rather, trueservingness centers the development of both disciplinary and cultural identities. Structures ofServingness describe the different support systems that shape the experiences of Latino/a/estudents.Given the rapid increase of Latino/a/e students going to college