University (Tech.) Dr. Radian Belu is an assistant professor within the Engineering Technology program at Drexel Uni- versity in Philadelphia. He holds the second position as research assistant professor at Desert Research Institute–Renewable Energy Center at Reno, Nev. Before Drexel University, Dr. Belu held faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and the United States. He also worked for several years as a project manager and senior consultant. He has taught and developed undergraduate and graduate courses in electronics, power systems, control and power electronics, elec- tric machines, instrumentation, radar and remote sensing, numerical methods and data analysis
programdevelops academic, research, and local experiences for the group of participating students. As aresult, both institutions' collaborations at the research level are expected, promoting futuresimilar programs at the graduate level as well. The program is interdisciplinary, allowing forcollaboration between different engineering disciplines while addressing the same technicalissue. The collaboration assumes culture and knowledge combined can create the type ofintegrated environment best suited for research. The topic of renewable energy will be exploredand studied, and also examined through lenses designed for sustainable innovations. Page 19.9.4All
conduct research and seek for investigating the best practice, includingconceptual update, structural optimization, pattern innovation, quality assurance, and categoricaldevelopment along with the expected outcomes [4], [7]. In all, the three-stage policy documents depict the directions and guidelines of theChinese reformation of engineering education. The main goal of NEE is expressed as “activelydeploy, set up, and construct engineering disciplines and majors that serve national strategies,meet industry needs, and face future development, and cultivate a group of various cross-composite excellent engineering and scientific talents with innovative and entrepreneurialcapabilities, cross-border integration capabilities, and high-quality [2
library. These units,created by engineering graduate students and reviewed by engineering faculty, are user-friendlymaterials for K-12 teachers, designed to impact K-12 student’ science and mathematicsknowledge and their awareness of engineering as a possible career 20. The designers have shownsignificantly higher learning gains in experimental groups using the ITL Program materialscompared with control classrooms. The vision statement of the ITL Program, adapted from theNational Academy of Engineering and National Research Council, is ―To create a K-12 learningcommunity in which students, K-12 teachers and the College of Engineering and Applied Scienceexplore, through hands-on doing, the role of engineering and innovation in everyday life. And
- cluding the Journal of Career Development, the Academy of Management Executive, the Psychology of Women Quarterly, Journal of Management Development, the Journal of Business Ethics, Human Re- source Management Journal, and The Diversity Factor. Dr. Blake-Beard is co-editor of a volume focused on women’s careers (Handbook of Research on Promoting Women’s Careers) and a 2017 volume on mentoring (Mentoring Diverse Leaders: Changing People, Processes and Paradigms). She received a 2010-2011 Fulbright Award to support her project entitled ”Systems of Sustenance and Support: Explor- ing the Impact of Mentoring on the Career Experiences of Indian Women,” in partnership with the Center for Leadership, Innovation and Change at
Serving Institution(HSI) university with a combined total of 140,000+ undergraduate students. Further, the presentproject was modeled after a previous, successfully completed initiative entitled ComputerAccelerated Pipeline to Unlock Regional Excellence (CAPTURE), which was sponsored by theFlorida Board of Governors (BOG) [27].UNIVERSITY-STATE COLLEGES COLLABORATIONBelow is a brief description of the partnering institutions: Florida Atlantic University (FAU) is a large, diverse, degree-granting institution (180undergraduate and graduate degree programs) located in south Florida. It is designated as a"High Research Activity" university by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement forTeaching. FAU serves over 30,000 undergraduate and graduate
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Kettering University. Dr. Finelli’s current research interests include student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices, the use of technology and innovative pedagogies on student learning and success, and the impact of a flexible classroom space on faculty teaching and student learning. 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. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Continued Assessment of i-Newton for the Engaged Learning of
with supervisors. Situated in asenior engineering design capstone course, results show that students’ VMC fluency improved.When subjected to rubric-based intervention strategies and repeated exposure, engineeringstudents gained enhanced audience awareness and practical knowledge. This study contributes tounderstanding how communication development emerges and is best fostered in engineeringstudents. Key research impacts include a feature-based model of successful VMC interactionsand recommended rubric-based best practices for curricular inclusion of VMC.As engineering students’ academic and professional lives unfold increasingly online due to theglobalization of labor, engineers will need to become fluent in using VMC to manageprofessional
Paper ID #25659Theorizing the Role of Engineering Education for Society: Technological Ac-tivity in Context?Mr. Andrew Doyle, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Andrew Doyle is a Doctoral Student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. His doctoral research focuses on the relationship between curricula and enacted practice in Technology education. He is also interested in the Philosophy of Technology and Engineering, and the role of Technology and Engineering education for society.Dr. Lena B. Gumaelius, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Dr Lena Gumaelius has a background as a researcher in Biotechnology, in
emphasized. All of its programmes wereaccredited with an ‘A’ Grade by the National Board and Professional Societies. VIT became aDeemed University in 2001, continued adding infrastructure, laboratories and research centres,starting new and innovative graduate and post-graduate programmes and implementing acontinuous quality improvement management system. The two main ingredients9 foruniversities, such as VIT University, to emerge as premier institutions have been thecommitment of the leadership and the commitment to quality which are the keys to their successand sustained growth. The leadership provided by Dr. G. Viswanathan as its Chancellor and hiscommitment to quality are responsible for VIT University emerging as a premier nationalinstitution
maximizing stakeholder impact. Two offices that regularly engagedwith these stakeholders were the office of Corporate and Professional Education, which overseesgraduate programs and training for corporate partners, and the Career Development Center,which manages activities related to engaging and recruiting talented WPI students.In 2017, the division of Academic and Corporate Engagement realigned departments andpersonnel to best support stakeholder needs and drive a new chapter forward of its originalvision. Under this realignment, the Corporate Partnership team was created as the externally-facing branch of the office of Corporate and Professional Education. Similarly, the EmployerRelations team was identified as the externally-facing branch of the
University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Science (MSc) in Social Psychology at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. Current research focuses on the role of architectural design on the microbiology of the built environment.Dr. Jose L. Perdomo, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez CampusDr. Jonathan Munoz Barreto, University of Puerto Rico - MayaguezProf. Oscar Marcelo Suarez, University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Professor Oscar Marcelo Suarez joined the University of Puerto Rico - Mayag¨uez in 2000. A Fellow of ASM International, he is the Coordinator of the Materials Science and Engineering graduate program, the first of its kind in Puerto Rico. He is also the director of the university’s Nanotechnology Center Phase II
scienceprograms and, ultimately, achievement of bachelor’s degrees (Wang, 2020). The need for financialsupport, resulting in most community college students needing to work while pursuing degrees, iscited as a major barrier for many community college students (Mendoza, 2009), particularly forthose who could benefit from full-time enrollment. Just-in-time academic support is one strategyfor improving student persistence in STEM, among many other researched best practices.Growth Sector, the backbone organization for the NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Initiative’sSTEM Core Expansion Alliance (#1834628), along with partner institutions, has developed andimplemented the STEM Core at 30+ partner colleges in seven states, serving over 3,000 studentssince
second phase involved reviewing some of the more recent curricular modifications inengineering education, and in general, research data supported that idea that successfulmodifications include a variety of approaches designed to work together and reflect theindividual learning styles of the students. Randolph’s4 recent review of Kolb’s5 and Bloom’s6work regarding individual learning styles suggests that engineering educators should designcurricular methodologies that are more student-centered and less teacher-centered. At the sametime, Randolph4 proposes that writing can be used as a powerful tool for learning byincorporating more psychologically active writing activities to promote transfer from contentknowledge to application of content
new focus on diversity, and a renewed emphasis on globalization, both also in the introduction.It would be interesting to know whether members of TF-3 consider the revised criteria a compromise, onethat impacts the efficacy of their recommendations. Nevertheless, the revised criteria retains key aspectsof the original recommendations including the focus on integration; defining learning outcomes narrowlyaround professional practice; and a reduced set of outcomes designed to foster educational innovation andmore consistent evaluation outcomes.The point is not that one criterion is better than the other; for example, in light of past discussions aboutthe proper scope of undergraduate training, the current emphasis on professional
Paper ID #42502WIP: Piloting a Comprehensive Needs Assessment to Enhance EngineeringFaculty DevelopmentDr. Megan Patberg Morin, North Carolina State University Dr. Megan Morin (she/her) is the Associate Director for Engineering Faculty Advancement within the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. Megan’s career path includes previous roles as a Senior Project Specialist at ASHLIN Management Group, a KEEN Program Coordinator at UNC-Chapel Hill, an Education Coordinator/Graduate Assistant for the FREEDM System Center and PowerAmerica Institute at NC State University, and a middle school teacher within
initial codes, theresearch team reviewed the codes to determine a set of agreeable codes in developing thecodebook for the reliability of the coding process. This aspect of our data analysis considered 6sorting codes per our research question and the retention element of Griffin’s [12] institutionalmodel for increasing faculty diversity, focusing on issues related to professional development,advancement, satisfaction, and support in institutional and departmental retention policies,practices, and structures. We also centered this aspect on our analysis of how participantsattached significance to the aforementioned elements in enabling them to remain at theirinstitutions. Subsequently, the
students in research. · Provide research stipends to URM undergraduate students to enable them to conduct research at institutions around the state. · Sponsor a consortium-wide Undergraduate Research Symposium to allow students and faculty from LSAMP partner and affiliate institutions to share research accomplishments, learn about graduate school opportunities, and hear researchers discuss their work. · Provide supplementary grants for innovative curriculum and course development to incorporate research activities into STEM courses at the community college and university levels. These grants could be used to develop software, supplementary lab
2009, she founded The Gaskins Foundation, a non-profit organization, whose mission is to educate and empower the African American community. Her foundation recently launched the Cincinnati STEM- ulates year round K-12 program, which is a free of charge program that will introduce more students to Math and Science. She was named the 2017 K12 Champion by the National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates (NAMEPA).Ms. Jutshi Agarwal, University of Cincinnati I am a PhD candidate in Aerospace Engineering with research objectives focussed on Engineering Edu- cation. Currently, I am the Lead Graduate Teaching Assistant for the first year engineering design course with an enrollment of 1300 students
engineering mindset influence an engineer’s business savvy?Using funding from the Ford Motor Company; faculty from The University of Texas at Austin(UT) in the mechanical engineering department and graduate studies program and staff from theFaculty Innovation Center (FIC) are exploring answers to these questions by creating acurriculum for a short course on business skills for engineers.This paper provides a look at the pilot short course’s curriculum, strategies, and resources usedto present and teach interdisciplinary concepts related to engineering and business. Thefollowing three components were used in the instructional process: teaching notes; a course-package; and interactive multimedia resources. Fundamental to this short course is the
to both the constraints to and the opportunities for innovation in each ofthe systems under consideration, which arguably cannot be accomplished effectively entirelywithin any of the existing disciplinary domains but must be addressed between or among them.In the terminology of sustainable design scholar Ezio Manzini, sustainability requires both a“strategy of efficiency,” or doing things better, and a “strategy of sufficiency,” or simply doingless, at least in terms of production and consumption of material goods. According to Manzini’sapproach, “ecological quality will emerge from compound strategies and compoundinterventions in different areas.” 1 In each of these ways, the concept of sustainability serves toreinforce efforts to promote
essential to prepare the next generation of pioneers. This paper explores thedynamic landscape of STEM education, with a specific focus on the structure and delivery of fourdistinct summer programs. These programs – centered around various innovative engineeringdomains: 3D CAD modeling, REV robotics, engineering design and innovation, and PinewoodDerby® design – provide students with immersive, hands-on experiences that extend beyondtraditional classroom settings, developing and encouraging critical thinking, creativity,collaboration, and practical skills. Each program is meticulously structured to maximizeeducational impact. The 3D CAD modeling program provides students with a hands-onexploration of computer-aided design, empowering them to create
studies, open-ended problems, and otheractivities that bridge multiple disciplines. In “Educating the Engineer of 2020,” the NationalAcademy of Engineering makes a strong case for interdisciplinary learning in the undergraduatelearning environment within a framework of sustainable development (NAE 2005). This being said, there is recognized need for sustainable thinking to be integrated intoengineering education and design with a focus on active, student-centered learning methods(Huntzinger et al. 2007). This is now beginning to emerge in educational programs such as theCenter for Sustainable Engineering (CSE), a partnership among five U.S. universities founded in2005. The EPA-funded basis for CSE, an exhaustive report entitled
the Future in Wheeling, W.Va. She was on loan to the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory from 1989 to 1995, managing a project to transition advanced in- structional technologies to ten different middle schools located in five states. She is on the editorial board of three professional publications and has served as National Research Council Senior Fellow assigned to the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory. In her spare time, Pat enjoys reading and gardening.Mr. Ryan Smith, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Ryan Smith has served as webmaster and system administrator of the PRISM Project for the past ten years. He is a 2002 computer engineering graduate of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. As part of his
existing PFF programs and their components in order to identify programcommonalities and differences, and 2) report on the benchmarks and outcomes serving as keyindicators of program success. To do so presupposes the existence of data gathered, extracted,and analyzed with the intent to report, on an individual program basis, program impact and/orintervention efficacy. The paucity of such data proved to be a barrier to addressing thesequestions in their entirety; not only for this current work, but for other work seeking to similarlyassess trends in future faculty development program design, outcomes, and impact. Theprevalent literature tends to report on operational best practices or provide anecdotal evidenceregarding the benefit of PFF programs
guide students towards crafting stronger, morepersuasive resumes tailored specifically for their post-graduation goals in an objective manner[1].Literature ReviewMany studies and reviews display the importance of teaching writing skills to developingengineers [5]–[8]. The ability to communicate clearly and concisely, especially within theconfines of a one-page resume, displays writing skill and professionalism. Many of these articlesalso recommend practice exercises for strengthening qualitative resume writing skills and theirimpact on student writing quality. For example, addition of written assignments to upper-levelengineering courses and learner-centered instructional strategies have been shown to increasemultiple aspects of a student’s
What a Systematic Literature Review Tells Us About Transportation Engineering Education (and Why Other Engineering Disciplines Should Do One Too)ABSTRACTEngineering education research has evolved considerably over the last several decades and hasrevealed much about effective teaching practices for engineering. There is some concern that thelevel of adoption of these effective teaching practices across the engineering programs isrelatively low and that meaningful assessment of student learning using innovative practices israre. One reason for this may be a lack of meaningful dialogue about these practices at adiscipline specific level, creating a disconnect between engineering education
student in the English Program at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center,is a Writing Consultant and Adjunct Professor of Humanities at Polytechnic University.ELISA LINSKY, director of Polytechnic University’s Technical Writing Program, is coordinator of the WritingConsultant program for EG 1004. She is the co-author of the grant which supported this project.GUNTER GEORGI, Industry Professor at Polytechnic University. He received his BS from Cooper Union and hisMS and professional M. E. Degrees from Columbia University. He is a registered Professional Engineer. He hasworked for many years in the aerospace industry in design, analysis and management functions, including ThermalMission Analysis of the Lunar Module from Apollo Project
Lotería, Art Education and Creative Resistance: A Funds of Knowledge Approach to Art Education in Working-Class Schools (Doctoral dissertation, The Claremont Graduate University).Garringer, M., Kupersmidt, J., Rhodes, J., Stelter, R., & Tai, T. (2015). Elements of effective practice for mentoring [TM]: Research-informed and practitioner-approved best practices for creating and sustaining impactful mentoring relationships and strong program services. MENTOR: National Mentoring Partnership.Gay, G. (2018). Culturally responsive teaching: Theory, research, and practice. teachers college press.Gelles, L., Youmans, K., & Villanueva, I. (2019). Hidden curriculum advocacy and resources for graduate
Paper ID #16754Developments in the Teaching of Engineering Electromagnetics for Improve-ment in Student Interest and UnderstandingMs. Lauren E. Donohoe, Department of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University Lauren Donohoe received B.S. Degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Physics from the Pennsylvania State University in 2014. She is currently a M.S. student in Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. During her graduate studies in electrical engineering, she researched and implemented teaching meth- ods to stimulate interest in students. She chose to perform education and