Paper ID #45095Full Paper: Tinkering and Making to Engage Students in a First-Year Introductionto Mechanical Engineering CourseDr. Micah Lande, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Micah Lande, PhD is an Assistant Professor and E.R. Stensaas Chair for Engineering Education in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. Dr. Lande directs the Holistic Engineering Learning Lab and Observatory. He teaches human-centered engineering design, design thinking, and design innovation courses. Dr. Lande researches how technical and non-technical people learn and apply design
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including Business, Health Sciences, Sustainability, and to a lesserextent, Engineering, all mostly at the graduate level, therefore identifying that there may be a gapin ST education for undergraduate students, particularly in the engineering discipline wherecomplex and multifaceted problems are common. Additional research into the teaching ST to engineering students have led to a series ofpapers on researchers’ observations on its effectiveness in the context of understanding complexproblems [6, 7]. Some key findings in this research were that students saw marked improvementin their understanding and learning of ST processes and tools, a greater appreciation forengineering and the role they play in society, as well as improvements to
yr)Fall Semester Spring Semester - 64 - Want to know more? Please visitwww.stemdiversity.tufts.edu - 65 - 13. Synthesizing Maker Spaces with Corporate Partnership to Transform Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Design Education Kenneth Lutchen, Dean (klutch@bu.edu) • In 2015 Boston University Opened a new 15,000 sq. ft. Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC), a large maker space combined with design and collaboration studios. • EPIC is Directed by Prof. of Practice, Gerry Fine, former CEO of Schott, Inc and Executive-VP for Product Development, Corning, Inc. • EPIC Engages a set
researchers have noted increasing difficulties in students as they transitionfrom K-12 experiences to colleges and universities, and especially for transitions taking place inresearch universities in engineering and in other technologically focused fields. This transitionalphenomenon has become pronouncedly more challenging as a consequence of the COVID-19pandemic, where the majority of high school students attended their last year or two of highschool remotely or in hybrid form and then needed to transition to face-to-face experience as afirst year college student.The paper presents formative results of an innovative first year program for undergraduatestudents in which makerspace and human centered design projects served as a semester longteam
, Nanjing Forestry University Dr. Yan is an assistant professor of Foreign Language Institute at Nanjing Forestry University, and she got her Ph.D. degree in Jackson State University with a constant interest in developing and implementing best practices in STEM education and language acquisition.Dr. Justin R. Allison Justin Allison, Ph. D. is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Jackson State University. His research interests include instructional design, educational technology, educational psychology, and distance education.Dr. Jianjun Yin, Jackson State University Jianjun Yin, Ph.D, is Professor of Education in the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Educa- tion
board).dent participation is key to creating a community of scholars The board comes with an ARM core along with a Xilinxwho form research teams that create cyber threat solutions. 7-series FPGA. For the secure design phase, the studentsThis community of scholars includes faculty, graduate, and developed security functionalities such as designing DRMundergraduate students who practice and share knowledge in functionalities for given audio and running a DRM controlledareas related to the cyber-defense of embedded systems. Also, audio track on a DRM-provisioned device. Overall, the designgraduate student scholars serve as mentors to undergraduate goal was to develop a DRM protocol and
with many industries such as automotive, chemical distribution, etc. on transportation and oper- ations management projects. She works extensively with food banks and food pantries on supply chain management and logistics-focused initiatives. Her graduate and undergraduate students are an integral part of her service-learning logistics classes. She teaches courses in strategic relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her recent research focuses on engineering education and learning sciences with a focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies to assess the impact of good supply chain practices
two years. Kelley is also a Graduate Facilitator with the Center for Socially Engaged Design and a Graduate Academic Liaison with the Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning.Shanna Daly Shanna Daly is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Education from Purdue University. In her work, she characterizes front-end design practices across the student to practitioner continuum, develops empirically-based tools to support design best practices, and studies the impact of front- end design tools on design success. Specifically, she focuses
; algorithm design and solution implementation. Digital Leadership: To initiate and guide computation-related innovation. In other words, those essential soft skills or ways of thinking for a digital age, including system thinking, interdisciplinary or integration skills, innovation and entrepreneurship, multi-cultural teamwork and collaboration skills. Figure 1. The Framework of CT-ENGIII. Case Study: The Robotics Class of Zhejiang University1. Research Design(1) Research MethodThis research adopts the single case study method. Case study research design is anin-depth practical investigation of a current event in the actual context (Yin, 2009).According to (Siggelkow,2007; Gaya H.J& Smith E.E.,2016), a
First-year Engineering program at the Ohio State University.Mr. Bob Rhoads, Ohio State University Bob Rhoads works for the Engineering Education Innovation Center in the College of Engineering at Ohio State University as the Multidisciplinary Capstone Program Coordinator for Capstone Design. In this position, he coordinates senior engineering capstone projects that are industry-sponsored and involve multiple engineering and non-engineering undergraduate students. He graduated from Ohio State with a bachelor’s of science in mechanical engineering. After graduation, he worked in the glass manufacturing industry for more than 12 years in various roles from process engineering to sales engineering to design engineering
Clearinghouse Research Center, Herdon, 2017.[6] R. Jenkins, "Why You Should Consider Community Colleges," 6 January 2014. [Online]. Available: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-You-Should-Consider/143851. [Accessed 29 July 2019].[7] "An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate STEM Teaching," Center for Integrations of Research, Teaching and Learning, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.cirtl.net/courses/354. [Accessed February 2020].[8] R. Nerio, A. Webber, E. MacLachlan, D. Lopatto and A. J. Caplan, "One-Year Research Experience for Associate’s Degree Students Impacts Graduation, STEM Retention, and Transfer Patterns," CBE—Life Sciences Education, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 18:ar25,1-9, 31 May 2019.[9] M. Velez
significantly contributes to stimulating imagination, innovation, creativity inChinese engineering undergraduates. Although there are still a lot of challenges to beexplored, like the balance between safety and individual freedom, and students’ limited timeetc., the strong support from the university gives authors confidence in the futuredevelopment of SCUPI Makerspace.By introducing SCUPI Makerspace in detail, the authors hope to share its best practice andnovel approaches to universities that are planning to build a similar student design-play-shareplace. More formal, structured surveys will be implemented to collect students’ feedback andstudy the impacts of Makerspace on participants in the future work. It is expected that SCUPIMakerspace will
is to connect students, specifically Black Americans, to hands-on engineering educationthat will lead to securing occupations in the civil service complex (Hampton University Schoolof Engineering, n.d.). Hampton University’s College of Engineering and Technology makes its purpose forserving the Black community ubiquitous via public records from research initiatives to outreach.The engineering college emphasizes the importance of creating a learning experience wherestudents are given research to practice pedagogies around environment, technology, andtransportation. For example, students and faculty members have access to multiple major grantsfocused on impactful topics such as energy efficiency, pollution control from
and academia, later receiving her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and Sustainable Water Resources. Her work highlights a commitment to undergraduate engineering education and its improvement through best teaching practices. Her research efforts target ways to support and encourage diversity among students and how to create an inclusive learning environment.Dr. Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC Dr. Carol Haden is Vice President of Magnolia Consulting, LLC, a woman-owned, small business special- izing in independent research and evaluation. She has served as evaluator for STEM education projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the William and Flora
internship. The residential internship is for two weeks where interns must be on-site at The University of Texas Center for2. Background Space Research. The internship includes daytime research The original program began in 2010 with an education activities, experiential learning activities, evening STEMgrant designed to leverage a set of NASA projects at CSR, activities, and field investigation. Each year, several teachers andusing NASA’s Earth observing satellites as a catalyst for the graduate students are selected as chaperones for the SEES programimplementation of a six-week high school student internship and
learning.The DYP ProgramAn innovative, best practices approach, called the “Design Your Process for Becoming a ‘World-Class’ Engineering Student” (DYP) program, has been developed by Raymond B. Landis14 toincrease the quality of the educational experience of first-year engineering undergraduatestudents. Typically, approaches to increase the nature and quality of undergraduate educationexperience are focused on instructional and/or curricular changes. The DYP program is differentin that it focuses on what the students can do themselves to become self-regulated students andtherefore are not only more likely to graduate with an engineering degree but also with a higherquality, i.e. with a higher GPA. Self-regulated learning (SRL) is the process that a
Paper ID #9823Engineering to Enhance STEM Integration EffortsDr. Tamara J Moore, Purdue University Tamara J. Moore, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Dr. Moore’s research is centered on the integration of STEM concepts in K-12 and higher education mathe- matics, science, and engineering classrooms in order to help students make connections among the STEM disciplines and achieve deep understanding. Her research agenda focuses on defining STEM integration and investigating its power for student learning. She is creating and testing innovative, interdisciplinary curricular
tradeoffs involved in the practice of engineering, and how engineering decisions have an impact society and the environment. Each ETK emphasizes the engineering design approach to problem solving, and includes real-world constraints (budget, cost, time, risk, reliability, safety, and customer needs and demands) and each involves a design challenge that requires creativity and teamwork.Carolyn Vallas, University of Virginia Carolyn Vallas is General Faculty and Director of Center for Diversity in Engineering at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science. She received the B.A. degree in Education from Seattle University, and the M.S. degree in Education Psychology and
Education.Dr. Julia D. Thompson, University of San Francisco r. Julia Thompson is an Assistant Professor at University of San Francisco. She has a passion for integrat- ing the soul’s work into the engineering design process and technology. She is driven to help students, and people in general, look at technology as a pathway toward healing of earth and unjust social structure. Julia did her undergrad in chemical engineering at UC Berkeley and her PhD in engineering education at Purdue. Her research interests focus on how engineering design practices impact the relationships that engineering programs create with the community. American c Society for Engineering
Engineering from MIT and her M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. Her research interests include engineering design education (especially in regards to the design of complex systems), student preparation for post-graduation careers, and innovations in research-to-practice.Mel Chua, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Mel is an engineering education researcher with a focus on hacker/maker culture and faculty development. She is also an electrical and computer engineer and an order-20 all-pole auditory low-pass filter with a cutoff frequency of 250Hz.Dr. Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University Stephanie Cutler has a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Her dissertation
. Figure 5. Program Organizing CommitteeThe program is facilitated by the Department of Faculty Development. The Director of FacultyDevelopment is the Program Leader, responsible for overall execution of the program. Thesupport staff member researches best practices, develops measuring tools for data collection, andtracks program progress by analyzing the data collected from the measuring tools. FacultyPosition A and Faculty Position B are voluntary advisory roles on the committee. These facultyrepresentatives are drawn from the Faculty Development Advisory Council. The two facultymembers selected represent both military and civilian faculty, with one member from eachcategory. The faculty selected for the committee are both experienced professors
inclusion of arts and design in the move to STEAM can be thought of as a natural extensionof STEM as design consideration are often crucial import in the building of technologies andsystems. Not only do the branches of STEAM complement one another in practice, they supporta holistic view of knowledge creation. For example, research on project-based learning such asLearning by Design (LBD) has demonstrated that design considerations assist in overall scienceliteracy for complex systems16. The multi-disciplinary focus in STEAM education should notonly be thought of on the instrumental level, however. Another crucial aspect of the STEAMframework is the creation of more openings for exploration and discovery among youth. Whenscientific and technical
, mentored and have productively conducted research, theywill choose faculty careers. Conversely, they found scientists, no matter their background,reported less interest in faculty careers (particularly for those at research-intensive universities),and increased interest in careers outside of research over time in graduate school.25Reflecting on the work of these programs and the resulting improvements in completion of PhDsand steps forward in institutional change, a faculty career model that better defines what ishappening in best practice situations and that better speaks to the PhDs who are choosing non-academic careers is clearly needed. An improved model can be used by policy makers indeveloping funding solicitations as well as by institutions
in Electrical Engineering Program since its inception. He developed the electronics laboratory I and II to offer hands-on experiences to online students. Dr. Liu is a member of Optical Society of America.Dr. Charles R. Westgate Sr. P.E., Binghamton University Charles Westgate is a Research Professor at Binghamton University and a former Dean of the Engineer- ing School at Binghamton. He has been deeply involved in online course instruction at Johns Hopkins, Binghamton, and Stony Brook. He conducts research in semiconductor devices and materials.Ms. Kim A. Scalzo, State University of New York, HQ Kim Scalzo is Director of the SUNY Center for Professional Development (CPD). The SUNY CPD provides professional
global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts.Engineers must take these issues into account when designing solutions to help improve the livesof humans.Massachusetts was the only state to be coded by all four graduate researchers, the other fourteenstates were coded in pairs by one of the science education graduate researchers and one of themathematics education graduate researchers. Through the discussions to reach final agreementfor these fourteen states further refinements and additions were made to the framework (Table2). Each ABET standard has a description for K-12, example standard(s), and an explanation ofwhy the standard was coded. Technology was added to ABET 3-(a) based on suggestions fromthe literature that focused on STEM
. Tak-Sing Wong, The Pennsylvania State University Dr. Tak-Sing Wong is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the holder of Wormley Family Early Career Professorship at Penn State. His current research focuses on bio-inspired materials design with applications in water, energy, medicine, and environmental sustainability. For his research contributions, Dr. Wong was named one of the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by the MIT Technology Review, and honored by the White House for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.Prof. Brian M. Foley, The Pennsylvania State University American c Society for
andmiddle school students in out-of-school time STEM education,” 2015.[5] G. Seiler, “Reversing the "Standard" Direction: Science Emerging from the Lives of AfricanAmerican Students,” Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2001.[6] L. Tsui, “Effective Strategies to Increase Diversity in STEM Fields: A Review of theResearch Literature,” The Journal of Negro Education, 76(4), 2007[7] C. Schardt, M. Thomas, S. Owens, and P. Fontelo, “Utilization of the PICO framework toimprove searching PubMed for clinical questions,” BMC Medical Informatics and DecisionMaking, 2007.[8] Qiqqa. (2017). Home. Retrieved from Qiqqa: www.qiqqa.com[9] A. BEST, “bridge for all: Higher education design principles to broaden participation inscience, technology, engineering
issues of softwareand data security. Industry’s need for innovation, research and development, and a broaderunderstanding of the complexities of software development is contributing to this growth insoftware engineering employment opportunities. The Internet and its impact on distributedapplications, service-oriented computing, and cloud computing, are also creating a demand fornew and better software applications, many involving social computing, ubiquitous andpervasive computing, and mobile computing.Over the last 20 years, at least 50 graduate software engineering degree programs have beenestablished. The Graduate Software Engineering Reference Curriculum (GSwERC) committeerecently conducted a survey of 28 of these programs, finding that many
workshop thatwas designed to generate ideas for publications, proposals, and other potential researchcollaborations. Discussions centered on a common interest in better understanding howengineers’ own beliefs, values, and goals interact and align (or do not align) with those of theorganization they work for. As a first step in exploring these ideas, we shared the content ofexisting data we each collected with practicing engineers at different points in their careertrajectories.The purpose of this research, then, was twofold. First, based on the common interests of theauthors, we wanted to share ideas and spark discussion around the relationship between identity,socialization, and organizational culture within engineering. Second, we wanted to