research and literature haveyet to emerge. We want to problematize the normative practices within our discipline whichcontinue to center the experience and research both on and for white straight men. Our shared experience in navigating this issue has led us to some partialrecommendations for practice. Graduate students facing a lack of directly relevant results in theSTEM education literature may find that valuable expertise can be drawn from other fields.Reaching out to supportive faculty members, research librarians, and peers in other departmentsmay uncover pockets of literature that might have otherwise remained hidden. A bonus to thisapproach is that it may allow the scholar to become a bridge between disciplines by applying onebody of
broaderset of educational applications for ChatGPT – including areas like finance, language, medicine,and law – and catalogued several applications of ChatGPT, including identifying student needs,scaling assessment, personalized tutoring, and generating material. Although the findings fromthese reviews – including others such as [14], [15], [16], [17], [18] – can help conceptualize thedifferent possibilities, guidance about how to implement LLM-powered tools like ChatGPT isunderstandably sparse across these literature reviews.The best practices for using LLM-powered tools in educational research are developing as well,specifically how we go about unlocking their proclaimed benefits. The key is determining whatprompts and practices can be used to
. This is not surprising, as these courses includeResnick’s 4Ps – projects, peers, passion, play – for developing as creative thinkers [13]2.2. Vision and GoalsOur vision is that MRE will become one of the most impactful disciplines of engineering;attracting diverse and innovative students, graduating professional engineers who will design,develop, and implement transformative autonomous technologies, and improving health andwelfare sectors while extending human reach to previously inaccessible realms large and small,near and far.To reach our vision, our long-term goals are to: • Develop a diverse, inclusive community of MRE educators, students, and practitioners • Define the MRE knowledgebase as a community • Achieve recognition of MRE as
. Theprimary medium for collecting student feedback was via end-of-semester surveys.a. An Ability to Function Effectively on Teams (ABET Criteria e)A time tested principle in education stipulates that a student best learns by doing; developingteam skills is certainly no exception. During this course, students work in teams of 3-4 toresearch and prepare two short in-class presentations. Student teams research the industry intheir own respectively chosen fields – electrical, mechanical, civil engineering technology, andconstruction management. Relevant industry representatives may result from personalexperience or from exterior research and must be equal in number to the quantity of members onthe team – i.e., three members = three companies; four
Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan. She currently serves the IUPUI BME Department as Associate Chair and Director of the Undergraduate Program helping develop and implement curricular changes to embed engineering design, ethics, and technical communication throughout the BME curriculum. Prior to joining the faculty at IUPUI, Dr. Miller’s P-20 educational efforts included curriculum writing and program development for the John C. Dunham STEM Partnership School and Michael J. Birck Center for Innovation. Since joining IUPUI, Dr. Miller has been awarded internal and external grant funding to realize BME curricular changes and to pursue engineering education research of BME student self-efficacy toward design
Innovation Grant, 2003 Distinguished Teacher Award, and 2012 Inaugural Distin- guished Award for Excellence in the category Inspiration through Leadership. Moreover, he is a recipient of 2014-2015 University Distinguished Teaching Award at NYU. His scholarly activities have included 3 edited books, 9 chapters in edited books, 1 book review, 61 journal articles, and 140 conference pa- pers. He has mentored 1 B.S., 26 M.S., and 5 Ph.D. thesis students; 47 undergraduate research students and 11 undergraduate senior design project teams; over 480 K-12 teachers and 115 high school student researchers; and 18 undergraduate GK-12 Fellows and 59 graduate GK-12 Fellows. Moreover, he di- rects K-12 education, training, mentoring
, neighbors and faculty. Prizes are awarded to the best over all designs, bestoptional project and also to those who solve all the math problems correctly.One of the unique features of the SEA program is the fact that nearly all the counselors are past Page 22.1354.5SEA graduates. Every year at least six undergraduate students and two graduate students work inthe SEA program as mentors. At the inception of the SEA program, a group of women andminority undergraduate engineering students are selected from the Multicultural EngineeringProgram (MEP) and are trained to be mentors and counselors. Every year more and more SEAgraduates apply for the counselor
internshipprograms as means of building practical industry experience. However, designing courses toinclude cross-disciplinary topics, such as smart grids (SGs), distributed generation or renewableenergy systems (RES) or to keep students from diverse backgrounds engaged can be quite achallenge for instructors14,19-28. In our view, these curricular and pedagogical challenges can beaddressed by bringing research topics, projects and integrated laboratory experiences into powerand energy courses. One of the advantages of these approaches is that the impacts on the existingcurriculum, space, equipment and financial requirements are minimal23-25, 28.This paper describes efforts being undertaken at our university to revise, revitalize and updatethe power
Paper ID #42318Board 318: Instructor Experiences Integrating Facilitated Socially EngagedEngineering Content in their CoursesClaudia G Cameratti-Baeza, University of Michigan At CRLT, Claudia works with the Foundational Course Initiative (FCI) as Pedagogy & Instructional Design Consultant. In this role, she partners with departmental instructional teams and fellow FCI consultants to support the Universityˆa C™s large introductorDr. Erika A Mosyjowski, University of Michigan Erika A. Mosyjowski is the Research and Faculty Engagement Manager in the Center for Socially Engaged Design within University of Michigan College of
recentgraduates. They need to understand the purpose of licensure laws, the career paths that require alicense, and the depth and scope of engineering licensure exemptions. A study was designed toanswer the following research questions: How many jurisdictions within the United States have licensure exemptions for engineers who perform tasks commonly considered engineering practice? Are there patterns in the number and type of exemptions found in licensure laws? Do civil engineering graduates practice in areas that are commonly exempt? What should undergraduate engineering students know about licensure exemptions?Research MethodsThe study used licensure exemption data from fifty states, four territories, and the District
more immersive and relatable learning environment. The narrative approach used in this paper is designed to make abstract concepts moreconcrete, situational learning more accessible, and to foster a sense of belonging. A case studywill be conducted within a first-year engineering program to investigate the following researchquestion: To what extent does narrative pedagogy influence the development and implementationof the curriculum in first-year engineering course? The ultimate goal is to develop a robustpedagogical model that can be generalized across disciplines, contributing to the broadereducational research and practice field.Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference Copyright © 2024, American Society for
will be further advanced by obtaining the InstitutionalReview Board approval to carry out the research with human subjects. The researchers hope toquantify the value generated for the students by participating in the EIRC to further bolster thesupport for this program. The dissemination of the results may encourage participants to continuein their value creation after they leave the EIRC.Once the results from this study are obtained and analyzed, the future work of the researchersinvolves answering another research question: How do we translate the value proposition tostudents who are not part of a community of practice? Translating some of the best practices inthe EIRC to students who are not part of it will surely impact the recruitment and
Colonel in the U.S. Army, and currently an Asst. Professor in the Depart- ment of Civil and Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Center for Innovation and Engineering at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA). He holds a BS degree in civil engineering from USMA (2001), and MS and PhD degrees in civil engineering from North Carolina State University (2011 and 2019). Brad is a licensed Professional Engineer (Missouri). His research interests include sustainable infrastructure development, sustainable construction materials, and engineering education.Lt. Col. Kevin P. Arnett P.E., United States Military Academy LTC Kevin Arnett is a fifth year Assistant Professor at the US Military Academy. He received his B.S. in
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Increasing Retention in Engineering and Computer Science with a Focus on Academically At-Risk First Year and Sophomore Students1. IntroductionThe program described in this paper seeks to increase retention rates for engineering andcomputer science students and to evaluate the effectiveness of best practices for retention ofacademically at-risk students. The main hypothesis is that students who fall behind their cohortearly in their college career are less likely to be retained in engineering and computer science.As such, we focus this project on the academically “at-risk” student group defined as first-yearcollege students who are not
Paper ID #17996The Double Bind of Race and Gender: A Look into the Experiences of Womenof Color in EngineeringDr. Kelly J. Cross, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Cross completed her doctoral program in the Engineering Education department at Virginia Tech in 2015 and worked as a post-doctoral researcher with the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At UIUC she has collaborated with mul- tiple teams of engineering faculty on implementing and assessing instructional innovation. Dr. Cross is currently a Research Scientist in the Department
, giving more access to information, providing active representation with themultimedia capabilities of technology, structuring the process to provide more tactical andstrategic support, diagnosing and correcting errors more easily, managing complexity andaiding production, and providing potential for motivating students to carry out projects.Example of graduate student involvement At a research university in Mississippi, graduate students assisted with a local non-profit agency to create an electronic spreadsheet template that would allow the agency tobetter organize client information such as e-mail, phone, social network site data andmailing addresses. The information was to be also placed in sub-groups that wouldcategorize the clients
. Thestudents perceived that the class was more like a physics or mathematics class than anengineering class. Further discussion with the students revealed that the introductory sequencesin Mechanical and Civil engineering were more focused on open-ended projects while Staticswas so heavily weighted to analysis (engineering science) that it was not as connected to “realengineering” as their previous experience had been. These results came as a significant shock toour faculty.Solving the Problems: Curricular SolutionsIn an effort to solve these problems and promote student interest and motivation for Mechanicsand Materials, faculty from both the Mechanical Engineering Department and the CivilEngineering Department collaborated to design an innovative
fifty articles in this area, co-authored the book How Learning Works: 7 Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching, and developed several innovative, educational technologies, including StatTutor and the Learning Dashboard.Dr. Laura Ochs Pottmeyer, Carnegie Mellon University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 A Combined Online Learning / In-Class Activity Approach to Teach Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering Skills to Freshman Engineering StudentsAbstractEngineering graduates from traditional disciplines (e.g., mechanical engineering) have feltincreasing pressure to develop holistic, systems thinking
the world.Our university's innovative approach to AV engineering education is unique in its application andmultidisciplinary nature. We have developed a comprehensive course that caters not only toundergraduate but also to graduate students, offering a holistic overview of the AV system.Unlike the specialized courses offered by other institutions, our program provides a system andsubsystem level perspective, essential for a multidisciplinary understanding of AV technology. Akey feature of our course is the use of open-source software, which promotes inclusivity andaccessibility, allowing students from diverse academic backgrounds to engage with the materialeffectively.The course is uniquely designed to enhance group dynamics and
classroom format. Blending of both instructional techniques resultedin a project driven flipped class, in which the students had the motivation provided by an open-ended design project mixed with the flexibility of a flipped class. The framework for this blendeddelivery as well as benefits and challenges from both pedagogical approaches identified in theliterature are presented in this paper. The potential benefits of both approaches as well as studentperformance in the course were assessed. Although more research is needed in this field, the resultsof this study suggest that a blended approach can provide a more balanced educational experienceby compensating the weakness of each approach with the benefits from the other.IntroductionThe traditional
developing a hypothesis that can be tested through data collection and interpretation. Theydesign and conduct environmental research, and apply the results of their research toward arecommendation for an engineered design or specification. The following four steps provide adescription of how the term project is presented to students and implemented.Step 1: Introducing the Scientific MethodPrior to the introduction of the term project, faculty dedicate two class lessons at the beginningof the semester toward discussion of the steps of the scientific method (as described in Botkin-Keller, 2011)7, developing testable hypotheses (Fig. 1) and experimental design, developingviable research methods, and introducing the course term project
detection systems. He is the Principal Investigator of multiple research initia- tives involving high-speed and next-generation networks. Dr. Crichigno has served as a reviewer and a TPC member of journals and conferences, such as the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Access, IEEE Globecom, and others. He has also served as a panelist for the National Science Founda- tion, for programs related to advanced cyberinfrastructure and undergraduate and graduate education. He is an ABET Evaluator representing the IEEE.Prof. Elias Bou-Harb, University of Texas at San Antonio Dr. Elias Bou-Harb is currently the Associate Director of the Cyber Center For Security and Analytics at UTSA, where he leads, co-directs and co
class. “Events that traditionally have taken place insidethe classroom now take place outside the classroom and vice versa [2].” Students are introducedto course material and concepts before class, allowing in-person class time for students to engagein active learning and problem-solving, utilizing the support of peers and the instructor. Studentacademic engagement, peer engagement, and faculty engagement have been identified as threekey components that positively impact student learning, academic performance, and retention.The flipped classroom focuses on these same engagement practices, and research findingssuggest there is “improved student learning and positive perceptions within the flipped classroom[3].”A well-structured flipped classroom
Paper ID #231132018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29How Making and Maker Spaces have Contributed to Diversity & Inclusionin Engineering: A [non-traditional] Literature ReviewAdam Stark Masters, Virginia Tech Adam S. Masters is a doctoral student and Graduate Research Assistant at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. They received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Delaware and are currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Adam’s research interests include access, equity and social
biomedical engineering students’ preferences for class structure and instructionstyle. We also discuss unique attributes of the study abroad and/or on-campus setting, whichacted in a cooperative or conflicting manner with the challenge-based instruction paradigm.2. Literature Review:2.1 Resistance to Change in College Engineering Education: Focusing on the influence ofeducation, learning, and social-behavioral research on engineering teaching practices, a recentsurvey by Borrego et al. demonstrated that faculty awareness far outpaces adoption of knownstudent-centered practices. For example, while 82% of engineering deans were aware of student-active pedagogies, only 71% claim that department faculty members have adopted such practices.Even more
necessitating a seachange in classroom practice in North Carolina. By engaging in engineering design-basedintegration early and often in their educational careers, students will have a broader exposure tothe important role all the subjects they learn have in moving society forward. This will enable Page 23.367.14them to use their experience to choose coursework that will best prepare them for the workforceand postsecondary education. The state of North Carolina has implemented a program to includeall of the elements of STEM into every classroom, K-12.Engineering is… • Use of knowledge and experience to solve problems • Accessible to all
with WIL in French engineeringeducation (CTI, 2023; Rouvrais et al., 2020), which is notably distinct from the prevailingChinese model where practical experience, although required to varying extents, is oftenlimited to company visits (Du et al., 2017).Literature reviewA significant amount of research has been done on the impact of WIL internships onemployability and student development. WIL is considered instrumental in enhancinggraduate employability by improving a range of employability skills (Jackson & Dean, 2023;Patrick et al., 2008), providing opportunities to practice and refine skills in a real worldsetting (Jackson, 2015). Work placement enhances career clarification for students (Zegwaard& Coll, 2011), facilitates graduate
participation in STEM education, sustainable energy, and material characterization.Maria Mosley Maria has worked in the Engineering Advising Center at Penn State for four years. She has worked in student support services at the University since 2008. Prior to her time at Penn State, Maria worked at several different universities in various roles within the world of Student Affairs. She has worked professionally in the field for 19 years. Maria graduated from Springfield College in Massachusetts with an M.Ed. in Student Personnel Administration and has a Bachelors degree in Communication from Mansfield University in Pennsylvania.Mrs. Jennifer Saltsgiver Jennifer Saltsgiver is the Assistant Director of the Engineering Advising
Education at Purdue University. She is currently a Professor in Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Her role in the College of Engineering at UNL is to lead the disciplinary-based education research initiative, establishing a cadre of engineering education research faculty in the engineering departments and creating a graduate program. Her research focuses on the development, implementation, and assessment of modeling and design activities with authentic engineering contexts; the design and implementation of learning objective-based grading for transparent and fair assessment; and the integration of reflection to develop self-directed learners.Dr. Grace Panther, University of Nebraska
workfocuses on the flexibility of developing skills that will allow students to learn how to team (i.e.teaming skills), rather than on teambuilding exercises that promote the power of traditional rigidteam structures[1], [7].The overall objective of this work-in-progress is to propose the utilization of modern practices inteamwork and teaming education to effectively prepare chemical engineering students for achanging work environment that centers around collaborative activities. In the followingsections, we will detail our training model development as we have created lectures and practicalclass components focusing on the acquisition of teaming skills and the practice of effectiveteamwork in a Unit Operations laboratory course. The research question