the University ofNebraska at Kearney and her M.A. and PhD in educational psychology from the University ofNebraska-Lincoln. Her research interests include the impact of instructional practices on studentlearning and motivation, and sources of within-person variation in motivation and self-regulatedlearning.Tareq A. Daher, Ph.D., University of Nebraska-LincolnTareq A. Daher is the Director of the Engineering and Computing Education Core for theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Engineering. Tareq earned his B.S in ComputerScience from Mu’tah University in Jordan. He earned his M.A and PhD in Educational Studieswith a focus on Instructional Technology at UNL. Dr. Daher collaborates with Engineeringfaculty to document and research the
pinpoint areas for improvement and accordinglyadjust our teaching methods. We also recognize the value of providing continuous professionaldevelopment for instructors, enabling them to exchange co-teaching best practices and stayabreast of developments in their fields.A previously mentioned limitation was the inadequate allocation of class hours for the combinedcourses, where 9 hours per week proved insufficient. To address this, we're contemplatingincreasing class time to 11 hours per week, which we anticipate will allow for more student-centered approaches, such as student-led discussions, presentations, and research projects,thereby fostering active learning and critical thinking.These proposed changes are aimed at overcoming the challenges
professional conferences and workshops. She has received several prestigious research and education awards including the award for Best Paper in the IEEE Signal Pro- cessing Magazine 2007 as coauthor of a paper entitled ”Particle Filtering,” the IEEE Outstanding Young Engineer Award (2009), for development and application of computational methods for sequential signal processing, the IEEE Athanasios Papoulis Award (2011), for innovative educational outreach that has in- spired high school students and college level women to study engineering, the Stony Brook University Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM) Latino Faculty Recognition Award (2009), and the Chair of Excellence by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid-Banco de Santander
Program and works in the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Scott has received funding through NSF to conduct research on the impact of game-based learning on the development of first-year students’ ethical reason- ing, as well as research on the development of culturally responsive ethics education in global contexts. He is an active member of the Kern Engineering Entrepreneurship Network (KEEN), the Institute of In- dustrial and Systems Engineering (IISE), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and serves on the First-Year Engineering Education (FYEE) Conference Steering Committee
hands-on skills involvingbuilding/programming of robots (61%). The intervention also helped engineering students gainengineering pedagogical skills which could help them engage in outreach in their futureprofessional roles or enhance their ability to mentor younger colleagues in future team projects.The students were also able to explore opportunities of collaborative design thinking withnon-engineers which could prepare them for human-centered design practices, such as socialrobotics where children participate in designing robots (Alves-Oliveira et al. 2021). The projectmay have helped the engineers learn to value contributions from non-technical stakeholders,demonstrating a model for removing barriers to interdisciplinarity in engineering
Paper ID #27374Examining the Role of Parents in Promoting Computational Thinking in Chil-dren: A Case Study on one Homeschool Family (Fundamental)Ms. Hoda Ehsan, Purdue University, West Lafayette Hoda is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education, Purdue. She received her B.S. in me- chanical engineering in Iran, and obtained her M.S. in Childhood Education and New York teaching certification from City College of New York (CUNY-CCNY). She is now a graduate research assistant on STEM+C project. Her research interests include designing informal setting for engineering learning, and promoting engineering thinking in
faculty member of the School of Engineering 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
experience8. Deliberatepractice, practice with the intent of developing a specific ability, contributes to effective learningexperiences7-8. The medium from which students receive deliberate practice is in fact coursedesign and instructor assistance8.In addition to the need for changes to be made in course delivery to help improve engineeringstudent learning experiences, research has shown that more emphasis needs to be placed oneffective learning activities that best prepare students to solve problems in the real world.Research performed by Sheppard, Macatangay, Colby, and Sullivan9 at several United Statesengineering institutions found that current curricula are over-emphasizing analytic skills and notputting enough emphasis on professional skills
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 The Development and Application of a Comprehensive Questionnaire Used to Evaluate the Effect of Engineering Ethics CoursesAbstract:Different countries, colleges and universities, and even majors provide students withdifferent kinds of engineering ethics courses. Practical course evaluation is conduciveto presenting students' learning effects and subsequent course improvement. In theexisting research and practice, the evaluation of engineering ethics education focusingon students' learning output has produced many positive results. On this basis, fromthe perspective of the sustainable development of the curriculum and benefiting morestudents, this study proposes
Griffin Pitts is currently an undergraduate computer science student with the University of Florida’s Her- bert Wertheim College of Engineering. As a student, Griffin conducts research within multiple disciplines, furthering the impact of machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has been awarded by the Uni- versity of Florida’s Center for Undergraduate Research and intends on attending graduate school in his future.Sage Bachus, University of Florida Sage Bachus is a fourth-year Mechanical Engineering and Pre-Med student at the Herbert Wertheim Col- lege of Engineering, University of Florida. His main research focus is in learning analytics and developing a way to better understand the underlying
- and transdisciplinary experiences relevant to the currenttechnical development. More specifically, this program provided three main objectives,including: (1) providing transdisciplinary engineering design experiences relevant to cutting edgetechnical development for teachers; (2) developing teacher-driven lesson plans that could beimplemented in the classroom, and (3) disseminating results and developed materials to helpteachers in the region and beyond.In this RET site program, teachers rotated to four different research laboratories with a 1.5-to-3-week duration in each at the University of Central Florida (UCF) campus under the guidance offaculty mentors, graduate students and, in some cases, even undergraduate NSF REUparticipants [4]. In
assignment follows best-practices for Inquiry-Based- Learning, providing a structured opportunity for students to build the scaffolding of their own knowledge of the subject [12] [13]. Particularly, the addition of reports and briefings where the students presented ideas and recommendations that they had generated, researched and refined through direct observation gave the students a sense of professional practice and real buy-in. • Projects which activate the students directly as agents of their own knowledge creation, in a sense pulling data to them according to self-defined needs rather than acting as passive receivers, provides considerable franchise and satisfaction to students. There is
and non-technical dimensions of engineering and transformingengineering education so that it more effectively prepares graduates for workplace success.Previous research suggested that interest in “Engineering and …” permeates ASEE and isconcentrated in but not limited to the division most closely associated with the topic. This paperdescribes a transferable method that combines quantitative and qualitative methods to identifyareas of convergence using papers published in the Leadership Development (LEAD) and theEngineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ENT) as evidence. These areas of convergenceare: (1) program design and effectiveness, (2) individual capabilities (including traits andthinking tools), (3) teams and groups, and (4
/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for- accrediting-engineering-programs-2022-2023/ , Accessed October 22, 2023. 2. Karwat, D. M. A., Eagle, W. E., Wooldridge, M. S., & Princen, T. E. (2014). Activist engineering: changing engineering practice by deploying praxis. Science and Engineering Ethics, 21(1), 227–239. 3. Herkert, J.R. (2000) Engineering ethics education in the USA: Content, pedagogy and curriculum, European Journal of Engineering Education, 25:4, 303-313. 4. Mitcham, C., Englehardt, E.E. (2019). Ethics Across the Curriculum: Prospects for Broader (and Deeper) Teaching and Learning in Research and Engineering Ethics, Science and Engineering Ethics, 25, 1735–1762. 5. Das, M., Roeder, G., Ostrowski, A
Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Depart- ment of Transportation and Motorola. In 1994-95, his laboratory, sponsored by the Illinois Department of Transportation, developed the first real-time traffic congestion map on the World Wide Web, which now receives over 100 million hits per year. Professor Nelson is also currently serving as principal dean for the UIC Innovation Center, a collaborative effort between the UIC Colleges of Architecture, Design and the Arts; Business Administration; Medicine and Engineering.Mr. Fazle Shahnawaz Muhibul Karim, University of Illinois, Chicago c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017
Paper ID #15981Special Interest Section of a Core Mechanical Engineering Course – Bioma-terial Emphasis of an Introduction to Materials CourseDr. Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton Dr. Margaret Pinnell is the Associate Dean for Faculty and Staff Development in the school of engineering and associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Dayton. She teaches undergraduate and graduate materials related courses including Introduction to Ma- terials, Materials Laboratory, Engineering Innovation, Biomaterials and Engineering Design and Appro- priate Technology (ETHOS). She
(albeit with considerable coordination of topics, as will bediscussed in section 6). For the second half of the semester, lectures transitioned into a series ofintegrated engineering case studies that engaged material from both disciplines as well as criticaltools from reflection. Lab activities were similarly organized with the first half-semesterhands-on applications of basic engineering principles and the second half an integrated,seven-week human-centered design project focused on issues of access and accessibility on theBC campus. Reflection utilized BC’s innovative small group Purposeful Ongoing Discussion(POD) model of near-peer mentors guiding students through various reflective practices tograpple with the ethical and moral dimensions of
external environment and best encapsulated bythe subcategories: familial and socio-economic. They represent a linked situational experience,particularly for first generation college students and low-income students. Both college and externalenvironmental phenomena were shown to have a dramatic impact on the development ofcharacteristics of self-reported STEM identity as well as internal motivation. The diagram’s center represents the internalized self-conceptualization of students as theynavigate college. Chosen specifically here is STEM identity as all students in this study were STEMmajors. Also lying in the middle of the diagram is internal motivation. Rather than singling out anindividual aspect of motivation such as persistence or self
tools have been specifically developed to provide student self-assessment of learninggains in engineering coursework. One that has proved very useful for improving engineeringcoursework is the Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG) online survey. The SALGinstrument was initially designed by Elaine Seymour (University of Colorado) in 1997 and hasbeen modified and evaluated by a number of researchers over the past decade.13 As stated on theSALG website at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (which provides links to anumber of assessment tools, primarily for science-based courses), the SALG is designed as asupplemental tool to traditional classroom evaluations. Its purpose is to provide faculty with“information about what students
Institute of Technology. She worked for several years as a manufacturing controls engineer for Ford Motor Company and Detroit Edison before returning to graduate school to pursue her PhD. She has been an active member of the American Society of Engineering Edu- cation (ASEE) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2004. Her research interests include multidisciplinary educational robotics, human-robot interfaces and identifying strategies to increase enrollment and retention of women and minorities in engineering. She is the co-founder of the first multidisciplinary minor in robotics at Rose-Hulman. She is currently the director of the minor. She is also co-PI of the Rose-Hulman building
the University of Queensland (Australia) and University of Los Andes (Venezuela). He holds degrees in Industrial Engineering (BS, MS), Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Engineering Education (PhD). Homero is the leader of the Engineering Competencies, Learn- ing, and Inclusive Practices for Success (ECLIPS) Lab. His research focuses on contemporary and inclu- sive pedagogical practices, emotions in engineering, competency development, and understanding the experiences of Latinx and Native Americans in engineering from an asset-based perspective. Homero has been recognized as a Diggs Teaching Scholar, a Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence Fellow, a Global Perspectives Fellow, a Diversity Scholar, a
and high school students about systems and ethics of artificial intelligence and machine learning. She earned her doctoral degree at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she studied cooperative learning and collaborative problem solving, and worked part-time as a professional development coach for STEM teachers in New York City public schools with the Center for the Professional Education of Teachers (CPET). Before entering the world of research and design, Kate served as a middle school science and special education teacher for 10 years. She has worked in public, independent, and charter schools in New York City NY, Newark NJ, and Pittsburgh PA.Sheikh Ahmad Shah, Boston College Sheikh Ahmad Shah is a
possibility for engineering judgmentsconstructed in well-designed writing assignments to improve critical thinking capabilities.Background and Literature ReviewImproving critical thinking, is considered an urgent need because engineering graduates are oftenconsidered deficient in these skills upon entry to the workplace. Claris and Riley (2012) discuss this“situation normal” where engineers often possess strong logical thinking skills, but may not possess theskills or disposition to think critically about engineering problem construction and framing, powerrelations, and other social dimensions shaping engineering practice. However, recent findings of Ford etal. (2021), Lutz and Paretti (2021), and Gewirtz and Paretti (2021) suggest that recent
student perception study was proposed toexamine the impact of continuing HyFlex instruction, and preliminary results from the spring2022 semester are presented here. The proportion of students trying to balance school and other obligations is substantial.The National Center for Education Statistics estimates that in 2020, 40% of full-time and 74% ofpart-time undergraduate students are employed, with 10% and 40% working 35 hours or moreeach week, respectively [1]. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 22% ofundergraduates are parents. Approximately 70% of these are mothers, 62% of whom are singleparents [2]. Approximately 44% of student parents also work full time and around half drop outof school without getting a degree
understanding of how the intended Project Leadthe Way (PLTW) curriculum differs from the enacted curricula. This understanding is important tomake the professional development programs more meaningful to the immediate needs of theteacher in the classroom. By identifying, the factors that contribute to any merging differencesbetween the curricula helped fill the gap in research on teacher knowledge and beliefs about the useof science and mathematics content in the PLTW classroom as they enact the curriculum. PLTW isan innovative hands-on pre-engineering curriculum designed for K-12 students based on projectand problem-based learning. It tries to combine math and science principles to present engineeringconcepts to students in a way that tries to keep up
ugly.Engineers are faced with moral dilemmas that need to be analyzed and which are not just amatter of feelings and preferences, but include rational and moral reasoning. Engineering ethicsinvolves more than simply teaching maxims: do not bribe, spy, or commit sabotage. It involvesissues related to safety, environmental impact, privacy, and military use, each of which containsmany potential moral dilemmas.Technology from the design phase to its implementation and use is not a neutral activity, whichhas not been properly recognized by engineers and engineering education, and which often ismissing in courses in which future engineers are taught to deal with ethical issues. Theaccreditation organization ABET identifies "an understanding of professional
) help teachersgain a better understanding of and comfort with teaching basic CT and engineering designconcepts, 3) help teachers identify and plan cross-cutting applications of CT practices byintegrating computing concepts with authentic open-ended engineering design challenges(physical computing) to elicit higher order thinking, and 4) provide teachers with the materialsand instructional resources to begin implementing physical computing design challenges in theirclassroom. As previously mentioned, the criteria for eligible participants were intentionallydesigned to promote the planning of physical computing learning experiences that had a logicalprogression from the elementary through middle grades.The researchers purposefully selected the
. Helen L. Chen, Stanford University Helen L. Chen is a research scientist in the Designing Education Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She has been involved in several major engineering education initia- tives including the NSF-funded Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter), as well as the Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education. Helen holds an undergraduate degree in communication from UCLA and a PhD in communication with a minor in psychology from Stanford University. Her current research and scholarship focus on engineering and entrepreneurship education; the pedagogy of portfolios
homogeneity, and geographicisolation also disproportionately impact rural higher education. Faced with these challenges in2014, Bay de Noc Community College developed an innovative partnership with a regionaluniversity to leverage economies of scale through the sharing of talent, resources, and evenstudents, in order to address local workforce needs in the area of Mechatronics and RoboticsSystems. This partnership has resulted in a stackable degree program that provides students withmultiple exit points, the development of non-credit workshops for other educational faculty andincumbent workers, and even the creation of robotic simulation software.Now, three years after the advent of this partnership, Bay de Noc Community College andMichigan
. in Industrial Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with emphasis in Operations Research from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.Dr. Chell A. Roberts, University of San Diego Chell Roberts is the Executive Dean and former Chair of Engineering for the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University. As Executive Dean, he serves as the College’s Chief Operating Officer. As the Founding Chair of Engineering, Roberts led a clean slate design and development of a new engineering program created to be responsive to the latest knowledge on engineering education. He is currently leading the development of highly innovative programs at the intersection of traditional