classroom and stilladdress the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) mandated by the Texas curriculum.One of the five centers is the North Texas STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)Center (NT-STEM Center). The NT-STEM Center is a partnership of Texas A&M Universityand several Texas Independent School Districts that promotes STEM education by researching,creating, and providing information on best practices for innovative teaching and learning.The focus of the NT-STEM Center is to work specifically with urban schools whose studentpopulation is composed primarily of at-risk students, from low income and minoritybackgrounds. The specific goals and objectives of the NT-STEM Center include: (1) raisingachievement levels in Math and
the Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers project, Learning through Engineering Design and Practice (2007-2011), a National Science Foundation Award# 0737616 from the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. This project is aimed at designing, implementing, and systematically studying the impact of a middle-school engineering education program.Johnny Thieken, Arizona State University John Thieken, MEd., is currently a high school mathematics teacher at the Paradise Valley School District and a doctoral student in the PhD in mathematics education at Arizona State University. He has as Bache- lor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Northern Arizona University and
composed of 60 partners from all around Europe. The project deals with several aspects linked to Lifelong Learning (LLL) in Electrical and Information Engineering in Europe. The project established, as the main output, a virtual center for the development of enterprise skills and competencies, and investigated and reported on the implementation issues and impacts of Lifelong Learning on the employability of people over Europe in the Electrical and Information Engineering field. The work done in the project consists of three parts: • The first one is dedicated to the Analysis of LLL in EIE in Europe at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, together with some recommendations. • The second part concerns best practices for the use of
Carla B. Zoltowski, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue University. She received her B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in engineering education, all from Purdue University. She has served as a lecturer in Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Zoltowski’s academic and research interests include human-centered design learning and assessment, service-learning, ethical reasoning development and assessment, leadership, and assistive technology.Ms. Katherine SchmotzerAna Paula Valenca, Purdue EPICS Page 26.996.1 c American Society for
objectives [1]. Overthe last year, the U.S. electricity generation from renewable resources has doubled from 19% to38% by 2050 [2]. Decreasing the overall energy consumption became a crucial goal for thebuilding industry. Researchers, developers and practitioners, dedicated to improving the builtenvironment [3]. This paper disseminates the lessons learned and best practices from a verticalcourse that focuses on Sustainable Design and the LEED initiative. Where the curriculum isaimed at advanced understanding of the theory and principles relating to design, energyconservation, and research methods applicable in different climatic regions throughout the world.The methodologies include climate responsive design, energy conservation, passive solar
is to provide a preliminary road-map for Systems Engineeringprograms for curriculum design to incorporate sustainability into their curriculum. As part of thisprocess, our specific objectives are 1) to identify learning objectives and topics, and 2) coursesand levels of courses where sustainability and sustainable design can be taught. A brief summaryof sustainability curriculum practices at different institutions is also provided.Some of the possible sustainability topics that are considered in this research are life cycleassessment, alternative energy sources, principles of sustainability, greenhouse gases, carbonfootprint, energy audits, design for sustainability, managing systems based on triple bottom line(environment, economy and
Abroad Program (2004-06) in France. He was a recipient of the School of Architec- ture’s ”Excellence in Teaching Award,” the College of Fine and Applied Arts’ ”Faculty Award for Ex- cellence in Teaching,” and has been consistently listed on the ”UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Ex- cellent/Outstanding by their Students” for 16 different architecture and civil engineering courses. His research and teaching at the University of Illinois were recognized in the Big Ten Network’s (BTN) ”Sto- ries of Innovation, Impact and Inspiration.” American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 The Outer Space Also Needs Architects
Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2008 American Society for Engineering EducationOur second question on graduate vs. undergraduate student learning style preferences indicatedthere isn’t a big dichotomy between these students. In contrast, some research suggests thatfaculty and student learning styles are often different and graduate students look more likefaculty populations. In our study, we did not disaggregate the master’s level and doctoral levelstudents. It is possible that some variations between master’s and doctoral students could impactthis analysis.Our final question looked at whether learning styles impact student use of instructionaltechnologies. Within a tool like BlackBoard
culture in engineering education, including undergraduate classroom culture and innovative methods for faculty development. He runs the Equity Research Group at FIU and co-founded ASEE's Equity Culture and Social Justice in Education division.Tiana Solis (Graduate Student/Instructor) Tiana Solis is a part-time graduate student in engineering and computing education at the School of Universal Computing Construction and Engineering Education (SUCCEED) and an instructor at the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University. Her research and instructional interests include broadening participation in computing and student success and retention
research interests include wear phenomenon in orthopeadic implants, ethical development in engineering undergraduates, and pedagogical innovations in environmental education. Currently, Trevor serves on the ERM Division Board of Directors and on the Kettering University Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Advisory Board.Terri Lynch-Caris, Kettering University Dr. Terri Lynch-Caris, Ph.D., P.E., is an Assistant Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Kettering University. She serves as the Co-PI for the NSF project titled “Development of a Course in Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing for Undergraduates” and will team-teach the course once developed. Her
over a decade-long process4 that engagedstakeholders from across industry and academia. In 1992, ABET President John Prados5 calledfor a paradigm shift in engineering education, noting that while the post-war paradigm shift toengineering science was sorely needed to meet the technological challenges of the day, it leftengineers unprepared for the present-day needs of industry: Few would argue that the engineering science emphasis has not produced graduates with strong technical skills. However, these graduates are not nearly so well prepared in other skills needed for success in today's engineering practice and in the development and management of innovative technology; these include: (1) oral and written
members, who will be referred to as predator faculty, who are looking forgraduate students and junior faculty as a resource to help them conduct their research or do theirteaching. We have all seen or heard of situations were graduate students take years to finish theirdegree programs because of a hyper-controlling faculty member. The administration and thesenior faculty in the academic unit must be cognizant of these individual personality issues andmust guard against placing these self-centered individuals into a position of influence over thenext generation of faculty. Mentoring poor behavior is a recipe for developing future generationsof self-centered faculty members who are only in it for themselves. There are also cases ofjunior faculty
an understanding of the broad context in which engineering occurs. Systems thinking is a holistic approach to design that requires understanding the connectedness of engineering projects and decisions to broader social, economic, and environmental systems. In systems thinking it is understood that the components of a design act differently when isolated from the environment or other parts of the system. Thus, there is an inherent need for interdisciplinary collaboration to best understand the impacts and tradeoffs of engineering design decisions. The sustainability thread encompasses the skills and behaviors desired of a graduate that will allow them to navigate the environmental, social, technical, and economic
from being an individual contributor to leading projects 4. Advancing toward professional licensure or Certified Energy Manager (CEM) Certification 5. Positively impacting society and the environment through innovative research results, or new products or services brought to market 6. Further development of the characteristics of a productive professional, including: • Taking initiative and being a self-starter • Proactively identifying opportunities rather than reacting to problems, including opportunities to positively impact the triple bottom line (financial, environmental, social) for customers by employing new technologies or innovative approaches
ways of generating, distributing and re-using water resources;Manufacturing systems aimed at supporting the manufacturing sector of the nation throughresearch activities in the fields of mechatronics, control systems and appropriate technologydevelopments; and Sustainable mining practices with risk and safety management andenvironmental issues as a focus area for research activities in the mining sector (John, 2014).Another challenge in expanding Namibia’s STEM capacity is the lack of university staff withpost-graduate credentials in the country, with fewer than 200 having a PhD (Jauhiaiene andHooli, 2017). The impact of this was something the author witnessed firsthand while hosted bythe Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DCEE
of our project.Step 2: Individual and team research to enhance robot design and game strategies. The teamproactively pursues professional training to acquire new knowledge and skills, refiningpreviously brainstormed strategies. Additionally, the team also learns and practices conflictresolution, reaching a final decision on robot design, and setting the stage for the next step.Step 3: Design and build a robot. Building upon the finalized design, the team constructs newrobots annually following the game manual. The team actively encourages innovative ideas forfurther validation and feasibility assessment. The design development step integrates both STEMskills, such as programming and mechanical design, and soft skills, such as problem-solving
and Biomedical Engineering at University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) through the Joint Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering at UM/UTHSC. Dr. Curry received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Memphis. Her current research interests include cardiac and neural electrophysiology with applications in cardio- and neuro-modulation via implantable electrostimulation devices, computational modeling and visualiza- tion, and best practices in undergraduate engineering education. These efforts have been funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and American Heart Association. Dr. Curry is a member of
University of New Mexico after receiving his PhD in Chem- ical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1984. He is presently Chair of the department and Distinguished Regents Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering. From 1994-2014 he served as Director of the Center for Microengineered Materials, a strategic research center at UNM that reports to the Vice President for Research. He is also the founding director of the graduate interdisciplinary program in Nanoscience and Microsystems, the first program at UNM to span three schools and colleges and the Anderson Business School. He served as director of this program from 2007 – 2014. His research inter- ests are in heterogeneous catalysis, materials
AC 2007-2603: LEARNING THROUGH WORK STUDY OPPORTUNITIES INCIVIL ENGINEERINGSubhi Bazlamit, Ohio Northern University Subhi M Bazlamit is a Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Ohio Northern University. Dr. Bazlamit is the Director of Pavement management Center for Cities Counties and Villages (PMC-CCV)Farhad Reza, Ohio Northern University Farhad Reza is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Ohio Northern University. Dr. Reza's research interests include pavement management,design and maintenance. Page 12.1012.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007
University of Rhode Island with research work done at Rhode Island Hospital. Previously, he was an assistant di- rector at Massachusetts General Hospital (a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School) in Boston. He has also held faculty appointments in Illinois, Miami and Singapore. At NTU in Singapore, he was the founding director of the BME Research Center and the founding head of the Bioengineering division. He was the Principal Investigator for several Biomedical Engineering projects. He also worked in R&D at Coulter Electronics in Miami and in hospital design and operations management at Bechtel for healthcare megaprojects. He has served in the National Medical Research Council in Singapore. His research in
the fall of 2021 we formed a community of practice (CoP) for lab and designinstructors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign [9]. While building this CoP, weleveraged the Networked Improvement Communities (NICs) framework to facilitate members(instructors) from different contexts (departments, class sizes, student levels) collaborating ondeveloping best practices across all courses toward a shared goal: improving college lab courseexperiences for instructors and students. The NICs are both learning and design communitiesgrounded in the idea of “learning through doing” [10]. NICs and members are guided by severalstructuring agents: (1) common targets and ambitious measurable goals, (2) a mapped problemspace and shared language, and (3
Paper ID #28519Women enrolled in engineering programs: Their interests and goalsMs. Katherine L Walters, University of GeorgiaDr. John M Mativo, University of Georgia Katherine Walters is a PhD Student at the University of Georgia Dr. John Mativo is Associate Professor at the University of Georgia. His research interest lies in two fields. The first is research focusing on best and effective ways to teaching and learning in STEM K- 16. He is currently researching on best practices in learning Dynamics, a sophomore engineering core course. The second research focus of Dr. Mativo is energy harvesting in particular the design
- ground is in Material Science and Engineering, with an emphasis on Biomaterials Design. She is inter- ested in, broadly, how best bridge engineering practice and education. More specifically, she is interested in how to support teachers in teaching engineering, and studying how students and teachers engage with engineering specific practice.Dr. Joi-lynn Mondisa, University of Michigan Joi Mondisa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and an Engineering Education Faculty Member at the University of Michiganˆa C”Ann Arbor. Dr. Mondisa holds a PhD in Engineering Education, an MS in Industrial ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023
she conducted research in transportation and sustainability as part of the Infrastructure Research Group (IRG). In addition to the Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Dr. Barrella holds a Master of City and Regional Planning (Transportation) from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University. Dr. Barrella has investigated best practices in engineering education since 2003 (at Bucknell University) and began collaborating on sustainable engineering design research while at Georgia Tech. Prior to joining the WFU faculty, she led the junior capstone design sequence at James Madison University, was the inaugural director of the NAE Grand Challenges Program at JMU, and developed first
studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. She also earned a graduate certificate in human-centered design (HCD) from the Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program at Virginia Tech. Marie’s interest in values and engagement in professional cultures also extends to innovation and its experts. With Matthew Wisnioski and Eric Hintz, Marie co- edited Does America Need More Innovators? (MIT Press, 2019). This project engages innovation’s champions, critics, and reformers in critical participation.Elizabeth A. Reddy (DR.) Anthropologist and STS scholar studying how we build engineering values, practices, and risk mitigation techJessica Smith Jessica M. Smith is Professor in the Engineering, Design & Society Department at the
Engineering from Old Dominion University and a Masters Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College. His research interests include optimization using agent-based modeling techniques, response surface methodology utilizing generalized polynomial chaos, design process methodology, and engineering education pedagogy. He is currently serving as the Director of the Center for Innovation and Engineering.Dr. Luksa Luznik, United States Naval Academy Page 24.960.1Capt. Wesly AndersonDr. Steven J. Condly, United States Military Academy c American Society for
, theimportance of the subject is still not fully understood by the industries and the design firms as avital content for maintaining the quality aspects and competitive edge in the context of theirproducts. It is still heartening to note that EMC problems are tacked generally in our context as“after thought” by the professional electronics designers and not by trained EMC experts. Thedesign of high-speed digital systems, wireless devices, mixed signal systems, and handhelddevices each point to the need for more graduates who are familiar with EMC practice. However,despite of the increasing importance of the EMC, many programs do not offer a course in EMCor include relevant EMC topics into their curriculum. Those that are interested in teaching such
for educational initiatives by exploring how thevarious design features of each of these applications may support and enhance the design ofinteractive learning environments.Some further study is already in place to see how students learn in virtual reality environmentsby contrasting designer’s expectations to students’ perceptions (Martens et al.[6]). They actuallyare showing a gap between these as students experience much less authenticity than developersassume, and in general, high expectations are often not fulfilled. The work of Foster[4] is a goodexample of efforts to develop standards and best practices for this new platform in teaching. Hedescribes a recent project (called Immersive Education) to develop virtual-reality software
research and education. VR in engineering design and construction disciplines is beingused to develop and visualize project designs[2-4]; visualize construction plans and schedules[5, 6];design and analyze construction equipment[7, 8]; and communicate and train the project team[5].Virtual reality can be classified into two broad areas: 1) Desktop VR, and 2) Immersive VR[9].In desktop VR, the viewer uses a desktop monitor to interact with a virtual model. In immersiveVR, a large format or head mounted display is used to immerse the viewer within the virtualenvironment. There are currently more than 14 different display type categories summarized byKasik[10] for immersive VR viewing
modes in the classroom.Mr. Curtiss Larry Davis II, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology I am Curtiss Davis, an instructional designer for the office of Learning and Technology at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. I have worked part-time at Rose-Hulman since 2012, teaching welding and fabri- cation in the innovation center. I have been full time since last June in the Learning and Technology office, using my teaching and course design skills in innovative ways to support staff and faculty. Furthermore, I am a licensed teacher in the state of Indiana and taught welding and advanced manufacturing for nine years prior to my full-time position at Rose-Hulman. In academics, I have an associate degree in sheet metal