Paper ID #10169Identifying and Cultivating Diverse STEM Talent through Creative RoboticsJennifer Cross, Carnegie Mellon University Jennifer Cross graduated from the F. W. Olin College of Engineering with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering and is now working toward her doctorate degree in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. A fellow of both the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Program and the Institute of Education Sciences’ Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research at Carnegie Mellon, Jennifer’s research focuses on the impacts of integrating creative robotics into cross-curricular
prepare the graduate for life-long learning and professional advancement in a broadrange of career choices. The Master’s degree programs emphasize research experience and theacquisition of specialized skills, on a full-time basis, or part-time allowing concurrentprofessional practice. The curricula adopt, whenever appropriate, an integrative,multidisciplinary, and multifunctional approach that underscores the environmental, social,economic, and management aspects. An ample selection of elective courses provides flexibilitythat accommodates particular interests of students.”“Comprehensive professional preparation is combined with a liberal education that enriches themind and spirit, broadens the outlook of students, fosters an understanding and
multiple best paper awards and keynote presentations at international and national conferences and workshops.Dr. Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Dr. Joachim Walther is a Professor of engineering education research at the University of Georgia and the Founding Director of the Engineering Education Transformations Institute (EETI) in the College of Engineering. The Engineering Education Transformations Institute at UGA is an innovative approach that fuses high quality engineering education research with systematic educational innovation to transform the educational practices and cultures of engineering. Dr. Walther’s research group, the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through
2006-981: RE-ENVISIONING CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING ANDMANAGEMENT EDUCATION THROUGH EXPERIENTIAL LEARNINGEddy Rojas, University of Washington Eddy M. Rojas is an Associate Professor of Construction Management at the University of Washington. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Costa Rica in 1991 and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He also received an M.A. in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1997. Dr Rojas is the Executive Director of the Pacific Northwest Center for Construction Research and Education and the Graduate Program Coordinator at the Department of
have this experience contribute to the success of their Page 12.889.2organization in a shorter timeframe, and can add more value than those who lack thatexperience. Universities are competing to attract and enroll the best overall students. Onemechanism to achieve enrollment of top students is to demonstrate how curriculum willprepare them for the job market.Academia-Curriculum Approach to Preparing Business-Ready Graduates To build a successful technology enterprise, it is vital to have a knowledge-basedworkforce with skills in science and engineering. That is, knowledgeable workers who alsohave the appropriate practical skills help to
, you just practicedorientation and disorientation!” This method enacts our approach of “meeting students wherethey are” as no matter what level of success or failure they experienced; they can contextualizethe activity as practice to build a skill.Empathy and Human-Centered Design: The second intervention we present is a module ontechno-ableism, which emphasizes the systems thinking skill of “locating power in systems.”This activity is accompanied by a guest speaker Adith Thumalapalli, a mechanical engineeringmajor that graduated in 2020, who illustrates through his activism how one can make changes inan existing system. While at UMD, he inventoried campus buildings and issued a detailed reporton the gaps in wheelchair accessibility. Either
: experience-based learning, collaboration, innovation, and globalization. Theprinciples are embodied in the University’s Center for Supply Chain Management (SCM) whichconducts research projects, educational programs, and outreach activities in close collaborationwith corporate partners, professional organizations, and other schools within the University.The Center for SCM has sponsored several working sessions with industry. Recurring themesfrom the working sessions are the need for students who are able to employ systems thinking andcritical thinking, in a team setting, to analyze processes and data, to arrive at data-drivenrecommendations, and then communicate the analysis and recommended way forwardeffectively. One of several ways these industry
, 125(1), 8.Jonassen, D., Strobel, J., & Lee, C.B. (2006) Everyday Problem Solving in Engineering: Lessons for Engineering Educators, Journal of Engineering Education, 95, 2, 139-150.Mitchell, J. E., & Smith, J. (2008). Case study of the introduction of problem-based learning in electronic engineering. International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education, 45(2), 131-273.Nasr, K. J., & Ramadan, B. H. (2008). Impact Assessment of Problem-Based Learning in an Engineering Science Course. Journal of STEM Education: Innovations & Research, 9(3/4), 16-24.Vardi, I., & Ciccarelli, M. (2008). Overcoming problems in problem-based learning: A trial of strategies in an undergraduate unit. Innovations in Education
engineeringprograms do not explicitly address it throughout their curricula. For instance, there are manycompetitions, challenges and opportunities for the demonstration of design skills, but most areoptional or extracurricular, catching only a portion of engineering graduates in a somewhat adhoc manner and at variable or even random places and times. As Walesh states, "Yes, we couldindividually and collectively rely on accidental creativity and innovation, those wonderful butrare out-of-the-blue events. However, why not complement accidental creativity and innovationwith the intentional kind?"11(pxviii) Making development of creativity skills a deliberate part ofengineering curricula is vital. If we do not integrate the development of these important skills
orderto ‘communicate effectively’ (ABET Criterion 3.g)3, ECET students must be able to select ‘acommunication medium and format that best supports the purposes of the product orperformance and the intended audience (ACRL 4.6.a). 7The non-ECET core courses subcommittee members were particularly intrigued by comparingthe ALA/ACRL/STS standards with the skill sets that they felt their students currently possessedand those that the students should obtain by the time they graduate. As the curriculum in effect atthat time stood, instructors prior to the senior year rarely required external literature reviews.Students did not receive practice in gathering and synthesizing information from articles in aconsistent way until their senior design project. As
, and NCIIA. Dr. Sacre’s current research focuses on three distinct but highly correlated areas – innovative design and entrepreneurship, engineering modeling, and global competency in engineering. She is currently associate editor for the AEE Journal.Dr. Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh Larry J. Shuman is Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Distinguished Service Professor of industrial engineering at the Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on improving the engineering education experience with an emphasis on assessment of design and problem solving, and the study of the ethical behavior of engineers and engineering managers. A former Senior Editor of the
lifeline of global businesses. For example, while a manufacturingengineer graduate will indeed be involved with some form of production of goods, thegeneration of knowledge and the creative skills needed to generate new knowledgeallows for manufacturing to compete in a global marketplace.Many universities find creativity is best encouraged through team activities. Manyinstitutions have adopted multidisciplinary E-teams These teams, composed ofmultidisciplinary team members, are charged with rapidly developing new technologiesand products15. In addition, with these projects, team member will enhancecommunication skills as they make oral and written proposals and presentationsthroughout. Not only will engineers need to demonstrate creative abilities
Paper ID #22684Enhancing Learning by Assessing More than Content KnowledgeProf. Renee Cole, University of Iowa Dr. Ren´ee Cole is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Iowa. Dr. Cole earned a B.A. in chemistry from Hendrix College, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physical chemistry from the University of Okla- homa. Her research focuses on issues related to how students learn chemistry and how that guides the design of instructional materials and teaching strategies as well on efforts related to faculty development and the connection between chemistry education research and the practice of teaching. She is a PI
, Simulation, Qual- ity, Six Sigma, Operations Research, Simulation, and Application of System Thinking. For more than 25 years, he has given training courses in different companies and training courses for teachers in topics related to statistics and Six Sigma methodology. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Integrating companies and higher education in the teaching-learning process of Lean Thinking using Challenge-based LearningAbstractManufacturing companies constantly search for graduates who know more about LeanManufacturing to reduce waste and improve productivity. This paper presents a modelthat integrates teaching Lean Thinking in higher education within an organization’s fa-cility
BaccalaureateAbstractThe California Central Coast Community College Collaborative (C6-LSAMP, C6) is a NationalScience Foundation Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation Bridge to theBaccalaureate grant project (NSF/LSAMP/B2B). C6-LSAMP is an innovative, cross-disciplinary, and multi-institutional collaboration developed by STEM leaders from eightCalifornia community colleges. The C6-LSAMP alliance leverages existing support structuresand best practices across the member institutions to address inequities in STEM outcomes for apopulation of students comprised of the underserved: Hispanic/Latinx and otherunderrepresented minorities (URMs) in rural areas. Within the five counties served by the C6-LSAMP colleges, only 13% of Hispanic/Latinx residents 25
the Stanford University Genome Technology Center, receiving an NIH Kirschstein post-doctoral fellowship. He joined Michigan State University in 2004 and his research is focused on the development of parallel analytical methods and the engineering of active nucleic acids (e.g., siRNAs) through mechanism-based design. He has been recognized for his accomplishments in both teaching and research, receiving the MSU Teacher-Scholar award, the College of Engineering Withrow Teaching Excellence Award, and being named an MSU Lilly Teaching Fellow.Dr. Daina Briedis, Michigan State University Daina Briedis is a faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Michigan State University and
-wide assessment committee. This workis gratefully acknowledged.Bibliography1. "Preparing for ABET 2000: From Curriculum Mission to Assessment Planning", Engineering Assessment Committee,School of Engineering, Report, December1998.2. Website of the Stevens Engineering Assessment Center: http://attila.stevens-tech.edu/assess/3. "Integrating Grading and Attitudinal Analysis in Engineering Assessment", A. B. Urken, Best Practices in EngineeringAssessment, Presentation, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2000.4. "Integrating Self-Assessment and Grading via the World Wide Web", C. Christodoulatos and A. B. Urken, AmericanAssociation for Higher Education, Presentation, Denver, 1999.5. "Assessment Update", G. B. DeLancey, Engineering Assessment
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manager of Materials Testing lab at Missouri S&T, teaches mechanics of materials and develops digital educational resources for the engineering students. He had the opportunity of leading several scientific and industrial research projects and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students. Over the span of his career, Dr. Libre authored and co-authored 3 chapter books, 17 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 60 conference papers. He has advised and co-advised 8 gradu- ate students and mentored over 30 undergraduate students. He has collaborated with scholars from several countries, including Iran, China, Slovenia, Canada, and the US. He also served as a reviewer for 6 journals and a committee member of 5
Education at Virginia Tech. He holds degrees in Industrial Engineering (BS, MS), Master of Business Administration (MBA) and in Engineering Education (PhD). Homero has 15 years of international experience working in industry and academia. His research focuses on contemporary and inclusive pedagogical practices, industry-driven competency development in engineering, and understanding the barriers that Latinx and Native Americans have in engineering. Homero has been recognized as a Diggs scholar, a Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence fellow, a Diversity scholar, a Fulbright scholar and was inducted in the Bouchet Honor Society.Ms. Maia Greene-Havas, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Maia Greene-Havas
herintroductory videos, Gentile shares an anecdote from her experience taking a padded assailantself-defense course in the “Model Mugging” system [12]. In the words of transformativelearning researcher Christina Schlattner, the program uses “scenarios which verbally andphysically simulate an actual attack—with many added guard rails to protect against physical orpsychological harm. The class is typically led by one female instructor/coach and one maleinstructor/mugger and is assisted by graduates of the program who provide logistical support forthe instructors and emotional support for participants” [13, p. 837]. Many training centers in thesystem have switched their name from “Model Mugging” to “Impact” or “Impact Safety”training, and the roles of the
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Engineering at Michigan. Cassie received a B.A. in Engineering Sciences at Wartburg College (Waverly, IA) and a M.S. in BME from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).Annie AnMeng Wang, University of MichiganDr. Aileen Huang-Saad, Northeastern University In February 2021 Dr. Huang-Saad joined the Bioengineering faculty at Northeastern University and be- came the Director of Life Sciences and Engineering Programs at The Roux Institute (Portland, Maine). Dr. Huang-Saad has a fourteen- year history of bringing about organizational change in higher educa- tion, leveraging evidence-based practices at University of Michigan. She created the U-M BME graduate design program, co-founded the U-M College of Engineering Center for
Paper ID #31529Diversifying the Engineering Pipeline through Early Engagement ofNeurodiverse LearnersMs. Constance M. Syharat, University of Connecticut Constance M. Syharat is a Research Assistant at the University of Connecticut as a part of the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (NSF-RED) project, ”Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engineering Innovation”. In her time at the University of Connecticut she has also worked as a Research Assistant for NSF CAREER project ”Promoting Engineering Innovation Through Increased Neurodiversity by Encouraging the Participation of Students with ADHD” and
problems. • Problem Solving: IS graduates will derive solutions and evaluate their success. • Information Technologies and their Applications: IS graduates will understand the capabilities, use, and application of information technologies. • Systems Principles and Practices: IS graduates will demonstrate understanding of system types, structures, standards, and metrics.The College of Information Systems MALOs and the university’s learning outcomes form thebasis of the IS curriculum and serve as a focus for curricular design in all aspects. As such, allcourse syllabi have to explicitly identify the course contribution to the learning outcomes
better understanding of therelationship between CSE, beliefs about creativity, and the lived experiences of undergraduatewomen engineering majors will lead to strategies for educational reform that will benefit allstudents, increase pathways for female students into the engineering major, and contribute to thesuccess of women engineering. Methodology and Instrument A sequential explanatory mixed methods design was used for this study [30]. This two-phase methodology was best suited to this research because synthesis of the quantitative surveywith the themes discovered from the qualitative data analysis lead to answers to the researchquestions. In this sequential explanatory design, the quantitative survey
emphasizes the need forstudents to visualize concepts which for many is not an inherent skill. This is particularly true inthe case of structural failures caused by design/material issues or natural phenomena such asearthquakes. The probability of a student, let alone a practicing engineer, observing first-hand thefailure of a column, beam, or any other structural component/system is extremely rare. Only fewof the best-resourced universities can afford to conduct failure tests in order to provide theirundergraduate/graduate students with some insight into these issues because the equipment andmaterials for such tests are highly expensive.Structural failures due to design/material problems amount to only several hundred over the courseof a decade [1
designed to guide the nation toward a scientifically literate society. Based Page 11.302.3on exemplary practice and research, the Standards describe a vision of the scientificallyliterate person and present criteria for science education that will allow that vision tobecome reality. Teachers must have theoretical and practical knowledge and abilitiesabout science, learning, and science teaching. General competencies for licensure andcertification in Oklahoma are also addressed. State competencies for licensure andcertification for elementary education also inform course content, as well as theOklahoma Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS) and the
engineering [2], we wanted to evaluate just how much thisuniversities’ Makerspace impacts student identity development that in turn will influenceretention.Three undergraduate members of our research team searched through all the first and secondsemester interview transcripts looking for mentions of the Makerspace, also searching for avariety of university-specific nicknames for the areas associated with it. Then, we did a deeperlook searching for terms related to “making,” including “building,” “3D printing,” and“designing,” that implied students were using the Makerspace. After collecting all the quotes, wesorted them into five categories regarding the context of mention of the Makerspace: 1. Generic perspectives on the Makerspace student group
-curricular (includingservice learning), and study abroad is provided. We also discuss the presence and integration ofinternational students and scholars and international research opportunities that currently engagestudents, and conclude with some recommendations to enhance internationalization.Internationalization Efforts in the College of EngineeringCurricular ProgramsThe CoE accounts for about 16% of the total undergraduate student population at VillanovaUniversity. All undergraduate engineering students complete a minimum of six courses withinthe humanities offerings in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The CoE is driven by thecore belief that the engineering profession serves society best by improving the lives of people.The CoE mission