to Energize School FacilitiesAbstract: This paper explores the potential for universities, colleges, and K-12 schools toimplement solar electric infrastructure projects on their campuses that not only provide financialsavings, but also provide learning environments and instructional opportunities for students. Arecent case study at Madison College is presented for a 1.85 MW photovoltaic system that is thelargest solar rooftop installation in the State of Wisconsin. The system was designed withseveral unique features to facilitate public access, provide students with hands-on interaction,and compare and contrast several different types of solar equipment. Special engineering designconsiderations should be made when installing solar on schools
students areimmersed in curricula that allow little if any room for the development of EI competencies, andmay in fact be encouraged to focus on logical-mathematical intelligence to the detriment of EIskills. Finally, based on our experiences with our EEI students, we believe that preciselybecause of the competitive, rigorous nature of engineering curricula, students must be betterequipped to encounter challenges and set-backs, and to develop resilience and self-motivation.III. COURSE OBJECTIVES AND GOALS: WHAT DO WE WANT STUDENTS TO BE ABLE TO DO?9Through exploration of the area of emotional intelligence, students are able to identify personalEI competencies and areas for improvement, and build on these competencies and skills.Students
progress at the end of the semesterpresentation of the project.The design constraints for the Stevens project included: a low environmental footprint;minimized reliance on supplied fossil fuel and water as this of critical significance to militaryoperations; and a focus on integrated alternative energy sources in an associated micro-grid.Based on stakeholder input the project design is directed at a 100-person camp that can berapidly delivered and assembled in a remote location for a 6-12 month deployment for a combatoutpost (COP), and also applicable to disaster relief missions which the military is often calledupon to support. Four primary areas of focus are critical to the project: shelter, energy, water andwaste. Adaptability and resilience
. GCOs 3(c) and 4(d)engage students in retaining "composure and equanimity when they don't have information tocope with uncertainty (tolerance for ambiguity)" and coping "with frustration, adversity, orchallenging circumstances (resilience)", both of which once again express the great challenges ofpracticing engineering in a global context. While the GCOs are written for the entire universityand all its disciplines, it is clear that many of them have a special resonance for engineeringeducation and practice.Pre-Departure Planning and the Beginning of the S.A. ExperienceThe student lifecycle for study abroad experiences at our university takes the following format.In brief, students are introduced to available programs via advertisements, flyers
aninterest in civil engineering before the course. The number of students with the same interest in2020 and 2021 is unknown. Although students in 2022 noted a slight increase in broadening theirknowledge, the category still received strong agreement on average.Most students associated civil engineering with infrastructure or bridges in the three-year pre-course surveys. However, topics covered throughout that year’s week appeared in the post-course surveys. In 2020, the association shifted towards "sustainability" and "resiliency," whilein 2021, students cited instructors' specific fields and considered factors such as "populationgrowth," "ever-changing societies," "buildings adaptability," and "equity" when asked about civilengineering's future
optimize the needs of society.”23Humanitarian Oregon State University Oregon State University Humanitarian engineering • Innovation for Social • “We define humanitarian engineering as Impact the co-development of science or • Environmental Justice engineering-based solutions to improve the human condition, namely through OSU improved access to basic human needs, • Computational an improved quality of life, or improved Humanitarianism level of community resilience.”24
faculty face when adopting evidence-based instructional practices in their engineering courses. Amy’s research interests meet at the intersection of sustainable and resilient infrastructure, emotions in engineering, and engineering identity formation.Jeff Knowles Dr. Jeff Knowles is an engineering instructor at Oregon State University who began teaching courses in 2015. His current pedagogical research is related to barriers associated with implementing Evidence- Based Instructional Practices (EBIPs) in STEM-related courses and determining what affordances can be granted to overcome such contextual obstacles. Jeff’s interests also include the numerical modeling of nonlinear wave phenomena.Elliott Clement, Oregon State
infrastructure resilience, and engineering ed- ucation. She taught 11 courses at UConn, including Statics, Structural Analysis, Senior Capstone Project, and new Structural Health Monitoring and Sensors courses. Dr. Jang is the recipient of the 2018 Civil Engineering Educator of the Year award from the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers, the 2021 Dis- tinguished Engineering Educator Award from the UConn School of Engineering, and the 2021 ASEE Emerging Leader Fellow Award from the Civil Engineering Division. She is the newsletter editor of the ASEE Civil Engineering Division and the treasurer of the ASEE Northeast Section. In addition, she is a faculty advisor of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) UConn Chapter
with Pitt’s core compe- tencies of research and education, Sanchez has built up Pitt Hydroponics in Homewood, founded Con- stellation Energy Inventor labs for K-12 students, and re-created the Mascaro Center’s Teach the Teacher sustainability program for science educators in the region. As a teacher he designed and created the Sustainability capstone course which has annually partnered with community stakeholders to address sustainability challenges at all scales. Past projects have in- cluded evaluating composting stations in Wilkinsburg, studying infrastructure resilience in Homewood, enabling community solar in PA, improving energy efficiency in McCandless Township, and improving
computing, affective computing, and biometrics. The effect of factors such as user frustration intensities on performance was investigated. Sustainable Infrastructure, Geotechnics, and Materials research aimed to enhance sustainability and resilience in civil and marine structures through developing high-performance materials and incorporating reliability and optimization into the design of geotechnical and structural systems.Assessment MethodEvaluation and assessment of I-RISE used several measures, including surveys, interviews with participantsand faculty, and the ongoing longitudinal assessment of participants’ academic performance. This paper,however, only focuses on the assessment based on the participant
processes. Focused on co-creating long term partnerships that synergize community vision with Pitt’s core competencies of research and education, Sanchez has built up Pitt Hydroponics in Homewood, founded Constellation Energy Inventor labs for K-12 students, and re-created the Mascaro Center’s Teach the Teacher sustainability program for science educators in the region. As a teacher he designed and created the Sustainability capstone course which has annually partnered with community stakeholders to address sustainability challenges at all scales. Past projects have included evaluating composting stations in Wilkinsburg, studying infrastructure resilience in Homewood, enabling community solar in PA, improving energy
University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on sensing and control systems for enhanced resilience of civil infrastructure. Prof. Linderman is the recipient of several research and teaching awards including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the University of Minnesota Taylor Career Development Award.R Lee Penn Lee Penn is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of MN - twin cities, and they have taught chemistry courses, seminars about bikes and nanotechnology, and more. Lee’s research group works with nanoparticles - their synthesis and characterization and how they behave in environmental systems – and green materials synthesis. Lee has served as a chemistry advisor, faculty advisor to
experiences and material. This paper details theresults of our exploration of this space.2. The KEEN EML Framework and KEEN CardsThe Entrepreneurial Minded Learning educational framework has gained increased attention andpopularity within undergraduate engineering education. The framework promotes both skillsetsand mindsets for engineering students. Mindsets have become popularized as educators havebecome more aware of the work of psychologists on topics such as grit [8] that assume theimportance of resilience in learning. Similarly Carol Dweck’s growth mindset emphasizes howdifferent forms of feedback impact the comfort level of students as they work on problems.KEEN has published a list of skillsets and mindsets hypothesized to be important in EML
includes civil engineering materials, dynamics, engineering design, engineering economics, first-year engineering experience, matrix analysis, mechanics, probability and risk in engineering, statics, and structural analysis. His research aims to better society by exploring how infrastructure materials can be made to be more environmentally sustainable and resilient; and by exploring how engineering can be structured to be more welcoming of diverse perspectives, which can fuel solutions in challenging societal inequities.Monica Palomo (Professor) Dr. Mónica Palomo is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where she teaches senior projects, and environmental and
budget in the future (up to $150 million per year).While more funding is a welcome support for two-year schools around the nation, many of theseschools have not had the infrastructure in place to smoothly apply for and/or manage federalcompetitive grants of this magnitude. Especially compared to research universities, two-yearcolleges have not historically pursued federal competitive grants and often do not haveexperienced and available faculty, staff, and systems to do so. Two-year faculty teaching loadsaverage higher than universities, at five three-credit courses per semester [9, 10]. And it has beenour personal experience that administrators and staff at two year schools “wear many hats”compared to university staff.So how can a two-year
engineering students at a large public research institution in the midwesternUnited States that offers a wide range of engineering majors and has a large internationalpopulation with students from 112 countries. The total number of undergraduates studyengineering was 10,226 at the time of the research. Approximately 51% of engineeringenrollment identifies as domestic White, 12% as domestic Asian, 24% as international, 5% asHispanic/Latinx, and 4% two or more races, with less than 1% of students identifying as AfricanAmerican. Approximately 74% of the engineering students identify as male. (The institutiondoes not provide non-binary gender as an option in its data-gathering.) Prior to March 2020, theuniversity had some infrastructure to transition
2021.Dr. Hitoshi Nakamura, Shibaura Institute of Technology Dr. Hitoshi Nakamura received Ph.D. in Urban Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2006. He is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Department of Planning, Architecture and Environmental Systems at Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan. His research interests include Planning for Urban and Regional Resilience focusing on multidisciplinary studies across architecture, civil engineering, environmental studies, and social sciences. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Affordable robotics toolkits for equitable and interdisciplinary education, transformable to searching nodes for
are increasinglylagging in soft skills due to a number of reasons such as lack of standard definition of ‘softskills’, unclear understanding of expectations related to the use of soft skills in industry, scatteredefforts to reduce this gap and lower emphasis by accreditation bodies, when compared totechnical skills. It was observed that it is challenging to quantify the cultivation of soft skills inthe curricula. Vaz-Serra and Mitcheltree [12] used a survey to collect data of key competenciesrequired from Construction Management graduate students in Australia from the perspectives ofsenior executives and operation heads that have recruitment powers. Through their analysis, topfive traits were identified: communication, resilience and
Paper ID #38684Board 86: Utilization of Inexpensive, Safe, and Portable ElectronicInstrumentation System to Increase Students’ Performance in MultipleStem DisciplinesDr. Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University Dr. Oludare Owolabi, a professional engineer in Maryland, joined the Morgan State University faculty in 2010. He is the director for the Sustainable Infrastructure Development, Smart Innovation and Resilient Engineering Research Lab at Morgan State UniversityChukwuemeka DuruMr. Pelumi Olaitan Abiodun, Morgan State University Pelumi Abiodun is a current doctoral student and research assistant at the
, crunchingnumbers, and drawing diagrams. However, this narrative isturned on its head by Northeastern University. An institutionbuilt on the fundamentals of experiential learning, thisfive-week summer program challenges students to use the fullextent of their resilience to tackle eight credit hours and adaptto living abroad. The chemical engineering-specific dialogue,Sustainable Energy in the 21st Century Brazil, offered two rigorous engineering courses and companyvisits while traveling to southern Brazil. The program was set to visit five major locations; São Paulo, RioDe Janeiro, Foz do Iguaçu, Angra, and Paraty from July 5th to August 13th. The first two weeks were adeep dive into the curricula, whether that was engineering or Portuguese language crash
participation in engineering byopening up more perspectives of what is engineering using diverse contexts.References[1] M. Knight and C. Cunningham, “Draw an Engineer Test (DAET): Development of a Tool to Investigate Students’ Ideas about Engineers and Engineering,” in Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, 2004.[2] L. Berthoud, S. Lancastle, M. A. Gilbertson, and M. Gilbertson, “Designing a resilient curriculum for a joint engineering first year,” in Annual Conference Proceedings for the 2021 European Society for Engineering Education, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361461385[3] J. R. Morelock, “A systematic
to take risks on creative solutionsResilience Discusses Demonstrates Analyzes Evaluates complex components maintenance of problems/solutions and long-term and strategies communication with alternative problems with of resilience network during logics perseverance and a challenge determinationStrategic Classifies Uses various Analyzes new Assesses relevancy
, and even language arts. An example of the application of ST inenvironmental sciences is helping learners understand the feedback loops of carbon emissionsand their effects on the entire environmental ecosystem [16].ST methodologies can help learners understand the complexity of some of the real-worldproblems they interact with and look beyond the linear approaches in solving them. It also helpslearners through development of the skills and knowledge required to tackle wicked problems,pushing learners towards critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, whichare important for success in any field [15].Some of the Systems Thinking tools include actor maps, systemigrams, system archetypes, mainchain infrastructures, causal
learning techniques [8, 9], provide mentoring to supportinstructors [10], facilitate pedagogical identity development [11], and foster collaborations forexternal funding mechanisms [12]. To best enable participation and facilitation of professionaldevelopment, professional organizations have found that virtual communities of practice requireorganizational support for the technical infrastructure that the participants utilize to facilitateinteractions [13]. Prior research on the use of these virtual communities of practice [13 - 15] hasfound that organizers must facilitate the virtual environment by providing management supportand asynchronous interactions to facilitate the use of the virtual community, as well as activitiesthat promote
NegusseRichard DamoahMaajida MurdockDr. Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University Dr. Oludare Owolabi, a professional engineer in Maryland, joined the Morgan State University faculty in 2010. He is the assistant director of the Center for Advanced Transportation and Infrastructure Engineer- ing Research (CATIER) at Morgan State UniversitJonathan Wilson, Morgan State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Strategic Outreach for Nuclear Workforce Pipeline Development and Maintenance at a Historically Black College University (HBCU)AbstractOur HBCU has a well-established record of providing a wide array of quality
capstone reports forthe six global health student teams. In both studies, we defined "contextual factor" as acharacteristic of the potential solution's broad use context and "incorporate" as an instance whena contextual factor influenced a participant's decision during their design process. Following ateam-based consensus and negotiated agreement approach [38], [39], we coded transcripts of theinterviews for evidence of incorporation of contextual factors, which we categorized into nineprimary categories identified in the literature: Technological, Industrial, Institutional,Infrastructure, Environment, Economic, Public health, Socio-cultural, and Political [1].Additionally, each contextual factor was coded with the corresponding design phase
Paper ID #37303The Role of Hands-On Engineering Technology Summer Camps in Attract-ingUnderrepresented High School Students to STEM MajorsDr. Mohamed Khalafalla, Florida A&M University - Florida State University Dr. Mohamed Khalafalla Ahmed is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture and Engineering Technology at Florida A&M University. His research focuses on risk analysis, alternative project delivery, and cost estimating for construction and infrastructure projects. Dr. Khalafalla has performed risk analy- sis and cost estimating related work for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. Also
infrastructure, and transportation engineering.Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Investigating Students’ Expectations of Instruction in Engineering Laboratory Courses During the COVID-19 PandemicIntroduction The COVID-19 pandemic has enormously changed everyday operations, in particular the contentdelivery in higher education. At the first onset of the pandemic in Spring of 2020, and knowingwhere it was going, academic institutions fully transitioned to a remote instructional mode tosustain everyone's well-being. In this paper, we try to understand the critical differences in studentexpectations on the
middle of the semester. Student were given theoption to submit mockups instead of functional prototypes, and one-third of the students chosethis option. Since the class is about data science and students fully work on their own laptop, notrelying on physical labs or infrastructure, there were probably less difficulties in transitioninginto a virtual environment. Students met during class time in Zoom breakout rooms and plannedtheir work outside of class. The instructor made frequent use of breakout rooms and the chatfunction to help facilitate group discussion. One class session was cancelled to allow student to move out of campus and into theirnew residences. The final exam was also cancelled, in line with MIT’s policy. A skill