contribute substantively to their value of the need for life-longlearning, and using their engineering education for making adifference in the lives of others. By approaching K-12 students withopportunities to creatively understand and apply engineering design, we believe their potential Page 24.769.8for preparing, preservering and performing as future engineers is greatly enhanced.Assessment rubrics are being designed to quantitatively assess the impact on students in a pre-and post- assessment approach. These instruments will be used in our spring and summer 2014outreach activities with planned
everyone on the team. When asked whether the practice of engineering was whatthey envisioned that it would be, many said that the amount of teamwork involved was differentthan they expected. Undergraduate experiences made them believe that they alone would workon a process or project, but they said that the practice is much more interdependent than theyexpected.DiscussionThe statistically significant areas where returners had higher levels of self-efficacy (Synthesizeinformation to reach conclusions that are supported by data and needs; Identify the safetyconcerns that pertain to a project that you are working on; Analyze the tradeoffs betweenalternative design approaches and select the one that is best for your project) all imply theapplication
and Retention Characteristics of Engineering Students at OSU, M.S. Thesis, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1996.21. Freuler, R.J., M.J. Hoffmann, T.P. Pavlic, J.M. Beams, J.P. Radigan, P.K. Dutta, J.T. Demel, and E.D. Justen, “Experiences with a Comprehensive Freshman Hands-On Course – Designing, Building, and Testing Small Autonomous Robots”, Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, June 2003.22. Van Heuvelen, A., "Learning to think like a physicist: a review of research-based instructional strategies", American Journal of Physics, 59, pp. 891– 897, 1991.23. Van Heuvelen, A., and D. Maloney, "Playing physics jeopardy", American Journal of Physics, 67, pp
Paper ID #33143Assessment of Online Professional Development on Faculty TeachingVirtuallyDr. Jamie R. Gurganus, University of Maryland Baltimore County Dr. Jamie Gurganus is the undergraduate program coordinator and a faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Department at UMBC, Director for the Center for the innovative, teaching, research and learning and she is the Associate Director of Engineering Education Initiatives at COEIT. Her research is focused on solving problems relating to educating and developing engineers, teachers, and the community at all levels (k12, undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate and
Paper ID #43223Board 236: Design for Sustainability: How Mental Models of Social-EcologicalSystems Shape Engineering Design DecisionsDr. Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Andrew Katz is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He leads the Improving Decisions in Engineering Education Agents and Systems (IDEEAS) Lab.Dr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research
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ABET accredited engineering program within theirinstitution and are on NSF’s list of top 50 baccalaureate origin institutions who graduate the mostundergraduates who go on to receive a PhD in science or engineering.Research responses from our Phase I survey as well as from the interviews developed for PhaseII will be used to produce evidence-based insights and recommendations towards (1) increasingunderrepresented minority students’ interest in graduate STEM degrees, (2) retaining andgraduating Black students in those programs, and (3) documenting best practices for others touse in supporting student success. Furthermore, our study along with dissemination workshopswill advance current scholarship in two main ways. First, our research will add
Paper ID #34436Mapping the Future: Geomatics as an Essential Element of the NextGeneration of Civil Engineering CurriculumMr. Max Teddy, Clemson University Max Teddy completed both his undergraduate and graduate degrees with Clemson University’s Glenn Department of Civil Engineering. His studies were centered around transportation design, planning, and operations. He now works as a Civil Analyst for Kimley-Horn in West Palm Beach, Florida as part of the Roadway Design team.Dr. Wayne Sarasua, Clemson University Professor of Civil Engineering and co-Principal Investigator of Clemson’s NSF RED grant. Educational research
Naval Ship and Development Center, Eglin Air Force Base, Bell Aerospace Textron, and EDS, among others. She served as the principal investigator and test director for infrared detectability assessments for the U. S. Navy’s Amphibious Assault Landing Craft Program, as editor for operations manuals for the Navy’s Special Warfare submarine delivery vehicles, and as associate program director for projects in electronic countermeasures and radar detection of submarine towed arrays. Her graduate studies in the area of high-resolution spectral analyses of Jovian decametric radiation, leading to a Ph.D. from the University of Florida, also included extensive field work in the installation and operation of observing stations
participants to educational theory and mentored teaching practice.The intermediate level certificate is achieved upon completion of a course on fundamentaleducation theory (PSPFC 1001) and a mentored teaching practicum (PSPFC 1002): • PSPFC 1001 introduces graduate students to principles of learner-centered teaching and provides opportunities for students to design lesson plans, practice implementing those lesson plans through micro-teaching sessions, self-reflect on those experiences, and give Page 26.741.4 and receive peer feedback. The course size commonly ranges from 16 to 20 students. • For PSPFC 1002, students
- ence working with many industries such as automotive, chemical distribution etc. on transportation and operations management projects. She works extensively with food banks and food pantries on supply chain management and logistics focused initiatives. Her graduate and undergraduate students are integral part of her service-learning based logistics classes. She teaches courses in strategic relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her recent research focuses on engineering education and learning sciences with a focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies to assess impact of good supply chain
, and NLP models to enhance human-in-the-loop sustainability solutions. Leading to an impact by implementing new policies for bridging the digital equity gap. I have a unique blend of expertise to build impactful experiences for enhancing education engagement.Peyman Yousefi, Merck Group Peyman is a senior User Experience Researcher at Merck Group. He specializes in using mixed methods to explore human-computer interaction and human-centered artificial intelligence. During his Ph.D. at Purdue University, Peyman adopted an ecological approach that integrates engineering and science concepts to address significant environmental challenges. His research methodology included agent-based modeling, crowdsourced human
concentration in power engineering and smart grid.This research study aims to serve the national interest of enhancing power engineering educationand learning to meet the nation’s urgent needs for a highly qualified next-generation Smart Gridworkforce.To achieve a remarkable change in power engineering education, the research teamadopted the thematic analysis approach[14] to further understand the industry stakeholders’expectations for qualified power engineering graduates in different segments of the industry andto establish a harmony that allows defining a prioritized list of learning objectives that wouldguide the curriculum design of ECE programs. Hence, asking them directly to understand whatthe industry needs is better. Faculty and administrators
, Florida International University Stephen is an Assistant Professor Engineering and Computing Education at Florida International University. He has a prior academic and professional background in engineering, having worked professionally as an acoustical engineer. He has taught a number of courses on design, sociotechnical contexts, education, and learning. He conducts research on equity and culture in engineering education and supports undergraduate and graduate student researchers through the Equity Research Group.Dr. Cassandra McCall, Utah State University Cassandra McCall, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Department and Co-Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Transition
Program (NAFP).The paper describes NASA’s education framework and outlines the enhancement of graduatechemical engineering education in the department through enhanced elective course offerings,expanded research opportunities and networking to broaden research and employmentopportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, concluding with the critical role NASAhas in promoting and impacting engineering and science graduate education. "To inspire the next generation of explorers...as only NASA can" is the NASA educationprogram's mission. This “can-do” concept guides all NASA’s programs and activities andrequires a diverse pool of talented scientists and engineers. The NASA NAFP Fellow and theDepartment of Chemical Engineering at Howard
) funded Engineering Research Centers (ERC) arerequired to develop and implement education and outreach opportunities related to their coretechnical research topics to broaden participation in engineering and create partnerships betweenindustry and academia. Additionally, ERCs must include an independent evaluation of theireducation and outreach programming to assess their performance and impacts. To date, eachERC’s evaluation team designs its instruments/tools and protocols for evaluation, resulting inidiosyncratic and redundant efforts. Nonetheless, there is much overlap among the evaluationtopics, concepts, and practices, suggesting that the ERC evaluation and assessment communitymight benefit from having a common set of instruments and
data on community impacts. These two expertswill be referred as external partners in the research.3.2 Research Methods The research described in this paper addresses the first phase of a larger project thatinvolves two phases. This project seeks to design and test innovative graduate education models.The goal of the first phase is for students to embark on a cyber-physical systems (CPS) orproduct lifecycle management (PLM) topic and in partnership with experts and faculty mentorsdevelop two online educational modules that describe an application-oriented view of CPS andPLM. In the second phase of this research, these modules will be integrated in existingundergraduate or first-year graduate courses at four different institutions (2 SUs
Automation) Power Industry Division Symposium (2011) and the Best Poster Paper Award in the 3rd IFAC International Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Science (2013). He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Automatica and International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. Dr. Qian is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).Sara Ahmed (Assistant Professor) Dr. Sara Ahmed is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department in the University of Texas at San Antonio. She received her Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. degrees all in Electrical Engineering with a Power Electronics concentration from Virginia Tech, Center for Power Electronics in
and involvement in research, the students have improved their ability tocritically and creatively think about problems and develop solutions, orally communicateideas and concerns, and prepare technical documents.Students gained practical experience conducting research that complements their fundamen-tal engineering learning. The students evaluated and physically tested a wide range of visualand digital display devices available in the local and international market. A part of the test-ing process included the design and development of a display board. It replicated a typicalresidential electrical system, and consisted of a utility power meter, load center and variousresidential loads (Figure 1). Students applied the NEC Code in wiring the
-related topics, includingmass customization of products, design of product platforms, modular design, robust design,decision-making in design, and others (a syllabus may be obtained from authors).One of the challenges in ME6102 is to determine the requirements for these traditional design-related approaches to work well in the context of the G3 world with its new, game-changingparadigms of as mass collaboration, open innovation, crowd-sourcing, and the like. In order toprovide our students with a holistic picture, we believe that the core technical design-relatedcontent is best delivered in combination with a variety of guest lectures – often given by strategicleaders from industry – that focus on these new and game-changing paradigms and help
approaches for developing an identity to their impact onengineering identity development. This research paper investigates the difference in students’engineering identity, engineering performance/competence, engineering interest, recognition inengineering, and affect towards six professional engineering practices in two differenceengineering departments: a traditional program that implicitly supports engineering identityformation and a non-traditional program that explicitly supports engineering identity formation.Survey data was collected from a total of 184 students (153 from the traditional department and31 from the non-traditional department). Using independent samples t-tests, results show thatengineering identity was higher for students in the
://sftp.asee.org/31865[11] National Science Foundation. (2023). NSF 23-553 IUSE/Professional Formation of Engineers: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (IUSE/PFE: RED) [Online]. Available: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23553/nsf23553.pdf[12] S. Secules, C. McCall, J.A. Mejia, C. Beebe, A.S. Masters, M.L. Sanchez-Peña, and M. Svyantek, “Positionality practices and dimensions of impact on equity research: A collaborative inquiry and call to the community. J Eng Educ. 2021; 110: 19– 43. https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20377[13] Utah State University Office of Legal Affairs. (2021, July-October) Start-up Packages for Engineering 2013-2019. (USU GRAMA Request). [Online] Available: grama@usu.edu[14] R. K. Coll and C. Eames
. Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Dr. Walther is an assistant professor of engineering education research at the University of Georgia (UGA). He is a director of the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), an interdisciplinary research group with members from engineering, art, educational psychology and social work. His research interests range from the role of empathy in engineering students’ professional formation, the role of reflection in engineering learning, and interpretive research methodologies in the emerging field of engineering education research. His teaching focuses on innovative approaches to introducing systems thinking and
students with first hand exposure of real industryprojects, practices and regulations.Additional benefits of this program include the continual interaction between students andpractitioners. Schedules are established and must be adhered to, technical writing and oralcommunication skills are honed while the students become responsible to an outside consultant.This relationship in many cases has facilitated job placement for the graduates of the program.Introduction:With the implementation of ABET 2000 several changes had to be made within the engineeringcurriculum at Stevens Institute of Technology. One of the major changes included revising thecapstone design to accomplish some of the goals set forth in ABET Criteria a through k and meetthe
action.In our approach to this research, we seek to better understand how possibilities for learning andbecoming in this space are shaped by the social organization of specific settings and nestedcontexts [27, 28]. This approach to modeling learning draws centrally from a socioculturalperspective on learning [6-7, 29]. Consistent with a sociocultural perspective on learning, thispaper draws from theoretical and analytical approaches developed by Quan et al. [30] for makingsense of undergraduate students’ learning within early research experiences in the physicalsciences. In Quan’s foundational work, they built off of the scholarship of Michael Ford whotheorized about the value of centering “scientific practices” as an organizing construct
instructorsas they learn about and try new research-supported interactive teaching strategies. Over the lifeof the project, SIMPLE groups have been active in six STEM departments at a large publicresearch university. Studying the implementations in these six departments provided anopportunity to identify lessons learned for best practices in creation, leadership, and support ofongoing teaching development groups. This paper describes the lessons learned through thisproject and data that support them.Background and MotivationWhile existing literature supports the value of active and student-centered teaching practices forimproving learning, retention, and engagement in post-secondary education, adoption of thesepractices has been slow in STEM
is a recipient of 2014-2015 University Dis-tinguished Teaching Award at NYU. In 2004, he was selected for a three-year term as a Senior FacultyFellow of NYU Tandon’s Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. His scholarly activities have in-cluded 3 edited books, 8 chapters in edited books, 1 book review, 55 journal articles, and 126 conferencepapers. He has mentored 1 B.S., 17 M.S., and 4 Ph.D. thesis students; 31 undergraduate research studentsand 11 undergraduate senior design project teams; over 300 K-12 teachers and 100 high school studentresearchers; and 18 undergraduate GK-12 Fellows and 60 graduate GK-12 Fellows. Moreover, he di-rects K-12 education, training, mentoring, and outreach programs that enrich the STEM education of
. As the number five cause of death in the United States, the safety of medicaldevices and practices must receive the highest attention of biomedical engineers. Engineers mustbe sensitized to the importance of safety issues, be prepared to recognize and evaluate safetyrisks, and be able to develop improved technologies and practices that reduce hazards.The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the research and educationarm of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has launched a major effort toreduce safety risks in the workplace, including biomedical and healthcare settings. ThePrevention through Design (PtD) initiative seeks to prevent and control occupational injuries,illnesses, and fatalities by
Paper ID #37348A Review of Promising Practices in STEM Bridge Programs Serving HighSchool and College Native American Indigenous CommunitiesDr. Araceli Martinez Ortiz, The University of Texas, San Antonio Araceli Martinez Ortiz, PhD., is the Microsoft President’s Endowed Professor of Engineering Education in the Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design/ College of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She leads a comprehensive research agenda related to integrated STEM learning, challenge-based learning for students, engineering faculty professional development and culturally
’ learning experiences through teaching innovations, curriculum design, and support of undergraduate student research. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Oral Assessments as an Early Intervention StrategyAbstractOral assessments, i.e., one-on-one interview-style questioning by an instructor, have been shownto be powerful pedagogical tools. Their main benefits include the ability to assess conceptualmastery in depth due to their adaptive dialogic nature, in addition to improving students’ verbalskills and serving as a tool to support academic integrity. However, assessments not only play animportant role in measuring the level of students' understanding, but the assessment method