research awards. He has made major contributions in laboratory methods that demonstrate chemical engineering practice and principles. These highly visual and effective experiments, the most notable using the vehicle of a coffeemaker, are used to introduce engineering design and science to university and pre-college students. This work has been presented at national meetings, workshops and published in journals and proceedingsMr. Barnabas Gao, Rowan University Barnabas Gao is a passionate chemical engineer currently pursuing his PhD at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. His research is centered around
approach to academic mentoring: Exploring the perspectives and responses of womxn in science and engineering research. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 59, 101786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2019.101786Womack, V. Y., Wood, C. V., House, S. C., Quinn, S. C., Thomas, S. B., McGee, R., & Byars- Winston, A. (2020). Culturally aware mentorship: Lasting impacts of a novel intervention on academic administrators and faculty. PloS One, 15(8), e0236983. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236983Yun, J. H., Baldi, B., & Sorcinelli, M. D. (2016). Mutual mentoring for early-career and underrepresented faculty: Model, research, and practice. Innovative Higher Education, 41, 441–451. https
effectiveness of the redesign.2 Pedagogical BackgroundMany faculty members in many different engineering and science disciplines have appliedresearch-based instructional strategies and studied their influences. So, the redesign that isdescribed in the paper has been in the context of many studies that suggest positive influences onstudent learning and attitudes. The purpose of this section is to provide a context for the redesignwithin a spectrum of prior research on teaching engineering and engineering courses, particularlyin the first two years of engineering curricula.2.1 The Impact of Active Learning PedagogiesMany studies have suggested that learning can be enhanced when instructors incorporate student-centered, interactive approaches 11, 13
years planned forimplementation.Summary and Future WorkThis paper has presented a large undertaking by The Pennsylvania State University Harold andInge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME) to design, developand implement a product-based learning pedagogy that bundles goods and services for anintegrated context rich industrial engineering curriculum. Significant progress has been made,including the implementation of new methods in several courses. An engaged and growing teamof faculty, graduate and undergraduate research students continues to learn and grow, with inputand guidance from a center for excellence in engineering education.A growing number of courses and faculty are being on-boarded due in large part to
reform its structure, given all the complexities associated withits prerequisite dependencies and learning outcomes. Things can become even more complicatedwhen a set of curricula is examined. Therefore, efforts to automate the process of restructuringcurricula are beneficial to helping the university community find the best available practices toreduce the complexity of their institutional curricula. This study introduces an innovative frame-work for automating curriculum restructuring, employing a combination of graphical modelsand machine learning techniques. In particular, we use latent tree graphical models and collab-orative filtering to induce curriculum reforms without needing a domain expert. The approachused in this paper is data
ERCs:8 • There is a national need for education of interdisciplinary, team-oriented PhDs. There is a collective alarm at the continued production of graduates at all levels who are totally untrained in team research and often openly antagonistic to industrially relevant research. • The goal of the ERC education programs is to develop a team-based, research- inspired, and industrial practice-oriented culture for the education of graduate and undergraduate students that will produce engineering leaders for the future.We propose that our program is directed at doing exactly that – creating interdisciplinary,team-oriented BS and PhD programs in which students will design the innovative,sustainability related products
-traditional students, adeeper examination of this group within graduate education research becomes critical, especiallyconsidering that only a few studies concentrate on their motivations and experiences. The resultsof these examinations can support graduate programs to make further changes to the design anddelivery of their doctoral curriculums by accounting for the unheard voices of these non-traditional students and raising awareness of their lived experiences throughout their program. In this paper, we describe the preliminary results of a collaborative autoethnographicexploration of the professional and educational experiences of two professional non-traditionaldoctoral students in engineering and computing education. We define
Evaluator and a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal on Engineering Education.Thomas A. Litzinger, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Thomas A. Litzinger is Director of the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Edu- cation and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State, where he has been on the faculty since 1985. His work in engineering education involves curricular reform, teaching and learning innovations, faculty development, and assessment. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of combustion and thermal sciences. He is an Associate Editor of Advances in Engineering Education and a Fellow of ASEE.Dan Ewert, Iron Range Engineering, Minnesota State University – Mankato Dan
Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect conceptual change and associated impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and per
countries,” Int. Educ. Stud., vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 22–44, 2018.[8] A. Esaki-Smith, “Is studying in the U.S. worth it? International students on the ‘value’ of their U.S. education experience?” Interstride, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.interstride.com/research/2022-career/[9] B. Roundtable, “The Economic Impact of Curbing the Optional Practical Training Program,” Bus. Roundtable, 2018, [Online]. Available: https://www.businessroundtable.org/policy-perspectives/immigration/economic-impact-curbi ng-optional-practical-training-program[10] J. L. Neufeld, Optional Practical Training (OPT) and International Students After Graduation. Niskanen Center, 2019.[11] National Science Foundation, “Which fields attract students
blue and white-collar dishonesty, such as sharp business practices, dishonest advertising, juggled books andaccounts, concealment of profits, and the taking and giving of bribes. These are all practiceswhich rip-off the buying public." 4 Selfish decision making, the careless collection ormisrepresentation of facts, and the disregard for and disrespect of the individual under the guiseof what is good for the organization are compromising the common good on a global scale.It is important that our graduates understand that when engineers' actions compromise the abilityof their employers' to make sound decisions, they also compromise their employer’s ability toprovide long-term employment. In every case example, an ethic as basic and simple as
engineering-focused teacher practitioner articles, chapters, and research articles, and presents her research regularly through the ASEE Pre-College Engineering Education Division, a division she has chaired. Her current research includes investigating how children plan, fail, and productively persist; how mixed-reality simulated classroom environments can be used to help pre-service and in-service teachers practice facilitating challenging discussions in science and engineering; and how undergraduate engineering design teaching assistants address (and may be able to practice addressing) team conflict within similar simulated environments. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024
BSEE Student 12 Senior Male BSEE Student 13 Graduate Female MSTTeaching the Power Electronics Course with a Hybrid Flipped Classroom ApproachThis course was designed to introduce switch mode power electronics principles with a partiallyflipped (or hybrid) classroom approach. Covered topics include analysis, design, and operationof power electronic circuits for motor drives and electric utility applications, power conversionfrom AC to DC, DC to DC, DC to AC. In addition, design and construction of power electroniccircuits through simulations are studied. PSpice software is used for power electronics systemanalysis and design. Prerequisite courses include Solid
transformative learning among our studentsbased on this model. One of these interventions was the opportunity to participate in a programcalled Communities of Practice (CoPs) for credit in our courses. In the first set of resultspublished, we found a statistically-significant correlation between participation in CoPs andprogress along the transformative learning process as defined by Mezirow. Based on support inthe literature for the CoPs to not only support transformative learning but also to potentiallyincrease engagement and sense of efficacy particularly among underrepresented students, wefocused the next stage in our research on investigating the impact of Communities of Practicefor our underrepresented student populations, specifically
and methodologies in engineering education. Intrigued by the intersections of engineering education, mental health and social justice, Dr. Coley’s primary research interest focuses on virtual reality as a tool for developing empathetic and in- clusive mindsets among engineering faculty. She is also interested in hidden populations in engineering education and innovation for more inclusive pedagogies.Mr. Michael Lorenzo Greene, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Michael Greene is a PhD student in the Engineering Educations Systems and Design program at Arizona Sate University, Polytechnic Campus.Dr. Jeremi S London, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Jeremi London is an Assistant
mobilize social and economic change. He has graduate degrees in Aero- nautics and Astronautics (space systems design, astrodynamics and propulsion), Electrical and Computer Engineering (artificial intelligence, fields and optics) and Engineering Education (design cognition and human communication inquiry) all from Purdue University. He also has an undergraduate degree in Me- chanical Engineering (design) from the University of Jordan, and an undergraduate degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue. He taught courses in use-inspired design at ASU and in transforming ideas to innovations at Purdue. Prior to joining ASU, Hadi worked at the University of Jordan as a facilitator for curricular change and design
of engineering education, mental health and social justice, Dr. Coley’s primary research interest focuses on virtual reality as a tool for developing empathetic and in- clusive mindsets among engineering faculty. She is also interested in hidden populations in engineering education and innovation for more inclusive pedagogies.Ms. Yue Liu, Arizona State University Yue Liu is a doctoral student in the Engineering Education Systems and Design program at Arizona State University. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Promising practices that promote inclusivity at University- affiliated makerspaces within schools of engineering
website, and synchronous virtual professional development activities that canenable best practices for virtual communities of practices as described above. In particular, thefollowing research questions were posed: 1) who participates in virtual collaboration eventsaimed at facilitating collaborative learning of various BME education and professionaldevelopment topics?, and 2) what are the demographics of the participants of these events interms of title, role, and institution? Results of this study aim to elucidate whether a BME virtualcommunity of practice can break down the aforementioned professional silos through onlineasynchronous and synchronous knowledge transfer.Methods:The Biomedical Engineering Education Community (BEEC) [21] is a
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Exploring early-career professionals’ conceptions of “stretch assignments”: A qualitative study of recent graduates from engineering and non-engineering fields1.0 IntroductionEarly-career engineers often enter workplaces that have not been designed with equity in mind.Beliefs about techno-meritocracies reign, blurring experiences of negative stereotypes, bias, anddiscrimination. Many new engineers learn largely opaque organizational practices and unwrittenrules of advancement as they go—with some having more informational advantage than others.One such practice is a developmental, or “stretch”, assignment. We define stretch assignments asinformally allocated work
considerably decreasingoriginality and fluency of ideas generated in fact resonates with many. Industry has perceivednew BS engineering graduates as lacking design capability or creativity, as well as anappreciation for considering alternatives. Further, a 1995 ASME report ranked creative thinkingas 5th of 56 top desired “best practices” for new BS-level engineers as seen by industry andacademe.12 In the past several years, universities have responded to these challenges by addingmore design content and introducing more open-ended design problems into their engineeringcurricula. Articles discussing the guarded success of these initiatives have appeared in journals.Yet the need to increase the creative potential of graduates still persists. 13 In fact
. Kim is a curriculum theorist, teacher educator, and narrative inquiry methodologist. Her research centers on various epistemological underpin- nings of curriculum studies, particularly engaging in hermeneutical excavation of the stories of students and teachers around the notion of Bildung, a human way of developing or cultivating one’s capacity. She received the Faculty Outstanding Researcher Award in 2018 from Texas Tech University, and the Out- standing Publication Award from the American Education Research Association in 2017 for her book, Understanding Narrative Inquiry, published in 2016. She has published numerous articles in journals including Journal of Curriculum Studies, International Journal of
Michael Trevisan is Professor of Educational Leadership and Counseling Psychology and Director of the Assessment and Evaluation Center at Washington State University Page 12.293.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Assessments for Three Performance Areas in Capstone Engineering DesignAbstractCapstone engineering design courses occupy pivotal positions in every engineering baccalaureatedegree program. They are critical to preparing graduates with professional skills needed forinnovative, responsible practice in a global environment, and they provide vital assessment datafor ABET
teaches a variety of classes for first year students, seniors, and everyone in between and he enjoys designing and fabricating things in the makerspace whenever he has time. His primary research interest is in rehabilitation engineering and assistive technology for people with disabil- ities.Dr. Bryant Hutson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Using Faculty Learning Communities to create a sustainable Community of Practice that promotes curricular and instructional changeAbstractWhen implementing new evidence-based pedagogy in a course to improve student learning, thefaculty must address
types ofprograms: a Saturday academy with a traditional STEM curriculum, called Raise the Bar (RTB),and a new summer camp program focused on the Grand Challenges called Tomorrow’sCommunity Innovators (TCI). Our research questions were: GCE Summer Camp 5 1. How did the RTB Academy and the TCI summer camp experiences influence students’ interest in and self-efficacy for engineering as a career field? 2. Did the altruistic focus of the TCI camp experience lead to different impacts on students in terms of interest, self-efficacy, definitions, or perceptions of engineering? 3. How did each experience influence students’ definitions or perceptions of
population, Nguyen and Nguyen (2018) note “theproclivity of [FGS] studies to draw conclusions about a widely heterogeneous population” (p.156) is problematic for researchers. In short, intersectionality is crucial for scholars andpractitioners to understand and develop interventions that will impact FGS persistence andgraduation outcomes. First-generation Student LiteratureFGS-focused studies are important for higher education practitioners who focus on persistenceand graduation outcomes. A meta-analysis of the STEM FGS literature, clustered into fourpredominant categories, will be examined: family and sociocultural determinants; financial andcareer determinants; academic determinants; and noncognitive variables.STEM FGS
Department of Astronautics at the United States Air Force Academy. He directs one of eleven AFOSR funded USAFA research centers, conducting space technology research to design and build innovative low cost spacecraft and sounding rockets with 15 faculty from 5 academic departments, 56 cadets, 6 contractors, and 3 reservists under an annual $1M budget. Lawrence is also the small satellite program director, setting goals for performance, schedule and cost to meet DoD mission objectives for 3 microsatellites. He directs and teaches senior level capstone courses in spacecraft design determining content, leads sessions, and evaluates performance. Lt Col Lawrence is originally from Waterloo, Iowa. He was a
T. Allen, University of Texas, Austin David Allen is the Gertz Regents Professor of chemical engineering, and the Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of six books and more than 200 papers in areas ranging from coal liquefaction and heavy oil chemistry to the chemistry of urban atmospheres. For the past decade, his work has focused primarily on urban air quality and the development of materials for environmental and engineering education. Allen was a Lead Investigator for the first and second Texas Air Quality studies, which involved hundreds of researchers drawn from around the world, and which have had a substantial impact on the
of BME, she has also worked to revolutionize the future of graduate medical education serving as a founding member of the new Carle-Illinois College of Medicine, a first-of- its-kind engineering driven college of medicine. Amos is part of the Illinois NSF RED (Revolutionizing Engineering & Computer Science Departments) research team leading efforts to innovate assessment practices for engineering toward producing more holistic engineers. Amos has a decade’s worth of expe- rience leading curriculum reform and implementing robust assessment strategies at multiple institutions.Prof. Joe Bradley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Joe Bradley is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Bioengineering, Health Innovation
AC 2012-4161: A WIRELESS SENSOR NODE POWERED BY SOLAR HAR-VESTER FOR MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING AS A SENIORDESIGN PROJECTDr. Radian G. Belu, Drexel University Radian Belu is Assistant Professor within the Engineering Technology (ET) program at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. He is holding the second position as Research Assistant Professor at Desert Research Institute, Renewable Energy Center, Reno, Nev. Before joining Drexel University, Belu held faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada, and the United States. He also worked for several years in industry as a project manager and senior consultant. He has taught and developed undergraduate and graduate
to develop a college-ready curriculum for high school students. She also recently completed an Action Research Project regarding current classroom events and a STEM-ed democratizing education fellowship. During the summer, she is the academic director of Northwestern University’s 9-12 Center for Talent Development program. Prior to Wolcott, she was the team lead of Physics at Chicago Bulls College Prep. Her Physics classroom achieved top-of-network growth, and her team achieved network-leading results similar to hers. She also created the Noble Network’s baseline cur- riculum for Physics, led the Science and Physics collaboration rooms, and was a founding instructional professional development provider. Before