create a set of pedagogical objectives that would clearlyoutline the goals of the material. For instance, on the topic of research ethics we establishedearly in the process that our primary goals were two-fold. First, we wanted students tounderstand the importance of their ethical obligation to credit the work of others. Always anecessary issue to address in writing courses, the problem of plagiarism is compounded by theunprecedented volume of material readily available to students. Second, we wanted to foster ourstudents' ability to distinguish credible sources from others, another challenge that is intensifiedby the vast resources on the Internet. Both of these goals are imbedded in the practical goal ofteaching students to research and write
importance such as computer-enhanced transportation systems, manufacturing, design optimization and bioinformatics. These projects have been funded by organizations such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. Depart- ment of Transportation and Motorola. In 1994-95, his laboratory, sponsored by the Illinois Department of Transportation, developed the first real-time traffic congestion map on the World Wide Web, which now receives over 100 million hits per year. Professor Nelson is also currently serving as principal dean for the UIC Innovation Center, a collaborative effort between the UIC Colleges of Architecture, Design and the Arts
an array of models for adult learners that are connected to the varying sectors such asmedical, transportation, computer science, engineering, etc. Working in collaboration withDCCCD and DCP-PP, the Southern Methodist University research team is working to identifyand test interventions for adult learners to provide valuable information that will inform otherlarge metropolitan areas across the United States on best practices and methods to solve thelongstanding problems associated with advancing adult learner education and employmentopportunities in STEM careers. The following is a description of the two goals that will beexecuted for the project based upon research conducted through the ALPPS project.First Goal: Develop Evidence-Based
discussed and it doing the opposite of amotor was examined through a brief presentation. An activity kit that used a hand-crankedmechanism to generate energy to light up an LED was built and tested. The principle of wind andhydro-electric generation and sources of renewable energy was discussed next.iv) Best Practices Database: Discussed the scientific approach and determined the mostappropriate sustainability-related activities – A brief description on how quickly earth’sresources are being consumed for energy generation by different countries and the impact ofgreenhouse gases on climate was presented. Fellows surveyed a web-based questionnaire tomentees that examined their sustainable practices [8]. Renewable energy source such as windand solar
the connections betweenscience and engineering. Using Internet search tools, students located and listened to a storyfeatured on NPR’s Morning Edition, entitled "Flies Hearing." This segment is an engaging andunusual story about an entymologist and a mechanical engineer whose collaborative research onthe parasitic Ormia Ochracea fly led to improvements in hearing aid design. Students took notesas they listened to this rather vivid account of Ormia’s directional hearing system that allows it tolocate crickets to use as hosts for its offspring maggots. After hearing the sound of a maggoteating a cricket from inside out, students then heard the stories of the scientist and engineer whoworked together to understand the fly’s hearing apparatus and
engineering lab tours; and wasbased on a design thinking approach. Daily activities were structured based on challenge-basedinstruction, innovation, design, and mentoring, and focused primarily on promoting criticalthinking, being assertive in the face of adversity, making informed decisions, and prioritizing tasks.Results indicate that the bootcamp increased student confidence and established a valuablenetwork system amongst other findings. Future work will focus on expanding the bootcamp toinclude students from other engineering and computer science departments and to offer thetemplate to institutions with similar academic challenges.I. INTRODUCTIONThis research-to-practice paper describes the development and implementation of the BOOST(Bolstering
reviewed journal and conference publications. Along with his students and colleagues, he has made over 230 technical presentations at international, national, and regional conferences and at universities. One of Professor Nambisan’s passions is the development of the future workforce, including efforts at the pre-college level. He enjoys working with students. For his contributions as an educator, researcher, and leader, Professor Nambisan has received several awards and honors. Among the awards and honors he has received is a proclamation by the Governor of Nevada designating January 31, 2007 as the ”Professor Shashi Nambisan Day” in recognition of his leadership role in and contributions to enhancing transportation
analysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2011 Dr. Sheppard was named as co-PI of a national NSF innovation center (Epicenter), and leads an NSF program at Stanford on summer research experiences for high school teachers. Her industry experiences includes engineering positions at Detroit’s ”Big Three:” Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, and Chrysler Corporation. At Stanford she has served a chair of the faculty senate, and recently served as Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education
of 2020 Seed Grant program is designed to provide seed funding for faculty to tryout new and innovative strategies that foster these target attributes. The first round of grants wassolicited in fall of 2007, and these first grants were awarded in February 2008. A total of 19proposals were submitted, of which 5 were selected for funding at a level of $40,000 each. Thecriteria upon which the proposals were rated included: 1. Significance of the proposed project in relation to current knowledge 2. Grounding of the proposal in current theories and knowledge on teaching and learning 3. Potential impact of the work (its ability to embed the new attributes in all CoE graduates) 4. Potential to gain significant funding beyond the seed
students, including students in rural areas and those who learn differently, in STEM education from pre-K through graduate studies. Her current work focuses on supporting and evaluating the construction of collaborative communities and building evaluation capacity within organizations and large-scale programs. In all efforts Adrienne works to (a) truly understand the purpose and needs for the evaluation or research undertaking, (b) develop feedback cycles that support continuous program improvement, (c) make implementation and impact data available and interpretable for program implementers, and (d) select the most rigorous, yet feasible analytic designs that are tailored to the unique needs of each program context. She
living-learning community in its pilotyear at RHIT, where students across disciplines learn about sustainability through course work,co-curricular activities, and their living environment.Program DescriptionHERE is a student-focused, sustainability-centered, first-year, living-learning experience. Ourgoal is to help students develop communication, awareness, and design skills that will enablepersonal and professional contributions to global sustainability. Furthermore, the HEREprogram strives to provide a model for making sustainability a foundational part of engineeringeducation, increasing students’ awareness of environmental issues and skills in sustainabledesign methodologies. The HERE program integrates the best aspects of residential
to the undergraduate and graduatestudents they employ.The first R&D Center established, the Design, Optimization, Evaluation, and Redesign (DOER)Center, was founded in 2006 to foster engagement in the community and benefit local industryby matching industry partners with a team of engineering faculty and students who apply theirknowledge to solve industrial problems. This model has proven mutually beneficial for theparties involved. Industry clients receive high-quality service at minimal cost and retain all of theintellectual property affiliated with the projects. Student researchers gain experience in appliedresearch and product development. Faculty have the opportunity to work on high-impact projectsand to engage with industry. The
) foundational principles of learning and 2)effective methods for interacting with students. We have designed a path to guide UTAs tobecome the best possible resource for our students, and at the same time, to provide UTAs with ameaningful personal experience.BackgroundThe main reason we had to start active learning, was need for innovation. Our program in theEngineering School (E-School) had been left idle for about 20 years, since the APMAdepartment was eliminated in early ‘90. Applied Math (APMA) courses were taught either byfaculty from other Engineering departments as an “APMA-tax” to the Dean, or outsourced to theMath department, in the College of Arts and Science. Nobody had interest or incentive to changeanything. Finally, in 2011/2012, a new
, technical seminars, and workshops for wholesale distribution professionals. Pradip assists wholesaler-distributors with best practices implementation, business decisions, education, and technical support on a wide array of supply-chain management topics, including customer stratification, pricing optimization, distributor profitability, sales and marketing, growth and business development, inventory management, warehouse management/layout design, and global business decisions. He works with dis- tributors from small and medium enterprises to large, global corporations. He has more than 10 years of industry experience, managing more than 90 projects. Pradip holds a Masters Degree in industrial engi- neering from Texas A
with co-author Michael Lyons he received the best paper award of the TELPHE Division in 2018, and also the Division’s Meritorious Award. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Don’t let the computer take your job – a framework for rethinking curriculumAbstractOver the last decade there have been an increasing number of discussions on how informationtechnology (IT) impacts the practice and structure of higher education. There are strongviews on this subject with some claiming that higher education as currently defined is ripe fordisruption while others claim that since the functions of the university have persisted fornearly a millennium claims of
impact ofchanges in curricular design upon student work performance; d) piloting and contrasting projects in both different academic fields and at differentcolleges; and e) developing a set of best practices to be used for further refinement and dissemination of the process. Initial collaborators includeUniversity of Cincinnati (UC) academic units as follows: the Department of Architecture (College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning);the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (College of Engineering); the Department of Civil and Construction Management(College of Applied Science); the College of Business Administration; and the Division of Professional Practice. The assessment data will beanalyzed by the UC Evaluation Services
development training and the summer engineering campsprovides a necessary foundation to increase the number and diversity of students entering STEMrelated fields. Page 14.1256.10 References1. Clark, J.V., Minorities in Science and Mathematics: A Challenge for Change, Virginia Parent Information and Resource Center, 2000.2. Baum, Eleanor, “Recruiting and Graduating Women: The Underrepresented Student”, IEEE Communications Magazine, December 1990, pp. 47-50.3. Extraordinary Women Engineers Project, “Extraordinary Women Engineers Final Report, April 2005”, National Science
. New Orleans, LA. doi:10.18260/p.2618713 Gerasimova, D., Hjalmarson, M., & Nelson, J. (2017, June). Profiles of participation outcomes in faculty learning communities. Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference. Columbus, OH.14 Samaras, A. (2011). Self-study teacher research: Improving your practice through collaborative inquiry. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.15 Schwebach, J.R., Gerasimova, D., Luther, D.A., Verhoeven, A.B., Davis, C.P., Gostel, M., Romulo, C., Schreffler, L., Seshaiyer, P., Nelson, J.K. (2015). Advancing graduate education and faculty development with discipline-based education research and the SIMPLE framework: Design memos in biology for active teaching. ATINER’S Conference Paper Series, No: BIO2015-1599
courses in general education as well as for moreadvanced work in computer programming, database, and networking courses. To improvestudent success, in fall 2009 we decided to link these courses in an interdisciplinary LC. The LCis one of the ten high-impact educational practices recognized nationally to improve studentpersistence and retention.1,14 The LC makes more obvious to students the connections betweenthese courses, thus facilitating the transfer of skills between these courses and beyond. This LCis an innovative approach to the teaching of computing and writing to first-year computersystems majors at a college of technology. The theme of the LC is programming narratives—thatis, having students write narratives they will then implement
same exam can be accomplished by usinggrading rubrics, grading the same question for all students at the same time, and giving similarquestions each semester. However, there are still natural tendencies and preferences that affecthow an individual professor grades. The objective of this research was to quantitatively assesshow professor grading biases influenced exam scores in the same upper level course offered atmultiple universities. The course selected for analysis was an introduction to the design of reinforced concretestructures, a common course in many civil engineering curricula. Three professors at threedifferent universities taught similar topics using their unique teaching styles and methods.During the semester, the same exam
two unique MOOCs, Introduction to Engineering and Perspectives on Grand Challenges for Engineering for the Global Freshman Academy/ASU Earned Admission/Universal Learner Courses Program. Her Ph.D. research focused on multi-scale multiphase modeling and numerical analysis of coupled large viscoelastic deformation and fluid transport in swelling porous materials, but she is currently interested in various topics in the field of engineering education, such as innovative teaching pedagogies for increased retention and student motivation; innovations in non-traditional delivery methods, incorporation of the Entrepreneurial Mindset in the engineering curriculum and its impact. She has published over 30 papers and
supported by industry, the federal government, or public/privatepartnerships. The contributions made by the team members are being utilized in the gap analysisand the workforce training outcomes.The need for the research and work under this project cannot be overlooked. In November 2021,BWX Technologies announced a build-out and upfit for a manufacturing and research anddevelopment center adjacent to an existing facility [7]. This addition of close to 100 jobs iscoupled with over a $65 million investment for the next three years. This facility will serveBWTX activities in its nuclear services group and the division that designs and producesmicroreactors and nuclear fuels for space exploration and national security. This work isprimarily for U.S
high-impact practices and its influence on community college transfers’ STEM degree attainment," COMMUNITY COLLEGE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, no. https://doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2020.18241334, 2020.[4] Community College Research Center, "Community College FAQs," [Online]. Available: https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Community-College-FAQs.html. [Accessed 31 January 2022].[5] J. Tsapogas, "The role of community colleges in the education of recent science and engineering graduates," 2004. [Online]. Available: https://wayback.archive- it.org/5902/20160210154305/http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf04315/.[6] NASEM, "Barriers and Opportunities for 2-Year and 4-Year STEM Degrees Systemic Change to Support Diverse
approach into CEMcourses 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. Traditionally in CEM education, the project-based learning approach hasbeen widely used for CEM courses.Kajewski 32 proposed a PBL course called ‘Professional Studies.’ The course emphasizedstudent-centered and self-directed learning. The course was divided into several units, each unitincluded one problem, and students were forced to solve the problem through research andcollaboration. McIntyre 33 applied the PBL approach into a capstone course to provide studentsreal-world design and construction practices. In addition to these, there have been some attemptsto integrate the PBL approach into CEM education 34
corporation. In addition, the module will introduce students to current trends inenvironmental management systems, green supply chains, lean manufacturing and totalcost accounting.Teaching ObjectivesAs defined by the National Research Council11 the design of the learning environmentwill have an impact on the student’s ability to learn. In particular, the degree to whichlearning environments are learner centered, knowledge centered, and assessmentcentered, will have an impact on students learning. Thus, the classroom community mustbe designed to strategically include these aspects.To develop a learner centered classroom, this class begins with a pre-test for selfassessment of students skills coming into the class. An excerpt from the self assessmentis
students’ experiences and senior engineering students’ graduation plans. She previously worked on a longitudinal study researching how varying first-year experience structures affect students’ engineering identities and involvement in communities of practice. Shaylin now serves as an Assistant Professor for the University of Virginia’s First Year Engineering Center and is interested in learning more about what contributes to engineering students’ success, how they can get the most out of their undergraduate programs, and how programs can be better designed to cater to students’ needs.Dr. Deepyaman Maiti, University of Virginia Deepyaman Maiti is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and
into conversation with NASA engineers, scientists, and managers, to discussthe long term ethical and societal implications of NASA’s human space exploration efforts fromthe Moon to Mars. Whereas some ASEE ethics division research focuses on the impact ofeducational discussions on students, ours involved practicing engineers as well as managers andpolicy analysts who shape the future of major engineering endeavors. While we will describe thiscase study in subsequent sections, we will point out some specific points of content in the reportnow, that may best serve as bridges for engaging in the engineering education literature.This paper seeks to further explore the concepts described in the workshop report, particularly asthey relate to
), agile methods, and open source. He recently spent a year on sabbatical as the Chief Architect in the Sheik Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington D.C. He has participated in projects like the open source Image-guided Surgical Toolkit (igstk.org) and microrobots for NOTES (minimally-invasive) surgery. In teaching and scholarship, Dr. Gary has created the Software Enterprise, an experiential learning model which blends multiple methods of delivery into one pedagogical model. The Software Enterprise has received significant support and generated several publications, and forms the core project spine within the BS in Software Engineering at ASU. Dr. Gary
testing, combustion, and design of jets, and has given invited lectures at major institutions worldwide. He served overseas as a Fulbright Senior Scholar and is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics.Dr. Manikanda K Rajagopal, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis Manikanda Rajagopal earned his Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India in 2002. He obtained his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras, India in 2009. Subsequently, he worked at General Motors Technical Center for 2 years with specialization in ex- ternal aerodynamics . Later, he joined as Postdoctoral Research Associate at Combustion and Propulsion
Ph. D. in Materials Engineering (1998) and Graduate Diploma in Computer Science (1999) from Uni- versity of Wollongong, Australia and holds Bachelor of Engineering (Metallurgical Engineering) degree from Pune University, India (1985). He has worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon Uni- versity, Pittsburgh (2001 – 2003) and BHP Institute for Steel Processing and Products, Australia (1998 – 2001). Dr. Manohar held the position of Chief Materials Scientist at Modern Industries, Pittsburgh (2003 – 2004) and Assistant Manager (Metallurgy Group), Engineering Research Center, Telco, India (1985 – 1993). He has published over 55 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences including a 2007 Best Paper Award