Paper ID #25868Design, Impact and Best Practices for a Graduate Research and InnovationCenter ¨Prof. Hilda Teresa Ayala-Gonzalez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Hilda Teresa Ayala-Gonz´alez has a Master’s degree in Archival Studies from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver Canada, and a Master’s degree in Information Science from the University of Puerto Rico. Currently, she is the Research Services Librarian at the Graduate Research and Innovation Center (GRIC) at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, where she offers workshops in
, three doctoral programs have been launched at Boise State University. Thefirst doctoral program established was in Electrical and Computer Engineering, selected becauseof the need for a trained workforce in the region. The other two doctoral programs, MaterialsScience and Engineering, and Computing, were from the start designed as interdisciplinarydegree programs. That is, they were designed for the participation of not just program facultywithin the division, but for the participation of program faculty with related research interests inother departments at the university. This paper presents the steps taken to launch the programs,lessons learned in initiating and administering the programs, best practices undertaken, andchallenges faced by
National Academy of Sciences committee on ”Revitalizing Gradute Stem Education for the 21st Century.”Dr. Yvette Maria Huet, UNC Charlotte Yvette Huet is Director of the ADVANCE Faculty Affairs and Diversity Office and a Professor of Kine- siology at UNC Charlotte. She has worked with and created a variety of workshops for faculty, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, and current and future leaders and provided professional development consultation to faculty. She has provided training at UNC Charlotte and other programs and institutions across the country, many with current or previous ADVANCE grants, that addresses best practices in recruitment, inherent bias, communication, mentoring and reappointment
reflection, integratedinto classroom presentations. These aspects of student progress and improvement are assessedagainst traditional design curricula using the Innovator Mindset® Assessment. The focus of thispaper will be the analysis of four innovation habits (for graduate and undergraduate students) toanalyze the impact of this designed course in fostering and amplifying personal innovativeness.1.0. Introduction University students play a crucial role in shaping future innovations within organizationalsettings, as they are poised to become the workforce of the future. Organizations require a workforcecapable of adeptly managing unforeseen and unfamiliar challenges to respond to the currentlandscape where technology is growing in complexity [1
Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Research Projects and Lessons Learned from Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program in Automated System DesignAbstractAutomated systems affect the way we do things and impact our daily lives. Designing andbuilding automated systems is complex and requires an integrated skill set. The knowledgeneeded cuts across multiple disciplines of mechanical engineering, control/electrical engineering,and manufacturing engineering. U.S. manufacturers are
Paper ID #19683Geographically Distributed Teams in Engineering Design: Best Practices andIssues in Cases of International Teams Working from Different ContinentsDr. Constanza Miranda Mendoza, Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile Constanza Miranda holds a PhD in design with a focus in anthropology from North Carolina State Uni- versity. While being a Fulbright grantee, Constanza worked as a visiting researcher at the Center for Design Research, Mechanical Engineering Department, at Stanford. Today she is an assistant professor at P.Universidad Cat´olica de Chile’s Engineering School. There, she directs the DILAB: the
structural change, so as to post a real challenge to systems of White supremacistcapitalist patriarchy. She also notes that the attacks have created opportunities for scholars tocome together and organize in new and broader way.Our field’s debates about how best to approach the enhancement of diversity, inclusion, andsocial justice in engineering education are healthy, vibrant, engaging, and must continue. For thisto happen, we need to be able to test new ideas in our publication venues and at conferences likeCONECD without fearing for our personal or professional security. It is not simply about theprinciple of academic freedom, which protects faculty expertise and scholarly authority. We needto make clear that research on diversity in engineering
deployment of 15+ courses used at over 10 universities. In addition he leads the technical content for the Electrical and Computer Engineer capstone projects course at OSU. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Longitudinal Study to Develop and Evaluate the Impacts of a“Transformational” Undergraduate ECE Design Program: Study Results and Best Practices ReportAcknowledgement: The authors are grateful for support provided by the National ScienceFoundation grant DUE 1347817. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of theNational Science Foundation
Paper ID #40493Outcome assessment and learned best practices of an undergraduateresearch experience projectDr. Mohsen Mosleh, Howard University Mohsen Mosleh is a Professor of mechanical engineering at Howard University and an active member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) since 2004. He has served positions of Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education and Graduate Program Director at Howard University. Dr. Mosleh received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has extensively published in journals and conferences, been issued U.S. patents, and has advised numerous
designed toalso enhance the educational experience. Over 92% of students participants agreed that theexperience enriched their education (Figure 3C). Four percent of students disagreed. Page 26.25.9 Figure 2: Distribution of student responses for survey questions on (a) mentorship and (a) the overall value of the experience. Figure 3: Distribution of student responses for survey questions on the impact of the research experience on (a) interest in pursuing additional undergraduate research experience and/or graduate school, (b) seeking a career in research
will focus on theselection of photos to be used, and the best practices for choosing them. This would allow futurefacilitators to adapt to any field of study and level.The design of these modules requires close collaboration of people from different divisions,departments, and backgrounds. This combination of expertise has been a driving force for thesuccess of this module, and future work will include codifying what worked well for this teamand recommendations for interdisciplinary work.AcknowledgementsThis research is supported by an Externally Collaborative, Project-based, InterdisciplinaryCulture (EPIC) grant from Wentworth Institute of Technology. The authors would like to thankTes Zakrzewski for lending two sets of iVisual Explorer cards
& Practices)2. Neural engineering best practices: Oral and written communication of neuralengineering knowledge and research, confidence, working independently, working on a team,participating in a learning community, innovation, and persistence. (Personal Skills)3. Connections to neural engineering industry and careers: Awareness of career options inneural engineering and pathways to a neural engineering degree, industry’s role in neuralengineering, and professional connections. (Professional Skills)The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering has hosted a total of sixteen students in theYSP during the summers of 2012-2014. The YSP is a commuter program intended for localstudents. High school students spend ten weeks in a neural
theliterature [33] – [35]: “I will try to get in an industry for some exposure and then will get into Graduate Studies. “I want to have a job experience before go to higher studies. I may go in to financial field as well.”Students seemed to tie their experiences to job interests, whether before or after graduate school,and types of job (e.g., research, design, innovative, and start-up). For example, one nationalstudent said: “This [program] challenged me to find my passion in specific fields ofengineering.” Another international student mentioned his long term career goals as “Engagingin research and entrepreneurship.”The results support previous findings about the effectiveness of REUs in increasing interest ingraduate
Paper ID #25501A Course in Best Practices in Scientific Writing and Oral Presentation in En-glish for Chinese Graduate Students in Engineering and the Life SciencesProf. John B. Troy, Northwestern University John B. Troy, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University, has a B.S. (1st class hon- ors) from the University of London, King’s College and a D.Phil. from the University of Sussex, both in the U.K. His research is within the broad area of Neural Engineering with focus on signal processing within the nervous system and the development of technology for neuroscience research and neuropros- thetics
this capacity, he managed the departmental budget, curriculum design, fellowships, and scholarships. He graduated from the Naval Aviation Officer School as a U.S. Naval Officer and Aviator. Dr. Harris received his masters and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Mississippi and he holds bachelor degrees from the University of Kansas. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 TAMUS LSAMP PROJECT: 25 YEARS OF SUCCESS – FINDING AND IMPLEMENTING BEST PRACTICES FOR URM STEM STUDENTSIntroductionThe Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation(LSAMP) program, funded by the National
education strategies as well as the technologies to support the 21st century classroom (online and face to face). He also has assisted both the campus as well as the local community in developing technology programs that highlight student skills development in ways that engage and attract individuals towards STEAM and STEM fields by showcasing how those skills impact the current project in real-world ways that people can understand and be involved in. As part of a university that is focused on supporting the 21st century student demographic he continues to innovate and research on how we can design new methods of learning to educate both our students and communities on how STEM and STEAM make up a large part of that
Engineering, The State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo and from 2008 to 2012, I was an assistant professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Dakota State University (NDSU). Previously, from 2004 to 2008, I worked for Magma Design Automation, San Jose CA, where I received the outstanding technical contribution award in 2007. During the Summer of 2001, I worked on analog circuit synthesis and layout at NeoLinear Inc., Pittsburgh PA. During 1996-1997, I was an Erasmus graduate student at the University of Patras, Greece. I serve on the technical program committee of several conferences including NOCS, SOCC, and ReConFig. I am a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM and Eta Kappa Nu. I
Paper ID #39355”We’re Learning like Everyone Else”: Best Practices from Men AlliesDanielle Vegas Lewis, SUNY Fredonia Danielle Vegas Lewis is a doctoral candidate in the University at Buffalo’s Higher Education program. She earned a B.A. in Political Science from SUNY Cortland in 2005 and a M.Ed. in Higher Education and Student Affairs from the University of South Carolina in 2007. She is currently the SUNY PRODiG Fellow at SUNY Fredonia where she teaches sociology and gender courses. She also serves as a Research Associate for Dr. Linda DeAngelo at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research agenda aims to under
Amir Kabir Univer- sity of Techonology (biomedical engineering) and a Ph.D. degrees from the University of Conecticut (mechanical engineering). She also received a certificate in college instruction from the University of Connecticut. Her current research involves modeling and simulation of protein molecules as nano bio robots with applications in new drug design. The other aspect of her research is engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Best Practices in Encouraging STEM Majors Among Grade 6-12 StudentsThe world is always in need of people who are interested and knowledgeable in STEM topics.Engineering Ambassadors is
students in engineering disciplines.With a four year graduation rate exceeding that of Non-Bridge African American students in 2010,the efforts of the Bridge program are viewed favorably. The MSU Bridge program remains diligentin utilizing the best practices shared in this paper to continue to improve URM student outcomes.References[1] Reisel, J. R. (2012). Assessment of Factors Impacting Success for Incoming College Engineering Students in a Summer Bridge Program. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, Volume 43 Issue 4, 421-433.[2] Booth Womack, V., Dickerson, D., Solis, F., Stawlley, C. S., & Zephirin, T. (2014, June 15). Can an Engineering Summer Bridge Program Effectively
-based research topics as students are into the second year of their research projects. Thecurriculum will introduce students to practices in many areas of engineering and relateddisciplines. During the course, students apply programming and electronics knowledge to theRaspberry Pi computer and interface with a variety of sensors for real world data collection, suchas wireless water quality sensors. Students can also use robotics platforms for understandingbasic concepts in kinetics, control, programming, and intelligent systems. Other projects arerelated to the design and development of floating platforms and turbines for offshore windenergy. While the aim of this course is on integrating general engineering practices with scienceconcepts, we
students have in idea generation and development and the impact that instruction canhave on their incorporation of best practices.IntroductionTo solve major challenges of the 21st century, engineers must be prepared to use designprinciples that lead to innovative solutions [1]. ABET also emphasizes the importance of trainingundergraduate engineering students to develop design skills [2]. In a design process, ideageneration and development are important steps that contribute to the innovative designoutcomes [3]. However, research indicates challenges for students in generating creativeconcepts for open-ended design problems [4]. Successful implementations of creative ideas can lead to innovation. Ideally, ideageneration and development
Paper ID #15980Design, Implementation, and Outcomes of a Comprehensive Professional De-velopment Program for Post-Graduate Studies in EngineeringProf. Laleh Behjat Dr. Laleh Behjat is an associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary. Her research interests include designing computer chips, electronic design automation and developing software for computer hardware. She has won several awards for her work on the development of software tools for computer engineering. In addition, Dr. Behjat has a passion for increasing the statues of women in Science, technology
male-dominated norms30. These data does not refute those claims, but offers a deeper understanding ofdisciplinary identity for graduate students. Over three-quarters of the total themes for biomedicalengineering are focused on intellectual merits despite the clear linkage for most biomedicalresearch to impact the lives or well-being of whole groups of people. One reason for thisdiscrepancy may be that they felt like the broader impact to affect humans was so obvious theyneed not discuss it explicitly within the paragraphs that discuss explicit impacts of the projects.Another alternative explanation is a potential need to maintain engineering “rigor,”understanding that human-centered research may be considered outside the typical
certified as an EFL and ESL teacher as well as a School Principal. Ari’s research and language revitalization interests include Mikasuki, Salish Ql’ispe (aka Salish-Pend d’Oreille, Montana Salish, and Flathead Salish) and Safaliba. His ethnographic work documents situated practice in grassroots policy initiatives and school-based activism among the Safaliba in rural Ghana. His language documentation includes conceptual metaphors and formulaic language in Salish Ql’ispe and Safaliba. He also explores applications of task-based language teaching in the pedagogy of revitalization. His practitioner papers analyze integrated content and language instruction, academic English instruction for graduate students, and asset-based
regarding specific scenarios but inconsistencies in approaches have minimized thegreater possible impact of center evaluations [11, 12].Large-scale, cooperative efforts are essential to further innovation and effective practicesemerging from such centers [11]. A multi-institutional consortium, The ERC EvaluationConsortium (TEEC), was formed to combat prior shortcomings through the design of easilyaccessible quantitative and qualitative [13] evaluation instruments shared by all centers. Theconsortium is composed of ERC education directors, researchers, and evaluators from six NSF-funded ERCs.This research paper reports on the in-progress validation efforts for the Multi-ERC InstrumentInventory (MERCII) survey designed to assess the perceived impact
process of making – have a profound impact on individual students. Makerspaces are oftencharacterized not only by possibilities for design and innovation, but also by unique cultures thatprofoundly shape the education of students (Forest et al., 2014). Makerspaces have been shownto increase confidence, creativity, and entrepreneurial thinking (Longo et al., 2017). Makingexperiences in education also increase practical skills that are key to a comprehensiveengineering education (Foster et al., 2015).These spaces impact student educational experiences by improving the quality of individualprojects. Prototyping, an engineering practice that is among the primary functions of thesefacilities, has been shown to result in better final project outcomes
Paper ID #44303Reflections on 10 years of Operating a Computer-based Testing Facility: LessonsLearned, Best PracticesDr. Jim Sosnowski, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Jim Sosnowski is the Assistant Director of the Computer-Based Testing Facility (CBTF) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.Dr. Julie M Baker, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Julie Baker is a Learning Design Specialist for the Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts and Sciences (ATLAS) group in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS). She helps LAS faculty implement best practices for computer-based assessment and
Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element 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
designs and incorporating theirbest practices into the development of the Inno Wing.The journey of establishing and operating the innovation center1. Establishing the physical infrastructure and the management structureThe design and construction phase of the center was commenced in late 2017. The architecturaldesign of the Inno Wing embodies the guiding principles of transparency, openness, and vibrancy,as depicted in Figure 1. Since the completion of the physical infrastructure in December of 2020,the Inno Wing has quickly become an iconic landmark at the University. It not only provides astate-of-the-art facility for students to innovate and collaborate but also serves as a symbol of theUniversity's commitment to fostering innovation and