of talented students into careers in science and engineering throughdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, or educational research and to help ensure that they receive thebest education possible. An REU site typically comprises a cohort of approximately tenundergraduates who engage in research within the programs of the hosting institution. Eachstudent is assigned to a specific research project and collaborates closely with faculty membersand other researchers.A search of the NSF award database in December 2023 yielded approximately 3,500 REU sites,with the earliest REU site commencing in June 1982. This indicates a substantial and persistentcontribution and effort from the NSF in promoting undergraduate research. From 2017 to 2022,the NSF awarded
performance improved by 11.1% in the year 2023when the proposed strategies were applied, compared to 2022 when the strategies were notimplemented. This improvement was attributed to the in-class final exams conducted withoutaccess to textbooks or the internet, indicating that students had developed a solid understanding ofthe material and tackle final exam questions successfully. Integrating AI into teaching strategiesand revamping the engineering curriculum marks a crucial advancement in preserving academicintegrity and aligning with the dynamic demands of the engineering and technology fields.IntroductionThe challenge of academic integrity breaches and plagiarism in engineering education has beenprevalent since decades, due to the evolution of paid
curriculum has been informed by research on student, faculty, and employerperceptions. Despite the response from the university officials to these studies and theirfindings, employers continue to find newly hired engineers lacking in the capacity to lead(Armin et al., 2022; Knight & Novoselich, 2017; Kotnour et al., 2014; Rose & Flateby, 2022).In response to graduates’ lack of professional skills indicated by employers (Armin et al.,2022; Knight & Novoselich, 2017; Kotnour et al., 2014; Rose & Flateby, 2022), this studyprovided early career engineers’ perspectives on the expectations of leadership their employersplaced on them and their readiness and competence to lead along with how important theirundergraduate education was in
2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Adding Ph.D. Students to the Chemical Engineering Alumni Student Mentoring Program Heather L. Walker,a W. Kent McAllister,b Michael W. Mourot,c J. Robert Dean,d Greg Nesmithe and Edgar C. Clausena University of Arkansas, Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering,a Audubon Engineering,b Sinclair Group,c Ruggiero, McAllister, and McMahon LLC,d Dow Chemical CompanyeAbstractIn 2022, 20 Ph.D. students were added to the Chemical
Carter (Assistant Dean of Engineering) (University of Arkansas)Divya Muralidhara Divya Muralidhara is a Data Analyst in the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment at the University of Arkansas. She assists with reporting of University data to state/federal agencies, coordinates data for national/state/professional surveys, creates checks to improve data accuracy and reproducibility, and conducts spatial data analysis and visualization. She has earned her Master of Information Systems degree from the University of Arkansas in 2009 and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida in 2007. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022
Conversation?IntroductionOver the course of the past decade, the academic community has increasingly recognized themental health challenges faced by graduate students as a pivotal area of concern (Evans, et al.,2018; Nature, 2019). This recognition is in response to findings that suggest graduate students,especially those in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines, are at ahigher risk for mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, and stress (Bork & Mondisa, 2022;Diezel, et al., 2013; Nagy, et al., (2019) Saravanan & Wilks, 2014). Findings from Bork andMondisa's (2022) recent scoping literature review attribute this heightened risk, in part, to theunique pressures and stressors inherent to the academic and research
Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Solidarity Engineering using a Pedagogy of LoveAbstractThis paper presents a model of engineering as presented through one class at one university.While this paper is a work-in-progress, it represents a window into a practice of engineering thatdiffers from much of the standard engineering practice in the United States. To a large degree,standard engineering in the United States is beholden to the interests of corporate capitalism andthe military. Most engineers are employed in industry, and much of the focus of engineeringcareer centers is on aiding students in getting employment in for-profit engineering firms,industry, government, or research
Fellow and received the Al Dye award for co-editing the special issue, Group Work with African Americans Children and Adolescents published in the Journal for Specialist in Group Work. Dr. Hines received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park in Counselor Education with a concentration in Urban School Counseling. Finally, he has worked as a counselor in various K-12 settings and for the Ronald E McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 1 Session
, and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Physics. Hammond advised 17 UG theses, 29 MS theses, and 10 Ph.D. dissertations. Hammond is the 2020 recipient of the TEES Faculty Fellows Award and the 2011 recipient of the Charles H. Barclay, Jr. ’45 Faculty Fellow Award. Hammond has been featured on the Discovery Channel and other news sources. Hammond is dedicated to diversity and equity, which is reflected in her publications, research, teaching, service, and mentoring. More at http://srl.tamu.edu and http://ieei.tamu.edu. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 1
2022 study,researchers found that even solo-founded successful ventures involve some model of shared leadership byincluding what they call a board of cocreators to manage their organization [3]. Howell et al. challengethe idea of co-founding but reaffirm the idea of ventures using a model of shared leadership.2.3 Shared leadership in engineering educationWu et al. [13] used a social network analysis approach to define when and when not to use a sharedleadership approach in engineering design teams. In their study, they try to understand when sharedleadership can be positively related to team effectiveness. Most of the previous studies they review dealwith shared leadership amongst the team members, but not with the formal establishment of a co
Paper ID #36420Weaving Students into Engineering, not Weeding Them OutDr. Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University Dr. Carpenter is Founding Dean of Engineering at Campbell University. She is 2022-2023 President of ASEE and past President of WEPAN. She is a former NSF ADVANCE PI and was a co-recipient of the 2022 National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard M. Gordon Award for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education for her role in launching the Grand Challenges Scholars Program. She is an ASEE PEV for General Engineering, Dr. Carpenter regularly speaks at the national level on issues related to the success of
education.Cassandra J McCall (Dr.) Cassandra McCall, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Department at Utah State University. Her research focuses on enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in engineering by investigating the sociocultural factors and systems that influence how individuals come to know, identify with, and become engineers. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Civil Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comAudio Dissemination for Qualitative and Broadening
Paper ID #37135Inexpensive solar garden light provides valuable energysystem learning toolDale H. Litwhiler (Associate Professor)Neda Bazyar Shourabi Assistant Teaching Professor © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Inexpensive solar garden light provides valuable energy system learning toolAbstractSolar powered residential garden lights, also called landscape lights, are ubiquitous and providean inexpensive and convenient means of low-power outdoor illumination. A typical solar gardenlight fixture consists of a small solar cell, rechargeable
catalysis. My interest in fundamental research stemmed from my desire to gain a deeper understanding of processes used in industrial and energy generating applications. The computational nature of my research provides me a strong understanding of the theory behind these processes and has allowed me provide insight to and learn from experimental chemists and chemical engineers.francisco.d.juarez@vanderbilt.edu Dejesus Juarez (Librarian) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Work in Progress: Enhancing Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Laboratory Reports through Information and Data Literacy
ProcessThe Cyber4RAM badge was piloted in fall 2022, using TRACKS-CN members, as well as otherindividuals connected to the project. Feedback from beta testers was incorporated, though therewere only a few minor adjustments and edits needed. On November 1, 2022, a soft launch of thebadge was implemented. Community college faculty affiliated with TRACKS-CN providedbadge registration information to their students, many of whom completed the badge. A fulllaunch took place February 1, 2023, accompanied by a press release and a social mediacampaign about the badge.Results/EvaluationSince July 2022, the PI and co-PIs have shared information about the Cyber4RAM badge and thebadge development process with a number of organizations. Those organizations
exercise would be helpful toreview details that may have been missed. Timing remains a question to be answered, whether itcan be after the exercise or held the next class period with the same effectiveness.This class activity showed that conducting a moot court case on design standards has thepotential to be an effective way to promote learning, critical thinking, teamwork, andengagement, while also fostering a greater awareness and appreciation for the importance ofcompliance with design standards in professional practice. We look forward to presenting a morecomplete review of this work, including an in-depth assessment of students' learning in a latercommunication.References[1] ABET, “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2021 – 2022
of Engineering and Cyber Systems to theSchool of Leadership and Management.BackgroundIn May of 2022 the United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) graduated its first class ofCyber Systems majors. This major was introduced at the Coast Guard Academy (CGA) in orderto provide a larger number of technically-competent leaders of character to accomplish the needsof the Service in the midst of growing demands in the cyber domain. The Cyber Systems majorcomprises a strong academic foundation in secure technical computing balanced with amanagerial cyber emphasis. Program stakeholders repeatedly shared the importance ofunderstanding risk within the cyber context. As a result, it was determined by the faculty that theCyber Systems Major at CGA needed
designed, tested, and finalized in summer of2022. The activity is designed to resemble a real-life problem to help students gain a deeperunderstanding of this subject in their Statics class. The activity utilizes parts from a previouslymade 3D-Printed Statics Modeling Kit, and new parts that were redesigned from the kit to createthe activity. The parts were created in SolidWorks and were exported into Ultimaker Cura andprinted on an Ender 3 Pro. The activity and students’ perception on the activity, which wasutilized in fall 2022, is discussed in the current paper.IntroductionFrames and Machines is one of the most complex topics in a Statics course, due to combiningpreviously learned knowledge from the course and applying it to complex structures
-2022, winning the Reid Miller Teaching Excellence Award in 2022.David Lin, Washington State University David Lin is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Voiland School of Chemical Engi- neering and Bioengineering and Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience at Washington State University, Pullman, WA. His teaching interests are in Bioinstrumentation, Biomechanics, Control Systems, and Physiology. His research interests are in the Biomechanics of the musculosketal systems and multi-scale physiology of muscle contraction. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: A Themed Problem-Learning Redesign of
at ASEE in June, suggested that this approach with weeklyquizzes might also show higher grades, as did the ONU research.2 Last fall the practice quizzeswere required, but this semester they are completely optional. The quizzes do form a backstopfor the grades on the weekly quizzes: a student who scores 100% on the three practice quizzesfor the week is guaranteed at least a 50 on the weekly quiz.MethodsThis paper presents exam scores for the fall semesters 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Thevarying requirements for Statics are shown in Table 1. The elements: ● On-paper homework (OPHW): daily problems were written by the author new each semester. Solutions provided to undergraduate graders who graded each homework. Due the
the construct and predictive American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Paper ID #35821validity of infant-toddler IGDI assessments, development of web-based professional development for el-ementary educators, and a current NSF-funded project to develop technology to automatically measurechild and adult language in preschool and informal learning contexts. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 1 Visualizing Child-Adult Speech Engagement using Chord
authors reviewed the 2020-21 and 2021-22 survey data in the following charts to determine trends. This analysis is not to be considereda detailed review but a brief look at the initial data. A more detailed analysis includingcomparing student perceptions, student work, and demographics will be done in futurepublications once the research study has completed (RQ2 and RQ3).The total number of respondents for the 2020-2021 academic year was 41 for the beginningsurvey, 43 for the middle survey, and 47 for the end survey. The total number of respondents forthe 2021-2022 academic year was 53 for the beginning survey, 80 for the middle survey, and 64for the end survey. These respondents included both engineering and non-engineering students.In the
and industries constructed each year continue to riseyearly in our communities rendering more and more demand for energy each year (Fasching, 2022).Even though the average amount of energy used per household has dropped because of modernequipment using lesser energy, the increase in the number of households and industries continue topush the demand for energy higher and higher each year. There are doubts that a continued energysupply can meet future demands to sustain development without considerable harm to the environment(EIA(a), 2022). There has been great improvement in moving from non renewable energy torenewable energy. In 2022, the total renewable energy production was 24% mainly from wind andsolar energy as opposed to 11% in 2010
Department Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University. He is also the Associate Director of SECURE Cybersecurity Research American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Paper ID #35792Center. He has over 25 years of research/teaching experience in wireless communications and RF engi-neering at Motorola, University of Victoria, Air Force Research Laboratory, Virginia Tech and PVAMUand have co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications and 6 book chapters. He has also directed 15Ph.D. dissertations and 25 M.S.E.E. theses to completion as Chair at
Paper ID #36601Examination of Environmental Engineering Topics Taught inUnited States Federal Service Academies and Senior MilitaryCollegesAndrew Ross Pfluger (Associate Professor) Andrew Pfluger is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army and an Associate Professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He currently serves as the Chair of the Environmental Engineering & Science Program.Stephanie Laughton © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com 2022 ASEE National Conference Examination
department of Computer Science & Software Engineering; and the Science, Technology & Society Program. Dr. Lehr previously served as elected co-chair of the Science & Technology Taskforce of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), and as a Postdoctoral Research Officer at the Centre for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS) at King's College, University of London. Her graduate training is in Science & Technology Studies and Women's Studies at Virginia Tech and her teaching and research focus primarily on the complex relationships between gender, race, culture, science, technology, and education.Dominic J Dal Bello (Professor) Awardee, Outstanding Teaching Award, ASEE/Pacific Southwest Section, 2022
has a MEd in Higher Education Leadership from Iowa State University, a BA Degree from Buena Vista University and an AA and AAS Degree in Electronics from IHCC. Greg is past President of the Iowa ACTE and IITEA and serves on the ACTE Region III Policy Committee and is a member of the ACTE IAED (Inclusion, Access, Equity, and Diversity) Advisory Group. He is a journeyman electrician with an FCC license and industry experience in semiconductor manufacturing. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education Program
theirwork.Pedagogical approaches for teaching sustainability in civil engineeringSustainability concepts can be incorporated into civil engineering education through curriculumchanges to the course content, involving students in research on sustainability-related topics,collaborating with industry partners to allow students gain exposure and work on real-worldprojects, and pedagogical approaches such as project-based learning, problem-based learning,and case studies. Gutierrez-Bucheli et al. (2022) suggested teaching sustainability using project-based approaches that reflect the culture and context of the students to enable them to frame theirunderstanding of sustainability. Vemury et al. (2018) also found that problem and project-basedapproaches using real
worldwide. To determine if the implementation of these initiatives is having a positiveimpact on engineering students’ performance in a first-year programming course, a correlationalresearch study at a mid-size Michigan public university was completed over a three-semesterperiod beginning in 2022. Students were surveyed regarding their prior experience with computerscience at the beginning of the semester, and student scores on the first laboratory practicum andfinal course grade were recorded. The data demonstrates that nearly sixty percent of students hadno prior experience with computer science and withdrew from the course at nearly double the rateas students with AP experience. For those that did complete the course, a Welch’s t
reduce stereotypes and discrimination (Taboas et al., 2022). Other conditions may co-occuror be symptoms of ND, while some individuals consider these stand-alone types of ND (e.g.,anxiety). From an equity and human capital perspective, engineering education must consider theexperiences of ND students and create systems and environments to support their success.Research in higher education alludes to a lack of awareness among faculty of the prevalence ofND, holding deficiency models of ND, and a lack of practices to support ND students (Carballoet al. 2021, Cook et al. 2009, Vance and Weyandt 2008). Sniatecki et al. (2015) found thatfaculty have more “negative attitudes toward students with mental health disabilities and learningdisabilities than