curricula.Matthew B James (Associate Professor of Practice) Matthew James is an Associate Professor of Practice in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. After working in the Civil/Site Development engineering field for a number of years, he returned to Virginia Tech to pursue teaching. His primary role is teaching within the first-year general engineering undergraduate program. He also is interested in study abroad, expanding service learning opportunities for students, and serves as the faculty advisor for the Engineers in Action student design team.Stephen MoyerPo-Jen Shih © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com
the secretary of the student chapters of IEEE and ISA at Pittsburg State University.Caleb Chase Caleb Chase graduated Pittsburg State University in May 2022 with a Bachelor in Electronics Engineering Technology. His emphasis was in computer and embedded systems, and he has a minor in Computing. He worked closely with Dr. Erik Mayer in many microcontroller programming courses, and he has developed skills in many aspects of electronics.Brandon Kincheloe Brandon joined the United States Army as a 14E PATRIOT Missel Defense Operator/Maintainer in 2002. He honorably ETS'ed from the army in 2005. He attained the National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and Army Service Ribbon. In 2005
this project were invaluable, as research, design, trial and error, as well astechnical writing are all important experiences within engineering [8]-[9]. This heart rate monitornot only provides scientists and researchers with more valuable information about design,prototyping and proof of concept, but also is also capable of educating the everyday person aboutthe basics of engineering as well as the importance of innovation.References [1] “Lithium-ion batteries need to be greener and more ethical.” Nature News. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01735-z. (accessed Dec. 1, 2022) [2] M. Hayati.“Thermoelectric generators act as renewable energy sources.” Science Direct. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii
Paper ID #37814Work-in-Progress: Improving Safety Education forUndergraduate Chemical EngineersGeorge Prpich (Assistant Professor) I'm an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia. My research interests include engineering pedagogy (process safety, professional skills), upstream bioprocess engineering, and environmental remediation. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comWork-in-Progress: Improving Safety Education for Undergraduate Chemical EngineersIntroductionChemical Engineering
Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Recruiting and Retaining Low-Income Engineering Students Across Four Institutions During a Pandemic: Progress and Lessons Learned from a Track 3 S-STEM GrantAbstractIn January 2020 East Carolina University (ECU) in partnership with Lenoir Community College(LCC), Pitt Community College (PCC), and Wayne Community College (WCC) was awarded anS-STEM Track 3 Grant (Grant number: 1930497). The purpose of this grant was to support low-income students at each partner institution, to research best practices in recruiting and retaininglow-income students at both universities and community colleges, and to research how suchprograms influence
leads teams accrediting engineering degrees as an Engineering Area Commissioner in ABET. IEEE elevated him to Fellow for contributions to global online engineering education. And, the International Society for Engineering Education bestowed International Engineering Educator Honoris Causa for outstanding contributions in engineering education.Deborah Trytten Dr. Deborah A. Trytten is a Professor of Computer Science and Womens' and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her main research focus is diversity in engineering education and introductory software engineering education. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by
assignments for a selection of six procedures completed in lab. Each of the six lab © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conferenceexperiments were completed in a two-hour lab period each week. The format of the threesemesters was: Semester 1 (Fall 2021): one full-length laboratory report Semester 2 (Spring 2022): three post-lab assignments (sequential question/response format), three mini-lab reports, and one full-length laboratory report Semester 3 (Fall 2022): six mini-lab reports and one full-length laboratory reportTo assess the success of this intervention, performance on both the post-lab assignments from therotation of six
designed coursestructure to in-person Face-To-Face instruction to Freshmen and Sophomore level chemistrycourses that included both the lecture & lab components at University of Texas Rio GrandeValley (UTRGV) for the Fall 2021 - Spring 2022 semesters.2.2 Participation InformationAlthough the course structure was applied to several Freshmen and Sophomore level chemistrycourses at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) shown in Table 1, the present studyonly focuses only on one course to discuss and disseminate the findings.Table 1: UTRGV courses taught with modes of instruction from Fall 2021 – Spring 2022 Courses Mode of Instruction
Paper ID #36849Teaching AutoCAD in E-learning and Face-to-Face Styles forUndergraduate Engineering Technology Students During andafter COVID-19 PandemicSuleiman Obeidat (Assistant Professor)Ulan Dakeev (Assistant Professor)Junkun Ma (Associate Professor of Engineering Technology) Faculty working for Sam Houston State University with education background and interest in Mechanical Engineering , Manufacturing, and Mechanics of Materials © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Teaching AutoCAD in E-learning and Face-to
or conference paper review, thesesteps would complete the task. For an NSF panel, participating in the panel discussion,presenting and defending a review, and crafting panel summaries require additional skills.Participation in an NSF panel has benefits both in learning about the current state-of-the-art andin the opportunities to grow professional networks and build a stronger community ofengineering education researchers and practitioners.The professional development process described in this paper was implemented over the courseof four months in 2022 and brought together former program officers and mentees from a varietyof institutional and professional contexts to construct a set of proposal reviews and participate inpanels discussing
that has very fewcourses scheduled at this particular university. The PI team meets on the Friday prior to the FLCsession to plan the details of the session. An evaluator usually attends this planning meeting aswell.Generally the FLC sessions follow the topics of the Equity Toolkit, a freely-available resource,developed by the Colorado Department of Higher Education [6]. During Year 1 (2021-2022),each session was a discussion around a different resource (an article or video) in the area of Self-Inquiry. Further details on the formation and first year of this project, including a more detailedliterature review of our approach can be found in [7].Having established a cohort in Year 1, Year 2 (2022-2023) is focused on nudging faculty toadopt
inBurundi established an Energy Efficiency office five years ago but it has not been active due to the lackof adequate expertise and data in the domain. While many renewable energy curricula exist throughoutthe world, and in sub-Saharan Africa in particular, there is no curriculum that has been developed andimplemented for the Burundian context. To better understand the needs of higher educationinstitutions in Burundi, Prof. Singh visited the country and delivered a workshop at Ecole NormaleSupérieure (ENS) in December 2022.In this paper, we present the objectives of a renewable energy curriculum adapted to the Burundiancontext, present the renewable energy workshop delivered to professors and students in Burundi, anddescribe the structure of a
]. Studies show thatwhile parents have significant influence on students’ interest in STEM, both parents and friendshave significant influence on students’ career choice intention [6]. Role models can be apowerful influence on the way students view themselves and how they conduct their lives [5].In this study, male and female students’ interest in STEM was examined and its connection tothe presence of role models. Data was collected from summer outreach camps from 2017 to2022, although, because of COVID-19, years 2020 and 2021 are not included. These camps weredesigned to increase interest in STEM. Data was analyzed to evaluate the influence role modelscan have on students’ interest in STEM.Program DescriptionDuring the summers of 2017 to 2022
, Phase 2Baccomplished but extended with supplemental funding to increase our sample size, and Phase 3underway. To summarize the overarching research plan for the CAREER grant: Phase 1A (years1 and 2) was a qualitative study of N = 42 graduate students that were identified as “departers”(those who left their doctoral plan of study) and questioners (those who were considering leavingtheir program). Phase 1B (years 3 and 4) collects time-series data from questioners using SMS textmessages, collected three times per week from participants over an entire year. The first cohort ofparticipants completed an entire year of the study in January 2023, and a second cohort ofparticipants started in October 2022. Phase 2 (year 5) investigates faculty
. A significant aspect of the project was to create a supportnetwork for the students that incorporated existing services provided by the university andestablished new services to aid students throughout their mentored research experience. One ofthe new services was the development and delivery of starting in the second year of the grant andcontinuing through the third year. The purpose of the workshops is to introduce students todifferent aspects of research. The first series of workshops (offered in the 2021-2022 academicyear) were mostly informational and provided initial support for undergraduate researchers. Fromthe experience of developing and hosting the first series, the style of the second series (offered inthe 2022-2023 academic
change.Teachers play a significant role in helping students develop an awareness of, and interest indifferent career opportunities [1]. They also help shape a students’ self-efficacy and expectationswhich can have a significant impact on the student’s choice of careers [2]. Unfortunately, manyteachers either have little knowledge of the field of engineering or have misconceptions about thefield such as failing to identify engineering as a career that helps humanity [3-4]. EngineeringCommunity Engaged Learning (CEL) is an excellent way to help teachers understand howengineering, as well as other STEM careers, can have a high level of community engagementwhile using creativity to help humanity.For the 2022-2023 Global STEM cohort, RET participants engaged
Engineering DesignIntroduction/BackgroundIn its 2022 Report on the state of US science and engineering, the National Science Boardhighlighted the continued need to broaden participation in engineering [1]. This undoubtedlyrequires a multifaceted approach, with higher education playing a key role in attracting andretaining students who historically have been underrepresented in STEM. Evidence howeversuggests that many of these students experience disproportionately higher attrition rates fromscience and engineering programs [2]. In the same study, the authors note a common set offactors which plague attrition in engineering programs, including a lack of self-confidence orself-efficacy, unwelcoming academic climates, as well as sexism and
equitable workplaces in colleges and universities. Her more recent research on learning analytics and pedagogy pro- motes new data-driven evidence to promote changes in pedagogy, instructional practice, and leadership decision-making. Jaime puts her research into practice as an academic administrator supporting faculty and college-level change. As an administrator, she is responsible for supporting faculty governance and developing new faculty career development and workload programs and policy. Jaime also leads all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts for the college. She is a member of the Philadelphia 2022 HER Leadership Institute. Jaime’s work is widely published in peer-reviewed journal articles
highperforming students) and provide a meaningful networking environment. We use ourimplementation of the VIP model to foster STEM identity growth and a sense of belonging,while increasing and celebrating diversity in engineering and other STEM disciplines.The purpose of this paper is to report on the planning and launch of the VIP program at theUniversity of Memphis (UofM) in Fall 2022, focusing on the PIs’ experiences implementing theprogram and on our first cohort’s (N = 12; 7 women; 4 Black/African American; 2 Hispanic)experiences participating in the program during its first semester. Specifically, this paper willdescribe the challenges and opportunities of implementing the VIP program and how the VIPmodel has been adapted to align with unique
Paper ID #37881Strategies Promoting Undergraduate Retention (SPUR): IdentifyingStrategies to Help Students Reach Graduation through a Student-DrivenApproachArielle Marie Rainey, Colorado School of Mines Arielle Rainey graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in May 2020 with a Bachelor’s in Environ- mental Engineering and in May 2022 with a Master’s in Humanitarian Engineering. She is still currently at Colorado School of Mines, working on the Diversity, Inclusion & Access team participating in various projects to impact the student experience for underrepresented groups in engineering.Heather Renee Houlton, Colorado
initially 24students per semester in a single section, expanding to multiple sections in 2021 (Table 1).Starting in Fall 2022, the single, three-credit, first-year engineering course, ENGR 130, became a 1requirement for engineering students. Students may take the course in either the fall or springsemester.In Fall 2022, the university had 6,081 undergraduate students, of which 18% were international.There were 1061 engineering students, of which 26% were female.The course enrollment for academic year 2022-23 was 205 students in the fall semester and 155students in the spring, with a maximum enrollment per section of 44 students. More than 95
), communication(written technical memos, oral presentations, and poster presentations), teamwork, and projectplanning. Students in the course work very closely with the members of their project group(generally 4 or 5 students per group) and typically have limited interaction with other membersof the class. Roughly 350 students take the course in the Fall semester. These students aredistributed among many sections (9 sections in Fall 2021 and 8 sections in Fall 2022). A typicalsection has 40 to 50 students and is co-taught by two instructors.The “Connections” group was started during the Fall 2021 semester. The original motivation forthe group was (1) to provide a space for students to think about and discuss how the broad rangeof ideas covered in EGR101
procedure [11-12]. Theplatform was piloted in Spring of 2022 as part of a junior-level unmet needs finding course forundergraduate BME students [8]. Initial assessment of this program revealed that the VR clinicalimmersion experiences greatly amplified the students' phenomenological sensations of immersion andpresence [8]. In this work, we further examine the phenomenological framework of educational VRplatforms [13-15] by focusing on the felt sensations of boredom and psychological engagement whilevirtually immersed in clinical procedures.Methods:We adopted the boredom definition of Fahlman et al. as “the aversive experience of having an unfulfilleddesire to be engaged in satisfying activity” due to their comprehensive list of how boredom
experience,design challenge, industry immersion experience, or research experience.In addition, students’ reflection assignments were scored for the technical and professionalcompetencies realized in the high-impact experience. The department has defined 23 curriculumoutcomes or competencies that define a professional biomedical engineer matriculating throughits program [1]. The thirteen competencies investigated in this study are defined in AppendixTable 3. These competencies were defined a priori in spring 2021 as being desirable for a high-impact experience to demonstrate, with the caveat that the variety of high-impact experienceswould not necessarily support all 13 competencies being addressed.Four semesters (fall 2021, spring 2022, summer 2022
. She holds a bachelor's degree in English from The University of Alabama and a master's degree in English from Mississippi State University.Alexis P. Nordin (Instructor) Alexis Nordin is currently an instructor in the Shackouls Technical Communication Program in Mississippi State University’s James Worth Bagley College of Engineering. She has taught technical writing and various other writing- and communication-based courses at MSU since 2004. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Mississippi State University and Louisiana State University and is certified as a Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022
workshop, what they enjoyed most about theworkshop, and to gauge their interest in pursuing an education in engineering. During its pilotprogramming from summer 2021 to 2022, the SWEET Program hosted nine workshop daysacross four workshop periods with 123 total workshop participants in grades 6, 7, and 8. Basedon the preliminary survey data collected, 94% of participants said they wished they learned moreabout topics such as engineering in their middle-school curriculum, and 95% of participants saidthe workshop content sparked their interest into the field of engineering. About 74% ofparticipants said that after participating in the SWEET Program, they feel motivated to lookfurther into pursuing engineering as a choice of study.IntroductionWomen
course design, pedagogy, and student engagement, particularlyfrom an active, collaborative learning perspective. Together, these three frameworks offerconcrete pedagogical changes to support the inclusive leadership education of engineers.MethodsTo assess the effectiveness of our diversity leadership course, we administered pre- and post-course surveys to students enrolled in our course in Autumn 2022, Winter 2023, and Spring2023. The surveys included both quantitative and qualitative questions. The pre-course surveyincluded questions to assess why students are taking their course, what they already know aboutthe topics that will be taught in the course, their expectations for what they will learn in thecourse, and how they see the course
is interested in teaching, engineering education research, and K-12 STEM education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Development and initial findings of a summative assessment for high school engineeringcourse (Evaluation)Abstract: The e4usa is a high school engineering course aimed at broadening participation inengineering offered at over XXX schools across the country. This curriculum emphasizes therole of teams in engineering as well as enabling students to engage in authentic engineeringdesign. In the 2021-2022 school year, our team began to develop and offer an end-of-courseassessment to explore and communicate student learning in a summative manner. Theassessment structure includes a
contribute tocommunity development and enhance their skills. The implementation of project-based learning(PBL) in community-based projects has been shown to improve students’ collaboration andcommunication skills (Sagala et al., 2019). PBL involves exploration of knowledge as studentswork on a project over an extended period of time, providing opportunities for students to gainprofessional experience with real-world projects (Bakar et al., 2019; Kokotsaki et al., 2016).CBR offer numerous advantages for both researchers and the communities involved. Thisresearch methodology has been shown to be effective for translating research findings intocommunity solutions (Tapia et al., 2022). Furthermore, CBR promotes co-learning whereresearchers gain insights
semiconductor industry worldwide is poised to experience significant growth and become atrillion-dollar industry by 2030. With debugging becoming an increasingly important piece fornew chip development and the lack of current methods to cultivate this skill, how to teachdebugging is truly the next “million-dollar question.” Future approaches must address bothcognitive and affective components of debugging and embed within existing microelectronicscurriculum.AcknowledgementThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation Award EES-2321255.References [1] T. Ryan, “H.R.4346 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Chips and Science Act,” Aug. 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4346 [2] R. Sarmento, F