research and teaching as an invited participant of the 2016 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium and 2016 New Faculty Fellow for the Frontiers in Engineering Education Annual Conference. She also was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow for her work on female empowerment in engineering which won the National Association for Research in Science Teaching 2015 Outstanding Doctoral Research Award.Dr. Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech Tripp Shealy is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Exploring Gender Differences in Students’ Sustainability Beliefs in
liberal arts discipline, similar to the natural sciences, socialsciences, and humanities (and the trivium, quadrivium, and natural philosophy of earlier times),by imbedding it in the general education requirements of a college graduate for an increasinglytechnology-driven and -dependent society of the century ahead.5. To achieve far greater diversity among the participants in engineering, the roles and types ofengineers needed by our nation, and the programs engaged in preparing them for professionalpractice.As described on the University website, “the Millennium Project is a research center at theUniversity of Michigan concerned with the impact of technology on our society, ourcommunities, our institutions, and our planet.”The report advocates
education research, teacher professional development, and secondary STEM education. In 2021, Erica received the ASEE Pacific Southwest Early Career Teaching Award and two awards at UNLV for mentoring undergraduate and graduate students. She also received the Peter J. Bosscher Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award in 2019 from Engineers Without Borders and was recognized as a Nevada Woman in STEM by Senator Jackie Rosen.Prof. Eakalak Khan, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Eakalak Khan is a Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction Department and the Director of Water Resources Research Program, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. From 2002 to 2017, he was a Professor in Civil and Environmental
perspective, we can also usediscourse identity to determine students’ internalization of the discipline’s ethical canons anddisciplinary identity based on how they discursively position themselves in relation to the valuesof the profession. For example, research conducted by Dannels [17] and Douglas and colleagues[43] explored the discursive practices utilized by students throughout a variety of academiccontexts. They found that students did not perceive themselves as engineers; they perceivedthemselves as students working for a grade that would lead them to graduate from an engineeringprogram. In these studies, these students utilized discourse to maintain their student identitiesand separated themselves from engineers. To strengthen the link
this, do not be judgmental of anything.If it “appears” it gets mapped.By the way, draw by hand, don’t use software. Hand drawing is uninhibited, will enhancespontaneity, and engages the right hemisphere of your brain.26 As shown in Figure 5,mind mapping identified five problem areas and elaborated on each of them. As soon as Page 25.55.13the mind map was finished, the group turned to a discussion of possible solutions. Thepremise of this exercise is that a problem well-defined is half solved.Clearly, this tool can be used in a variety of situations. For example, using mindmapping, a team of graduate students identified 14 potential uses, in addition
(either during the summer or through a school-sponsored for-credit program) or co-op positions. Students should also be prepared to obtain amaster’s degree and their professional engineer’s license if they would like to advance in thefield.Structural EngineeringTwo recent surveys of structural engineering professionals provide a glimpse at the profession inits current state. The first is a 2009 survey by the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) and theCouncil of American Structural Engineers (CASE) Joint Committee on Building InformationModeling (BIM) in cooperation with the Structural Engineers Association of Texas (SEAoT) andfocused on the demographics of the Structural Engineering profession.25,000 SEI members were emailed the survey with
educational basis for jurisdictional claims in relation to other professions ≠ Refine and expand the BOK through research Page 14.1252.7 ≠ Serve as the primary source of profession’s status and public identity ≠ Contribute to students’ commitment to the profession as a career ≠ Contribute to a shared identity and feeling of community among members of the professionOf all these purposes, Freidson places particular emphasis on the importance of research.Strengthening and expanding the BOK is seen as a critical tool for defending and expanding theprofession’s jurisdiction. In the civil engineering community, research is
, 10 – Sustainability, 11 – Contemporary Issues & History, 12 – Risk & Uncertainty, 17 – Public Policy, 18 – Business & Public Administration, 19 – Globalization, and 20 – Leadership). In addition, the committee identified Outcome 5 – Material Science and Outcome 24 – Professional & Ethics as ones that may be challenging for programs to fully implement. The discussion that follows explores these issues in the context of NC State. Institutional Profile North Carolina State University is a major, comprehensive, studentcentered research university. It was founded in 1887 and today enrolls over 33,000 students. The College of Engineering, with approximately 250 tenure/tenuretrack faculty in
Learning Figure 3. Percentage of participants with scores between 4 and 5 in each cellAnother trend found from our initial survey results is the tendency of students to have strongerknowledge in the areas of Attitude, Operational Skills and Interactions. That is, they aregenerally positive and explorative towards technology; they are able to operate basictechnologies reasonably well, and they know how to take advantage of the communicationalbenefits from new technologies (such as emails, forums, and instant messaging tools). However,fewer students have extensively used technology to promote cooperative and active learning toits highest capacity. This finding might suggest that some adjustment is to be made to the waywe teach students so
is also a Diplomate Water Resources Engineer (D.WRE). He is an elected Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (F.ASCE). His pas- sion for teaching continues for over 15 years since his graduate school. He has been active with ASEE and engineering education research for over 15 years. He is interested in enhancing critical thinking skills among civil engineering students through various approaches and understanding student perceptions and experiences about high-impact learning activities and teaching strategies. His research interests are in the areas of resource-efficient desalination, resource recovery from used water, renewable biofuels, and sustainability.Dr. Benjamin S. Magbanua Jr., Mississippi State
of course redesign, and has been closely involved with the KU Center for Teaching Excellence since 2006. She regularly teaches courses in bridge engineering, steel buildings, structural analysis, fatigue and fracture, elastic stability, and how to be an effective college teacher.Dr. Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, University of Kansas Andrea Follmer Greenhoot is Professor of Psychology, Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and Gautt Teaching Scholar at the University of Kansas. Her research in psychology is on cognitive development and memory. Her work with the Center for Teaching Excellence explores how we can transform learning experiences for university students that are grounded in cognitive and
difficult to capture and to communicate on paper. It brings class energy and excitement that most teachers can sense when the students seem to leap in front of the teacher and are exploring on their own and relying on the teacher only to help them navigate through unfamiliar territory. The following images are intended to provide some insight into the studio environment. After-class Collaboration Cooperation Teamwork CreativityConclusionThe AE studio format for interdisciplinary education of architectural and engineering studentshas been recognized by participating design professionals, academic colleagues and university
. McLeod has published widely in the areas of data and knowledge base systems, federated databases, database models and design, and ontologies. His current research focuses on dynamic ontologies, user-customized information access, database semantic heterogeneity resolution and interoperation; personalized information management environments via cooperative immersipresence; information management environments for geoscience and homeland security information, crisis management decision support systems, and privacy and trust in information systems.Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California Gisele Ragusa is Associate Professor of Clinical Education, and Director of Undergraduate and
support one or more strategies throughout the academic program Figure 3. The strategy for teaching and learning creativity/innovation could be embedded in undergraduate and graduate curricula.As suggested by Figure 3, the strategy includes explaining the need forcreativity/innovation to first-year students, providing them with some neurosciencebasics, and introducing them to a subset of tools and basic, mostly hypotheticalapplications. This introduction to creativity/innovation could occur primarily within andas a small part of an exploring engineering, introduction to engineering, or similarpreferably first-semester course. Of course, the Need, Neuroscience, and Tools elementsof the strategy could be mentioned in other
found in PBLhandbooks for teachers, projects are complex tasks, based on challenging questions or problems,that involve students in design, problem-solving, decision making, or investigative activities;give students the opportunity to work relatively autonomously over extended periods of time;and culminate in realistic products or presentations1,2. Other defining features found in theliterature include authentic content, authentic assessment, teacher facilitation but not direction,explicit educational goals3, cooperative learning, reflection, and incorporation of adult skills4. Tothese features, particular models of PBL add a number of unique features. Definitions of"project-based instruction" include features relating to the use of an