Paper ID #16049Impacts of a University-wide Service Learning Program on a Senior Under-graduate Capstone CourseDr. Jennifer Queen Retherford, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dr. Retherford is an alumna of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and received her graduate degrees from Vanderbilt University. She currently teaches a variety of courses supporting the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Among many structural engineer- ing courses, Dr. Retherford manages the Senior Design Project course for all undergraduate seniors.Kelly Summerford Ellenburg, The University of Tennessee
. Mark is also researches empathy and mindfulness and its impact on gender participation in engineering education. He is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and teaches the course ME310x Product Management and ME305 Statistics for Design Researchers. Mark has extensive background in consumer products management, having managed more than 50 con- sumer driven businesses over a 25-year career with The Procter & Gamble Company. In 2005, he joined Intuit, Inc. as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer and initiated a number of consumer package goods marketing best practices, introduced the use of competitive response modeling and ”on- the-fly” A|B testing program to qualify
independence from the BGCA in that they can design and deliver their ownprogramming. BGCPC has been successful in grant applications to several nationalorganizations. BGCA has partnerships with national and regional companies and the local officesof such companies provide important support to BGCPC. While BGCPC was also connectedwith Girls, Inc., for many years and used their research-based STEM programming, thataffiliation was dropped in 2003. The BGCPC staff still benefit from the philosophy and trainingthey received during that time. Girls, Inc., teaches that a staff person shouldn’t jump in and savethe girls; instead, empower them. As part of their culture now, the BGCPC staff believe youdon’t need a STEM degree to help Club members get dirty and
and social development,and deeper engagement5-6. The ambassador program at the University of Utah has been built upon best practices andthe success of similar programs at other large research universities. Various schools have alreadyfound success in recruiting students through K-12 mentor programs run by engineering studentsand faculty7-15. Furthermore, the program builds a community of engineering students. It hasbeen shown that when students feel that they are part of a community they are more likely to beretained16-21.The Ambassador Program Created by the College of Engineering The Ambassador Program was designed to give engineering students an opportunity toget involved with the College of Engineering. It was originally
contribute substantively to their value of the need for life-longlearning, and using their engineering education for making adifference in the lives of others. By approaching K-12 students withopportunities to creatively understand and apply engineering design, we believe their potential Page 24.769.8for preparing, preservering and performing as future engineers is greatly enhanced.Assessment rubrics are being designed to quantitatively assess the impact on students in a pre-and post- assessment approach. These instruments will be used in our spring and summer 2014outreach activities with planned
(CoE), Engineering Education Innovation Center (EEIC)at The Ohio State University has conducted an engineering service-learning program inHonduras. The program consists of three components: preparation, implementation, andevaluation. These components are aimed to introduce and teach students the concepts ofhumanitarian engineering through a practical, real-world, hands-on experience. During the firststage, the students assess needs in collaboration with in-country partners, and then research,design, develop, prototype, test and document their chosen projects. In the second stage, thestudents implement and execute these projects. Finally, the students evaluate their designs anddocument their results as well as make recommendations for future
students, refining design concepts while tackling newchallenges. The course has also provided opportunities for students to continue their work overthe summer and even after graduation; such continuity has allowed students to deepen andexpand their impact on the communities in which they are working.References[1] D. W. Butin, Service-Learning in Theory and Practice: The Future of Community Engagement in Higher Education. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.[2] J. Eyler and D. E. Giles, and A. W. Astin, Where’s the Learning in Service-Learning? John Wiley & Sons, 2010.[3] S. Freeman, S. L. Eddy, M. McDonough, M. K. Smith, N. Okoroafor, H. Jordt, and M. P. Wenderoth, “Active learning increases student performance in science
Page 25.27.20outcomes for the graduate program, and incorporate other assessment media (designreports, theses, presentations, field journals, photographs, etc.). This preliminaryassessment completed at Michigan Tech will be continued to assess post-programattitudes and lives of alumni, expanding it to other similar international programs withinthe university, and offered to other universities, all with a desire to share best practices ininternational community engagement, enhance the sustainability of such programs, andmost importantly, make meaningful contributions to communities around the world.26References1. Boyer, E. L. (1996). The Scholarship of Engagement. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 49(7):18-33.2. Grandin
materials science and engineering from Stanford University (1991 and 1987) and her B.S. degree in metallurgical engineering from the Michigan Technological University (1985).Dr. Lizabeth T Schlemer P.E., California Polytechnic State University Page 24.1037.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Relational versus transactional community engagement: An experience of the benefits and costsAbstractLearning through community engagement (CE) is widely considered a high-impact practice withthe potential benefit of accelerated cognitive development, deeper
Paper ID #26355Board 19: Impacts of Engineering Justice Curriculum: A Survey of StudentAttitudesDr. Tina Lee, University of Wisconsin-Stout Dr. Tina Lee is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Program Director for the Applied Social Science Program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.Dr. Elizabeth Anne Buchanan, University of Wisconsin-Stout Elizabeth Buchanan is Endowed Chair in Ethics and Acting Director, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.Dr. Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin-Stout Devin Berg is an Associate Professor and Program Director of the B.S. Mechanical
school and at DC Prep, a high-performing urban public charter school. After completing her graduate work at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, Kay Sigler be- came involved in teacher support and training, working as a mentor teacher to new and veteran educators and developing a Resident Teacher program at DC Prep, and through the New Teacher Project and Mercy College in New York City, where she helped develop a residency-based master’s in education program for New York City Teaching Fellows. Kay Sigler’s work at Brown has focused on preparing secondary history/social studies teachers for urban classrooms. Kay Sigler currently works with schools to evaluate the way in which they are implementing best
,practices, and solutions to typical challenges are just that. Typical. NGOs and governmentagencies need to apply relatively consistent solutions for their own economic and operationalefficiencies. Experts study problems from their own silos. As a result, communities are not onlyleft with solutions that don’t fit and can’t be fully implemented or sustained, their futurewellbeing and resilience1 is undermined in the process.While progress is being made to customize solutions, and in some cases to seek communityengagement, the power of design still rests in the hands of the external actors that frequentlyundervalue or do not engage community knowledge and creativity. In the particular context ofdisaster recovery and long-term resilience capacity
Paper ID #32402Engage in Practice: Hosting Math Competitions in College of EngineeringDr. Ziliang Zhou, California Baptist University Ziliang Zhou is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at California Baptist University American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Engage in Practice: Hosting Math Competitions in the College of EngineeringAbstractThis paper shares the experience of community engagement through hosting math competitionsfor the local middle and high school students. This engagement had positive impact not only onrecruiting prospect students for our
; her industry experience includes systems analysis and cognitive science applications. With a life-long interest in technology and its potential for enhancing human capabilities, her research includes intelligent interface design, motivated system energetics, and other topics relative to knowledge-intensive systems.Dr. Karinna M Vernaza, Gannon University Dr. Karinna Vernaza joined Gannon University in 2003, she is currently an associate professor in the Me- chanical Engineering Department, and serves as the interim associate dean for the College of Engineering and Business. She earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. Her B.S. is in Marine Systems Engineering from the
carry high stakes for students since both are required for graduation. Thus,negative comments reflect a fundamental observation: for engineering, servant-leadershipprojects are more time-consuming than conventional course projects due to the need to serve anoutside stakeholder on a deadline. A best-practice, therefore, is build more time into courses forservant-leadership projects than is typically given for conventional projects.To further place negative aquaponics miniature project comments in context, it is helpful tocompare this project against design-and-build projects selected by instructors in previousofferings of this thermodynamics course. Examples include 1) calorimeters to identify mystery
uses water drawn from the windpump to fill a lined fish pond that contains tilapia. Fish provide nutrients needed for plan growth.The water from the fish pond is circulated to a greenhouse where crops are grown and then backto the fish pond. Pumps used for water circulation, as well as aeration of the fish pond, werepowered using solar photovoltaics. The system design was the output of a senior thesis project atPrinceton collaboration with research partners in Egypt and initial plans for the Summer 2020 werefor another cohort of students to travel to Egypt to install and test the integrated aquaculture andhydroponic system in Egypt. The pandemic prohibited travel. The team debated postponing thework and ultimately decided to offer the program
improvements in senior designproject definition, coordination and management will be recommended to help achieve theoverall international experience outcomes to any project.Hypothesis:A previous study showed that including an international component into a typical civilengineering design project provided improvements in students’ motivation, attitude andexperience when compared to a typically classroom project. The research questions for thisstudy was whether a local domestic setting project, with the same level of interaction with localcommunities, can have the same impact on students’ outcome as the international projects.IntroductionThe primary goals in offering a service learning project within the framework of a traditionalcurriculum are to
dependent on their capacityto implement, plans for sustainability, innovation, STEM engagement best practices, more high-risk students, schools within the business vicinity, and sponsor priority [12].Post-secondary sample. In Spring of 2019, an updated APT-STEM was administered to 667students enrolled in a first semester calculus-based introductory physics course for engineers.This was done for continued validation of the instrument. However, because this was an oldergroup of students, the items were slightly reworded by the primary researcher in collaborationwith the course instructor. Also, this updated version had a total of 30-items compared to 24-items from the post-validation phase of the 2017 sample. This resulted because the items werere
Massachusetts-Lowell, and Worchester Polytechnic Institute. • Stand-alone courses such as Introduction to Engineering Design at Western Michigan University, Engineering Strategies and Practice at the University of Toronto, or Global Engineering Outreach Projects at Brigham Young University. • Community-inspired research and design projects such as the D80 Center at Michigan Tech. • Co-curricular or extracurricular group design projects sponsored by organizations (e.g. Engineers without Borders, or Tetra). These types of projects exist at many schools.In September 2011, engineering educators who have been engaged in LTS gathered on thecampus of the University of Colorado for a summit. The summit was organized by
Paper ID #6162Improving Students’ Capstone Experience with Community ParticipationDr. Daniel M. Dulaski, Northeastern University Dr. Daniel M. Dulaski, PE, joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Northeastern University in 2009. His research is primarily in transportation engineering which includes safety, roadway design, human factors, and sustainable transportation systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and is a registered professional engineer in Massachusetts. He is the academic advisor for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) student chapter, and the Institute of
Paper ID #26685Engagement in Practice Paper: Engineering Students vs. Geological Risk inthe Gold Supply Chain: Using Geological Risk in Gold Mining Communitiesto Overcome Technical Instrumentalism among Engineering StudentsDr. Elizabeth Reddy, Colorado School of Mines Elizabeth Reddy is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Division of Engineering, Design & Society at Colorado School of Mines. She is a social scientist, holding a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of California at Irvine and an MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago. She is Co-Chair of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science
practices in engineering education since 2003 (at Bucknell University) and began collaborating on sustainable engineering design research while at Georgia Tech. She is currently engaged in course development and instruction for the junior design sequence (ENGR 331 and 332) and the freshman design experience, along with coordinating junior capstone at JMU. In addition to the Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Dr. Barrella holds a Master of City and Regional Planning (Transportation) from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University.Dr. Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel Dr. Mary Katherine Watson is currently an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Citadel
: Sage Publications, Inc., 2013.[20] J. W. Creswell, Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, Inc., 2009.[21] I. Pietkiewicz, J. A. Smith, I. Pietkiewicz, and J. A. Smith, “A practical guide to using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis in qualitative research psychology,” Czas. Psychol. Psychol. J., vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 7–14, 2014, doi: 10.14691/CPPJ.20.1.7.[22] J. Walther, S. E. Miller, and N. W. Sochacka, “A Model of Empathy in Engineering as a Core Skill, Practice Orientation, and Professional Way of Being,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 106, no. 1, pp. 124–148, 2017, doi: 10.1002/jee.20159.[23] M. Kouprie and F. S. Visser, “A framework for
Paper ID #13869Engineering Education versus Vocational Training at a Tribal College: Im-plications for Students, School and CommunityDr. Robert V. Pieri, North Dakota State University Dr. Robert Pieri is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at North Dakota State University (NDSU) in Fargo, ND. He has many conference publications on engineering education and design. His primary interest areas include: Engineering Education, CADD, Design, Fracture Mechanics, Materials Science and Alternative Energy Options. Prior to joining NDSU, he worked for Allied-Signal Corporation and in the aircraft supply industry. Prior to his
faculty member, he has spent multiple summers and a sabbatical working as a temporary senior staff electrical engineer at A-Dec Corporation in Newberg, OR. During this time, he developed infrastructure, drivers, and various applications on ARM microprocessor systems. His current research interests are microprocessors and embedded systems for rapid prototyping. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Implementing Human-Centered Design into an Engineering Service Course: Development and EvaluationAbstractSince 2010, George Fox University has required all engineering program graduates to complete aservice-learning course. Initially, projects were identified by key
undergraduateeducation, and (3) to foster professional development for careers or graduate education. Thesegoals are realized through the students’ shared interactions within the SEECS seminar.Students awarded SEECS scholarships are required to attend a seminar where specificdevelopment and learning outcomes are realized in a team-based, project-based approach. Thechallenging and engaging aspect of the SEECS program is this zero-credit seminar. The SEECSseminar is structured around three components: engineering design, professional development,and personal development.While the two development facets are valued, the engineering design component is the pivotalexperience connecting and building not only engineering competency but also personalconfidence
engineer with the National Security Agency, chiefly as a special-purpose-computer and application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designer. During this time, he also served as a site-support engineer for the U.S. Navy Security Group Activity station, formerly located in Edzell, Scotland. From 1999 until joining the George Fox University faculty in 2003, he was a Senior Member of the technical staff at Rincon Research Corporation, where his primary focus was FPGA development for DSP applications. Page 25.1058.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012
-abroad experiencesintentionally designed to inculcate competencies in engineering students as preparation for theirincreasingly globally-integrated profession.The signees of the Newport Declaration voice a well-recognized need in engineering education.Though the only explicit mention of global awareness in the ABET EC2000 outcomes is thatengineering graduates should “understand the impact of engineering solutions in aglobal…context,” a driving impetus in developing the ABET EC2000 outcomes was anawareness of the current and future globalization of engineering practice3,4. Moreover, theNational Academy of Engineer’s scenario-based report Engineer of 2020 notes the currentlyinterlinked global economy and provides a scenario on the increasingly
on their executive committee as Director for International Chapters and has organized local Fort Laud- erdale chapter events for over 20 years.Dr. Diana Mitsova, Florida Atlantic University Diana Mitsova has a background in research design, statistical and spatial analysis, as well as environ- mental planning and modeling using geographic information systems, and interactive computer simula- tion. Her primary area of research involves the impact of urban development on ecosystems and other environmentally sensitive areas.Her recent publications focus on the impact of climate-related stressors on coastal communities and the implementation of planning approaches related to enhancing coastal re- silience to natural
, and trust/ trustworthiness in professional-client relationships. A licensed engineer with over 35 years experience in engineering education and practice, Dr. Lawson has provided project management and technical oversight for geotechnical, construction ma- terials, transportation, environmental, and facilities projects nationwide.Ms. Heather R. Keister PE, Freese and Nichols Heather Keister is a Senior Project Manager and FNI Associate, overseeing the firm’s Lubbock office, with experience in many aspects of civil planning, design and construction. Her background includes drainage analysis and design, transportation, infrastructure, development and public works projects, with a focus in stormwater management and