theinfrastructure support that can be offered to the students. At CU Boulder, students have access tostaff and facilities (as described above in Course Execution). These facilities help improve thequality of the final product, and provide the opportunity for students to work on projects outside ofscheduled laboratory time. Students self report working an average of 10-12 hours/week based onFaculty Course Questionnaires, with only 5 hours/week being contact hours with the instructor.Because the students turn over their projects to clients, a certain level of project quality andprofessionalism is required. This makes the course ideal for students who have already completed afirst-year projects course or transfer students who are further along in their
a strategic plan for clinic use in the region.A medical team composed of staff from a district hospital was the first to take the clinic into thefield (along with the institute team). The team included a clinical laboratory scientist, midwife,two community nurses, three nurses for vitals and shots, two pharmacists, an insurance agent,and driver. The hospital’s doctor led and organized this team. He was also the one to develop themost effective strategy for seeing patients in periphery villages. For five days, the leadershipinstitute team worked with the medical team to observe how the clinic was being used and togather ideas for improvement. Each morning, the van was stocked with supplies for the day,which included medication, malaria rapid
education.Dr. Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University Brian P. Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering mechanics from Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Self has taught in the Mechanical En- gineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year, he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory, developing model-eliciting activities in mechanical engineering
Paper ID #7758Variety of Community Partnerships in Related ProgramsMiss Sarah Marie Brown, Northeastern University Sarah Brown is a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at Northeastern University, Draper Laboratory Fellow and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. She completed her B.S. in Elec- trical Engineering at Northeastern University in May 2011. In addition to her studies, Sarah has been an active member of the National Society of Black Engineers, having previously served as a chapter leader at Northeastern’s Black Engineering Student Society and as the National Technical Outreach Community
the educational institution, as well as thecorporation seeking to hire diverse STEM talent.Role models and representation help students see potential in themselves, and girls who seewomen working in engineering careers are more likely to consider doing the same [7]. Withfemale engineers of color occupying a small number of seats in our nation’s innovation hubs,laboratories, scientific think tanks, corporate suites, and board rooms, it is challenging for youngwomen of color to envision themselves as engineers.Experiences, both negative and positive, can profoundly shape an individual’s thoughts andultimately who they become. Espinosa [4] examines the potential benefit of the collegeexperience, including experiences of women of color pursuing
Alabama. Dr. Burian’s professional career spans more than 20 years during which he has worked as a de- sign engineer, as a Visiting Professor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a Professor at the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah, and as the Chief Water Consultant of an international engineer- ing and sustainability consulting firm he co-founded. He served as the first co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development at the University of Utah where he created pan-campus degree programs and stimulated infusion of sustainability principles and practices in teaching and learning activities across campus. Dr. Burian currently is the Project Director of the USAID-funded U.S.-Pakistan Center for
studentoutcomes with the community outcomes and impacts. Parallel studies are being conducted withthe program’s community partners to assess the impact on the community and the quality of thepartnerships developed with the program. This paper focuses on the plethora of self-reportedstudent evaluation data over 23 years.Program OverviewThe EPICS Program was initiated in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering atPurdue University in 1995 [51] The program has grown steadily in size and breadth to where it isrecognized as an independent academic program within the College of Engineering withdedicated laboratories. The program has experienced growth over the 23 years as shown inFigure 1. In the recent years, the growth rate has been very rapid and
like? Is that a good thing or a bad Page 23.795.8 thing? Of all the academic communities you participate in (laboratory groups, informal study groups, the classroom, activities sponsored by the department and so on), which help you the most to engage in your education? How do they help you? Of all the non-academic communities you participate in (athletics, church groups, work communities, international student groups, fraternities & sororities, church groups, and so on), which help you the most to engage in your education? How do they help you? [Probing/Follow-up Questions:] Is there anything else that particularly
. Concurrently students worked to fundraise forimplementation, discussing with the Bozeman community, the failure/lessons learned andanticipated path forward. With the design and funding complete the design was submitted to andapproved by EWB-USA for implementation during the 2015 travel season.The same contractor that had drilled the well at Munjiti the previous summer was hired toconstruct the rainwater catchment system. Some on-site design changes were made andconstruction was completed near the end of the time for the travel team associated with theimplementation of the RWCS. One seemingly small task remained for a complete system, thesand needed to be graded and cleaned for the sand filter. A small set of laboratory screens wasbrought from the US
those they will find aftergraduation.Project based learning in one form or another has been around for many years. In 1959, JohnDewey came out with one of the first formal articles discussing project-based learning. In it heexplained how he taught students in his laboratory through a process of inquiry, where he gavethem real-world scenarios and problems to solve. When the students felt engaged and invested ina real, legitimate project, Dewey observed that the students gained greater understanding of thematerial3. Today it is commonly accepted that project based learning environments possess fivemain components: a driving question, exploration of the driving question through authentic,situated inquiry, a community of collaboration that includes
all participating studentsneed to fulfil. This requirement involves active association of the students with an engineeringorganization on campus or involvement in an undergraduate research project. For thisrequirement, students may or may not be working with their mentor. However, they need toreport to their mentor at the end of the semester with a brief report and a presentation thathighlights the main achievements of their work. Student projects may range from involvementwith organizations such as SAE Mini Baja or IEEE Robotics to specifically working in aresearch laboratory on campus or assisting a faculty member with research. This activity isspecifically aimed at stimulating student interest in out-of-class activities. Benefits of such
course in its first semester, 13 came from Engineering, eight came from UrbanPlanning, six came from Community Health, seven from Anthropology, and five from GlobalStudies, with one additional student a faculty member teaching science at the University ofIllinois Laboratory High School. One registrant was professional staff of the University whoaudited the course because of a personal interest in the topic. Within these five sections, studentsrepresented additional programs ranging from Translation & Interpretation Studies to African-American Studies. All five sections met together, with faculty from each of the departments co-instructing all class sessions. One faculty member acted as lead facilitator for each class, with allothers
enterprise.While various programs have experienced growth, some programs have diverged over time andare no longer deliberately described as experiential learning opportunities. West VirginiaUniversity’s PRIDE program has been discontinued, yet the opportunity for experiential learningstill exists as described in a recent capstone course syllabus9 as well as numerous journal articlesdiscussing the program’s education methods and observations10,11. Similarly, Kansas StateUniversity’s Mechanical Engineering Design Laboratory still exists as a required componentwithin the undergraduate curriculum, but is not necessarily a deliberate service learningexperience at this time12. These programs demonstrate the common reality for most civilengineering capstone
below.Innovation spaceThis group worked on the development of the physical building that could service as a facilityfor learning design, building, and exploring entrepreneurial principles. In year one, a groupcomprised of all engineering students, focused on developing a space that was cheap,manageable, and inspirational. The initial motivation for the innovation space was an idea of anextremely low-cost fabrication laboratory 16. In developing the space, a series of questions weredeveloped to be answered in the field: 1. How are buildings built in Tanzania? 2. What are the options for power supply? 3. What tools and materials are readily available to build with?This group spent a significant amount of time in the field trying to fill these gaps
Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell David Kazmer is a Professor of Plastics Engineering at UMass Lowell where he has previously served as Associate Dean. His academic work is motivated by industry experiences with teaching and research related to engineering education, design, manufacturing, and optimization.Dr. Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University OLGA PIERRAKOS is an associate professor and founding faculty member of the James Madison Uni- versity Department of Engineering, which graduated its inaugural class in May 2012. At JMU, Dr. Pier- rakos is the Director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE) and Director of the Advanced Thermal Fluids Laboratory. Her interests in engineering
, James Madison University OLGA PIERRAKOS is an associate professor and founding faculty member of the James Madison Uni- versity Department of Engineering. At JMU, Dr. Pierrakos is the Director of the Center for Innovation Page 24.1043.1 in Engineering Education (CIEE) and Director of the Advanced Thermal Fluids Laboratory. Her interests in engineering education research center around recruitment and retention, engineer identity, engineering design instruction and methodology, learning through service, problem based learning methodologies, assessment of student learning, as well as complex problem solving
assigned in the place of two weeks of laboratory in a Strength ofMaterials course. Students were in groups of 4-5 and were given four weeks to design andconstruct an interactive demonstration of an engineering concept, which was then presented onemorning at a local Middle School.The specific aims of the outreach project described in the project statement (Appendix A) were: 1. to excite middle school students about science and engineering and break down misconceptions about engineers, and 2. to instill in undergraduate engineering students the need for science outreach while giving them an opportunity to creatively teach course content.The learning outcomes were expressed as the following:: • identify a concept related to
professors “felt the students were able to demonstrate adeeper understanding for the subject areas than in earlier versions of these courses.”4 Thestudents, while agreeing that their learning was enhanced by the service aspect of their projects,were unsure about the net benefit of participating. Biology students were concerned thatperformance in traditional laboratory courses would be weighed more carefully thanparticipation in S-L courses by graduate schools and employers, and many students worried thatthe perception of a lack of scientific rigor would reflect poorly on them. A barrier to faculty’simplementation of S-L was a resistance to the idea of reflection as a learning or evaluation tool,in spite of its integral nature in the effective
from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Brian has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory, developing model-eliciting activities in mechanical engineering courses, inquiry-based learning in mechanics, and design projects to help promote adapted physical activities. Other professional interests include aviation physiology and biomechanics
chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing fluids in coal-bed methane and regular oil and gas wells in Colorado. While in the middle of his master’s degree, he also spent a year as a graduate intern at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory studying renewable energy commercialization in Caribbean countries among other areas. He is currently completing is second master’s in engineering for developing communities in conjunction with his PhD Civil Systems Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. His trans-disciplinary research involves addressing global development issues from an engineering, political, and economic perspective.Dr. Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado, Boulder Dr. Amadei is Professor of Civil
fundamentally new conceptual frameworks,hypotheses, theories, models, and methodological applications that transcend their disciplinaryorigins.”Transdisciplinary research requires interaction and boundary-crossing collaborative discovery[6], [7], [8], [9]. It has been used as a community-engaged learning modality for sustainability[10], [11], [12]. Unlike the controlled laboratory settings typical of science and engineering,transdisciplinary settings are complex, dynamic social systems with open boundaries, non-linearbehavior, self-organization, and recursive interactions among agents that hold widely differentvalues. In short, transdisciplinarity is a dynamically complex system. Those who have used thislearning modality report emergent results, often
experientiallearning opportunities for students through the year-round Student Research Program with theAir Force Research Laboratories (AFRL) and AFIT, the Summer Internship Program with AFIT,and through placement at area businesses.AFIT Summer Research ProgramThe AFIT Summer Research Program hosts approximately 50 student contractors each summer;the program is four to five times larger than a typical NSF REU program. All students arerequired to be U.S. citizens, and over 10% are female, which are STEM populations of greatneed. The students are employed by the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education(SOCHE), which employed nearly 1,000 STEM students in the past 25 years. During this time, aformal assessment tool was not distributed to students to
presentation. Many ofthe teams spend additional time at the organization’s site collecting data, volunteering, orobserving the operation of a facility to get a better understanding of the design problem. Theinteraction with the client, on average, could be described as short term, and low (i.e. notimmersive). While the resources committed are substantial, in fact an analysis has shown thatthe cost of this course is approximately equivalent to a laboratory course for the same number ofstudents. It was designed to be cost neutral, and has successfully been run this way for severalyears now.Using the model, we can compare and contrast the WPI program and the UofT program. WPI isclearly a more immersive program that stretches across multiple years and
engagement in the design of research that responds directlyto the community's needs17. CBPR shifts the concept of research from “one in which thecommunity is a ‘laboratory’ for investigation" (p. 5)11 to one in which "research is by and with acommunity rather than simply for or about a community" (p. 23)17. This methodology expandsscientific inquiry to include goals for empowering and building community capacity by utilizinglocal knowledge to promote research solutions from the participants most affected by potentialactions generated within the research17. CBPR is an iterative process in which academicresearchers and community partners develop research projects through collaboration, collectingand analyzing data while making iterative refinements to
members gain an introduction to increasingly relevant STEMprinciples and a foundational knowledge that prepares them to take an educated and active rolein community planning and decision-making.Golden Gate Bridge: An Outdoor ExhibitIn order to demonstrate the ability of public works sites to satisfy cultural curiosity through richvisitor experiences, the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District (GGBHTD)partnered with EHDD Architecture, the Consortium of Universities for Research in EarthquakeEngineering (CUREE), the Exploratorium of San Francisco, West Wind Laboratory, LightHousefor the Blind, and Princeton University to create an outdoor exhibit at the Golden Gate Bridge.The exhibit explains factors that influenced the Golden Gate
Department of Engineering, which graduated its inaugural class in May 2012. At JMU, Dr. Pierrakos is the director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE) and director of the Advanced Thermal Fluids Laboratory. Her interests in engineering education research center around recruitment and retention, engineer identity, engineering design instruction and methodology, learning through ser- vice, problem based learning methodologies, assessment of student learning, as well as complex problem solving. Her other research interests lie in cardiovascular fluid mechanics, sustainability, and K-12 en- gineering outreach. Dr. Pierrakos is a 2009 NSF CAREER Awardee. Dr. Pierrakos holds a B.S. in Engineering Science
analyzedby a professional agricultural laboratory.2.2 ResultsBetween 25 October and 19 November 2020, the wind turbine pumped a daily average of 542.3liters of water per day. Measurements of Electric Conductivity, which indicates salinity, were atan average of 3,645 μS (microSiemens), with recorded numbers ranging from 1,560 μS to 4,914μS. Much higher-than-average salinity levels of 4,650 μS were recorded in the water extractedfrom the well on which the wind turbine is installed. For comparison, water salinity in the adjacentwell feeding the large irrigation basin next to the greenhouse were measured at only 470 μS. Themeasured salinity level in the pond dropped significantly after a water top-up, which was usuallydone by adding water from the
; Inclusion. He is investigating university-community engagement as empow- erment settings and working to further the research agenda of the global community of practice within Diversity and Inclusion in Engineering Education. His research laboratory aims to support an inclu- sive, global pipeline of STEM talent and to unify the needs of the engineering education stakeholders in order for engineering education to more accurately reflect societal needs. Diversity and inclusion, univer- sity/community engagement, informal learning, action research, and student led initiatives fall within the scope of his academic endeavors. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 A pilot study