Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Page 23.395.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Developing Best Practices for an Undergraduate STEM Summer Research Program in a Government Institution through a Higher Education PartnershipAbstractThis paper introduces a novel and unique paradigm to upgrade a long-standing summer researchprogram at a government institution to include components that are now standard at civilianprograms, such as National Science Foundation (NSF
relevant to their specific project and appropriate to their currentphase of the design process and personal development.Table 3 Required Professional Development Activities for First-Time EPICS Students First-Semester Student Required Professional Development Hours Introduction to EPICS 5 part YouTube series includes overview, course structure, grading, resources, and safety/emergency procedures. Wallet Project TA-led small group activity gives hands-on experience through a complete design cycle. Design Process Module 3 part YouTube series includes design process overview, phases and tools, and best practices. Design
AC 2012-4351: ENGINEERING FACULTY ENGAGEMENT IN LEARN-ING THROUGH SERVICE SUMMIT: BEST PRACTICES AND AFFINITYMAPPINGDr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt has been a professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engi- neering at the University of Colorado, Boulder, since 1996. She has taught first-year introductory courses, senior capstone design, and specialty senior-level/graduate courses in environmental engineering. Her research interests in engineering education have focused on service learning, sustainability, and ethics.Prof. Kurt Paterson P.E., Michigan Technological University Kurt Paterson, Associate Professor of civil and environmental
Paper ID #22507Engagement in Practice: Socio-technical Project-based Learning Model in aFreshman Engineering Design CourseDr. Raghu Pucha, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Raghu Pucha is a Senior Lecturer at the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Insti- tute of Technology, in the area of CAD/CAE and Manufacturing. Dr. Pucha teaches computer graphics and design courses at Georgia Tech., and conducts research in the area of developing computational tools for the design, analysis and manufacturing of advanced materials and systems. Dr. Pucha has three provisional U.S. patents and co-authored over 60
assessment and preliminary creek restoration design that relied on structural solutions (such as riprap). The tribe decided against this quick-fix approach, instead choosing to rely on the beaver as a resident ecological engineer. For STEM education researchers working with tribal communities, it is essential that the curriculum be grounded in tribal culture and values. The community's desire is that their youth be prepared to stand in two worlds: one in one in which tribal values are fully honored and on in which they apply the best practices of western STEM knowledge.ConclusionEngaging tribal communities in education is critical to validate theoretical research, whichrecommends culturally relevant STEM experiences to inspire student
throughout theduration of the program. Parents ensured that the participants attended meetings and wereinvolved in either the design, build or marketing aspect of the robot. Parents also helped tofundraise money to get the teams specially designed shirts and gadgets with the team’s logoprinted on them. Representatives from local manufacturing industries provided mentorship toMS BEST hub teams by assisting teams in cutting and building parts from their hand drawn andcomputer-aided drafting designs (CAD), providing technical insight on mechanical designs andbuilds, as well as building the competition fields for the teams to practice and compete on. K-12 teachers, retirees, university faculty/staff, undergraduate and graduate students,along with
Paper ID #27556Engagement in Practice: Toy Adaptation for Children with Disabilities: En-gaging the Community through Educational Outreach and Toy DonationMolly Y. Mollica, University of Washington Molly Mollica earned her BS in Biomedical Engineering and her MS in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State University. She is currently a PhD student in the Department of Bioengineering at the Uni- versity of Washington. Her engineering education research focuses are in service learning, increasing diversity in engineering, and adapting toys for children with diverse abilities. Her bioengineering research focuses are in
higher education and improve learning outcomes. Her research to date has focused on educational designs that emphasize learner ini- tiative and agency through inquiry or problem-based learning in formal and informal learning contexts. She has published several papers on the characteristics of learning environments that support or constrain opportunities for any students (including those from non-dominant backgrounds) to participate in key science and engineering process skills such as scientific argumentation. Her work is largely informed by the principles and perspectives on human development and cognition articulated by Cultural Historical Activity Theory. Putting theory into practice, she teaches a service-learning
career as a structural engineer. She was a founding board member, and the first chair elect of the Hampton Roads Green Building Council. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Engagement in Practice: Adopting Service Learning and Community Engagement as a High Impact Teaching Strategy in Geotechnical EngineeringIntroductionTo meet the high calling of professional engineering ethical cannons and civil engineeringprofession vision to establish safe, healthy, equitable, and vibrant communities; undergraduateeducation programs need to prepare graduates to be well-rounded leaders in planning, design,and construction of public infrastructure and built environment
Paper ID #30233Engagement in Practice: Learning Applications of MSE for Design ofCommunity Based Shelter for Housing InsecurityDr. Ajay P. Malshe, Purdue University Dr. Malshe is a R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Materials and Manufacturing Research Laboratory (MMRL), Purdue University. His fields of academic and industrial interest are advanced manufacturing, food-shelter-clothing and re- lated life insecurities, bio-inspired materials and designing and system integration. He has overlapping 24 years of academic plus overlapping 15 years of
hadgraduated and did not provide post-graduation contact information. Finally, the paper providesrecommendations for future longitudinal studies. Page 24.501.32.0 MotivationFor the purposes of this work, community engagement (CE) is taken as an amalgamation ofvarious pedagogical methods, including service learning, community-service, and project-basedlearning, among others. The distinguishing aspect of CE in engineering education is theintentional design of the effort to incorporate service as a means to meet academic learningobjectives. Previous work has shown that CE has the potential for student development on thecognitive 16, 17, 43, 49, social
focus on how to engage students better to prepare their minds for the future. Her other research interests include empirical studies to assess impact of good supply chain practices such as coordinated decision making in stochastic supply chains, handling supply chains during times of crisis and optimizing global supply chains on the financial health of a company. She has published her research in Journal of Business Logistics, International Jour- nal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and peer-reviewed proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education.Dr. Sarah N. Gatson, Texas A&M University American c Society for
acknowledgingthe value of journaling, there exists an opportunity to examine what can be done to increasethe effectiveness of this reflective practice as a tool for student development and assessment.Construction of Reflective Prompts Using Boud’s stages of experiential learning, the researcher intended to construct thereflective prompts to target those three stages. Journals can be given a structure to reflect howthey are progressing. A collection of reflective prompts for a GDT student would at first get atideas that are concerned about what expectations they have about their involvement, then thebulk of the journal would be concerned about the progress and obstacles being faced as thestudents delve into their design and finally the journal would
Curriculum MaterialsDe Putter . International Journal of Science Education Vol 34.3 Knight, D. W. (2007). Improving Engineering Student Retention through Hands-On, Team-Based, First Year Design Projects. International Conference on Research in Engineering Education (pp. 1-13). Honolulu, HI: American Society for Engineering Education.4 Del Vitto, C. (2008). "Cross-Cultural "Soft Skills" and the Global Engineer: Corporate Best Practices and Trainer Methodologies. Online Journal for Global Engineering Education Vol. 3 Iss. 1, 1-9.5 Kedrowicz, A. A., & Taylor, J. L. (2013). Engineering Communication and the Global Workplace. International Professional Communication Journal, 81-105.6 National Academy of Engineering
to be significantly smaller than we had imagined them to be. Finally, a lot of our design was influenced by you, both by your enthusiasm for the garden, and by you suggestions on what would best suit the academic curriculum of the students.” (Marina Predovic, CBED Student)Marina explains how a meaningful connection offers undergraduates the space to practice andapply what they are learning in the classroom back on campus; moveover, how partnerships cansupport the creation of engaging educational spaces that offer inclusive learning opportunities forall participants.From the course instructor’s perspective, it is always rewarding to see how students progressthrough the quarter, build their team dynamics, manage
aerospace industry with the Boeing Company initially as a design engineer and then later in systems engineering. At Missouri S&T, she teaches a variety of courses emphasizing Project Management and Financial Management for both undergraduate and graduate level courses. Her research interests focus on engineering education with a special interest in Service Learning and project management. Schuman is also the Departmental Experiential Learning Coordinator. She has developed her undergraduate project management class into a Service Learning class where the students work with area communities on real projects that benefit both the communities and students. c American Society for Engineering
to assess impact of good supply chain practices such as coordinated decision making in stochastic supply chains, handling supply chains during times of crisis and optimizing global supply chains on the financial health of a company. She has published her research in Journal of Business Logistics, International Jour- nal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and peer-reviewed proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education.Dr. Wei Lu, Texas A&M University Dr. Wei Lu’s research work focuses on Higher Education in Agriculture & Engineering, K-12 (STEM) Education, Communications, Marketing, Economics, and Social Behaviors. She is a certified Instructional Designer and Graphic Designer
Paper ID #12480Learning Through Service Engineering Faculty: Characteristics and Changesover TimeDr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She serves as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt is the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice
the Next GenerationScience Standards (NGSS) (see Figure 1).Program PilotsThe Champaign, Illinois pilot was led by the program director (and program founder, Mr. Greer)and the program co-founder (Dr. Henderson) who developed lesson plans, led hands-onactivities, and trained program staff (undergraduate and graduate engineering students). Lessonsemphasized the engineering design process (Haik, Sivaloganathan, & Shahin, 2015). Studentswere given open-ended scenarios and were tasked to identify and research problems, developpossible solutions, and then plan, test and improve their designed solutions.The Houston pilot, initiated in the spring of 2017, combined the best practices learned from theearlier pilot and added a partnership with the
Paper ID #10351What is Design for Social Justice?Dr. Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines Jon A. Leydens is an associate professor in the Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines, USA, where he has been since 1997. Research and teaching interests include communication, social justice, and engineering education. Dr. Leydens is a co-author of Engineering and Sustainable Community Development (2010). He recently served as guest editor for an engineering communication special issue in Engineering Studies and won the James F. Lufkin Award for the best con- ference paper—on the
from Clemson University in 2013. Her research interests include educational technologies and natural language processing.Imani Sherman, University of FloridaDr. Juan E. Gilbert, University of Florida Juan E. Gilbert is the Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor & Chairman of the Com- puter & Information Science & Engineering Department in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida where he leads the Human-Experience Research Lab. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Engagement in Practice: The Development of and Lessons Learned from a Community Focused Mobile Application Development
effective teams. As we moved online, we held information sessions for the instructors.We shared the information, ideas for how to move ahead and best practices. It seemed that beingable to process together was as important as the content shared in these sessions.While the pandemic caused disruption in many projects, it also provided motivated students towork in creative new ways. A benefit of the move to online is that the students could not tinkerand figure things out, but instead had to thoroughly plan and execute their projects. It presentedthe opportunity for students to engage in more analyses. Test plans were developed. Design forFailure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) is a part of the design process in normal times andthese analyses are
education as a whole. Manyfocus largely or exclusively on teaching and learning topics (Cox, 2004) and are cross-disciplinary, yet FLC programs in the engineering discipline remain relatively new. As such,there is a growing need to establish empirical and theoretical understandings of thesecommunities and their impacts on faculty in order to better inform best practices. The current research takes a mixed methods approach to understand the participation,perceptions and outcomes of a New Faculty Learning Community (NFLC) program in theCollege of Engineering at a large Midwestern research university in the United States. Drawingfrom existing research on FLCs and theories in socialization and community practice, this studycontributes to the
and related concepts are essential guidelines in engineering practice that will enable the achievement of the ultimate goal of any engineering project, which is to enhance social welfare. I believe that professionals must: first, be aware of the high impact role they play in society and second, learn to derive professional satisfaction from practicing Appropriate Technology. During the development of my thesis, the assimilation of these concepts was not easy because I had not been exposed to this in my previous experience with as an engineer with a more “traditional” role. But now, my experience with the project helped me to choose a research area for my upcoming Ph.D. studies and it is definitely influencing my
. Based on the students’ growth in understanding ofthe factors and complexities in their project, we believe that this research provides valuableevidence and support for the future use of GMB as a tool for applying systems thinking ininternational infrastructure development projects.INTRODUCTIONLeaders in both engineering education and industry agree that engineers must increasinglydevelop skills in systems thinking to be effective. In education, the emphasis on systemsthinking can be witnessed from leaders like ABET with their student learning outcomes a-k: forexample, outcome h, “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineeringsolutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.” 1 For decades, the
team proposal project was offered again in2013.There are multiple considerations for this type of project in terms of logistics and sustainability,especially for yearly participation of 220 students in this project. This paper will discuss thestrategies involved in adapting a community service learning project originally designed for 60students to a larger scale project for 220 students while maintaining the academic robustness ofthe proposal assignment and the good will of the partnering community organizations.1.0 IntroductionEngineering is a profession that holds high respect within the community. The design,communication, research, audience analysis, and business skills that engineers build and developthroughout their careers are
framework for this study, as well as backgroundinformation about the EPICS program and data collection and analysis procedures.Theoretical FrameworkThe guiding principle of the present research is based on a truth- and reality-oriented theory ofempirical research. Patton (2002, p.91) describes this theory as “there [being] a real world withverifiable patterns that can be observed and predicted – that reality exists and truth is worthstriving for.”14 This framework impacts the research questions, design and analysis. Given thenotion that the “truth” is worth striving for, the question implies that there are truths out there,and through systematic research they can be uncovered. The research question for this studyassumes that by asking the
Paper ID #25480Board 20: Engagement in Practice: First Year Students as ”Engineer for aDay” for Middle School StudentsDr. Cynthia Helen Carlson PE, PhD, Merrimack College Dr. Carlson worked as a water resources engineer for 10 years prior to earning her doctorate, contributing to improved water management in communities within the United States, Middle East, and Singapore. She has been a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) since 2002. Dr. Carlson’s research interests are broadly characterized as ’how civil engineering impacts public health’, and include storm water man- agement, modeling environment/engineering/social
Paper ID #21602Engagement in Practice: CAE Education via Service-LearningDr. David C. Che, Mount Vernon Nazarene University Dr. Che had worked in the industry for eleven years (8 years with General Motors in Michigan and 3 years with Stafast in Ohio) before beginning a fulltime teaching career. He first taught at Geneva Col- lege in Pennsylvania for 7 years and then at Anderson University in Indiana for one year before joining Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He is now Chair and Professor of Engineer- ing at MVNU. His research interests include CAD/CAM/CAE, automotive engineering, manufacturing
their projects, actions that had not previously beennecessary of instructors but further exercised their cross-cultural and communication skills.LimitationsWhile this paper highlights the expanded impacts to all those associated with the course throughan objective comparison between what has been done with the course in the past and what isbeing practiced now, a significant limitation is the lack of a systematic survey or evaluation ofthe course’s effectiveness. As such, the 2014-2015 offering has prompted the course instructorsto begin work that quantitatively and qualitatively evaluates the course’s impact to studentsthrough an assessment of their learning. This parallel research study (Improving the GlobalCompetency of Graduate Engineers