manufacturing analysis as a capstone design project. Fortheir project, they developed the design of a flexible work cell that could be used to produce themodular units for multiple houses that would make up the MAGIC village. The work cell wouldallow rapid production and assembly but still leave some degree of customization options, to beselected by the residents.The construction site of the house in the middle of campus was easily accessed during and priorto construction; this allowed the students more opportunities than they would have been for atypical building project. A Soil Mechanics class took advantage of this by taking soil samplesthat were analyzed using the same techniques included in the laboratory portion of the class, butwith a tangible
Paper ID #28714Work in Progress: Involving Teachers in International Community EngagedLearning Projects to Enhance Their Understanding of Engineering andIntercultural AwarenessDr. Margaret Pinnell, University of Dayton Dr. Margaret Pinnell is the Associate Dean for Faculty and Staff Development in the school of engineering and associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Dayton. She teaches undergraduate and graduate materials related courses including Introduction to Ma- terials, Materials Laboratory, Engineering Innovation, Biomaterials and Engineering Design and Appro
. Additional Questions Q8: The Service-Learning Project activities in FYSE provided me with an opportunity to improve my awareness of environmental monitoring in a real-world situation. Q9: This software-based Service-Learning Project activities in a partly virtual environment were effective in promoting teamwork. Q10: For a Service-Learning Project in FYSE, I would have liked a traditional service-learning project that would require activities in an actual laboratory setting and be physically installed at a community site, more than this non-laboratory-based GUI development project.monitoring, evaluating, and continually improving the learning process. As it is commonly agreedthat self-regulation is a good predictor of student's academic success, in
relations fully leverage University leadership Community center resources Office of Research Support Community Active research faculty seeking living Positive support factor, promoted based research laboratory opportunities faculty involvement Deans funding for projects (up to $1000.00 per project) Additional support for training and Positive support factor, promoted Funding
, respectively. He worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey as a Member of the Technical Staff and was a National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the NASA Langley Research Center. In 1994, he joined Clark Atlanta University’s Department of Engineering, and was the Director of the Mechanical Testing Labora- tories (MTL) and Associate Director of the NASA funded High Performance Polymers and Composites (HiPPAC) Center. Presently, he is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Center for Advanced Materials Research and Education (CAMRE) at the Southern Polytechnic State University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Engagement in
. Additionally, Mariam has taught both on-level and AP Physics I (formerly known as Pre-AP Physics) and played an integral role in writing the district physics curriculum consisting of rigorous labs, activities, and projects. Mariam fills the role of Alumni Representative on the UTeach STEM Educators Association (USEA) Board and was also elected Secretary-Treasurer. She is also currently pursuing a Ph.D. in STEM education at Texas Tech University.Mr. Ricky P. Greer, University of Houston Ricky Greer graduated from Tuskegee University with a bachelor’s in History. He went on to work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a community outreach specialist & unit operations laboratory manager, and through his
forty hours a week across two summermonths conducting both field and laboratory research at the university with a focus on environmental sciencesand engineering. Paired with graduate students and professors, the freshman-level interns have practicedgraduate-level research including on-site research at several local wetlands. Various projects have beenundertaken, ranging from ecological studies on topics including potentially harmful vectors like mosquitoes andecologically critical and valuable pollinators like bees, vertebrate presence and habitat selection, andenvironmental water quality and its impact on both aquatic invertebrate and plant community dynamics.Through our summer bridge program, we have created a pyramid-like synergistic effect
). In this position, Dr. Palomo is responsible for teaching courses such as Introduction to Civil Engineering; Hydraulics; Water and Wastewater Treatment; Groundwater Mechanics; Research Experience of Undergraduate Students; and Engineering Outreach Service Learning courses, among others. She is also a faculty advisor for the California Water Environment Association (CWEA), and Engineers Without Boarders (EWB) stu- dent chapters. Additionally, Dr. Palomo is the CE Water Analysis laboratory director and coordinates all teaching, research and safety training activities in the engineering laboratory. Dr. Palomo conducts research in surface water quality improvement via natural treatment systems, water and wastewater
demonstration projects across thenation. The new projects could fully integrate research and practice, beginning with the initial phase ofproject development, and could be conceptualized as living laboratories that provide opportunities forboth researchers and practitioners (NRC, 2011, p.107).”The CRC will provide the opportunity to add to the literature concerning private and publiccollaborations about fragile communities of color and those that are socially vulnerable. How do privateand public organizations support, prepare and plan in these communities? Often underservedcommunities do not trust governmental agencies due to past social injustices, continuous inequalities,fear of governmental control, and deportation. Emergency preparedness is
outreach programs to recruit young women toengineering. Age", Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition, 2005[7] Robnett, R., "The Role of Peer Support for Girls and Women in STEM: Implications for Identity and AnticipatedRetention", International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 5(3), 232-253, 2013.[8] Akl, R. G., Keathly, D., and Garlick, R., "Strategies for Retention and Recruitment of Women and Minorities inComputer Science and Engineering", Innovations 2007: World Innovations in Engineering Education and Research,2007.[9] Feisel, L.D. and Rosa, A.J., "The role of the laboratory in undergraduate engineering education”, Journal ofengineering education, pp. 121-130, January
energy systems and power electronics. He has been working on thin film solar cell research since 1979 including a Sabbatical Leave at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in 1993. He has also worked on several photovoltaic system projects Dr. Singh has also worked on electric vehicle research, working on battery monitoring and management systems funded primarily by federal agencies (over $3.5 million of funding). Dr. Singh has consulted for several companies including Ford Motor Company and Epuron, LLC. He has also served as a reviewer for the US Department of Energy and National Science Foundation. Dr Singh has over 150 conference and journal publications and holds seven issued US patents. Dr. Singh’s recent
. Washington, D.C.: The Education Trust. Jackson, J.F. L., & Moore, J.L., III. (2008). Introduction: The African American male crisis in Education: A popular media infatuation or needed public policy response? American Behavioral Science, 51(7), 847-853. Doi:10.1177/0002764207311992 Levin, H. M., Belfield, C., Muennig, P., & Rouse, C. (2007). The public returns to public educational investments in African American males. Economics of Educational Review, 26, 699-708. doi:10.1016/j.econedurev.2007.09.004 Maltese, A. V., Tai, R. H., & Sadler, P. M. (2010). The effect of high school physics laboratories on performance in introductory college physics. The Physics Teacher, 48(5), 333-337. McLeod, P. L., Lobel, S. A
Undergraduate Studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Associate Director in the Honors College at the Univer- sity of Missouri in Columbia. Triplett has won awards for his research, teaching, and service. He directs the Precision Imaging Research Laboratory (PIRL), which focuses on the development and integration of nanomaterials and their applications in biomedical, energy, and physical science. He currently focuses on the capture of signal transduction mechanisms in real time, specifically interactions between amino acid functional groups of proteins with donor molecules and protein kinase using photonic technology integration. He graduated from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Florida State
explore moreabout privilege, perspective, and how hard work – while it makes a difference – may not get oneas far if there are systemic hurdles in their way. The role of one’s community on the individual’ssuccess is discussed further as well.Lecture 6: Teaching with ConstraintsIn this activity, students put into groups and asked to design a typical lab lesson. They are told thatthey have access to a standard laboratory classroom, will have a diverse class among manydimensions stressing that there will be students of varying familiarity with the material, ethnicitiesand socio-economic backgrounds. They are told that the materials for their lab cost about $300and to plan accordingly. After the initial lesson is designed, each group is given
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
. 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
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
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
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
researchcollaborations with faculty at other institutions, and I stopped collaborating with faculty in myhome department of civil/environmental engineering. Juggling two research areas(environmental engineering and engineering education) was stressful. After narrowly beingawarded promotion to full professor despite having “two glasses half full” I finally receivedadvice from our (new) civil engineering department chair to follow my passion. So, I fullycommitted myself to educational research. I gave up my laboratory space. I have at timesstruggled with my new identity - I was once the skilled environmental engineering labresearcher. No longer.I have been on a journey to learn ‘how people learn’ and how to conduct educational research. Ilove learning new things