organizational issues in technical, formal, and casual writing. She has primarily written and edited lesson plans for K-12 STEM education, proposals to university departments for educational collaboration, and instructional guides on using industry-standard programs. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Implementing Student-Led Outreach Programs for K-5 Engineering EducationAbstractIn contrast to existing university outreach programs, Bit Project’s undergraduate curriculumdevelopers produce student and teacher manuals for use in class. Manuals encourage explorationprocesses for data collection and presentation, promote teacher involvement in classroom events,and
Communities”. The partnership between the MAGIC team and theGerontology Department was initially brought about through a conference that is sponsored bythe Mid-America Institute on Aging and Wellness. At the beginning, discussions and planningmeetings for the partnership included many different departments and units throughout campus.In particular, several Engineering faculty produced contributions to the overall project. All of thefaculty members contributing to the present article were involved to varying degrees with theinitial discussions planning of the overall collaboration.The Minka house is characterized by a small and efficient floor plan design that is easilyaccessible, to allow for a longer period of independent living by the residents
at the community college leveldifficult. This paper will outline the process, activities, and barriers to successfully establishingthe first community college chapter of EWB while strengthening ties between the university andlocal community college.Cuesta is one of 114 California community colleges and a Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI)(over 33% of students are Latinx) with an enrollment of approximately 10,000 students peryear in credit-granting programs at its main campus in San Luis Obispo. Cuesta hashistorically served a large percentage of students (50%) outside of its service area. However,as noted in its 2011-16 master plan [3], this is shifting due to changing educationalneeds/populations in the county.Cal Poly is committed to a
HIEPinvolvement. For example, HIEP's participation rates on different engineering and computerscience majors, including civil, chemical, electrical, mechanical, and materials engineering, etc.,are analyzed to examine the practices that work for a particular E/CS major. The present studyreports findings from NSSE 2012 and 2017 surveys.Results show that, among the E/CS seniors, service-learning, learning community, and studyabroad program are the HIEP with the highest non-participation rate with 41% (service-learning),59% (learning community), and 68% (study abroad program), indicating that they do not plan toengage in these practices in their senior year. Conversely, internships, and culminating seniorexperiences had the most participation among E/CS
implemented, but CodeIT Day still aims to showcase and encourage the introducing,diversifying and retaining of students in STEM fields. In the past, CodeIT Day did not involve anevaluation portion but now that the event is back with hopes to grow, we have implemented datacollection to better evaluate the program. This paper will discuss the 2018 implementation ofCodeIT Day, hosted by students at the University of Florida; some of which were apart of theoriginal cohort who took part in CodeIT Day instances at Clemson University. It will discuss thenew technology utilized, lesson plans, participant recruitment, the workshop structure as well asresults from surveys and participant focus groups. The paper will conclude with lessons learnedfrom the
community and build personal • Listening skills networks • Problem solving and critical • Gain hands-on experience in a thinking community setting • Communication • Build professional connections • Teamwork useful for future internships or jobs • Learning more about • Science communication cultures/populations different from • Project planning their own • Cross-disciplinary collaboration • Understand both assets and needs in • Other
with ARC officers and the courseinstructor. After the training students formed teams of three and visited homes in the most fireprone neighborhoods of Philadelphia to install smoke alarms, replace alarm batteries and helpresidents make home fire escape plans. The students also provided education and materials onhome fire preparation. In the past five years they distributed materials and provided informationto over ten thousand people in homes and on the streets of the city.The students were required to submit a technical report about the behavior of steel under hightemperatures (i.e., home fires). The report also required a two-page reflection on the service.“The Environment” class was taught 23 times from Fall 1991 through SP 2013. An
beundertaken in the summer of 2019, undergraduate engineering students are collaborating witheducators, researchers, students, and activists primarily affiliated with two Colombianuniversities (UNIMINUTO and UNAL) to design means to mitigate risks related to ASGM. Figure 1: Flow of Learning ExperienceThese learning experiences were planned to unfold over three phases (see Figure 1, above).Throughout these phases, students had increasing interactions with partners at UNIMINUTO,UNAL and other members of mining communities. Phase 1 was a 400-level course which metfor three hours every Monday evening throughout Fall semester 2018. There, students firstformed eight groups to undertake a mini-project on a semi-related topic (in
. After receiving their laser-cut pendants, studentsattached string to them to create wearable pieces of jewelry.Lessons Learned: Brief EncountersBased on our experiences with brief encounters, we have several recommendations for groupsinterested in delivering similar educational experiences to students at K-12 schools. First,consider planning activities in which student create simple tangible artifacts. We have observedthat when students know they will walk away with even a simple product, they are often highlyengaged. Second, invite students to use tools and technologies that they may never have used—or that they use infrequently at school. We have found that students typically show great interestin learning how to use new tools and
extensive con- struction projects, organic farming, and currently works as a mechanical engineering technician designing and building automated production equipment at Smith and Vandiver. He plans to transfer to UC Davis after completing his studies at Cabrillo College. Upon receiving his BSME degree, Brandon would like to work designing machines and processes that address issues such as renewable energy, potable water systems, bio-remediation, and sustainable agriculture.Sarah E. Kalman, Cabrillo College Sarah Kalman is a civil engineering student at Cabrillo College. During the 2014-15 academic year she was selected to be part of Cabrillo College’s first Engineering Abroad Program. After the abroad experi- ence
fourth site, ApolloHigh School, recruits students from the San Jose High School District who are low on credits andhelps them create unique education plans to get “back on track.” Each site leads an orientationduring the first week. From there, teams visit their site 6-8 times for 2-2.5 hours per visit. A typicaldaily schedule is provided in Table 1. Travel to site 20 minutes Set up 20 minutes Rapport building (recess, HW help, etc.) 30-45 minutes Lesson/Activity 60-90 minutes Clean up 10 minutes Return to campus 20 minutesTable 1: A typical schedule when visiting a partner site.Course StructureAs
-world projects, and 4. propose a continuous improvement plan for the course sequence.Course Development HistoryThe global capstone course sequence was created to give students an engineering experience in a real-world, global development context. This was first offered in the 2015-2016 academic year as a projectoption in a traditional civil engineering capstone (CE Capstone) course sequence for students interestedin working on a humanitarian engineering project. The initial project was a water supply, treatment anddistribution project in collaboration with a rural community in Tanzania. Due to the growth in popularityof the Tanzania project and minor differences in course deliverables that created student confusion, aseparate section
preparedness and response planning; and to building a pipeline from middle school to highereducation that develops future Emergency/Disaster Management professionals, AtmosphericScientists/Meteorologists, Psychologists, and Journalists who effectively disseminate publicinformation. In addition to natural disasters, the CCR will provide public safety response training insteadof man-made disasters that may occur during or after a natural disaster/major weather event, specificallyfor responders serving underserved communities in this engagement in practice paper. 13Introduction:Natural disasters have a significant and lingering impact on our nation and
semester of 2017, an official partnership between the RCSC and theEngineering and Science Projects in Community Service (EPICS@mines) program at the SouthDakota School of Mines and Technology (SD Mines) was formed to help the RCSC meet thisgoal. The EPICS@mines program allows students to earn course credits for partnering with thecommittee to investigate, monitor, and plan an initiative for improving the energy efficiency ofcity buildings to meet Energy Star Building Certification. The creation of the student designteam has had a positive impact on students and the community and it has led to the developmentof unanticipated partnerships in the community.IntroductionTown and gown relations have long been considered important to the success of a
-artsinstitution, could participate in service-learning projects through an engineering living-learningcommunity (LLC). This LLC is named Program for an Engineering Education Community(PEEC) and has included six student cohorts since its inception. The PEEC program is designedwith a 3-credit introduction to engineering course in the fall semester followed by a 1-creditcourse in the spring, with the intention that the service project planning occurs in the fall andimplementation in the spring. Of the approximately 110 incoming first year engineering studentseach year, the program is limited to about 25 students per year and continually reaches fullcapacity. Students are selected for the program based on interest and to create as much academic,ethnic, and
Statistics.Laura Jacobson, OM Partners Laura Jacobson is a consultant at OM Partners, a company who makes Supply Chain Planning Software. She has been there for two and a half years analyzing processes and implementing planning software with a focus on standardization and performance optimization. In December 2013, she graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering with a focus on supply chain logistics. Her growing passion for Engineering stemmed from participating in Science Olympiad and Girl Scout activities. Currently, she is very active in her church community, assisting with the youth program and serving on two committees.Dr. Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison
alsoeducated about careers that require this skill set and were introduced to a programminglanguage called “Processing”. We observed that students showed increased enthusiasmtowards CS. In addition, we noticed that the group activity component of the classesencouraged sociability and idea synthesis among peers. This CS community outreachprogram motivated us to extend the effort to teach science concepts using the Processinglanguage. This may potentially promote sociability, creativity, and empowerment inSTEM among middle school students. Specifically, we plan to use the Processingprogramming language to facilitate learning of biological and chemical concepts, sincesuch concepts can be difficult for students to visualize from a textbook. This
Paper ID #22097Engagement in Practice: the Student Engagement Continuum (SEC) – Op-portunities and Challenges for a Sustainable Pipeline Enhancement Model atan Urban InstitutionDr. Gregory E. Triplett, Virginia Commonwealth University Triplett is a Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Triplett oversees all aspects of graduate engineering programs including curriculum de- velopment, student recruitment and matriculation, strategic planning, student funding, graduate research, and online education. Prior to being Associate Dean, Triplett was Director of
Practice: Establishing a Culture of Service Learning in Engineering Orientation Classes at Kennesaw State UniversityIntroduction and Literature ReviewWith a goal of increasing access to more engaged learning opportunities, service learning waschosen as one of the three high-impact practices for our university to focus on in ouraccreditation quality enhancement plan (QEP), along with undergraduate research andinternships. However, within the college of engineering very little formal service learning wasbeing conducted at the time. In our orientation classes, service learning was newly a part of theindustrial and systems engineering orientation course and fall 2019 it was incorporated into themechanical
College • Collaborative Projects (2007-2013) – Orange, Lake, Sumter, Seminole and Osceola County Public Schools, Lockheed Martin, Electronic Arts, Girl Scouts, Junior Achievement, Prism, Orlando Science Center, University of Central Florida, Valencia, Seminole and Lake Sumter Colleges • Coordinator of Industry Expert Review Committee: 2008 Math Sunshine State Standards • Member of the Strategic Planning Committee (2011-2012) - Florida Center for Research in Math and Science Education • Medical Scholars Program (2014-present) – Florida A&M University, MCAT prep curriculum developer c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017
Utah.Dr. Mercedes Ward, University of UtahProf. Tariq J. Banuri, University of UtahProf. Sajjad Ahmad, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Dr. Ahmad is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). His teaching and research interests are in the area of sus- tainable planning and management of water resources, water-energy nexus, and stormwater management . He is particularly interested in using systems approach to address water sustainability issues.Dr. Rasool Bux Mahar, Mehran University, Pakistan He is a working as Professor in U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Water at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro
coordination, strategic planning and administrative support for the internationalization of the campus, which includes the Education Abroad Office, Partnerships and Exchanges, International Student and Scholar Services, an Intensive English Program, faculty development programs, and cross-cultural learning living communi- ties. Amy has been at the University of Dayton since 1998, and has over 30 years experience working in a variety of international education programs. Amy has also worked in the areas of international admission, international student advising and study abroad. She has taught at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in the U.S., Chile, Thailand and the British Virgin Islands, and speaks both French and
have little support or encouragement from home to enter into STEM fields.The goal was to partner with the teachers not only to demonstrate the effectiveness of projectwork, but also provide assistance in completing the tasks. The idea was to guide the teachers inthe use of tools and techniques that could be successfully utilized to engage the students inSTEM related topics and to also learn from them in order to develop best practices.Having a class of middle schoolers complete activities in the classroom or lab would requiremore adult to student interaction when conducting some of the planned experiments, so a reliablepool of volunteers was needed. Partnering with Missouri University of Science and Technology(MS &T) students not only
studentsand was well known by some faculty. The program gained some traction with the introduction ofa new STEM Coordinator who provided much needed administrative support. Additionally theCommunity Based STEM Program supported the mission and vision of a new College-widestrategic plan that set as one of its goals “to create a boundaryless learning environment andempowering student experience.”In its implementation, the program coordinators encountered many challenges that includedlittle, if any existing network to build on for community programs, constraints in curriculum,overcommitted faculty and lack of administrative support; however, after two years the programsaw some success. It saw improved relations with community partners that led
problem where they can effectchange. Through this work, the student will review possible remedial actions and determinewhich are viable relative to social, cultural and economic resources.To facilitate the community engagement and input, a consulting model is utilized. The consultingmodel takes into account the client’s perspective of the issues at hand and integrates the clientinto the conversation from the beginning of the process. Similarly, the client is consulted atvarying points of the project to ensure that the project and the resulting product will meet theirneeds. Contingency planning and risk calculation are also part of the learning of objectives of theconsulting approach. In addition, lessons in documentation and community
the Georgetown EnergyCompetition, which aims at reducing electrical and natural gas use within the city over the nexttwo years. A Department of Energy (DOE) grant was also recently awarded to facilitate theinstallation of the first MW of solar photovoltaics in the community. In 2017, the DistrictHeating Plant in downtown will be converted from an inefficient steam system to hot water.Along with these efforts by the city, the local sanitary district is making great strides towardbecoming more sustainable through the installation of biogas digesters, with future plans for acombined heat and power system on site.The University has also been heavily involved in the sustainability movement and has beenactively pursuing sustainability goals for
has evaluated and debated the merits of international service learning from theperspective of the student, but little research exists to assess the success and sustainability of anengineered infrastructure system over an extended period of time from a developingcommunity’s perspective. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) hasimplemented a new course that will exist for ten years and will bring together the College ofEngineering, along with departments of Kinesiology and Community Health, Anthropology,Global Studies and Regional and Urban Planning, to collaboratively teach an undergraduateresearch-focused course elective targeted at evaluating baseline conditions precedingimplementation of a new irrigation system for the
activities. They identify learningneeds, plan and implement the activity or curriculum, assess the learning outcomes, and makedecisions about how and to whom outcomes are reported, whereas the organization providessupport when needed or invited. Full community control demonstrates a great degree of equityand power sharing, with the community as the authority.Fourth, the community has agency over the outcomes, while acknowledging that educationaloutcomes are influenced by social, economic and structural factors. Thus, mature projectsinclude interventions also address social, political or economic barriers to participation. In suchprojects, community members collect and control their own data, and their own narrative, andthe data are used in ways that
/teamwork. Documenting these outcomes requiredstudents to maintain an individual notebook or blog, which was new for the EWB-USA students.It also requires documentation of the project but that is already managed by the EWB-USAsystems.The curricular structure of EPICS allows the project timelines to be decoupled from theacademic calendar so students may start the semester with a new project or they can be pickingup a project that was not completed in the previous semester. This allows students to plan theirwork based on the needs of the project. This structure allows projects from EWB-USA to besupported in any stage of development, from early assessment, to development and design andeventually support in the field. The structure assesses teams and
STEM and coaches a robotics team comprised of girls from 22 high schools. Shoshanah holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford, an MA in Technology Strategy from Boston University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.Mr. Jeff Wood, Stanford University Goal: Make a difference in the world, through development and training of engineers to solve the most pressing problems facing the world today. ME Capstone Course and Lab Project Development Director Jeff is the ME Capstone Course and Lab Projects Development Director at Stanford, where he brings his 25-year industry experience to the role. He is responsible for the ongoing strategy, design, curriculum plan and instruction plans for capstone courses