an asset-based perspective to recognize knowledge that is often ignored [13], [14].This framework has largely supported primary and secondary educators’ efforts to create culturallyrelevant pedagogical practices by leveraging students’ lived experiences (see [15]–[17]. Forexample, the work of Mejia and Wilson-Lopez [18] captured how Latino/a adolescents leveragedtheir engineering-related funds of knowledge to create a solution in a design project or in problemsfaced in their everyday lives. Their study found that high school students’ funds of knowledge canbe relevant to engineering bodies of knowledge, skills, and habits of mind such as systemsthinking, scientific or mathematical knowledge, production and processing [19], [20]. The
from animaginative, creative mind-space, done outside the confines of established engineering educationcurricular activities.4-6 Making has a do-it-yourself ethos and is historically rooted in efforts likePopular Mechanics magazine who demystified everyday stuff for hobbyists and the Whole EarthCatalog: Access to Tools7 who surveyed everyday tools for the counterculture movement of the1960s. Additional real-world touchstones are the growth of Radio Shack stores and the 1980stelevision program MacGyver where the lead character would resolve each episode’spredicament by fashioning an escape plan out of found objects.8 Technology and sharing ofinformation via the Internet has greatly increased the ability for smaller communities with
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PBSL activities to answer our research question 1 and 2 respectively. The PUI/LIA universities typically have a high ratio students who are U.S. residents, manyof whom will pursue professional careers and advanced degrees after receiving their B.S.degrees. Successful completion of this series of projects will better prepare students for theircareers, strengthen relationships between local community organizations and our institution, andhelp produce excellent, civically-minded next generation STEM workforce.References[1] Swan, C., Paterson, K. and Bielefeldt, A. R., Community Engagement in Engineering Education as a Way toIncrease Inclusiveness, chapter 18, Cambridge Handbooks of Engineering Education Research, 2014.[2] Kolmos, A., Graaff
Paper ID #30869Four Complications in Designing a Validated Survey to Gather Informationon Student Reactions to Reflection ActivitiesKenya Mejia, University of Washington Kenya Z. Mejia is a second year PhD student at the University of Washington in the Human Centered Design and Engineering program. Her work focuses on diversity and inclusion in engineering education focusing on engineering design education.Dr. Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington Jennifer Turns is a Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the Univer- sity of Washington. She is interested in all aspects of engineering
, Mary Field, et al. (1997). Women’s ways of knowing: the development of self, voice, and mind. Basic Books: New York.21. Svarovsky, Gina Navoa and David Williamson Shaffer. (2006) “Design meetings and design notebooks as tools for reflection in the engineering design course.” Proceedings of the 36th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, San Diego CA Oct 28-31 2006. Page 15.1343.10
editorial board for Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.Gül Okudan, Pennsylvania State University Gül E. Okudan is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Design at The Pennsylvania State University. She received her Ph.D. from University of Missouri-Rolla. Her research interests include intelligent shop floor control, manufacturing strategy modeling and measurement, solid modeling, product design, and product design teams. Her published work appears in journals such as Journal of Engineering Design, Journal of Engineering Education, European Journal of Engineering Education and Technovation. She is a member of ASEE and ASME. She is also a National Research Council-US AFRL
course, and the confusion is grounded in real world concerns.Using as theoretical framework Productive Disciplinary Engagement [11], [12], we analyze thevideo data episodically, investigating the group’s interactions leading up to and including this“glorious confusion.” We argue the state of engagement characterized as glorious confusionreflects real engineering work and develops ways of sense-making and habits of mind that alignwith the higher-level capabilities needed in practice [13].In this case study, we investigate the following research questions. 1) How do student teams take up an engineering task designed for them to adopt roles reflective of professional engineers? 2) In what ways might confusion be a productive state of
AC 2008-397: ENHANCING DESIGN LEARNING BY IMPLEMENTINGELECTRONIC PORTFOLIOSMieke Schuurman, Pennsylvania State University Mieke Schuurman is an engineering education research associate with the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education in the College of Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. She received her Masters and PhD in Social & Organizational Psychology from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Her work focuses on the enhancement of engineering education. She is a member of ASEE and WEPAN, and actively involved in ASEE's Cooperative Education Division as their Research Chair. She has presented her work at annual conferences of ASEE, WEPAN
testing educational materials and learning spaces that stimulate serious play. Page 13.280.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Case Study: A Space Designed for Cooperative Learning with Multiple ProcessesAbstractThe importance of cooperative and active approaches to classroom learning has long beenrecognized. However most of our resources, textbooks, curriculum structures and learningspaces are not designed with these pedagogies in mind. Many instructors have developed theirown materials and figured out how to conduct an engaged, active and cooperative class in
-based initiatives, such as the establishment of school makerspaces, are having on the culture of formal educational institutions. Before starting his doctoral studies, Mr. Weiner served as the founding Program Director for CREATE at Arizona Science Center, a hybrid educational makerspace/ community learning center. He has previous experience as a physics and math instructor at the middle school and high school levels.Dr. Micah Lande, Arizona State University Micah Lande, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering pro- grams and Tooker Professor at the Polytechnic School in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches human-centered engineering
from reading, for instance,and this is backward from what Dale’s Cone suggests. I’m not “ear-minded” as the learningpsychologists say, and I understand that about a third of the U. S. population is like me (and Ican’t quote an exact source for this number either – I got it from learning psychologist FredKeller7 in a conversation with him). I don’t receive vocal information as efficiently as I do whenI read about something – I can always read text over again, but it isn’t usually possible to“replay” a lecture or a conversation. So my learning skills don’t match the lower levels of Dale’sCone. But after 43 years of teaching engineering subjects I am quite comfortable with the ideasthat, for most engineering students, Visual Receiving is superior
AC 2007-1541: USING PHENOMENOGRAPHY TO INVESTIGATE DIFFERENTWAYS OF EXPERIENCING SUSTAINABLE DESIGNLlewellyn Mann, University of Queensland LLEWELLYN MANN is a PhD student in the School of Engineering at the University of Queensland and a member of the Catalyst Research Centre for Society and Technology. He has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical & Space) and a Bachelor of Science (Physics) from UQ, as well as a Graduate Certificate of Education (Higher Education). Major research interests include; Engineering Education, Sustainability, Teaching and Learning, Engineering Design, Technology and Society.Gloria Dall'Alba, University of Queensland GLORIA DALL'ALBA teaches and
geography, economic considerations, and technical details of a particular technical intervention; 9. examine issues with a mind open to a variety of reasonable positions and subject their own views to rational criticism; 6 10. contemplate multiple pathways of professional practice (graduate school, NGO, corporate) that would benefit from humanitarian engineering knowledge and skills (adapted directly from Lucena [38].Integrating STEM and Humanities: Example Assignments and Connections to LearningOutcomesThe first course in the two-course sequence is weighted more toward humanities content while thesecond course
ofresearch that was slowly catching on. The RREE provided the opportunity for participants to findthe support of other like-minded individuals. By finding strength in numbers they were thenwilling to “go public” with their new interests. This is a tale of isolation being overcome throughdiscovering and becoming part of a community. As mentioned earlier in the paper, evidence ofPalmer’s movement approach being a useful description of change within engineering educationhas been found in a previous project (unpublished) using more traditional (text only) interviewprompts. In both studies, participants expressed statements reflective of every stage usually fromthe standpoint of the positive impact of such stages on their careers but sometimes also
Paper ID #19460Work in Progress: Using Conceptual Questions to Assess Class Pre-Work andEnhance Student Engagement in Electromagnetics Learning Studio ModulesProf. Branislav M. Notaros, Colorado State University Branislav M. Notaros is Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University, where he also is Director of Electro- magnetics Laboratory. His research publications in computational and applied electromagnetics include more than 180 journal and conference papers. He is the author of textbooks Electromagnetics (2010) and MATLAB
AC 2012-3418: GRADUATE STUDENTS MENTORING UNDERGRADU-ATES IN RESEARCH: ATTITUDES AND REFLECTIONS ABOUT THESEEXPERIENCESMs. Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder Janet Y. Tsai is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, whose work examines and develops initiatives and curricular innovations to encourage more students, especially women, into the field of engineering. In addition to assessing peer mentoring programs, Tsai also explores teaching engi- neering statics through tangible sensations in the body, to feel and understand forces, moments, couples, equilibrium, and more via internal constructs instead of the conventional external examples.Dr. Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado
Paper ID #25737Work in Progress - An Equity Bifocals Framework for University MakerspacesWendy Roldan, University of Washington Wendy is a second-year PhD student in Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington studying the development of equitable engineering education. Her work draws from the fields of engineering education, design, and learning sciences.Dr. Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington Jennifer Turns is a Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the Univer- sity of Washington. She is interested in all aspects of engineering education, including how
emphasized over the disembodied act of “Making”. When describingMakers, other categories of identities are often invoked such as designers, scientists, engineers,entrepreneurs, and inventors.Instead of starting with physical materials or pedagogical strategies, we started with the end goalin mind: the formation of a Maker. If the aim of education is to form people who have certainskills, knowledge, and attitudes, then it would be useful to gain a deeper understanding of theyoung adults who already embrace them.The concept of identity has been explored extensively within the larger social science andeducational research communities as well as in engineering education (Kaplan & Flum, 2012;McLean & Pratt, 2006; Tonso, 2006). In looking for a
Paper ID #29422The Napkin Sketch Pilot Study: A minute-paper reflection in pictorial formCapt. Jes Barron, U.S. Military Academy Jes Barron is an Instructor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from West Point (2009), a Master of Business Administration from Oklahoma State University (2015), and a Master of Science degree in Underground Construction and Tunnel Engineering from Colorado School of Mines (2018). He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas. His research
participants make the transition from high school to college withacademic, personal, and social support. Certain LLC activities emphasize the importance ofwomen in engineering and the social benefits of a career in engineering, and participants maydevelop lasting relationships with like-minded students and faculty.The motivational benefits of this program component include potential intrinsic value and asense of belonging bolstered by a context rich in situational interest. Further, significantprosocial and communal value, and positive identity formation can be generated in LLCcontexts. Costs include time and effort to participate, and competing activities paired with loss ofvalued alternatives when choosing an LLC.Supplemental Instruction (SI) &
Paper ID #7098Making Sense of Design: A Thematic Analysis of Alumni PerspectivesJames Huff, Purdue University James L. Huff is a Ph.D. candidate in Engineering Education at Purdue University as well as the Assistant Education Administrator for EPICS. He earned his BS in Computer Engineering at Harding University and an MS in electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University. He is currently on an academic leave from his role as an instructor of engineering at Harding University. His research interests include professional socialization of engineers, social cognition in engineering, community-driven design, and
,and their responsibility to key audiences or stakeholders.Other participants noted the importance of teaching ethics due to societal changes and engineers’responsibilities to society. For example, Manu said, “I think our parent’s generation wouldprobably say that ethics was something that was basically taught in the home…and that wasnecessary and sufficient, but now I think there’s an understanding or, for whatever reason, a shiftin society.”Nathan noted that other social forces such as legal liability are driving the need for ethics inengineering education. He stated, It used to always be engineers… you weren’t taught ethics because when you got accepted to come to a university, you came from the right mind set, you were an
- Champaign Lawrence Angrave is a Fellow and Teaching Professor at the department of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His interests include (but are not limited to) joyful teaching, empirically-sound educational research, campus and online courses, computer science, engag- ing underrepresented students, improving accessibility and creating novel methods that encourage new learning opportunities and foster vibrant learning communities.Prof. Suma Bhat, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign Suma Bhat is Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, USA. Her primary research interests are natural language processing and she
, creating mind maps, and reflection writing. Finally, whole-class orextensive metacognitive teaching methods include student-developed tests or grading rubrics,self-assessment of assignment, and creating concept maps. Further study of the search resultsreveals that many metacognitive teaching methods have been the subject of scholarly study,including, for example, rubrics22, self-assessment23, student-written exam24 and concept map25.These studies all demonstrate positive outcomes for student learning, attitude, or both. Given the overwhelming evidence of effectiveness, the question is why are metacognitiveteaching methods not widely adopted in science and engineering disciplines? Given this nation’sneed for more and better trained engineers
Paper ID #22470Creating a Concept Inventory - Lessons LearnedDr. Nancy E. Study, Pennsylvania State University, Erie (Behrend College) Dr. Nancy E. Study is on the faculty of the School of Engineering at Penn State Behrend where she teaches courses in engineering graphics and rapid prototyping, and is the coordinator of the rapid prototyping lab. Her research interests include visualization, standardization of CAD practices, and haptics. Nancy is a former chair of the ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division and is currently the Circulation Manager and Treasurer of the Engineering Design Graphics Journal. She received
AC 2010-2428: LEARNING BARRIERS IN SERVICE COURSES - AMIXED-METHODS STUDYQaiser Malik, Michigan State UniversityPunya Mishra, MSUMichael Shanblatt, MSU Page 15.833.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Learning Barriers in Service Courses: A Mixed- Methods StudyAbstractThis paper reports the results of a longitudinal study conducted on a service course offered tonon-electrical engineering majors at a large Midwestern university. The study focused onunderstanding the reasons why students perform relatively low in service courses. The mixedmethod approach was used to measure the performance in two different ways and
Journal of Mixed Method Research. Dr. Headley is devoted to designing effective research studies with the potential to generate well-justified answers to complex questions about how students learn given variations in their health, homes, classrooms, and schools.Dr. Amy Trauth, University of Delaware Amy Trauth, Ph.D., is Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware and Science Instructional Specialist at New Castle County Vo-Tech School District in Wilm- ington, DE. In her role, Amy works collaboratively with high school science teachers to develop and implement standards-based curricula and assessments. She also provides mentoring, coaching and co- teaching support to
, participants filled out basic demographic information about themselvesand their school setting. As compensation, participants were entered in a drawing for a gift card.Of the 127 respondents, 59 identified as female, 51 as male, 5 as cisgender, 1 as nonbinary, 1 astransgender and 1 as questioning. Additionally, 42 identified as Asian, 2 as Black/African, 48 asCaucasian, 7 as Hispanic/Latinx, 2 as Pacific Islander, 19 as more than one race or ethnicity and7 preferred not to answer. Additional data and percentages are reported in Table 1. The surveythen asked participants to describe a reflection activity they had been asked to complete by theirinstructor in an engineering course in the last year. Keeping this activity in mind, students werethen asked
Paper ID #15847Blended Faculty Training: Modeling Learner-centered Pedagogy in a NewFaculty Teaching SeminarDr. John Tingerthal, Northern Arizona University John Tingerthal joined the Construction Management faculty at Northern Arizona University in 2007 and was appointed as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow in 2015. His engineering career spans a variety of design and forensic engineering experiences. He spent the first eight years of his career performing structural consulting engineering in Chicago. He earned his Doctorate in Education and is currently the Associate Chair of the Civil Engineering, Construction