the college’s dual career and relocation program. Dr. Sandekian earned degrees in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at University of Colorado Boulder (B.S. 1992/M.S. 1994), a Specialist in Education (Ed.S.) degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (2011) and a Ph.D. in Higher Education and Student Affairs Leadership (2017), both from the University of Northern Colorado. She is a Founding Leader of the American Society of Engineering Education Virtual Community of Prac- tice for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Engineering and a facilitator of Safe Zone trainings.Prof. Jill K Nelson, George Mason University Jill Nelson is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George
accreditation processwithout a clear sense of the meaning and implementation of these items.This paper traces the development of the current definitions associated with ABET criteria 2 and3 and provides insights into the resulting impact on program and curriculum development,specifically, the assessment process.A useful understanding of objectives and outcomes can be achieved with a top-down approach.The process starts with the expected niche of the engineering world in which the graduates of anengineering program expect to pursue their intended/possible careers. The descriptors of therange of career paths and accomplishments expected of the graduates form the programobjectives. The academic input and contribution that would foster and enhance the
Hands-on First-year Electrical Engineering Introduction CourseAbstractIn this paper, we present successful endeavors in establishing a new first-yearintroduction to Electrical Engineering (Intro to EE) course curriculum at WesternWashington University. This course embraces a unique combination of seminar-style guest lectures in conjunction with a series of hands-on laboratory exercises.This course was developed to achieve a number of goals: providing an overviewof the EE profession, careers, and the field in general; introducing the pre-majorstudents about the EE curricula and have an understanding of various coursesequences in the EE program; exposing students with essential EE lab instrumentsand common software tools; and inspiring students
the topics of Optical Data Links, Integrated Circuit Technology, RF semiconductor compo- nents, and semiconductor component reliable. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an ABET EAC program evaluator in Electrical Engineering. Page 22.1293.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Simple Analysis Method for Assessment of PEOs Using Limited Survey DataAbstractAlumni and employer surveys are among the assessment tools often used to determine the extentto which a program’s graduates are able to successfully pursue the types of careers
and 2015 NSF CAREER Award. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Learning Experiences of Undergraduate Students Engaged in Novel Hands-on Experimentation During Summer Research Projects in Wireless CommunicationsIntroductionSummer research experiences have potential to benefit undergraduate students in various ways.Students involved in REUs in engineering have been found to grow in confidence about usingspecialized equipment, as well as understanding theory and practice.1,2 Additionally, thesestudents have shown positive views of seeking employment or attending graduate school in theirengineering fields.1,2 Given this potential, Florida International University (FIU
specializations. This paper considersthe recruitment aspect of this project. Demographic studies indicate that our target audiencestrongly identify with being “geeks”, something that no New Zealand tertiary traininginstitute incorporates into its marketing strategy. In response, a novel website, hard-copy“geek hero” publication and clothing range was created. The publications have beenextremely well received by secondary school students, teachers and career advisors.Informative and promotional posters have also been created for display in secondary schoollaboratories and classrooms. Whilst final enrolment numbers are not at this stage known, oneindicator of the success of our initiatives can be seen in the unprecedented increase in pre-enrolment
thanthe binary classification of EE vs. CE. We present a new ECE core curriculum that eliminatesthe outdated EE/CE distinction and describe how this core better prepares ECE students topursue advanced courses and careers in all sub disciplines of ECE.IntroductionDespite the large number of “electrical and computer engineering” and similarly nameddepartments at US universities, there are currently only 14 universities offering accredited BSdegrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering.1 Most universities continue to have separateBS degree programs in Electrical Engineering (268) and Computer Engineering or ComputerSystems Engineering (165).1 Our university introduced the BS in ECE as a single degree over15 years ago.2 This curriculum, which we
Education in Florida. Dr. Alonso has also been involved in numerous projects promoting diversity in engineering & science, including serving as the Faculty and Student Advocate Lead for the Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions (CAHSI), a men- tor for the Advancing Careers of Excellence, Tools for Success, and Windows of Opportunity scholarship programs and the director for the Summer Institute for Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (SISTEM). Dr. Alonso is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.Sarah Hug, University of Colorado, Boulder Dr. Sarah Hug is Research Associate at the Alliance for Technology, Learning, and Society (ATLAS) Institute, University of Colorado at
The ABET criteria does not define the various attributes of “ability to engage in life-long learning.” The various institutions create their own definitions. By virtue of thesedifferences, each institution also creates its own assessment process and tools. From the basicconcept of life-long learning, we will not measure this outcome while the student is at ourinstitutions. Life-long learning can only be demonstrated over a thirty-plus year career. Wemust look at career learning interventions, understand which interventions have the greatestimpact on life-long learning, and implement those attributes that can be implemented well in aclassroom. Education and learning take place along a four-part continuum with formal, non-formal,informal
AC 2011-1758: FRONTIERS OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGI-NEERING: AN INTRODUCTORY FIRST YEAR COURSEJohn A. Orr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute John A. Orr is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and served as Provost of WPI from 2007 through June, 2010. Prior to this he held the position of Dean of Undergraduate Studies. He served as head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department from 1988 to 2003. Dr. Orr received the BS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He began his professional career at Bell Laboratories and joined the faculty
. Previously, he worked as a manager, team coordinator, and teacher with FIRST Robotics, FIRST VEX Robotics, FIRST Lego League, and Project Lead the Way, and as a high school industrial arts and technology teacher. He has a BS in Industrial Arts and a MEd in Industrial Education both from California University of Pennsylvania and an EdD in Career/Technology Education from Clemson University. Page 14.1352.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Virtualizing FIRST for Improved Recruitment of Students for Computer Science and EngineeringAbstractThe FIRST Robotics Competition is
AC 2007-541: EFFECTIVE “WRITING TO COMMUNICATE” EXPERIENCES INELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COURSESSusan Lord, University of San Diego Susan M. Lord received a B.S. from Cornell University and the M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently Associate Professor and Coordinator of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego. Her teaching and research interests include electronics, optoelectronics, materials science, first year engineering courses, as well as feminist and liberative pedagogies. Dr. Lord served as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education Conference. She has been awarded an NSF CAREER and ILI grants. Dr. Lord’s industrial experience includes AT&T
survey.Introduction Laboratories are an essential part of the educational experience for engineering students.Engineering laboratories are places where students can build, experiment, test, and observescientific phenomena. Students are able to witness scientific theories come to life; often helpingthem gain a deeper understanding of the material they are studying [1]. Engineering is a highlypractical discipline, thus it is critical that engineering students receive significant experience tobe successful in their careers. The importance of effective laboratory instruction has generally been recognized by theacademic community and several notable papers have been published. Feisel and Rosa detailedhow the role of engineering instructional
of targetaudience has been shown to be the most benefited by undergraduate research. Specifically, it hasbeen shown that: undergraduate research has an overwhelming positive effect on students,1,2engaging students early in their academic career helps retain students in the STEM field,3,4undergraduate research is linked to heightened graduate school performance,5 and undergraduateresearch is a key factor in improving underrepresented minority persistence in STEM.6,7Once recruited, the goal of the program was to immerse the participants in active researchenvironments overseen by engaged faculty mentors with two students assigned to each mentor.The one-on-one mentorship was a key factor of the program which allowed the faculty andstudents to
Paper Award for the paper he co-wrote with Prof. P. P. Vaidyanathan on linear-phase perfect-reconstruction filter banks (1992). He received the NSF Career Award in 1995. While serving as department Chair (2014-2019), Prof. Nguyen and several faculty and student tutors developed a comprehensive hands-on curriculum for the ECE Dept. that emphasizes system-thinking and human-centric design. He is currently working on several projects with minority serving institutions on improving students enrollment in STEM fields. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Virtual Technical & Professional Development Program for ECE
Career outcomes. This paper reports both on baseline access, retention, andcareer data and a logic model associated with a comprehensive curricular reform resulting fromthe access, retention and career baseline data. As a result of this baseline data, the ERCeducational team has found innovative ways to infuse inductively based, situated curriculum andinstruction in addition to a student-centric outcome metrics into all aspects of the BMEcurriculum and associated laboratory experiences. These assessment measures build on theprinciples established in educational psychology and include pre and posttest BME conceptinventories, rubric-based laboratory assessments, BME efficacy measures and employersatisfaction measures. A comprehensive assessment
be attributed to(a) lack of awareness of the STEM-related careers after graduation (b) failure of the STEMcurriculum to inspire the students to develop the life-long passion for STEM learning (c)inadequate preparation and lack of resources for the educators to effectively deliver STEMteaching. Laboratory and project-based experiences delivered through outreach and partnership [1]-[9]between the engineering departments at Universities and the STEM schools can exploit thesynergy [10] between the two environments. In addition, the emphasis on structured, consistent,and constantly motivating project-based activities [11] across both the K-12 STEM educationsystem and the higher education (undergraduate/graduate) engineering degree programs can
curriculum. Thehigh school students in the K-12 school programs participate in an Engineering Dayevent. During this event, the students work on the ECE projects selected to have thenecessary STEM components that enable the student to observe and relate scientifictheory to engineering design principles and practices. The Engineering Day at GannonUniversity will form the direct outreach component of University partnership programwith K-12 schools to (a) raise the level of awareness among K-12 students of thepromising careers in the engineering disciplines upon graduation with baccalaureateand/or advanced degrees (b) establish and sustain the dialog between the K-12 schoolsand Gannon University to encourage the K-12 school students to pursue and excel
engineering concepts? These questions were among thosefaced by the Electrical Engineering faculty. This paper exposes some of the techniques used tointrigue students and to capture their interest in digital circuit design.Attracting middle-school students to the field of engineering is a challenge. Students’ interestmust be captured before societal pressures deflect career choices into other directions. Students,must be encouraged to consider engineering as an interesting field before it is “too late” to enterthe necessary math and science tracks in high school. Consequently, students must be exposedto the excitement and potential of engineering during their middle-school education to motivatethem successfully to consider engineering careers. The
majors, including Electrical and Computer Engineering students. Multiple factors contribute to retention issues, such as poor teaching and advising, the difficulty of the engineering curriculum, and lack of motivation resulting from poor connections to the engineering community. Statistics indicate a large drop in the continuation rate between the first and third years among Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) students. As students encounter increasing course difficulty in the early stages of their programs, they often lack motivation to persist because they have weak connections to their majors and potential careers in STEM. The Summer Interdisciplinary Team
professional development on negotiation skills,a glimpse of the life and career of ECE faculty members, information on different types ofschools, tips on how to prepare for a successful academic position interview, and opportunitiesfor networking with over 300 department heads and 40 peers. In response to a post-workshopsurvey, students reported that they particularly valued the networking opportunities withdepartment heads and peers provided by this unique opportunity to bring students and chairstogether at the ECEDHA conference. Participants’ interest in postdoc and faculty positionsincreased after the workshop with more of an increase in interest in faculty positions. Those whoresponded to a second survey six months later reported that they
comparison to conventional REU program structures, this REU has the added benefits ofweekly technical sessions followed by related labs, professional skills sessions, graduate schooland funding discussions, and tours of local facilities with renewable energy grid integration andwide band gap technologies. Incorporating these dedicated learning environments to the existingfaculty and graduate student pairing, research process, and weekly REU meetings enabled groupbonding, improved presentation skills, preparation for future careers, and learning outside theclassroom that was directly associated to their research. These skills were then displayed inonline electronic portfolios (e-portfolios) that could be added to LinkedIn accounts to displaynew
that we have learnedalong the way, what has worked out very well, what we are still trying to figure out, and whatplans we have for the future offerings of this course.IntroductionPrior to 2015, the curriculum in our ECE department would have best been described as being“traditional” in the sense that students graduating from the discipline had a very strongfoundation in the basic theoretical tenets of ECE, making them strong candidates for graduateschool. Yet, with all of that theoretical and mathematical rigor of traditional education, thestudents lacked cross-domain learning experiences or understanding of the path that awaitedthem if they pursued a career in industry.After listening to much feedback from our alumni and industry partners
AC 2008-1459: DEVELOPMENT OF A FRESHMAN AND PRE-FRESHMANRESEARCH AND DESIGN PROGRAM IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGMary Baker, Texas Tech UniversityBrian Nutter, Texas Tech UniversityMohammed Saed, Texas Tech University Page 13.406.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Development of a Freshman and Pre-Freshman Research and Design Program in Electrical EngineeringAbstractIt is well-known that involving students in activities and courses within their major earlyin their academic careers has a positive impact on student retention. We have developedseveral programs targeted at involving freshmen and pre-freshmen students in Electricaland Computer Engineering
are clearly explained inthe manual; 75% feel that the in-lab assignment helped them understand the principles of thesystem; 57% feel that they can apply the concepts and skills learned in this project to othercourses; 54% students feel that these concepts and skills are valuable for their future careers. Page 22.1099.2 Page 1 of 15 File: 2011-03-11 Final paper.doc Last printed 3/11/11 5:01 PM IntroductionAll engineering fields are getting intertwined with Electrical Engineering (EE) due to theunprecedented progress of analog/digital electronics and programmable devices. For example,many systems in
Challenge: Finding a Complementary Balance of Depth and Breadth in an Engineering Curriculum -- Approach of the Electrical Engineering FacultyAbstractThe faculty of the School of Engineering conducted a thorough review of its ABET-accreditedundergraduate degree programs to assess and evaluate possible changes to our curricula, bothSchool-wide and ones specific to our programs. The aim of the intensive year-long study was tomaintain the principal strengths of depth, yet allow more opportunities for students to gainadditional breadth in preparation for success in a wide range of professional careers during theincreasingly global nature of engineering in the 21st century.As engineering educators, we are certainly aware
Paper ID #18879Inspiring Future Engineers: Teaching Basic Electronics to Create Theremin-Based Musical InstrumentsDr. Benjamin Reed Campbell, Robert Morris University Ben Campbell holds a BS in physics and MS in electrical engineering from Penn State and a PhD in en- gineering from Robert Morris University. For the first decade of his career, he worked as a laser engineer at the Penn State Electro-Optics Center. In 2011 he joined Robert Morris University as an Assistant Pro- fessor of Engineering. He has been supporting RMU’s mechatronics minor and also teaching dynamics, circuits, and introduction to engineering. Since
level of expertise not perceived asbeing as strong.In a 2007 PES experts panel discussion, it was noted that • in the sequent 10 years power engineer needs would increase • the number of power students was on the rise • there was an aging workforce in industry and academia, and industry research funding for university power programs had fallen significantly over the previous decade and increased government funding was matching this decrease • focus on the capacity of power engineering programs to educate students for future needs was needed • there was a need to attract students to the power career option and the vital role played by faculty5Out of this same concern, the power industry itself has
include more practical applications by introducing the ArduinoUno microcontroller. A previous iteration of this course has been successfully taught for more thana decade using LEGO(R) MINDSTORMS(R), but recently transitioned to using Arduinos tohighlight topics in the ECE discipline earlier in a student's career. The entire course was builtaround a team-based final design project to create a robotic system to achieve some task or gamechallenge. In the past, some of the design projects were bowling, basketball, hockey, soccer,building towers, spelling words, and doing math. In addition to design, some of the otherobjectives of the course were to provide an overview of ECE and teach teamwork andcommunication skills. Although this course was very
, self-efficacy, interest, and posi- FT, LT, and filtering will benefit tive feelings) [15] their career Quality Use of didactic or student-centered Students rate overall quality of in- Instructional instruction methods [14], [18] struction of SS Quality of presentation, organiza- tion, assessment, and pace [15] Quantity Hours students spent on homework Avg. hours spent on SS homework in a typical week (self-reported) Percentage of lectures attended Classroom Class morale [14], [20] If the