integration of formative feedback during a faculty member's earlycareer stages and tying in with our newly developed and evolving faculty mentoring program. In addition,we are designing a multi-pronged feedback system that will help instructors reflect on their teaching andreceive the support they need in order to improve their teaching continuously. Our new evaluation systemwill consist of three main parts: student impressions, self-reflections, and peer observations.In the summer of 2022, our school was awarded a grant through AAU to participate in their AAU STEMDepartment Project on Teaching Evaluation. A team from Thayer is participating in an AAU LearningCommunity around Teaching Evaluation (AAU, 2022).Goal and ObjectivesThe goal of our project
Paper ID #42030Board 124: Work in Progress: A Framework to Develop Project-based Platformsto Support Engineering and Technology Education: Project DevelopmentCanvasMr. Casey Daniel Kidd, Louisiana Tech University Casey Kidd is a Project-Based Learning Professional who assists in the design and development of projects for multiple undergraduate engineering courses in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. He is also a PhD candidate focusing on research in project-based learning. He earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Louisiana Tech University in the Spring of
Paper ID #43637Teacher’s Perceptions of the Fertility in Implementing Project-based Learningin Engineering CoursesDr. Octavio Mattasoglio Neto, Instituto Mau´a de Tecnologia Undergraduate in Physics (1983), master in Science (1989) and phd at Education (1998) all of them from Universidade de S˜ao Paulo. Professor of Physics at Mau´a Institute of Technology, since 1994 and President of Teacher’s Academy of the same Instituttion.Gabriel Monesi Souza ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Teacher’s perceptions of the fertility in implementing Project Based Learning in
worked as the Education Project Manager for the NSF-funded JTFD Engineering faculty development program, as a high school math and science teacher, and as an Assistant Principal and Instructional & Curriculum Coach.Dr. Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University Ann F. McKenna is the Vice Dean of Strategic Advancement for the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, and is a professor of engineering in the Polytechnic School, one of the seven Fulton Schools. Prior to joining ASU, she served as a program director at the National Science Founda- tion in the Division of Undergraduate Education, and was the director of education improvement in the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern
fundamental understanding of the research area andthe basis for our study's objectives: (1) to better understand how engineering faculty membersperceive their participate in communities of practice for teaching innovation supported by anannual funding program and (2) to make the program better to enhance the communities ofpractice. The findings from previous studies provide a foundation for understanding thepotential impact of the EIP program on student learning outcomes, faculty development, andinstitutional change.MethodsIn Fall 2023, we conducted a faculty survey to examine how engineering faculty perceived theirexperience in the education innovation program.We aim to investigate how faculty members evaluated their experience on the EIP projects
techniques, sustainability of the built environment and more specifically, Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows for enhanced quality control and labor time utilization for coordinated MEP and specialty trade equipment, from design-to-install, in retrofit environments. Before joining Wentworth, Dr. Cribbs served as a Principal at Green Ideas Building Science Consultants, based in Phoenix where he regularly engaged in BIM workflows for de- sign/constructability/operations analysis, reporting and review with the full spectrum of project stakehold- ers. He has also taught both undergraduate and graduate level courses in design, construction management and Building Information Modeling at Arizona State University and
undergraduate and graduate courses, representing Academic Technologies. Gemma currently serves as the Curriculum Development Lead in a collaborative research project, funded by the National Science Foundation, with faculty at the University of Texas El Paso, University of Miami, and Florida International University focused on undergraduate engineering education at Hispanic Serving Institutions.Dr. Ines Basalo, University of Miami Dr. Ines Basalo, Associate Professor in Practice in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Miami, received her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Columbia University and has taught since then. She is actively involved in the undergraduate education of students at the College of
Postdoctoral Researcher Award at the University of Michigan; and serves as a PI/Co-PI on multiple projects funded by the National Science Foundation. He currently serves in editorial capacity for the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, and Journal of International Engineering Education.Jeff Knowles, Oregon State University Dr. Jeff Knowles is an engineering instructor at Oregon State University who began teaching courses in 2015. His current pedagogical research is related to barriers associated with implementing Evidence-Based Instructional Practices (EBIPs) in STEM-related courses and determining what affordances can be granted to overcome
also focuses on faculty professional development and is a co-director of the Professional development for Emerging Education Researchers (PEER) Institute.Dr. Scott Franklin, Rochester Institute of Technology Scott Franklin is a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the CASTLE Center for Advancing STEM Teaching, Learning & Evaluation at Rochester Institute of Technology. His educa- tion research includes projects on the development of identity and affiliation in physics majors throughout their undergraduate career, and, separately, how physicists express conceptual meaning in mathemati- cal formalism. He has co-directed the PEER faculty development program for four years, integrating
New Haven. She previously specialized in service learning while co-directing the Engineering Projects in Community Service program at the Arizona State University. Her current research interests include engi- neering student identity, makerspaces as teaching resources, and entrepreneurial mindset. She continues to teach first-year engineering courses and supports students through mentorship and student organizations. She completed her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech.Joseph Smolinski ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 WIP: How to get faculty to use and leverage makerspaces in their courses – a peer-to-peer mentoring model.In this work-in
2024Abstract In this paper, we present preliminary research findings regarding the impact of theMaking Academic Change Happen (MACH) curriculum. Engineering education graduatestudents who were enrolled in different doctoral programs were exposed to the MACHcurriculum in one of three settings: the MACH workshop in 2017 that included severalgraduate students among the attendees (faculty, administrators, etc.); the Emerging EngineeringEducators MACH workshop that was designed specifically for early career faculty and graduatestudents in 2019; and the National Science Foundation Revolutionizing EngineeringDepartments (RED) project change community monthly Zoom calls that occurred from 2015 to2023. In this paper, we focus on graduate student
is part of a larger project that aims to transform the culture in STEM departments at alarge, regional, R1 institution to one that values and prioritizes active and inquiry-based learning.The project leverages course-based communities of transformation (CCTs) which includeinstructors, GTAs, and undergraduate learning assistants. The CCTs aim to make active learningthe default method of instruction in highly enrolled gateway courses in the participatingdepartments (physics, math, and computer science). Early in the project it became clear thatGTAs play a significant role in introductory courses, largely because of their responsibilities asinstructors in recitations and labs. To prepare and support GTAs in their role, the project hasdeveloped
guide studentsto develop their own understanding of new concepts. Explore questions prompt students toexplore the model and notice key features. Invent questions prompt students to develop andarticulate their own understanding of an unfamiliar concept. Apply questions prompt students toapply their new understanding. At the same time, a POGIL activity is designed to help studentspractice specific process skills. Writing an effective POGIL activity can be difficult and timeconsuming, but good activities are often readily adopted or adapted by other faculty who teachthe same or similar content.2.2. POGIL Faculty DevelopmentThe POGIL Project (http://pogil.org) has been identified as a “community of transformation”for its approach to STEM education
strategiesevaluated focus on student intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation. In this context, intrinsicmotivation refers to motivation from personal interest [4]. Extrinsic motivation refers to thosemotivations created by the environment the student is part of [4]. Previous work has shown thatpositive incentives appear to have a positive effect on learning outcomes [5], that praise andreward were associated with higher extrinsic motivation [6], or conversely that negativeincentives provided slightly more motivation for students [7].Course DescriptionThe course used in this study is a senior-level Aircraft Structures and Aeroelasticity course,which focuses on structural design and analysis of an aircraft wing. The course is entirelyhomework and project-based
positivechange in the world [3], [4]. By recognizing the unique value these collaborations and connectionsbring, we can achieve gender equity and foster more inclusive and equitable academic and researchenvironments that benefit academia and society. This paper aims to provide a comprehensiveaccount of such fostering activities implemented in the engineering faculty advancement project,which was funded by an NSF ADVANCE Partnership grant to four CSU campuses, and how theparticipating institutions have fostered connections. Periodic speed mentoring sessions, held threetimes a year, bring faculty members together virtually for two-hour discussions on topics such asacademic leadership, navigating tenure, building research networks, proposal writing
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 WIP: The Benefits and Challenges of Faculty Development through Interdisciplinary Public OutreachAbstractThis WIP paper will highlight emergent findings from a research project related to the facultydevelopment benefits and challenges that arose when STEAM (science, technology, engineering,arts, and mathematics) researchers engaged in interdisciplinary public outreach events. Withincreasing calls for interdisciplinary research teams and task forces, the need for faculty todevelop their interdisciplinary networks and cross-discipline communication skills is at an all-time high. Similarly, recent global events and crises have highlighted the need to increase andimprove the publics
&M University. She earned her PhD in industrial-organizational psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include workplace safety, occupa- tional health, and fairness and mistreatment in the workplace and in STEM classrooms and programs.David Christopher SeetsEmma Edoga, Texas A&M UniversityLuis Angel RodriguezGuillermo Aguilar, Texas A&M University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Evidence Based Practice: Innovation training and its impact on faculty approach to curricular or pedagogical changesIntroductionThe Project called Teams for Creating Opportunities for Revolutionizing the Preparation ofStudents (TCORPS), is
twofold: to discuss the challenges ofadopting XR technologies and to share practices, strategies, and mindsets for faculty-led projectsin STEM education, emphasizing a bottom-up rather than a top-down organizational approach.The implication of this ongoing project is to utilize an approach by which all faculty, staff,students, and administrators collaborate to understand more about all stakeholders’ needs beforeadopting technologies for teaching and learning. The paper outlines a framework for requirementgathering in the adoption of technologies such as XR applications for teaching and learning inSTEM fields. This framework aims to assist faculty members interested in either leading orcontributing to technology adoption initiatives at their
is an IEEE Fellow (2005). He received the Distinguished Teaching Award at UC San Diego in 2019. He served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transaction on Circuits & Systems, and IEEE Transaction on Image Processing. See his research publication at Google Scholar. Prof. Nguyen is passionate about teaching and mentorship, creating initiatives that prepare students for career success. During his term as ECE department chair, with the help of faculty and students, he spearheaded the Hands-on curriculum, Summer Research Internship Program (SRIP), and the Summer Internship Prep Program (SIPP). He also co-created the Project-in-a-Box (PIB) student
manufacturing critical aspect of the training, as it ensures process for pick& place part proper communication between the PLC and the robot. The training emphasizes theimportance of understanding project I/O requirements and determining the appropriate module andrack for those I/O. Two tables are used to track I/O and sizes, with one table aligning robot inputto PLC output and the other table listing corresponding robot output to PLC inputs. Figure 1 showsthe flowchart of the process. The training's goal is to design a fully automated manufacturing pick-and-place project controlled solely from HMI inputs via PLC into the robots. The primary authorscored
to redesign and enrich their courses with CI projects, to the benefit of an estimated14,000 undergraduates. Funds were also provided for: 37 faculty development opportunities; 652students from all eight Colleges or Schools the opportunity to present their work at our annualResearch and Creative Inquiry Day; and, 35 students to publish their work in our Journal ofCreative Inquiry (JCI). Faculty who won EDGE course grants attended a multi-day workshop(“Camp QEP”) for support in developing their CI course. Camp QEP was hosted jointly byTech’s Office of Creative Inquiry and Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE),which was the predecessor to our current Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning(CITL).CITL and WorkshopsThe Center
want to grow in research success through something we call the Water Working Group(WWG).The vision for the WWG is to see “water challenges relevant to the culture, people, and environment of theTexas Panhandle be solved in a way which is meaningful both to our current residents and in the long-term,100-year time horizon.” While this is the public face of WWG, for faculty, this group has served as a strongmeans of faculty development. This development includes activities such as connecting with areaentrepreneurs who might benefit from research consultation and joint projects, sharing ideas about how tobroaden education in water beyond our classroom so that the wider Panhandle culture changes theirmindset about water, going on research-oriented
(Vesilind, 2001, p. 409).This paper will utilize Zachary’s model for effective mentoring to understand the foundation ofsuccessful mentoring relationships. Zachary’s model describes effective mentoring as combiningthe elements of “reciprocity, learning, relationship, partnership, collaboration, mutually definedgoals, and development” (Zachary, 2011, p. 142). These factors will be explored throughout theduration of this project work.In order to better understand the faculty mentor experience within one-on-one or small-groupfaculty-to-student mentoring relationships in the undergraduate setting, this qualitative projectwill study a cohort of engineering faculty mentors of undergraduate engineering students at amid-sized research university in the
Paper ID #42502WIP: Piloting a Comprehensive Needs Assessment to Enhance EngineeringFaculty DevelopmentDr. Megan Patberg Morin, North Carolina State University Dr. Megan Morin (she/her) is the Associate Director for Engineering Faculty Advancement within the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. Megan’s career path includes previous roles as a Senior Project Specialist at ASHLIN Management Group, a KEEN Program Coordinator at UNC-Chapel Hill, an Education Coordinator/Graduate Assistant for the FREEDM System Center and PowerAmerica Institute at NC State University, and a middle school teacher within
change toengineering education to examine how CoTs provide structural opportunities that support facultyagency in their goals toward systemic change. To build the possibility of change within a system,and to restore agency to changemakers, we utilize Sewell’s interrelated theories of structure andagency. First, structure refers to cultural schemas (mental structures) and resources, which areunevenly distributed across space and social actors [16]. For example, experiencedchangemakers who have achieved institutionalizing a pilot project would have a unique know-how of change sustainability (cultural schema). There may also be institutional resourcesavailable on one’s campus (e.g., pedagogical innovations and technologies), that remaininaccessible
University Dr. Sarah Zappe is Director of the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education and Assistant Dean of Teaching and Learning at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Lessons Learned: Mapping and Mobilizing Faculty Assets for Creating Faculty Development Programs in Engineering Ethics EducationAbstract The lessons-learned paper documents our ongoing project to create faculty developmentprograms in engineering ethics, with an eye to sharing insights that may be transferable to othertypes of faculty development. To provide background for our project, the College
professor at Cal Poly, SLO in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. She has been teaching for 22 years and has continued to develop innovative pedagogy such as project based, flipped classroom and competency grading. Through the SUSTAINDr. Yilin Feng, California State University, Los Angeles Yilin Feng is an assistant professor at California State University, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. degree from Purdue University. Her research interest is in airport simulation, operation, and management.Dr. Gustavo B Menezes, California State University, Los Angeles Menezes is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Cal State LA. His specialization is in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering. Since becoming part of the
whileincorporating the various frameworks and traditions of inclusive teachings. For example, weleaned heavily on UDL and culturally responsive teaching principles and frameworks tosupport our sections on pedagogy and content and leveraged design justice principles tosupport our section on engaging students in design.MethodologyPositionality StatementThe objective of this positionality statement is to acknowledge and disclose our worldviewsand influences as authors relating to inclusive teaching and learning. The first authoridentifies as an Asian female and an engineering education researcher. Her experiences as aminority and an international student spurred her interest to work on research projects andinitiatives that improve ethics, diversity, and
prominent example forother educational systems in improving their approach to instructional development.In piloting this assessment approach in the School of ECAM, the grant project team had toconstruct a peer evaluation process composed of seven faculty members who were handpickedbased on their backgrounds and how comfortable they were with the ECAM curriculum. Thegroup was split among two teaching modalities; lecture-based and flipped classroom [1]. Thiscreated an observation team for each focus area. The observed faculty were not a part of thegrant team and were picked to be observed based on convenience and willingness for the pilot.Although there are many benefits to the College adopting this faculty development process, thereare lessons to be
, including theestablishment of personal relationships with students, the effective organization of course contentand class activities, strategies for motivating students, and the integration of course content withreal-world applications. During the lightning talk, we will share a comprehensive overview ofthe study's research findings as well as the importance of student-centered teaching practices inengineering education.Background and MotivationThe contemporary education of engineers remains a challenging domain, and a key area needingmore focus on identifying effective teaching practices, particularly in middle and upper-levelengineering classes. This lessons-learned paper, which emerged from an NSF-funded project(masked for review), explores