AC 2010-1266: ENGAGING SPACES FOR FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING: A TALEOF TWO CLASSROOMSS. Scott Moor, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne Scott Moor is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Coordinator of First-Year Engineering at Indiana University Purdue University – Fort Wayne. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from M.I.T. After over a decade in industry he returned to academia at the University of California at Berkeley where he received a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and an M.A. in Statistics. He is a registered Professional Chemical Engineer in California. His research interests include engineering education with an emphasis on developing and testing
initial team building activity. Many of the designs were entered in a competition to raisemoney for Pennies for Peace (an organization that builds schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan).The students completed a basic statistical analysis on the funds collected and summarized theresults. In ENG1101, students were introduced to the engineering design process as theyprogressed through an eight-week, design/construct, team-based project that focused on greenengineering. Design constraints for the project imposed a 50% lower limit on post-consumermaterials used in construction, and the student teams were instructed to keep the environmentalimpact of their design very much in mind from the beginning of the design process and as theymoved through to
data analysis showed differentpatterns between male and female students‟ peer relationships and support systems. Furthermore,male and female students also tended to adopt slightly different coping strategies relative to thedemanding course workload. While male students were more likely to form a quick socialnetwork and to build “learning relationships” with “like-minded” others most female studentstended to work alone and exclusively focused on academic work while not seeking more diverseand non-academic social networking opportunities. Each strategy seems to present some positiveand negative consequences.IntroductionDuring the last two decades, there has been growing consensus among engineering educators andpolicy makers that the retention
Paper ID #18164Classroom Belonging and Student Performance in the Introductory Engi-neering ClassroomDr. Mark Schar, Stanford University The focus of Mark’s research can broadly be described as ”pivot thinking,” the cognitive aptitudes and abilities that encourage innovation, and the tension between design engineering and business management cognitive styles. To encourage these thinking patterns in young engineers, Mark has developed a Scenario Based Learning curriculum that attempts to blend core engineering concepts with selected business ideas. Mark is also researches empathy and mindfulness and its impact on gender
personal influences can be varied, depending on the level ofinvolvement the educators have with their students.The question remains, how effective are each of these methods in inspiring our youth to theSTEM disciplines? A primary consideration involves looking at the cost of programs vs.efficacy? What is really inviting, informing, changing minds, and providing opportunities to ourprospective engineers?Population and LogisticsIn order to capture students’ perspectives on what they perceive as the strongest influences ontheir choice to begin in engineering, we surveyed our first-year engineering students atNortheastern University on the first day of class in the fall semester. These students come fromall majors, or more accurately, are undeclared
relative contribution of effort (versus ability/ intelligence) to academic achievement is robust [27]. o A greater sense of social belonging is associated with higher grades in a remedial engineering mathematics course [34]. o Mindfulness benefits math performance by reducing anxiety associated with high- stakes testing conditions [33]. o Engineering students can be categorized according to a 2x2 framework based on interest in engineering and initial engineering performance, and this categorization is predictive of retention [41]. Figure 4 illustrates the framework. GPA Below Average
universities have been introducing cornerstone design courses, using hands-on projects,looking for real-world challenges and problems to meet the many objectives named above.These reflections were deliberately gathered at the end of the first year, as students are decidingon majors, and have the projects most fresh in their minds as influencing their decision. Indeveloping their version of a cornerstone course at McMaster University, it was noted, “Theobjective of the Cornerstone is to instill in first-year engineers enjoyment from learning,motivation to continue learning, and genuine intellectual curiosity about the engineering in theworld around them.” 1 And, from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, “The purpose ofcornerstone projects is to
practice is meant to better the world in a variety of ways.Interestingly, the design, problem solving and teamwork dimensions had the lowest amount ofoverlap with outward perspective dimension. This discovery provides an unexpected insight thatstudents do not always draw connections between learning objective outcomes as expected orplanned. Engineering design is typically conducted in a collaborative, team atmosphere; adescription that is true of the experience of the students that responded to the question analyzedfor this study. More effective teams are generally comprised of more altruistic team members; asopposed to less effective teams made up of single-minded self-motivated individuals16. Theresearchers, sharing a goal toward educating First
constraints are very important for first-year engineering students and are also emphasizedin the course. Students are taught that the design process requires an open mind, and awillingness to fail. Efficient time use is important, since usually the first design solutions, orprototypes, are not the best design options and improvements must be made. As part of this first-year engineering course, students create Gantt Charts and a project management plan. Thisassists student in staying on track in meeting the project and course goals, and in using the coursetime efficiently. Their time in lab may be the only time that the whole team can meet togetherand have access to the lab equipment. It is also important that the team works effectivelytogether. An
AC 2008-2498: FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ INITIALS IDEAS FORSOLVING COMPLEX PROBLEMSSean Brophy, Purdue University Sean P. Brophy, PhD. is an assistant professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Dr. Brophy is a learning scientist and engineer; his research focuses on the development of learners’ ability to solve complex problems in engineering, mathematics and science contexts. He continues to work on identifying new opportunities to use technology to support learning, formative assessment, and instruction. Page 13.613.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008
college. The University tries tokeep a finger on the pulse of its entering classes. In addition, the University would like toconnect students to their new community. As it recognizes the newest trends, it must adjust itsstructure and curricula to accommodate. This research aims to help with this continuousimprovement.The Cornerstone course has, since its origin, been trying to provide what the students are lookingfor in their first engineering course. A cornerstone course at McMaster University was developedwith this quote in mind, “The objective of the Cornerstone is to instill in first-year engineersenjoyment from learning, motivation to continue learning, and genuine intellectual curiosityabout the engineering in the world around them [16
Paper ID #21825A Conceptual Design Activity for a First-year Mechanical Engineering CourseDr. Oziel Rios, University of Texas, Dallas Dr. Oziel Rios earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2008 where his research focused on design of robotic systems with an emphasis on kinematic and dynamic modeling for analysis and control. Dr. Rios teaches the first-year and CAD courses in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Rios has also taught kinematics and dynamics of machines and graduate-level CAD courses. Dr. Rios’ research and teaching
is also helpful for first-year students to understand the methods by whichengineering results are communicated to co-workers, management or the general public:graphs and charts, drawings and diagrams, written communications and oralpresentations. Some general guidelines can be quite useful (e.g., keep in mind theintended audience and their background and knowledge) without having to undertake thecomplete instruction of the students in these modes of communication.CONCLUSIONS It is my thesis in this paper that first-year engineering students should be exposedto a general structure of how engineering is applied by focusing on the general conceptswithout going into a great deal of detail by relying on examples that use high schoolphysics
Paper ID #28951Self-Efficacy Development in Students in a Declared EngineeringMatriculation StructureDr. Racheida S Lewis, University of Georgia Racheida S. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia in the Engineering Educa- tion Transformations Institute (EETI) and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She has been recognized as a Gates Millennium Scholar, GEM Associate Fellow, New Horizon Scholar, and a 2019 inductee into the Bouchet Honor Society. She completed her doctoral work at Virginia Tech where she focused on the impact matriculation structures have on self-efficacy
self-directed learning. Since 2017, Abigail has been the graduate assistant for the General Engineering Learning Community (GELC), a program that supports first-year engineering students in their development of self-regulation and time management skills, effective learning strategies, and positive habits of mind. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Implementing an Engineering Math Curriculum Sequence: Preliminary Results and Lessons LearnedThis Complete Evidence-Based Practice paper details an engineering math curriculumsequence for first-year engineering students belonging to the General Engineering LearningCommunity
Paper ID #33853WIP: Enhancing Freshman Seminars With Themes: An ArchitecturalEngineering ApproachDr. Ryan Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University Ryan Solnosky is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Architectural Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University at University Park. Dr. Solnosky has taught courses for Architec- tural Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Pre-Major Freshman in Engineering. He received his integrated Bachelor of Architectural Engineering/Master of Architectural Engineering (BAE/MAE), and PhD. de- grees in architectural engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. Dr
theobjective of enabling others to successfully implement the design project in their course.Since its founding, Dunwoody College of Technology has prided itself on ensuring studentslearn in an environment that mirrors industry as closely as possible. With this history in mind, weguide interdisciplinary groups of students consisting of electrical, mechanical, and softwareengineering majors through the engineering design process. The project objective is to research,design, build, calibrate, and test a balance or scale with a digital readout made from simplecomponents. Successful completion requires elements of each engineering discipline representedin the course. The course itself, Introduction to Engineering, is laid out in a manner thatincrementally
Paper ID #28413Work in Progress: Inquiry-Based Lessons for Introduction to EngineeringInstructionDr. Michelle M Blum, Syracuse University Dr. Blum is interested in research in improving undergraduate engineering education; including develop- ment of inquiry based activities for first year engineering courses, improvement of student design projects, hands-on activities, professional skills development and inclusion and outreach activities. Dr. Blum also specializes in high performance materials development and characterization for tribological (friction and wear), structural, and biomedical applications
AC 2007-1599: ONE-MINUTE ENGINEER, NTH GENERATION: EXPANSION TOA SMALL PRIVATE UNIVERSITYJohn-David Yoder, Ohio Northern University JOHN-DAVID YODER is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at ONU. His Doctorate is from the University of Notre Dame. Research interests include education, controls, robotics, and information processing. Prior to teaching, he ran a small consulting and R&D company and served as proposal engineering supervisor for GROB Systems, Inc.Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University Beverly Jaeger, PhD is a member of Northeastern University’s Gateway Team, a selected group of full-time faculty expressly devoted to the first-year Engineering Program at Northeastern
from that university are pursuing research to study the enculturation ofstudents to the engineering profession. Enculturation is the process by which an individual learnsthe traditional content of a culture and assimilates its practices and values (Richard et al., 2016).In the study, we began by being mindful of the culture, norms and behaviors of the universityand engineering department. From the initial study, we arrived at enculturation factors that havecontinued to serve as the framework for our research. The university is conservative and richwith traditions that influence the norms and behaviors of the students, faculty and staff.Additionally, the college of engineering is actively engaging its nearly 17,000 students to pursuehigh impact
program. I would recommend it to the new freshman students, because you learn a good deal of useful information from the program that will become handy in the next semester. As for changes, I would recommend just two things, more breaks between classes to rest the mind from all the acquired information, and adding more time to the most complex classes so the hard topics can be explained and understood by the students. This program was an excellent opportunity for me to get an introduction to core courses of the engineering curriculum. This program allowed me to get a glimpse of the topics and the work load required of the mechatronics program. Although this program was effective in introducing the
Paper ID #27235Freshman-year Initiative for a Cohort of Largely Engineering Minority Stu-dentsDr. Kamau Wright, University of Hartford Kamau Wright is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Hartford. He spe- cializes in thermo-fluids and plasma engineering. His technical research interests include applications of high voltage plasma discharges to liquids and wastewaters; plasma decomposition of carbon dioxide; foul- ing prevention and mitigation for heat exchangers; oxidation of organic matter in water; and inactivation of bacteria using high voltage plasmas. c
friendships andcreate a support group, they can also fail. We also did not want the student to lose sight of theirultimate goal – engineering – while taking math, chemistry, physics, and English classes.There were four major areas in which we determined academic content could be added to theevent. First there were seminars we could present to help students adjust to college. We alsowanted to introduce an element of engineering design into the activities to challenge thestudents’ minds and encourage them to make friends. To improve our students’ knowledge of thefacilities and history of the college, we developed a selfie scavenger hunt. This program alsopresented an opportunity to more fully implement the university’s freshman reading program.4
AC 2007-1866: EXPLICIT DEVELOPMENT OF ENGINEERING SKILLS ANDCHARACTERISTICS IN THE FRESHMAN YEARJoseph Schimmels, Marquette University Dr. Schimmels is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Marquette University. In 1981, he obtained a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Marquette University. He worked as a reservoir engineer at Exxon Production Research Company in Houston, TX from 1981 to 1987. He then obtained MS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Northwestern University in 1988 and 1991, respectively. In 2003, Dr. Schimmels was awarded the Lafferty Endowed Professorship in Engineering Pedagogy at Marquette. Since then he has been working toward
theengineering fields so our students are engaged and excited about their chosen field of study byseeing and discussing the end product of the industry‟s efforts.Collaborating with engineering success coursesIn reflecting on the Freshman Career Exploration Evening, it occurs to us that the event seems tohave taken place in a vacuum with little actual and deliberate ties to other experiences that our Page 22.768.10engineering freshmen encounter. With this in mind, the Engineering Career Center is developinga multifaceted freshman career exploration curriculum that will be plugged into the engineeringsuccess courses starting the fall of 2011. The Freshman
Paper ID #8789Multidimensional Assessment of Creativity in an Introduction to EngineeringDesign CourseMrs. Silvia Husted, Universidad de las Americas Puebla Silvia Husted is Science, Engineering, and Technology Education Ph.D. Student at Universidad de las Americas Puebla in Mexico. She teaches design related courses. Her research interests include creative thinking, cognitive processes, and creating effective learning environments.Dr. JUDITH VIRGINIA GUTIERREZ PhD. in Science, Engineering, and Technology Education.Dr. Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas PueblaProf. Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las
aspercentages of the entire study sample, of the participants from four-year institutions, and of theparticipants from two-year institutions.LimitationsThis study is limited by the size of the sample and its time frame, as well as by the institutionalspace and participants’ frame of mind when completing the survey as a homework assignment.These limitations could be mitigated by the collection and analysis of additional data from asimilar cohort of transfer students, or with data from a cohort of entering engineering students.Responses could also be limited in depth by a lack of effort due to demands from the rest of aparticipant’s workload, or by an overall tendency to write little more than one sentence perresponse. The use of a survey often
Paper ID #32797Types of Models Identified by First-Year Engineering StudentsDr. Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach Kelsey Rodgers is an assistant professor in the Engineering Fundamentals Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. She teaches a MATLAB programming course to mostly first-year engineering students. She primarily investigates how students develop mathematical models and simulations and ef- fective feedback. She graduated from the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University with a doctorate in engineering education. She previous conducted research in Purdue
Paper ID #33975Understanding Remote Student Motivation in Hybrid and Remote Engineer-ingLab ModesDr. Rui Li, New York University Dr. Li is a visiting industry assistant professor at Tandon School of Engineering, New York University. He earned his master’s degree in Chemical Engineering in 2009 from the Imperial College of London and his doctoral degree in 2020 from the University of Georgia’s College of Engineering, where his research involved using smartphones, wireless sensors, and 3D printing to create low-cost MRI/CT compatible sur- gical devices. His current research interests are student motivation, active learning
Paper ID #28631Work-In-Progress: Engineering Self-Efficacy in First-Year DesignMegan Gray, Duke University Megan Gray is a Research Analyst in Evaluation and Engagement at Duke University’s Social Science Research Institute (SSRI). She serves as a project manager and researcher for both qualitative and quanti- tative evaluation and research efforts, in partnership with community-based programs as well as campus- based initiatives. Megan came to Duke from the nonprofit field, where she evaluated and monitored implementation of county-wide early childhood programs. Her prior experience includes school-based social work