technological impact. She has won ASTech and 3-Minute Thesis awards for her work in science communication and outreach, and received the 2016 CEMF Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Graduate Award for her work relat- ing to the promotion of women in engineering.Dr. Mohammad Moshirpour, University of Calgary Dr. Mohammad Moshirpour is an instructor of Software Engineering at the Schulich School of Engineer, University of Calgary. His research interests are the area of software architecture, software requirements engineering, design, implementation and analysis of multi-agent systems, intelligent data analytics, data mining and machine learning, and Software engineering and computer science education. He is a senior member of IEEE
2006-178: PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION BEST PRACTICESTUDY FOR FIRST-YEAR, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY COURSESElise Barrella, Bucknell University ELISE M. BARRELLA is a senior Civil and Environmental Engineering major at Bucknell University. Upon acceptance to Bucknell, she was selected to be a Presidential Fellow, which provided a stipend to support her research on this project. The best study practice was conducted at The University of Queensland, Australia while Elise was studying abroad for the Spring 2005 semester. In addition to her fellowship research, Elise is vice president of programming for Bucknell's student chapter of ASCE, a member of Delta Gamma sorority, and a teaching
has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect conceptual change and associated impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and per- sistence. The other is on the factors that promote persistence and success in retention of undergraduate students in engineering. He was a coauthor for best paper award in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2013.Dr. Eugene Judson, Arizona State University Eugene
a doctorate in engineering educa- tion. She previous conducted research in Purdue University’s First-Year Engineering Program with the Network for Nanotechnology (NCN) Educational Research team, the Model-Eliciting Activities (MEAs) Educational Research team, and a few fellow STEM education graduates for an obtained Discovery, En- gagement, and Learning (DEAL) grant. Prior to attending Purdue University, she graduated from Arizona State University with her B.S.E. in Engineering from the College of Technology and Innovation, where she worked on a team conducting research on how students learn LabVIEW through Disassemble, Ana- lyze, Assemble (DAA) activities.Dr. Jaqi C. McNeil, University of Louisville J.C
conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect conceptual change and associated impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and per- sistence. The other is on the factors that promote persistence and success in retention of undergraduate students in engineering. He was a coauthor for best paper award in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2013.Prof. Robert J. Culbertson, Arizona State University Robert J. Culbertson is an Associate Professor of Physics. Currently, he teaches introductory mechanics
Paper ID #13847Examining the Influence of an Ill- and Well-defined Problems in a First-YearEngineering Design CourseMs. Jessica E S Swenson, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach Jessica Swenson is a graduate student at Tufts University. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering with a research focus on engineering education. She received a M.S. from Tufts University in science, technology, engineering and math education and a B.S. from Northwestern University in me- chanical engineering. Her current research involves examining different types of homework problems in mechanical engineering
the Applied Leadership sphere. As researchers, we are able toconsider how other forms of data collection means might assist with program evaluation,especially for other areas of the program model. References1. Dropout from higher education: A theoretical synthesis of recent research. Tinto, V. 1, s.l. : Review ofEducational Research, 1975, Vol. 45.2. Impacts of good practices on cognitive development, learning orientations, and graduate degree plansduring the first year of college. Cruce, T., Wolniak, G. C., Seifert, T. A., & Pascarella, E. T. s.l. : Journal ofCollege Student Development, 2006, Vol. 47.3. Kuh, G. D. High-impact education practices: What are they, who has access to them, and
Vermont under David Warshaw. His research interests in- clude novel assessments of educational efficacy, and the molecular bases of cell movement and muscle contraction.Anna Stevenson Blazier, University of VirginiaAlyssa Becker, University of Virginia Page 26.995.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Integration of academic advising into a first-year engineering design course and its impact on psychological constructsIntroduction and SummaryEngineering educators often look to imbue students with behaviors or traits beyond the retentionand recall of facts, or
, research practices of engineering schol- ars, and how libraries can reshape their services in the world of information overload.Dr. Kate Mercer, University of Waterloo Kate Mercer has been the liaison librarian for Systems Design Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engi- neering and Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Waterloo since 2015. Kate’s main duties include providing instruction and research services to students, faculty and staff. Kate graduated with a MI from the University of Toronto in 2011, andcompleted her PhD at the University of Waterloo’s School of Pharmacy. Most of Kate’s publication history revolves around how health and technology interact, and her primary research focus is on
, personality, and assessment. He is director of the Individual and Team Performance Lab and the Virtual Team Performance, Innovation, and Collaboration Lab at the University of Calgary, which was built through a $500K Canada Foundation for Innovation Infrastructure Grant. He also holds operating grants of over $300K to conduct leading-edge research on virtual team effectiveness. Over the past 10 years Tom has worked with organizations in numerous industries includ- ing oil and gas, healthcare, technology, and venture capitals. He is currently engaged with the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary to train, develop, and cultivate soft-skill teamwork competencies in order to equip graduates with strong
ChoiceAbstract:This complete evidence-based practice paper explores the longitudinal impact of a first-yearengineering course designed to help students discern their future engineering major. The purposeof this study was to assess an engineering educational program’s effectiveness in helping studentsto make an informed selection of an engineering major. Effectiveness is relative and based onmeasures of student persistence and major changes after five semesters. The institution studied isa medium-sized Midwestern, urban public institution in which four cohort years were tracked.Two cohorts (2012 and 2013) took a one-credit hour large lecture (200+ students) course to learnabout the engineering majors offered and is contrasted with two cohorts (2014 and 2015
, mathematics, and engineering and technology teacher, as well as several years of electrical and mechanical engineering design experience as a practicing engineer. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Swarthmore College, his Master’s of Education degree from the University of Massachusetts, and a Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Doctorate in Engineering Education from Purdue University.Ms. Ann Delaney, Boise State University Ann Delaney is the Program Director of the SAGE Scholars scholarship program at Boise State University, which is part of the Redshirting in Engineering Consortium. As part of this program, she collaborates with the Institute for STEM and Diversity Initiatives
Paper ID #18125Incorporation of Ethics and Societal Impact Issues into First-Year Engineer-ing Course:: Results of a National SurveyDr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the ABET assessment coordinator for her department since 2008. Professor Bielefeldt is the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice
recently, using simulations and games to help facilitate learning. Among other things, she is interested in how students make use of multimedia representations of scientific concepts in games. She is currently the research director for the Epistemic Games Group at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.Golnaz Arastoopour, University of Wisconsin-Madison Golnaz is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before becoming interested in education, she studied Mechanical Engineering and Spanish. Golnaz has also worked as a computer sci- ence instructor, high school mathematics teacher, and STEM curriculum designer. Her research interests are how technology can be used as an effective and engaging teaching
educational efforts in pedagogical content knowledge are guided by a research theme centered in student learning of engineer- ing design thinking on the secondary level. Nathan was a former middle and high school technology educator in Montana prior to pursuing a doctoral degree. He was a National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) Fellow at Utah State University while pursuing a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction. After graduation he completed a one year appointment with the Center as a postdoctoral researcher. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Factors Impacting Engagement and Achievement in a First-Year Design Thinking
designs and teaches courses in mechanical engineering at ASU. Her interests include innovative teaching pedagogies for increased retention and student motivation, innovations in non-traditional delivery methods, as well as structured reflective practices throughout the engineering curriculum.Amy Trowbridge, Arizona State University Amy Trowbridge is a Lecturer in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU), focused primarily on freshmen engineering. She is also Director of the Grand Challenge Scholars Program at ASU. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Assessing the Impact of Incorporating the NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering as a
education and project-based learning.Dr. Louis A. DiBerardino III, Ohio Northern University Dr. DiBerardino is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio Northern University. His teaching and research interests are in first-year engineering, dynamic systems, and musculoskeletal biome- chanics. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Impact of Various Pedagogies on Design Confidence, Motivation, and Anxiety of First-Year Engineering StudentsIntroductionThe content and pedagogies of first-year engineering programs vary widely from institution toinstitution. In the content space, efforts are underway to establish a first-year body of knowledge[1][13][14
engineering, science, and technology to include new forms of communication and problem solving for emerging grand challenges. A second vein of Janet’s research seeks to identify the social and cultural impacts of technological choices made by engineers in the process of designing and creating new devices and systems. Her work considers the intentional and unintentional consequences of durable struc- tures, products, architectures, and standards in engineering education, to pinpoint areas for transformative change.Dr. Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder Beth A. Myers is the Director of Analytics, Assessment and Accreditation at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a BA in biochemistry, ME in engineering
has published extensively and lectured widely to national and international audiences. Her work has been recognized by the National Science Foundation with numerous research grants. She is equally passion- ate about her teaching and has recently designed and created a seven-MOOC Professional Certificate on C-programming for edX, after previously having designed a MOOC ”Analysis of a Complex Kind” on Coursera. The recipient of the New Hampshire High Tech Council 2018 Tech Teacher of the Year Award, the Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching at Wesleyan University and the Excellence in Teaching Award at the Thayer School of Engineering, Petra has a strong interest in broadening access to high- quality higher
Toronto since 1992. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of contributions to engineering education has been the recipient of several major awards related to teaching and teaching leadership including the 3M National Teaching Fellowship. Her research areas are energy systems and engineering education. She has developed and taught traditional courses in the field of energy systems, graduate level courses on engineering teaching and learning, and has coordinated a large innovative service learning course on engineering design and communication at the first year level
technical writing to effectively communicate major ideasThe IED Culminating ProjectThe goal of the IED team project is to design a device for a specific customer. Since the fallof 2005 the projects consist of opportunities from (1) a grant from the Tennessee Departmentof Education and (2) UTC faculty needing small devices to support research or upper levelcourses or projects. Early in the semester a request for project proposals is sent to the grantparticipants and the faculty of the UTC CECS. The course instructors select those proposalsthat best meet the needs of the course and the abilities of the freshman students (many ofthese students have yet to take an engineering course). The projects must include a threedimensional application as well as
design process was included during the second class period (75minutes) of the semester and detailed divergent-convergent thinking10 and included nuancesfrom other best practice articles.12,13 Based on their declared engineering majors, students werethen divided into multidisciplinary teams for the semester, supporting ABET Criterion 3,outcome d.14 The teams in each section completed projects in each of three engineeringdisciplines: civil, electrical and mechanical; albeit in different orders depending on the section.The projects were rotated through each section so that all student teams were assigned eachproject. The projects included the design, construction, and testing of: A wind turbine where students predicted the current produced
Paper ID #30124An Autoethnography: Outcomes from Faculty Engagement in CourseDevelopment in a Large First-Year Engineering ProgramDr. Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Holly M. Matusovich is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education. She is current the Assistant Department Head for Undergraduate Programs and the former Assistant Department Head for Graduate Programs in Virginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. Dr. Matusovich is recognized for her research and practice related to graduate student mentoring. She won the Hokie Supervisor Spotlight Award in 2014, was nominated for a
research training activities designed for this seminar are grounded in two complementaryeducational frameworks: constructivism and socioculturism. At its core, constructivism is theidea that learning is an active process where students create meaning from information andexperiences.2,3 Similarly, socioculturism is founded in the idea that “learning is enculturation,the process by which learners become collaborative meaning-makers among a group defined by Page 23.1084.2common practices, language, use of tools, values, beliefs, and so on.”4 In the context ofscientific research, this enculturation includes background knowledge of the data, terminology
Paper ID #14581A Holistic Student-Centered Approach to Retaining and Graduating Engi-neers at a Midwest UniversityDr. Ma Zenia N. Agustin, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville Dr. Zenia Agustin is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Currently, she is the Director of General Education and Integrative Studies for the university and Director of the Actuarial Science program for the department. Her research interests include reliability and survival analysis and in particular, goodness-of-fit testing for recurrent events.Dr. Marcus Agustin, Southern
Fall of 2015 taking online courses learning how to construct and de- liver online courses. This resulted in a MSEd from Purdue University in Learning Design and Technology (LDT). This widely varied background prepared me well for my next big adventure. Beginning in August 2018 I became the Texas A and M Professor of Practice for the Texas A and M Engineering Academy at Blinn College in Brenham. Texas A and M Engineering Academies are an innovative approach to providing the planet with more Aggie Engineers. I am focused on enhancing the high school through first-year college experience and am an engaged member of the Texas A and M IEEI (Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation). My foundations were
in both the public (as an educator) and pri- vate sectors before returning to postgraduate study and embarking on an academic career. As with many South Africans, growing up under Apartheid has had a profound impact on my worldview and life choices. This has included influencing the choice of a career in education, both as a practitioner and scholar. I cur- rently convene a postgraduate programme in Engineering Management and teach undergraduate courses in Engineering Management. I draw on multiple theoretical constructs for the design of learning contexts, including complexity and systems theory. My research is primarily focussed on student experience of learning events and student learning more broadly both in
Paper ID #9724Examining the Engineering Design Process of First-Year Engineering Stu-dents During a Hands-on, In-class Design Challenge.Ms. Jessica E S Swenson, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach Jessica Swenson is a graduate student at Tufts University. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering with a research focus on engineering education. She received a M.S. from Tufts University in science, technology, engineering and math education and a B.S. from Northwestern University in mechan- ical engineering. Her current research involves examining the design process of undergraduate students
aspect of the peer evaluation process that was enforced by theinstructor was the requirement to actually do it. Those students who failed to submit their peerevaluations by the end of each quarter were given grades of “incomplete.” Once the lateevaluations were submitted, the incomplete was changed to a letter grade, with no penaltyimposed for late submission.When possible, each cohort took advantage of the work the preceding cohorts had done ondesigning and administering a peer evaluation instrument. Since the students in the first cohorthad no prior work on which to base the design of their instrument, they devoted time early in theyear to researching best practices in this area. Their first attempt clearly exhibited their lack ofexperience in
Materials, Struc- tural Aspects of Biomaterials, and Principles of Bioengineering; graduate courses on Fracture Mechanics, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, and Polymer Engineering. Page 22.966.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Introduction to Engineering Design and Analysis for Freshman: Implementation of Leadership and Service Learning for Broadening Engineering IngenuityAbstract Engineering Design and Analysis is a course offered at U.C. Berkeley that providesfreshman with an introduction to the profession of