Paper ID #31289Work-in Progress: Identity and Transitions Laboratory: UtilizingAcceptance and Commitment Therapy framework to support engineeringstudent successProf. Jeremiah Abiade, University of Illinois at Chicago Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Laboratory for Oxide Research and EducationJoanne Moliski, University of Illinois at Chicago Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Laboratory for Oxide Research and Education American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020Work-in Progress: Identity and Transitions Laboratory: Utilizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- trollers and the MSP430 (Springer 2014). From 2013 to 2018 served as Associate Dean of engineering at UPRM. He currently directs the Engineering PEARLS program at UPRM, a College-wide NSF funded initiative, and coordinates the Rapid Systems Prototyping and the Electronic Testing & Characterization Laboratories at UPRM. He is a member of ASEE and IEEE.Dr. Luisa Guillemard, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Luisa Guillemard is a psychology professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayag¨uez Campus. She has a M.S. in Clinical Psychology from the Caribbean Center of Advanced Studies in Puerto Rico [today the Carlos Albizu University] and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Texas A&M University, post
Paper ID #31333Work in Progress: Project and Design-Based Introductory EngineeringCourse using Arduino KitsDr. Demetris Geddis, Hampton University Demetris L. Geddis is an associate professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Hamp- ton University. He has extensive research experience in the areas of Integrated optoelectronics, Optics, Microelectronics, and Electromagnetics. He has worked as a Research and Design Engineer at Motorola and Bell laboratories. Also, he worked at NASA Langley Research Center as a NASA faculty fellow for the Nondestructive Evaluation Sciences Branch where he performed research
University, Cassie earned her B.S. (2017) and M.S. (2018) in Biomedical Engineering from Wright State University.Ms. Tara Gupte Wilson, Ohio State University Tara Wilson is a third/fourth year undergraduate student of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU). She worked in a chemical engineering laboratory for four semesters studying separation of human red blood cells from whole blood. For the past six semesters, she has worked as a teaching associate for OSU’s fundamentals of engineering honors course- a first year, introductory course required for all honors engineering student. She also volunteers at Mount Carmel West Hospital in the pre-op/post-op department, the Dublin food
lectures and recitation focused on projectdevelopment and project management skills. From a grant provided in 1993 by the National Science Foundation, New YorkUniversity’s EG 1003 was created with learning objectives on project management, teamwork,technical communication, engineering experiments, and design. 300 students per semester, or 82percent of first-year students in the college of engineering enroll in EG 1003. The curriculum ofEG 1003 is broken up into four components. The laboratory exercises occur in a three-hourperiod where students learn key concepts of engineering through hands-on prototyping anddevelopments. Recitations are weekly sessions where students give professional presentations onthe technical skills practiced in the
engineering profession, without the need for highly technical knowledge that mostengineering laboratory courses require. A pertinent means of keeping students invested in thecourse, as well as the engineering profession, is through active learning techniques. Studies haveshown that an active learning environment produces strong indications of success and increasedstudent persistence in engineering [3] [4] [5].Course leadership initiated ENGR 111 development with a primary objective to, as much aspossible, base course pedagogy in active learning methodology to take advantage of the resultantbenefits to the student(s). Active learning can be defined as “any instructional method that engagesstudents in the learning process” [6], yet active learning is
students for successful careers inengineering by developing essential soft skills. This paper reports the approach taken to improvean engineering course by incorporating a PD component. This is a 3-credit first-year engineeringfoundations laboratory course, which focuses on the fundamentals of design processes. In its firstiteration, over 500 first-year students performed three sequential assignments to complete themodule. These students methodically engaged in a career readiness process within a program thatdocuments achievement while promoting their academic growth. The intent is to presentprofessional contexts as part of their undergraduate experience.The PD module in this course is initiated by students’ automatic enrollment in the
the honors track of the first-yearengineering program.In the honors track, the first course in the two-course sequence has two primary components: thelecture portion and the lab portion. The lecture portion of this course is taught by the instructor,utilizing an inverted classroom approach [5], while the laboratory portion of the course is taughtby a Graduate Teaching Associate (GTA), focusing on introducing students to variousengineering disciplines through team-based lab experiences and technical writing assignments.The instructional team for the lab consists of one GTA and four Undergraduate TeachingAssistants (UTAs). The GTA runs the weekly two-hour lab sessions by presenting the necessarybackground content and lab procedure information
between chemistry, physics, engi- neering, and biology preparing the trainees for careers in academe, national laboratories, and industry. In addition to research, she devotes significant time developing and implementing effective pedagogical approaches in her teaching of undergraduate courses to train engineers who are critical thinkers, problem solvers, and able to understand the societal contexts in which they are working to addressing the grand challenges of the 21st century.Dr. Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico Jamie Gomez, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer III in the department of Chemical & Biological Engineering (CBE) at the University of New Mexico. She is a co- principal investigator for the following
affairs from The University of Texas at Austin (BS Civil Engineering, Master of Public Affairs) and Virginia Tech (MS Industrial and Systems Engineering, PhD Engineering Education).Dr. Mark Weichold P.E., Texas A&M University Dr. Mark H. Weichold, Regents Professor and Halliburton Engineering Global Programs Professor, is an electrical engineer and has worked for General Dynamics Ft. Worth Division, Motorola in Austin, TX and the U.S. Army Electronic Technology and Devices Laboratory in Ft. Monmouth, NJ. He joined the Electrical Engineering faculty at Texas A&M University in 1982 and now holds the rank of Professor. In January 2007, he became Dean and CEO of Texas A&M University’s branch campus in Doha
Chicago’s (UIC) College of Engineering in July of 2008. Prior to assuming his deanship, Professor Nelson was head of the UIC Department of Computer Science. In 1991, Professor Nelson founded UIC’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which specializes in applied intelligence systems projects in fields such as transportation, mobile health, man- ufacturing, bioinformatics and e-mail spam countermeasures. Professor Nelson has published over 80 scientific peer reviewed papers and has been the principal investigator on over $40 million in research grants and contracts on issues of importance such as computer-enhanced transportation systems, man- ufacturing, design optimization and bioinformatics. These projects have
Education Annual Conference, Tampa, Florida, June 2019[3] E. Scott, R. Bates, R. Campbell and D. Wilson, “Contextualizing Professional Development in the Engineering Classroom”, Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Washington, DC, October 2010[4] J. Sharp, “Interview Skills Training in the Chemical Engineering Laboratory: Transporting a Pilot Project”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2008[5] J. Sharp, “Behavioral Interview Training in Engineering Classes”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, June 2012[6] E. Glynn and F. Falcone, “Professional Development for
since 2015. FabLabUC is a fabrication laboratory located at the Innovation Center, PUC . Currently she is pursuing a PhD in Computer Sciences with a research focus on Engineering Education at PUC. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Teaching Human-Centered Design to Engineers: Continuous Improvement in a Cornerstone CourseIntroductionThis evidence-based paper describes the continuous improvement process of a first-yearcornerstone (Project Based Learning) course which took place between 2014 and 2019 at anEngineering School. This improvement process has been based on data from the Department ofEngineering Education, and
Engineering Education, 2020 Work In Progress: First-Year Engineering Students and Their Perceptions of Academic ProgressIntroductionFirst-year engineering students are often under extreme amounts of stress. In their first semester,they are making the transition from high school to a college or a university where the rigor of thecoursework is above and beyond what they have experienced in the past. Typically, first-yearengineering students are expected to be calculus ready and take a calculus course in their firstsemester. They also take a laboratory science course, either chemistry or physics, but sometimesboth. In addition to these two courses, students usually take an introductory engineering courseand round out their
year, when the course sections aretaught by non-tenure-line faculty, and when there is little discussion or development of gradingmethods, laboratory instruction, or normalization of grading across sections. (a) (b) Figure 3. Physics course grades in (a) 2018 and (b) 2019 for FYrE and Control (Non-FYrE) groups.The FCI exam provides a complementary measurement of students’ mastery that does not haveas much dependence on the specifics of the course situation (e.g., grading policy, instructor,etc.). In particular, this assessment targets students’ understanding of the basic concepts of forceand motion that are considered essential for
, studentclub meetings, departmental or college guest lecture series, departmental information sessions,and meetings with individual faculty members. For those students specifically interested in CE orEVEG, the following additional major exploration opportunities were created for all studentsenrolled in the Fall semester course: (1) guided construction site tours of a large campus project,(2) CE/EVEG major information session, (3) faculty and student departmental picnic, (4) guidedtours of academic and research laboratories, and (5) lunches between small groups of FYEstudents and individual CE/EVEG faculty members. Table 1 provides a summary of these majorexploration opportunities. For each event, sign-in sheets were used to track student
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began teaching com- puter science and engineering to high school students, while completing his graduate classes. Richard is a graduate of both UMBC and DeMatha and has served as DeMatha’s rowing coach for 9 years.Mr. Ryan ReinhardtDr. Charles D. Eggleton, University of Maryland Baltimore County Dr. Charles Dionisio Eggleton is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Uni- versity of Maryland Baltimore County. He has twenty-two years of experience teaching theoretical and laboratory courses in thermo-fluids to undergraduate students and was Department Chair from 2011 - 2017. Dr. Eggleton earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University and his B.S. in Naval
Analyst, and were spent working on astrophysics research, astronomical data analysis, and space-based instrumentation characterization, calibration, and experimen- tation. While at STScI I focused the majority of my efforts as a member of the development team for the Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA), as a member of the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) pipeline and calibration teams, and as a member of the Operations Detector Laboratory (ODL), where I worked on the characterization of spaced-based CCD detectors. Now at UNC Charlotte, I have found new passion in the education, advising, and mentoring of undergraduate engineering students.Mrs. Meg Harkins, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Meg Harkins is an Associate
questions to document learning gains in a small statics class,” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education & Practice, vol. 142, no. 4, pp. 1–8, Oct. 2016.[4] M. Muñoz-García, G. Moreda, N. Hernández-Sánchez, and V. Valiño, “Student reciprocal peer teaching as a method for active learning: An experience in an electrotechnical laboratory,” Journal of Science Education & Technology, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 729–734, Oct. 2013.[5] D. Missingham, and R. Matthews,“A democratic and student-centred approach to facilitating teamwork learning among first-year engineering students: a learning and teaching case study,” European Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 412–423, July 2014.[6] D.G
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lighting technologies for buildings, communications for energy systems, water use in hydraulic fracturing, environmental impacts of energy production, turbomachinery for energy use and its reliability.Dr. Mark Weichold P.E., Texas A&M University Dr. Mark H. Weichold, Regents Professor and Halliburton Engineering Global Programs Professor, is an electrical engineer and has worked for General Dynamics Ft. Worth Division, Motorola in Austin, TX and the U.S. Army Electronic Technology and Devices Laboratory in Ft. Monmouth, NJ. He joined the Electrical Engineering faculty at Texas A&M University in 1982 and now holds the rank of Professor. In January 2007, he became Dean and CEO of Texas A&M University’s branch
to offer training and/or teaching in new skillsand/or knowledge [51]. For quite some time now, many colleges have provided makerspace-analogous functionalities, including assembly/testing areas, machine shops, Computer AidedDesign laboratories, and/or classrooms. What universities often disregard is the inclusion all ofthese elements in one location [52]. For campuses that do implement such centralizedaccommodations, the majority of these makerspaces are utilized predominantly for informalsettings. Utilizing a makerspace for housing an introductory course in engineering, such as ENGR111, fosters a formal setting that includes a variety of disciplines that draws in diverse backgroundsand varying levels of expertise.If structured properly
, and completed her doctorate in mechanical engineering in 2011, all from WVU. At WVU, she has previously served as the Undergraduate and Outreach Advisor for the Mechani- cal and Aerospace Engineering department and the Assistant Director of the Center for Building Energy Efficiency. She has previously taught courses such as Thermodynamics, Thermal Fluids Laboratory, and Guided Missiles Systems, as well as serving as a Senior Design Project Advisor for Mechanical Engineer- ing Students. Her research interests include energy and thermodynamic related topics. Since 2007 she has been actively involved in recruiting and outreach for the Statler College, as part of this involvement Dr. Morris frequently makes
. Previously, he conducted research as a Student Summer Fellow in the Hypersonic Sciences Branch at the Air Force Research Laboratory under the direction of Dr. Roger Kimmel. Carson is a Graduate Associate for the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Notre Dame, where he designs, prepares, and delivers workshops on effective teaching strategies and pedagogy for faculty, postdoctoral students, and graduate students. He is also a Graduate Fellow with the Research and Assessment for Learning (ReAL) Design Lab at the University of Notre Dame, where he conducts research to create predictive learning analytics and dynamic driven admissions criteria to better serve underprepared and underserved engineering