Technology Mingyu Lu received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Bei- jing, China, in 1995 and 1997 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. From 1997 to 2002, he was a research assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2002 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Electromagnetics Laboratory in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an assistant professor with the Department of Elec- trical Engineering, the University of Texas at Arlington from 2005 to 2012. He joined the Department
; sequential vs. global;visual vs. verbal).3 Students are then matched up in groups of four with balanced learning styles,major, and gender. The undergraduates are simultaneously enrolled in a skills laboratory as partof the course that provides a framework for oral and written communication, teamwork, andeffective teaching styles. The objective of the K-12 outreach project is to interest more childrenin the field of engineering while strengthening the engineering and communication skill sets ofthe undergraduates.There is strong evidence that outreach to the K-12 sector is a vital part of maintaining andimproving the numbers of current and potential students who study engineering at the universitylevel.4 Many children are naturally interested in the
, inquiry based activities into the secondary school science and mathematics curriculum that enhance and reinforce basic concepts already taught in the secondary curriculum. • Motivate secondary school students, through real-world experiments, observations, and measurements, to study problems that affect their daily lives. • Use these activities at various grade levels from different classes and schools, via peer teaching, collaborations, and the Internet, as they focus on common themes and learning tasks. • Include computers, up-to-date sampling probes, and laboratory equipment in activities so students gain experience with current technology. • Incorporate computer-based self-paced learning
. Page 24.493.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Engineering Camp: a residential experience designed to build academic capital in pre-college studentsAbstractEngineering Camp is a one-week on-campus residential program that exposes pre-college (post7th -11th grade) students to engineering disciplines through introductory seminars,demonstrations, laboratory experiments, and design challenges. The program improves students‟awareness of the breadth of engineering and emphasizes the benefit of developing skills inSTEM. The camp is offered in grade-based parallel sessions geared to the audience, and camperscan return in subsequent summers. Importantly, Camp provides a
AC 2011-664: A REPORT ON A GK-12 PROGRAM: ENGINEERING AS ACONTEXTUAL VEHICLE FOR MATH AND SCIENCE EDUCATIONBen Pelleg, Drexel University Mr. Ben Pelleg is a third year Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering at Drexel University. He earned a BS degree in applied and engineering physics from Cornell University in 2008. Ben is a NSF GK-12 fellow and teaches science, math, and engineering to students in the School District of Philadelphia. Ben’s current research includes the study of holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystals and other polymer/liquid crystal devices.David Urias, Drexel University Dr. David Urias has an extensive educational background in international education, policy studies, and program
/Engineering DesignETE 261/Multimedia Design ETE 131/Engineering MathTST 161/Creative Design ____ ____/Liberal Learning Elective ____ ____/Academic Writing (0.0 Units)Sophomore I (4.5 Units) Sophomore II (4 Units)____ ____/General Science Elective** ETE 281/Analog Circuit and DevicesETE 271/Structures and Mechanics ETE 279/Thermo and Fluid SystemsETE 275/Mechanics and Materials Laboratory* ETE 361/Architectural and Civil Eng. DesignTED 280/Introduction to Teaching Technology SPE 203/Psychological Dev. Child/Adolescent____ ____/Liberal Learning ElectiveJunior I (4 Units) Junior II (3.5 Units
The Evergreen State University, a Secondary Teaching Certifi- cate from University of Puget Sound, an M. Ed. in Instructional Technology Leadership from Western Washington University and a Ph.D. (research-based, not theoretical) in Educational Psychology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.Patricia Pyke, Boise State University Patricia A. Pyke is the Director of the STEM Station at Boise State University. The STEM Station in a university-level initiative to build a STEM community where students and faculty are connected to the resources and support they need to achieve their individual goals in education, career, teaching and research. Her role as director for the STEM Station builds on previous work
JACQUELYN F. SULLIVAN is founding co-director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program and Laboratory. She co-led the development of a first-year engineering projects course, and co-teaches Innovation and Invention and a service-learning Engineering Outreach Corps elective. Dr. Sullivan initiated the ITL's extensive K-12 engineering program and leads a multi-institutional NSF-supported initiative that created TeachEngineering.org, a digital library of K-12 engineering curricula. Dr. Sullivan has 14 years of industrial engineering experience and directed an interdisciplinary water resources decision support research center at CU for nine years. She received her PhD in environmental
in an engineering setting, student exposure to the practical side of each engineeringdiscipline. The application of math skills in engineering is experienced, for example, byexposing students to “data-gathering” experiments in each laboratory, data is then used toexamine, explain, or derive basic engineering theory. The second objective is achieved bygiving “broad-picture” engineering problems to illustrate the thought process behind each step ofengineering analysis, and to design and teaching students how to break large, complicatedprojects down into small manageable pieces. This is an opportunity for the departments toimmerse the students in the “hands-on” work within each field and assists the student in careerselection and
Paper ID #13609Engineering Everyday Discovery Program: Motivating Middle School Chil-dren Interest in STEMDr. Rosalyn Hobson Hargraves, Virginia Commonwealth University Dr. Rosalyn Hobson Hargraves holds a joint appointment in the Schools of Education and Engineering as Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical En- gineering from the University of Virginia. Her research interests are in STEM education, biomedical signal and image processing, and machine learning. She has been
AC 2011-1334: DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF AN ENGINEER-ING COURSE FOR IN-SERVICE AND PRE-SERVICE K-12 TEACHERSAnnMarie Thomas, University of Saint Thomas AnnMarie Thomas is an assistant professor of Engineering at the University of St. Thomas, and co- director of the UST Center for Pre-Collegiate Engineering Education. Her teaching and research focus on Engineering Design and K-12 Engineering Education. Prior to her appointment at UST, she was a faculty member at Art Center College of Design.Jan B. Hansen, Ph.D., University of Saint Thomas Jan B. Hansen is co-director of the Center for Pre-Collegiate Engineering Education at the University of St. Thomas. Her current interests as an educational psychologist focus on
2004-05 academic year.Overview of Scientific Work Experience Programs for Teachers There are two common terms, SWEPT and RET, that describe professional developmentopportunities for teachers that place them in 4 – 8 week summer internships or fellowships inresearch laboratories and/or in corporate settings. According to the Triangle Coalition forScience and Technology Education, Scientific Work Experience Programs for Teachers(SWEPTs) are summer programs in which elementary and secondary science and math teacherswork with scientists or engineers to do supervised, paid work in areas that are relevant tosubjects that they teach. The Triangle Coalition asserts that “SWEPTs provide industry, labor,government, higher education, alliances
Christine E. Hailey is a Professor and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Engineering at Utah State University. She is Director of the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, an NSF-funded Center for Learning and Teaching. She is a member of the ADVANCE-US team, an NSF-funded program to address issues that impact female faculty's effectiveness and satisfaction in the four engineering and science colleges at Utah State.Daniel Householder, Utah State University Daniel L. Householder is Co-Principal Investigator of the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education and holds visiting professorships in the College of Engineering at Utah State University and the
2006-745: INEXPENSIVE, ACTIVE LEARNING OF X-RAY AND ULTRASOUNDIMAGING IN THE HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICS CLASSROOMStacy Klein, Vanderbilt University Dr. Klein teaches high school physics courses at University School of Nashville, TN, and teaches undergraduate courses in biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt University. An active investigator in the development of new high school and undergraduate curricula through VaNTH, she is co-PI of the NSF-sponsored project, “Biomedical Imaging Education: Safe, Inexpensive Hands-On Learning”.Cynthia Paschal, Vanderbilt University Prof. Paschal teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in biomedical engineering and conducts research in magnetic resonance
students are female, 35% are non-White/Caucasian, 22% are special needs students, and about 14% have been designated as“gifted.” He spends about 25% of this teaching in lecture/demonstration, with the rest of itsupervising students working in the classroom or laboratory components of the TechnologyEducation course. He believes that 67.7% of his instruction “engages students in problem-solving activities” and believes that nearly half (48.7%) of that instruction “engages students inlearning mathematics or science.”We found significant differences between Middle School Technology Education and HighSchool Technology Education. Table 1 identifies some of these differences.Table 1: Differences between Middle School and High School Technology Education
science and math to solve problems. However, thetraditional method for teaching science and mathematics has been rote memorization offacts quantified by student achievement based on multiple choice or fill-in-the blanktests. Science and mathematics were not integrated but, rather have been taught asseparate subjects. Current research suggests that science and mathematics be taughttogether to students prior to college1. An effective strategy for the integration of scienceand mathematics is the incorporation into the instructional strategies of topics thatdirectly apply both disciplines, such as engineering and technology topics. Althoughstudents are taught about mathematics and science, most students are relativelyuninformed about technology and
Paper ID #9355LEDs & Lamps – A Friendly Affordable Gateway to Electrical Exploration(Curriculum Exchange)Mr. Andrew Tubesing, University of St. Thomas Andrew Tubesing is Laboratory Manager for the Electrical Engineering program at University of St Thomas in St. Paul, MN. He also serves on the faculty of the UST Center for Pre-Collegiate Engineering Education. Andrew has taught university courses in circuits, electronics, and engineering design for more than a decade. Prior to his academic career, Andrew spent 12 years as an engineer in the broadcast and telecommunications fields. Andrew holds a BA from St. Olaf College
Paper ID #10212Using Engineering to Address the Common Core Standards: A Four WeekWorkshop (Curriculum Exchange)Dr. Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Patricia ”Pat” A. Carlson is a transplanted middle westerner, having spent her childhood in Norfolk, Va. She came to Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology early in her teaching career and has taught a variety of courses over the past three decades. Dr. Carlson has held a number of American Society for Engineering Education summer fellowships that have taken her to NASA-Goddard, NASA-Langley, the Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland, and
Paper ID #12136An integrated, blended online engineering program of college-level coursesfor high school students offered by a state-wide public STEM magnet schoolDr. Michael Andrew Albright, South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics Michael Albright teaches English for the Accelerate program at the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in English literature in 2013 from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA where he taught first-year composition to primarily engineering students as a graduate student. Albright specializes in drama of the early modern/Renaissance era
component in the curricula we develop, and final projects must involve some form of discrete circuit component. • We have emphasized the concepts of sensors, signals, and signal processing when teaching programming and electronics. Many labs, homework exercises, and activities involve interpreting signals generated by using sensors and circuits of the student’s creation, interpreting those signals using programming, and making design decisions based off of those interpretations. • All laboratory exercises in the first half of the courses are designed to be carried out in groups of two or three, and be significantly open-ended (see Tables 1, 2, and 3). This prepares students for the open-ended
Engage Students in Active Learning. National Center for Research in Teacher Learning, College of Education, Michigan State University. Online: http://ncrtl.msu.edu/http/teachers.pdf.9. R.A. Daugherty, Teaching Adults, Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Oklahoma State University, T-8202. Online: http://osufacts.okstate.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-2371/T-8202web.pdf.10. A. Bryant, “The Role of Active Learning through Laboratory Experimentation Pertaining to Memory Retention in First-Year Engineering Programs,” Proc. ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference. 2009.11. J.L. Voss, et al., “Hippocampal Brain-network Coordination during Volitional Exploratory Behavior Enhances Learning,” Natural Neuroscience
Calgary Page 23.385.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Developing a cross-disciplinary curriculum for the integration of engineering and design in elementary educationAbstractSeveral studies show that students have lost interest in the domains of science, mathematics,engineering and technology (STEM) before reaching high school and believe that these areas arenot innovative or creative. Using the CDIO educational framework, cross-disciplinary moduleswere developed to teach engineering design concepts as part of regular curriculum activities,such as English, social
in Learning Physics as A Useful Teaching Method – A Report of Research,” New Educational Review 19(3-4), pp. 83-94.[12] Zacharias, Z. and Anderson, O. R., 2003, “The Effects of an Interactive Computer-Based Simulation Prior to Performing a Laboratory Inquiry-Based Experiment on Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Physics,” American Journal of Physics 71(6), pp. 618-629.[13] Cantrell, P., Pekcan, G., Itani, A., and Velasquez-Bryant, N., 2006, “The Effects of Engineering Modules on Student Learning in Middle School Science Classroom,” Journal of Engineering Education 95, pp. 301-309.[14] Abdelrahman, M., Stretz, H., McCulley, A., and Pugh, B., 2010, “Bridging Engineering Ideas Based on Nano-Materials Into
the re-integration of interests and the science of engineering which led to a better understanding of engineering disciplines. Repeatedly, the teachers stated that, in particular, the field trips, the tours of the E3 faculty mentor labs, and the weekly dinner/lectures raised their awareness of the various engineering disciplines. 100% of the 2008 post-program survey responders indicated that the E3 experience will allow them to promote the field of engineering to their students. 2. Is there evidence that by participating in an engineering research laboratory and developing a classroom project based on that research, the E3 teachers gained a deeper understanding of their teaching subject (e.g
professional development as effectiveand noteworthy. This study looks at the evaluation data from the 2007 cohort of teachers in theSDSM&T RET program and at one teacher in depth. This paper will answer the researchquestion: In what ways does the experience in the SDSM&T RET program effect teacherperception of change in teaching practices? To answer this question: a longitudinal case studywas conducted specifically looking at one teacher who participated during the 2007 RETprogram.IntroductionA great amount of effort has gone into improving the science education of our young people1, 2.From curriculum reform to parent programs, many avenues have been explored to find theanswers to best practices and effectiveness for all students no matter
AC 2012-5242: TEACHER TRAINING AND STUDENT INQUIRY ANDSCIENCE LITERACY: LINKING TEACHER INTERVENTION TO STU-DENTS’ OUTCOMES IN STEM COURSES IN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLCLASSESDr. Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California Gisele Ragusa is the Director of the University of Southern California’s Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation. She is jointly appointed in the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Division of Engineering Education and the Rossier School of Education. Her research interests and areas of expertise include en- gineering education as well as assessment and measurement in STEM education. She teaches courses in STEM teacher education, learning theory, measurement theory, assessment design, and research
school level. Moreover, the projects used in first year engineeringcourses can be used to bring “reality” to the interdisciplinary project-based learning initiatives insecondary education. Faculty, both high school and college, can work together:• to design learning experiences for students;• to explore alternative teaching pedagogies;• to explore strategies for motivating students (& teachers): and• to find ways to connect learning for the students.The benefits are by no means one-way from the university into the high-school. Engineeringprograms benefit from (1) students who are better prepared academically, (2) an increasedunderstanding by both students and teachers of what the engineering profession does, (3
, such ashardware layouts and programming techniques. On the laboratory days, they applied andreinforced the learned knowledge through hands on experiments, such as building the robotframe, writing code in embedded C program and so on. By teaching in this manner the coursedoes not only focus on the traditional lecture style of teaching, but allows the material to reachstudents with different learning preferences. A few challenges were also incorporated into thecourseware, such as building a robot chassis and then requiring students to improve it bymounting sensors with only a limited amount of parts and time. This forced them to useinnovation and creativity in their design process. The culmination of the course was a final
, especially in mathematics. Mathematics should be taught in such a way that peoplenot only will be able to use mathematics to solve problems, but also will want to usemathematics, and will think of mathematics as a friendly, useful tool, rather than a nemesis to beavoided at all costs.8 Page 12.628.4 2Research on Computer Based Laboratories for teaching mathematics is encouraging. Accordingto Van Dyke, by introducing the Computer Based Laboratory (CBL) tool, teachers will be able towitness that by using a tool to help students (and teachers) visualize
physical science and is a National Board Certified Teacher now studying novice teachers’ decisions based on the design and implementation of their teaching practices. Page 26.1248.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Preparing Pre-service Teachers to Make Connections Between Science and Engineering Concepts Through Teamwork with Engineering Students (RTP, Strand 1)AbstractNGSS has called for the inclusion of engineering in K-12 classrooms. This has shifted