Paper ID #31588Designing an Engineering Computer Instructional Laboratory: Working withthe PanopticonDr. Shehla Arif, University of Mount Union I am a thermal-fluids sciences educator. My doctoral and postdoctoral work is on experimental fluid dynamics of bubbles. My emphasis is interdisciplinary moving between mechanical engineering, geology, and biology. I acquired PhD from Northwestern University, IL and a post-doc at McGill University, Canada. I am passionate about integrating Engineering education with liberal arts studies. To that end, I am interested in embedding social justice and peace studies into engineering
Paper ID #29398An emancipatory teaching practice in a technical course: A layeredaccount of designing circuits laboratory instructions for a diversity oflearnersDr. Linda Vanasupa, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Linda Vanasupa has been a professor of materials engineering at the California Polytechnic State Univer- sity since 1991. She is a professor of materials engineering at Olin College. Her life’s work is focused on creating ways of learning, living and being that are alternatives to the industrial era solutions–alternatives that nourish ourselves, one another and the places in which we live. Her Ph.D. and
Environment 4 10 7 21 Total 102 59 39 200An Engineering Way of ThinkingThree codes emerged related to an engineering way of thinking: practice-based, visualizationtools, and writing. First, participants reflected on the importance of practice-based laboratoryexperiences in their engineering education. Students were not allowed to physically come intothe laboratory because of public health guidelines and university restrictions, so instructors hadto find alternatives. Some posted videos of themselves doing the experiments and students usedthose videos to write their reports, some sent students ‘at-home kits’, and some created
and sociocultural norms as well as in classic studies of socialization in scientific andtechnical careers, which don’t mention novices’ existing knowledge, skills, or identities (e.g.,[17], [18], [19]). Despite ongoing critiques of this mindset as inaccurate and a barrier to learningand identity formation (e.g., [20], [21], [22]), some academic communities, such as theengineering research laboratory groups that co-author Wylie studies, continue to talk aboutnovices according to this model. This approach does great injustice to newcomers to expertcommunities as well as robs experts of opportunities to learn from “a wisdom of peripherality”([23] p. 216), i.e., the invaluable perspective of outsiders. In ongoing observations and interviewsof
Writing Program Administration in STEM. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Extending WID to train mechanical engineering GTAs to evaluate student writingAbstractBeyond first-year composition, the undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum providesfew opportunities for students to develop technical writing skills. One underutilized path forstudents to strengthen those skills is the required sequence of laboratory courses, where studentswrite reports that are evaluated by graduate teaching assistants (GTAs), many of whom speakEnglish as a second language. Historically, engineering GTAs have not been trained informative assessment techniques to help
has taught clients across gov- ernment, industry and higher education, including Texas Instruments, Brookhaven National Laboratory, European Southern Observatory (Chile), Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) and the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. Christine works closely with Penn State University faculty Michael Alley (The Craft of Scientific Presentations and The Craft of Scientific Writing) and Melissa Marshall (TED, ”Talk Nerdy to Me”) on these courses. Christine is also the director of the Engineering Ambassadors Network, a start-up organization at 25 plus universities worldwide that teaches presentation skills to undergraduate engineering students, particularly women and underrepresented groups in
High school GPA min 3.02 2.70 2.97 High school GPA max 4.00 4.00 4.00 High school GPA average 3.77 3.82 3.93The Engineering Math pilot implementation included a 50-minute lecture section meeting threetimes a week, one 50-minute recitation section a week, and one 110-minute lab section eachweek, consistent with a 4-credit hour class during a 16-week semester. All course activities tookplace in a unique active-learning classroom dedicated to Engineering Math. Students worked inpairs to complete weekly laboratory exercises, with the first pairings determined by studentchoice, and the second and third
Christine Haas brings over ten years of experience working in marketing and communications with a focus on the science and engineering fields. She’s held positions as the director of marketing for Drexel’s College of Engineering and director of operations for Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Engineering. Now, as Principal of Christine Haas Consulting, LLC, Christine travels around the world teaching courses to scientists and engineers on presentations and technical writing. She has taught clients across gov- ernment, industry and higher education, including Texas Instruments, Brookhaven National Laboratory, European Southern Observatory (Chile), Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) and the University of Illinois-Urbana
] archeology center. Thearcheology building has a cultural, liberal arts theme. The instructor provides the program andthe architectural design solution to the students. The building features two-story interior spaces,long span framing, overhangs, skylights, and intentional design conflicts between engineering-and architecture-driven preferences. The architecture students are negotiating through designchoices from the perspective of being an engineer. The instructional method is the design studioformat which is variant of the laboratory classroom [34]. The studio environment embraces theexploration of alternative structural solutions. The outcome is a structures book articulating thecode compliant graphic and numerical solutions along with an AIA
energy systems and power electronics. He has been working on thin film solar cell research since 1979 including a Sabbatical Leave at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in 1993. He has also worked on several photovoltaic system projects Dr. Singh has also worked on electric vehicle research, working on battery monitoring and management systems funded primarily by federal agencies (over $3.5 million of funding). Dr. Singh has consulted for several companies including Ford Motor Company and Epuron, LLC. He has also served as a reviewer for the US Department of Energy and National Science Foundation. Dr Singh has over 150 conference and journal publications and holds seven issued US patents. Dr. Singh’s recent
of essential notions of intellect, drive, and self-discipline thatcenter on bodily ‘normalcy’” [8]. Notions of engineering skill have assumptions about “capable”bodies and minds built into them [12]. For example, to be seen as proficient at circuit design andtesting in an electrical engineering lab, one is expected to have the manual dexterity tomanipulate centimeter-long resistors and capacitors and the visual acuity to see small details upclose. A students’ demonstration that they understand the workings of a circuit is often conflatedwith the physical act of circuit-making in the laboratory. In such instances, lack of physicaldexterity or visual sharpness may be interpreted as lack of proficiency at engineering tasks.Because of the
Fellows ofHarvard College.Cezeaux, J., Keyser, T., Haffner, E., Kaboray, A., & Hasenjager, C. (2008). IntroducingUniversal Design Concepts In An Interdisciplinary Laboratory Project. Proceedings of the 2008American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 13.806.1-13.806.9. https://peer.asee.org/4037Dixon, A. G., Clark, W. M., & DiBiasio, D. (2000). A Project-based Spiral Curriculum forIntroductory Courses in ChE: Part 2. Implementation. Chemical Engineering Education 34(4),296-303.Dyrud, M. (2017) Ethics and Artifacts. Paper presented at the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference &Exposition, Columbus, Ohio.Feister, M.K., & Zoltowski, C. B., & Buzzanell, P. M., & Torres, D. H. (2016, June
. Demonstrate an experiential understanding of engineering design impacts relevant to the various engineering disciplines. 9. Apply basic calculation procedures and computational tools used in engineering. 10. Apply the engineering design process and employ it to solve real-world issues. Textbox 1: Stated educational objectives of the Impacts of Engineering course.the roles and responsibilities of an engineer in society. More in depth coverage of the writingaspects of the course will be presented in a later work. The second component of the course isorganized around a laboratory setting in which students explore the course curriculum through thecompletion of a comprehensive engineering design project. The intent behind the
consequences of traditional notions of rigor? • How does theater function as a space in which difficult subjects can be safely explored? What are the similarities between laboratories and theaters as educational spaces? How might the educational experience in laboratories be enhanced by exploiting the parallels between labs and theaters? Figure 1. Excerpts from the Discussion Notes Created for Session U434B. completing the notes for all technical sessions, I synthesized a necessarily impressionisticAftersummary of 14 common and emergent themes from the 2018 LEES program. This summaryappears in Appendix B. Based on this input
the educational institution, as well as thecorporation seeking to hire diverse STEM talent.Role models and representation help students see potential in themselves, and girls who seewomen working in engineering careers are more likely to consider doing the same [7]. Withfemale engineers of color occupying a small number of seats in our nation’s innovation hubs,laboratories, scientific think tanks, corporate suites, and board rooms, it is challenging for youngwomen of color to envision themselves as engineers.Experiences, both negative and positive, can profoundly shape an individual’s thoughts andultimately who they become. Espinosa [4] examines the potential benefit of the collegeexperience, including experiences of women of color pursuing
Alabama. Dr. Burian’s professional career spans more than 20 years during which he has worked as a de- sign engineer, as a Visiting Professor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a Professor at the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah, and as the Chief Water Consultant of an international engineer- ing and sustainability consulting firm he co-founded. He served as the first co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development at the University of Utah where he created pan-campus degree programs and stimulated infusion of sustainability principles and practices in teaching and learning activities across campus. Dr. Burian currently is the Project Director of the USAID-funded U.S.-Pakistan Center for
, Brookhaven National Laboratory, European Southern Observatory (Chile), Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) and the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. Christine works closely with Penn State University faculty Michael Alley (The Craft of Scientific Presentations and The Craft of Scientific Writing) and Melissa Marshall (TED, ”Talk Nerdy to Me”) on these courses. Christine is also the director of the Engineering Ambassadors Network, a start-up organization at 25 plus universities worldwide that teaches presentation skills to undergraduate engineering students, particularly women and underrepresented groups in engineering. These Engineering Ambassadors develop valuable leadership and communication skills, which
reflexivity... whether,and to what extent, we [are] ready to reflect on the subject matter of race and racism in thismostly color-blind field of inquiry.” [7] What we observed during the ASEE virtual conferencewere contributions to “Big STS”—a concept introduced by Gary Downey to identify approachesto science and technology studies (STS) that promise broader social impacts beyond themicrosociology of laboratory studies, which have long been privileged in the field.On the surface, this paper is about activisms, social movements, and racial justice in engineeringeducation, but there is an understory about how small and subtle actions, like opening a SlackChannel for crafting, afford alternative virtual maker spaces for different possible futures. Howdo
to takeon the “professional role” of a graduate student in a research laboratory.3 In sum, few universityprograms place practitioner concerns with writing at the same level they place practitionerconcerns with technical skills.With funding from the National Science Foundation, we are addressing this problem with newteaching materials that incorporate writing instruction into undergraduate civil engineeringcourses. The approach is innovative because it integrates the expertise of engineeringpractitioners, engineering faculty, and writing specialists, and is empirically grounded in the Page 26.1432.2analysis of a large collection of
their design course or to record a blinking LED circuit to showthem that they properly programmed and wired an electrical circuit. These videos are especiallyimportant in distance education.Analytical Writing Explanation of equations: Faculty members participating in the workshop noted thatstudents generally have difficulty articulating how they solved a specific problem using equationsor why they selected a specific equation. This problem is apparent in laboratory reports but alsoin capstone/senior design technical reports. Explicit argumentation of the rationale for theselection the equation and how it was used to solve the problem was identified as an importantgenre during the workshop. Chart or diagram with explanation and
; 2014 The University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award; and the 2012 NCEES Award for students’ design of a Fire Station. She also received 2018 American Society of Civil Engineers’ Texas Section ”Service to the People” award, and 2019 El Paso Engineer of the Year by the Texas Society of Professional Engineers. This is the first time in more than 30 years that a UTEP faculty wins this prestigious award.Mr. Nick A. Stites, University of Colorado Boulder Nick A. Stites is the Director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program and Laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also an instructor in the Engineering Plus Program. His research interests include the development of novel
Committee. Inthe course, phase behavior, density, viscosity, interfacial tension, and composition of oil, gas,and brine systems are discussed. Course curriculum includes laboratory measurements,interpretation of lab data for engineering applications, flash calculations with k-values andequation of state and an introduction to fluid property software. CSR had previously not beentaught in the course, as it focused on the technical curriculum. In Fall 2016, CSR was introducedto the class through one assignment in which students watched a video about Chevron’s AlderGas Field Project and answered questions about Chevron’s Health, Safety, Security,Environment and Social Responsibility (HSSE-SR) and Sustainable Development practices.Fall 2016 Senior
problems at home. I'm trying to, you know, be a good husband and father.” And so, I guess in that way engineering actually does affect me, maybe in a negative way. Because I'm thinking, what makes me feel good is solving a problem but that's not necessarily what makes you feel good right now.Outside of conflicting mindsets, many students saw a lack of utility or opportunity for empathyin their work. From their perspectives, their work had little to do with other people (e.g., end-users) and therefore empathy did not come into play. From Julie’s work at a water treatmentplant to Mike’s time in the fabrication laboratory to Donovan’s experiments with fish oil andwater emulsions, students did not see how empathy for others
and MS Biomed- ical Engineering degrees from Drexel University, and her PhD Bioengineering degree from the University of Washington. Between her graduate degrees, she worked as a loop transmission systems engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories. She then spent 13 years in the medical device industry conducting medical de- vice research and managing research and product development at several companies. In her last industry position, Dr. Baura was Vice President, Research and Chief Scientist at CardioDynamics. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).Leanne Kallemeyn, Loyola University Chicago Leanne Kallemeyn, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in Research Methodologies
Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World, the artist, design researcher, and OlinCollege professor Sara Hendren writes, “Engineering is not the science of the laboratory alone…It is fundamentally applied, which means its results live in the world. It belongs to people, notjust as ‘users’ but as protagonists of their dimensional lives” [1, p. 23]. Hendren’s invocation of avision of engineering as radically human-centered provided the philosophical and humanisticcore to our interdisciplinary teaching team as we embarked on designing a new course forfirst-year students at Boston College (BC). Our course, Making the Modern World: Design,Ethics, and Engineering (MMW), situated engineering practice and knowledge within its social,political, and
University. Adrienne’s research interests include electrokinetics, predominantly di-electrophoretic characterizations of cells, and the development of biomedical microdevices. She earned aNSF CAREER award and was nominated for Michigan Professor of the Year in 2014. Research within herMedical micro-Device Engineering Research Laboratory (M.D. – ERL) also inspires the development ofDesktop Experiment Modules (DEMos) for use in chemical engineering classrooms or as outreach activi-ties in area schools (see www.mderl.org). Adrienne is currently co-Chair of ASEE’s Diversity Committeeand PIC I Chair; she has previously served on WIED, ChED, and NEE leadership teams and contributedto 37 ASEE conference proceedings articles
), and students can select from the course catalog that addresses a number oftopics such as, data ethics, entrepreneurship, laboratory life, for example. These courses useapproaches aligned with the humanities and social sciences to further investigate the social andethical issues related to engineering and engineered artifacts. In their fourth-year all engineeringstudents take a yearlong course sequence in both their fall and spring semesters. This is wherethey learn about STS theories, consider various ethical frameworks and apply these concepts totheir own research topics. A graduation requirement is for all students to generate a writtenportfolio that includes a report on their technical capstone project and STS research paper thataddresses
assumed endpoint:within a healthy watershed, all members of the ecosystem grow, develop, and flourish. Ratherthan merely being “retained” as an individual within a (neutral) pipeline, a member of anecosystem is part of a group that thrives as an interdependent collective. Metrics for the health ofan ecosystem will naturally incorporate intersectionality and complexity beyond traditionalrecruitment & retention data [12].However, despite these positive shifts from the limits of the lockstep “pipeline” to the morecapacious and humane “ecosystem,” metaphors about fostering persistence and thriving are, as arule, largely confined to the realms of STEM. They invoke STEM classrooms and laboratories,STEM communities and STEM processes (the pipelines
propulsion systems. At Baylor University, he teaches courses in laboratory techniques, fluid mechanics, energy systems, and propulsion systems, as well as freshman engineering. Research interests include renewable energy to include small wind turbine aerodynamics, experimental convective heat transfer as applied to HVAC and gas turbine systems, and engineering education.Dr. William M. Jordan, Baylor University William Jordan is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Baylor University. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in metallurgical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, an M.A. degree in theology from Denver Seminary, and a Ph.D. in mechanics and materials from Texas A & M University. He teaches materials