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
internalized and uncritically accepted as the norm. One concreteexample of this problem emerged in the design of this computer laboratory.The focus and the contributionThis paper is focused on the design of a new computer laboratory to serve dual functions as: (1) asoftware teaching space, and (2) a student workspace during non-teaching times. In this paper,the author is situating the lab space design in larger questions of the interplay of power with theproduction and transmission of knowledge [35], as it manifests in the physical space. The designprocess was a collaborative undertaking by the author and her colleague Chad Korach, whereasthe theoretical analysis is solely by the author. The use of the subject “we” should be interpretedaccordingly in
Society for Engineering Education, 2015 1 Not engineering to help but learning to (un)learn: Integrating research and teaching on epistemologies of technology design at the margins Abstract Locating engineering education projects in sites occupied by marginalizedcommunities and populations serves primarily to reinforce themisapprehension that the inhabitants of such sites are illiterate, inept,incapable and therefore in need of aid or assistance from researchers, facultyand students. Drawing on the emerging literature on engineering educationand social justice, I examine the stated objectives, content, duration, andoutcomes of exemplar projects
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
, 1994.[34] W. H. Leonard, “The laboratory classroom,” in Handbook of College Teaching: Theory and Applications, K. W. Prichard and R. M. McLaran Sawyer, Eds., pp. 155-169. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994.[35] T. D. Sooter, N. Chikaraishi, and K. E. Hedges, “Extreme service-learning: Engaging a university design-build course with a broadcast network television show in the aftermath of the Joplin tornado” in New Developments in Structural Engineering and Construction, S. Yazdani and A. Singh, Eds., vol. 2, pp. 1463-1468. Singapore: Research Publishing Services, 2013.[36] K. E. Hedges, T. D. Sooter, N. Chikaraishi, and M. E. Krasny, “The healing powers of nature in Joplin’s Cunningham Park: Coupling design
communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teaching practices in design education, the effects of differing design pedagogies on retention and motivation, the dynamics of cross-disciplinary collaboration in both academic and industry design environments, and gender and
Paper ID #11542Comparatively Mapping Genres in Academic and Workplace EngineeringEnvironmentsDr. Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University Dr. Jovanovic is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology, Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University. She is teaching classes in the area of mechatronics and computer aided engineering. Her research Interests are: mechatronics, robotics, digital manufacturing, product lifecycle management, manufacturing systems, and engineering education.Megan McKittrick, Old Dominion University Megan McKittrick is a full-time Instructor and part-time PhD
engineering from Howard University.Prof. John V Tocco JD, Lawrence Technological University Page 26.1432.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Students Writing for Professional Practice: A Model for Collaboration among Faculty, Practitioners and Writing SpecialistsAbstractThis paper presents the principles, procedures, materials, and assessment of a new approach toimprove the teaching of writing in engineering. The Civil Engineering Writing Project aims toimprove students’ preparation for writing in industry by developing new
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
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
undergraduate training, teaching, and research assistantships at Cali- fornia Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, where he received a B.S. in Computer Science. Currently, Medina-Kim researches how undergraduate students negotiate commitments to social justice throughout their participation in co-curricular humanitarian engineering projects. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Towards Justice in Undergraduate Computer Science Education: Possibilities in Power, Equity, and Praxis1. IntroductionGiven assimilationist criticism of national initiatives to expand computer science education,recent computing education research has
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
complexglobal challenges, the need for engineers with inclusive mindsets has become more apparent.One aspect of inclusion is the awareness of our potential for biases in the models we create of theworld -- engineering models that go on to influence the technologies we produce.This paper presents a work-in-progress case study of an intervention in a middle-years analyticalcourse with a heavy focus on mathematical modeling. The intervention is designed to makestudents aware of biases in model base learning, their own tendencies towards these kinds ofbiases, and the sorts of impacts these biases can have on real populations. An importantcomponent of the intervention is that it is embedded into the teaching of analytical content, ratherthan being an
Press of America, 2005), Engineering and Sustainable Community Development (Morgan &Claypool, 2010), and Engineering Education for Social Justice: Critical Explorations and Opportunities (Springer, 2013).Dr. Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines Jon A. Leydens is an associate professor in the Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines, USA, where he has been since 1997. Research and teaching interests include communication, social justice, and engineering education. Page 26.806.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015
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
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
pairings prescribed by the instructor. Each pairing lastedroughly five weeks, ensuring that students worked with at least three different peers during thesemester.The course was supported by one instructor and two dedicated teaching assistants (TAs), with allthree members of the instructional staff holding at least two office hours each week. One TA,Herman, also worked as a student staff member in one of the student-focused hands-on learningengineering laboratories on campus, while the other TA, Mary, also worked as a tutor for theengineering college and held additional office hours in one of the on-campus engineering studentdormitories. Both TAs were engineering majors simultaneously pursuing K-12 secondaryteaching licensure in mathematics, so
; 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
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
oversaw research projects for INDOT in the areas of highway structures, materials, and construction. He then served two years as the Director of Site Operations for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) at Purdue University; a network of 14 university-based earthquake and tsunami research laboratories sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Newbolds began teaching at Benedictine College in 2012. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Indiana.Dr. Patrick F. O’Malley, Benedictine College Patrick O’Malley teaches in the Mechanical Engineering program at Benedictine College in Atchison, KS.Meredith Stoops, Benedictine College Meredith Stoops is the Coordinator of Service
Paper ID #34553Situating Engineering Education in a World Impacted by COVID-19Dr. Thomas A. De Pree, University of New Mexico Thomas A. De Pree is an ASERT-IRACDA postdoctoral fellow in the School of Medicine at University of New Mexico (2020-2023), where he holds a research appointment with the UNM Metal Exposure and Toxicity Assessment on Tribal Lands in the Southwest (METALS) Superfund Research Program Center, and a teaching appointment in environmental sciences at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI). His Ph.D. & M.S. are in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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
experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication
Paper ID #34365Development and Delivery of an Interactive Renewable Energy Program forUnder-Represented Minority High School Students in PhiladelphiaDr. Pritpal ”Pali” Singh, Villanova University Dr. Pritpal Singh is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Villanova University. He re- ceived a BSc in Physics from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1978, and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Sciences/Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 1981 and 1984, respec- tively. Dr. Singh teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the areas of semiconductor microelectronics, renewable
CSR modules. Finally, weconclude by laying out future directions for research and tying our research back to the existingwork on engineering students’ attitudes and learning about social responsibility to consider theopportunities and pitfalls of integrating CSR into teaching and learning about socialresponsibility more generally.2. The coursesThe three universities selected for the project—Colorado School of Mines, Virginia Tech, andMarietta College—all have long-standing and large undergraduate programs in mining and/orpetroleum engineering, but are located in different regions of the country (West, Midwest andEast), have different overall student population sizes (31,000 at VT, 5500 at Mines, and 1200 atMarietta), and place students in
, 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
. 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
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
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 and experimental convective heat transfer as applied to HVAC and gas turbine systems.Dr. William M. Jordan P.E., 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-related courses and does research