university and the State of South Carolina for their work. In honor of his support for engineering students who are changing the world, David was awarded the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Excellence in Service Award and the 2014 Distinguished Service Award from Clemson University.Aaron S. Gordon, Clemson University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Enhancing Student’s Learning Experiences through Translational Research in Multidisciplinary Engineering EducationAbstractTo tackle the societal grand challenges of the 21st century, this article proposes that the conceptof translational research has valuable applications within a broad
Paper ID #14939The Bucknell Poetry Path App Experiment: A Collaboration Across CampusProf. Michael S Thompson, Bucknell University Prof. Thompson is an associate professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, PA. While his teaching responsibilities typically include digital design, computer engineering electives, and senior design, his focus in the classroom is to ignite passion in his students for engineering and design through his own enthusiasm, open-ended student-selected projects, and connecting engineering to the world around them. His research interests
and Engineering Program at BSU and served as the first chair. From 2011 to 2017, she wasDean of the College of Engineering. Her research interests include engineering education and microelectronic packaging, particularly 3-D integration and ceramic MEMS devices.Dr. JoAnn S. Lighty, Boise State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Work-in-Progress: Flexibility and Professional Preparation via a Multidisciplinary Engineering CurriculumThis paper reports on one institution’s work-in-progress to build innovation and creativity into aflexible, ABET accredited undergraduate Engineering B.S. degree that provides a variety ofchoices to undergraduate engineering
is a strong advocate for exploring strategies for success- ful academic achievement at all levels of education and customizes her educational approach to enhance the diversity of strengths of each individual student while also shoring up areas of relative weaknesses. She is a tireless advocate for her STEM adult learners.Dr. Andrew Greenberg, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University of Wisconsin-MadisonDr. Christine S. Grant, North Carolina State University at Raleigh Dr. Christine S. Grant joined the NC State faculty in 1989 after completing her M.S. and Ph.D. (Geor- gia Institute of Technology) and Sc.B. (Brown University) all in Chemical Engineering (ChE). One of less than 10 African-American
Paper ID #12684General Engineering Plus: Creating Community in a Flexible yet TechnicalEngineering DegreeDr. Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder Malinda Zarske is the Engineering Master Teacher for the General Engineering Plus program at the Uni- versity of Colorado Boulder. A former high school and middle school science and math teacher, she has advanced degrees in teaching secondary science from the Johns Hopkins University and in civil engi- neering from CU-Boulder. Dr. Zarske teaches engineering design in First-Year Engineering Projects and Engineering Projects for the Community, a sophomore-level course
Paper ID #14107A DESCRIPTION OF THE STATISTICS BEHIND ANALYZING PERFOR-MANCE DATA: A Five-Year Study of an Summer Bridge Program for In-coming URM FreshmanDr. Carol S Stwalley P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Carol S. Stwalley, PE joined the Minority Engineering Program team in the fall of 2007 as Recruitment and Retention Analyst. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and Biological Engineering (ABE), MSABE, and PhD ABE from Purdue University. Carol has more than 14 years in diversity work with considerable background working with the Women in Engineering Programs at Purdue. In her current capacity
, University of California, Santa CruzProf. Michael S. Isaacson, University of California, Santa Cruz Michael Isaacson is the Narinder Singh Kapany Professor emeritus, professor of electrical engineering, Director of the Center for Sustainable Energy and Power Systems (CenSEPS) and a member of the Sus- tainable Engineering and Ecological Design Program at UCSC. He is recipient of numerous awards including a Sloan Foundation Faculty Fellowship, the Burton Medal from the Microscopy Society of America, an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics and the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Microscopy Society of America. He is a Fellow of the AAAS and the MSA. He has been elected to the
, and digital signal processing.Ms. Jocelyn B. S. Cullers, Boise State University Jocelyn B. S. Cullers is a Data Analyst at the Institute for STEM & Diversity Initiatives at Boise State University.Dr. Sonya M. Dennis, Morehouse CollegeDr. Yingfei Dong, University of Hawai’i at Mnoa Dr. Yingfei Dong received his B.S. degree and M.S. degree in computer science at Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China, in 1989 and 1992, his Doctor degree in engineering at Tsinghua University in 1996, and his Ph.D. degree in computer and information science at the University of Minnesota in 2003. He is an Associated Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and an IEEE Senior
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J K L M N O P Q R S T U 21 11 3 3 9 11 3Table 2 lists the research topics and physics associated with the 21 most successful models todate. Four topics
forintegrated STEM education in early childhood classrooms. Moreover, we will gather data oninteractions among members of the interdisciplinary design teams, and subject these data todiscourse analysis in order to observe the types and nature of interaction among ECE and ENGstudents. These data will be used to triangulate the results of the analysis of survey data and willsupport revisions and enhancements to learning opportunities afforded to students in futureofferings of these courses. References Bailey, R. (2007). Effects of industrial experience and coursework during sophomore andjunior years on student learning if engineering design. Journal of Mechanical Design, 129(4),662-667. Brophy, S
Technical Direction. Professor of Practice. Emphasis on theater technical direction. Prof. J.-LA College of Liberal Arts Professor of Dance. Emphasis on contact dance improvisation. Prof. S.-LA College of Liberal Arts Professor of Art and Design. Professor of Art Education. Prof. Y.-LA College of Liberal Arts Professor of Interior Design. Data collection consisted of semi-structured interviews, which helped to understand better thecontext where the answers came from and tailor "follow-up questions within and across interviews" [10,p. 154] according to the participants' response. The questions were structured according to one element ofthe correspondence analysis
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26.646.3described in a recent report titled Transforming Undergraduate Engineering Education, fundedby the National Science Foundation (NSF) and published by the American Society forEngineering Education (ASEE). 6Problem StatementExpanding on the issues described in the introduction, the problems faced by science andengineering (S&E) employers, whether in industry or governmental agencies, are multifacetedand combinatorial. The supply and demand of graduates currently is not in an equilibrium stage,and despite the efforts to expand STEM opportunities, the number of college students pursuingscience and engineering is stagnating. 7 Stagnation continues when unemployment is at recordlows for S&E graduates, this dynamic defies the “invisible hand
systems are selected, configured and designed.Prof. M K Parfitt c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Observed Best Practices for Student Driven Multi-disciplinary Team-based Architectural Engineering CapstoneABSTRACTThe design, construction, and operations of buildings fall within the architecture and engineeringdomains. Buildings are highly technical and critical systems that are engineered to performance levelsthat allow buildings to function for 100’s of years. To achieve this, buildings require engineers andmanagers to be of a learned, regulated and licensed profession. While many engineering degrees educatebuilding design, perhaps best suited for the task is
, the thirdphase further reviewed capstone-related efforts to explore possible and effective practices within capstonedesign projects that might contribute to the development of multidisciplinary engineering education.Phase 1. Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs Accredited by ABETAs background, Farison and Newberry (2003) previously reported on accredited Engineering and EngineeringScience programs, and explored related historical trends to provide a macro-level perspective of such programs[4-5]. However, only Engineering (sometimes called General Engineering) and Engineering Science(s)programs were considered. From a micro perspective, these general engineering programs varied frominstitution to institution in curricular and student
helped them in their undergraduateeducation to succeed. The goal of using this analysis, as consistent with founders of themethodology [12], is to develop a theory during textural analysis without preconceived ideas onwhat the solution, or theory, could be. GMT was developed in the 1960’s to give sociologists atool that allowed them to generate new theories. It has begun to be adopted by the designdisciplines to help navigate the fuzzy front end of design by coding observations in transcripts,for example. The idea is that stories can emerge, and connections can be made betweenunrelated ideas and help form potential hypotheses [13]. In this initial coding exercise, word-by-word, and line-by-line coding strategies were employed, as described by
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(PPR) Session.The reviews are presentations to their peers that includes students in both capstone sequencecourses. Students are requested to assess the team’s progress and recommend whether the projectshould continue to the next step or return to the previous step and address issues unveiled by thereview. See Figure 3.Figure 4. Weekly Robosub Testing Sessions4. Time LineThe first three years of these capstone projects were ran through the mechanical engineering(ME) department, and all students were required to meet the course requirements of the MEdepartment. In each of these years the students started from scratch and developed a newsubmarine without major input from faculty or previous design teams. See Figure 5. The firstyear (F’10-S’11
initialscholarship recipients left the program to pursue non-STEM majors where theycould help others and four left for that they perceived to be less time consumingundergraduate programs so that they could spend more time working or on socialactivities.In this program, NSF S-STEM scholarships were awarded to 15 students. Therequirements for students to maintain their NSF scholarship were continuousenrollment in courses leading toward a STEM degree, 3.0 GPA, and activeparticipation in the one-credit course associated with the scholarship eachsemester. The course was used to enable more one-on-one interactions betweenstudents and faculty as well as with their teammates from different disciplines.Interacting with faculty, whether in the classroom, the
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does not do one-to-one comparisons. That is, the number of observations in the pre and post surveys can bedifferent. For this statistical testing, we used an online tool (Astatsa, n.d.). Null hypothesis isassumed to be rejected if the p value is < 0.10, recorded below as Significant (S); otherwise, it isnot significant (NS) that is it is not certain there was a significant difference between the pre andpost-survey responses for that category. Table 3: Results from Pre and Post Surveys.Survey Question Pre-Survey (n = 34) Post-Survey (n = 42) p value and SignificanceImage Capture 1.94 + 1.91 2.63
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student will work with the faculty mentor and graduate student to formulate their own research question(s). Develop a computer study and/or experimental measurement plan. • Weeks 2-9 - Research: Students actively participate in research projects. Here, the students will: o Conduct the research according to plans developed in week 1. o Meet once a week with the full group to review progress with peers and meet twice per week within subgroups to provide peer critique at subgroup and full group meetings and respond to feedback from full group during the following week. o Document changes in research plans as needed. o
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