at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, working under the mentorship of Prof. Lawrence Angrave. Prior to this, I was working as a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research in the Technology for Emerging Markets (TEM) group.David Mussulman, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Dave is an Instructional Technology Facilitator with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Engineering IT Shared Services. He helps instructors select and integrate technologies into their courses to enhance student learning and improve course administration.Prof. Christopher D. Schmitz, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Christopher D. Schmitz is an Electrical Engineer and Teaching Associate Professor at the
technology in the classroom. She is a co-PI on two NSF grants in the areas of integration of computation in engineering curricula and in developing comprehensive strategies to retain early engineering students. She is active nationally and internationally in engineering accreditation and is a Fellow of ABET and of the AIChE. Page 26.1610.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Two Body Solutions: Strategies for the Dual-Career Job Search AbstractThis paper focuses on the dual-career job search with an eye toward iteratively
informal study groups. In follow upinterviews and focus groups, students also chose to discuss their experiences in study groups(83%) or lab groups (82%) but also commented frequently on their participation in professionalsocieties. Of these students, most (87%) found benefit in participating in these groups, and amajority of the students (72%) felt that they benefitted in ways related to operating within thegroup as an integral part of the team. Most students stressed the social learning provided by thegroup as compared to a single individual working alone.IntroductionABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) requires that every undergraduateengineering student is active in teams (either formed by faculty or self-assembled) at
Polytechnic State University (CPSU). Jointly offered by the Collegesof Liberal Arts and Engineering, LSE is understood as a fourth “computing discipline” by theDepartment of Computer Science (alongside computer engineering, computer science, andsoftware engineering). Admission to the program is by internal transfer only. Accepted studentscomplete rigorous technical education, including 44 units of support courses shared with theCollege of Engineering as well as the CPSU General Education curriculum; 34-35 units ofadditional coursework in an engineering specialization (computer graphics OR electricalengineering (power) OR industrial/manufacturing engineering (systems design) OR anindividualized course of study); 24 units of additional coursework in a
, aligning learning outcomes to assessments and teachingactivities, methods for active learning, and strategies for effective classroom presentation. Theworkshop curriculum was centered around the following goals: 1) promoting broader awarenessof alternative teaching strategies for STEM classrooms, 2) increasing faculty comfort level inusing alternative teaching strategies, 3) increasing adoption of active learning and otherevidence-based pedagogies, 4) building a campus community dedicated to improving teaching,and 5) increasing multi-disciplinary collaborations amongst faculty attendees. The purpose ofthis paper is to provide an example of a model workshop designed to help new faculty engagestudents in STEM disciplines, and includes the planning
engagement in the learning process, theinstructor decided in summer 2019 to embed weekly CIQs in the course. Her initial thought was,the CIQs would encourage students to reflect on their learning while informing the instructorabout the students’ learning experiences. The data collected by the instructor indicated studentsbiggest frustration was with 1) the first site visit report (course assignment requiring that theyapply sustainability evaluation on a real site), and 2) with the amount of new knowledge theyacquired.The CIQ was offered as an integrated part of a five-week long online course, offered to studentsfrom three majors: construction management, architecture, and agricultural engineering. Studentscompleted the CIQ each Friday. Qualitative
,characterized stage two. Stage three: the stage of pondering and deliberations,which has lingered on for a long time, is characterized by calls from industries,engineering graduates, and invited experts, for more rounded engineers with the skillsand abilities to function in a modern business climate. Unfortunately, the response tothese calls has been slow. The “piece meal” approach and/or periodic adjustments toan already over-burdened curriculum, in an attempt to meet a broad set of demands,have not been effective in meeting objectives, and have convinced many stakeholdersthat the time has come for a radical departure from the traditional layered andsequential structure that has prevailed for decades. There are clearly significantchallenges ahead
never gain the skills needed to tackle and solve challenging multidisciplinary problems that call for critical judgment and creativity according to ABET. Finally, even if nothing new is added to the existing curriculum, confining it to four years will be almostimpossible, unless more efficient and effective ways to cover the material can be found (Felderet. All., 2000). In that case, it becomes very difficult for new faculty to teach undergraduatestudents at a level it should be, and become successful in their academic career with the furtherexpectation of research and services. There is another belief among some of us: if we have significant industry experience, we can be an effective teacher and successful faculty or vice versa, meaning that
classes and a job or family orboth. Most of our education system is not built to cater to their needs, and its results areextremely wasteful –30% failure rate year in and year out in fundamental engineering coursescannot simply be tolerated as an unfortunate reality. Active learning should no longer be anoption –it must be treated as the key ingredient in attempting to start solving this failurecatastrophe. The frame of active learning should contain many interactive elements, includingweekly lectures, in-class activities, online activities71, and hands-on lab exercises –all doneduring the 75-minute class time in each lecture, thus not changing any curriculum structure.Each element of the new paradigm is described below –mechanics of materials
technological innovation at the regional and global level.Ms. Morgan Anderson, University of Washington, Seattle Morgan Anderson received her bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood and Elementary Education from Hofstra University and her master’s degree in School Psychology from the University of Washington, Seattle. She is interested in the use of digital tools to support school-community partnerships that enhance access to mental wellness assessment and intervention.Neha Kardam, University of Washington Neha Kardam is a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. She has a Master’s Degree in Power System and is also working as an Assistant Professor and Department Chair in
engineering curriculum: They exist side-by-side, institutionally parallel as opposed to convergent. Therefore, an element of bait-and-switchremains, but the outlet of creative, synthetic, hands-on design in an intimate, supportive learningenvironment is both present and institutionally legitimated as part of students’ formalizededucational experience. This arrangement challenges the logic of exclusion prevalent within theengineering-only programming by overlaying a logic of engagement on top of the standardfundamentals-first engineering curriculum. Page 26.616.13Since PDI operates outside of Rensselaer’s core engineering curricula, it provides only a
education and communi- cation, and minoring in higher education administration. Her research focuses on stakeholder (employers and students) evaluation for curriculum development and revision. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 WORK IN PROGRESS FROM FACE-TO-FACE TO ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: A Transition to a Learner-Centered ApproachAbstractHaving students in an online environment, either partially or fully, requires the instructor to learnnew knowledge and skills that are crucial to succeed in creating high quality online learningenvironments. In this paper, we (an engineering instructor who is learning how to teach in onlineenvironments and an
bridge the gap between high school and college as well as preparing students for the rigors of mathematics. His research interests include engineering education, integration of novel technologies into engineering classroom, excellence in instruction, water, and wastewater treatment, civil engineering infrastructure, and transportation engi- neering.Dr. Christina Marie Zambrano-Varghese, Rutgers University-Newark Christina Zambrano-Varghese is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University- Newark, where she teaches a wide variety of courses ranging from introductory to upper-level research methods. She has conducted research on plagiarism prevention strategies and has transformed her courses
contribution, we focus on providing acase study of our story that features an Enhanced Innovation Schema (i.e., one centered on use of a“Group Genius Approach”, Sawyer [2]) that has been leveraged by this team. This schema allowsinterdisciplinary voices, equitable conversations, and logistic models to be integrated into theprocesses by which funding opportunities are generated (please see more below).To begin, we illustrate the motivation behind this work and offer related and relevant literature tosituate this schema within the extant scholarship on problem identification and innovation-drivenapproaches in engineering education. We then offer theoretical background regarding the two majormodels that have been adopted and adapted to create the anchor
) Practices Outside the Classroom Integrity of Practice [4] OC1 Have one-on-one conversations with students IP1 Acknowledge there is more than one way to teach OC2 Do outreach on campus or with K-12 students and learn OC3 Do Land acknowledgements IP2 Be aware that it is important to be intentional OC4 Do course preparation or revamping curriculum IP3 Acknowledge the educator’s role in normalizing OC5 Ensure building accessibility inclusivity OC6 Talk with other faculty as a site of inclusion IP4 Be flexible OC7 In grading, include meaningful comments IP5 Think
industry and academia. Through his research on product modeling, variant design, design-with-manufacture integration, standardized product data ex- change, as well as digital and virtual engineering he has made numerous contributions to the advance- ment of cross-disciplinary integrated design of complex engineered systems. At the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) he started spearheading research on Cloud-based Design and Manufacturing, now an emerging high-impact area in which he and his team stand at the forefront. A passionate educator, Dr. Schaefer also conducts research on design education, personalized learning, distance learning, and professional faculty development. His work has resulted in approximately 130
curriculum should emphasize their value and reinforce theirimportance in students’ future engineering careers4. Instructors who teach team skills, or whointegrate effective team practices into the design of projects, can set student teams up forsuccess, maximize their learning, and enhance students’ ability to work on teams in the future.Teaching these skills can be challenging however, which led us to create a brief research-basedvideo that integrates research and theory relevant to engineering student teams, from the fields ofengineering education and Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology, a field that studiesbehavior at work. The purpose of this paper is to provide a resource to educators who want tolearn more about the practices
, stimulate cross-disciplinecollaborations and serve all ranks. Faculty representing departments across the College eachcreated an at-a-glance ‘bio-board’, a one-page laminated pictorial summary of name, researcharea and current research project. Participants were divided into two groups positioned in pairsopposite each other on two sides of a long table and engaged in a controlled series of ten minuteresearch exchanges. The activity stimulated integrative and collaborative research conversations,built relationships across rank and disciplines, and resulted in the pursuit of collaborativefunding. Agency, national laboratory, and industry visits began in 2009. The COE Associate Dean ledfaculty on annual visits to funding agencies, national
in an era of digital transformation. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Bringing together engineering and management students for project-based Globalldeathon. Towards to Next-Gen Design Thinking methodology.IntroductionNowadays, we face a remarkable number of issues to be resolved as the world changestowards a post-COVID-19 future and an important range of opportunities to developnew approaches, expand new industries, and establish new realities. Seeking toaddress the issue of the changing post- COVID world disasters with very seriousconsequences, world-leading German academic institution, together with the marketleader in enterprise application software and
program.Ms. Mia Ko, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Mia is a 4th year undergraduate student studying Bioengineering with a minor in Material Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. On campus, she actively participates as an Engineering Ambassador: encouraging younger students’ interest in STEM related fields while changing the definition and conversation of what it means to be an engineer. Her research interests include motivation and STEM curriculum development and evaluation. She is very excited to be a part of this community and hopes to spark the interest of engineering education research within her peer groups and to return to education after industry experience.Balsam
University of Delaware. He has taught core and elective courses across the curriculum, from introduction to engineering science and material and energy balances to process control, capstone design, and mathematical modeling of chemical and environmental systems. His research interests include technology and learning in various incarnations: electronic portfolios as a means for assessment and professional development, implementa- tion of computational tools across the chemical engineering curriculum, and game-based learning.Dr. Allen A. Jayne P.E., University of Delaware Allen Jayne is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware. He possesses 28 years of