computer, mobile, and information technologies to advance healthy and successful aging in elderly and underserved populations. He has successfully led research projects in the areas of telehealth/mobile health (m-health), home health care technologies, personal health records, and design and development of biomedical instrumentation, including wearable medical devices. He is a recognized biomedical researcher with prior funding from NIH, NSF, FDA, Dept of Commerce, Dept of Education, Dept of Defense, and other organizations. He also serves on grant panels for NIH, NSF, FDA, and the editorial board of several engineering journals. Dean Tran has over 20 years of experience in academic administration, curricular innovation
©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025OverviewMakerPlace: An approach to culturallyrelevant pre-college engineeringeducation emphasizing the relationshipto place from a Navajo approach.What we’re sharing: Two culturallyrelevant technology, engineering, andarts (TEA) lessons freely availableonline at the included links.MakerPlace Objectives Codevelopment➢ Ignite engineering interest for pre-college MakerPlaces exist in diverse spaces, from learners. schools to community centers. Lesson are➢ Supporting workforce development and co-developed with local stakeholders in an entrepreneurship, across Navajo and iterative process of configuring materials
Paper ID #45868Can AI Develop Curriculum? Integrated Computer Science As a Test Case(Research to Practice)Dr. Julie M. Smith, Institute for Advancing Computing Education Dr. Julie M. Smith is a senior education researcher at the Institute for Advancing Computing Education. She holds degrees in Software Development, Curriculum & Instruction, and Learning Technologies. Her research focus is computer science education, particularly the intersection of learning analytics, learning theory, and equity and excellence. She was a research assistant at MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab, working on a program aimed at improving equity
research is centered on the integration of STEM concepts in K-12 and postsecondary. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Middle School Student Connections Between Engineering Contexts and STEM ContentAbstractIntegrated STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) curriculum can potentiallyincrease student motivation because it provides a real-world context, promotes learning, andstimulates “higher-order” thinking. Curriculum developers designed the integrated STEMcurricula for middle school students to utilize a problem-based learning approach in a science-focused lesson. Designers developed the curricula to incorporate STEM connections from allareas
Maryland, Baltimore County.Emily J Yanisko, American University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025ENGINEERINGROLE MODELVIDEOSABOUT THE PROGRAMTo address the problem of low algebra proficiency and limited engineering career awareness withinBaltimore City Schools, Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Educational Outreach developed theBOAST program – a strategy to extend learning time in afterschool or school day – and received fundingfrom the NSF (DRL-2005790).The Baltimore Online Algebra for Students in Technology (BOAST) program provides high schoolstudents (Grades 9-12) opportunities to develop mathematics mastery and confidence through analgebra-for-engineering, problem-based curriculum. The role
: Engineering Design: Problem Framing, Project Management, Ideation, Engineering Prototyping, Decision Making, Design Methods, Engineering Graphics, Design Practices Communication Material Processing: Manufacturing, Management & Precision, Fabrication, Classification, Casting, Molding & Forming, Separating & Machining, Joining, Conditioning & Finishing, Safety Quantitative Analysis: Computational Thinking, Data Collection, Analysis & Communication, System Analytics, Modeling & Simulation Professionalism: Ethics, Workplace Behavior & Operations, Intellectual Property, Technological Impacts, Role
Paper ID #37671Work in Progress: Broadening Participation in Engineering with the STEMExcellence in Engineering Equity (SEEE) ProjectTaryn Melkus Bayles, University of Pittsburgh Taryn Melkus Bayles is a Professor, Teaching Track, in the Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Depart- ment at the University of Pittsburgh, and serves as the Vice Chair of Undergraduate Education. She has spent part of her career working in industry with Exxon, Westinghouse, Phillips Petroleum and Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center (now NETL). Her industrial experience has included process engineering, computer modeling and control, process
. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21483[13] Gandhi-Lee, E., Skaza, H., Marti, E., Schrader, P., & Orgill, M. (2015). Faculty perceptions of the factors influencing success in STEM fields. Journal of Research in STEM Education, 1(1), 30–44.[14] Creswell, J. W., & Plano Clark, V. L. (2018). Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research (2nd ed.). Sage.[15] Ivankova, N. V. (2015). Mixed Methods Applications in Action Research: From Methods to Community Action. Sage.[16] Schwab, J. J. (1973). The practical 3: Translation into curriculum. The school review, 81(4), 501-522.[17] J. Grannetino, “Eighth graders empowering others with engineering,” Technology and Engineering Teacher, vol. 80, no. 4, pp
ASEE 2024 gi PCEE DIV En for Famil ies! RESOURCE EXCHANGE Natasha Wilkerson | nwilkerson@vivifystem.com Justin Wilkerson | wilkerson@tamu.eduHOST A STEM FAMILY NIGHT!A STEM Family Night is an evening of hands-on science, technology,engineering, and math activities for students and families to completetogether and works best
Engineering (Fundamental)Our society increasingly depends on computers and digital devices. Most of the technologies thatwe use daily—from toothbrushes to traffic signals to smartphones have involved computationaltools in their conceptualization, manufacture, or operation. Increasingly, many engineeredsolutions rest heavily on computational thinking (CT). This raises the potential of using CT ineducational settings. Carefully designed integration of epistemic practices and tools can fosteropportunities for engineering education to be more authentic, powerful, and inviting.Attempts to integrate computational thinking with engineering in educational settings arerelatively recent. Initial research in this area suggests that the integration of CT with
Louisville. His primary research focus is in Engineering Education, with highest interest in first-year (and beyond) engineering retention & the effects of value-expectancy theory on student persis- tence.Dr. James E. Lewis, University of Louisville James E. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals in the J. B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. is research interests include paral- lel and distributed computer systems, cryptography, engineering education, undergraduate retention and technology used in the classroom. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Reinvigorating Energy Teaching via Energy Research with
Paper ID #47083Developing Coordination and Organizing Skills in K-12 Students throughSystems Engineering Projects (RTP)Geling Xu, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach Geling Xu is a Ph.D. student in STEM Education at Tufts University and a research assistant at Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. She is interested in K-12 STEM Education, Engineering and Technology Education, Robotics Education, MakerSpace, LEGO Education, and Curriculum Design.Mohammed Tonkal, Tufts University and Kind Abdulaziz University Mohammed is a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering with a research focus on teaching
Subjects Male Female Total Science 0.105 0.042 0.021 Technology 0.191 0.208 0.421 Engineering 0.021 0.172 0.267 Math 0.190 0.266 0.139There were only a few significant entries (typeset in bold). It makes some sense that the Maleshad a significant change in response since most of the involved professors at the camp weremale. There were ample opportunities to see an adult male engineer who is successful and givingback to the community. For females, they may have felt (significantly) that they had gained arole model (or identified a
Accomplished Sub-Theme 4/Count Class Experience/16 X X Experts/5 Sub-Theme 5/Count Future Career/16 Teachers/9 X X Figure 1: Summary of the frequency of each sub-themeREFERENCES[1] E. Seymour, “Tracking the processes of change in US undergraduate education in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology,” Science Education, vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 79–105, 2002, doi: 10.1002/sce.1044.[2] R. W. Bybee, The Case for STEM Education: Challenges and Opportunities. NSTA Press, 2013.[3] M. A. Gottfried, “The Influence of
Paper ID #48809Integrating Art, Microcontrollers, and Social Awareness to Understand theLifecycle of Microelectronics (Resource Exchange)Dr. Cristian Eduardo Vargas-Ordonez, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Cristian Vargas-Ordonez is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines. He has a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University, a Master in Education from the University of Los Andes in Colombia and a Master in Science, Technology, and Society from the National University of Quilmes in Argentina.Yash Ajay Garje, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Yash is
Indianapolis. He and his coauthors were awarded the Wickenden award (Journal of Engineering Education, 2014) and Best Paper award, Educational Research and Methods Division (ASEE, 2014). He was awarded an IEEE-USA Professional Achievement Award (2013) for designing the B.S. degree in Engineering Education. He is a co-PI on the ”Engineering for Us All” (e4usa) project to develop a high school engineering course ”for all”. He is active in engineering within K-12, (Technology Student Association Board of Directors) and has written multiple texts in Engineering, Mathematics and Digital Electronics. He earned a PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University, is a Senior Member of IEEE, on the Board of Governors of the IEEE
), two researchers coded all of thedata from the 2022-23 school year, two researchers classified responses into four categories:“Engineering,” “Science, Technology, or Mathematics (STM),” “Not STEM,” or “None given”which included null and nonsensical responses as well as “I don’t know” [20]. A third researcherextended those codes to the 2021-2022 survey data; the question was not asked in 2020-2021.The results of the coding are shown in Figure 2.Figure 2: Distribution of professions: “What do you foresee as your desired profession?”Categorizing personasTo explore personas relating to desired professions and characteristics of feedback provided, welooked at correlations between the various variables we collected from students. We used the
, technology, engineering, and mathematics [and]curricula,” and “STEM curricular modules.” Additionally, researchers engaged experts in thefield to help identify qualified documents. In all, fifteen K-12 STEM integration curricular unitswere identified, downloaded, and stored in digital repositories. Table 2 provides a list of theunits, grade level, number of client letters included, and a URL to access the letters.Table 2. STEM integration curricular units with client letters used for this study Curricular Unit Grade Number of All units can be found at: picturestem.org, engrteams.org, & scalek12.org Level Client Letters Designing Paper Baskets
practiced in real-world settings, educators need to constructopportunities for youth to learn about the socially engaged nature of engineering. Educators canseek to create just and equitable classrooms by cultivating in teachers a critical consciousness ofsocial justice and its role in engineering (Shuster & Giesemann, 2021). This consciousness canbe developed by tying the interactions of classroom life (i.e., talk, texts, technologies) to largerissues of engineering in society. This involves the recognition that engineering is mediated by‘ideologies, beliefs about learning’ and is encoded in ‘representations, spaces and socialpractices’ of the learning environment and of the broader societal context in which engineering ispracticed (Gravel et
support breadth and depth in these topic areas. Research concepts and projects have alsobeen implemented in core and Advanced Placement science courses. This work presents theinfrastructure and methodology for successfully incorporating engineering topics such ascomputer vision, machine learning, virtual reality, and space systems into a high schoolclassroom. Additionally, college preparedness and matriculation into STEM-related collegefields is discussed.IntroductionImproving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) exposure andachievement in pre-collegiate settings has been a long time goal of the education field at a local,regional, and national level [1], [2]. It has been found that increased, consistent exposure toSTEM topics
-Centered • Students determine the scope of the engineering challenge and solve Design it by prioritizing the users' needs and other stakeholders. • Students physically construct a prototype and test it to solve the Design-Build-Test engineering challenge. Engineering • Students generate new technological knowledge by designing Science controlled experiments. Engineering • Students try to optimize the performance of an existing system. Optimization Engineering • Students analyze data and solve engineering challenge by developing Analysis mathematical frameworks. Reverse • Students
Paper ID #38089Barriers to including engineering education into elementary classrooms(Fundamental)Lajja Mehta, Tufts University Lajja Mehta is a Lead User Researcher in a Financial Technology company and holds a master’s degree in Human Factors from Tufts University. In her 15 years of professional career, she has dabbled in Education and Finance domains with the lens of user-centered research and design. She is passionate about learning how people interact with interfaces and making end-user experiences more intuitive and satisfying. She is particularly interested in leveraging technology for infusing STEM into early
Paper ID #41858High School Students’ Perspectives on Pre-college Engineering EducationCourses (Fundamental)Jialing Wu, Vanderbilt University Jialing Wu is an incoming first-year PhD student in Engineering Education at the Ohio State University. She earned her M.Ed. in International Education Policy and Management at Vanderbilt University, Peabody College, and also holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from China. Her research interests encompass international engineering education, pre-college engineering, as well as the application of quantitative methods and advanced technology in Engineering Education
(CS&E) Department was formed to support the growth ofcourse offerings at a small-sized, independent school for girls. Prior to the establishment of theCS&E Department, computer programming and robotics courses were taught by staff membersof the Technology Department. The staff members of the Technology Department wereresponsible for the school’s infrastructure, educational technology support, learning managementsystem, and in-the-moment tech support for students, faculty, and staff. In support of advancingSTEM opportunities for students and providing an academic structure to support thedevelopment of a robust computer science and engineering curriculum, the school allocatedhuman, financial, and space resources to establish the CS&
Outstanding New Faculty, Outstanding Teacher Award, and a Faculty Fellow. Dr. Matusovich has served the Educational Research and Methods (ERM) division of ASEE in many capacities over the past 10+ years including serving as Chair from 2017-2019. Dr. Matusovich is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Advances in Engineering Education and she serves on the ASEE committee for Scholarly Publications.Dr. Sreyoshi Bhaduri, ThatStatsGirl Dr. Sreyoshi Bhaduri is an Engineering Educator and People Research Scientist. Sreyoshi’s expertise lies at the intersection of workforce development, AI and emerging technology, and engineering education. As a Research Scientist in the tech industry, Sreyoshi leverages AI for mixed
Resourcefulness scored highest in Analytic and Reflectionscored lowest. Since Open-Mindedness refers to receptivity to new ideas and differentpossibilities, it makes sense that it correlates with Clout as it pertains to social status, confidence,and leadership. Open-Mindedness is vital to engineering because it signifies the drive totranscend one’s own assumptions, challenge the status quo with scientific inquiry, and generateinnovations that will expand disciplinary boundaries. Furthermore, Open-Mindedness isincreasingly important for a globalized world that relies on information technology and co-creation on various STEM initiatives [32]. Both Open-Mindedness and Clout require an abilityto manage diverse interests in a social setting. Visualizing might
stations would be a good investment based on the rate of consumption andreserves of natural gas [35]. As another example, Corum and Garofalo [34] focused on usingmathematical modeling to support middle school students’ understanding of engineeringtechnology applications. The engineering technologies included speakers, motors, andgenerators. Corum and Garofalo [34] designed the engineering task using the model-elicitingactivity framework [34], which is a pedagogical approach for teaching mathematics-basedconcepts that requires one to represent real-world situations mathematically. The engineering-based mathematics task allowed the students to draw on their knowledge of pre-algebra, algebra,and magnetism to develop a multivariable mathematical model
engineering to elementary school contexts, another barrier commonlyencountered is teachers’ expressed discomfort and unfamiliarity with engineering (insert TPD litreview citations). Many elementary teachers are content generalists, having significantpreparation in childhood education but lacking extensive preparation in science, math,engineering or technologies associated with STEM subjects [8], [9], [10]. However, this presentsa unique opportunity to create an equitable learning environment for students. Engineering isequally unfamiliar to all learners, regardless of their linguistic expertise, and to the teacher. Assuch, engineering is a promising discipline for adopting an asset-based pedagogy for multilingualstudents and a context where students
barriers for adopting engineering curricula in high schools: School, district, and state administrator perspectives (Fundamental). American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Virtual Annual Conference & Exposition.[8] Havice, W., Havice, P., Waugaman, C., & Walker, K. (2018). Evaluating the Effectiveness of Integrative STEM Education: Teacher and Administrator Professional Development. Journal of Technology Education, 29(2), 73-90.[9] Geesa, R. L., Stith, K. M., & Rose, M. A. (2022). Preparing school and district leaders for success in developing and facilitating integrative STEM in higher education. Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 17(2), 139-159.[10] Anderson, S. E
thinking into curricula to foster creativity, problem-solving skills.Dr. Corey T Schimpf, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Corey Schimpf is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at University at Buffalo. He is the Past Division Chair for the Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) for the American Society of Engineering Education. His research interests include engineering and human-centered design, advancing research methods, and technology innovations to support learning in complex domains. He has a PhD from Purdue University in Engineering Education.Dr. Carolyn S Giroux, Wentworth Institute of Technology Carolyn Giroux is an instructional designer at Wentworth