engineeringprograms, especially between the freshman and sophomore levels. A semester-long research anddevelopment experience can aid undergraduate mechanical engineering students in gaining andreinforcing skills critical to success in their programs. The research opportunity presented to twofirst-year mechanical engineering students at the University of Wyoming introduced them toengineering concepts such as coding, and project management as well as reinforcing conceptslike physical production. The student-researchers were given firm deadlines to design andproduce a wearable badge for a “GenCyber” summer camp sponsored by the NSA. The badgeneeded to harbor a programmable micro-controller in the form of a Microbit, an exchangeablenametag, and a functioning
principles.Keywords: Backward Design Process, Course Design, Outcome Based Learning, Statics.I. INTRODUCTIONA. Setting for the Curriculum ProjectThe specific setting for this curriculum project is outlined as follow:1. Salient characteristics of the institution or sponsoring organizationAs described by Anand (2005), " Engineering Mechanics - Statics is a core course in most of theengineering disciplines, and is generally taught by a civil and/or a mechanical engineeringfaculty at the nations' ABET accredited colleges and universities" (p.1). The institutional settingfor this course is also considered an ABET accredited engineering college that offersundergraduate degree programs for civil engineering and/or mechanical engineering students.This course is not
courses.Dr. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Experimental evidence regarding gendered task allocation on teamsAbstractStudent teams negotiate many aspects of collaboration, including task division on teams. Somestudies
mentoringexperience.YOU’RE@CU, now entering its third year of operation at the University of Colorado Boulder,pairs graduate students with 1st or 2nd year undergraduate engineering students to conductresearch. The undergraduate mentees, or novices, benefit from exposure to a research communityand the process of doing real cutting-edge engineering research, while the graduate studentmentors benefit from the experience of being a mentor, defining a project and guiding a noviceengineer through the ups and downs of doing research.Participating undergraduates enroll in a one-credit course which includes a weekly seminar on Page 23.146.3the fundamentals of research, like
collaborates with faculty on the Scholarship of Teach- ing and Learning through various research projects. Particular current areas of collaboration include instructional design, evaluation, engineering education and learner support. In addition, Dr. Jackson is an Affiliate Faculty in Penn State’s Higher Education Department.Prof. Karl R Haapala, Oregon State University Dr. Karl R. Haapala is an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University, where he directs the Industrial Sustainability Laboratory and is Assistant Director of the OSU Industrial Assessment Center. He received his B.S. (2001) and M.S. (2003) in Mechanical Engineering, and his Ph.D. in
programs or assist in the enhancement of existing programs. To gain a greaterunderstanding of mentoring, a subset of interviews from the SPRITE (Student Perspective onResearch Identity and Transformation of Epistemology) project, a larger research project aboutundergraduate students’ experience in research, were analyzed and coded in relation to the topicof mentoring. The larger project focused on the identities and epistemologies of undergraduateresearchers, but various data collection measures, allowed for information regarding mentorshipin undergraduate research to also be collected. By reviewing the mentorship informationcollected in the large study, we were able to develop a deeper understanding of three pillars ofmentorship, including
Page 23.580.2describes the structure of the EnSURE summer program, which was the broader context for thisstudy, and the process of developing the self-study.Summer Program Structure and Prior ResearchEnSURE is a 10-week program coordinated by the College of Engineering at MSU. Applicationsare open to undergraduates from any major and institution, and at any level of experience, with a3.20 minimum GPA. Faculty members submit a brief research project proposal and select theirown research assistant from the applicant pool. During EnSURE, students engage in full-time,faculty-mentored research in one of six Engineering departments. In addition, students participatein weekly professional development seminars designed to help them prepare for
-M in 2003 and served as its Director for 12 years. Prior to joining U-M, Dr. Finelli was the Richard L. Terrell Professor of Excellence in Teaching, founding director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Kettering University. Dr. Finelli’s current research interests include student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices, the use of technology and innovative pedagogies on student learning and success, and the impact of a flexible classroom space on faculty teaching and student learning. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering education research, and she was part
“… the innovations developed and put in place will wither after Responses selected for managers etc. (n = 19) Creating new knowledge within authentic projects the funding is exhausted. In the immediate future I think is, how final analysis (n=111) Note. Results based on N=111, D&I = Diversity and Inclusion • Groundwork to initiate a ways of thinking framework are we going to keep this stuff going when funding is
understanding of informed design (pilot)funded research project, Collaborative Research: Large-Scale Research on Engineering Design Based on Big • Developed a protocol to assess students’ level of reflectivity • Conceptions of Design Test to assess
change agents who are their own models of change. These Changemakersare university and college educators, administrators at educational institutions and governmentagencies, philosophers, and educational consultants. These Changemakers have participated inreforming engineering education policy in government and educational institutions, expandingand exploring new scientific fields, and initiating engineering service programs andenvironmental policy. Each of the authors had our own reasons for participating in the project. For some it wasan opportunity to learn how to conduct qualitative research; for others the topic itself wascompelling. Through iteratively reading and discussing these transcripts, we are learning aboutthese Changemakers
curriculum development project. This reflection was guided by three overarchingquestions: 1) how were theoretical course concepts applied in the development of a newgraduate-level online engineering course, 2) what were the challenges in developing this course,and 3) what lessons were learned that will aid in the development of future courses? Thesequestions were answered by examining the contributions made by different bodies of literature,and how these were synthesized during the development project. This paper is intended toprovide graduate students new to curriculum development with insights on the process andchallenges of developing their first course. II. Contributions of CAP Course and LiteratureThe CAP course was
in makerspaces. This study is in the preliminarystages of developing such a tool.A university makerspace is where students may create personal projects, prototype ideas, orwork on class assigned projects by utilizing resources such as 3D printers, laser etchers, CNCmachines, sewing machines, embroiderers, vinyl heat-press, and other tools/crafting machinery.While these kinds of machines are not inherently gender/racially biased, the use of facilitiesnationally is not equally demographically balanced and supports data depicting a user dominanceof “affluent males” [5]. One hypothesis is that the gender imbalance could be due to ambientidentity cues that do not accurately portray a fully representative population [4]. With theunveiling of a new
liberal arts specialization;and at least 4 LSE courses: two on project-based learning, a senior project course, and acapstone.As of Fall 2014, over 34.5% of the 55 LSE total graduates are women. Eighteen of these 55alumni graduated with an engineering concentration that included at least 4 quarters of theintroductory computer science sequence (CSC 123, 101, 102, and 103) – and thus, for thepurposes of this paper, function as a comparison group to the computing disciplines at CPSU andnationally. Of these eighteen LSE-computing disciplines alumni, seven, or 38.9%, are women. Page 26.1095.2Why this difference? One explanation is that LSE is a small
research project, of which this resumeintervention is a component. Students were told completing the research participation and releasedocuments were completely voluntary and any information gained from their data would be usedto support and improve future students' experiences.The “initial” resumes from the application materials for these 26 rising seniors were scored from0 to 5 according to the following points: 1 point if the resume included information about the student’s educational background 1 point if the resume focused exclusively on post high school experiences 1 point if the resume did not include a separate objective section 1 point if the resume was less than two pages and divided into understandable sections
Paper ID #27655Work in Progress: Education Beyond Borders – Efforts of a Student Chapterto Foster Education and Promote Academic Excellence in STEM FieldsMiss Keyshlan Karinn´e Aybar Mart´ınez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Keyshlan K. Aybar Mart´ınez is a 6th year Mechanical Engineering Student. Pursuing also, a minor in Project Management and Aerospace Engineering. Also, this year she is the President of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) increasing the membership by 33%. The last year she was the fundraising leader of the ASEE. Had experience in the industry as Test Engineering in UTC Aerospace
sanish.rai@mail.wvu.edu c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020IntroductionThe purpose of this research is to develop mobile application using innovative AugmentedReality (AR) technology for interactive study content targeted towards middle school and highschool grades. By using the developed AR application, students will be able to learn aboutdiverse science topics more efficiently and visually. The AR mobile application allows the userto project a 3D (3-Dimensional) AR model of science topics on a real-world surface (such as atable or a piece of paper). The users will be able to interact with the model as if it existed outsideof the mobile application using touch interfaces. Visual information helps us to
offered, demanding engineering curriculamake the individual student planning of enrichment activities, and the tracking of overall studentsuccess, a project of its own.To complement and support academic and college-level enrichment program for engineeringstudents at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), we implemented a new approach forfollowing and recording student participation and performance in curricular and non-curricularactivities that are relevant to their engineering education. We developed and implemented anautomated on-line portfolio for engineering students that is personalized to each student andcontains a full record of all courses, activities, and achievements throughout their undergraduateyears. The IIT engineering
aspect to the successful performance of student teams is communication. Student teamsnegotiate many aspects of collaboration, including deadlines, meeting times, and expectations.Previous works have found that the different meanings which people place on commonly usedwords or phrases often lead to miscommunications in the professional workplace. It is unknown,however, how this situation translates to the collegiate setting, specifically on team-basedprojects, the manners that this could potentially affect the progress of the students, and if thereare any differences in interpretation of these phrases that are along demographic lines. In thisstudent-directed project, participants (n=119) of varying technical backgrounds were surveyed asto their
Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios. She is also one of the faculty innovators behind Tandem, a tool to support teams with equity in teamwork. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Proof of Concept: An Algorithm for Consideration of Students’ Personalities in Team FormationAbstractTeam-based pedagogy is common across engineering
a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching in- terests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the de- velopment of engineering education assessment tools. She is a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career (CAREER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).Prof. Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette Heidi A. Diefes-Dux
sets rather than collecting new ones, if these datasets are adequate to answer the research questions being asked.” (p. 351). Economical refers totime and resources that researchers save. Ethical refers to respecting the time and resources ofothers required in collecting large data sets. The former point is particularly relevant to graduatestudents, as they are typically more constrained by both time and resources in their researchagendas.BackgroundHere we present how three researchers used one large data set (that included both qualitative andquantitative data) to meet their own qualitative research needs. First, we describe the originalresearch project associated with this data set, as well as the breadth of data within the data set.The
Brian Self obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah. He worked in the Air Force Research Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Brian has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory, developing model-eliciting activities in mechanical engineering courses, inquiry-based learning in mechanics, and design projects to help
projects. However,additional professional development activities require faculty advisors and students tostrategically seek opportunities that develop other skills required of faculty members liketeaching, course design, assessment, proposal writing, collaboration, and more. In addition, dueto programmatic requirements, there is limited time and space for graduate students to explore“who they are” and “who they want to be” as a future faculty member. This paper is anautoethnographic account of my, a current engineering education graduate student, professionalidentity development as an up-and-coming engineering education faculty member during avisiting scholar experience.This paper investigates the impact of the Rising Engineering Education Faculty
Paper ID #16130Engineering Success: Delivering Your Ph.D. on Time, on Budget, and Readyfor Your CareerDr. Rebecca M. Reck, Kettering University Rebecca M. Reck is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University. She completed her Ph.D. in systems and entrepreneurial engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign in 2016 and her master’s degree in electrical engineering at Iowa State University in 2010. During her eight years at Rockwell Collins as a systems engineer, she contributed to the development of the new ProLine Fusion Flight Control System and served as the project
Department Head for Graduate Programs in Vir- ginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 8 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and intersections of motivation and learning strategies. Matusovich has authored a book chapter, 10 journal
NSF RED Project focused on competency- based learning modules for sophomore aerospace engineers.Dr. Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University Dr. Kristi J. Shryock is the Frank and Jean Raymond Foundation Inc. Endowed Instructional Associate Professor and Associate Department Head in the Department of Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. She also serves as Director of the Craig and Galen Brown Engineering Honors Program. She received her BS, MS, and PhD from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M. Kristi works to improve the undergraduate engineering experience through evaluating preparation in areas, such as mathematics and physics, evaluating engineering identity
research projects to understand student learning in engineering problem-solving and design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Writing in the Disciplines for Engineers: Implementation and Assessment of Student Learning Jordan Trachtenberg Department of Bioengineering, Rice
their teaching on the expertise gained from the academic context where theywere educated and industry environment where they have worked. Even in current day UnitedStates, professions like structural engineering have fewer female and minority industry leadersthan those that are White Caucasian male [1], and the same follows for academics in this field.As a result, many faculty members have limited exposure to the notable published works,projects, and other contributions of under-represented individuals to share with students.Historically, entry to professions in the built environment have been riddled by barriers due togender, race, and class. This continues to negatively affect not only the number of women andminority students who choose to
work considers the intentional and unintentional consequences of durable struc- tures, products, architectures, and standards in engineering education, to pinpoint areas for transformative change.Dr. Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder Malinda Zarske is a faculty member with the Engineering Plus program at the University of Colorado Boulder. She teaches undergraduate product design and core courses through Engineering Plus as well as STEM education courses for pre-service teachers through the CU Teach Engineering program. Her primary research interests include the impacts of project-based service-learning on student identity - es- pecially women and nontraditional demographic groups in engineering - as