AC 2011-64: NSF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION (ATE)PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS GARNERING USEFUL INSTRUCTIONON DEVELOPING [PROJECT] EFFECTIVENESS (ATE PI GUIDE)Elizabeth T. Cady, National Academy of Engineering Elizabeth T. Cady is a Program Officer at the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE) at the National Academy of Engineering.Norman L. Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering (Washington) Dr. Norman L. Fortenberry is the founding Director of the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE) at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). CASEE facilitates research on and deployment of, innovative policies, practices, and tools designed to enhance
Paper ID #18592BRCC to LSU Engineering Pathway to SuccessMrs. Sarah Cooley Jones, Louisiana State University Sarah Cooley Jones, Associate Director, Louisiana State University College of Engineering, Student Ser- vices and Diversity Initiatives, joined the Office on a fulltime basis in 2009, and she develops and manages scholarships, fellowships and professional development programs for undergraduate and graduate engi- neering students. These programs include scholarships, seminar series and activities that develop the student academically and professionally so that students can persist in engineering, complete a degree
Paper ID #9209Integrating Sustainability Engineering into Second-Year CompositionDr. Connie Gomez, Galveston College Dr. Gomez received her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. She has worked in the areas of computer aided tissue engineering and sustainability at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is currently a member of Galveston College in Galveston, TX, where she is developing a new engineering program.Ms. Leslie Braniger, Galveston College Page 24.778.1
Scholarship Program continues to support the scholars financially andprovide critical support for their success. With this in mind, three scholars who were in theirthird year had their scholarships extended until graduation, and this was based on their academicperformance and funds available as a result only six of the ten new scholarships were awarded in2012-2013.The engineering majors represented by this cohort were chemical, civil, electrical, mechanicaland petroleum, and they entered LSU as transfer students in the fall 2010 or spring 2011semester. The scholars’ academic performance at selection (i.e. at the end of the spring 2011semester) was on average well above the scholarship criteria, and demographics indicate that theprogram attracted
understandingthat the university wanted to help the CCs with their recruitment and retention of pre-engineeringand computer science students and to assist their students with transfer only after they could gono further in their engineering studies at the CC.Representatives from ASU and MCCCD worked together for several months writing a grant forthe National Science Foundation. The primary objective of the project was to work together on aprogram to encourage more potential and actual CC students to consider engineering. The firstauthor had discovered through her research that of the engineering transfer students in Fulton,many of them had gone to a CC with no particular major in mind and had decided on engineeringor computer science after they had
Paper ID #14609Transforming Liberal Arts Graduates to Advanced Manufacturing Careers:The First CohortDr. Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University Ibrahim Zaid is a professor of mechanical, industrial, and manufacturing engineering at Northeastern Uni- versity. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Akron. Zeid has an international background. He received his B.S. (with highest honor) and M.S. from Cairo University in Egypt. He has received var- ious honors and awards both in Egypt and the United States. He is the recipient of both the Northeastern Excellence in Teaching Award and the SAE Ralph R. Teetor
sequence of courses in electromag- netics. He has presented at numerous local, regional, and national conferences and also internationally on telecommunications and wireless topics and on the status of the education of electronics technicians at the two-year college level. His current interests are: the development of novel and innovative systems- level approaches to the education of technicians, applications of the emerging field of wired and wireless networked embedded controllers and sensor/actuator networks, and cyber-physical system applications in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Teaching the Internet of Things
instructor were the satisfaction of helping students learnwhile also making a contribution to community improvement, and improved relationshipswith students. As a result of conducting this pilot project some valuable lessons were learnedand some new practices were successfully adopted. For faculty that may be considering theimplementation of Service Learning projects in their freshman engineering courses, thefollowing points need to be addressed: • Administrative support is crucial for the success of the project; • Emphasis should be placed on academic rigor; • Participation in faculty training offers a lot of help and numerous chances to network with other like-minded faculty; • Emphasis should be placed on quality over
2. Fundamentals of AC Electricity and Generation 3. Sine Wave, Period, Frequency, and Amplitude 4. Photovoltaic Cells 5. Energy Calculation, Efficiency, and Conservation Day 4 1. Geothermal article 2. Solar Cooker 3. Science of Electricity 4. Electricity in the U.S. 5. How Fuel Cells Work 6. Sustainable Minds 7. Post TestSummer 2011 Summer Bridge to Green Technology Day 1 1. Pretest 2. Introduction to DC Circuits 3. SNAP Circuits and Multisym 4. Tesla- Master of Light Video 5. Tesla questions.pdf Page 25.1210.16 6. Fundamentals of AC Electricity and Generation 7. Reverse Engineering Design
conducting this project some valuablelessons were learned and some new practices were successfully adopted. For faculty thatmay be considering the implementation of Service Learning projects in their freshmanengineering courses, the following points should to be addressed to ensure successfuloutcomes: • Administrative support- this is very conducive to the success of service learning projects; • Emphasis should be placed on academic rigor; • Participation in faculty training offers a lot of help of implementing service learning projects in engineering courses and numerous chances to network with other like- minded faculty; • Emphasis should always be placed on safety and quality at every step; • Publicity and
, June 2009. < http://www.asee.org/about-us/the-organization/advisory- committees/CCSSIE/CCSSIEE_Phase1Report_June2009.pdf >.2. Piechota, Thomas C. et al, Project-Based Learning in a Freshman Engineering Course: University – High SchoolPartnership. Las Vegas, Nevada, 2003.< http://faculty.unlv.edu/piechota/proceedings/piechota-asee-psw-2003.pdf >3. Bransford, John D., Ann L.Brown, and Rodney R.Cocking, editors. How People Learn: Brain, Mind,Experience, and School: Expanded Edition. Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning, NationalAcademy Press, Washington, D.C. 2000.4. National Research Council, National Science Education Standards, National Academy Press, Washington, DC(1996).5. McKnight, Stephen W., Michael
Paper ID #13572Increasing Success and Retention in Engineering and other STEM FieldsMs. Karen M. Groppi P.E., Cabrillo College Karen Groppi is an Engineering Instructor at Cabrillo College and California registered Civil Engineer whose work focuses on teaching and mentoring students through hands-on projects which benefit the campus community. She was co-PI on a five year NSF grant for recruiting and retaining students in STEM fields.Dr. Susan Tappero, Cabrillo College Susan Tappero obtained a Ph.D. in pure mathematics from University of California, Santa Cruz in 1992. She has been teaching mathematics and developing
growth, and long-term strategies to maintain and increase living standards, and promote opportunity will require coordinated efforts among public, private, and not-for-profit entities to promote innovation and to prepare an adequate supply of qualified workers for employment in STEM fields. (U.S. Department of Labor, 2007, p.1)In reviewing the work of Handel3 and a 2005 National Academies4 report, the team decided tofocus their activities on some these recommended approaches to a successful community collegestudent transfer process. With this in mind, the Learning Village Team felt that a key part ofsuccess in increasing the number of engineering students from a pre-engineering pool ofpotential transfer students hinged on
efforts of WSU juniors and seniors working on design projects and the annualdesign project showcase that WSU invites EvCC students to attend: A group of WSU BSME students won 2nd place in the 2015 ASEE National Design and Manufacturing Competition. The project “Carnival Time” by two ME students was a finalists and won 2nd place in the 2015 Young Minds Award competition with top honors based on the criteria: creativity, comprehensiveness, clarity of expression, and demonstration. WSU Everett Engineering Club was founded in spring 2013. Club students designed, manufactured and programed a Mars rover. The WSU BSME Mars Rover Team has been selected as one of the 30 teams from 7 countries (out of a pool
. Finally, if a person exhibits a physical reaction (e.g., sweaty palms, racingheartrate) to a task, these physiological states can lead to positive or negative changes in self-efficacy. We believe that a summer research experience can contribute positively to thedevelopment of each of these four factors and thus to improved self-efficacy for engineeringamong participants.With all of this in mind, the TTE REU Program was created with the goals of increasing studentself-efficacy and transfer rates of community college students into STEM. The program wasdesigned as an intervention for students so that they would have the opportunity to build theirconfidence in science and engineering with the goal that this intervention would lead to
desired into any two year curriculum, pre or post.Knowledge alone does little to motivate and prepare students to become true engineers,regardless of the specific field. This is an area where the two-year colleges could have atremendous impact with a clearly defined mission. At this level, they could be shaping broaderhabits of mind to prepare students to think like engineers without forcing them to select aspecialty at the beginning of their academic studies. This would be similar to other professionslike medicine, architecture, or law. The two-year engineering science programs should introducestudents to engineering principles and analysis, the engineering design process, and the variety ofengineering disciplines while covering the basic math
were consistent with the responses from 13Matusovich’s traditional aged participants. All students indicated that being an engineer was closely linked to being a problem solver and having the “engineering state of mind” which encapsulates all of these traits. The main difference between our participants and the prior Matusovich study was that none of our adult participants communicated any level of uncertainty about what it means to be an engineer. This can be explained by the fact that all of our participants had prior engineering work experience and had clearer conceptions of what being an engineer means. Furthermore, adult participants must have a passion to pursue engineering in order to
Paper ID #5924Development of a Multidisciplinary Summer Research Program for Commu-nity College Students in Science and EngineeringDr. Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Berkeley Dr. Sharnnia Artis is the Education and Outreach Director for the Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science, a NSF-funded Science and Technology Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She oversees programs to recruit and retain underrepresented students in science and engineering and science and also outreach to pre-college students to introduce them to the exciting career opportunities in science and engineering. Dr
learning module with legacy cycle can be further improved based on the student suggestionsfor the same or other engineering courses.Acknowledgment: This research was partially supported by National Science Foundation grant# EEC-0908672, Research Experiences for Teachers in Manufacturing for Competitiveness inthe United States (RETainUS). Page 25.60.11Bibliography1. McCook, A.“Two-Year Colleges Are Jumping Into the U.S. Research Pool”, Science, September 16, 2011, vol. 333, 6049, pp. 1572-1573.2. Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., and Cocking, R.R., “How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School”, Washington, DC: National Academy Press
AC 2011-2176: FACILITATING TRANSFER OF STUDENTS FROM 2-YEARTO 4-YEAR ENGINEERING PROGRAMSKevin Lemoine, Texas Higher Education Coordinating BoardJames K. Nelson, The University of Texas at Tyler Dr. James K. Nelson received a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree from the University of Dayton in 1974. He received the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in civil engineering from the University of Houston. During his graduate study, Dr. Nelson specialized in structural engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in four states, a Chartered Engineer in the United Kingdom, and a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is also a member of the American Society for Engineering
AC 2011-1620: EXPLOITING A DIFFICULT ENVIRONMENT: MATUR-ING A MODEL FOR AN ENGINEERING DEGREE COMPLETION PRO-GRAM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MULTIPLE COMMUNITY COLLEGESKenneth Wayne Santarelli, California State University, Fresno Dr. Santarelli received an Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership and an MBA from Pepperdine University. He received a B.S. in Engineering (Ocean Engineering) from California State University and is a licensed Professional Mechanical Engineer. He is currently employed by California State University, Fresno as the Director of the Antelope Valley Engineering Program located in Lancaster California. Dr. Santarelli retired from Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne in 2007 after 27 years working on a variety of
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Paper ID #11667A View From The High School/Two Year College Partnership Interface: OurBest Practices Employed In Engineering And Technology EducationMr. Dave Galley, Collin College Dave Galley (MSEE, MBA, BSEE) serves as the Director of Engineering for Collin College. Recently, based on his work and that of the Collin College faculty in STEM education, the Collin College Engineer- ing and Technology Department won the coveted 2014 Tech Titans of the Future University Level Award from the DFW Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC). In addition, through his work in higher education, he was selected to receive the
. • mind mapping • gathering information, building a prototype, and documenting • The 3-6-5 brainstorming, and the engineers Log. • 3-6-5 • This project really gave me an example of creative problem solving. It was very refreshing, • Making a survey so that we could figure out what the consumer needs the most. Once you know whats most important you can focus all of energy in that direction. • mind mappind and the 3-6-5 • the planing, and the testing phase • Documentation- it made it much easier to recall what ideas had been discussed, who was responsible for what, etc. Testing- this can be very inconvenient and time-consuming
Minority Participation:4. Hall, C., Dickerson, J., Batts, D., Kauffmann, P., & Bosse, M. (2011). Are we missing opportunities to encourage interest in STEM fields? Journal of Technology Education, 23(1), 32–46.5. Yildiz, F. 2013. Attracting Young Minds to Engineering Technology Fields with Mobile Renewable Energy Education”, Proceedings of the ASEE Fall 2013 Middle Atlantic Section Conference, University of District Colombia, October 11-12, 2013, Washington, DC.
often first discuss careers in general. As would beexpected, few in the lower level mathematics courses were interested in engineering, whilealmost all of the students in Calculus III intended to be engineers, while a few of these studentswere pursuing physics or mathematics. An effective message for many of the students in the lowlevel mathematics classes is to discuss careers. The students are asked about their career choiceand why they chose it. To open their minds to other possibilities, suggestions are made thatperhaps instead of a physical therapist, they might want to be an engineer involved in biomedicalengineering or environmental issues. Instead of being a pharmacist, perhaps the student shouldconsider Chemical Engineering and be able
also be able to serve as an incubator for best teaching practices. Previous attempts to recruitSTEM faculty to hold regular office hours in the Center have met with limited success, but anexpanded space may encourage more participation.ConclusionsWhat a large, urban commuter college like ours lacks for its students, especially its minority,low-income students, are nurturing spaces where like-minded students can work and interactwith their peers and faculty. Several researchers have found that minority students performbetter in college when they are integrated into a community where they feel as though theybelong (10), (11), (12). By creating a science and engineering “home” in the MESA Center, studentsare brought into a learning community with
attendees at a two-year and four-year assessment meeting concluded, “articulationagreements are necessary, but not sufficient, for seamless transfers of community collegestudents”.1 Instead, institutions must collaborate to enact effective and sustainable transferprogramming.ApproachWith these limitations and recommendations in mind, the College of Engineering teamed with Page 26.296.6the College of Education at NC State to develop initiatives targeting and leveraging NC CC’srole within North Carolina communities. The central objectives were to increase the awarenessand understanding of engineering among North Carolina residents and develop a
1 Enjoyed current program 1 Page 26.566.9 14 What did you like about the EDGE program? The Math and Engineering aspect 5 Learning new material/information 4 Group collaboration/Group competitions/Working with like-minded students 3 No Answer 3 Friday Trips
Paper ID #19048Developing a working 2-year/4-year research program: experiences from thefirst year of a collaborative ATE grant.Dr. Paul B Golter, Washington State University Paul B. Golter obtained an M.S. and Ph.D. from Washington State University. His research area has been engineering education, specifically around the development and assessment of technologies to bring fluid mechanics and heat transfer laboratory experiences into the classroom. He is currently a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Ohio University.Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie received his B.S., M.S