Engineering and Computing (SPECTRA) program is an NSFScholarship in STEM (S-STEM)(Award # 1834081) based out of Clemson University in SouthCarolina. The SPECTRA program focuses on aiding transfer students interested in anEngineering or Computing degree by offering scholarships, opportunity to form cohorts, andaccess to professional skill-building programs. The goals of SPECTRA are as follows: (1) to provide scholarship opportunities to low-income students who wish to pursue engineering or computing at Clemson (2) to build cohorts of transfer students to support their transition into Clemson while also allowing for the Advisors for Cohorted Engineers (ACE) Fellows program to aid in the
participation in engineering, teaching technology innovations, and engineering entrepreneurship, as well as EEE discipline-based topics such as energy-water-environment nexus and sustainable biomanufacturing. Previously, Dr. Zhang was a Teaching Assistant Professor of Engineering at West Virginia University and has successfully led and expanded their summer bridge program for incoming first-year engineering students called Academy of Engineering Success (AcES). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Institutionalization Challenges for an NSF S-STEM ProgramAbstractBased on the experience of an R1, public, land-grant institution, this complete evidence-basedpractice paper employs a
including Galileo and Hypatia Living-Learning Communities and the CEED Peer Mentoring program. Previously, Dr. Katey served as the Assistant Director of Stu- dent Success and First-year Experience at Siena Heights University located in Adrian, Michigan, where she played a pivotal role in creating an environment of success for first-year students. Her professional interests and research focus on the retention of underrepresented and underserved students. Dr. Katey graduated from Clarion University of Pennsylvania (Clarion, PA) where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Education (2007) and a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction (2010). In 2019, she grad- uated from Morgan State University’s Higher Education
include modeling, robust control, decentralized control, fault diagnosis, renewable energies, and machine learning.Alex BlinderDr. Mohsen Azizi, New Jersey Institute of Technology Mohsen Azizi is an assistant professor in the School of Applied Engineering and Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. From 2010 to 2013, he was an R&D engineer at Aviya Tech Inc. and Pratt & Whitney Canada Inc., Longueuil, Canada, where he designed and developed control and fault diagnosis systems for jet engines. His research has been focused on decentralized
Destructive Testing NDT of Bridges. Mahmoud Al-Quzwini, Ph.D. Mahmoud Al-Quzwini is a senior lecturer with the department of Electrical and Computer engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Communications Engineering (2008) and, M.Sc. (1998) & B.Sc. (1995) degrees in Electronic and Communications Engineering from Al-Nahrain University, Iraq. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Florida State University in 2010. His current research interests include embedded systems and engineering education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Introducing Spectral Analysis to Undergraduate Engineering Students Najjiya Almallah1 and Mahmoud Al
theoretical and simulation values and themeasured values obtained in laboratory provide a strong argument that for educational institutionswhere the cost of such equipment is prohibitive, the combination of theory and simulation yield avery effective alternative. In this work, the specifics of this course are explained in detail.1 IntroductionPower electronics involves the study of converting electrical power from one form to another, forexample, AC to DC or DC to AC. Applications of power electronics are wide-ranging,encompassing high power DC transmission as well as the powering of everyday appliances. Theintroduction within the last 40 years of efficient power supplies based on power electronicsprinciples has revolutionized the power industry
understanding of the components, that is, each organization’s culture andpriorities, and how – or if – they align for the success of the collaborative [4]. When cultures andpriorities are taken for granted, ambiguous, or interpreted differently by individuals acrossorganizations, misunderstandings or differential experiences can lead to issues arising in MTS.This is further compounded by individual team member’s experiences within the sameorganization [5].Project BackgroundWe created a multisector MTS to develop and implement a project funded by the NationalScience Foundation’s (NSF’s) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering andMathematics (S-STEM) program titled “Improving Access to Career and EducationalDevelopment (I-ACED) for Talented, Low
Third World Poverty in First-YearEngineering Capstone Projects: Initial Findings,” 2010 American Society for EngineeringEducation Annual Conference and Exhibition, paper AC 2010-197.15. G.P. Halada, “Integrating Humanitarian Values into First Year Engineering Coursework,”proceedings of the 2021 American Society for Engineering Education, paper 35336.16. C. Mitcham and D. Muñoz, Humanitarian Engineering (San Rafael, CA: Morgan &Claypool, 2010).17. K.M. Passino, Humanitarian Engineering: Advancing Technology for SustainableDevelopment, 3rd ed. (Columbus, OH: Bede Publishing, 2016); https://ece.osu.edu/humanitarian-engineering-book.18. C.L. Dym, A.M. Agogino, O. Eris, D.D. Frey, and L.J. Leifer, “Engineering Design Thinking,Teaching, and
, 2019[7] Yehudit, J. D., Belcher, J. Learning electromagnetism with visualizations and activelearning - Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnologyhttp://web.mit.edu/jbelcher/www/TEALref/Chapter8_Dori_Belcher_FINAL_8_12_2004.pdf- [Accessed Nov. 29, 2019].[8] Goodhew,p. Teaching Engineering - All you need to know about engineering educationbut were afraid to ask. The Higher Education Academy UK Centre for Materials Education,September 2010[9] Dori, Y. J.; Belcher, J.; Learning Electromagnetism with Visualizations and ActiveLearning. Visualization in Science Education. Models and Modeling in Science Education.Volume 1, 2005, pp 187-216[10] Du.X; De Graaff,E.; Kolmos, A. Research on PBL Practice in
, Beijing, China, in 2006 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He worked as an analog IC designer at Texas Instruments, Dallas, between 2011 and 2012. He was a Member of Technical Staff, IC Design at Maxim Integrated, San Diego, CA, between 2012 and 2016, and a Staff Engineer at Qualcomm, Tempe, AZ, between 2016 and 2019. In 2019, he joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University, where he is currently an assistant professor and Jack H. Graham Endowed Fellow of Engineering. His research interests include power management IC design, hardware security, and energy-efficient
. “Theliteral meaning of ‘skew’ is a bias, dragging, or distortion towards some particular value, group,subject, or direction” (Shanmugam & Chattamvelli, 2015, p. 89). If a sample is skewed to theleft, the responses cluster on the higher side, with the median higher than the mean; if a sample isskewed to the right, the responses cluster on the lower side, with the median lower than the mean(Ott & Longnecker, 2010). Skew values of zero indicate symmetric distributions, positive skewvalues indicate distribution tails that point to the right, and negative skew values indicatedistribution tails that point to the left (Minitab, 2023). On the other hand, “kurtosis measures therelative concentration or amassment of probability mass toward the center
this mini-unit’s essential question. The suggested prompt is as follows: It’s a hot summer day and the AC is out at your place (or you don’t have one). What are some things you can do to cool down the room you’re in? List both the actions you can take and try to describe how things in the room change as a result of your actions.After giving students time to recall, brainstorm, and jot down responses on their own, theeducator invites students to share their answers aloud, initiating a whole-group discussion. Theeducator (or a designated student scribe, if the classroom management structure provides forsuch a role) visibly records key details of student answers for all to see. One method tographically organize student
of interventions that continue this Freshman Year experience with Sophomore,Junior, and Senior Year Innovator Experiences, with an increasing portfolio of skills each year.AcknowledgementsThe authors express their gratitude to the participating instructors: Sandra Morrow, Erika Perez,and Michelle Alvarado, as well as the students involved in this project. Funding for this projectwas provided by NSF award 2225247.References[1] Brown, S. V. (1994) Under-represented minority women in science and engineering education. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service, 1994.[2] A.A. Fuentes, S. Crown, R. Freeman, Human Bone Solid Mechanics Challenge Functionally Graded Material Structure with Complex Geometry Loading, AC 2001-2056, ASEE 2008
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types of standards, how they were created, and how toeffectively find them through standards databases. The authors are excited to continue thecollaboration with the College of Engineering regarding standards education integration. Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference Copyright © 2024, American Society for Engineering Education 5References1. Harding B, McPherson P. What Do Employers Want In Terms Of Employee Knowledge Of Technical Standards And The Process Of Standardization? Assoc Eng Educ - Eng Libr Div Pap. Published online June 20, 2010:15.1364.1-15.1364.12.2
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business having failed toheed disruptive advances in computer technology, state funding for the higher educationinfrastructure in Massachusetts has continually been reduced [7] (this has become a country wideproblem for public higher ed for over three decades [8]), and our technical program graduateshave had to seek jobs from employers who might hire one or two people every several years dueto the nature of the area’s present industrial base. During the new millennia the overall growth ofthe community college system in Massachusetts was still in a growth mode which peaked duringthe early 2010s. The warning signs of a pending reduction in student count have been in aprediction mode (“the enrollment cliff”) for many years primarily due to declining
Several improvements were made over the years. Each iteration provided students with valuable “green” learning skills such as solar panel construction, solar panel types, solar panel interconnection, solar panel orientation, solar panel efficiency, battery types, battery characteristics, battery maintenance, PWM and MPPT charge controllers, data collection and power management.3.1.2 Alternative Energy Club By the mid-2010’s students re-branded the Solar Boat Club as an “Alternative Energy Club” and branched off into additional projects such as electric cars and portable solar generators. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Figure 5
layouts and power demands calculation, but the emphasis of the course is on hands-on laboratory activities with focus on troubleshooting. The prerequisite course is CircuitAnalysis DC/AC (ELT 100). The decision was made early on to emphasize design principles inthe course at NJIT, so while the two courses do overlap, the one at NJIT goes deeper into areasimportant for a PV system designer. The level of overlap between the two courses should notdeter students graduating from the ET program at CCM and continuing their studies at NJIT andtaking the “Solar PV Planning and Installation” course. Taking the two-course sequence wouldprovide a greater understanding of both operational aspects of PV systems, and the designconsiderations in the development
, “On Change III: Taking Charge of Change: APrimer for Colleges and Universities,” An Occasional Paper Series of the ACE Project onLeadership and Institutional Transformation, American Council on Education Publications,1999, https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED450621[4] M. Borrego, J.E. Froyd, and T.S. Hall, “Diffusion of engineering education innovations: asurvey of awareness and adoption rates in U.S. engineering departments,” Journal ofEngineering Education, 99(3), 185-207, 2010.[5] C. Henderson, A. Beach, and N. Finkelstein, “Facilitating change in undergraduate STEMinstructional practices: An analytic review of the literature,” Journal of Research in ScienceTeaching, 48(8), 952-984, 2011.[6] J.M. Williams, E. Andrijcic, S. Mohan, C. Margherio, E
new skills and connections, they must beutilized in conjunction with, or integrated, within existing coursework or domain expertise (Burrows etal. 2016). Other prominent researchers agree that teaching advanced content (e.g., programming, automa-tion, circuit design) as an elitist endeavor, instead of as a skill or an experience, is not in K-12 students’best interest (Sengupta et al. 2018; Wilensky and Papert 2010).There are many examples of K-16 students utilizing technology within computer science (Basu et al. 2013;Berland and Reiser 2011; Sengupta et al. 2015; Svihla and Linn 2012; Vattam et al. 2011). These prior com-puter science projects and researcher outcomes enables the continued exploration of computing in K-12settings by using
Educational Fair and the St Louis Science Center. These innovative educational modules developed have received nation-wide attention of general public. His recognitions also include the ASME Chao and Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (2013); the ICO prize from the International Commission of Optics (2011); an invited participant of the Frontiers of Engineering Conference by National Academies in 2010; the NSF CAREER Award (2009) and MIT Technology Review Magazine’s 35 Young Innovators Award (2008).Dr. John Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. John Liu is the Principal Investigator of the MIT Learning Engineering and Practice (LEAP) Group, which applies design principles to solving challenges to better
exchangestudents participated in the project efforts. Their contributions are acknowledged with thanks.Maryland Space Grant Consortium and the NASA MSTAR program have funded the synergisticAIRSPACES and DREAM project at UMES. Their support is gratefully acknowledged.Bibliography 1. Summer Exchange Internship Program Presentations ( July 31, 2023) https://md.spacegrant.org/2023-student-research-symposium/ 2. Nagchaudhuri, A., Teays, T., Chen, G., Bowden, M., Henry, R.C., Paper # AC 2010-1761: “Broadening Student Research Experiences through Summer Exchange Program Across Campuses”, Proceedings 2010 Annual Conference of American Society for Engineering Education, Louisville, Kentucky, June 20-23, 2010. 3. Nagchaudhuri, A., Zhang, L
. competency framework for professional training and development purposes. In the US, over the last twenty years, there has been a push understanding, the specific nature of the task, and the socialto improve the capabilities of market technicians in effectively environment in which they are situated. As a result, effectivelyservicing hybrid and electric vehicles. However, McDonald utilizing the ZPD can enhance practical skills training in(2010) highlights a need for more alignment between the various fields.current engineering and technology education framework andthe complex skill sets required by the evolving electric vehicle V. WHAT WILL
as fundamentally central to the problem-solving work of engineers (Matusovichet al., 2012; Poe et al., 2010; Wolfe, 2009). Second, when communication skills are disjointed fromtechnical content, there is often a void of context-specific communication discourse (Paretti et al.,2014), such as training mining engineering students to effectively communicate geotechnical riskswith the public (e.g., Conrad, 2009; Hadjigeorgiou, 2020; Noppé, 2014; Stewart & Lewis, 2017).In addition to these documented limitations of stand-alone technical communication courses, at leastthree major influences have contributed to an overall shift in engineering education towardembedding communication skills into core engineering curriculum. First, the ABET
, and ethical development,” InternationalJournal of Engineering Education, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 714–725, 2013.[5] T. Honor, J. Passow, and C. H. Passow, “What competencies should undergraduate engineering programsemphasize? A systematic review,” Journal of Engineering Education, July, vol. 106, no. 3, pp. 475-526, 2017.[6] R. Hannemann, “A simple set of report outlines and evaluation rubrics: What competencies shouldundergraduate engineering programs emphasize? A systematic review,” American Society for EngineeringEducation, 2010, AC 2010-225 June 20, 2010, pp. 15.1058.1 – 15.1058.475-526, 2010.BiographiesMADDUMAGE KARUNARATNE (M’92) received the B.S. degree in electronics & telecommunicationengineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
justice issues in New York City. His 2010 Ph.D. from Arizona State University was the nation’s first in sustainability. His research, which has been widely published, focuses on renewable energy systems and sustainable building strategies to reduce the negative impacts of urbanization.Gabrielle Grace Hershey, Illinois State UniversityDaniel Patrick Gibson ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Utilizing the Solar District Cup Competition as a Case Study for a Renewable Energy Capstoneto Enhance Students' Learning ExperienceA team of faculty and students at Illinois State University participated in the U.S. Department ofEnergy (USDOE) Solar District Cup Competition as part of their renewable energy
categories of normal/disabled; that is, differences are normal and should be appreciated anddeveloped, not minimized, and hidden (Cleveland Clinic, 2024). The medical model approach to researchand educa�on can be par�cularly problema�c for invisible disabili�es like au�sm, ADHD, dyslexia, andother forms of neurodivergence especially given that each neurodivergent person is unique and one-of-a-kind, meaning generaliza�ons and efficient bureaucra�c one-size-fits-all approaches are limited in theirusefulness (Berryman et al., 2015; Pesonen et al., 2020). Par�cipatory ac�on research (PAR) is oneapproach in which power is shared between the study par�cipants and primary inves�gators, self-reflec�on on oneself and one’s iden��es and power are required, and
the World Bank (2019) [1], the number of people without access to electricity suppliesdecreased from 1.2 billion in 2010 to 759 million in 2019. Electrification through decentralized solutionsbased on renewable Energy gained momentum. According to the same report, the number of peopleconnected to isolated mini electrical grids (called microgrids) doubled between 2010 and 2019, goingfrom 5 to 11 million people. However, there is still much to do. Through her presentation in TED talks,engineer Rose Mutiso (2019) [2] presents the problem and describes alternative solutions with theintroduction of sustainable electricity production (wind and solar) in the same communities.In Mexico, according to Energía Hoy (Servin, 2021) [3], there are more than