Paper ID #41608Board 278: Faculty and Staff Ideas and Expectations for a Culture of Wellnessin EngineeringMs. Eileen Johnson, University of Michigan Eileen Johnson received her BS and MS in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She previously worked in tissue engineering and genetic engineering throughout her education. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. After teaching an online laboratory class, she became interested in engineering education research. Her current research interests are in engineering student mental health & wellness
Paper ID #41052There’s a Textbook for this Class? Scaffolding Reading and Note-taking in aDigital AgeDr. Timothy A Wood, The Citadel Timothy A Wood is an Associate Professor in the Dr. Emmett I. Davis, Jr. ’50, Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering at The Citadel. He acquired a Bachelor’s in Engineering Physics Summa Cum Laude with Honors followed by Civil Engineering Master’s and Doctoral degrees from Texas Tech University. His technical research focuses on structural evaluation of buried bridges and culverts. He encourages students through an infectious enthusiasm for engineering mechanics
educational assessment best practices. She focuses on building and evaluating academic programs that promote inclusive excellence for all learners. Currently, Dr. Cullington serves as the Associate Provost of Academic Programs at Sacred Heart University. Previously, she was the Founding Co-Chair of the Honors Program at SUNY Farmingdale and Associate Director of the Research Aligned Mentorship (RAM) Program where she designed, implemented, and evaluated academic programs to engage students from historically minoritized communities in undergraduate research opportunities. She has served as a principal investigator and educational researcher on number grant initiatives, including grants from the National Science Foundation
Paper ID #43830Evaluating the Impact of Teaching Undergraduate Engineering Students Strategiesto Become Leaders in Diverse EnvironmentsDr. Renee M. Desing, University of Washington Dr. Renee Desing is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington. Her research interests include diversity, equity, and inclusion in the engineering classrooms and workplaces. Dr. Desing graduated from Ohio State with her Ph.D. in Engineering Education, and also holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a M.S. in Industrial Engineering and
-2013), and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Clemson University (2013-2014) and the University of Florida (2014-2016). His research focuses on human-centered computing, computer science education, social computing, and broadening participation in computing. Dr. Dillon has received >$750k in research funding and awards from external agencies and non-profit organizations, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Maryland Pre-Service Computer Science Teacher Education Program (MCCE), and the Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU - CRA-WP). Dr. Dillon currently serves as a Co-PI for the STARS Computing Corps, which recently has been renewed for funding by NSF. He has also conducted a
tool to regulate engineering practice. Given the significant impact engineeringprojects can have on public safety, the primary objective of engineering licensure is to offerassurance to the public. To ensure public safety through licensure, engineers must meet theminimum competency level set by statutory regulations for their tasks. Furthermore, they mustadhere to a professional code of conduct while carrying out responsibilities [2]. Failure ofcompliance with the stipulations may result in subsequent disciplinary processes.Engineering licensure has a long history in the United States. States began to adopt engineeringlicensure statutes in the early 1900s, and it took approximately 40 years for all states to haveengineering licensure laws in
withleadership competencies, and leadership is best learned in an authentic context. Engineeringdesign and engineering leadership competencies overlap significantly, highlighting theopportunities that exist in teaching leadership explicitly in design courses. Teaching leadershipwithin the context of design projects is a relatively low-effort high reward practice that can helpchange the culture of engineering to one that encourages engineers to think of themselves and actas leaders in order to contribute even more to addressing the unpredictable challenges of thefuture.AcknowledgementsThe research team extends appreciation to Victoria Lanaghan for detailed review of this work.They would also like to thank the Center for Leadership at the University of
PsyD from George Fox University. She has taught, supervised, and mentored PsyD students for the past 10 years. She also provides therapy through her private practice. Her research interests include teaching and mentoring, assessment and management of suicidal ideation, trauma, grief, and integration of faith, learning, and practice. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Mixed Methods, Longitudinal Evaluation of Problem-Based Learning and Inquiry-Based Activities in a Heat Transfer Course and LabAbstractThis paper describes 10 years of pre/post assessment data from a heat transfer course taughtusing problem-based learning and an
Transactions on Education and Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning. He is also the upcoming Program Chair-Elect of the PCEE Division at ASEE. His current research interests include STEM+C education, specifically artificial intelligence literacy, computational thinking, and engineering.Xue Jia Xie, Singapore University of Technology and Design Xue Jia Xie (Clairea), a senior research assistant at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), is actively involved in Dr. Yeter’s Research Team, where she concentrates on STEM+C educational projects, engineering education, AI education, and computational thinking. Her work is pivotal in exploring how
cohort students for interacting with employers at the Career Fair; and 9. Industry tours to allow students to explore potential work environments they might enter after completing their studies.The SUCCESS Scholars cohort originally consisted of 24 students chosen from a pool ofapplicants that met the requirements of the S-STEM Program (low-income, academicallytalented). The goal was to combine best practices of other S-STEM programs together to providetiered support for the students using the nine elements mentioned above. The initial focus of theeffort centered around direct academic support (elements 1, 2, and 3 above). However, asstudents progressed further into their studies, the program’s focus shifted toward
of engineering fundamentals, to enhancetheir capacity for problem solving and communication, and to develop specific engineering-related skills. Here, we describe the efforts of a team of undergraduate students in creating asilicone venous valve model and experimental flow control setup, and in demonstrating the basiccapabilities of the overall experimental system. We describe the process of designing andbuilding the venous valve models and test setup and lessons learned by the students through thisexperience. In addition to providing invaluable experience for the students involved, this projecthas provided a visual demonstration of the function of venous valves, and provides a platform forfundamental research on the effect of venous valve
a discussionof the results. The paper will conclude with the major findings from this work and identifyavenues for future improvements of the proposed undergraduate research program.Structure and goals of the research programThe undergraduate research program (UGRP) for first-generation students is designed similar toa minority training program. The program comprised three components: a lecture series, aresearch experience, and a research conference. The program aimed to increase participation ingraduate enrollment among first-generation students and to motivate them to persist in STEMfields by pursuing a graduate degree. Thus, the research question can be stated as: • What is the impact on motivation to pursue a graduate STEM degree for
constructiveand productive way. This study gives an overview of simulations and games used to assistpedagogy and efforts at improving teamwork in design courses. This information is utilized todiscuss the implementation and effect of a pedagogical board game, "Teaming Tribulations."This game is intended to simulate the arguments that might occur within a design teamdiscussion in a zero-stakes environment. In Teaming Tribulations, students are asked to create aquick design in response to a simple prompt. They then share their designs during the judgment-free "Concept Generation Phase." In the next phase of the game, "Concept Selection andDebate," they must debate with their teammates to select the best design to submit for theirfictional group project
... trained engineering educators who pursue pathways alternative to faculty also add value to the community." Hoda Ehsan: "Diversity of positions brings in different perspectives... I see roles like mine who can translate [research] into practice and have a broader impact on the communities." Sreyoshi Bhaduri: "Non-academic engineering educators... can help close the research to practice cycle, but can also conduct their own research to help advance knowledge." Katie Nelson: "Giving students and ASEE members alike the opportunity to see these paths will open the door for them to try something new." Lauren Quigley: "Working outside of academia... I have designed and implemented the kinds of lifelong learning experiences... This
engineering education researcher and engineering educationpractitioner. This is a story that demonstrates how educational research (from engineering,social sciences, and beyond) guided educational practice at Wake Forest Engineering, as dideducational practice guiding questions and ideas that informed educational research (applied andfundamental). A guiding question in sharing this journey (and in guiding the author in her roleas the Founding Chair of Wake Forest Engineering) was and is:What strategies support a transformative engineering education experience leading to inclusion,innovation and positive impact for our students and our communities?This paper will focus on the work that impacted the student experience. Future papers will shinelight on
SBPs examined works published from the 1980s to 2012. Itfound a wide variety across various aspects of SBPs, including program curriculum,administration, and participation; [3] it also identified a lack of adequate research focused onidentifying promising practices for SBP design and implementation. Another review examinedliterature (including non-peer-reviewed literature) that had been published about STEM SBPsbetween 1992 and 2016, with a focus on program goals. [4] The authors identified 14 differentprogram goals, falling into three major categories: academic success, psychosocial, anddepartmental. Another review, published in 2023, focused on SBPs serving Native Americanstudents [5] and focused on identifying guidance; that guidance
Consortium. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.Dr. Bruce R Maxim, University of Michigan, Dearborn Bruce R. Maxim has worked as a software engineer, project manager, professor, author, and consultant for more than forty years. His research interests include software engineering, human computer interaction, game design, virtual reality, AIXiaohong Yuan, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Yuan is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at NCA&T. Her research interests include AI and machine learning, anomaly detection, software security, cyber identity, and cyber security education. Her research has been funded by the National Security Agency, the National Centers of Academic Excellence in
in research and innovation; (b) creating a new institutional structure thatintegrates one or more of the IotF areas and spans discovery research to product development;and (c) creating new modalities for ensuring the availability of a qualified, diverse IotFworkforce. This recommendation has guided multiple federal funding agencies, including NSF[2]. Texas House Bill 5 requires enhanced STEM content in high school curriculum as part ofthe graduation requirement [3]. Bill 5 lists four levels of high school advanced courses forgraduation: Foundation, Endorsement, Distinguished, and Performance Acknowledgements.Each level has an increasing level of course content in advanced STEM topics [4,5,6]. However,many high school teachers have not
Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering and a Donna Walker Faculty Fellow. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. She was elected to serve as a member and chair of ASME’s Design Theory and Methodology technical committee 2020-23. She is also a guest editor for IEEE’s Open Journal of Systems Engineering and associate editor for ASME’s Journal of Mechanical Design. She is the recipient of several awards, including a 2021 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers & Information in Engineering (IDETC-CIE) best paper award. Her research uses interdisciplinary collaborations to solve large-scale system problems
versions of the course were retention ofstudent success elements from UNIV 1201 and the inclusion of a collaborative designexperience.The primary goals of developing the GEEN 1201 course was to support freshmen andsophomore students in their transition to upper-level studies through development of knowledgeand skills. The desired impacts for the course were to: (1) provide a general introduction to keyskills so students have a platform on which to build as they enter discipline specific courses, (2)provide a guided experience related to design projects that are often part of upper level courses,(3) initiate patterns relevant to teamwork as engineering practice commonly involvescollaborative processes, and (4) reinforce commitment among engineering
State. He previously served as a professor and the Mechanical Engineering Department Chair at The Citadel. He previously taught mechanical engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the United Military Academy and his M.S. and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching interests are in mechatronics, regenerative power, and multidisciplinary engineering. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Design of an Aerospace Industry-informed Technical Writing and Communication CourseMany engineering disciplines recognize the need for cross
collegestudents to conduct research at NASA. It set the stage for our community college to be a partnerin a large Department of Education grant for open textbooks. That funded creation of over 60additional free and open textbooks now housed in the college commons on LibreTexts [43]. ByFall 2022, these OER books were used in over 1,000-course sections, impacting over 15,000students.Among the OER textbooks built are Introduction to Engineering for Engineers and Scientists[44], General Physics [45, 46] and Calculus [47]. To improve them we are currently buildingonline formative and summative assessment into the textbooks. Figure 3. General Chemistry for Engineers daily pageviews from Google Analytics.Following on the principles used in creating the
development of soft-skills and attributesvalued by the student and future employers or graduate schools. Mentors will also interact withscholars at CAM activities. They will submit documentation on these activities for assessmentand tracking progress. Faculty mentors also meet annually to discuss and review their efforts.The CAM Project Management Team will also investigate the impact of these mentoring andgroup-based activities on faculty workload. It is noted that each faculty member of the CAMProject Management Team will devote 1 month of his/her 9-month annual contract to thisproject.Peer mentoring is recognized as a best-practice strategy for promoting college student success(Collier, 2017). Undergraduate mentors may provide student-relevant
enter academia after graduation are incentivized to take a research-first career, though they likely would also be in instructional positions. However, some doctoralstudents go out of their way to gain experience as course instructors. This research project aims atunderstanding engineering doctoral students’ expectations, reflections, and concerns regardingtheir future in academia. To understand engineering doctoral students’ expectations, reflections,and concerns regarding future in academia, a survey instrument was designed with questionspertaining to participants’ expectations and concerns for a career in academia, interpersonalinteractions’ influence on their teaching preparedness, and help from their PhD program inteaching preparedness
identities to each course taken in a curriculum[12], [13]. As a result, the evaluation of student learning is confounded by the presence ofstudents with industry and intern experience (whether in engineering or not), making it difficultfor instructors to determine the baseline knowledge of students. Students without priorexperience with any of the five design factors may feel intimidated by, for example, thinkingglobally about how the design of water treatment facility in rural Nebraska is influenced byglobal factors and in turn has impacts on other countries across the globe. Subsequently,developing better methods to track and understand student comprehension of these five designfactors is a key step in determining how to best improve teaching
employ in the product development industry.Key practices that the instructors wanted to emphasize in the course included: research skills togain understanding of stakeholders, contexts, and constraints relevant to a problem; a focus onproblem finding & framing, rather than jumping right into a solution; developing divergentthinking to facilitate fluent and fruitful concept brainstorming; building communication skillsbeyond technical writing, to include visual communication and the importance of storytelling.This paper will share a review of literature relevant to factors surrounding a design mindset andhow a design mindset can impact design practice in the world of product development.Additionally, this paper will share benchmarking of best
Paper ID #43683Sketching Instruction in Engineering Design with an Intelligent Tutoring SoftwareDr. Hillary E. Merzdorf, Texas A&M University Hillary E. Merzdorf is a postdoctoral researcher with the Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation at Texas A&M University. Her research interests are in educational technology, spatial reasoning in engineering, and educational assessment.Ms. Donna Jaison, Texas A&M University Donna Jaison is a PhD student under Dr. Karan Watson in the Multidisciplinary Engineering Department at Texas A&M College Station. She is a Graduate research assistant at the
determinewhich style works best for each individual’s learning. This is emphasized by the fact that three ofthe five participants said they use different styles of note taking depending on the class, and allfive participants mentioned taking notes and trying practice problems as a primary form ofcognitive learning in Q2. To reiterate, if students were taught how to take notes, learningengineering concepts may be easier and lead to more students successfully completing the courseand thereby increasing the graduation rates.Q8: How do you use your existing knowledge when applying it in a new situation? What is theprocess/mental model you follow?This question relates to the third hierarchical level of the cognitive domain application, whichfocuses on an
, and A. F. Mckenna,"Development of the Engineering Student Entrepreneurial Mindset Assessment (ESEMA),"Advances in Engineering Education, vol. 7, no. 1, 2018.[2] L. B. Nilson, "Teaching at its best: A research-based resource for college instructors," 2nded. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2010.[3] E.H.J. Yew and K. Goh, "Problem-Based Learning: An overview of its process and impacton learning," Health Professions Education, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 75-79, 2016. ISSN: 2452-3011.[Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hpe.2016.01.004.[4] W. Mokhtar, P. Duesing, and R. Hildebrand, "Integration of Project-Based Learning (PBL)into mechanical engineering programs," International Journal of Learning, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 265-275, 2008
experience in mechanical engineering andengineering education research. All of the researchers are white women. The final author is anundergraduate student working towards a major in biomedical engineering.3.2 Data collectionThis study originated from a longitudinal case study looking at the general overlap betweenidentity and affect in the creating of engineering identity. This case study was planned to spanover students’ time in an engineering science program for four semesters; this work relies on thefirst two semesters of data only. Students in a first-semester engineering design class at a smallliberal arts university in the southern United States were given the option of participating in astudy by completing a survey and an interview. In