thermophysical systems. He also teaches a senior laboratory course that introduces principles of experiment design and small-sample statistics. Dan’s doctoral research involves use of catalytic ignitors to support combustion of water/ethanol fuel. Dan also manages the UI Small Engine Research Facility – helping students with the FutureTruck, Formula SAE, and Clean Snowmobile Challenge competitions. He received a UTC Student of the Year award in 2003 for his efforts. Page 11.12.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 A Case Study to Explore Learning during a
experience as a project manager in multiple building construction projects. Dr. Kermanshachi has con- ducted several research projects which were awarded by Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and Construction Industry Institute (CII). Dr. Kermanshachi has received several prestigious national and regional awards, including the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Professional Service Award, ASCE Excellence in Education (Ex- CEEd) Fellowship, Aggies Commit to Professional Student Educational Experiences, Graduate Teaching Lecturer Fellowship, and Climate Award. She was also the only academic recipient of the Texas and Louisiana Engineering News Record
subjects,Discover UC San Diego not only gives students the opportunity to experience a college course, italso allows them to explore different disciplines and gain confidence in their ability to pursuefurther study. While the courses offered through the Discover program are identical in learningoutcomes and rigor as the equivalent college course, efforts are made to provide additionalsupport to the high school students since, for many of them, this is their first online, college-levelcourse. It is widely recognized that online learning environments require self-regulated learning,which can be challenging for young students [3]. Research shows that embedding interactivefunctions into the design of these environments that guide students to
macroethical topics: sustainability and military funding ofuniversity research. Discussion of real and hypothetical cases tied broad ethical considerations tocurrent concerns of scientists and helped students develop ethical reasoning skills.Students completed online modules, wrote brief case analyses prior to each classroom session,and actively participated in class discussions. In addition to the Collaborative InstitutionalTraining Initiative (CITI) Program online modules in the Responsible Conduct of Research forbiomedical researchers (https://www.citiprogram.org/), the students completed the SoutheastRegional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infections' Online Training inEthical and Legal Issues in Biological Research (http
, J.S. (2014) Data First: building scientific reasoning in AP chemistry via the concept development approach, J. Chem Ed., http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed500027gAlice Chow, Rice University Alice Chow is an Associate Director for Research and Grants for the Rice University Office of STEM Engagement. She conducts research in K-12 STEM education on topics such as impact of teacher profes- sional development programs on student achievement and attitudes.Dr. Carrie Obenland, Rice University Dr. Obenland is the Assistant Director for Outreach and Research at the Rice Office of STEM Engage- ment. She as her PhD in Chemistry from Rice University, as well as her Masters. Her graduate work was focused on chemical
. Instructors place the students in 3-4 personteams for each project. Every team receives a graduate student mentor. A Capstone Designteam’s first step toward project success is the generation of questions for the project’s clientregarding project deliverables, objectives, constraints, and deadlines. After the teams and clientsmeet in the client interview, the teams have gained enough information to begin designingsolutions to the problem. The teams brainstorm ideas and sketch them with the assistance ofgraphics packages such as SolidWorks. After the teams fully explore the design space and gatherall pertinent information about their individual designs (such as cost estimates, productionfeasibility and ease of implementation) they present their ideas
engagement from apsychological perspective, engagement can be studied from a systems perspective (i.e. Pentland,2014) at a group level of analysis, with overlapping complex and adaptive interactiveengagement dimensions (Hilpert & Husman, 2015). Complex engagement refers to connectedgroups of students working together in multiple ways to solve problems. It involves effectivecommunication among students and capitalizing on each other’s strengths. Adaptive engagementrefers to student groups adjusting to problems spaces and exploring multiple competing ideas. Itinvolves the evolution of possible solutions to problems within student groups, where ideas areexplored and vetted for adequacy. Interactive engagement properties are emergent; they
Distinguished Alumni award, and other notable awards, in- cluding the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from SME, the Outstanding Teaching award from Pi Tau Sigma, and the Chairman’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Experiential Ed- ucation from the Cooperative and Experiential Education Division of ASEE. He is former vice president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and serves as an ABET evaluator for interdisciplinary, mechanical and manufacturing engineering programs. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Developing a Strategy to Include Financially Disadvantaged Undergraduate Students into Graduate
solving—efforts Page 26.616.4likely requiring cooperation and collaboration among diverse, international experts.primarily as one of having too few US students entering STEM higher education, the solution issimply a matter of making STEM attractive enough to interest students early on and keep themsufficiently engaged to apply to and enter STEM higher education programs: The hook is therebybaited.Interrelated with efforts intended to recruit more students (in aggregate) to STEM highereducation are concerns specifically over the lack of women and underrepresented minorities inSTEM fields. In both education policy and STEM
. Comparative case studies and analyses were introduced with breakout room discussion to help students comprehend the interplay among science, technology and the2Cultivating “global competency” in a divided world formation of world communities in various socio-political contexts.2. Prompt-based Interview: Students conducted three sets of prompt-based interviews with their global partners through which to exchange learning outcomes and detect biases and stereotypes in cross-cultural communication.3. PECE Digital Infrastructure for collaborative homework and research data curation: The digital archival platform PECE (Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography) was implemented in this course to facilitate epistemic
package it according to the specifications of this standard.Our research revealed that there are two categories of tools able to produce SCORM packages.One category is composed of applications that only package the content, leaving contentproduction to other applications (such as HTML editors, Adobe Flash, etc.). The second categorycovers the applications that serve a dual purpose, providing both means to create the content(e.g., editors) and the ability to package and export it to a SCO.Two objectives were considered when searching for available tools. First, we needed a tool thatwould help us bring the existing content online and allow us to create new content as wedeveloped the scenarios as well as collaborate among the design and development
Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, 01854 Abstract Balance problems affect more than eight million adults, and the percentage of balance problems increases with age. Globally, the population is aging, making balance problems a relevant topic of investigation. Balance impairments are the primary cause of falls, which result in debilitating injuries, especially for the elderly population. There is a significant opportunity for students in engineering and other disciplines to explore and contribute to research and education in this area. In this work, a group of graduate students from
was independent, their research goals were largely personal, that they most often workedalone, and they were not reliant on others especially when they had a good sense of their tasks.Commenting on the extent to which their work was interdependent, a graduate student workingin lab A acknowledged collaborating on experiments with outside members but also consideredtheir work as being primarily independent. Another graduate student from the same lab agreedwith this perspective and explicitly disputed the suggestion that work was collaborative. A postdoctoral associate who had been with the lab for upwards of 10 yearsacknowledged that lab members collectively valued independence in other lab members and thatthis was one of the goals of the
that critical aspects needed for successful COIL implementations involve:collaborative and cooperative teamwork efforts, motivation to learn from other students and othercultures, mutual respect, constant communication among instructors and students, and potentiallyassigning activities related to open-ended problem-based learning (PBL).As mentioned earlier, few cases of COIL studies in undergraduate and graduate engineeringstudies can be found in the literature. Among these cases, we can mention the work of Ripoll etal.[32], where a COIL activity for Bioengineering undergraduate students in online mode isdiscussed. The students were enrolled in a Biochemical Engineering course at the UniversidadFrancisco de Vitoria (Spain, Madrid). The authors
# 1914869) for an associated research study. She is, and has been, principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on multiple NSF grants related to computer science and STEM education. She integrates multidisci- plinary collaborative projects in her courses, to create immersive learning experiences that deeply engage students with a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. Students in her research lab are researching and implementing machine learning and collective intelligence algorithms, that harness the cognitive abilities of large numbers of human users to solve complex problems.Prof. Kim E. Pearson, The College of New Jersey Kim Pearson is professor of journalism at The College of New Jersey who teaches a range of courses
invites all OSU faculty andstaff (including graduate students) to begin or continue their social justice and equity journey.Topics include the historical and current social context (in Oregon and at OSU), locatingindividual identities within this context, micro-aggressions, and cross-cultural communication,among others.In parallel with the initiatives outlined above, OSU secured an NSF ADVANCE InstitutionalTransformation award in summer 2014. The overarching goal of the project is to serve as acatalyst for advancing the study and practice of equity, inclusion, and social justice for womenand others from historically underrepresented groups who are STEM tenured or tenure-trackfaculty. The 60-hour ADVANCE seminar is the centerpiece of the project
to students, and to increasestudents’ interest and participation in geophysical science as an option for STEM careerdevelopment. Students normally begin the program with preparatory academic year researchtraining, and then proceed to undertake research projects and write project reports through anintensive summer REU program. Students are encouraged to present their research results atregional and national undergraduate research conferences. Currently, there are six undergraduatestudents and one graduate student participating in our geophysical research training program.The program is expected to grow.The paper is organized as follows. We discuss some of pedagogical issues and challenges relatedto the development of such a program in Section
in engineering such aswomen and ethnic minority students. The authors suggest that future research should includethe re-development of the social engagement concept to reflect distinguishing characteristics ofengineering fields.Introduction During the last two decades, the retention and academic success of engineering studentshas emerged as a major topic for discussion among policy makers and researchers in highereducation. However, the current record of engineering student retention and graduation doesnot suggest a positive outlook. Based on the most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsprojections 1, the demand for qualified engineering graduates will grow 11% between 2008 and2018, yet the number of engineering graduates remained
and computer engineering students. Employing a basicBiCMOS voltage follower, groups are required to conduct circuit-level reliability assessmentsholistically, tasking students with quantifying the interaction among devices under operation,estimating the degradation of individual components, and proposing strategies to mitigatepotential reliability risks. For the team project, electrical and computer engineering students willbe charged with evaluating an assigned circuit on a schematic-level and simulating the circuitoperation, and mechanical engineering students will undertake thermal and mechanical analysesto account for localized Joule heating and its implication on the electrical and mechanicalintegrity of the circuit. Collaboratively
manygraduates working in the mining sites9, there is an urgent need to help engineering students learnto see the world through new eyes, those of their own Indigenous people. A further criticallyimportant reason for bringing in social and environmental issues has been an awareness thatfemale students are increasingly interested in technologies, which seem relevant and beneficial tosocieties10. As early as 1989 it was recognised that approaches which were more appealing towomen encouraged interaction, cooperation and trust, connected, holistic thought, joined feelingand thinking, and had an increased focus on social responsibility11.Social responsibility (often “corporate” social responsibility or CSR) is a term frequently used inthe current economic
Paper ID #43698Developing KSAs in Engineering Capstone Students (WIP)Ms. Maryann Renee Hebda, Baylor University Maryann R. Hebda, M.S., is a doctoral student in the Educational Psychology Department at Baylor University. Prior to relocating to Texas, Hebda taught elementary and middle school special education, gifted education, and STEM for 13 years. Her current research explores integrated STEM talent development and achievement motivation in twice-exceptional and advanced learners.Morgan R Castillo, Baylor UniversityTracey Sulak, Baylor University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024
forengineering and computer science graduates, began focusing heavily on student successinitiatives in 2004 with support from the Engineering Schools of the West Initiative, through theWilliam and Flora Hewlett Foundation. This first wave of initiatives was critically assessed, andengineering student success became a focal point for the CoE. Internal research conducted underthis grant exposed numerous roadblocks that impeded students' academic success. In 2010,another large grant, funded through the National Science Foundation Science Talent ExpansionProgram (STEP), was awarded to increase the numbers of students graduating with STEMdegrees. This grant engaged an interdisciplinary, cross-college team of STEM educatorspassionate about continuous
. Trinidad Sotomayor, Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile Trinidad is an Engineering Design Master Student at Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile (UC). She owns a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering with a major in Design and Innovation. At DILAB (UC), the engineering design initiative, Trinidad has been working as a researcher in topics regarding engineering education such as entrepreneurship, epistemologies and minorities, among others. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Work in Progress: Developing a more comprehensive instrument to assess theentrepreneurial mindset of engineering studentsAbstractThis is a Work in Progress: Goals of becoming more entrepreneurial have
AC 2012-3131: DO STUDENTS DREAM BEYOND LEDS? INNOVATIVEQUALITIES OF IDEAS GENERATED BY FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERINGSTUDENTSNicholas D. Fila, Purdue University Nicholas D. Fila is a doctoral student and graduate research assistant in the School of Engineering Educa- tion at Purdue University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois. He has published conference papers on cooperative learning and team innovation. His research focuses on teamwork, innovation, and laboratory education.Dr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette Senay Purzer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education and is the Director of Assessment Research for
with graduate and undergraduate students) and directed large scale projects in engineering education research. He is the founding editor for the Journal of Pre- College Engineering Education, co-editor of the book ”Engineering in Pre-College Settings: Synthesizing Research, Policy, and Practices” and ”Technology Education Today: International Perspectives” and co- lead author of Hands-on Standards STEM in Action, an award winning internationally available set of learning modules for grades preK - 5th grade published by ETA hand2mind and LearningResourcesUK.Prof. Suzanne – Burgoyne, University of Missouri Suzanne Burgoyne, Ph.D., is a Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of Theatre, and Director of MU’s Center
thanhalf (57%) of students perceived increased knowledge of sustainability, and more specifically,sustainability as it related to food waste. More than half (57%) perceived greater awareness ofthe connections among sustainability, engineering problem solving and biodigester technology.Student responses strongly indicated that they enjoyed learning about the biodigester and how itworks (64%) and how the effluent produced in the biodigester could be sustainability repurposed(29%).VI. Conclusions and ImpactsThis study aligns to key characteristics of education for sustainable development [19] while alsoenhancing students’ knowledge of the ways in which engineering can be used to solveenvironmental problems [6]. The collaboration between researchers
educations and explore how misalignments betweenuniversity and workplace practices impact preparation and retention.This paper presents recent research results on the engineering student learning experience fromthe multiple campuses involved in the study. These summarized results—from the students'perspective(s)—present initial conclusions about significant themes. In the longer run, thesethemes will be synthesized across the results of this large study. Among other ideas, theseresults question the veracity of the pipeline metaphor that has been used to describe students’navigation through their education. The “leaky pipeline” metaphor has also been questioned byothers, including Watson and Froyd26 recently, who are calling for an alternative view
program, funded by the National Science Foundation in order to expand international research opportunities for students in STEM fields. NanoJapan was recognized by the Institute for International Education in 2008 with the prestigious Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovations in Study Abroad. Dr. Matherly is the recipient of two Fulbright grants for international education administrators (Germany and Japan.) She has a BA in English and Political Science from the University of New Mexico, an MS in Education from Indiana University, and an Ed.D. in Education from the University of Houston. She teaches in the graduate program in education at The University of Tulsa.Dr. Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh Dr
nor librarians are mentioned in this paper.Hora and Lee explore the teaching needs of faculty, specifically those in STEM, that haveindustry experience in their Wisconsin Center for Education Research working paper [28]. Thepaper found that industry experience in science, engineering, and technology fields was highlydesired by colleges and universities for teaching positions for several reasons, but chief amongthem, for the “cutting-edge training” they could provide students. While the paper looked atSTEM faculty, it chose to focus on how those faculty with industry experience taught theirstudents cognitive, intra-, and interpersonal skills. Again, since this paper focused on teachingtheir students about skills not related to library research
Science and Technology (JUST ) in Jordan. Besides, Mohammad also has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Al Yarmouk University in Jordan. Complemented with his educational degrees, Mohammad has more than four years of teaching experience at Najran University, Saudi Arabia. Mohammad was also working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) for 2.5 years at Oklahoma State University. Currently, Mohammad is working toward getting his Ph.D. degree from the Engineering Education Department under Professor Kurt Becker’s supervision and is doing Engineering Education research that focuses on academia-industry collaborations for Electrical and Computer Engineering graduates.Kurt Henry Becker (Engineering Education Professor