++ installed in the laboratory, more advanced software utilities can be developed by the students for subsequent courses and design projects. Furthermore, this compiler was chosen since Microsoft Visual C++ object code can be linked with the NI-DAQ software library7 to access the Lab-PC-1200 DAQ card functionality. In this manner, data acquisition and digital control applications can be written in C++, with low-level sampling and data transfer handled by the NI-DAQ utility functions. Although Microsoft Visual C++ was selected for use in the laboratory, Microsoft Visual BASIC and Borland C++ can also be used to control the Lab-PC-1200 card via the NI-DAQ library.2. The NI-DAQ software library is a set of compiled functions which handles
, participants noted that projects were the hardest part ofthe course due to their size relative to their other assignments. One participant stated, “We wouldhave like after every week on Sunday, we would have these little Python activities we had to dothat were like two lines long. But then we would have projects that were like 80 lines of code. Itwas just a lot”. Finally, the professors and their behaviors played a role as well. One participantnoted how the professor was not helpful in making the course easier because he only repeatedwhat was in the assigned videos, but failed to provide any new information. Another participantnoted that the professor’s behavior directly decreased her self confidence because he assumedthey knew material that she did
Paper ID #43641Expanding the Broadening Participation in Engineering Focus to IncludeData on Nontraditional StudentsMr. Joseph Ronald Sturgess, Florida International University Joseph Sturgess is a Ph.D. student in the School of Universal Computing, Construction & Engineering Education majoring in Engineering Education at Florida International University, where he also serves as a graduate research assistant contributing to various projects supporting post-traditional students and transfer students. His research interests include community college-minority serving institution partnerships, transfer students, post
CTCs with ~1CTC for every 100,000 red blood cells (RBCs). This topic was selected because of the strongclinical significance, but also because some of the technologies in development to separate cancercells from other cells (e.g., RBCs and other healthy cells found in the vasculature) use a size- orshape-based separation approach which nicely links to one of the areas of expertise of chemicalengineers (which is highlighted in the lecture).Figure 1. Organization and lecture materials for Bioengineering 101. (A) Organization of theactivity included six days of in-class instruction by the author with each day having a specificfocus. (B) Design project statement and criteria the student teams needed to follow. (C) Summaryof the allowed materials
investigates students’ math reasoning. She designs tasks to help students to expand their math reasoning, and she studies how instructors and departments transform practices to grow students’ math reasoning.Marie E. Evans, University of Colorado Denver Marie Evans draws her experience from working across different sectors, from domestic and international nonprofit work to education and technology. She partners with teams by facilitating and implementing creative processes and collaborates on initiatives and research projects with social good emphasis. She’s worked with cities, non-profits, medical professional teams, K-12 groups, and more. She supports the research process with extensive experience engaging diverse
sought to develop authentic, project-based learning experiences for his students in his courses. Dr. White also serves as the accreditation lead for the chemical engineering program at UC Davis.Sara Sweeney, University of California, Davis Undergraduate Program Coordinator ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Wellness Course for Engineering StudentsAbstractEngineering programs are often rigorous, with high expectations and workload. As a result, poorself-care habits might be perceived as part of the engineering identity, where rigor, stress, andsuffering are considered norms of being an engineer. This perception has been studied byscientists, and literature data suggests
assessment process for a developing country. He has developed several global collaborations and currently involved in a number of projects in different countries.Sunzia Sultana, University of Michigan, Flint I am currently working as a full-time Software developer. I completed my Masters in Computer Science & Information System at University of Michigan-Flint ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Development of a Procedure to Avoid Plagiarism in Scholarly WorkAbstractManaging scholarly work such as papers, proposals, and other similar documents can pose achallenge to graduate students, new academic professionals as well as experienced researchers.The complexity increases when the
“connectsstudents and professors in different countries for (online) collaborative projects and discussions”as part of their coursework [4]. Models such as COIL accelerated during the COVID-19pandemic. However, the authors contend that a virtual study experience is about as appealing asubstitute for a program with travel as would be virtual honeymoon in Hawaii. This may be whysince the pandemic’s global shutdown, in person experiences have sharply rebounded with morethan 1000% growth in physical mobility of students from U.S. HEIs in 2021-2022, while virtualstudy abroad is not embraced with the same excitement among students [5]. Regarding the scaleof engineering student participation, data prior to the 2020 travel disruption indicated that from2018-2019
engineering andengaging students sequentially from enrollment through graduation. We explore these in the pre-pandemic, post-pandemic, new HSI designation macro changes in the University. The resultsindicate that students are benefitted from having administrators, faculty and full-time staff worksynergistically to communicate information that can be accessed by students without needing anappointment/commute and to grow a students pathway to lifelong learning through research isbest enabled through student-student direct engagement.IntroductionThe need for the Engineering and Computer Science graduates in the workforce is high.[1]National STEM occupation growth is projected to surpass growth in all other occupations. [2,3]Nearly all STEM jobs require
Department of Civil Engineering in Baltimore, Maryland. Adebayo formerly worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus, where he earned his master’s degree in civil engineering. He also worked as a project Analyst with AgileP3 after graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) in civil engineering from Covenant University, Nigeria. Adebayo has taught courses in Transportation and Chemistry at Morgan State University as part of his commitment to the STEM profession. He has attended conferences across the Transportation engineering field.Dr. Oludare Adegbola Owolabi P.E., Morgan State University Dr. Oludare Owolabi, a professional engineer in Maryland, joined the Morgan
. Oerther Missouri University of Science and Technology, 1401 North Pine Street, Rolla, MO 65409 Sarah Oerther Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College, 4483 Duncan Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110AbstractIncreasingly civil engineers are being asked to incorporate a more inclusive meaning of “public”(i.e., who) and “public value” (i.e., inherently moral concepts) when planning, designing, andsupervising the construction and maintenance of building and infrastructure projects. One way toimprove the meaning of public and value is to borrow from the adjacent profession of nursing.Nurses are well-known patient-centered care, whether the patient is an individual, a
engineering andComputer science at LSU. The project, Preparing Resilient Individuals to Succeed in Engineering(PRISE), creates a scholarship to meet the financial needs of underprepared, low SES students forsuccess in an engineering program (e.g., not calculus ready and low Advanced Placementcoursework). This project works to fill the gap between a student’s high school academicpreparation and those skills needed to be a successful engineering student. Currently, many XXstate high school students are not receiving sufficient academic preparation in mathematics andstudy skills to be successful in engineering, particularly in “high need” / low SES regions of thestate. This paper provides an overview of the program and results through the first two
require ethics instruction: Principles of Engineering Design, a lowerdivision class, and Engineering Design Project II, an upper division class that is the second halfof the yearlong senior capstone project. Engineering codes of ethics are introduced in Principlesof Engineering Design, and the connection between these codes and the general educationcontent from Core is discussed in detail in the subsequent sections. In Materials Science andEngineering, an upper division elective, students are given assignments to consider the past andfuture impacts of materials development on society and to consider how the production ofmaterials and applications of materials might promote or violate various ethical standards. InStatics, a lower division
opposed to the average page views by the lower quartile.This is an expected outcome if one assumes pages views as a proxy for student engagement andthus performance. This trend is less pronounced for the Nano course, however, where the pageview averages for different quartiles often overlap. A secondary trend is that the average pageviews spike right before a major assessment for iTFS. This, however, is not the case for Nano. 6The average page views during the project phase is highly dependent on the type of the projectassigned. The instructor's insight here is that for iTFS, the majority of the efforts relied onexternal resources, whereas for Nano, the majority of the project required interaction
the Department of Engineering Technology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee. His education includes two Master of Science degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Electronics and Control Engineering. He has been actively involved in higher education leadership in various capacities as a Dean, Department Chair, PI, Project Director, and a faculty member since 1997. He has served as the PI / Project Director for multiple agencies including NSF, DOL, DOD, and Perkin’s Grant. His research interests include Industrial Automation Systems, VLSI, ASIC, and FPGA. Other areas of interest are Higher Education Leadership and Accreditation including ABET. ©American
challenges are uniquely unpredictable and impressively varied. Biomedical engineerswill encounter machine learning models contaminated with significant bias [15], to new drugswith limited effectiveness, to implantable or wearable technologies that impact human health.Our students need to be ready for the complexities we can only imagine.The progression starts in freshmen year where students pursue a design project for a real clientthat encourages students to embrace failure through learning, fostering humility and encouragingstudents to discover the complexity of the world they live in. In year two the progressioncontinues by encouraging students to develop their curiosity, uncovering how materials aresourced for biomedical devices and implants and
; Chris Ferekides Dept. of Electrical Engineering, *Dept. of Psychology, University of South Florida Tampa, Florida, United States Abstract This paper presents the second year results of the work supported by the National Science Foundation’s Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (IUSE/PFE: RED) Program under the project titled "IUSE/PFE:RED: Breaking Boundaries: An Organized Revolution for the Professional Formation of Electrical Engineers." Specifically, this part of the study looks at action-state orientation and its impacts on student success. The first-year results were presented at the 2023 ASEE Conference in Baltimore, MD with the academic paper titled "Predicting Academic Performance for Pre/Post
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).Dr. David Hall, Louisiana Tech University David Hall develops and promotes project-based engineering courses. He believes that projects build intuition and confidence which are important for the effective application of engineering fundamentals and for the development of robust technology solutions.Dr. Krystal Corbett Cruse, Louisiana Tech University Dr. Krystal Corbett is the First-Year Engineering Programs Coordinator and Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Louisiana Tech University. She is also the Co-Director of the Office for Women in Science and Engineering at Louisiana Tech. ©American Society for Engineering Education
subtest B thatboth subtests of the TMCT will demonstrate sufficient reliability. Future work with the TMCTwill include using the instrument among sighted populations to measure gains in spatial ability asthe result of tactile spatial interventions. In order to ensure quality of results from this study,future projects will include replicating the study with both lighting formats. Such a study willhelp narrow down possible reasons for the difference in test reliability between groups.Further use of the TMCT among sighted engineering students will include a qualitative study todetermine what strategies sighted individuals employ when solving spatial tasks on the TMCT.Results from this work may be able to better inform educators of the tactile
problems and challenges faced by the current librarianteam. Although the majority of top Chinese university libraries have started similar programstoday, most of their librarians agree that successful implementation is not easy for variousreasons, such as current tenure system, qualification of librarians, vague job responsibilities andso on [7].The role of the library has been under-valued in China for a long time. University libraries arenot positioned in the center of the current academic system. Meanwhile, faculty areoverwhelmed with teaching, research, publication and grant applications, and students are buriedby their homework and research projects. It is very challenging for librarians to engage end usersand obtain their support.Other
sustaining virtual learning and teaching communities through acloud computing service (Blade servers) and enhancing student motivation and performance inMath by using interactive simulation programs. As part of the project, we have developed aseries of MATLAB-based simulations delivered through our Blade servers to help students betterconceptualize abstract Math concepts. During the fall semester of 2010, we implemented 12simulations in a Multivariable & Vector Calculus class in which 117 students were enrolled. Tobetter understand the overall program usability via Blade servers and the value of the simulationsfrom the student perspective, we conducted an evaluation study and answered the following threequestions: 1. How do students perceive the
-basedlearning projects, assignments, exams, and journals. Page 22.1640.9Students’ initial conceptions provided the foundation on which more formal understanding of thesubject matter was built. Further, frequent formative assessment helped make students’ thinkingvisible to themselves, their peers, and their instructor. Facilitated by Tablet PC technologies,feedback (in both courses) that guided modification/refinement in thinking increased.Additionally, the project has had several other important impacts, particularly on instructoridentifying the most common difficulties in undergraduate and graduate food chemistry courseswhile providing
graduates. A study outlined byPalazolo, et. al, identified that students felt they lacked sufficient leadership/management skillsand overwhelmingly desired to develop these skills, more than any other (including technical andanalytic skills), before graduating3. Reflective practice was employed successfully byMartinazzi, et. al in an engineering technology program, to help students develop leadershipskills4. That course was different, however, in that the subject of the course was Leadership.This course, as outlined in this paper, attempted to develop these traits in the context of asimulated real world industry MBSD project focused on automotive emission control
is adapted from the CapabilityMaturity Model and SPICE project from the software development industry.14,15 It is the E-Learning Maturity Model (eMM).16 eMM focuses on the process nature of on-line education atan institutional level. Through this framework, institutions assess their capability to develop,deploy, and support e-learning. The emphasis of eMM is on-going improvement of e-learningprocesses. The eMM framework defines the following levels of capability with respect to aninstitution’s e-learning initiatives. 1. Initial Level – no formal processes, institutional ad-hoc approach to e-learning. 2. Planned Level – deliberate processes, institutional planned approach to e-learning
outcomes. She is currently serving as Co-PI for several funded projects examining the impact of various engineering education models on student persistence, intentions, attitudes, etc.Joseph H Holles, University of WyomingJingfang Ren, Michigan Technological University Jingfang Ren’ is currently an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication in the De- partment of Humanities at Michigan Tech. Her research interests include technical communication theory and practice, rhetorical theory, visual rhetoric, research design, and intercultural and international com- munication.Ted W Lockhart, Michigan Technological University Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Michigan Technological University, 2010-present
school next year in pursuit of a career in patent law. His interests include electrochemistry, DNA sequencing, renewable energy and microfluidics.Daniel OLeary, Univ. of Calif. Santa Cruz Having earned a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California and a BA in Management Engineering from Claremont McKenna College; Dan O’Leary is currently working on a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research at the Renewable Energy Lab at NASA Ames in Mountain View, CA investigates the use of wind and solar power on electric vehicles, energy storage, and smart grid technologies. More information on this project can be found at re.soe.ucsc.edu.Dr. Michael S
serving as a Director on the Antelope Valley Board of Trade and is the Honorary Commander of the 412th Electronic Warfare Group at Edwards AFB. He is also a member of several professional societies and has authored and co-authored several papers pertaining to the Antelope Valley Engineering Program.J. S. Shelley, US Air Force J. S. Shelley, PhD, PE After 20 years as a researcher and project manager with the Air Force Research Laboratories, Dr Shelley has transitioned to teaching mechanical engineering, mostly mechanics, for the past 6 years.Dhushy Sathianathan, California State University, Long Beach Dr. Sathianathan is the Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the College of Engineering at Califor- nia
program wascomplete. Mentions of different topics are indicated in Table 2. Students mentioned multipletopics, and 2 students indicated “all.” The results were not overly surprising to us, given theactivities for the particular concepts. The green buildings topic, for example, involves a tour ofon-campus LEED-certified buildings and construction projects, including the IntelligentWorkplace a living laboratory of current green building design research in the Department ofArchitecture. Student responses specifically mention the tour and recall visiting one or two ofthe spaces. Life cycle thinking involves an activity where students are introduced to the idea ofsupply chains and the material and energy resources consumed for a common product. This
Ulseth, Itasca Community College Ulseth is an engineering instructor at Itasca Community and Iron Range Engineering. He is the co- developer of both programs. For the past 20 years he has taught physics, statics, dynamics, fluid mechan- ics, and thermodynamics. For the past 10 years Ulseth has worked with a diverse group of engineering educators to develop and prototype a 100% project-based BS Engineering curriculum.Paul S. Steif, Carnegie Mellon University Paul S. Steif is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a Sc.B. in engineering from Brown University (1979) and M.S. (1980) and Ph.D. (1982) degrees from Harvard University in applied mechanics. He has been active as a
action to become a more intentionalleader in their workplace, their social environments and their families. There was excitement,high energy and serious commitment.Several of these students had completed approximately five other courses within their graduateprograms and were registered for the second of the series of LLL courses. In this second course,LLL-II, the students reviewed and measured their progress in all areas, adjusted their learningplans accordingly, expanded their leadership capacity building to include team effectiveness andorganizational influence.Students also identified a real-time action learning project to be undertaken within theircompanies. This team-led project was to be completed by the time the student returned for LLL