thesubsequent summer based on initial engagement data and project feedback. Quantitative data,such as attendance and participation rates, are also collected to measure the effectiveness of theprogram in improving student engagement.Initial Engagement and Future WorkIn the Spring 2023 implementation, approximately 30% of students enrolled in the secondsemester of first-year engineering courses submitted engagement proof for at least 1 activity.Among these students, approximately 70% of students completed all requirements for thecertificate (N = 51). An additional quantitative and qualitative tool is under developmentunderstand student experience and outcomes. Instructional team and career center observationshave been collected by instructors
focused more on their graduate students and getting their graduate research, becausehaving their publications is where there's more prestige, I guess, and so I'm seeing a teacher whois interested in teaching a subject about concepts that he has known for very long, very basic forhis field of research and just being able to be lively to the first year undergrads was veryinfluential.” In the lab context, students were encouraged when PIs valued and were welcoming ofquestions, “something that I really appreciate about Prof. [X] is she doesn't think any question isnot worth asking”. Students also reported that they were curious about other projects in theresearch group, “it's always really neat to hear what other people were doing in the lab
experiences. Her projects include studies of student attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and theirdevelopment of problem solving skills, self-regulated learning practices, and beliefs about knowledge in their field. Dr.Benson is an American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Fellow, a member of the European Society forEngineering Education (SEFI), American Educational Research Association (AERA) and Tau Beta Pi, and the 2018recipient of the Clemson University Class of ’39 Award for Faculty Excellence. She earned a B.S. in Bioengineering(1978) from the University of Vermont, and M.S. (1986) and Ph.D. (2002) in Bioengineering from Clemson University. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022
intersec- tion of race and learning in adult education, DesiCrit (theorizing the racialized experiences of South Asian Americans using Critical Race Theory), Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) as a framework to analyze learning, and qualitative research. She is currently working on the following research projects: Environmental racism, Racialized experience of South Asian Americans, and Mothering during the pan- demic. Her selected publications include ”Learning to teach about race: The racialized experience of a South Asian American feminist educator” in Adult Learning, ”New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education” in New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, and a chapter entitled ”Gender still
. Given the historical and persistent underrepresentation of minority groups in theengineering workforce, our work presents a timely effort to understand better and include thecareer attitudes of the emerging engineering workforce. We investigate how the concept of anengineering career is shaped for minority engineering students from a Hispanic-servinginstitution to further understanding on how career opportunities in government-funded labs areperceived by a group of Black and Latinx engineering student researchers experiencing the jobsearch and post-graduation planning process. For context, our study is a smaller portion of thePRE-CCAP (Partnership for Research and Education Consortium in Ceramics and Polymers)project. The consortium consists of
-facilitated workshop.To address the question and test the hypotheses above, the project focus is to develop: 1. a virtual, open-access peer-facilitated workshop experience, and 2. asynchronous, interactive material that is part of a virtual community of learners.For this work, interactive is defined as the ability for the user (student) to receive feedback ontheir work and ask questions. Figure 1 outlines the logic model for developing an open-accessand interactive peer-facilitated workshop in the context of a first-year engineering course. Thetarget population for the proposed intervention is first-year students enrolled in the second-semester first-year engineering course for Fall 2022 and Spring 2023. While the opportunity toparticipate will
Paper ID #36842Engineering Instructor Experience During EmergencyRemote Teaching & Beyond: A Case StudyDorian Bobbett Dorian Bobbett (she/her) is a 4th-year undergraduate chemical engineering student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is currently working on a project with Dr. Grace Panther and Dr. Heidi Diefes-Dux focused on faculty adaptability when teaching in a crisis. She plans on pursuing a Ph.D. in engineering education beginning in the Fall 2023 semester. Some of her research interests include P-12 engineering education, DEI, and qualitative research methods.Grace Panther (Assistant Professor
Paper ID #36852Student perceptions of the societal linkages of engineeringinnovationSenni Kirjavainen Senni Kirjavainen is a Master of Arts doing research on product development and creativity.Raimo Vepsäläinen Raimo Vepsäläinen is an M.Sc. student in Mechanical Engineering at Aalto University School of Engineering, Finland, and he is currently finishing his thesis "The influence of contextual enablers and challenges in business-to-business product development projects". He is majoring in Product Development with a minor in Mechatronics. Raimo’s areas of interests are product development and product
projects, in mathematics, engineering, and science education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A laboratory physics course incorporating specialized software and digital media from the students’ perspectivesAbstractAt a private Latin American university in the southern hemisphere, efforts were made to moveaway from traditional physics lab teaching practice during a recent innovation in its academicprogram. As a result, a physics course was created to be held in the classroom rather than in thephysics laboratory, using specialized software and digital media. The laboratory course allowsstudents to collect and analyze data through PhET simulations or videos rather than in
regenerate human tissues [2]. Basedon these important benefits to human health, biomaterials are projected to have global revenues of$348.4 billion by 2027 [3] and the employment of bioengineers is projected to increase by 6% by2030 [4]. To satisfy these increasing societal and economic demands for biomaterials, we mustengage students at a young age to join the field of biomaterials.Bioadhesives are an important class of biomaterials, designed to adhere biological componentstogether for tissue repair [5]. In a clinical setting, bioadhesives are used to stop internal fluid leaks[6] and aid in healing surgical wounds [7]. Additionally, scientists and engineers have designedexperimental bioadhesives to seal soft tissue defects and repair orthopaedic
allocated a budget with which they can acquire allthe necessary parts. The project was divided into three segments. First, the students constructedcustom powertrains that can be housed in a gearbox. Then, a steering made up of a servo and a 1parallelogram linkage mechanism was designed and assembled. Finally, students manufactured acustom chassis to accommodate and support the weight of all the electronics (including sensors),the gearbox, and the steering mechanism. Towards the end of the course, the RC Cars designedand built by these groups are evaluated through testing on indoor tracks that requires the cars tomaintain structural integrity during the
microfossil assemblages allowstudents to apply their identification skills and have an insight into various applications ofmicropaleontology in research and industry. FossilSketch environment allows students to practiceand receive feedback in real-time with little to no instructor supervision.Study Goals and Research QuestionsThe main research goal of this project was to develop and evaluate the effectiveness ofFossilSketch and its impact on student learning experiences and knowledge retention.The following research questions were assessed: • RQ1: To what extent does student comprehension and retention of micropaleontology knowledge increase (or decrease) after using FossilSketch? • RQ2: To what extent does students’ interest in and
Freshmen Intensive Training Program. She is the recipient of the Paul and Judy Bible Teaching Excellence Award, F. Donald Tibbitt’s Distinguished Teaching Award, The Nevada Women’s Fun Woman of Achievement Award, and the UNR College of Engineering Excellence Award.Dr. Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and their learning experiences. His projects involve the study of studen ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Creating Social Capital: Developing Resources in a Cohort ProgramAbstractThis qualitative
in2YCs [1]. The "Capacity Building Workshops for Competitive S-STEM Proposals from Two-Year Colleges in the Western U.S." goal has been to support preparation and submission ofproposals to the NSF S-STEM program from two-year colleges (2YCs).The workshop has been offered during the summers of 2019 (in person), 2020 and 2021 (virtual)and focused on several aspects of proposal preparation, including addressing the NSF MeritReview Criteria, developing, and justifying proposed budgets, incorporating appropriate andmeaningful evidence-based strategies, and evaluation and dissemination plans. A completedescription and evaluation analysis of this project is currently being submitted for publication[2]. The workshop facilitators who were carefully
research projects have varied from sperm cryopreservation to synchrotron and laser-based x-ray imaging in various contexts, including pro- tein crystallography, thin-film surface diffraction, and phase-contrast imaging of airplane turbine blades. He currently teach at least mechanics, programming, statistics, materials science, and biomaterials, along with whatever other classes someone doesn’t want to teach that semester, at both UNC and NC State. He is particularly interested in sophomore-level labs to make them approachable and accessible while still introducing advanced BME concepts.Dr. Lianne Cartee, North Carolina State University at Raleigh Lianne Cartee is Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Joint
strengthen the sustainability of our project, in 2022 our teamexpanded the reach of the RDI by training leaders form five institutions across the US, namelyPenn State, UC Irvine, University of Florida, Iowa State and North Carolina A&T, who pilotedthe RDI in their institutions as part of their rounds of incoming student orientations. With thehelp of our team, each one of the collaborating institutions committed two leaders who oversawthe adaption and implementation of the RDI model to better meet their students’ needs, whileaiding their institutions’ efforts to support diversity, equity, and inclusion. When adjusting themodel, some leaders followed the 2-3 day-long workshop model of the original RDI, whileothers implemented it throughout the
328 students enrolled in the course. The course is a secondpart of programming fundamentals courses and focuses on using C++. This 16-week course isdivided into roughly ten weekly assignments, two major exams, two intermediate projects, andone final project. Both assignments and lectures revolve around the following goals (1) Buildand execute C++ programs from the command-line and an IDE (2) Demonstrate an ability tosolve large programming problems (3) Examine the uses of dynamic memory allocation, pointer,and template to create the creation of memory-efficient data structures such as linked lists,stacks, and queues. In order to answer our research questions, the proxy of students’ performancewas the midterm examination. The midterm exam
evaluating your work? i.e., were you thinking about the person who was going to be looking at your work while you were completing the design? 2. What creative strategies did you use in this task that you may have learned in your university classes or elsewhere (e.g., in high school, via hobbies, etc.)? 3. How do your instructors (faculty, TAs, or co-op supervisors) influence your creativity? What is it like to work with them or get their input on projects? 4. How likely are you to take creative risks when you know your work is being evaluated by an instructor? 5. How do your peers, such as your classmates or team-mates in a work setting, influence your creative process? 6. When have you felt empowered to be
different technical and non-technical methods to enhance the learning processes of undergraduate engineering students.Dr. Angela Minichiello, Utah State University Angela Minichiello is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University (USU) and a registered professional mechanical engineer. Her research examines issues of access, diversity, and inclusivity in engineering.Mr. Assad Iqbal, Arizona State University Assad Iqbal is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Arizona State University working on the National Sci- ence Foundation-funded research project i.e., Engineering For Us All (e4usa). Assad Iqbal is an informa- tion system engineer with a Ph.D. in Engineering Education and
teachers always are expert in theirfields, can develop research projects, and can design courses based on knowledge inthe subject area. However, this organizational culture is difficult to effectively satisfythe EC2000. Under the background of program accreditation, engineering teacherbegin to pay more attention to student learning outcome at the program level.Teachers must work together as a team more than ever. A successful program willhelp shape an inclusive and equitable environment. In small programs, teachers canwork as a whole. In larger programs, the dialogue between teachers will becomeincreasingly complex. However, with sufficient and diverse teacher participation,guided by an evaluation committee, this dialogue can be effective and have
/en5061943 [6] Safai, Nick, Carpio, M. Cyrus. A. Safai, A. Djobo, N. Wong, I. Gaichuk, “Teaching Engineering, Teamwork & Tolerance by Bringing Multi-discipline, Multicultural Students Together via a Project of Common Interest; Vertical, Hydroponic, Smart Garden With Global and Universal (Space) Applications”, ASEE Annual Conference, 2018
. Her research interests include critical, antiracist science teaching that works to dismantle systems of oppression. Currently, she is a research assistant on the DRK12 project COVID Connects Us: Nurturing Novice Teachers’ Justice Science Teaching Identities, which uses design-based research to develop justice-centered ambitious science teaching practices with in-service science teachers. She also works on NSF projects that aim to improve equity in undergraduate STEM education, especially for students with LGBTQ+ identities. In addition, she is working in the Education Leadership department exploring student activism around issues of racial equity. Her former role as a high school science teacher and facilitator of
projects focused on broadening participation and success in STEM academia. Her research centers on creating inclusive higher education policies and practices that advance faculty careers and student success.Dr. Jennifer TygretAnneke BruwerDr. Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute Comas Lamar Haynes is a Principal Research Engineer / faculty member of the Georgia Tech Research In- stitute and Joint Faculty Appointee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research includes modeling steady state and transient behavior of advanced energy systems, inclusive of their thermal management, and the characterization and optimization of novel cycles. He has advised graduate and undergradu- ate research assistants
allows her to apply this work as she coaches students through collaboration, design thinking, and design communication. She is part of a team of faculty innovators who originated Tandem (tandem.ai.umich.edu), a tool designed to help facilitate equitable and inclusive teamwork environments.Gongjun Xu, University of Michigan Dr. Gongjun Xu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan.Rebecca L Matz, University of Michigan Becky Matz is a Research Scientist on the Research and Analytics team at the Center for Academic Inno- vation at the University of Michigan. She directs and supports research projects across Academic Inno
(VentureWell, 2019) where the Technical Lead (TL), usually a faculty member,provides the technical expertise necessary for the project; the Entrepreneurial Lead (EL), usuallya graduate student or postdoctoral researcher, is the full-time leader of the project; and an I-Corps Mentor (IM), a volunteer business advisor, consults on the project (Blank & Engel, 2016;National Science Foundation, 2019; VentureWell, 2019).During the time period we studied, the I-Corps Teams program involved seven weeks of onlineinstruction, and in-person classes at the beginning and end, when cohorts of teams assembled indifferent regions of the country (current and future classes are expected to be exclusivelyremote). Teams accepted into the program received $50,000
of failure. The impact of engineers’ values and ethics, aswell as the crucial role of diversity and inclusiveness on successful engineering design, will bediscussed in detail.”Course redesign, phase I: To meet the DIV requirement, a new learning module was initiallyproposed, accompanied by appropriate readings, assigned video content, and recorded lecturesincorporating a variety of case studies. In addition, specific learning outcomes on diversity andinclusiveness and an assignment focused on evaluating these learning outcomes were added, asper the description below. The evaluation of the final group project (developed as a PowerPointpresentation using VoiceThread as well as a written report) will also proposed to be modified toinclude
to undergraduate engineers. Past re- search projects include studies of governance in engineering education and the influence of educational technology on engineering education.Prof. Stu Thompson, Bucknell University Stu is an associate professor and chair of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Buck- nell University, in Lewisburg, PA. His teaching responsibilities typically include digital design, computer- related electives, and engineering design. His research focus is on the application of mobile computing technology to interesting problems. My broadly he is interested in the continued evolution of engineering education and how the experience can help create graduates who will go on to make
University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). His research interests include robotic manipulation, computer vision and motion capture, applications of and extensions to additive manufacturing, mechanism design and characterization, continuum manipulators, redundant mechanisms, and modular systems.Dr. John S DonnalDr. Carl E. Wick Sr., United States Naval Academy Dr. Carl Wick is currently a Professional Lecturer with the Biomedical Engineering Department of the George Washington University where he provides technical assistance and advice to capstone project students. Previously he was associated with the U.S. Na ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 The ScorBot
. Ricco, University of Indianapolis George D. Ricco is an engineering education educator who focuses on advanced analytical models applied to student progression, and teaching first-year engineering, engineering design principles, and project management. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Degree Attainment in Computing: Intersectional Switching TrendsAbstractAlthough efforts have been made to broaden participation in computing, ongoing reports andcounts in the field continue to illustrate the need to improve engagement and retention. Thereremains a minoritization of Black or African American men and women, Hispanic or Latinx menand women, Indigenous men and women, White women, and Asian
Associate Teaching Professor and the Vice-Chair for Undergraduate Education in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at UC San Diego. In addition to research related to Automata Theory and Computability education, she works on projects that support professionalization pathways for students, including industry internships, TA development, and ethics and communication. Her research and teaching have work has been supported by grants and awards from UC San Diego, NSF, and industry partners.Kristen Vaccaro, University of California San Diego Kristen Vaccaro is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Cali- fornia San Diego, where she is also a member of the Design Lab. Her