disciplines that otherwise concentrate solely ondiscipline specific information. One of the strategies that can assist different disciplines inimplementing General Education SLGs is Course Coordination. Many disciplines, especially inscience and engineering go through accreditation processes. For instance, Computer EngineeringTechnology, is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).The disciplines that go through an accreditation process must comply with a set of standards. Inthe process of implementing Course Coordination SLGs in Computer Engineering Technology,we noticed that several of these standards were similar to the criteria used for accreditation. Thispaper proposes an initiative to bridge the gap between
Paper ID #35530Geometric Design Project for First Year Civil Engineering StudentsHadi Kazemiroodsari, Wentworth Institute of Technology Hadi Kazemiroodsari is assistant professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology. He earned his PhD in Geotechnical engineering from Northeastern University. His area of expertise are Geotechnical engineer- ing and Earthquake engineering.Dr. Anuja Kamat, Wentworth Institute of Technology Anuja Kamat is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston. Prof. Kamat received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Arizona
to enact inclusive behaviors. Thus, this research studydetails the development of two new scales to measure how students develop an inclusiveengineering identity. BackgroundThe current study. In fall 2015, we developed new curriculum to promote inclusive engineeringidentities within first year engineering courses at a large public university. To assess the impactof the new curriculum, we used two previously developed scales: Appreciation of Cultural andEthnic Diversity scale (Price et al., 2011) and Science Identity survey (Chemers et al. 2010;Estrada et al., 2011) adapted for engineering. While these two scales addressed diversity broadlyand a more general engineering identity, the two scales did not
Menefee [1] found that students with study abroadexperience have more employability probability and greater organizational, communication, andleadership skills. Including study abroad programs in the curriculum helps students achieveholistic learning by gaining intercultural competence and an inclusive, open, and reflectiveperspective for solving complex global problems.Due to the highly immersive experiential learning nature of the study abroad programs, they alsoprovide transformative learning opportunities to participants. However, the extent and nature oftransformative learning in various experiential learning programs differ among individuals [2][3]. The broader purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the differential impacts of
development, engineering education, project management and teamwork. Her current research focuses on integrating project management pro- cesses in undergraduate education. Her main goal is to understand how work management and product development practices widely used in industry can be modified and adapted to streamline undergraduate STEM education.Kevin C. Dittman, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Kevin C. Dittman is an American computer scientist, IT consultant, and Professor of Information Tech- nology at Purdue University, especially known for his textbook Systems Analysis and Design Methods written with Lonnie D. Bentley and Jeffrey L. Whitten, which is in its 7th edition. He has been with Purdue
Paper ID #30170Zip to Industry: A First-Year Corporate-STEM Connection ProgramDr. Donald P. Visco Jr., The University of Akron Donald P. Visco, Jr. is the former Dean of the College of Engineering at The University of Akron and currently a Professor of Chemical Engineering.Nidaa Makki Dr. Nidaa Makki is an Associate Professor in the LeBron James Family Foundation College of Education at The University of Akron, in the department in Curricular and Instructional Studies. Her work focuses on STEM curriculum integration and science inquiry practices in middle and high school. She is a co-PI on an NSF funded project to
Paper ID #21163The Impact of the Mathematics S-STEM Program at the University of Texasat ArlingtonProf. Tuncay Aktosun, University of Texas at Arlington Dr. Aktosun is a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research area is applied mathematics and differential equations with research interests in scattering and spectral theory, inverse problems, wave propagation, and integrable evolution equations. He is involved in various men- toring and scholarship programs benefiting students. He has been the GAANN Fellowship Director in his department since 2006, the NSF S-STEM Scholarship Director in
completionof the course, students will be able to: 1. Complete a flowchart of how to solve a problem; 2. Use a computer program to solve an engineering problem; 3. Correctly and clearly plot the results of calculations; 4. Program a microprocessor; and 5. Use software to accurately represent a 3-dimensional object.Prior to this curriculum change, mechanical engineers were not all exposed to microprocessorprogramming. A number of students employed them in club, competition, or capstone projects,but this was generally a minority. Department faculty decided to seize the opportunity in thisnew course to introduce microcontrollers to all mechanical engineering students. Not only is itan engaging way of exercising and reinforcing recently
, acontextualized international development project partnering with UNHCR Zambia that the students workon remotely from on campus as part of their curriculum, an extra-curricular design project workinginternationally on a development project with a partner community and a design project based studyabroad project in a developing country. Through this we hope to understand the relative importance ofinternational experience to becoming a globally competent engineer and can students gain a reasonablelevel of competence through introducing global perspectives into their classroom or do they need to travelabroad?IntroductionEngineering student’s ability to graduate and work in an increasingly global engineering marketplace isfundamental to their future success
college by providing an ME-intensive course that allows students to apply the requiredmath and science curriculum and promoting early engagement in the field of engineering. Buildingon the notion of lack of identification with the field of engineering (especially amongunderrepresented groups [34]), research indicates that freshmen are 1.5 times less likely to identifyas engineers compared with sophomores, juniors, or seniors [38], and a review of retentionresearch indicates that students with lower self-confidence and/or self-efficacy are more likely toleave engineering fields [14]. Thus, there is a potential for FIRE to have significant impact onminimizing attrition rates. By engaging students in research and connecting them with faculty at
-related activities, males prefer outside-of-school activities [46]. Over 65% of studentsacknowledge an interest in STEM before middle school age, yet often formal STEMprogramming is not part of the curriculum until high school [46]. Policies and interventionsbeing focused on this older student population have given rise to informal educational spaces, forexample, museums, camps, and science fairs, being available to a wider age range of people [47].These informal educational spaces provide participants with authentic, hands-on, interactivelearning, prior to more formal introductions, and it is believed that these informal spaces appealto a more diverse group of people [47].2.3 Gender SocializationGendered messaging manifests in many implicit ways
course offered in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, students explore thedirect and indirect stakeholders involved in a coastal engineering design example. During an in-class session, students learn how to brainstorm the values and norms of stakeholders that theyidentify, and then integrate those values into design criteria such that it benefits a broader swathof the community. The students then applied the VSD concepts to a course project that requiredthem to create design criteria that satisfied stakeholder’s needs beyond the original client. Theinclusion of this activity in the course curriculum created students who were more invested andaware of the potential impacts of their design.Introduction and Literature Review
extracurricular learning opportunities and hands-on supplements to traditional courseinstruction. The following paper describes the integration of a Formula SAE (FSAE) teamproject into a junior-level mechanical engineering experimentation course; it represents one ofnine projects in this course.The first half of the course is divided into modules that, for all students, progressively address: 1)the measurement chain and laboratory best practices using pre-existing experiments, 2) sensordesign, selection, and calibration, 3) statistical data analysis and uncertainty limits, and 4)technical communication skills. The second half tasks student teams to propose, design, build,and carry out an original experiment to an engineering problem they perceive can
samescenario tested in this experiment. Figure 20 shows the results of the FEA simulation run for theFSAE spaceframe. The simulation was run with 400 ft-lbf, an average suspension load, appliedacross the front axle. The torsional stiffness at the front axle from FEA was calculated to bearound 1100 ft-lbf/deg. This is within 10% of the value calculated from the experimental setup. Figure 20: The results of the torsional rigidity computer simulation.Course StructureThe implementation of the laboratory experiment consisted of both horizontal and verticalcurricular integration with other courses.Horizontally, this laboratory experiment in ME160 Engineering Experimentation is an extensionof an experiment that is done earlier in the course
Paper ID #38884Learning through PBL with Emphasis on People, Process, and ProductAcross CoursesDr. Micah Lande, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Micah Lande, PhD is an Assistant Professor and E.R. Stensaas Chair for Engineering Education in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. Dr. Lande directs the Holistic Engineering Lab & Observatory. He teaches human-centered engineering design, design thinking, and design innovation courses. Dr. Lande researches how technical and non-technical people learn and apply design thinking and making processes to their work
Fulbright scholar at Purdue University between 2014 -16 where he received his master’s degree in Building Construction Management. His research interests includes: engineering education, international education, higher education leadership, construction site productivity, construction operations simulation and modeling, and BIM. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Modernizing the Current Afghan Engineering Education System: Challenges and OpportunitiesAbstractHaving an effective engineering education system in place can play a crucial role in thedevelopment and reconstruction process of a war-ravaged country, such as Afghanistan, wheretens of billions of
- industrialized economies, most notably Zambia. Previously, he worked at Battelle Memorial Institute and New England Complex Systems Institute. A proud Buckeye, Eric is a graduate of The Ohio State University (BSME 2009) and recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2016).Dr. Mark Schar, Stanford University The focus of Mark’s research can broadly be described as ”pivot thinking,” the cognitive aptitudes and abilities that encourage innovation, and the tension between design engineering and business management cognitive styles. To encourage these thinking patterns in young engineers, Mark has developed a Scenario Based Learning curriculum that attempts to blend core engineering concepts with selected business ideas
in his department including; modified mastery learning in early engineering courses and a multi-year integrated system design (ISD) project for honors students. The ISD team currently has 50+ students working to design and build an electric bicycle and human powered vehi- cles. He is a mentor to mechanical engineering graduate teaching fellows. He is also active in technology adoption and support. Geoffrey holds a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University and Bachelor de- grees in Mechanical Engineering and Physics from Cedarville University. His research interests are fo- cused on best practices for student learning and student success.Dr. Michele J. Grimm, Michigan State University
increase the hands-on time with the workshop activities and tools. 7. Creating new Seminars on “Introduction to Active Learning” and “Creating a Civil Classroom” (i.e., to integrate DEI in the ETW curriculum) to make both of these inferred topics more transparent during the workshop. 8. Creating new Reflection-based activities in order to encourage participants to envision how their learnings could be adapted and applied in their classroom in the near-term future.CFD established an implementation plan whereby CFD committee members would proceed withthe creation of new “Base Slides” for the forthcoming Summer 2023 ETW. In anticipation ofthese workshop changes, CFD organized in December 2022 a “Town Hall Meeting
, no. 2, 590-598. 2018[14] L. J. Hirshfield & D. Chachra, D. “Comparing the impact of project experiences across the engineering curriculum,” International Journal of Research in Education and Science, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 468-487. 2019.[15] N. Genco, K. Hölttä‐Otto, & C. C. Seepersad, “An experimental investigation of the innovation capabilities of undergraduate engineering students,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 101, no. 1, pp. 60-81. 2012.[16] R. J. Morocz, B. Levy, C. Forest, R. L. Nagel, W. C. Newsletter, K. G. Talley, & J. S. Linsey, Relating student participation in university maker spaces to their engineering design self-efficacy: the ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, June 14-17
Paper ID #25452Board 130: Engineering Education Collaborations: Exploring ”Ways of Think-ing” Using a Mixed Methods ApproachDr. Medha Dalal, Arizona State University Medha Dalal has a Ph.D. in Learning, Literacies and Technologies from the Arizona State University with a focus on engineering education. She has a master’s degree in Computer Science and a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering. Medha has many years of experience teaching and developing curricula in computer science, engineering, and education technology programs. She has worked as an instructional designer at the Engineering Research Center for Bio-mediated and
experiences that caused them to see themselves as differentiated from the broader group ofresearch engineers. This within-group differentiation appears to be grounded in fairly routine experiencesas a member of an under-represented group in a STEM field. Ironically, despite the clear disempoweringimpact that these experiences can have, there is also some evidence that they may promote thedevelopment of alternative value structures and feelings of purpose related to STEM fields for membersof underrepresented groups. 15ReferencesAlexander, C. (2011) Learning to be lawyers: Professional identity and the law school curriculum. Maryland Law Review, 70(2), 465-483.Ancis, J. R., & Plillips, S. D
, Worcester Polytechnic Institute David Spanagel is an Associate Professor of History in the Department of Humanities and Arts at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass. He has been active as an innovator in curriculum and instructional approaches. He co-developed the Power the World course (one of the first Great Problems Seminar themes offered as part of WPI’s First Year Experience) back in 2007. He has pioneered col- laborative learning approaches in the history capstone projects that he advises for students completing the Humanities and Arts requirement. He worked with colleagues to overhaul and update WPI’s history of science and technology course offerings in 2009, and again in 2017. Prior to acquiring
intercultural education and training, includingpartially unique traditions and approaches in different fields and disciplines [20, Ch. 15-23]. Anumber of papers and reports have also surveyed and described approaches to developing globalcompetency and related outcomes among engineering students and professionals [21-24].While the extant literature on global engineering education has placed considerable emphasis onlearning experiences that involve international travel (e.g., research, work, service, and studyabroad), authors such as Downey et al. describe the “integrated class experience” as a “an at-home effort to initiate students on the path to global competency in ways that fit their standardcurricula” [21, p. 112]. Nonetheless, Grandin &
Paper ID #12643Renewable Energy Technician Education: Lessons from the German En-ergiewendeMary Slowinski, M.Ed., CREATE NSF-ATE Center Mary Slowinski received her M.Ed. in Learning Science from the University of Washington where she will complete her PhD in the same. She has worked extensively with the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education program in a variety of consulting capacities including serving as learning coordinator for two international faculty learning projects, participating as an Innovation Coach for a ”scaling-up innovations” project, developing curriculum and learning materials
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. In this manner, we strive towork within the realities of schooling in everyday classrooms while also helping to catalyzechange that improves the educational experiences of students and the supports that are availablefor teachers. In this discussion, we reflect on the opportunities of teaching and learningengineering and the accompanying tensions that arise in doing so.Our engineering curricular units are designed to be integrated into science or STEM time in K-8educational settings—both in school and out-of-school settings. Through our testing withteachers, we learned that setting engineering in broad societal issues offered an authentic visionfor engineering in society, but also posed problems for teachers constrained by time. Engineeringis
Engineering’ departments in USuniversities have evolved into interdisciplinary and collaborative Materials Science andEngineering programs. Over the last few decades, MSE has become collaboratively involved inthe fields of biology (biomaterials and biomedical research), mechanical engineering (machinecomponents, MEMS and tribology), electrical engineering (semiconductors), physics andchemistry (nanomaterials and solid-state physics research). The applicability of MSE to varioustraditional engineering programs also means that students from other (not majoring in MSE)disciplines are also required to register for an introductory level materials class as a part of theircore undergraduate curriculum. However, many of the traditional textbooks that are
Paper ID #13243Self-Directed Summer Design Experience Across Disciplines and the GlobeDr. Christopher Joseph Lombardo, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dr. Christopher Lombardo is an Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Dr. Lombardo received Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the University of Maryland at College Park and a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Electrical Engineering from the The University of Texas at Austin. Outside of the classroom, Dr. Lombardo
Paper ID #22133The Role of Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data as a Road Map for SmartManagement Systems: Case Studies Across IndustriesDr. Mousumi Roy, University of Connecticut Dr. Roy earned her Doctoral degree from Columbia University, NY, MS from The Cooper Union, NY, and BS from Jadavpur University, India. She is currently teaching courses in Management and Engineering for Manufacturing (MEM) program at the University of Connecticut, as an Assistant Professor in Residence. She is involved in solving manufacturing problems for different companies in Connecticut as a part of the course curriculum. Her research