introduction to the tools and technologies utilized and effective strategies for masteringmaterial presented online.Current WorkThe team has begun to identify specific topics to be included in the MBSE curriculum throughinterviews with industrial partners and searching peer-institution curricula. As of January 20,2020, our team had spoken with eight people at three partner corporations who have furthervalidated the need and demand for a vertically integrated program of MBSE education.Discussions with industry partners has revealed that it is useful for all employees involved withmanufacturing and upper management, to be familiar with the concept of model-based systemsengineering, while design engineers must be able to apply the concepts. Some
research fields.Dr. Nicholas Andres Brake, Lamar University Nicholas Brake is currently an Assistant Professor in the civil and environmental department at Lamar University. He received his B.S. (2005), M.S. (2008), and Ph.D. (2012) from Michigan State University. His area of expertise is in cementitious composites which includes: fracture and fatigue mechanics of quasi-brittle materials, recycled concrete, conductive concrete, reinforced concrete, pervious concrete, geopolymer, and structural dynamics. He currently teaches a wide array of courses that includes statics, reinforced concrete design, structural analysis, and materials engineering. Dr. Brake actively integrates project based and peer assisted learning
not have clear beginnings, middles orends. One issue that emerged from students’ journals was a tension between engineering andsocial science. On one hand, there was a recognition of the importance of social and politicalcontext across students’ disciplinary backgrounds. However, this did not necessarily mean it wassimple or straightforward for students to integrate these perspectives into their work. “There was certainly a belief that I was on the team to ‘do the social stuff’ required on the course, from both myself and my fellow team members. There was an underestimation of the significance of the social science, in the fact that social science principles must be applied to any development project, in a sense they
, and maintains a portfolio of NSF and private grants to support STEM and CTE pathways in the region.Christopher Russell Christopher Russell is the Information and Engineering Technologies Project Manager at Northern Vir- ginia College. His research focuses on developing novel methods of integrating digital fabrication into formal and informal STEM instruction. Currently, he manages two NSF ATE awards - Makers By Design, a design thinking professional learning program for interdisciplinary groups of educators, and Product Design Incubator, a summer-long entrepreneurship program for community college students.Antarjot Kaur ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Building Data
, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Kathy Jackson is a Senior Research Associate at Pennsylvania State University’s Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence. In this position, she promotes Penn State’s commitment to enriching teaching and learning. She works in all aspects of education including faculty development, instructional design, en- gineering education, online teaching and learning, learner support, and evaluation. In addition, she is an Affiliate Faculty in the Higher Education Department where she is the instructor for a course on college teaching. Page 26.1298.1
Paper ID #11774Impacts of a Neural Engineering Summer Research Experience on High SchoolStudents (Evaluation)Kristen M Clapper Bergsman, Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering Kristen Clapper Bergsman is the Pre-College Education Manager at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering at the University of Washington. She is also a doctoral student and graduate research assistant in Learning Sciences and Human Development at the University of Washington. Previously, Kristen worked as an educational consultant offering support in curriculum development and production. She received her M.Ed. in Curriculum and
integrates these program students into a single cohort.IntroductionThe honors program at The Citadel provides an exceptional learning experience foroutstanding students. It has been admitting 20-24 students each year and has an 85 percentretention rate for all four years. The honors program attributes its success to a number ofspecific high impact practices including; 1. Assigning a honors faculty advisor; 2. A honorsstudent association responsible for social and academic activities; 3. Maintaining cohesion byplacing each cohort into nine honors courses in the first three years; 4. Providing honorseminar classes; and 5. Requiring two honors directed research projects. Together thesepractices provide students help in their acclimation and later
Paper ID #25326Cui Bono. Engineering and Technological Literacy and Higher EducationDr. John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin John Heywood is professorial Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin- The University of Dublin. he is a Fellow of ASEE and Life Fellow of IEEE. he is an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Ireland. He has special interest in education for the professions and the role of professions in society. He is author of Engineering Education. research and development in Curriculum and Instruction; The Assessment of learning in Engineering Education; The human Side of Engineering, and Empowering
science to coordinating learning communities addressing mathematics curriculum as a persistent barrier impacting student success and retention in undergraduate STEM pro- grams. She is currently OI on a NSF DR K-12, Co-PI on a USDOE Title III Hispanic Serving Institution, internal evaluator on FAU’s NSF Advance early phase grant, and a member of the Advisory Board on the NSF STEM+C in Broward Schools and the NSF MSP at the University of Toledo.Dr. Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Ali Zilouchian is currently the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University. He is also currently the Director of ”CAPTURE” program which
students’ mindsets and attitudes has not been fully explored. Individually,these research foci give a partial, but incomplete picture of how diverse students navigate theirpathways in engineering. Latent diversity combines these multiple perspectives to understandholistically students’ multiple and layered attitudes as well as how these underlying characteristicsaffect how they negotiate their identity as an engineer. This approach also includes how latentdiversity is shaped by students’ experiences, and thus, latent diversity integrates intersecting socialidentities like race or ethnicity, class, and gender as well as others.A Complementary FocusExamining latent diversity or diverse students’ mindsets, thoughts, attitudes, and potential
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
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
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
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
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