probability of these students choosing a STEM major incollege is low. This ultimately will affect the production of U.S. scientists and engineers needed to solveour future technological and research challenges. 1To place the K-12 mathematics and science scenario in perspective, when compared to foreign countries,the U.S. significantly lags most with respect to performance. Table 1 presents a compilation ofmathematics scores of 15 year olds enrolled in secondary education institutions in OEDC (Organizationfor Economic Cooperation and Development) countries. This international comparison of mathematicsperformance by 15 year olds indicates that the U.S. falls almost at the bottom of the comparator
probability of these students choosing a STEM major incollege is low. This ultimately will affect the production of U.S. scientists and engineers needed to solveour future technological and research challenges. 1To place the K-12 mathematics and science scenario in perspective, when compared to foreign countries,the U.S. significantly lags most with respect to performance. Table 1 presents a compilation ofmathematics scores of 15 year olds enrolled in secondary education institutions in OEDC (Organizationfor Economic Cooperation and Development) countries. This international comparison of mathematicsperformance by 15 year olds indicates that the U.S. falls almost at the bottom of the comparator
Program to StimulateCompetitive Research (EPSCoR) and RU/H institution.The CourseThe course focuses on the fundamentals of the three families of prevailing AM processes:extrusion-based, powder-based, and liquid-based, as well as learning about practical solutions toadditive manufacturing of common engineering materials including polymers, metals and alloys,ceramics, and composites. It has a lecture plus lab format, in that students learn the fundamentalsin a classroom, but then apply and broaden their knowledge in lab projects and independent studies.By the end of the semester, our goal is that students will: • Understand the core concepts and evolving technologies of different additive manufacturing processes. • Create
Paper ID #24742WIP: Proactive Dual Career and Relocation Assistance During the FacultyInterview ProcessDr. Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder Robyn Sandekian, PhD, is the Manager of Diverse Faculty Recruiting for the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. In this role, Robyn works with hiring commit- tees throughout the College to ensure that faculty searches reach a broad pool of potential applicants and coordinates training offered by the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) to identify and reduce implicit bias throughout the search process
Session 2793 AWRC: A Web-Based Reinforced Concrete Design Adaptive Testing System Yu-Hur Chou 1, Shang-Hsien Hsieh2 Tung-Nan Institute of Technology 1/ National Taiwan University2, TaiwanAbstractReinforced Concrete (RC) design is a very important course on civil engineering in highereducation. Students are taught in this course how to design a structure by using reinforcedconcrete. Students are also trained to follow the building code (Code by ACI, AmericanConcrete Institute) into design 11. Because the building code is a very complicated collectionof rules, students are easily
effective examination is to determine the test plan and objectives.The next step is to create the questions. These questions should be reviewed. During and after theexam, observation and feedback should be used to improve future examinations. Examples andtips will be presented throughout this process to illustrate the concepts. Finally, the application ofthis process to an engineering technology course is discussed.Test PlanThe foundation of an effective examination is a test plan containing test objectives organized in ahierarchical manner. Each test objective should have a clear relationship with mastering aparticular topic2. Test objectives may be drawn from course objectives or outcomes. A testobjective should be measurable or observable. The
Paper ID #23318Engagement in Practice: Partnering with a Local Community in an Effort toPromote RevitalizationMs. Joan A. Kowalski, Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington Joan A. Kowalski earned both her Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Civil Engineering from Penn State University. In 1987, she joined the faculty at the Penn State New Kensington Campus, where she has advanced to the rank of Assistant Teaching Professor in Engineering. In 1999, she assumed the role of Program Director for the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) Program. She co-founded the Fe- males Interested in Reaching for Science, Technology
Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #29468 Catherine E. Brawner is President of Research Triangle Educational Consultants. She received her Ph.D.in Educational Research and Policy Analysis from NC State University in 1996. She also has an MBA from Indiana University (Bloomington) and a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. She specializes in eval- uation and research in engineering education, computer science education, and technology education. Dr. Brawner is a founding member and former treasurer of Research Triangle Park Evaluators, an Ameri- can Evaluation Association affiliate organization and is a member of the American
then served as Vice President for Academic Affairs at James Madison University in Virginia Page 12.95.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Primer on Capacity BuildingAbstract: “Capacity building” is a phrase used frequently today in many contexts, but itsdefinition and implications are too often unclear or misunderstood. Its rapid ascendancy into ourvocabulary may leave the impression that it is an entirely new construct, although that is not thecase. This paper will review some of the roots of the concept in the thinking of professionals,writers and activists from many fields. It will
6.1033.5 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering Education”ROBERT J. HOFINGERProfessor Hofinger is an Associate Professor with Purdue University, Statewide School of Technology Program. Hehas taught at the Columbus campus for seven years, after having over 30 years experience as an analog and digitaldesign engineer with various electronic related industries, both in commercial and military applications. ProfessorHofinger received a BSEE degree from The Polytechnic Institute of New York in 1968 and a MSEE in 1973.LLOYD J. FELDMANNProfessor Feldmann received a BSME from the University of Arizona, an MSE from
Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, in collaboration with Brian Slocum, Figure 3: Lehigh’s Creativity and Innovation Lab Managing Director of Wilbur Powerhouse and other TE faculty.Also within the Wilbur Powerhouse is the Lehigh University Additive Manufacturing Lab. The3D printing technology in this lab, available to students in the TE program as well as others inthe Lehigh community, include a Stratasys Objet 30 Pro, Stratasys Dimension 768, 3D SystemsProJet 650, FormLabs Form1+, 7 MakerBot Replicator 2s, 1 MakerBot Replicator 2X, 1Makerbot Gen 5, and 8 Ultimaker 2s. Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference
Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Laboratory Experiments for Enhanced Learning of Electromechanical Devices Tomislav Bujanovic and Prasanta Ghosh, Senior Member, IEEE new smart grid workforce. In the Department of Electrical Abstract— In advanced Power Engineering and Smart Grid Engineering and Computer Science we have developed smartLaboratory environment students get opportunities to grid laboratory to support both undergraduate and graduatedemonstrate their ability to design and conduct experiments
preferto learn from one another. As a result of this research, NEEDS is experimenting with a variety ofon-line services that can develop and support emerging communities among the faculty who areinterested in interacting with one another in order to better use instructional technology and newpedogogies in their classrooms.In this paper, we discuss research on the potential impact of Web-based learning communitiesfor faculty who are interested in engineering education. This research has been used in the designof the architecture necessary for NEEDS to provide and support this service.I. IntroductionOne result of the exponential growth of the Internet and World Wide Web is that faculty (likeother users) are no longer satisfied with dealing with
preparing them forthe situations they may encounter as officers and as engineers after graduation. Just asany space mission is multi-disciplinary, select students from the Management,Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and PhysicsDepartments; participate with the Astronautical Engineering majors in the program. Thisprogram uses an evolutionary design approach in which cadets employ or refine cutting-edge technologies and procedures developed by their predecessors. Lessons learned arethen captured and help USAFA build a catalog of technical procedures for futuremissions. Because there is almost a 100% turnover every year, documentation is crucialto the success of the program[1].After a brief history of the program, this
Paper ID #41411Adoption of Digital Twin and Artificial Intelligence in Metal Additive Manufacturing:Current Status and Vision for FutureDr. Devi Kalla, Metropolitan State University of Denver Devi K. Kalla received a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Wichita State University. He is currently a Director and Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Metropolitan State University of Denver. He has made substantial contributions to the hybrid and modern field of sustainable manufacturing science and engineering technology. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024
Educational Psychology at Texas A&M. He is cur- rently working as a graduate assistant at Texas A&M. His research interests are game-based assessment, simulation-based assessments, performance assessments, instructional design.Dr. Susan Pedersen, Texas A&M University Susan Pedersen is an associate professor of Educational Technology at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on the design of games and virtual environments to support learning complex skills.Dr. Justin Foreman, Prairie View A&M University Dr. Foreman is an instructor at Prairie View A&M University in Electrical Engineering and at Lone Star College in Applied Technology. His areas of interest include FPGA’s, fiber optics, and microwave
sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (pstem),” Psychology of Women Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 420–436, 2017. [2] E. Ramsey and D. Brown, “Feeling like a fraud: Helping students renegotiate their academic identities,” College & Undergraduate Libraries, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 86–90, 2018. [3] A. M. Gloria, Psychosocial factors influencing the academic persistence of Chicano/a undergraduates. Arizona State University, 1993. [4] C. Bego, P. Thomas, X. Wang, and A. Dourado, “Investigating engineering persistence through expectancy value theory and machine learning techniques,” in 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2022. [5] J. Van Dyken, L. Benson, and P. Gerard, “Persistence in engineering: does initial
In someinstitutions, this service involvement has fueled the creation of courses and programs thatoffer Learning Through Service (LTS) which seems to attract a wider range of students toengineering. A growing body of evidence advocates that LTS may provide significantadvantages to engineering students, but studies to date are quite limited.11-15 Asuniversities play catch-up to these trends, a fundamental question remains unexplored:What motivates engineering students to be engaged in service?2. ObjectivesThis paper presents findings to the above question of student motivation from two LTSprograms at Michigan Technological University: (1) iDesign, an international senior-level capstone design program, and (2) Peace Corp Master s International
andcontinued in the NACME program for fall 2004. The reasons that eight students did notcontinue were: three students were not qualified for the program due to low grades, two studentsdid not enroll for fall 2004 although eligible to continue in the program (one of these students isworking for a year and considering a transfer to nursing), two students transferred to anotherschool (one to Aeronautical Technology and the other to another Engineering school near home),and one student, who did not see value in the NACME program, did not reapply.The one-year retention rate for the students continuing in the NACME program is 57.1%. Theone-year retention rate for the NACME students within the Fulton College of Engineering is14/21=67.7% and the one-year
and integration in the persistence of first- generation college students in STEM and non-STEM majors. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 53, 368–383 (2016).41. Aulck, L. et al. Stem-ming the Tide: Predicting STEM attrition using student transcript data. Preprint at https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1708.09344 (2017).42. Theobald, E. J. et al. Active learning narrows achievement gaps for underrepresented students in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and math. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 117, 6476–6483 (2020).43. Ballen, C. J., Wieman, C., Salehi, S., Searle, J. B. & Zamudio, K. R. Enhancing Diversity in Undergraduate Science: Self-Efficacy Drives Performance Gains with Active Learning
is the past chair of the IN/IL section. He is a fellow of the Teaching Academy and listed in the Book of Great Teachers at Purdue University./ He was the first engineering faculty member to receive the national Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning. He was a co-recipient of the National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education and the recipient of the National Society of Professional Engineers’ Educational Excellence Award and the ASEE Chester Carlson Award. He is a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and the National Society of Professional Engineers.Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette
is based on the widely publicized book “How PeopleLearn” (HPL). The HPL teaching framework presents the learning material as a series ofchallenges that are posed through a “Legacy Cycle.” Three VANTH modules, covering sevenchallenges, were tested in an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering course in Fall 2003. Theclass (N=32) was divided into two groups, control and trial, based on a random assignment.The control group performed the challenge in a traditional way (pencil and paper) while thetrial group solved the challenge using the VaNTH material located at a website. For eachgroup, a pre-test, post-test, and affect ranking were administered. The students were alsosurveyed on the learning effectiveness of the various components of each
technology4. Modern educational technology is revolutionizing the traditionalclassroom learning-teaching model. For example, the fluid mechanics course at Cooperunion and elsewhere has been taught in lecture mode using one main textbook5,7. Incontrast, the studio-classroom model offers lectures plus in-class demonstrations andexperiments8. Using benchtops apparatuses1 , an instructor giving a classroom lesson cannow flick a switch to dramatically illustrate pressure drop as flow passes into a Venturimeter2.Thus the benefits of lab and classroom are combined. Add to this multimedia --video,computer projections, interactive software-- and the classroom becomes dynamic,efficient, and engaging, providing a bridge between abstraction and application
that lag behindother majors, particularly among students in the physical and life sciences and engineering. Forthe 2012-13 academic year, the most recent for which data is available, social science, business,and humanities majors comprised over half of all U.S. students studying abroad for academiccredit, while physical and life sciences accounted for just 8.8%, and engineering for just 4.1%.3In comparison with earned bachelor’s degrees in S&E, this means that just 6.7% of S&Estudents nationwide study abroad.4 While the participation in study abroad among S&Estudents has been slowly rising over time, the low engagement of S&E students has persisted inspite of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET
Paper ID #17772A Model for Development of Employer Engagement at a Small CampusDr. Joseph Ranalli, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton Campus Dr. Joseph Ranalli is an Assistant Professor at Penn State Hazleton, and is the Program Option Coor- dinator for the Alternative Energy and Power Generation Engineering program. He previously earned a BS from Penn State and a PhD from Virginia Tech, both in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to his cur- rent appointment, he served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Energy Technology Lab in Morgantown, West Virginia. Dr. Ranalli’s current research interests include
for the class. It seemed to me that the only advantage I would get from Blackboard was in the presentation of the grade information to the students. Everything else would require me to do my usual web stuff PLUS an extra step in order to connect it into Blackboard. This seemed like a lot for relatively little return.”A Construction and Civil Engineering Technology Instructor put it this way: “Blackboard is too bulky, attempting to accomplish too many objectives, thereby requiring too much time for fluency for modest user.”Another theme was access restrictions. Although both Blackboard and WebCT can reportedly beconfigured to make pages public [1], most systems are not set up to make this easy. Theacademic
. Engineering students detail their designs in formal, technical reports. Marketing studentscreate sales slogans, advertising materials, and product descriptions. Business students preparenotes of company meetings and send invitations and thank you messages to faculty who serveas consultants.Student learning in the MIMIC projectMIMIC provides students with opportunities to learn about: • the entire process of manufacturing, • technologies outside of their discipline, • thinking and communication styles of other disciplines, and, • project and time management.At every stage in the process, all team members participate in making company decisions, suchas deciding on a product, purchasing components and pricing. All team members alsoparticipate in
a moderate size electrical engineering program. Each of thedetermined learning outcomes is assessed via multiple tools to improve confidence inassessment findings. Although challenging to develop, the presented assessment program in thispaper proved successful in enhancing the assessed educational program.I. IntroductionThe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Criteria 2000 emphasizesdemonstrating that educational program outcomes have been accomplished and that graduateshave attained the desired educational attributes. Of paramount significance is to demonstratethat the mission of the department and its program objectives have been determined based oninput from the department’s constituencies. Multiple assessment
Design of Web-Based Ladder Logic Tool Kit for Programmable Logic Controller Education Sheng-Jen (“Tony”) Hsieh Dept. of Engineering Technology and Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Texas A&M University, College Station, TXAbstractLabs are often an essential component in engineering education. However, factors such aslimited lab time, expensive equipment and high student-to-equipment ratios often hinderstudents’ learning. Simulation tools can be used to help prepare students to take full advantageof limited lab resources. This paper describes a web-based Ladder Logic Toolkit that providesphysical and procedural simulation
Page 10.1269.3both the college and K-12 education levels. For example, Stanford University used a similarcompetition as a class project for its Mechatronic Systems Design and Methodology course and Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationGeorgia Tech’s Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST) has proposed paper vehiclecompetitions. These ideas served as the foundation on which this competition was built.The Annual Human Powered Paper Vehicle Competition takes place in early spring on thecampus of Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington. The success of the HPPVcontest in meeting