International Programs (CIP) at the University of Dayton. The CIP provides coordination, strategic planning and administrative support forMrs. Marjorie Langston LangstonMr. Douglas Picard, Greene County Career Center Doug Picard is an engineering and manufacturing instructor at the Greene County Career Center in Xenia, Ohio. In 2023 and 2024, he participated in the Global STEM RET, facilitated by University of Dayton and Central State University, with in- and pre-service teachers from Dayton and surrounding area. He traveled to Banagalore, India, to observe and research how solar and other renewable energies are incorporated into developing areas and developed/published classroom curriculum. As part of this research
assistants tocurrent students who are struggling in a course [40], [41]. In our future work, we plan to explorethe impact of learning assistants more comprehensively by comparing the perceptions of bothinstructors and students. This investigation aims to identify and address recurring challenges inengineering statics. By reducing the high rate of failing grades and providing actionablerecommendations for statics instructors, this work seeks to improve students' learningexperiences and manage their expectations of the course.RecommendationsThe following summarizes our recommendations on improving the challenges students face inengineering statics based on this study’s findings:Revisit Prerequisite Concepts: Instructors should allocate time to revisit
? And I also think that it's just important to tie together these concepts. Yeah, engineering is involved with economics. Like, oh, yeah, this does matter. And on a global scale. And I think it's really cool for them to see these Geopolitics. Some students did projects one semester about different cooking oils, and there's a shortage there because Ukraine produces a bunch of cooking oil…. In the Design for Inclusion class we talk more specifically, I guess, about sustainability. And again, it’s sort of in the history of engineering itself. We watched a documentary called the Light Bulb Conspiracy and it really discusses the concept of planned obsolescence. It unveils this whole great story [about] a cartel of light bulb
(not replace) teachers.”These recommendations highlight a strong desire to instill ethical awareness and critical thinkingas part of AI use in education, ensuring that AI tools are pedagogically supportive and not misused.2. Customization and PersonalizationParticipants suggested that AI tools should be better tailored to meet the diverse learning needsof students and the instructional preferences of educators. Recommendations in this themeincluded: “Offer personalized learning based on student pace and style.” “Let educators customize AI outputs, lesson plans, and prompts.” “Provide multimodal support (e.g., visuals, audio, interactive tools).”These responses reflect a call for
model GC-induced write amplification inSSDLab. Real SSDs may have other sources of write amplification like wear leveling[3], [46].shown in Table 1 provide none or only a few lines of information for storage. The first week is forHDD/SSD physical internals, which is related to the latency calculation. The second week is forSSD and FTL details. Our planned student workload per programming assignment is 50 to 60lines of code in a duration of two weeks. Thus, we also provide two weeks of lab sessions todiscuss the programming assignment.In the labs, we review the overall structure of the topics (i.e., how FTL handles requests) andmake sure students understand how to implement the assignments from a high level by asking andanswering questions about
Paper ID #47096Fruitful Endeavors: Continuous Peer Feedback to Develop Positive TeamDynamicsBrian Patrick O’Connell, Northeastern University Dr. O’Connell is an associate teaching professor in the First-Year Engineering program at Northeastern University. He studied at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2006 then worked in industry as a Mechanical Engineer working on ruggedized submarine optronic systems. He returned to academia in 2011 at Tufts University planning to work towards more advanced R&D but fell for engineering education and educational technologies. His research now focuses on developing
attuned to the social contexts oftheir work across various engineering fields.These early findings set the stage for future work that can assess the long-term impact ofsociotechnical training on professional practice, pilot the integration of such training into otherengineering disciplines, and explore broader sociotechnical curriculum development. Futurelongitudinal studies could explore how such pedagogy courses influence how TAs teach indifferent academic contexts. Additionally, many of our DS TAs still take computing and statisticspedagogy training courses in lieu of the DS pedagogy training course studied; we plan to exploredownstream effects of different pedagogy courses by studying a broader range of DS TAs in theclassroom.Finally, ongoing
resources required to implement a set ofsix hands-on statics activities. It is well established that active and hands-on learning canimprove student outcomes. However, planning, resourcing, and implementation can be a barrierto their use. Our goal is to lower the implementation barrier for busy faculty that are hesitant toadopt active learning despite awareness of the research. We have created an easily accessiblerepository of the resources required to source, assemble, and implement Statics Shoebox Kits.Five criteria were considered in the development of the kits and activities. 1) Very little prep timeshould be required from the instructor. 2) The materials should be readily available, portable,inexpensive, and reusable. 3) Activity worksheets
courses was an upper-level course. The participants’ computer science courseregistrations spanned two required second-year courses, all three required third-year courses,seven elective third-year courses, and five fourth-year courses. Each participant received $100 ingift cards to a preferred vendor for their participation in the study. All names used in this paperare pseudonyms.5.3 Data CollectionI collected data over one term through beginning-of-term and end-of-term semi-structuredinterviews and weekly reflective journals.Each 40-60 minute initial interview followed the same plan but differed in its execution as I askedfollow-up questions that were dependent on participant’s responses.Participants were asked to write for 15-20 minutes per
graduation in 2025, Gracie will be pursuing a master’s degree in structural engineering and plans to further continue her education with a PhD in engineering education.Hayden J Wulf, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Hayden Wulf is a fourth-year civil engineering undergraduate at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln (UNL). She has been an undergraduate research assistant within the Engineering Education Research department at UNL for the past two years under the guidance of Dr. Grace Panther and Dr. Heidi Diefes-Dux. Her research during this time has focused on instructor adaptability, active learning and assessment practices, and transparency between instructors and students. She has presented one previous paper on
.2023.532.[7] J. K. Estell, “EMbedding the KEEN framework: An assessment plan for measuring ABET student outcomes and entrepreneurial mindset,” ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, vol. 2020-June, 2020, doi: 10.18260/1-2--33968.[8] D. Rae and D. E. Melton, “Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in US Engineering Education: An International View of the KEEN Project,” The Journal of Engineering Entrepreneurship, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 1–16, 2017.[9] D. Burkey, H. Bozorgmanesh, M. Srivastava, and R. Mendes, “Entrepreneurial Engineering Education – A Research Experience for Undergraduates Focused on Entrepreneurship and Technical Innovation,” in Conference Proceedings, ASEE Annual Conference &
research ideas orwork, excluding (e.g., favoritism, not talking about historical sexual harassment), andunspecified discrimination. Not surprisingly the combination of factors led this woman to leaveher institution to find a more supportive environment. So eventually I very much secretly interviewed at other places. And I didn't resign until I had a job offer, and I talked to my therapist about my plan of action on how to resign gracefully, just because my department had retaliated against other people who had resigned by freezing their grant accounts, refusing to transfer their grants to new institutions, and things of that nature so…. people who know me personally and are close to me I will speak to you. But on the most part, [my
were in place andhow best to plan for her leave. This professor noted that she received very little support andperceived that pregnancy was viewed by her administration as an individual problem that apregnant person had to “solve”, and the institution acted as if had no responsibility to ensureinformation and support were available. You have to… find out what resources are available... those policies exist in some book somewhere, but nobody in the department knows them... it's your problem because you are pregnant, you have to find [the policy] ... it's not the institution’s role to support, it’s your role to seek and find it. Professor 8, Donnybrook.While women discussed the negative stereotypes associated with family
model[25] to critically examine our experiences during the program's creation,administration, and post-implementation phases within broader social, cultural, and institutionalcontexts. This model involves three baseline questions for extracting learning from criticalincidents:The “What?” describes the incident, defining the facts and feelings, and uncovering recurringthemes, values, and assumptions connected to larger societal constructs.The “So What?” examines the implications of the incident, placing personal experiences withinbroader cultural, historical, and structural frameworks to understand their significance.The “Now What?” focuses on action plans and suggestions for engaging with the learnings.For brevity, we group events by recurring
included in the full text review. While thisnumber is larger than expected, we plan to develop a set of inclusion and exclusion criteria specificto the full-text analysis. Along with lessening the number of records, the inclusion and exclusioncriteria will provide us with the most adequate literature for addressing our research question.During the full-text analysis phase we will identify additional themes in the literature that discussthe integration of JEDI in the curriculum. While the review of abstracts focused of the strategiesof implementing JEDI concepts in engineering curriculum, the ongoing work will analyze thesestrategies alongside their publication dates. This is done to completely satisfy the research questionand understand how the
, and representatives from universities, research centers, civilsociety, and the private sector met to formulate a declaration and action plan to build consensus aroundpolicies, projects, and other solutions focused on governance, regulatory, and institutional frameworks forthe safe, trustworthy, and ethical development of AI in the Americas.Using the results of the commissioned foresight study, LACCEI identified its initial area of focus assemiconductor and chip materials, design, and manufacturing, considering it strategic for security andeconomy in the Americas. In 2022, the United States enacted the CHIPS and Science Act [22], with $280billion in funding to support domestic research, manufacturing, and workforce development in this
beams, and includedsome small side holes for the bench user’s view.These two example talks were conducted in the classrooms of two teachers from the DesignTalks community of practice. In this study, we investigated the perceptions of these teachers andfour others, asking, How do elementary teachers perceive the benefits of intentionally facilitatedwhole-class conversations during engineering design units?MethodsThis qualitative study is part of a larger project in which university researchers partnered with K-6 teachers to develop Design Talks. We started in 2020 with two core teacher partners, meetingbi-weekly to discuss readings, plan engineering design units, and brainstorm structures forleading whole-class conversations within these units
showany significant differences when compared to any other condition, which could be attributed toits overlapping similarities with all the other manufacturing methods.The results from this study lay the groundwork for future research on the interactions betweenexposure to manufacturing methods and students’ approach to CAD. For example, a subsequentstudy is planned to replicate the procedure in its entirety except for using an alternative model forthe manufacturing demonstrations and the modeling activity. Using an alternative model mayprovide clarity about whether the observed effects are model-specific or represent a broaderinteraction between manufacturing and modeling behavior in CAD. There may also beopportunities for expanding the palette
Engineering Education, 2025Trends in Modular Construction Research: A Bibliometric Examination of Developed and Developing RegionsAbstractModular construction is a process in which various building types, standardized structuralcomponents and pre-designed floor plans are constructed offsite under controlled plantconditions before being transported and assembled on-site. This method of construction hasgained significant recognition in recent years due to its numerous benefits, including increasedefficiency, improved safety, greater flexibility in design, reduced construction time, enhancedquality control, reduced waste and improved sustainability. Despite its well-documented benefits,its adoption varies significantly across developed
marketable skills; and (4) experience network Career Readiness and secure job opportunities upon graduation. To inspire students to be involved in undergraduate research, STEM faculty will be invited to engage students in active participation in their research areas as part of the Undergraduate project's plan for student professional development. A well-established model that Research includes student research seminars/workshops, funding support for student research, faculty mentors, and opportunities for them to present at KU spring semester research symposium will be adapted for the project Research indicates that revising the