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 pedagogies into his courses.Dr. James C. Curry Dr. James Curry is an Associate Professor in the Lamar Industrial Engineering department. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The impact of one-credit introductory engineering courses on engineering self-efficacy: seminar v. project-basedAbstractThis evidence-based practice paper presents the results of two different one-credit introductoryengineering courses: i) a project based and peer assisted learning introductory
of learning from school into professional practice as well as exploring students’ conceptions of diversity and its importance within engineering fields.Ms. Allyson Jo Ironside, Oregon State University Ally Ironside is a recent graduate from LeTourneau University where she studied Water Resources in Civil Engineering. She is currently fusing her technical background with her passion for education in pursuing a doctoral degree in Civil Engineering while conducting research in Engineering Education at Oregon State University. Her research interests include the adoption of teaching best practices in engineering and the personal epistemology development students.Dr. Nathaniel Hunsu, University of Georgia Nathaniel
assistant professor in physics at the University of Maryland in the Physics Education Research (PER) Group. Turpen’s work involves designing and researching contexts for learn- ing within higher education (for both students and faculty). Her research draws from perspectives in an- thropology, cultural psychology, and the learning sciences. Through in-situ studies of classroom practice and institutional practice, she focuses on the role of culture in science learning and educational change. She pursues projects that have high potential for leveraging equitable change in undergraduate STEM pro- grams and she makes these struggles for change a direct focus of her research efforts. She also serves on several national
].Identifying and overriding our unconscious biases can have a positive impact on interpersonalcommunication and reduce the barriers for others’ success.Why engineering education?Each profession has its own culture, and engineering education culture specifically can beresistant to learning about and addressing unconscious bias. Cech’s research identifies threepillars of engineering education culture that decrease a student’s level of engagement with publicwelfare over time [11]. The three pillars: depoliticization, social/technical dualism, andmeritocracy; affect how engineers engage with public welfare, which can be extended to apply toother social issues such as unconscious bias. To effectively raise awareness of unconscious biasand encourage
, intelligent processin which designers generate, evaluate, and specify concepts for devices, systems, or processeswhose form and function achieve clients’ objectives or users’ needs while satisfying a specifiedset of constraints.” [1]. Therefore, it can be assumed that PBL is actually the most appropriatepedagogical model for both engineering design and SE Education. Even though PBL seems to be the most adequate model for teaching SE, there are a numberof open research questions and challenges regarding this pedagogical model. Some of themhave been identified by Dym et al. [1]Current practices in SE educationInterstingly, current SE education programs do not pay much attention to the design of compe-tency models, nor to the adoption of SE standards
engineering and development of an interest in STEM topics in K-12 students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Assessing the Impact of Educational Factors on Conceptual Understanding of Geotechnical Engineering TopicsIntroductionA commonly accepted assessment instrument used for both diagnostic and formative purposes isthe concept inventory [1], [2], which refers to any kind of research-based assessment techniquethat measures conceptual understanding [1], [3]. The usage of concept inventories helpsinstructors measure the effectiveness of their teaching [1], [3] and determines if students have thecorrect understanding of important concepts on a topic. When the same set of questions is
Secondary Education in Math, and a M.S. in Equity and Diversity from the University of Nevada, Reno.Mrs. Marissa A Tsugawa-Nieves, University of Nevada, Reno Marissa Tsugawa is a graduate research assistant studying at the University of Nevada, Reno in the PRiDE Research Group. She is currently working towards a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. She expects to graduate May of 2019. Her research interests include student development of identity and motivation in graduate engineering environments and understanding creativity in engineering design processes.Ms. Jessica Nicole Chestnut, North Carolina State UniversityHeather Perkins, North Carolina State University Heather entered the Applied Social and Community Psychology
of their activities and faculty advisor to their chapters.Juliet J. Trail, UVA Center for Diversity in Engineering Juliet J. Trail is a research assistant in the University of Virginia Center for Diversity in Engineering (CDE). In this capacity she serves as program coordinator for the Research Experience for Teachers (PI Carolyn Vallas), which includes both a summer experience and an annual INNOVATION: Teaching Nanotechnology workshop for K-12 teachers. Ongoing activities with the CDE also include numerous academic year and summer programs designed to inspire and sustain student interest at the K-12, un- dergraduate, and graduate levels in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Prior to serving
women engineers are mannish looking,” Mrs. Loomis explained, “but a woman defeats her own purpose if she tries to make herself into a masculine type engineer.” The feminine qualities and talents a woman brings to engineering earn for her the acceptance in every type of engineering, according to Mrs. Loomis. These include “a woman’s special talent for detail and thoroughness in research, her loyalty and sense of obligation to her employer, and her creative ability, whether it is in designing or in a time study to do a job more efficiently.”Taken together, SWE archive data deliver a clear message: Women may do the prototypicallymasculine work of engineering, but only if they retain their normative femininity. Ultimately, solong as women
improvements in senior designproject definition, coordination and management will be recommended to help achieve theoverall international experience outcomes to any project.Hypothesis:A previous study showed that including an international component into a typical civilengineering design project provided improvements in students’ motivation, attitude andexperience when compared to a typically classroom project. The research questions for thisstudy was whether a local domestic setting project, with the same level of interaction with localcommunities, can have the same impact on students’ outcome as the international projects.IntroductionThe primary goals in offering a service learning project within the framework of a traditionalcurriculum are to
bothsurprised and delighted by the impact of the event and their project.Finally, one thing that all of the students suffered from on this capstone project was a lack offoresight. The design project was structured so that faculty research and pre-project prep wouldguide/facilitate the work, not dictate the final results. This working method allowed for a greatdegree of student input (far greater than any other capstone deign project), but it also meant thatstudents were operating with reserved confidence and expectations. In the end, there was a gooddegree of original/inventive design, but stereotypes of engineers and artists prevailed. Theengineering students craved structure and focus, and the architecture and dance students sawstructure and focus as
2006-1883: DEVELOPMENT OF A DESIGN PHASE CHECKLIST FOR OUTCOMEBASED ACTIVE/COOPERATIVE LEARNING COURSESAli Al-Bahi, King Abdulaziz University Dr. Ali M. Al-Bahi is professor of aerodynamics and flight mechanics in the Aeronautical Engineering Department of King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has a 20 years teaching experience in Aeronautical Engineering and was graduated from Cairo Univ., Egypt and ENSAE, France. Prior to joining the department he built a practical engineering experience by working for the aircraft industry in Egypt. He published numerous papers in CFD, applied aerodynamics, and flight mechanic. Since 2002 he became interested in assessment and
Paper ID #44342Integrating Engineering Design in Laboratory Sessions for Second-Year MechanicalEngineering StudentsDr. Deeksha Seth, Villanova University Deeksha Seth is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at Villanova University. Her primary research interests includes integrative and interdisciplinary engineering education.Dr. Robert P. Loweth, Purdue University Robert P. Loweth (he/him) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research explores how engineering students and practitioners engage stakeholders in their engineering
construction project engineer for a construction contractor and as a research engineer for the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory in Port Hueneme California. His teaching interests include construction equipment, cost estimating and construction process design. His research interests include highway and heavy construction methods, road maintenance methods and innovations in construction process administration.Dr. Natalya A. Koehler Koehler, Franklin University, OH Instructional Design Faculty Franklin University, OHDr. Aliye Karabulut Ilgu, Iowa State University Page 24.1400.1 c
communities of practice (CoP) facilitated through theEngineering Collaboration for Online and Remote Education (E-CORE) initiative, forums andconferences organized through both the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) andthe American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and conversations at the BCCATEngineering Articulation Committee annual meeting. These forums focused on sharing best practicesacross the post-secondary sector to mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on students and instructors.This paper focuses on the adjustments made to the first-year design courses due to COVID-19, asoffered at a primarily open-access, teaching intensive university with class sizes of between 30 and 60students with no teaching assistant support
designs and make revisions to improve them. Thismanner of effectively executing iterations of designs is conducive to an active and compellinglearning environment. In addition to communicating design concepts to others, rapid prototyping is also useful inverifying the feasibility of new design objectives. Through creating prototypes, students canexamine whether or not their designs operate as intended and might detect problems that wouldnot be apparent without a physical model. Thus, prototypes can be used for functional testing anddesign validation. [9]2. Course Design The course was designed with input from student staff of the Institute’s oldest student-runmakerspace, undergraduate and graduate research students, as well as recent
circuits.This format proved to be somewhat problematic in practice. Since the fabrication tasks areconsecutive—i.e. the CAD design needs to be done before the printed circuit board can becreated—many students on a team had too much free time. The instructors initially assumed thatthis free time would be filled assembling the car kit and designing a paint scheme for the car.These tasks were not as time consuming as the actual control board fabrication however.Initially there were three graduate student instructors assigned to the course, one for each of thefabrication steps, but one instructor was not available and management of the course wasproblematic in this first iteration and may affect learning outcomes.Once the teams’ cars were assembled they
, courses tailored to enhancing pedagogical skills in such areasbecome valuable. As such, teacher professional development programs and courses that focus onteaching engineering with real-world problems emerge as catalysts for transformative teachingpractices. In the context of this study, we delve into a 3-hour graduate course entitledNanoEnvironmental Engineering for Teachers (NEET) offered free of cost at Rice University,Arizona State University, Yale University, and the University of Texas at El Paso under theNanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment(NEWT). The NEET class is designed for AP Environmental Science, Environmental Systems,Biology or Life Sciences, and K-12 STEM teachers to learn about water
researchexperience can provide quick and valuable information for faculty mentors. Faculty mentors canuse this feedback to address with participants issues that may be influencing their learning ortheir thinking about future educational or career goals, and make adjustments to improve thelearning environment before the end of the experience.References 1. Willis, D. A., Krueger, P. S., and Kendrick, A.(2013). The influence of a research experiences for undergraduates program on student perceptions and desire to attend graduate school. Journal of STEM Education, 14(2), 21-28. 2. Zydney, A. L., Bennett, J. S., Shahid, A., and Bauer, K. W. (2002). Impact of undergraduate research in engineering. Journal of Engineering Education, 91
Technology 7/ Western Carolina University 8 AbstractThis is the fourth paper in the special panel session focusing on issues driving reform of faculty rewardsystems to advance professional engineering education for creative engineering practice and leadership oftechnological innovation to enhance U.S. competitiveness. This paper explores the conceptual beginningsof a template for improved faculty reward systems that better reflect the practice of engineering for full-time, tenure track professionally oriented faculty in schools of engineering and technology.1. Background and HistoryThe United States has built an excellent system of research-oriented graduate education that is second tonone for the
engineering (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams (e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems (f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility (g) an ability to communicate effectively (h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context (i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning (j) a knowledge of contemporary issues (k) an ability to use the
courses ranging from Intro to Civil & Environmental Engineering for first year students to a seminar on Profes- sional Practices and Ethics to seniors. He is also heavily involved with the online graduate program. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Integrating Ethics into the Curriculum through Design CoursesAbstractTo address shortcomings in traditional engineering ethics curriculum a series of assignmentswere integrated into a senior level steel design course. The goal of the ethics component beingintroduced in a steel design course was to improve student internalization of ethics curriculumthrough assignments that were relevant to the design class material and everyday
single rubric can be used forboth. The instructor grades a student report using the rubric, and aspects of the rubric areused as embedded indicators for assessing program outcomes. Thus, essentially all of theeffort required to collect program assessment data is integrated into the routine task ofgrading.Overall Approach to Assessing Measurable OutcomesBecause program outcomes speak to the capabilities of graduates, the Rowan UniversityChemical Engineering department has settled on an assessment strategy that focuses onthe two courses in the curriculum that best reflect real engineering practice: Chemical Plant Design- This is the program’s capstone design experience. Junior/Senior Engineering Clinic- This is a multidisciplinary
(NHERI) – NetworkCoordination Office (NCO) is a National Science Foundation funded collaborative grant thataims to coordinate research and outreach activities for the multi-disciplinary natural hazardsengineering research. As part of the NHERI-NCO, the Education and Community Outreachinitiatives include opportunities for undergraduate students to conduct research to mitigate theeffects of natural hazards. The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) has been well-researched as a best practice for preparing college students for graduate studies (Willis, Krueger,& Kendrick, 2013), especially underrepresented students in engineering (Labrador & Perez,2006). Curriculum was developed specifically for the NHERI REU program to
graduates from thetwo programs were considered by industry to be essentially equivalent and therefore theperception of professionalism was essentially equivalent as well. As the emphasis onengineering research science grew, the applied content was frequently moved to technologyinstitutes and programs. This did not diminish the relevance of the applied skills. The appliedtechnology skills were valued by industry as being important to the design success.It is important for technology administrators and educators to understand the negative impact ofengineering education’s inability to reconcile their roles and desires. By pursuing a perceptionof professionalism, engineering programs removed the education of many of the skills whichmade engineering
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and several others offered by other departments. Of the 102students in Systems Engineering graduating class of 2008, 40 of them took the emergingtechnologies course or the honors equivalent. Our exist survey asked students to pick theirfavorite elective course, and emerging technologies ranked second overall, with a total of 17.3%of the votes (first place was Mobile Robot Design at 30%). Thus, slightly less than half of thestudents who took emerging technologies considered it the best of the five elective courses thatthey took. For a non-traditional course such as this to outshine all of the other electives in themajor is a strong testament to the impact of this different way of looking at technology and the
. The interviews lasted an average of 45 minutes and ranged from about 20 minutes to1hr 15 minutes. Students were asked a series of questions about themselves and their reactions tothe program. Such information is useful in determining successful research program designs, andcan be applied to future summer research programs. Overall, the main factor in ensuring thestudent has a positive summer research experience is their relationship with their mentors. Thosewho had helpful, involved mentors or graduate student mentors had better experiences than thosewho did not. Although interactions with fellow students were important to them, the formalsocial events were not beneficial, and were frequently completely unattended. Students muchpreferred the
Paper ID #19732”Hiring Other Classes”: Working across Departmental Boundaries in Inter-disciplinary Projects for Senior EngineersDr. Cynthia H. Carlson PE, PhD, Merrimack College Dr. Carlson worked as a water resources engineer for 10 years prior to earning her doctorate, contributing to improved water management in communities within the United States, Middle East, and Singapore. She has been a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) since 2002. Dr. Carlson’s research interests are broadly characterized as ’how civil engineering impacts public health’, and include storm water man- agement, modeling environment/engineering
have more collegial relationships [1, 10, 11, 12]. Facultywho do not receive adequate mentoring are more likely to become isolated, stressed, andexperience burnout that can decrease morale and increase turnover [13]. Most facultydevelopment orientations and workshops can provide faculty with general best practices withinteaching, research, work-life balance, and more. Mentorship offers the additional value ofspecific advice tailored to an individual’s current situation and psychosocial support. There is a clear consensus that faculty development and mentorship are important, but trendshave largely not impacted faculty mentorship offerings. The majority of higher educationinstitutions in the United States do not have formal programs [14