follows. • Alternative credentials: micro-credentials, digital badges, and other industry-recognized certificates. • Digital open badge: use of digital technologies to represent competencies and various learning achievements; electronic badges include standard metadata on the evidence of learning and link back to sponsoring institution and evaluation criteria. An open badge has specific technical standards, as dictated by IMS Global. • Certificate: a credential issued by an institution in recognition of the completion of a curriculum that usually represents a smaller domain of knowledge than established degrees. Noncredit certificates need no external approval and must be identified as such
Paper ID #44217Identifying the Skills and Student Activities that Influence Career Pathwaysfor Black vs. non- Black Engineering GraduatesD’andre Jermaine Wilson-Ihejirika P.Eng., University of Toronto D’Andre Wilson-Ihejirika is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto within the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education & Practice (ISTEP). Prior to that she worked for many years as an engineer and project manager in the Oil & Gas industry. She is originally from Nassau, Bahamas, and completed her B.Eng in Chemical Engineering at McGill University and her MASc. from the Centre
Engineering Alliance (IEA), Washington Accord [1], European Commission,Bologna Process [2] , Accreditation Board of Engineering Technology (ABET) [3], Middle StatesCommission of Higher Education (MSCHE) [4] and National Commission of AcademicAccreditation and Assessment (NCAAA) [5] are based on an Outcome-Based Education (OBE)model and require higher education institutions and engineering programs to show studentachievement in terms of established learning outcomes. It is clearly stated in multiple researchpapers published by the National Institute of Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) [25,26] andothers [6,28,29] that in many higher education institutions, actual Continual Quality Improvement(CQI) and accreditation efforts are minimally integrated
most impactful time toenergize students about careers in STEM is in K-12 settings. To emphasize and spotlight the importance ofbuildings on humans, along with providing an interactive learning experience for potential future STEMstudents, a five-day summer camp focused on multi-disciplinary building design was held at (insertuniversity name). The camp curriculum included hands-on, design-oriented projects from severaldisciplines: architecture, mechanical, structural, construction, sustainability, acoustics, and lighting. Inaddition, tours of several buildings on campus were conducted along with after-hours relaxation time forcampers. The implementation of activities and the well-designed hands-on projects not only increased thestudents
Paper ID #17443Using Engineering Design Teaching Portfolios to Gauge Design Teacher Per-formance and Infer Design Pedagogical Content KnowledgeDr. David Crismond, City College of the City University of New York David P. Crismond is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at City College, City University of New York, 138th St. & Convent Ave. NAC 6/207b, New York, NY 10031; dcrismond@ccny.cuny.edu. His research interests relate to engineering design cognition and instruction, and helping teachers build their own design pedagogical content knowledge and do integrated STEM instruction using design chal- lenges
for the European Society of Engineering Education. Further information can be found on her website: www.sociologyofengineering.org.Dr. Andrew Danowitz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Andrew Danowitz received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2014. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. His engineering education interests include student mental health, retention, and motivation. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Engineering Students Coping with COVID-19: Yoga
well aware of these novel technologies, we need to update our curriculum andcourse design. In this paper, I present some laboratories (labs) that the students conducted as apart of a course project in the ubiquitous computing class. This course is an elective forundergraduate Computer and Information Sciences or Information technology students. Thestudents who take this course are either juniors or seniors. Covid-19 has taught us how remoteteaching is useful to ensure proper education during the time of the pandemic. This project aimsto design different lab modules that the students can conduct without purchasing hardware. Idesigned this course at the time of covid pandemic to ensure student learning and success in aneconomical way. I devised
. 44.In our cross-college undergraduate course aimed at open ideation and creative inquiry, we workwith student groups that include engineering, science, design, and humanities majors. Toincrease creative practice, we focus on identifying and addressing uncertainty avoidancebehaviors, which are often high in engineering students,8 and using design thinking strategies tosupport students’ ability to continue working throughout the loosely structured curriculum. Inthese settings, it is critical to provide students with the permission they need to exploreambiguous spaces, and to offer support and guidance on how to overcome perceived failure9. Asinstructors in our own interdisciplinary team, we used an auto-ethnographic practice to examineour own
undergraduate level or in earlier stages of higher education.Development of academic, social, and research self-efficacy within undergraduate students eachplay a key role en route to graduate school enrollment.MentoringGraduate degree attainment requires guidance which can be derived from an approachencompassing intervention and integrated support strategies led by experienced people.In Assessing the Effectiveness of the GradTrack Virtual Mentoring Program, Arinze et al.provide a survey-driven GradTrack program evaluation. The purpose of the paper is to provide aprogram evaluation of the current state of Purdue Engineering’s GradTrack program. While stillin the initial stages of development, Purdue Engineering’s GradTrack program has proven
literacy inother fields and other areas of their lives. It should also here be noted that both these studentsintend to apply to graduate programs in engineering after their undergraduate degrees. What, exactly, had these students’ experiences with engineers been? By developing somebaseline for what an engineer is, and what students’ interactions with engineers and engineeringhas been, we can extrapolate some ideas for implementing engineering literacy into a curriculum. Common understandings of engineers and engineering often begin with stereotypes.5,6Students, when asked about their experiences with engineers and engineering, brought severalstereotypes as their basis for examining those experiences. Rowena said, “I experienced a lot
CircuitsIntroductionAt the University of Idaho, an intermediate circuits course is required before students can takejunior-level classes. However, most community colleges only offer a first course in circuits, sotransfer students are immediately behind in their academic progression. One way to address thisis to develop an online lecture course with a suite of labs that a student can perform beforecoming to the university, say over the summer, so that the student can be on-track for graduation.In addition, as the number of online courses grows, these labs can be used by students whocannot come to campus.In our curriculum, the intermediate electrical engineering lecture and laboratory course beginswith sinusoidal sources, then introduces the students to steady
students would use the learning from the intercultural assignments to work better inthe binational teams and therefore be more effective in the project.One working hypothesis for the class was that the combination of these components wouldincrease students’ intercultural maturity and make them engineers who are better prepared for theglobal market. An important aspect of this course is that it is integrated into the engineeringcurriculum. A common issue with global competency courses is that they add extra courses tothe students’ curriculum. Therefore, demanding additional time and effort from the students whowish to develop those global competency skills. The ENGR410 course is part of the engineeringdegree plan counting as a technical elective
Marie SchmiedekampDr. Peter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus Dr. Peter J. Shull is an associate professor of engineering at Penn State University. He received his under- graduate degree from Bucknell University in mechanical engineering and his graduate degrees from The Johns Hopkins University in engineering science. Dr. Shull’s research has two main foci—nondestructive evaluation methods as applied to process control (NDE) and pedagogical methodology. Dr. Shull’s peda- gogical efforts include meta-cognitive strategy learning to improve student academic success, an interest in women’s issues within the engineering environment, integrated, experiential techniques to improve engineering students
respective departmental capstone course. Communication andscheduling between the teams were the biggest challenges in this model. In an effort to improvemultidisciplinary design, faculty from 3 engineering departments at UCSB met over the courseof an academic quarter to discuss a more integrated multidisciplinary capstone design programfor seniors. One complicating factor was departmental pressure to maintain the discipline-specific integrity of the engineering experience throughout the student body. Anothercomplicating factor included the disparity between course units and timelines created by eachdiscipline. In response to these challenges, we have created a supplementary multidisciplinarycapstone course (SMCC) to be coupled to the existing
devices, to the softwarebehind data collection, as well as integrative technologies, to finally the requirements from end-users. The students’ research topics were agreed at the outset between the parties concerned (i.e.,academic supervisors and industrial co-sponsors, typically, although in a few occasions thecandidate participated in the definition of the project as well). The research topics wereadvertised as available projects and candidates would apply to a specific project with anallocated supervisory team.The researchers enrolled in the degree program follow a bespoke, student-centric industry-informed program of training which includes: (i) A focused, deep technical training andexperience in an embedded intelligence thematic area central
Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. At Rose-Hulman, he co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, which was recognized in 1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. He served as Project Director a Na- tional Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized innovative undergraduate engineering curricula. He has authored over 70 papers and offered over 30 workshops on faculty development, curricular change processes, cur- riculum redesign, and assessment. He has served as a program co-chair for three Frontiers in Education Conferences and the general
Paper ID #22147Building Your Change-agent Toolkit: The Power of StoryDr. Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato Jennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneurship and economic development. She is now a research professor of integrated engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and the managing partner of Kaizen Academic.Prof. Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato Rebecca A. Bates received the Ph.D. degree in electrical
situations.The study highlights the critical deficiency in engineering education at preparing students forethical and professional responsibilities in the workplace. Students expressed that theirundergraduate and graduate programs overly emphasized technical skills while neglectingprofessional development, communication skills, and ethics training. We found that thesecurricular priorities affected students’ perception of the culture of academic engineeringdepartments and, subsequently, shaped their own professional values and understanding ofengineers’ duty to society.Despite a handful of students viewing ethics as an unnecessary distraction to their curriculum,the majority expressed a desire for more expansive professional and ethics training
field, the Department of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering provides asetting for technology development and applied research in the Engineering Technology (ENGT)program. According to the program description, engineering technology education emphasizesprimarily on the applied aspects of science and product improvement, industrial practices, andengineering operational functions. A capstone two-semester senior project course is a part of theengineering technology curriculum. This course provides the students an opportunity to addressand experience the critical problems faced in the day-to-day life of an engineer in an advancedmanufacturing industry. One such problem is to find a quick replacement for the damagedcritical part that limits the
Engineering, and many years of experience teaching and developing curriculum in various learning environments. She has taught technology integration and teacher training to undergrad- uate and graduate students at Arizona State University, students at the K-12 level locally and abroad, and various workshops and modules in business and industry. Dr. Larson is experienced in the application of instructional design, delivery, evaluation, and specializes in eLearning technologies for training and devel- opment. Her research focuses on the efficient and effective transfer of knowledge and learning techniques, innovative and interdisciplinary collaboration, and strengthening the bridge between K-12 learning and higher education
of view, and to continually makethe concepts more personal. The point of the individual discussion was not to delve too deeply into a particulardisaster or individual ethical decision, necessitating a decision tree or other analyticalformalisms. Rather, the purpose of each debate was to extend the thinking of the students andinfuse an ethical framework from which to view historical and current events with theexpectation that this approach would follow the students to more focused case studies that theywould see in the latter part of the engineering curriculum. The students appreciated both thehigh- and personal-level ethical discussions and communicated their enjoyment of being able tosimultaneously appreciate the technical and human
marketable skills.2. Project Goals and Tasks The project has multiple goals, as presented next. Goal 1: Establish and integrate a cybersecurity curriculum into the bachelor degrees in IT at USC and NNMC.The programs follow the philosophy of the Wright State Model (WSM)1 of Education. While theyare technology programs, students are required to take math and science up to calculus I. The taskssupporting Goal 1 include: Tasks for Goal 11.1 Create a new cybersecurity core course and implement major modifications in an existing course, which will become the second cybersecurity core course.1.2 Enhance a pre-requisite course by infusing cybersecurity content.1.3 Incorporate an internship experience in
in basic humanneeds. Additionally, it is important to implement these innovations through social entrepreneurship andleadership efforts for achieving the desired societal impact. To apply the above principles effectively,students (especially the Gen-Z students) need to have a skill set in understanding the role of engineeringinnovations in a globalized society with an attitude of leadership to serve society [16], which was themotivation behind this class. Selected successful social innovations across the world were studiedthrough the lens of fundamental science and engineering along with the societal impact. At the sametime, students also reflected on how the innovators applied/integrated leadership skills/approacheswith social
Paper ID #40685On the Importance of Spatiality and Intersectionality: Transgender andGender Nonconforming Undergraduate Engineering Experiences ThroughCritical Collaborative Ethnographic Site VisitsFinn Johnson M.A., Oregon State University Finn Johnson, M.A., is a transgender and queer doctoral student in women, gender, and sexuality studies at Oregon State University. Finn has extensive experience in transgender and queer research methodologies, legal studies, and feminist research ethics and is currently working on an engineering education NSF- funded study with the College of Chemical, Environmental, and Biological
integrating collaborative educational technologies likeMicrosoft Teams, Slack, and Discord into the class to promote group work outside of class.Students are using these features anyway and they can be a great way to increase peer-to-peercommunication in the class. Professors should go above and beyond to establish and encouragepersonal communications between students and teachers, whether via email, message board, orother channels. Facilitating group work during class meetings is vital to information retentionand helps to foster relationships between students and the professor, even though the class isonline. Professors should also make an effort to be reliable and consistent throughout the class;they should post information in a timely manner, keep
Paper ID #16578Longitudinal Success of Calculus I ReformDr. Doug Bullock, Boise State University Doug Bullock is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Boise State University. His educational re- search interests include impacts of pedagogy on STEM student success and retention.Dr. Kathrine E. JohnsonDr. Janet Callahan, Boise State University Janet Callahan is Chair of Materials Science and Engineering at Boise State University. Dr. Callahan received her Ph.D. in Materials Science, M.S. in Metallurgy, and B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut. Her educational research interests include freshman
Paper ID #33328Redesigning a Summer Math and Engineering Bootcamp for VirtualInstruction During the COVID-19 PandemicDr. Zahrasadat Alavi, California State University, Chico Dr. Zahrasadat Alavi, an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at California State University Chico, received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Wiscon- sin Milwaukee in May 2015. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Amirkabir University (Polytechnic of Tehran) with honors in 2007 and 2009 respectively, and another Master of Science from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (UWM) in Electrical
role of lab safety manager and lab manager Apply – Create – Translate (ACT) 5 activities aligned with the research and goals of the program. Examples include: Modules ₋ Participate in STEM program for underrepresented groups ₋ Participate in K-12 outreach activities ₋ Technology commercialization activity through university programs or NSF I- CorpsTo achieve these goals, graduate students are integrated into interdisciplinary research teams, where theyactively and collaboratively work on important scientific and societal challenges in a rigorous manner.Our vision was to deliver this program in an
scholarships/stipends, summer teaching internships,structured field observation experiences, and rigorous teacher-preparation curriculum to preparethem to be successful, long-term members of the STEM teaching faculty in the SavannahChatham County Public School System (SCCPSS) and beyond. In partnership with SCCPSS, theproject team will provide post-graduation mentoring and follow-up to ensure a successfultransition to teaching and improve retention. Specific elements of the program include thefollowing: 1. Launching an aggressive recruitment plan for talented math and engineering majors to pursue teaching careers in 6 -12 secondary schools; 2. Implementing a comprehensive STEM teacher training program; 3. Providing Summer Educational
-op program as students need some engineeringknowledge and skills before entering the workforce. As a result, the engineering curriculum wasdesigned so that engineering-specific courses were pushed earlier into the students’ academiccareers and general education courses were spread out more evenly over the course of theprogram. Recognizing that engineering professionals need to be able to write [16], [17] projectproposals, proposal development and technical writing was integrated into the secondcooperative education semester and well in advance of the senior design project.As enrollment in engineering programs grew, managing the volume of co-op placements andindustry projects became more challenging. Additional faculty were hired to manage