Consul- tants, a group of students who provide peer-to-peer library research help.Nora Allred, Michigan Technological University Nora Allred is Scholarly Communications and Copyright Librarian at the J. Robert Van Pelt and Opie Library at Michigan Technological University. She provides copyright and fair use awareness to the campus community through the library’s webpage, presentations, instruction sessions, and one-on-one consultations. As Co-PI on the NSF ethics education project, she lead the learning module on copyright and fair use for graduate students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Developing a Comprehensive, Assessment-based
practices and tools (SEPTs), that is, the tools and techniques for designing,implementing, and maintaining software over time. As a result, the productivity or reliability ofengineering work involving software can be hampered by problems that could have been avoidedwith the use of modern best practices in software engineering. Despite a history of research onSEPTs in computing fields (e.g., computer science and software engineering) and computationalscience fields (e.g., computational physics and bioinformatics), the use of SEPTs in engineeringfields is not well understood.To address this problem, in this paper, we present ongoing work investigating how practitionersand undergraduate students in non-computing engineering disciplines understand and
skills must be suited for the modern way of doing engineering and to the modernengineering business. One of the drivers for power engineering education at the graduate level isthe pertinence and excitement of research projects. However, the long term research work onmore difficult topics tends to be more motivational for graduate students and to encourageundergraduate students to pursue graduate studies in power and energy engineering. A full list ofgrand challenges is too expensive to produce, but a sampling below illustrates the types ofmaterial that excite and may serve to recruit) students. Among the new attractive research powerand energy areas are: conducting research to effectively develop and design commercial super-conductivity
) Diversifying the U.S. engineering workforce: A new model. Journal of Engineering Education, 96(1), 19-32.3. Kim, Y., Baylor, A. L., & PALS Group (June 2006) Pedagogical agents as learning companions: The role of agent competency and type of interaction. Educational Technology Research and Development, 54(3), 223-243.4. Baylor, A. L., & Kim, Y. (2004) Pedagogical agent design: The impact of agent realism, gender, ethnicity, and instructional role. Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3220/2004, 592-603.5. Yelamarthi, K. & Mawasha, P. R. (July-December 2008) A pre-engineering program for the under-represented, low-income and/or first generation college students to pursue higher education
‘bio-char modified cement pastes’ research experience program at anHBCU. This program was part of a broader one-year science, technology, engineering, arts, andmathematics (STEAM) ACTIVATED! program funded through a 2018 Engineering InformationFoundation (EiF) grant. The four research questions for this qualitative study are: 1. To what extent did research experiences contribute to the engineering and technology knowledge of minority middle school girls? 2. What were the salient learning experiences of minority middle-school girls? 3. How did the various research and learning activities impact the self-efficacy of minority middle-school girls? 4. Beyond this program, what actions will minority middle-school girls take to
facilities design to research that applied engineering and molecular biology approaches to the study of the skeletal response to mechanical loading. As a Mechanical Engineer, she worked on facility design projects involving mechanical systems that included heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and energy conservation systems, as well as R&D of air conditioning equipment for Navy ships. Additional research interests have included the investigation of relationships among components of the indoor environment, occupants, and energy usage. Specifically, the effects of the indoor environment on occupant health and well-being and in parallel, how socially-mediated energy-saving strategies can increase awareness of energy use
display to emulate a conference setting.3. Assessment of Program ImpactA. Instruments of investigationIn order to assess the impact of professional practice-focused seminars within the broaderresearch experience, we sought first to understand where and how professional practices fit intoexisting classroom practices by asking the preliminary research question: What factors promoteor hinder teachers’ ability to teach mathematics- and science-related subjects in ways thatmirror professional practice of these fields, including engineering?We used two instruments to probe for answers to the research question, an open-ended essay anda survey. For the essay, participants were given a prompt at the beginning of the course andasked to add to and revise
return to education after industry experience.Gary Lichtenstein (Founder & Principal, Quality Evaluation Designs) Gary Lichtenstein, Ed.D. is founder and principal of Quality Evaluation Designs, a firm specializing in education research and evaluation. My intellectual interests include mixed-methods research, program development and evaluation, and engineering education persistence. My expertise includes program evaluation, research design, proposal development, logic models, IRB and communities of practice.Kelsey Watts Kelsey Watts is a fifth-year graduate student at Clemson University. She is part of the Engineering Education Research Peer Review Training (EER PERT) team. She has also developed Systems Biology
statistical thinking for engineering in general andthe design component in particular.3) Estimation: A main challenge of a project design is the number of variables and theirinteractions during the design process. Often, the system stretches beyond designers’ capabilityto grasp all of the details simultaneously [1] .One strategy for coping with the many variables is:to bring the system back within the limits of human mental capacity by focusing selectively on alimited number of factors, preferably the most significant ones. Designers are usually good atestimation. They are able to size up parameters, sort them out in terms of their relativeimportance, and neglect the ones that have less impact on the project. Today’s graduates are notgood at
who mentor the civil engineering design projects. The projects expose the civil engineering students to real world design problems. The students gain first hand experi- ence communicating professionally, developing schedules, meeting deadlines and preparing professional quality reports and presentations. Prof. Brunell is the director of the Water Resouces graduate program. She also teaches Fluid Mechanics, Surveying and Water Resources.Dr. Keith G. Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology Dr. Keith G. Sheppard is Senior Advisor to the Dean in the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineer- ing and Science and a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. His research interests have
student ambassadors. She currently sits on the department’s Diversity and Outreach Committee and is a liaison for the department to the Office of the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies for the college. In addition to her role as Undergraduate Student Services Manager, Candice is a doctoral student in the Learning Sciences program in the College of Education at Clemson University.Dr. Jennifer Harper Ogle, Clemson University Dr. Jennifer Ogle is a Professor in the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University and a 2005 graduate of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on transportation infrastructure design, safety, accessibility, and management
-disciplinary Approach to Project Based LearningMeta-disciplinary or interdisciplinary learning provides a platform for students to gaincollaborative teamwork skills that are transferrable to their professional career. The courseprovided an encouraging environment for students to collaborate and develop common eco-district design vocabulary and protocols. Student teams researched and prepared formal casestudies of exemplar eco-district design projects, and identified best practices used in the designprocess. They discovered why an interdisciplinary approach is a necessity for successfulplanning, implementation, and management of high-performance districts.The interdisciplinary process of the course emphasizes creating a collaborative environment
the seminar vary from week to week as well as during each class where the MAX facultymentors regularly take turns serving as the lead instructor. The seminars include large and smallgroup discussion as well as guest presentations from other university faculty and staff, industrypartners, or alumni scholars. This adaptive structure is motivated by best practices, especiallyfor a diverse STEM community with four scholars participating as distance learners.4-10 Eachsemester, the seminar course is structured around a multidisciplinary group project addressing adifferent societal issue pertinent to STEM majors. For two recent semesters, these projects havefocused on ethical issues.Ethics AssignmentsThe first semester (spring 2013) focused on
CISTARcampuses that developed synergy between the University Program and the Pre-College Program.Program MentorsGraduate student mentors for all of these groups were CISTAR Graduate Fellows, a group ofstudent researchers who are supported through CISTAR to understand their impact on industryand the world by participating in professional development activities and a set of definededucational experiences. Mentoring university undergraduate students and high school studentsand teachers is a critical element of the CISTAR Graduate Fellow experience.Changes Made to Programs Based on Previous EvaluationAs the programs were developed for the second year of the center a series of design changeswere made in response to evaluation results and feedback from
Engineers) for several years and has served as interim advisor of SWE (Society of Women Engineers). She has been an active participant and supporter of SMILE (Science and Math Investigative Learning Experiences) for the past eleven years: SMILE is a program designed for in-state, minority, underrepresented and low-income students in grades 4 to 12. She has also co-directed a summer bridge camp for entering, female, engineering students.Karen Wishner, University of Rhode Island Karen Wishner is a Professor of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. She received her B.A. from the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her research interests are in marine
implemented multiple interactive Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) modules and platforms. These modules have been effectively utilized in mechanical design, training, remote operation, and engineering education. Israa has received recognition for her contributions, including the best poster and presentation awards for her work, the 2024 Bravo Award for Employee Recognition, and induction into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, placing her among the top 10% of Purdue Graduate students. Her academic journey reflects a commitment to advancing knowledge and contributing to technological innovation in XR control systems. Her professional aspirations include applying for an Assistant Professor
of personal engagementswith citizens of the country. This system understanding enabled the student’s ability to assessand update system complexity as research and engagements were conducted. It exemplifies theadult learning, or andragogical [12] approach needed to understand a complex system and itassists the student and faculty mentor in shared understanding of how best to apply ideationtechniques and EM methods in follow on efforts. (Figure 2: Example Systems Diagram for an Engineering/Technical Problem on Green Energy)Framing the problem for evaluation of design alternatives is enabled through detailed functionaldecomposition and value modeling. Figure 3 is one example of a larger value model treeconducted by a student studying informal
lens for gathering,implementing, and iterating on potential best practices and insights in the coaching of designlearning. It can serve as a reflection tool for instructors and design coaches to help them identifythe strengths of their coaching method as well as uncover the pain points of students. This workalso has the potential to hold significance not only in design education, but in experientiallearning more broadly. To facilitate such impacts and sharpen the next generation of this idea,we seek feedback on this work-in-progress effort from the design education community, insupport of refining of the playbook structure. Please let us know your thoughts on its overallcomponents, layout, and functioning. What may be missing or overlooked
to building a sense ofbelonging within the engineering community and help increase diversity in the workforce.Nonetheless, it is important to specify that future research should consider multiple institutionalcontexts, as this study focused on faculty at HSIs. With that in mind, we hope to continueencouraging broader dialogue to better serve students through inclusive practices and targetedfaculty development that yields long-lasting educational impacts for students of all backgrounds.Future work should also address approaches to improving the intrinsic motivation of facultymembers themselves. A similar exercise could be implemented with engineering educators as theprimary stakeholder. Finally, future research should also explore the
are continuously updated.The goal was to develop professionally-oriented, practical-experience based programs, whichcan readily incorporate cutting edge research and development into the curricula, and areconveniently accessible to the community. The key elements of the on-going program buildingeffort which are described below include development of infrastructure, laboratories, distancelearning courses, and a graduate research program, and innovative ways to recruit and retainfaculty.i) Partnerships for infrastructure development:In preparing for graduate programs while the undergraduate programs were only three years oldand growing rapidly, the College of Engineering anticipated a severe shortage of space foroffices, labs, and classrooms
center, a collaborative network of five universities, is supported by fourpillars: workforce development, diversity, industry, and research. This poster will outlineresearch experiences and career and graduate school preparation and associated evaluationrelated to workforce development and diversity including a Research Experience for Teachers(RET) for middle and high school teachers, a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)and a Young Scholars program for high school students. Our presentation documents anddescribes steps taken to launch the educational programming during the first year of the center.The overarching broader impact goal of CISTAR Workforce Development is to create atechnically excellent and inclusive community of
and international competitions.5. Work perspectives.Graduates of the SE program work as the developers and software architects, software qualitymanagers in industrial companies, research centers and governmental agencies.Philosophically, the aim of the program leading to the Bachelor of Software Engineeringdegree is to provide students with a strong theoretical and practical background in computersoftware along with the engineering analysis, design and implementation skills.In 2014, Higher School of Economics modified its educational standards on the bachelordegree level. The main purpose of the reform was to improve the quality of education bydecreasing the number of courses students take simultaneously (4 to 5 + foreign language)and
as missing in colleges that are part ofthis project:C.1. Ability to apply mathematical and natural science principles into the product design process;C.2. Ability to apply fundamental engineering principles for effective solution of practical problems in the product realization process;C.3. Ability to analyze and develop intelligent electromechanical systems;C.4. Application relevant technology tools within the product realization environment;C.5. Development of awareness of the professional and ethical responsibilities for sustainable design, in order to ascertain the impacts of the engineering solution on the global society and environment;C.6. Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary collaborative product
Paper ID #38908Empowering Faculty Members through Mooc in Techno-Pedagogical Con-tentDr. K.S.A. Dinesh Kumar, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chennai, India Dr. K. S. A. Dinesh Kumar, M. E., Ph.D. is presently Professor of Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research (NITTTR) Chennai, Government of India. He has coordinated more than 150 training programmes for National participants and 06 International programmes in the area of Technology Enabled Teaching Learning, Student Assessment and Evaluation, Instructional Design and Delivery system
3060 (3cr) Energy and Society SOCI 3270 (3cr) Organizational Viability and Sustainability ORGL 3900 (3cr)Table 1:Courses for the Alternative Energy and Sustainability minor at Robert Morris University 3III. Course Layout and ObjectivesThe students, who have completed four of the lower level minor courses, including the first tworequired core classes, are left with the final capstone course, the “Energy Research Seminar”.This course is designed to primarily consist of a semester long research project. We taught thefirst Energy Research Seminar course in the spring semester of 2013, and we
lab will allow students opportunities tostudy the life systems of a building, previously only viewable during the construction of abuilding.On average, 75 students per semester complete the Mechanical Construction course that is arequirement for graduation in the Construction Management department Bachelor of Science(BS) degree. In addition, approximately 25 students per semester take a mechanicalspecialization course that would apply higher-level learning to the MechBuild lab. The thirdclass utilizing the MechBuild lab is a course for non-majors offered by the Building ConstructionManagement (BCM) department. Usually sixty computer graphics, interior design, and otherinterested students take this course every semester. Currently the students
, 52% Summer Research, etc. I made mathematics a priority 51% I always thought positively, acted positively 50% I asked an upper level student or the student support staff for help/advice 48% I set goals and established priorities; I organized my time 44% I always did my best to get the best grade possible 43% I did everything possible to be successful in mathematics 42% I followed the syllabus in my classes –maintained the course schedule 39% I balanced study/work/leisure
have gone on to be hired as Graduate Teaching Assistants forECE’s technical communication-focused courses after being accepted into the School’s graduateprogram. Initial plans are underway to codify the peer leader pipeline into a fellowship program,institutionalizing the culture of peer mentorship that has been established.While student feedback following the first academic year in the intended residential, studioformat has been overwhelmingly positive, we continue to look for themes in course feedback topositively adjust the course moving forward. Course design is never truly done when relying onevidence-based practices. The future of ECE Discovery Studio is bright, paving the way tocrucial research as we learn more about discipline-specific
sensor development projectduring each summer as a multidisciplinary team, in addition to side independent researchprojects with individual faculty mentors. The primary goal was to teach the participants – mainlyelectrical, mechanical, and aerospace engineering undergraduate students and K-12 teachers –about systems engineering methodology, including design, build, integration, and test, with acomplementary benefit of the participants practicing their communication and teamwork skills.The systems engineering projects that the participants designed during the summer months willbe described, with an emphasis on lessons learned from recruiting and managing the team.1. IntroductionThe University of North Dakota hosted a Research Experiences for
clinical outcomes driven research.Dr. Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Amit Jariwala is the Director of Design & Innovation for the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Production Engineering from the Univer- sity of Mumbai, India, with honors in 2005. He received a Master of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2007 from IIT Bombay, India. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2013, with minors in Entrepreneurship. At Georgia Tech, he is responsible for enhancing corporate support for design courses, managing design and fabrication/prototyping facilities, coordinating the design