degrees in Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Technology (STEM). A further strand of his research examines the development of interdisciplinarity in the sciences and works to define the mechanisms by which it is formed, identify the contexts conducive to its flourishing, and develop the educational experiences that accelerate its development.Erica McGreevy, University of Pittsburgh Teaching Associate Professor Department of Biological SciencesNelson O. O. Zounlom`e, University of Pittsburgh Nelson O. O. Zounlome, Ph.D., is the Founder, CEO, and a mental health & academic thrive consultant through Liberate The Block (https://liberatetheblock.com/) ˜ an agency dedicated to helping Black, Indigenous
worked in the biotech (Lead Engineer), product design, and automotive (Toyota) sectors for 14 years, and is a licensed Professional Engineer. He has also taught high school and attended seminary. You can find more of his engineering education work at educadia.org or on his YouTube channel.Monika Kwapisz, Montana State University - Bozeman Monika Blue Kwapisz (they/them) is an undergraduate at Montana State University studying Industrial and Management Systems Engineering with a minor in Mathematics. Monika is the former president of MSU’s Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (oSTEM) chapter, a cross-country ski coach, and an avid outdoors-person.Miss Tessa Sybesma, Montana State University
Paper ID #16970Critical Thinking Skills in First-Year Engineering StudentsDr. Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University Lizzie Y. Santiago, Ph.D., is a teaching associate professor for the freshman engineering program in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources. She holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and has postdoctoral training in neural tissue engineering and molecular neurosciences. She teaches freshman engineering courses and supports the outreach and recruiting activities of the college. Her research interests include neural tissue engineering, stem cell research, absorption of air
AC 2012-5006: INTEGRATING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MOD-ULES IN THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUMDr. Elaine P. Scott, Seattle Pacific UniversityDr. Denise Wilson, University of Washington Denise Wilson received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., in 1988 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1989 and 1995, respectively. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Washington, Seattle, and she was previously with the University of Kentucky, Lexington, in a similar position from 1996 to 1999. Her research interests are split between technical
own learning are better able to adapt to our increasinglyknowledge-driven economy and stay abreast of change in science and technology and thusremain relevant to the modern workforce.PurposeIn order to address these gaps, we need robust curricula that target information literacy skills andattributes necessary to enable life-long learning. Even more importantly, however, we needuseful assessment tools that will provide a better understanding of engineering students’ self-directed learning skills and a valid measure of how these skills improve. While there areassessment instruments that address these skills, most of them focus on information search skillsand a non-engineering application.In this project, we aim to develop two valid and reliable
Paper ID #9860Measuring the Effects of Precollege Engineering EducationMr. Noah Salzman, Purdue University, West Lafayette Noah Salzman is a doctoral candidate in engineering education at Purdue University. He received his B.S. in engineering from Swarthmore College, his M.Ed. in secondary science education from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. He has work experience as an engineer and taught science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at the high school level. His research focuses on the intersection of pre-college and undergraduate engineering
relative importanceof a given set of values guides one’s actions [see 15]. This axiom is certainly true within anacademic context [16]. Undergraduate students who value the skills and knowledge within thefield of engineering education and the engineering profession as a whole are more likely to enterengineering programs, persist, and succeed [17]. Cech [4], further suggested that engineeringstudents who appreciate the relationship between their education and their future contributions tosociety through technological innovation tend to pursue academic and scientific work which hassome attached social value. By contrast, engineering students who do not make this connectionare more likely to view their engineering education as stale, boring, and task
really feel like an expert and I saw classes like electricity and magnetismin my college curriculum and was like, I want to study engineering because that’s where scienceand design and math and technology all meet up. I feel like it’s such a varied field you can dowhatever you want with it.My mom pushed me to take piano classes for several years and to be creative. However,unfortunately, the downside of being in such a science and technology-heavy high school held meback from other things that I’m good at like English and Art. There were no art classes, there wereno music classes, the English curriculum was not very good at all. That’s why I’ve been trying tomake up for that in college by taking fun Gen Eds like theatre, anthropology, cooking
Paper ID #38112Board 326: Investigating Creativity, Confidence, and an EntrepreneurialMindset through Curricular Modification and Community EngagementDr. Katrina J. Donovan, South Dakota School of Mines and TechnologyDr. Jon J Kellar, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Kellar is the Douglas Fuerstenau Professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at the SD School of Mines and Technology. He has been on the faculty since 1990, and in 1994 was selected as an National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow aDr. Michael West, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Dr. Michael West is an associate
after-school timeframe, those mentally less-demanding activitiesmay be more appropriate for students than engineering lessons, even fun and active onesinvolving UAVs. For comparison, our cohorts that met on Saturday mornings or during thesummer were clearly visibly more fresh and seemed much less mentally fatigued. No matterwhen we met with students, the duration of the meeting time also seemed an important factor. Asis generally the case with hands-on activities, we found that setup and troubleshooting and otheraspects of dealing with supplies and technology inevitably cut into the overall time allotted foreach activity. In our early cohorts, our meeting time was ostensibly slightly less than an hour,which generally was closer to 40 minutes by
U.S. GDP is attributable to advancements in science and technology. This despite the fact that less than 5 percent of the U.S. workforce is composed of scientists and engineers, thereby suggesting that each one percent of the workforce engaged in those professions accounts for something like 15 percent of the growth in GDP. A truly remarkable multiplier.” - Norm Augustine (Augustine, 2013)In Spring 2015 a workshop was held at the National Academy of Engineering designed to buildcapacity for the engineering education research community to better communicate with a broadspectrum of policy makers. The underlying hypothesis is that despite the impact how engineersare educated has on national priorities, researchers in
Paper ID #23316Developing Changemaking Engineers – Year ThreeDr. Chell A. Roberts, University of San Diego Chell A. Roberts is the founding dean of the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering at the University of San Diego. Before joining USD, Roberts served as the Executive Dean of the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University. During his first few years as dean at USD, Dr. Roberts led a team to win a $2 Million NSF Grant to revolutionize engineering education. The award focuses on creating ”Changemaking Engineers” and seeks to transform the engineering mindset to infuse sustainability, social
communities of practice, classroom discourse, and intercultural communication for engineers.Prof. Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Matthew West is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining Illinois he was on the faculties of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University and the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Davis. Prof. West holds a Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology and a B.Sc. in Pure and Applied Mathematics from the University of Western Australia. His research is in the field of scientific
National Academies panels: Survivability and Lethality Analysis, Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Au- tonomous Systems. Dr. Rodriguez received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. Personal Web site: http://aar.faculty.asu.edu/Ms. Anita Grierson Ms. Grierson holds Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration. She has served as Director of the METS Center for Motivated Engineering Transfer Students at Arizona State University for five years. Page 26.1169.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015
preparing students for a future of rapid technological changeand globalization.The major goals of this project are to answer four specific research questions: • RQ1: What factors contribute to students’ motivation to pursue engineering? • RQ2: How do motivational attributes correlate to learning and cognition in engineering, especially problem-solving and knowledge transfer? • RQ3: How do motivational attributes change over time as knowledge, experience and skills in one’s field develop? • RQ4: What relationship, if any, do the particular aspects of bioengineering (BioE) and mechanical engineering (ME) have to motivation, learning and cognition in those
becoming more and more competitive, engineeringdegrees are often required in technological fields. The fact that one is an engineer holds weightin today’s tech-based society.Another Maker sees engineers in a different light, An engineer is kind of specific in its output.This is noted as specialized where the term “making” is rather ambiguous. The same Makercontinues on to say: If I called myself an engineer I would expect myself to be an electrical engineer or a civil engineer and figuring out those particular problems and that particular skill set.The Maker who discussed Making as a professional tag continues, when asked about engineersin the workplace: people in professional engineering firms, and by professional
Paper ID #28623The Sequential Nature of Engineering Problem SolvingDr. Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University Carolyn Plumb is the recently retired Director of Educational Innovation and Strategic Projects in the College of Engineering at Montana State University (MSU). Plumb has been involved in engineering education and program evaluation for over 25 years, and she continues to work on externally funded projects relating to engineering education.Rose M Marra, University of Missouri - Columbia Professor Rose M. Marra is the Director of the School of Information Science and Learning Technology at the University of
Paper ID #22135Integrating Humanities with Engineering FundamentalsDr. Kauser Jahan, Rowan University Kauser Jahan, is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University. She received her B.S.C.E. from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, an MSCE from the Univer- sity of Arkansas, Fayetteville and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Her passion as an educator and mentor has been recognized by many professional organizations over the years. She is the recipient of the Gloucester County Women of Achievement Award, Lindback Foundation Teaching Award, the NJ ASCE
Paper ID #8888Integration of experiential learning to develop problem solving skills in deafand hard of hearing STEM studentsAndres L. Carrano, Auburn University Andres Carrano is the Philpott WestPoint Stevens Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engi- neering at Auburn University in Alabama. Prior to this appointment, he was on the faculty of engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology where he founded and directed the Toyota Production Systems Laboratory.Wendy A. Dannels, Rochester Institute of Technology (NTID) Wendy A. Dannels is a member of the instructional faculty in Engineering Studies at the
an Associate Professor in and Chair of the Psychology Department at Seattle University. Dr. Cook received her doctorate in Social and Personality Psychology from the University of Washington, with a minor in quantitative methods and emphases in cognitive and educational psychology. Her research has included classroom learning, person perception, identity, and health perceptions.Dr. Gregory Mason P.E., Seattle University Gregory S. Mason was born and raised in Spokane Washington. He received the B.S.M.E. degree from Gonzaga University in 1983, the M.S.M.E. degree in manufacturing automation from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1984 and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering, specializing in multi-rate digital
Technology. I had been doing research projects involving Problem Solving, Fractions and effective tutoring as well as teaching for the deaf students.Dr. David Simkins, Rochester Institute of Technology David is an assistant professor of game design and development at the Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Interactive Games and Media. He is also an affiliate of RIT’s MAGIC Center, which has provided space and equipment for this project. His work focuses on role play and its uses for learning in a variety of spaces, from STEM to civic engagement. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Learning Tools for STEM Students: A focused exploratory project with broad
create students that will be able to solve relevant problems using the engineering designprocess. Figure 1 - Exploratory model of engagement in engineering activities According to Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc (ABET),engineering design “involves identifying opportunities, developing requirements, performinganalysis and synthesis, generating multiple solutions, evaluating solutions against requirements,considering risks, and making trade-offs, for the purpose of obtaining a high-quality solutionunder the given circumstances.” [10] Engineering design is a process of generating multiplecreative solutions for an identified need, analyzing these solutions, and implementing the mostappropriate one
ModulesAbstractIn modern computing and engineering programs, new course materials need to be addedregularly in a flexible manner. The concept of course modules has been suggested as oneapproach to doing this; a course module, which is a self-contained unit of curriculumsuch as a lab or teaching component, can be included into existing courses withoutrequiring substantial course or program modifications. In this paper, the authors describetheir experiences in incorporating new curricula into computer science and engineeringcurricula at their three institutions, including Rochester Institute of Technology, HowardUniversity, and SUNY at Oswego. The relatively new paradigm of Service-OrientedProgramming (SOP) was introduced into their programs using course
Lisa D. McNair is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Research in SEAD Education at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.Dr. Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Donna Riley is Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education and
-Lincoln Adam Wagler, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of advertising and public relations at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His professional background and research interests revolve around interaction design, owned media, emerging technology, user experience, and cognition. Wagler’s research has been published in the Journal of Interactive Advertising, the Journal of Applied Communications, and the Journal of Media Education. Six years of professional work has been supplemented by a number of grant projects at UNL building websites, mobile apps and other digital projects.Mr. William Edward Dick, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln William Dick is currently an Adjunct Professor in
, technology integration, online course design and delivery, program evaluation, and assessment. Dr. Lux’s current research agenda is STEM teaching and learning in K-12 contexts, technology integration in teacher preparation and K-12 contexts, educational gaming design and integration, and new technologies for teaching and learning.Dr. Brock J. LaMeres, Montana Engineering Education Research Center Dr. Brock J. LaMeres is the Director of the Montana Engineering Education Research Center (MEERC) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Montana State University. LaMeres teaches and conducts research in the area of computer engineering. LaMeres is currently studying the
Paper ID #19150Investigating Engineering Students Habits of Mind: A Case Study ApproachMr. Tarun Yellamraju, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University Tarun Yellamraju is currently a PhD student in the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He received his Bachelor of Technology with Honors degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His current research interests include Image Processing, Computer Vision and Machine Learning.Dr. Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University, West Lafayette Alejandra Magana is an Associate Professor in the
. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 The Diversity of College Engineering Degrees: The Roles of Geography and the Concentration of Engineering Degree Production Executive SummaryIntroductionTo meet the growing demand for a larger technological and scientific labor force in the UnitedStates, a prominent policy goal is to expand and broaden participation in science and engineeringcollege programs (e.g., [1], [2]). Previous
Paper ID #17860Catalyzing a Research Agenda for Enhancing Engineering Education throughInstitutional CollaborationsDr. Keith W. Buffinton, Bucknell University Keith W. Buffinton is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and former Dean of the College of Engi- neering at Bucknell University. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford. Following his graduate studies, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Institute for Mechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. From 2001 through 2004 he served as co-director of Bucknell’s
of African American Women in the Technology workforce.Ms. Dina Verd´ın, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dina Verd´ın is a Ph.D. Candidate in Engineering Education and M.S. student in Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. She completed her B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at San Jos´e State University. Dina is a 2016 recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship and an Honorable Mention for the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program. Her research interest focuses on changing the deficit base perspective of first-generation college students by providing asset-based approaches to understanding this population. Dina is interested in