and management, legal aspects, construction contract administration, public works, and Renewable Energy. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Writing skills can be improved using AI tools: An Analysis AbstractAt the college level, there are courses that teach 'Technical Writing' to engineering students atthe undergraduate level. Typically, the writing component in the curriculum presents asignificant challenge for undergraduate students as they work toward graduation. However, withthe introduction of Artificial Intelligence tools for writing, students find it somewhat easier toproduce written content for their courses.Artificial
that is embedded in an AerospaceEngineering curriculum. PBL focuses on writing assignments that are authentic, situationalassignments in response to real project demands rather than responding to hypotheticalsituations. To generate enthusiasm for the course, the topics chosen for each of the writingassignments were selected to be of personal and/or professional value to the students.Based on the results of student surveys, this paper documents the improved capability forstudents to present technical information and convey meaning more precisely by using a PBLapproach. This improved capability is the result of students being exposed to situational,professional and STEM-specific writing tasks. Both quantitative and qualitative results from acase
as polytechnicinstitutions. Engineering has not, however, been broadly embraced by liberal arts institutions,often being seen as being overly career-focused and not sufficiently broad in its educationalapproach. Liberal arts institutions also tend to be much smaller in size, which can make itchallenging to furnish an engineering program with the specialized facilities and equipment itrequires. Furthermore, liberal arts institutions typically have comparatively larger core curricula,which can make it challenging to design a robust engineering curriculum that is completable infour years.A few small engineering colleges exist (e.g. Harvey Mudd, Rose-Hulman, and Olin College)whose enrollment ranges from a few hundred to a couple thousand
accreditation bodies as an integral part of engineering ethics. For example, the ABETcriterion pertaining directly to ethics evolved from a mere “understanding of professional andethical responsibility” in Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000) to “an ability to recognize ethicaland professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, whichmust consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, andsocietal contexts” in the ABET 2019–2020 cycle. The “broad education necessary to understandthe impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context” in EC2000 was joined bythe economic and environmental contexts, in addition to “an ability to design […] to meetdesired needs within
Paper ID #43892Positive Leadership: An Intentional Approach to Faculty Leadership DevelopmentDr. Heidi M Sherick, University of Michigan Dr. Heidi Sherick has worked in higher education for 30 years. Currently, Heidi is the Director of Leadership Development in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. She provides one-on-one coaching for faculty in new executive leadership roles as well as for newly promoted faculty (Assistant to Associate).Valerie N Johnson, University of MichiganMs. Heather Wagenschutz, University of Michigan ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Positive
Engineering in 2009 from the Imperial College of London and his doctoral degree in 2020 from the University of Georgia, College of Engineering.Jack Yang, New York University Tandon School of Engineering ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 An Interactive Platform for Team-based Learning Using Machine Learning ApproachAbstractThis complete evidence-based paper explores the feasibility of developing an interactiveplatform with chatbot feature to facilitate project-based learning. Teamwork pedagogy is widelyused in engineering courses, particularly in first year (cornerstone) and senior-year (capstone)design courses, but also across the curriculum. Faculty have several
Paper ID #43871Work-in Progress: Aligning an Engineering Hands-On Learning Programto College Strategy: Reducing Implementation Barriers to Support Faculty,Students, and Their SuccessMs. Rachel Sharpe, University of Colorado Boulder Rachel Sharpe is a Senior Engineering Projects Consultant at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. Rachel’s work as a senior engineer has allowed her to collaborate with faculty members across seven departments, contributing her expertise to the development and successful implementation of over thirty hands-on lab activities. Rachel has overseen the
learning experience.This research answers the following two questions to improve student learning: (1) Whichinteractions or tasks within the virtual lab consume the most time? (2) What segments posesignificant challenges for participants to navigate or comprehend? This study uses informationfrom how people look around in VR to create assistive instructions with AI. These instructionswill help with steps that are hard to find in VR or activities that are difficult to complete in VR.This sophisticated analysis and AI mix is a big step for 3D printing lessons in VR.The paper explores an innovative educational component integrated into a course project at theauthors’ university. They focused on teaching students about 3D printing process parameters
Paper ID #44219Progress Report on BE-TEC: An NSF S-STEM ProjectDr. Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University Afsaneh Minaie is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Utah Valley University. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. all in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include gender issues in the academic sciences, embedded system, internet of things, wireless sensor network, and robotics.Dr. Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University Reza Sanati-Mehrizy is a professor of Computer Science Department at Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah. He received his M.S. and
Towards Development of an Interactive Mobile Application for Teaching The UNSDG D. Singh1, R. Khanakan1, Y. Ijaz1, D. Tennakoon1, M. Jadidi1,* 1 Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Canada * Corresponding Author: mjadidi@yorku.caAbstract In aim of a better, inclusive, accessible, and safer future, educational institutions are committedto integrating the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) into their curriculumdesign and course delivery. Traditionally, a plain literary review of these goals has been adoptedby educators. This tends to leave students wondering what a realistic scenario would look like, andhow they would approach an
2024 ASEE Midwest Section Annual Conference Failure Mode: An Engineering Capstone Case Study of Educating Despite Failures Robert Woodley1 1Associate Teaching Professor: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri USA; rwoodley@mst.eduAbstractIn the modern engineering curriculum, the highlight of the students’ careers is the capstone classwhere they get to show off their abilities. However, the greatest learning tool they experience isfailure. Capstone projects can be challenging. In this paper, a case study of five
Paper ID #42145An Educational Simulation for Understanding Atomic Force Microscopy ImageArtifactsDr. Rachel Mok, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rachel Mok is an instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, specializing in the theory and simulation of bacterial dynamics. As a graduate student, she was a teaching assistant for 2.005, an undergraduate course on thermal-fluid engineering, for many semesters. Through this experience, she realized her passion for teaching. She currently develops online courses and education tools that
challenges in training interdisciplinary scholars; even in an established interdisciplinary program like IDR, developing interdisciplinary graduate students grapple with the influence of disciplinary microsystems– whether they were engineering or nonSTEM based, and often at the expense of their interdisciplinary work.Introduction or at least two decades, U.S. agencies have called for a sustained source of interdisciplinaryFresearchers who can integrate research methods, theories, vocabularies, and cultures across fields. Researchers and educators have responded, aligning graduate settings and curricula to develop this interdisciplinary professoriate[1], [2], [3], [20], [21
Paper ID #43337Material and Energy Balances and Character Development: An Investigationof Student Responses to Intentional Virtue Education in a Traditional ChemicalEngineering CourseDr. Victoria E Goodrich, University of Notre Dame Dr. Victoria Goodrich is a Teaching Professor in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department at the University of Notre Dame. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Notre Dame. In her role as a teaching professor, she teaches hands-on courses across the chemical engineering curriculum. Her educational
Paper ID #42032Work-in-Progress: The Unique Impact of an Interdisciplinary ExperientialLearning Program on Undergraduate STEM Students’ Career ReadinessDr. Rea Lavi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rea Lavi received his Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. He is Lecturer and a Curriculum Designer with the NEET program, School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, where he teaches thinking skills to undergraduate students. His research interests in STEM education involve the fostering and
Paper ID #40850Program Evaluation of an International University-SponsoredService-Learning ExperienceDr. Sarah K. Bauer, Mercer University Dr. Sarah Bauer (Ph.D., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA) is an Assistant Professor of Environ- mental and Civil Engineering at Mercer University, Macon, GA. Her primary research interests are water and wastewater treatment, waste management, pollution prevention, and renewable energy technologies. Her research work focuses on developing sustainable techniques for the production of clean energy and clean water, with specific interest in the FEW Nexus. Her research work has
interacting with afaculty member from a different discipline: ”I couldn’t tell you what about mechanical engineering even if it’s not mechanical engineering like it just might be engineering like I really don’t know. And so, having that space where, like [an expert in mechanical engineering] is there and [education research] that opened I don’t know their mind to the field of engineering education like that would be interesting and impactful to hear from.” - Participant 6While there are several graduate students in ESED with graduate degrees in mechanical engineering, participant 6 earned agraduate degree in a different discipline. Nonetheless, they explain how hearing an engineer integrating expertise in mechanicalengineering
the solution in some cases.Further integration of expertise from other disciplines might improve this.The importance of creating effective, psychologically safe teams to be successful in anyendeavour has been a common theme in leadership literature and a common focus of engineeringleadership research [36]. As students tackle increasingly complex problems, the ambiguity of thechallenges makes framing and scoping critical, and team members must work hard to collaboratein the face of uncertainty. Further, splitting the work up as a team is not an option, as the systemsthemselves - and the tools used to illustrate them - are interconnected. Instruction in systemsmapping processes and tools can help students to facilitate that collaboration
Paper ID #41796Assessing the Motivation and Emotion Levels of First-Year Engineering StudentsEnrolled in an Academic Writing CourseDr. Aparajita Jaiswal, Purdue University Aparajita Jaiswal is an Intercultural Research Specialist with CILMAR, Purdue University. Her research endeavors revolve around exploring strategies for seamlessly integrating intercultural learning into both regular curriculum and study abroad programs. Aparajita actively engages in offering guidance in developing research studies, curriculum enhancements, and assessment methods pertaining to integration and cultivation of intercultural competence. Her
effectively integrated within the speaker’s message. The researchgoal for this manuscript is to introduce a more systematic and accurate method to transcribe aspeaker’s physical delivery. Advancements in computer vision technologies, especially humanpose estimation [10], [11], [12], are ideal to explore a presenter’s nonverbal delivery (i.e., facialexpressions, eye behaviors, gestures, and posture), which would aid presenters in distinguishingbetween functional and dysfunctional uses of bodily cues when presenting to others [13]. Theopportunity to localize body key points to accurately recognize human nonverbal behaviors andactions [14] during presentations via human pose estimation appears to be an optimaltechnological option to assist in exploring
Paper ID #44356Effective Strategies for New Faculty from the Perspective of an AssistantProfessor in the Early-Career StageDr. Yuzhang Zang, Western Washington University Yuzhang Zang is currently an assistant professor in the department of Engineering and Design at Western Washington University since Fall 2022. She was a visiting assistant professor at Valparaiso University from Aug 2021 to May 2022. Yuzhang received her Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng.) in Electromagnetic Field & Wireless Technology Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in 2014, Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at
students' active participation and consider their background and previous experiences.Recommendations- For Educators: Integrating actual case studies and applied projects that reflect workenvironment challenges is recommended, especially in courses aimed at students with noprevious work experience.For Institutions, it is suggested that teachers be trained and provided with resources to facilitatethe adoption of active methodologies and foster an educational culture that values and promotesapplied and collaborative learning.- For Future Research: It would be beneficial to explore how individual student differences, suchas work experience, influence the effectiveness of different active learning methodologies andhow these strategies can be optimized
Analyst/Consultant. At present heenjoys working on Distributed Electric Propulsion (DEP) with his students, designing, analyzing,constructing and flying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Dr. Nader won a few awards in the past fewyears, among these are the College of Engineering Award of Excellence in UndergraduateTeaching (2023), Excellence in Faculty Academic Advising for the Department of MechanicalEngineering (2020). In addition, he is also a Co-PI on the NSF-supported HSI Implementation andEvaluation Project: Enhancing Student Success in Engineering Curriculum through Active e-Learning and High Impact Teaching Practices (ESSEnCe).Qiushi FuDr. Fu is an assistant professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department andBiionix cluster at UCF
demonstratehow ChatGPT could serve as a valuable guide for students [29]. Davis et al. performed a similarstudy with questions suited for introductory programming courses in C [30]. Other researchershave explored students’ use of LLMs and their varied perceptions. Liu et al. integrated AI toolsin an introductory course (Harvard CS50) to aid teaching and learning [31]. A user study byVaithilingam et al. explored how students and programmers utilize and perceive Co-pilot [32].Considering that students use Copilot to learn code, Puryear and Sprint investigated its impact onstudents’ code learning process within introductory computer science and data science courses[11]. In another online introductory programming course, Hellas et al. assessed the
Paper ID #45050Nurturing Interdisciplinary Engagement: A Case Study of Resourcing andRecruiting Strategies in an Early Academic Career Interdisciplinary Project-BasedLearning CourseDr. David Gray, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Gray receieved his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2000. He then earned a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2002 and 2010, respectively. Much of his graduate education focusDr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Lisa D. McNair is a Professor of Engineering Education at
meet-and-greet eventbetween students and BAE200 faculty member was a key activity that contributed to helpingstudents select a degree concentration and think about career opportunities.References[1] A. Baker et al., “Preparing the Acquisition Workforce: A Digital Engineering Competency Framework,” in 2020 IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), Montreal, QC, Canada: IEEE, Aug. 2020, pp. 1–6. doi: 10.1109/SysCon47679.2020.9275661.[2] R. Mansbach et al., “Reforming an undergraduate materials science curriculum with computational modules,” Journal of Materials Education, vol. 38, no. 3–4, pp. 161–174, 2016.[3] D. Ahmed, M. Nayeemuddin, T. Ayadat, and A. Asiz, “Computing Competency for Civil Engineering Graduates: Recent
1 Session XXXX An Interactive Approach to Teaching Moment Equilibrium Using Virtual Surgical Planning (Work in Progress) Anne-Marie Ginn-Hedman Department of Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University AbstractIntroductory static mechanic courses traditionally have limited practical examples for biomedicalengineering students. We therefore created a virtual lab where students can apply classroomknowledge to solve clinical
learnable skill, an orientation of practice, and an aspectof professional being. Elements of each construct of empathy are integrated into each of the threedimensions of the model for empathy in engineering (MEE). Within the dimension of empathy as a learnable engineering skill, there are fivecomprising components: affective sharing, self and other awareness, perspective taking, emotionregulation, and mode switching. Affective sharing relates to the cognitive process by which oneshares the emotions of another; self and other awareness moves one from the cognitive processto the affective by experiencing another’s emotions; perspective taking relates to the behavior ofadopting another’s point of view. The component of emotion regulation, has
learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(23), 8410- 8415. https://www. pnas. org/content/pnas/111/23/8410. full. pdf[19] Finkenstaedt-Quinn, S. A., Petterson, M., Gere, A., & Shultz, G. (2021). “Praxis of writing-to-learn: A model for the design and propagation of writing-to-learn in STEM.” Journal of Chemical Education, 98(5), 1548-1555.[20] Bereiter, C., & Scardamalia, M. (1987). “An attainable version of high literacy: Approaches to teaching higher-order skills in reading and writing.” Curriculum Inquiry, 17(1), 9-30.[21] Sampson, V., & Walker, J. P. (2012). “Argument-driven inquiry
consequences (vicarious reinforcement). ● Learning involves observation, information extraction, and decision-making, ● Learning is an active interaction where cognition, environment, and behavior mutually influence each other (reciprocal determinism).Social learning theory using the 3C Model:This study incorporates the 3C model of social learning [13] and it is defined as Content,Connection, and Collaboration. In the learning field, content creation is crucial to achieve preciselearning. Instructors should create content by setting learning objectives for effective training[14]. The integration of a social learning aspect requires the instructors to clearly state thedesired learning outcomes while concurrently establishing a