stipulates: Student Outcome:5. An ability to understand ethical and professional responsibilities and the impact of technical and/orscientific solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts. 6. An ability to functioneffectively on teams that establish goals, plan tasks, meet deadlines, and analyze risk and uncertainty. Theobjective of this project is to develop new and refine available tools for assessing some of the soft skillsthat would fulfill ANSAC requirements. It is expected to finalize a set of tools, as outcomes, and havethem tested in the classrooms by the end of the project.Introduction and BackgroundConstruction is an interconnected process. The construction engineers and managers work cooperativelywith many
laboratory course offerings. Laboratories thatused to be taught separately have been combined to reduce the demand on faculty, and this hasresulted in a reduction in the number of lab activities for students.The department has also been very pro-active in providing students with real-world engineeringexperiences. Our senior design capstone course continues to execute projects with many clientcompanies, and those companies have hired many of our graduates. Many students also takeadvantage of coop and internship opportunities which have grown in recent years. The rewardsystem at UMD, however, heavily favors research-oriented faculty over practice oriented faculty, Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Section Conferenceand the
/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award, and the 2006 Halliburton Excellent Young Teacher Award. In addition to carrying on an architectural practice while teaching, many of her scholarship and creative activities relate to teaching in the Comprehensive Design Studio. Topics include multidisciplinary collaborations and integration of systems. She has collaboratively created educational material covering basics of egress design which has been viewed by students and professionals worldwide, and has led multidisciplinary design teams and research projects. She has presented at a variety of architecture, engineering, and fire protection academic and professional venues.Mr. William Crawford American
) Program: Reimagining STEM Doctoral ProgramsAbstractThis Work in Progress paper describes the development and implementation of a new pathway fordoctoral candidates in STEM programs to satisfy their capstone degree requirements that has thepotential to modernize the STEM Ph.D. The model, Pathways to Entrepreneurship, aims to bringgreater alignment between doctoral degrees and the rapidly changing employment landscape.Programmatic and curricular innovations to the current Ph.D. model are described along with therationale. Project goals are to develop an alternative roadmap for STEM doctoral students, that isscalable, and to investigate pedagogical implications of these innovations, for doctoral educationand for broadening
(CINQ) which are multi-year, global projects based on the desire to make a difference right from the beginning but requires significant amount of thinking and creativity; There is the Summer Mountaintop Experience Project that promotes student innovation and self- driven projects. The university has systems in place to get tracking on projects including the Capstones. This shares similarity with the nanotechnology fellows program at GW [24], [25].These programs led to the elimination of “teaching in silos,” and the assessment of success was based onfeedback from the industry on student impact. Figure 2 shows the answers to the thematic questions. [VIP] Who manages the creative •This is
-world problemsolving (Figure 7). Figure 7. College Credit Certificate in Cloud ComputingThe majority of the students enroll in this certificate in conjunction with their associate orbachelor’s program in the computing/IT field. Although the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted forsome of them their learning, so far 10 out of 15 dual enrollees registered in cloud infrastructurecourse earned their AWS Solutions Architect – Associate certification and 15 enrollees completedtheir enterprise cloud capstone projects followed by a summer internship. This initiative hasproduced some of the first, and youngest, certified solutions architects in the country.Based on the pilot success, AWS Academy has extended an invitation to a handful of
program that provides opportunities and funding for undergraduate research,capstone projects, research with faculty, or the National Science Foundation (NSF) ResearchExperience for Undergraduates (REU) program. Study abroad programs may be approved asMulticultural experiences, but are not required; a student may also complete the MulticulturalCompetency through courses and/or experiences that do not involve traveling. Students maycomplete the Social Consciousness Competency through engagement in a variety of servicelearning opportunities including Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS),engineering outreach activities, and mentorship for First Lego League or other programs. Foreach of these competencies, when there is an option for
, with a background in struc- tural engineering and project management. Dr. Mosier has received regional and international teaching awards through the Associated Schools of Construction. Research interests include the cost of sustainable construction to owners and engineering education.Dr. Heather N. Yates, Oklahoma State University Dr. Yates joined the Oklahoma State University Construction Faculty in 2006 as an Assistant Professor. She received her Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology from the OSU Construction Manage- ment Department in 1998. She graduated with a Masters of Engineering Technology from Pittsburg State University in 2002. She also earned a Specialist in Education Degree from Pittsburg State
security become ever more importantto Americans, engineering schools that have not traditionally focused on energy are moving toaddress the topic more formally. At Baylor University, an “energy core” of technical electives isbeing developed, including courses on wind energy, solar energy, power systems, turbines andcombustion engines. This paper documents the authors’ observations on the use of the TRNSYSsimulation software package in a senior/graduate elective on solar energy. The paper givesexamples of the types of projects students do using TRNSYS, how it can be used in theclassroom, and some suggestions for educators considering its use in future courses.Comparisons are made between projects completed using general-purpose numerical
backgrounds.” Additionally, Hora et al’s recent investigationof online internships suggests that remote interns are more likely to be upper- or middle-class,and those internships are more likely to be unpaid [14].The benefits of participation in internships or co-ops accrue both to students (in educationaloutcomes and personal development) and to institutions. Internships help build studentcapabilities and skills for capstone projects, and provide hands-on experience that may resonateespecially well with students who learn best experientially [15], [16]. Additionally, internshipsmay bolster student and mentor motivation, as well as the formation of an engineering identityfor participating students and student retention [2], [17]–[19]. Institutions
tactics, the first being restructuring the Civil Engineeringcurriculum to create unique opportunities for nontraditional faculty-student interactions andrelationships [1].One of the central components of the restructured curriculum is the creation of a sequence ofcourses (Springer 1, Springer 2, Junior Studio, and Keystone Design) that incorporate skills andconcepts presented in the traditional Civil Engineering courses offered at Clemson. However,these courses differ from the norm in that they employ a project-based learning approach,thereby exposing students to a collaborative environment consisting of their peers, teams offaculty members, and stakeholders from the greater community. This sequence of coursesculminates in a Keystone Design
(Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teaching Award) and state (TIP award) levels. Scott also was a co-PI for a Helios-funded Middle School Residency Program for Science and Math (for which he taught the capstone course) and is on the leadership committee for an NSF IUSE grant to transform STEM Education at USF. His research is in the areas of solution thermodynamics and environmental monitoring and modeling. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Systemic Transformation of Education Through Evidence-based Reform (STEER): Results and Lessons LearnedAbstractWe report here on the implementation over five years of a comprehensive project to
, Associate Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center, and a Professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University. She is responsible for the launch and development of the university’s multidisciplinary undergraduate entrepreneurship program, which involves 1800 students from all majors per year. She has established entrepreneurship capstone, global entrepreneurship, and women and leadership courses and initiatives at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to her work in academia, Nathalie spent several years in the field of market research and business strategy consulting in Europe and the United States with Booz Allen and Hamilton and Data and Strategies Group. She received a
doctoral degrees in Civil En- gineering from North Carolina State University in the USA. Her disciplinary research interests lie in the area of sustainability in asphalt pavements using material considerations, green technologies, and efficient pavement preservation techniques. Her doctoral work focused on improving the performance of recycled asphalt pavements using warm mix asphalt additives. As a postdoctoral scholar at North Carolina State University, she worked on several NCDOT sponsored research projects including developing specifica- tions for crack sealant application and performing field measurements of asphalt emulsion application in tack coats and chip seals. Her undergraduate teaching experience includes
countries’ higher education intra-period digital pedagogy responses,” J. Appl. Learn., vol. 3, no. 1, 2020, doi: 10.37074/jalt.2020.3.1.7.[10] A. Friesel, “Proposal for accreditation procedure to support the development of skills and competencies in globalized engineering world,” Jun. 2014, doi: 10.18260/1-2--17196.[11] P. Caratozzolo and A. Alvarez, “A new transdisciplinary approach to foster soft skills in engineering : Using critical reading micro-workshops,” 2019, doi: 10.1109/WEEF-GEDC.2018.8629775.[12] P. A. Sanger, A. Friesel, H. Geraedts, L. E. Quineche Orellana, R. Canahuire, and F. Berry, “International Capstone Student Projects Giving Real World, Global Team Experiences,” Nov. 2018, doi: 10.1109/EAEEIE
color in the field of cybersecurity.Dr. Sharon Zelmanowitz P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy Dr. Zelmanowitz is Dean of Engineering at the United States Coast Guard Academy and Professor of Civil Engineering. As an institutional change agent, she has catalyzed the formation of a USCGA di- versity initiative inspired by the ASEE Engineering Deans Diversity Initiative and has brought faculty and stakeholders together to employ best practices to meet the the Coast Guard’s urgent need for more engineers prepared for 21st century technical challenges. Her teaching, research, and capstone projects span a wide array of environmental issues including storm sewer and sanitary sewer redesign, shipboard wastewater treatment
Paper ID #34275Supporting Equitable Team Experiences Using Tandem, an Online Assess-mentand Learning ToolDr. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios. She is one of the faculty co-innovators behind Tandem.Dr
class time, there are active discussions andhands-on learning related to the learned course content. The design thinking course has threeprojects- the first two projects are small projects aimed to help students learn the designthinking process. The third project is a larger course capstone project where students apply thedesign process to solve a real time problem and come up with functional prototypes as a projectoutcome. All the projects are group-based projects and the final project groups are selected bystudents themselves based on their interest area for the project. To understand the context ofthis study, the next section describes a typical class meeting.Daily Routine- Design Thinking Course Students read and complete the
University, Beijing, China, 1999. WORKING EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Cal Poly Pomona, 2016 – present. • Teach Process Design and Process Control for senior students. Process/Project Engineer, Wahlco Inc, Santa Ana, CA, 2014-2016. • Lead Urea to Ammonia process development. • Responsible for marketing research review. • Conduct internal and customer factory acceptance test. • Design process control system with PLC/DCS implementation. Project Manager/Senior Engineer, ClearWaterBay Technology Inc. Pomona, CA, 2007-2014. • Managed a Large-scale Refinery Energy Optimization Project, 2012-2014. • Major project in process design: 30+ units and 2 utility systems, with
. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Qualitative Analysis of Lab Skills in CHE LabAbstractTo better understand the change in student perception and abilities in a CHE laboratory course, amulti-dimensional survey was administered to two different student cohorts: one with atraditional lab structure and one with a revised lab structure. While quantitative data from theself-assessment and lab skills test has been analyzed [1], this work presents analysis of one of theopen-ended responses questions on the lab skills test. This study was motivated by the desire tounderstand the impact curriculum revisions have on student experience and abilities. The data setfor this project
) ethics, 8) interdisciplinary research, 9) multidisciplinary skills, 10) disciplinary knowledge, 11) informatics, and 12) design. This paper only described the evaluation method and no results were presented. • One NRT studied 12 participants in their 3rd, 4th and 5th year of graduate studies (Denton & Borrego) via semi-structured interviews of 10-40 minutes in length, focusing on the influence of the NRT over their career preparation and choices. Among participants, they found a lack of stigma around non-academic career paths, which was credited to the interaction of NRT students with non-academic entities through internships and capstone design projects outside of academia. Students were
engage joint PWI-MSI teams in the US education and research enterprise. The IECis a novel collaboration among nearly 20 MSIs, most of whom participated in an NSF fundedmulti-year, engineering education project. This new organization was built on the idea that thiscollaboration can be leveraged and moved to the next level to provide higher capacity building ateach of the consortium members. The hypothesis is that there are windows of opportunity openthrough establishment of research and educational collaborations between its MSI members withPWI research-intensive institutions. This is especially true since its member institutions serve aunique population of minority students. The IEC is developing the infrastructure and programs tofacilitate
-as-usual. Social justice should not be invisible in engineering education and practice [52]. Facultyprovide social justice examples from all three specializations throughout the curriculum. In addition, faculty embed four social justice case study projects in four semesters of thecurriculum: ENGR 101: Introduction to Freshman Design, ENGR 201: Experiential Engineering,ENGR 321: Electronic Circuits & Devices, and ENGR 381/382/383: Specialty Capstone DesignI. The case study format varies each semester. Freshmen groups are introduced to the case studyapproach in ENGR 101, when each group reviews assigned documents of a case, and then laterdescribes the case to other groups during a reserved course meeting. These sets of case
the University of Virginia (UVA), a hybrid model was adopted. Students were giventhe option to take the class 100% remotely, or they could attend lab in person every other week.During the second week of the semester, entire sections met online for team forming. Thoughsome attempt was made to group in-person students in the same team, several teams had a mixof in-person and remote students. The curriculum was redesigned into two-week blocks. Duringthe ‘on’ week, students collected data from an experiment they performed in person or watchedvirtually. During the ‘off’ week, they worked in teams on various activities including report peerreview workshops, a team project, and post-processing of the previous week’s experiments. Thispaper will
STEM fields, Engineering in Education and Access to Post-Secondary Education. From August 2006 through February 2008, she was the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs of the College of Engineering. She was Co-Pi of the NSF’s UPRM ADVANCE IT Catalyst Project awarded during 2008. From 2008-2016, she was Co-PI of the USDE’s Puerto Rico Col- lege Access Challenge Grant Project. From 2015-2018, she was the Coordinator of the UPRM College of Engineering Recruitment, Retention and Distance Engineering Education Program (R2DEEP). Currently, she is Co-PI of the project ”Recruiting, Retaining, and Engaging Academically Talented Students from Economically Disadvantaged Groups into a Pathway to Successful Engineering Careers
and nature of asset-based practices both in theory and practice, andhelped identify a variety of practical asset-based pedagogical strategies from community-inspireddesign projects and asset-mapping to translanguaging and cross-institutional faculty professionaldevelopment initiatives. We believe that these findings will potentially motivate the engineeringeducation community to actively implement asset-based approaches in design instruction, andfurther develop and test more nuanced strategies that draw upon students’ funds of knowledgeand cultural wealth.IntroductionEngineering design is typically recognized and taught as a team activity, with cornerstone andcapstone project-based courses requiring students to work on teams and to navigate
University. This paper will focus on three course design considerations and how each onemay be expanded and translated to offer strategies for course design and instruction. Reflectionand reframing of course design considerations offers faculty developers new approaches tocourse development.Background of Course The course focused on interdisciplinary collaboration and problem framing for studentsto generate insight about a complex problem situation. This course was designed as anopportunity for students to connect their learning across courses and prepare them for advancedstudy in interdisciplinary coursework and senior engineering capstone design. The primary focuswas on developing students’ abilities to engage with multiple perspectives
observations in asimilar environment, was consulted before sessions to guide the observer’s focus. Allobservations were written freeform and the protocol was not present during sessions.Observations were recorded with corresponding timestamps. A change in notable participantbehavior and/or the passing of roughly one minute constituted a new timestamp andcorresponding entry.Design ProjectThe semester-long design project [15] tasked students with the following: to dissect acommercially-available product, model the individual pieces using Autodesk Inventor™, anddevise possible improvements to the design of the product. The dissection process, in whichstudents reverse-engineer a product through physical deconstruction, provides experientialopportunity for
for 1) work-based learning, 2)career and technical student organizations (CTSOs), or capstone experiences that engagestudents through formal or informal learning. Florida’s Experiential Learning Frameworkprovides examples of work-based learning as career experiences (e.g., practicum, internships,registered apprenticeships or pre-apprenticeships, and on-the-job training), and careerengagement (e.g., directed student or other capstone courses, school enterprise, service learning,simulated work environments, or participation in CTSOs. Experiential learning also includespreparation for work-based learning, which includes career exposure (e.g., job shadowing,mentoring, company tours, and informational interviews) and career exploration (e.g
Paper ID #34039Instructors’ Experiences With the Miscibility of Math and Communicationin a Probability and Statistics CourseDr. Sheila Anne Gobes-Ryan, University of South Florida Sheila Gobes-Ryan is a Communication Instructor in the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida. She received her PhD in Communication and an interdisciplinary MLA degree from the University of South Florida. She has a Bachelor of Environmental Design, architectural focus, from North Carolina State University. She was a workplace strategic planner involved in large scale corporate and government projects for STUDIOS Architecture