with their finalgrade in an engineering graphics class [8], [14], [15]. Hsi et al. found that, in an engineeringgraphics class, spatial visualization ability was correlated with the overall course grade, such thatwomen, who had lower average spatial visualization scores, also tended to have lowerperformance in the course. However, the gender difference was not present for grades onhomework or projects. Therefore, they attributed the discrepancy in final grade to the lowerexam scores of women compared to that of men [2]. It has been hypothesized that femalesemploy slower strategies in solving rotation problems than males, which may contribute to thediscrepancy in scores observed on time-restrictive spatial visualization tests [13] and
current ABET general criteria and the new program criterion; the new program criterion partially addresses BOK2 outcome ten Sustainable Development. Sustainable development could be embedded in discussions of leadership, project management, business, policy, and ethics and other professional practice topics. Table 2 Opportunities in Upper Division Civil Engineering Courses UN Sustainable Development Goal Courses Goal 6 Ensure availability and sustainable Introductory Courses in Water Resources and management of water and sanitation for all Wastewater Treatment Goal 11 Make cities and human settlements Introductory Courses in any
Mechatronics Curriculum and Packaging Automation Laboratory Facility. In 2010 he as Co-PI received NSF-ATE grant entitled Meeting Workforce Needs for Mechatronics Tech- nicians. From 2003 through 2006, he was involved with Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL in developing direct computer control for hydrogen powered automotives. He is also involved in several direct computer control and wireless process control related research projects. His current interests are in the area of packaging machinery system design & control, industrial transducers, industrial process control systems, modeling and simulation of Mechatronics devices and systems in virtual environment, programmable logic controllers, programmable logic
Technology emphasis in Cyber Security. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Cybersecurity Camp - A Call for AwarenessAbstractThe demand for cybersecurity analysts and awareness is increasing, the employment ofinformation security analysts is projected to grow 37 percent from 2012 to 2022, much fasterthan the average for all occupations. Today, women represent just 10 percent of thecybersecurity workforce. Thus, to increase the amount of people going into cybersecurity,primarily women, we must start at the base: schools. There, we can emphasize the need for beingcyber savvy and also address the need to have balanced teams of men and women.In 2015, we hosted a Girls Cybersecurity Camp
addition to Foroudastan’s teaching experi- ence, he also has performed extensive research and published numerous technical papers. He has secured more than $2 million in the form of both internal and external grants and research funding. Foroudastan is the faculty advisor, coordinator, and primary fundraiser for EVP teams entering national research project competitions such as the Formula SAE Collegiate Competition, the Baja SAE Race, the SolarBike Race, the Great Moonbuggy Race, and the Solar Boat Collegiate Competition. For his concern for and ded- ication to his students, Foroudastan received MTSU awards such as the 2002-03 Outstanding Teaching Award, the 2005-06 Outstanding Public Service Award, and the 2007 Faculty
teaching and doing research.Dr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 20 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since 2004, she been a member of the NSF-funded MIDFIELD research project on engineering education; she has served as a Co-PI on three research projects, including one on transfer students and another on student veterans in engineering.Michelle M
, dispositions, and worldviews. His dissertation focuses on conceptualizations, the importance of, and methods to teach empathy to engineering students. He is currently the Education Di- rector for Engineers for a Sustainable World, an assistant editor for Engineering Studies, and a member of the ASEE Committee on Sustainability, Subcommittee on Formal Education.Ms. Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology Sarah Brownell is a Lecturer in Design Development and Manufacturing for the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She works extensively with students in the mul- tidisciplinary engineering capstone design course and other project based elective courses, incorporating
curricula. He is currently conducting research on an NSF project led by Dr. Stephen Krause, focused on the factors that promote persistence and success for undergraduate engineering students.Dr. Eugene Judson, Arizona State University Eugene Judson is an Associate Professor of for the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. His past experiences include having been a middle school science teacher, Director of Aca- demic and Instructional Support for the Arizona Department of Education, a research scientist for the Cen- ter for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the
Paper ID #12643Renewable Energy Technician Education: Lessons from the German En-ergiewendeMary Slowinski, M.Ed., CREATE NSF-ATE Center Mary Slowinski received her M.Ed. in Learning Science from the University of Washington where she will complete her PhD in the same. She has worked extensively with the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education program in a variety of consulting capacities including serving as learning coordinator for two international faculty learning projects, participating as an Innovation Coach for a ”scaling-up innovations” project, developing curriculum and learning materials
Page 26.1424.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Student Perspective on Defining Engineering LeadershipAbstractMany definitions and theories of leadership that have evolved over the past few centuries.However, only recently has the term engineering leadership been introduced and there is alack of a clear definition. A stronger understanding of the different perspectives of this termwill help institutions to develop and improve engineering leadership education programs. Theaim of this research project is to answer the following: from the perspective of engineeringstudents, academics, and professionals, what is engineering leadership and what skills arerequired to be a leader in
, knowledge, and skills in variousindustries and to shift easily from one professional activity to another. Thus students’ academic mobility may be considered not only as a social phenomenon(traveling and making joint projects), but also as an integrative personal trait (the ability and Page 26.425.4readiness to adapt easily to the diversity and the dynamism of the educational process). It isevident that all levels of the professional education system should meet both social andpersonal requirements. The academically mobile person is active, constantly developing, andpossesses flexible, creative thinking. At the same time, self-improvement is
networking opportunities for STEM teachers innearby rural school districts, as well as relevant experiential curricula for rural classrooms.9,10As such, the main objective of this research project, Rural Readiness for Engineering Education(RREE), was to meet the need for elementary teacher engineering education in rural Oklahomaby providing a comprehensive engineering education curriculum training workshop andsupplying shared resources for classroom implementation. The project aimed to increase teacherengineering education self-efficacy and thus student understanding about and interest inengineering processes and careers. In this paper, we focus on the value of the RREE project toprovide professional development to rural schools and present
demonstrate equal technical proficiency as men, preventing stereotypesand misconceptions regarding women [5]. Figure 1 describes the GPA of male and female highschool graduates in math and science, for a period of 15 years, in USA; Figure 2, the number ofwomen being awarded engineering degrees, proving that engineering is not a sex segregated fieldof work nor a male orientated field of education (Youn and Choi 2015). Highlighting STEMwomen’s devotion to their careers, their mathematical abilities can be beneficial to theiradvanced confidence (Oh and Lewis 2011). Regarding professional performance, (McIlwee andRobinson 1992) stated that both genders display equal desires and wishes when it comes to getinvolved in strategic projects, applying practical
) offerscutting edge research projects to community college students, hosted by the University ofCalifornia. The overall goal of the TTE REU program is to increase the number of communitycollege students transferring to a 4 year school to earn a bachelors in science and engineering.TTE REU has been operating since 2011 and has hosted 66 community college students. EachTTE participant is placed in a faculty member’s lab and mentored closely by a graduate studentfor their nine-week internship. This paper will focus on the impact this program has had on theparticipants through a follow up study with the students hosted in 2012, 2013, and 2014. All TTEREU participants were surveyed and asked to evaluate how the program has impacted them inthe short term. TTE
hands-on projects that do notimmediately seem related, and thus seeks to link a service-learning project to 3D modeling andprinting. The first part carries students on a journey to understand the need for and to plan aservice-learning project. The story begins with two students frustrated by their experience offacilitating an engineering design challenge with elementary school children. The case thendirects students to use provided resources to plan and engage in a meaningful service-learningproject. The second part continues the story of one of the disgruntled students experiencing abreakthrough when the needs addressed by the service-learning intervention are well-defined andwhen the student discovers a shared interest in 3D printing with one
design development cyclewas highlighted in his work. He asserted that the engineering curriculum at that time did notaddress the importance of prototyping and was less practiced in homework, projects, orlaboratories. An experiment was conducted with senior design students through an iterative design-fabrication-redesign-fabrication sequence to enable hands-on experience on desktop-levelmanufacturing equipment. His work strongly asserts the need to include practical training whileincluding design-intensive prototyping courses. During the initial phases, universities do not needto invest in commercial-level equipment, since desktop machines could provide students withuseful insights for basic understanding of processes. The same experimental
relating to the technical details of a particular project component or part, thetechnical or mechanical details of the larger product being created, and the immediate existingstructure surrounding the project – including course requirements or team competition rules. Anumber of students also mentioned considerations relating to the temporal elements of aproblem. For many, this meant an emphasis on the project timeline or time as a factor thatrestricted them from exploring other solutions. Several students mentioned looking at howsimilar projects had been addressed previously or how they might adapt their solution in thefuture.Other types of factors were less commonly mentioned among undergraduate engineers. Severalstudents mentioned factors
leadership roles, exploringpathways to STEM leadership, and developing a personal plan for professional growth. Thefourth year also culminates with the honors project or thesis, taken over two semesters. Studentsdevelop their own research plans, engineering design projects, or theses, and present their workat the end-of-year symposium. They develop an in-depth understanding of identifying andsolving STEM problems and effectively communicating their work to the general public. TheWISE curriculum and associated timeline are summarized in Table 1.Table 1WISE Curricular Sequence for Undergraduate STEM Majors FALL SPRING ANY SEMESTER FOCUS First Year Introduction to University
upperclassmen role model that the first-year students can associatewith engineering. On average, each mentor has three to seven mentees. The Eco-Carorganization has sponsored workdays, where new members get paired with older members tocomplete projects. The workdays have encouraged mentor to mentee relationships, whichinvolve teaching new members various skills. They have set up an organized system of sub-leads, where a sub-lead of a specific aspect of the car would serve as a mentor to a group ofmentees. This gives the mentees a consistent person to go to if they ever need help with Eco-Carprojects or projects outside of the organization, such as schoolwork. They plan to set upadditional activities, not directly related to the car, but for various
preserved in thescaled IST. The core region, heat transfer, flow patterns, and coolant inventory in the downcomer, coreand the riser above the core were all kept in similitude with an actual reactor. The steam generatorpreserved the heat transfer and boiling effects and the condensation with and without non-condensablegases [2]. Outside of these, the design of the IST included features to support its adaptation for otherdesign or research missions. While testing in support of the mPower SMR ended in 2014, the facility has been maintained tosupport other projects. The facility is still in use by several companies and Liberty University for thepurposes of furthering nuclear engineering research on multiple fronts.Description of Thermal Hydraulic
. Gloria Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology Gloria Ma is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Technology. She has been teaching robotics with Lego Mindstorm to ME freshmen for several years. She is actively involved in community services of offering robotics workshops to middle- and high-school girls. Her research in- terests are dynamics and system modeling, geometry modeling, project based engineering design, and robotics in manufacturing.Dr. Weihui Li, Biomedical Engineering, Wentworth Institute of Technology Weihui Li received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Tsinghua University and her PhD from Tulane University. She was also a research fellow in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
students to ask questions about course-related material [6, 17-20]. Themost common interventions to increase SB in engineering majors are related to the technicaldiscipline. Not surprisingly, most engineering education interventions reported in the literaturetarget first-year engineering women and first-generation/low-income students to increase theirSB and engineering identity. Some intervention examples to retain this population of studentsinclude faculty and peer-mentoring, participation in internships with local STEM companies[21], interviewing a person of color in STEM [22], use of makerspaces for completing designprojects [23], summer bridge programs [24], first-year engineering student success course [25],and sociotechnical design projects
-year anniversary retrospective survey to former students in2019 to inquire about the value of the course for their academic and professional careers. Now,we are embarking on a project to formally evaluate the course content and its direct impact oncurrent students, particularly their leadership skills with regards to DEI in engineering, to informour next course redesign process. As part of the long-term goals for our project, we want toevaluate the impact the redesigned course has on students’ leadership development, both in theirremaining academic careers and their future professional careers.This work-in-progress practice paper presents the preliminary results of the first phase of ourcurrent project. In this first phase, we evaluate the
when possible. When possible, based on theresearch interests of the students and faculty, CCLSRM students were paired with REU studentsin the same lab, otherwise the CCLSRM students were grouped together in the same lab. Studentswere also placed in the same lab as faculty with similar backgrounds when appropriate. Afterassigning the students an advisor it was left to the advisor to develop a project for the student thatfit their background and research interests. The program remained involved outside the lab byengaging with the students weekly for weekly research meetings, hosting an industry visit, andconnecting students to professional development dinner and dialogue sessions offered by theUniversity of Arkansas for all REU programs on
privateuniversities to promote transfer capital and student engagement in STEM transfer students. There are fourobjectives of the project. The first objective is to increase the number of academically talented and low-income students that transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions. The second objective isto improve the retention and graduation rates of CC transfer students in STEM fields byproviding them with evidence-based curricular activities, co-curricular activities, and support services.The third objective is to increase the number of students placed into STEM graduate programs orprofessional positions by providing intensive faculty mentoring and research opportunities. The finalobjective is to generate new knowledge about how
Intersection of Roles, Responsibilities, and Care in Engineering Graduate EducationMotivationWhether in response to the mental health crisis or the widespread inequities and discriminationwithin engineering graduate programs, the graduate engineering education community needs totake targeted action to create change and healing from standing systemic issues. Research inengineering graduate education, up to this point, has focused almost exclusively on studies ofstudent experiences, advisors, and departmental policies. Yet, the graduate education system iscomposed of many more stakeholders who impact and are impacted by graduate student mentalhealth and wellbeing. This collaborative research project focuses on one such
among them are prioritizing students’interests and navigating curriculum when the content of the curriculum falls outside teachers’backgrounds and experiences [3]. This study explored the perspectives of teachers and curriculum developers involved inan afterschool program for high school students focused on Robotics, Automation, and Designfor Sustainability (SUPERCHARGE). The purpose of the NSF funded afterschool program wasto support student access to STEM career pathways for those of marginalized groups in threehigh schools in different neighborhoods in a large urban school district in the U.S. This studytook place during the first year of the project where curriculum was being developed by facultywith the support of undergraduate STEM
, structural, and pedagogical changes needed to transform their institution’s College of Engineering...” 4 This project was created in response to an updated NSF BPE solicitation, specifically a Track 4, phase 1 grant with the aim of creating a Center for Equity in Engineering.Phase I projects are focused on establishing the infrastructure necessary to“stand up” the CEE within their College of EngineeringNational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018.★ Expected to have a duration of at least 24 monthsGraduate STEM Education for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: The★ Proposed budget not to exceed $1.2M.National★ RequireAcademies Press
of The Pledge of the Computing Professional, an organization dedicated to the promotion of ethics in the computing professions. Estell is Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio Northern University, where he currently teaches first-year programming and user interface design courses, and serves on the college’s Capstone Design Committee. Much of his research involves design education pedagogy, including for- mative assessment of client-student interactions, modeling sources of engineering design constraints, and applying the entrepreneurial mindset to first-year programming projects through student engagement in educational software development. Estell earned his BS in Computer Science
Africa.Mr. Joseph Ronald Sturgess, Virginia Tech Joseph Sturgess is a PhD student in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he also serves as a graduate research assistant contributing to various projects supporting low-income STEM students and minority-serving institutions. His research interests include community college-minority serving institution partnerships, transfer students, post-traditional students and broadening participation in engineering education. He received his B.S. in electrical engi- neering from Tuskegee University, a M.S in journalism from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, a M.S. in physics from Fisk University, a M.S. in