and assessment design.Lin Ding, Ohio State University Lin Ding, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University. Dr. Ding’s scholarly interests lie in discipline-based STEM education research. His work includes theoretical and empirical investigations of student content learning, problem solving, reasoning skills, and epistemological development. Dr. Ding specializes in research-based assessment development and focuses primarily on the quantitative research paradigm. He has published numerous high-impact journal articles, book chapters, and research proceedings papers. In addition, Dr. Ding has been leading multiple federal and state projects sponsored by the
Paper ID #33363Podcasting in Geophysics Education: How to Learn Without Removing theHeadphonesHector Zuniga-Robles, Universidad Andres Bello Hector Zuniga-Robles received his BS degree of Engineering Sciences from the University of Concep- cion. He also holds postgraduate degree in Geomatics at the University of Chile and the University of Santiago and in Geophysics at the University of Rosario, Argentina. He has 35-years of experience work- ing in geophysical exploration projects around the world. He began to share his knowledge through talks and courses to companies, which later led him to teach courses at universities
infrastructure, protective structures, and engineering education.Dr. Brock E. Barry P.E., United States Military Academy Dr. Brock E. Barry, P.E. is the Director of the Civil Engineering Division and Professor of Engineering Education in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Dr. Barry holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Rochester Institute of Tech- nology, a Master of Science degree from University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD from Purdue University. Prior to pursuing a career in academics, Dr. Barry spent 10-years as a senior geotechnical engineer and project manager on projects throughout the United States. He is a licensed professional en
industry holding technical and operations-based roles and has experience with outreach projects focused on STEM education and mentoring.Ronald Quintero, Florida International UniversityJade R. Moten, Florida International University Jade R. Moten is a graduate student at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Her research interests include expanding diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in engineering education, policy development, TRIO programs, and quality tool implementation.Miss Brittany Nicole Boyd, Morgan State University Brittany N. Boyd is currently a doctoral student at Morgan State University. Her research interests include scale development to examine post-secondary experiences and program
Paper ID #32443To File or Not to File Intellectual Property is Not the Only QuestionDr. Chad E. Kennedy, Arizona State University Professor Kennedy’s experience spans biomedical engineering research, project management, and ad- vanced technology application in industry. Mr. Kennedy’s expertise stems from spending the last 25+ years working in the field of engineering. His early career began working in various engineering de- sign, testing, and astronaut training capacities at NASA Johnson Space Center. After, Dr. Kennedy helped establish the Silicon Valley office and operations of VI Technology, Inc., an independent
. is an Associate Professor of engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of En- gineering at Arizona State University. He teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context and storytelling in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering De- sign Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and ”Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF
served as a controls engineer in China from 1995 to 2000. His current research interests include wearable medical devices, telehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, biosignal processing, and control systems. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven learning and integration of research into undergraduate education. Dr. Yao is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education and a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), to which he has been an active volunteer.Dr. Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University Dr. Ricky Castles is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He is primarily affiliated with the ECU
a small number of cases.3.2.2 Computer-assisted approachTo analyze these survey questions, we used a novel combination of modern natural languageprocessing techniques. The process starts with the raw text from student responses. We thenembed the sentences in a high dimensional vector space with sentence transformers based on theBERT architecture [26]. These embeddings then undergo a combination of linear and nonlineardimensionality reduction steps using principal component analysis (PCA) and uniform manifoldapproximation and project (UMAP) [27], respectively. We used PCA to reduce from the originalembedding space into an intermediate embedding space since the technique is efficient atmaintaining variance in the original embeddings without
Involvement Enhancing Yes TBD Projects Day Coordination Enhancing Yes TBD Knowledge Management / SharePoint Maintenance Essential Yes YesCommunication Program Website Enhancing No N/A External Advertising Enhancing Yes No 8Table 2. Identified major activities
Director in his department since 2008, and he also acts as the Project Director for the NSF Bridge Program in his department. In the past he served as the Graduate Director and as the Undergraduate Director in his department, and he directed the NSF-LSAMP program on his campus during 2009-2014 and also directed the NSF-LSAMP Bridge-to-Doctorate pro- gram on his campus during 2010-2013.Dr. Yolanda Parker, Tarrant County College Dr. Yolanda Parker’s education includes earning a Bachelor of Science from Texas A&M University in Applied Mathematical Sciences, a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Dartmouth College (New Hampshire) and a Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from Illinois State University. She has held a
worked as a visiting instructor in the School of International Studies and Outreach and as a teach- ing associate in the School of Construction Management Technology at Oklahoma State University. She has also worked as an instructor at Ershad Damavand University. In addition, she has over 14 years of experience in industry. Her research interests include sustainable project management, sustainability as- sessment, sustainable technology implementation, supply chain management, decision-making modeling, and big data application in construction. Her research has been published in several peer reviewed journals and presented at international conferences. Dr. Karimi has received numerous awards and recognitions including
American students to work with her as a Navajo principal investigator on the project and building an interdisciplinary, collaborative team of scientists with expertise in analytical chemistry, geoscience, cancer biology, and social sciences are also important to her research. She is a member of the Navajo Nation (born to the N´aneesht’ e´ zhi clan) and is involved in outreach activities for Native American students in undergraduate and graduate research. She is the principal investigator of the Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention and the director of the Bridges to Baccalaureate program. She was named the 2018 recipient of the American Chemical Society Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into
, militaryservice, work in the trades, and life events that too often prevent individuals from pursuingengineering.In the specific context of a project focused on preparing an engineering workforce that canrealize vehicle and roadway electrification and grid decarbonization for a sustainabletransportation infrastructure, we developed a strategic agenda for instilling cross-disciplinarycapacities and creating a smooth interconnected system of pathways through engineering.This paper discusses the structural changes needed in our educational infrastructure and thecurricular and pedagogical changes required for engineering formation to address sustainabilitychallenges in the future. We identify areas for growth and a set of strategic actions in pre-college
key feature of this offering of this course. Students were giventhree immersion options: industry, research or entrepreneurial. Students divided into groupsbased upon the immersion option that they wanted to pursue as well as the topics that theyindicated interest in. Several project topics were suggested for each category and student groupswere free to propose their own.In the industry option, one group of students had an opportunity to explore the NDSU networkand its security. A second group helped a local business (which one of the students was workingat) to design a security testing exercise which was deployed by the company’s staff who reportedback (somewhat abstracted, for security purposes, results to the students). In both cases
. Likewise, efforts mostly but not entirely led by the abovementionedfaculty commission, such as the annual offering of a teaching workshop and teaching conference,as well as new faculty training, a variety of seminars and teaching chats, and voluntary peerobservation all work to reinforce a university culture that is focused on quality teaching andpedagogical development.According to our university’s mission, we provide “a hands-on, project-based learningenvironment” and we aspire to be on the leading edge of “innovative teaching.”Indeed, this phrase appears in a recently released strategic plan, which further emphasizesexcellence and the guiding value of “embracing and celebrating the highest quality standards inteaching.”Though our university is
challenges facing the students were: Attending Remote Classes: Students had to adapt to remote instruction and had to switch among different platforms for different courses. Asynchronous Mode: With asynchronous classes, students missed having the ability to ask questions and participate in class discussions in real time. Team-based Activities: Students collaborating on lab work and projects requiring teamwork had to adapt from in-person meetings to remote and sometimes asynchronous activities, and in many cases, across time zones. Technology: Some students lacked access to reliable computers or internet connectivity. Personal: Some students faced difficult family, health, financial, or living situations.Thrown into the
population [22]. In 2008 and 2012, the COE completed the PACE(Project to Assess the Climate in Engineering) project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundationto identify issues that affect persistence among engineering undergraduates at 22 schools, whilepaying specific attention to the intersection of race, gender, and academic experience [23]. Whenasked to share their personal experiences within the COE, many students indicated that theclimate for women and URMs was not positive and could potentially be detrimental to theireducational experience. For example, some of the comments included the following:“I’m a female, and I've had both professors and students make derogatory comments in jestabout women in engineering.”“Never have I been singled out by
to apply theirexpertise within engineering education. “halfway into my first year I got this notice about a workshop [on teaching]. And I thought, okay, I’ll give it a try.” “my capstone project supervisor had some money to investigate simulated labs … to do some simulation of the lab classes that we do.” “when I came to [institution x], which is almost exclusively engineering and engineers, I had multiple other opportunities to extend those early ideas [on how engineers learn to write] and also to test them.”Sometimes these opportunities were consciously sought, and sometimes found through ahappenstance: “…and I kind of just took any job I could
Paper ID #33470Examining the Efficacy of Exam Wrappers in a Computer Science CourseDr. Karen C. Davis, Miami University Karen C. Davis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineer- ing at Miami University. Her research interests include database design, query processing and optimiza- tion, data warehousing, and computing education. She has published more than 50 papers, most of which are co-authored with her students. She has advised over 100 senior design project students and more than 40 MS/PhD theses/projects in the area of database systems. She was awarded the ASEE Sharon Keillor
labs.Results suggest that each student gains experience building and running their own experiments,and they can explore interesting or unexpected observations at will without the time constraint ofa classroom lab schedule [6]. Further benefits include the ability for experiments to be tailored bythe teacher to meet student needs and the ability of laboratories to be readily shared betweenuniversities [7].Just as important, there is growing need for students to practice professional remote engineeringinteractions because industry has increasingly turned to remote and virtual workflows for reasonsincluding 1) increased complexity of tasks, 2) increased cost of equipment and software coupledwith short term project time frames, 3) the necessity of trained
Penn State. He received his BSME from the University of Wyoming, and his MS and PhD from Virginia Tech.Dr. H. J. Sommer III, Pennsylvania State University Joe Sommer joined Penn State in 1980 following completion of his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and has served as Interim Head of the Department and as Graduate Coordinator. He was a founder of ECSEL, one of the original NSF Engineering Educational Coalitions. His research interests include mechatronics, three-dimensional kine- matics, biomechanics and vehicle dynamics with recent projects ranging from multibody dynamics, to locomotion in microgravity, to tractor overturn, to unmanned air
work presented in thispaper is part of an ongoing project to investigate the effectiveness of the CLICK approach inachieving this goal.3. Effectiveness of the CLICK Approach Study3.1 Immersive 3D Simulation Learning ModuleA 3D simulation model for a manufacturing assembly system was built in Simio® for thelearning module. Simio® is a software package that can be used to create and run dynamicmodels of systems with the ability to build 3D animations [44]. The system represents a tablelamp manufacturing assembly environment. Figure 1 shows a snapshot of the environment. Theoverall process starts with creating the base part of the table lamp using injection moldingmachines, the base parts are then cooled down and transported to a preparation
ToE. In Spring 2012, Dr. Lord spent a sabbatical at Southeast University in Nanjing, China teaching and doing research. She is on the USD team implementing ”Developing Changemaking Engineers”, an NSF-sponsored Revolutionizing Engineering Education (RED) project. Dr. Lord is the 2018 recipient of the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020The Final Straw: Incorporating accessibility and sustainability considerations into material selection decisionsAbstractEngineers are called upon to balance and adapt to the competing demands of industry, theenvironment, and society to develop sustainable and equitable
professor of industrial engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneurship and economic development. She is now a professor of integrated engineering at Minnesota State Univer- sity, Mankato, where she is helping to build the Bell Engineering program, and the managing partner of Kaizen Academic.Dr. Donna M Riley, Purdue University at West Lafayette Donna Riley is Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education and Professor of Engi- neering Education at Purdue University.Dr. Thomas A De Pree, Bucknell University Thomas De Pree is postdoctoral researcher at Bucknell University for the project, ”Developing Human Social Networks to Identify and Develop Data-Driven Metrics and Methods for Expanding
gender in engineering, I was very familiarwith this question and presumed my research participants would be as well. It was supposed tobe an easy question, a way for me to get participants talking about something familiar, and tobuild rapport between us. I realize now this question was also an implicit invitation to tell astory, to give me a sense of who they are, and to provide me a roadmap of what kind of questionsmight be useful to ask later in the interview.For most participants, it accomplished all of these goals. I was surprised by how naturally thesenarratives rolled off their tongues, how rehearsed women’s stories were about how they came tobe involved in engineering. As my research project went on, this became a narrative that I
complete picture of students’learning/proficiency, so assessment method will include, at a minimum, individual and groupquizzes/tests, authentic performance tasks, portfolios (and possibly projects), observations andinterviews. The most relevant types of assessment in this case are formative (multiple timesduring the instruction process), summative (to be focused on student’s comprehension), andinterim assessments. The idea of explaining STEM material in visual and intuitive ways is not new. Forexample, Tyler DeWitt [1] taught high school students the topic of isotopes. He explained thatisotopes are basically the same atom using an analogy involving similar cars with minor changes.There are a few calculus textbooks that include visual
Paper ID #30014Utilizing Peer Learning Assistants to Improve Student Outcomes in anIntroductory ECE CourseDr. David John Orser, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities David Orser teaches and develops undergraduate education curriculum with a focus on laboratory courses for the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His courses leverage project-based learning, experiential learning, and self-paced activities. David has over ten years of industry experience specializing in mixed-signal high-speed integrated circuit design, power systems, and power electronics.Kyle Dukart
theenvironments they will find themselves in their future” [16]. While providing logical argumentsand an interesting approach Weiman fails to provide analytical justification to his claims.Further, he does not recognize that student assessments are not limited to exams, but that courselearning and assessment can also come from design projects, laboratories, or other collaborativedeliverables. Perhaps written exams might be more suited to assessing fundamentals while moreadvanced concepts are better suited to other assessments.Research Motivation and Methodology The main motivation for conducting this research is based on student feedback fromprevious years and from instructor experience with successful examination techniques from
thestudents graduated on time, thus making sure that they were kept on track, emphasizing more ofan academic advisory role focused on what students were doing rather than a mentoring onewhich emphasizes who the students are and what they need more holistically.Another outcome of culture of doing is that students are treated as employees rather than humanbeings learning in a scientific environment. The data spoke specifically to this when a programdirector indicated that the student needed to be able to work independently with minimaldirection from them. In other words, they were only concerned with the students ability tocomplete the project and not the process which includes the learning component that isassociated with the project. This construct
development of technologies. Technology uses and limitations, in turn, impact society.This creates a largely unexplored opportunity––one in which quantum computing can beintroduced to young students through project-based learning units in which the driving questionand ways of making sense of that question are driven by real-world engineering applications ofquantum computing. The NGSS specify integration of “three dimensions” of science learning:(1) disciplinary core ideas, (2) science and engineering practices, and (3) crosscutting ideas thatspan across scientific disciplines (e.g., structure and function). Instruction should thereforesupport students to work on design solutions to interdisciplinary problems that engage them inauthentic science and