AFB.Patricia Chaffey, University of Southern California Patricia Chaffey has had a passion for studying and designing interaction between humans and technology since her undergraduate career at Mount Holyoke College, and continues to pursue this interest at the University of Southern California. Some of her notable work includes developing a robotic learning companion and designing a simulation to study how people interact with swarms of robots using a virtual agent as an intermediary. Patricia has received awards to support her travel to conferences and leadership workshops, which include, but are not limited to, the 2018 ELIS Expanding Horizons award, and the 2017 Computing Research Association – Women Grace Hopper
databases and are often unaware of the resources that theiruniversities afford them1. In addition, many students are overwhelmed by the prospect ofsearching for information and are reluctant to seek help1. The electronic age has madeinformation literacy a necessity for students and graduates because being information literatemeans that you have learned how to learn2.The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)3 defines an information literateperson as someone who can: Determine the extent of information needed Access the needed information effectively and efficiently Evaluate information and its sources critically Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge base Use information effectively to
; Instruction and Graduate Research Assistant. His relevant research interests include understanding the obstacles STEM teachers face in collaboration and disseminating best instructional practices. He completed a M.A. in Elementary Science Education from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a B.S. in Natural Resources Management from Rutgers University.Mark A. Emmet, Boise State University Mark A, Emmet is currently the Associate Research Project Coordinator for Idaho SySTEMic Solution, a project funded by the United States Department of Education and administered jointly by the Colleges of Engineering and Education at Boise State University. Mr. Emmet has worked previously as the Profes- sional Development Coordinator
-20003 FLC participants who are now sophomores have been hiredas MAPS mentors, SI Leaders, and ENGR 1201 (Introduction to Engineering) teachingassistants. These students indicate that after just one year they have established a strongconnection with the College community and already desire to “give back” to help others.ENGR 1201: Introduction to Engineering Practices and Principles IIntroduction to Engineering Practices and Principles I (ENGR 1201) provides a way for allCollege of Engineering students, freshmen or transfers, to be a part of a learning community.ENGR 1201 is a required course that introduces students to the engineering disciplines, thecollege’s computing system, the design process, teamwork, oral and written communications,and
education and practice and has been working in the areas of innovation, leadership development, inclusion, ethics, and, faculty development leveraging design research and mixed methods approaches.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Swarthmore College Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education andDr. Helen L. Chen, Swarthmore College Helen L. Chen is a research scientist in the Designing Education Lab in the Department of Mechanical En- gineering at Stanford University. She has been involved in several major engineering education
mechanical engineering. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate ResearchFellowship. Last year she also taught in a 3rd grade science and mathematics class through the National ScienceFoundation’s GK-12 fellowship program.MICHELLE MAHER is Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration. Her research interests includeundergraduate student development, the use of technology in educational settings, and educational researchmethodology.WALLY PETERS is Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Laboratory for Sustainable Solutions,and Faculty Associate in the School of the Environment. His research interests include sustainable design, industrialecology, complex systems, and environmental/Earth ethics
traditionally held in person, provide K-12STEM teachers and community college STEM faculty with the following: 1) engineeringresearch experiences in center research labs, 2) guidance in developing engineering contentcurricula based on center research, and 3) follow-up support for translating research experiencesinto classroom practice [3]. Sustained follow-up with the teachers throughout the academic year,in addition to a plan for evaluating program impact are also included in the program.In K-12 classrooms, engineering education can prepare learners to use higher-order thinkingstrategies in order to solve ill-structured, real-world problems [4]. Engineering relies primarilyon problem solving; engineers seek to solve problems that present in many forms
undergraduate degree program inrobotics. At that time, there were only a handful of universities worldwide offeringundergraduate Robotics programs, none in the United States, although many universitiesincluded robotics within a discipline such as Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, orMechanical Engineering. WPI took a decidedly different approach. We introduced Robotics as amulti-disciplinary engineering discipline to meet the needs of 21st century engineering. Thecurriculum, designed top-down, incorporates a number of best practices, including spiralcurriculum, a unified set of core courses, multiple pathways, inclusion of social issues andentrepreneurship, an emphasis on project-based learning, and capstone design projects. Thispaper provides a
-k for ETAC criteria of 2014-2015cycle1 and recently revised for the 2016-2017 cycle criteria by the MET assessment committeewith the School of Engineering and Technology (SET).Course Curriculum Focus SkillsThe curriculum of the capstone course is developed to satisfy assessment of the level of successof the technology programs in satisfying ABET ETAC a-k criteria1 that are not assessedthoroughly by other program required courses. Although the list of learning outcomes areassessed during the course delivery, the following major areas of earned skills are emphasizedand assessed in reference to best practice research 3, 4,5, 6:1- The process of design of mechanical components and assembly as it is applied to an industry sponsored project2
to building a sense ofbelonging within the engineering community and help increase diversity in the workforce.Nonetheless, it is important to specify that future research should consider multiple institutionalcontexts, as this study focused on faculty at HSIs. With that in mind, we hope to continueencouraging broader dialogue to better serve students through inclusive practices and targetedfaculty development that yields long-lasting educational impacts for students of all backgrounds.Future work should also address approaches to improving the intrinsic motivation of facultymembers themselves. A similar exercise could be implemented with engineering educators as theprimary stakeholder. Finally, future research should also explore the
of learning from school into professional practice as well as exploring students’ conceptions of diversity and its importance within engineering fields.Ms. Allyson Jo Ironside, Oregon State University Ally Ironside is a recent graduate from LeTourneau University where she studied Water Resources in Civil Engineering. She is currently fusing her technical background with her passion for education in pursuing a doctoral degree in Civil Engineering while conducting research in Engineering Education at Oregon State University. Her research interests include the adoption of teaching best practices in engineering and the personal epistemology development students.Dr. Nathaniel Hunsu, University of Georgia Nathaniel
support from several companies as they haveseen the value of this capstone sequence.Admittedly, our measure of success is at best anecdotal for the time being. While we have trulyattempted to craft a high-caliber learning experience for our students, the next step is to actuallysee if the student experience has material impact on them after they graduate, during the hiringprocess, and then into their careers. We are confident that this is the case, but we need to collectmore data in order to substantiate these claims beyond the dozens of kudos we have receivedover the past few years.The Course StructureWe have structured the two courses very carefully in order to cover the four pillars of software,hardware, product design, and entrepreneurship
graduates in the department of engineering and technology at WCU,developing an emphasis in electric power engineering plays a vital role in educating the nextgeneration of the region’s power industry workforce.To that end, an undergraduate curriculum development effort was planned and is projected totrain, prepare for research, and educate the students enrolled in the Department of Engineeringand Technology for careers in the power industry. The curriculum includes three fundamentalpower engineering courses: 1. Power Systems 2. Power Electronics 3. Electrical Machines and DrivesThis paper describes in detail the first pilot implementation of the Power Systems coursecomponent entitled “Modern Power Systems Analysis” for Electrical and
and p values for changes in self-efficacy between genders. Survey Question F(1,109) p Conduct engineering design 0.59 0.44 Identify a design need 1.23 0.26 Research a design need 0.42 0.51 Develop design solutions 0.26 0.60 Select the best possible design 0.86 0.35 Construct a prototype
without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.Engineering Design Process: There are 8 steps in the engineering design process: 1) define theproblem; 2) do background research; 3) specify requirements; 4) brainstorm solutions; 5) choosethe best solution; 6) do development work; 7) build a prototype; and 8) test and redesign.ASPIRE participants go through each step of the design process. During week 1, student teamsare required to define a problem that they can solve with an IOT solution and conductbackground research to create their idea. They also identify design requirements and begin tobrainstorm solutions for their IOT problem. During week 2, student teams choose their bestsolution and design, code, and build their
refined and contribute input to sketch. Problem definition, design ideas and draft a concept description hypotheses and research description for Marketing from Marketing design due. Concept students. students. description, sampling plan & test due. Pretest completed.Week 5 Conduct preliminary Revised outline of sampling design analysis. Bench plan due. marking / discern best-in- Outline of analysis plan due class product.Week 6 Develop
Secondary Education in Math, and a M.S. in Equity and Diversity from the University of Nevada, Reno.Mrs. Marissa A Tsugawa-Nieves, University of Nevada, Reno Marissa Tsugawa is a graduate research assistant studying at the University of Nevada, Reno in the PRiDE Research Group. She is currently working towards a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. She expects to graduate May of 2019. Her research interests include student development of identity and motivation in graduate engineering environments and understanding creativity in engineering design processes.Ms. Jessica Nicole Chestnut, North Carolina State UniversityHeather Perkins, North Carolina State University Heather entered the Applied Social and Community Psychology
Intelligence (AI) is no longer a subject of science fiction or a niche for specializedindustries. AI permeates everyday life, impacting how people work, communicate, and solveproblems locally and globally [1]. AI applications in higher education have grown significantlyin recent years, as evidenced by the adoption of AI-driven instructional design tools andapplications (e.g., Khan Academy's Khanmigo, ChatGPT for Education, MagicSchool), AI-enabled scientific literature search engines (e.g., Semantic Scholar, Consensus), collaborativeapplications (e.g., MS Teams), smart AI features in learning management systems (e.g., Canvas),and AI-based assistants (e.g., Grammarly, Canva).The widespread infusion of generative AI (GenAI) specifically marked a new
School Teachers in a Hispanic Serving InstitutionAbstractIn recent years, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi entered into a partnership with theNuclear Power Institute or NPI to attract students into careers in nuclear power and science. Thepartnership naturally involved both student recruitment and curriculum development efforts. As apart of this recruitment effort, a summer workshop was designed and implemented to train,prepare for research, and educate local area high school teachers for the careers in engineering,engineering technology and the nuclear power industry. First, an outreach effort to local areapublic, private high and junior high schools was organized to advertise and promote theworkshop. After a considerable
Rose-Hulman Center for the Practice and Scholarship of Education, and is currently the Associate Dean of Learning & Technology. Dr. Dee has received a number of awards for teaching, research, and mentoring, including the Louisiana ”Professor of the Year” award from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; the Rose- Hulman Alumni Association ’Honorary Alumnus Award’; the Tulane University President’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching; the Graduate Alliance for Education in Louisiana ’Award for Excellence in Mentoring Minority Researchers,’ and more. Dr. Dee has given more than 60 presentations, seminars, or workshops on teaching and learning, and is a founding member of the team
, fuel cells, plastics, and engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A New Way to Help Students Improve 3-D VisualizationAbstractThere is ample evidence that instruction in spatial visualization skills is effective in improvingoutcomes for engineering students. Research conducted since the early 1990’s has proven thatspatial visualization practice and training leads to better grades in engineering graphics and inmost other engineering coursework. Other studies demonstrate that improved 3D visualizationskills improve retention and graduation rates in general and, in particular, the retention andgraduation rates of underrepresented groups in the field of engineering.The
a steady economic growth that will warranty sustainability. In response to these facts, Tecnológico de Monterrey created the Industrial Consortium toFoster Applied Research and attracts top talent, searching for a top graduate program, and askedthe companies to first select and second retain the ones that best fit their needs. After selectingthe best candidates the companies assign them to a full time graduate program that will preparethe students to face the challenges and solve the problems that the company will assign to themthe very first day at the program. The Industrial Consortium started class activities in August2008 with thirteen students, selected by five companies. Before then, it took about one year ofnegotiations to
, Joshua Mitchener (the first author of this paper) participated in a ResearchExperiences for Undergraduates (REU) program sponsored by the National Science Foundationand directed by the Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization of Electro-ThermalSystems (POETS). POETS is a network that seeks to optimize the power-to-weight ratio in allcommon electrical and thermal systems, including on-and-off highway vehicles and generalelectronics. Over the past two months, visiting undergraduate students have worked at theUniversity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, alongside a team of graduate students on the PowerSynthtool.II. Overview of Power Module Design FlowPower modules have a variety of practical applications, from use in electric vehicles to
present on these topics andfacilitate discussions about best practices and resources. These presentations offered an informalsetting in which instructional materials and examples could be developed, and became the basisfor a one-credit graduate-level Research Data Management course for ISRP trainees.The proposal was accepted for funding by NIEHS for 2020-2025, starting in April of 2020, withboth librarians funded at 10% of their time. There are a range of aims for the DMAC related todata management and sharing that span the five years of this grant. Outlined below are some ofour activities during the first year.OutcomesResearch Data Management CourseA one-credit graduate-level course called Research Data Management Seminar was offeredthrough the
Carnegie Foundation forthe Advancement of Higher Education. Initially, 15 graduate students expressed interest in theprogram. These students were divided into two separate peer groups. Over eight consecutiveweeks, these groups met and each participant built their own teaching portfolio. The programwas completely voluntary; participants did not receive course credit or compensation for theirparticipation.We designed a qualitative, ethnographic research study9 to formatively evaluate the EngineeringTeaching Portfolio Program and to understand the meaning of the program for its participants.Consistent with ethnographic approaches, we collected data from a variety of sources in order toenhance the rigor, or trustworthiness of our results9. We used
) includingenvironmental impacts, social impacts, and economics.” The teaching methods includedassigning the textbook chapter on environmental and societal issues during the first week of thesemester, integrating sustainability topics into lectures consistently throughout the semester, andrequiring students to consider social and environmental issues as part of two open endedprojects. Sustainability-related topics were worth about 6% of the overall course grade. Teachingand assessment methods in the course were intentionally selected to provide students choice andflexibility, aligned with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles which are intended tocreate a neuroinclusive environment. Examples of UDL practices included: (1) allowing studentsthe choice of
answer these questions when she teaches some of these methods to engineering, design, business, and law students. Her courses use active storytelling and self-reflective observation as one form to help graduate students and leaders traverse across the iterative stages of a project- from the early, inspirational stages to prototyping, to prototyping some more - and to delivery. Barbara likes to paint pictures.Mr. Ville Mikael Taajamaa, University of Turku Ville M. Taajamaa, MSc (TECH) is in his fourth year of Ph.D studies focusing on engineering education reform. The main focus in the action based research is to create a new model for global interdisciplinary engineering education: O-CDIO where emphasis is more in the
Education and co-director of the VT Engineering Communication Center (VTECC). She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and B.A. in English from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include interdis- ciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a National Science Foun- dation CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios for graduate students to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Her teaching emphasizes the
engineering discipline [15]-[18]. To the best of our knowledge, noprevious research has examined the differences between faculty and students regarding teachingand learning perceptions in an engineering program at a liberal art college. Therefore, this pilotstudy sets out to explore the teacher and student perceptions of sources of motivation in anintroductory engineering design course in liberal arts settings. The sources of motivation anddemotivation are evaluated by students’ learning outcomes of the course. Learning outcomesindicate that what the instructor intends for the learning in a course and how the studentdemonstrates learning in the course [19]. They are directly linked to the design and content ofcourses.Engineering Design CourseThis
Paper ID #38260Changing the Paradigm: Developing a Framework forSecondary Analysis of EER Qualitative DatasetsHolly M Matusovich (Associate Professor) Dr. Holly Matusovich is the Associate Dean for Graduate and Professional Studies in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech and a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education where she has also served in key leadership positions. Dr. Matusovich is recognized for her research and leadership related to graduate student mentoring and faculty development. She won the Hokie Supervisor Spotlight Award in 2014, received the College of Engineering Graduate