-based approaches to understanding this population. Dina is interested in understanding how first-generation college students author their identities as engineers and negotiate their multiple identities in the current culture of engineering. Dina has won several awards including the 2022-2023 Outstanding Research Publication Award by the American Educational Research Asso- ciation (AERA) Division I, 2018 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference Best Diversity Paper Award, 2019 College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award and the Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Distinguished Scholar Award. Dina’s dissertation pro- posal was selected as part of the top 3 in the 2018
Paper ID #24835Senior Design Project – A Road from the Initial Design to a Working Proto-typeDr. Vladimir Genis, Drexel University Dr. Vladimir Genis - Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering Technology in the College of Engineering, has taught and developed graduate and undergraduate courses in physics, electronics, nan- otechnology, biomedical engineering, nondestructive testing, and acoustics. His research interests include ultrasound wave propagation and scattering, ultrasound imaging, nondestructive testing, biomedical engi- neering, electronic instrumentation, piezoelectric transducers, and engineering
Coasts. In fact, from the Florida Panhandle to theLouisiana-Texas boarder, there are no graduate programs in coastal engineering on the centralGulf Coast. The inadequate coastal engineering research and education in the Gulf Coast regionare reflected in the failures of civil engineering infrastructure and buildings seen in the HurricaneKatrina’s aftermath. We use the collapse of coastal bridges during Hurricane Katrina as anexample to demonstrate the need for and importance of coastal engineering research andeducation in hurricane-prone areas. An examination of the engineering practice in thetransportation engineering community has indicated transportation engineers often rely oncoastal engineers to assist their design and construction of
roles and responsibilities of professional engineers is better defined andthe need for graduate-level engineering education has received more comprehensive study.Consequently, it’s important to define certain terms and principles that are foundational for theconclusions presented herein.The term Professional EngineerThe term “Professional Engineer” is a legal term set in state statute, as only those engineerslicensed by a state or U.S. territory can refer to themselves as a Professional Engineer (or PE).The license allows PEs to practice engineering (defined by these same state statutes) involvingthe protection of public health, safety and welfare where non-licensed engineers cannot. Similarto other professions, licensing is granted state-by
CISTARcampuses that developed synergy between the University Program and the Pre-College Program.Program MentorsGraduate student mentors for all of these groups were CISTAR Graduate Fellows, a group ofstudent researchers who are supported through CISTAR to understand their impact on industryand the world by participating in professional development activities and a set of definededucational experiences. Mentoring university undergraduate students and high school studentsand teachers is a critical element of the CISTAR Graduate Fellow experience.Changes Made to Programs Based on Previous EvaluationAs the programs were developed for the second year of the center a series of design changeswere made in response to evaluation results and feedback from
biomedical engineering from Marquette University and Rensselaer at Hartford respectively. Her doctorate is in higher education administration from the University of Phoenix. She conducts research in the clinical applications of radio frequency identification technologies (RFID) as well as STEM student retention.Mr. Joe Tabas, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis Joe Tabas is a lecturer of Engineering Technology at the IUPUI school of Engineering Technology. His areas of research include digital electronics and data communication for medical devices and industrial control systems. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 When Emerging Technologies Cross Academic
and scholarly approach. The structured framework has guided the comprehensiveexamination of relevant literature in a manner reflective of best practices in scholarly writing. Thereview used research databases, search strings, and inclusion criteria for an unbiased search toprovide a narrative description that elaborates meaning full story about the existing research in thisfield.Search ProcedureMultiple search databases were queried to select papers to write a literature survey. EBSCO host,Wiley Library, and IEEE Xplore databases were selected because they provide the advanced searchoption to apply practically identical search strings to select papers to ensure that the chosen papersalign with the objectives and focus of your research. EBSCO
participant experiences and understanding [1]. CI is most commonly used for thepretesting of surveys and can be used for educational research, but the method can also beused to understand cognition, such as by having participants think aloud while problemsolving [1]. For the purposes of this paper, we will consider CI as a means of pretesting asurvey for research, using CI for validation purposes while the survey is in drafting stages. CIcan be used as an independent method, such as during think aloud studies of educationalmaterials, however we are most concerned here with CI techniques which impact the design ofwritten surveys for research. As a technique, CI has seen widespread use in this way acrossmany fields including psychology, education
using student interviews offaculty to introduce a best practice for faculty members and compare this to an email distributionapproach. Participants for this project were 34 students enrolled in the Food, Agricultural, andBiological Engineering (FABE) 810 College Teaching in Engineering class. Students in theclass include graduate students and undergraduates from across the College of Engineering. Thefirst step of the project was accomplished by students interviewing faculty who agreed to the Page 22.693.3process and then doing a written summary of their interview as a class assignment. Theseinterview reports were summarized and results were
Engineering Education and earned her Ph.D. from Arizona State University, in Engineering Education. After gaining her Ph.D., she worked as a postdoctoral associate at Florida International University in the School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education and a visiting assistant professor at Virginia Tech in the Department of Engineering Education. Her research interests center on the concept of sense of belonging, graduate education, mixed-methods and synthesis research. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 [Work-in-Progress] Sense of Belonging in STEM Higher Education: Developing a Scoping Review Protocol and StrategyIntroductionIn STEM higher
innovative management, learning, teaching and assessment best practices associated with the delivery of the project’s strategic goals at the module (course), program and organization level.Research Design Using a mixed methods model for program evaluation provided a robust technique toassess the quality of program improvement and effectiveness. It provides for integration of bothqualitative and quantitative measures to evaluate the degree to which a program meets itsestablished goals and objectives. One can define mixed methods research as “the class ofresearch where the researcher mixes or combines quantitative and qualitative researchtechniques, methods, approaches, concept or language into a single study” (Johnson &Onwuegbuzie
are continuously updated.The goal was to develop professionally-oriented, practical-experience based programs, whichcan readily incorporate cutting edge research and development into the curricula, and areconveniently accessible to the community. The key elements of the on-going program buildingeffort which are described below include development of infrastructure, laboratories, distancelearning courses, and a graduate research program, and innovative ways to recruit and retainfaculty.i) Partnerships for infrastructure development:In preparing for graduate programs while the undergraduate programs were only three years oldand growing rapidly, the College of Engineering anticipated a severe shortage of space foroffices, labs, and classrooms
engineering ideas and concepts to practical problems.It became evident in the development of the project based curriculum that one aspect of project Page 7.35.1based learning that is not typically addressed in engineering curricula is the integration of Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationengineering ideas into a larger business framework. The disconnect between the coupling ofbusiness/market forces and engineering training is often seen in the product design process.Engineering training often
) information for future space studyresearchers to use.Literature Review The focus of most studies on University spaces has been based on the studentengagement framework to explore the role of various study spaces on the university campus (e.g.[1], [2], [3], [4], [13]). Riddle and Souter [5] argued that current practices in designing studentstudy spaces ignore students’ perspectives and reproduce environments that are familiar but lesssuitable for active peer learning and learning supported by technologies that students prefer.Although many researchers have attempted to find the students’ perspectives through varioussurvey instruments, not many have used ethnographic surveys. A study by Harrop and Turpin[3], explored learners’ with photographic
research projects. He has collaborated extensively with colleagues across the University on the design, analysis, and presentation of data from both surveys and experiments. He is a co-author on peer-reviewed publications and a co-PI on funded research projects each year. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses in statistical methods, regression analysis, statistical research design, and data analysis. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Towards Creating Motivationally Supportive Course Structures for Introductory CalculusAbstractThis paper reports the qualitative phase of a sequential explanatory mixed
participating in the discipline. Using the theories discussed above as a guide, our study probes the many possible contributionsto motivation from the unique perspective of engineering educators, who have already joined and persistin the field. These retrospective accounts allow for the descriptive corroboration of motivationsdiscussed in other works, while providing insight on the values and experiences of engineeringeducators. Our participants, current engineering educators, reflected on impactful contributions to theirmotivations to pursue engineering. Existing research considers high school and college studentsmotivations to become engineers [7], [9], [22], but few studies consider the motivations of those who arecurrently engineering
AC 2011-552: A LEADERSHIP-FOCUSED ENGINEERING MANAGEMENTMASTER OF SCIENCE PROGRAMMary Adams Viola, Ph.D. and Robert J. Hannemann,Ph.D., School of Engineering, Tufts University Robert J. Hannemann Director, Tufts Gordon Institute Professor of Practice Rob Hannemann is the Director of the Tufts Gordon Institute. In this role, he is responsible for the En- gineering Management and Entrepreneurial Leadership programs, which serve more than 100 graduate students and 500 undergraduates annually. He is also Professor of the Practice in the Mechanical En- gineering department. Dr. Hannemann earned advanced degrees in Mechanical Engineering from New York University (MS ’72) and MIT (Sc.D.’75) after receiving his BS degree
impact practice.) With 90% or more of student respondentsindicating they have strengthened their desire to pursue an engineering degree, feel moreconnected to CSU Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering, and would recommend the SUREprogram to their fellow students, CSU has designated SURE as a high priority program tocontinue to fund in future years. While faculty input was not statistically significant, results didshow a strong interest in continued participation in the SURE program, with some faculty evenwilling to foot part of the bill for their SURE student in the future.Additional observations:While many students are willing to volunteer in research labs in order to get experience, bypaying the students for their research hours, SURE is
Program at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. White is also the director of an outreach program called Design, Technology, & Engineering for All Children (DTEACh) which has reached more than 1000 teachers and 85,000 students. She is the lead inventor on a patent for assistive technology. Her current research includes global competencies, innovative design-based peda- gogy, humanitarian engineering, and ways to attract and retain traditionally underrepresented groups in engineering education.Dr. Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Dr. Renetta Garrison Tull is Associate Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC: An Honors University in
3060 (3cr) Energy and Society SOCI 3270 (3cr) Organizational Viability and Sustainability ORGL 3900 (3cr)Table 1:Courses for the Alternative Energy and Sustainability minor at Robert Morris University 3III. Course Layout and ObjectivesThe students, who have completed four of the lower level minor courses, including the first tworequired core classes, are left with the final capstone course, the “Energy Research Seminar”.This course is designed to primarily consist of a semester long research project. We taught thefirst Energy Research Seminar course in the spring semester of 2013, and we
center, a collaborative network of five universities, is supported by fourpillars: workforce development, diversity, industry, and research. This poster will outlineresearch experiences and career and graduate school preparation and associated evaluationrelated to workforce development and diversity including a Research Experience for Teachers(RET) for middle and high school teachers, a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)and a Young Scholars program for high school students. Our presentation documents anddescribes steps taken to launch the educational programming during the first year of the center.The overarching broader impact goal of CISTAR Workforce Development is to create atechnically excellent and inclusive community of
represents the 2011 course, year 2 the 2012, and year 3 the 2013 course.Conclusions The first-year course taught in the College of Engineering at a research institution in thewestern US was designed to help students determine if they would like to major in engineering,and to help them choose which major is best for their interests and career goals. The courseimplements guest lectures, tours of research facilities, in-class discussions, team-based projects,and conceptual design as methods for teaching and learning that occurs both in and outside theclassroom. The course was not taught in the way it was designed during the first year, andstudents were surveyed to determine the teaching methods they preferred for learning. During the first
, 52% Summer Research, etc. I made mathematics a priority 51% I always thought positively, acted positively 50% I asked an upper level student or the student support staff for help/advice 48% I set goals and established priorities; I organized my time 44% I always did my best to get the best grade possible 43% I did everything possible to be successful in mathematics 42% I followed the syllabus in my classes –maintained the course schedule 39% I balanced study/work/leisure
Paper ID #38908Empowering Faculty Members through Mooc in Techno-Pedagogical Con-tentDr. K.S.A. Dinesh Kumar, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chennai, India Dr. K. S. A. Dinesh Kumar, M. E., Ph.D. is presently Professor of Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research (NITTTR) Chennai, Government of India. He has coordinated more than 150 training programmes for National participants and 06 International programmes in the area of Technology Enabled Teaching Learning, Student Assessment and Evaluation, Instructional Design and Delivery system
lab will allow students opportunities tostudy the life systems of a building, previously only viewable during the construction of abuilding.On average, 75 students per semester complete the Mechanical Construction course that is arequirement for graduation in the Construction Management department Bachelor of Science(BS) degree. In addition, approximately 25 students per semester take a mechanicalspecialization course that would apply higher-level learning to the MechBuild lab. The thirdclass utilizing the MechBuild lab is a course for non-majors offered by the Building ConstructionManagement (BCM) department. Usually sixty computer graphics, interior design, and otherinterested students take this course every semester. Currently the students
companies also underwrite the material costs for the laboratory, and provide anyspecial materials or software. By fostering strong industry participation early in the curriculumsequence, students establish a continuing relationship which often segues into CO-OP /Internship positions, T.A. positions as an upper division student, or undergraduate researchpositions for follow-on industry sponsored projects.Case Study: Accurate Heart ModelThe impact of this class on individual students can best be illustrated by an example from ourfirst trial experience. A typical case involves a Biomechanical Engineering student with noprevious research experience, and pre-class survey results illustrating her belief that she hadbelow-average aptitude for computer use
Core Course 1 3 Ecological Modeling and Design Core Course 3 3 Thesis Research Design and Research 3 6 Ethics and Standards of Practice Seminar 0 3 Optional Courses of Special Interest Technical Electives 4 9 Total Hours 14 36Professional Certification DevelopmentProfessional certification is required if ecological engineering is to be a recognizedengineering profession. The process for creating certification for any type of professionalengineer is meticulous, time consuming, expensive, and requires a great deal of planningbefore the legal process of
at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect conceptual change and associated impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and per
supplied computer-aided design (CAD)curriculum and team project-based learning impacts undergraduate engineering technologystudents’ engineering design, problem-solving, communication, and group participation skills.Evidence for the study comes from nine mechanical and one electrical engineering technologystudents enrolled in an upper level design course. Instructional materials included aSOLIDWORKS supplied CAD guide and a team project. Part three of the Classroom Activitiesand Outcomes Survey measured the extent to which the students believed they had made progressin a variety of learning and skill development areas as a result of taking the course. Results indicatethat the sequential use of the industry supplied CAD curriculum and the team
Page 12.470.2environment. Construction graduates must possess technical strength coupled withcommunication (written and speech), and soft skills. In most of the capstone courses, studentsare given a real-world problem to solve over a period of a semester or a year. Many programshave capstone / project-based courses, which are aimed at training students in solving real worldproblems. Some programs have courses which run for a year. Walker and Slotterbeck1, instudying the incorporation of teamwork into software engineering curriculum, concluded that: (i)there is not enough time to teach software engineering skills and also carry out a significantteam-based project in a single term, (ii) the software development process is best learnt