institutions to develop aQuality Enhancement Plan (QEP), which must focus on improving specific student learningoutcomes and/or student success. Our SACSCOC accreditation was most recently reaffirmed in2016 and our QEP, EDGE: Enhanced Discovery through Guided Exploration, was designed toenhance student learning by infusing creative inquiry (CI) throughout the undergraduateexperience. With EDGE, we implemented an integrated curricular and co-curricular plan thatenabled our students to develop the skills to formulate CI questions, decide on proper approachesto address them, explore relevant evidence, and produce and present their findings or creations.From 2016-2021, 170 EDGE course grants were funded in all eight of our Colleges or Schoolsfor faculty
$88 billion dollars’ worth of damages in the tumultuous period [1]. The United NationsHuman Refugee Agency estimates that over 1 million Iraqis are living in protracted situations andover 2 million remain internally displaced [2]. Yet, the nation has been on a steady path towardreclamation, reformation, and rebuilding of its historical, cultural, and social infrastructure [3].Education has an important role to play in supporting a country’s economic recovery after yearsof conflict and instability[4], a fact that is not lost to citizens of the republic [5]. Particularly, highereducation has a critical role in providing career development opportunities that translate intosuccessful integration in community development in both stable and
industry partners the development of a year-longrobotics/automation curriculum sequence that uniquely addresses some gaps in roboticseducation began. These systems provide an opportunity for students to access virtually all thelevels of hardware and software required by an engineer to drive the robot, allowing for a deepexploration of control systems. Motor drivers, gears, and software programming are expoundedupon, which removes the “black-box” issue that occurs with most industrial robotics systems.Throughout the implementation of these systems within the laboratories, direct and indirectassessments were administered to gauge student success. Having undergone two iterations ofcourse offerings, there is qualitative and quantitative data to
Paper ID #39609Gendered patterns in first-year engineering students’ career aspirationsand expectationsMs. Catherine MacKenzie Campbell, University of Toronto, Canada MacKenzie Campbell is a MASc student in Chemical Engineering specializing in Engineering Education. Her thesis is exploring how the quality of work-integrated learning experiences shape women engineers’ career intentions, with a focus on intersectionality and diverse engineering fields including emerging and non-traditional areas of practice. MacKenzie has an undergraduate engineering degree in Biomedical Systems Engineering, where her research
introducing this technology in a course or including examples of hightechnology applications in civil engineering throughout an undergraduate’s career, while abidingby ABET and other accreditation requirements. As this is a work in progress, the paper in itscurrent form evaluates how universities have integrated high technology in their civil engineeringcurricula, defines ABET requirements for new coursework, and provides sample questions togauge public perception of high school students interested in engineering. Future work includesproviding a sample syllabus of a new high technology course and how a four-year plan can berestructured to incorporate these concepts. Although the curriculum may not be the only factoraffecting enrollment and retention
robotics10 and human robot teaming11. Due to their distributed, wireless nature,swarms have also been used as an internet of things testbed12. Several low-cost ground roboticsswarms have also been proposed, which allow for scalable testing13-14. Of these platforms,several examples, such as the Pheeno, Spiderino, and Pi-swarm, have been used in educationalcontexts to teach swarm robotics, often in a K-12 context15-18.However, education tools and programs around AI and Swarm AI do not generally have astandard curriculum, as many different traditional fields are needed to come together to learnabout and develop AI at the level of professional practitioners. In Swarm AI in particular, aspectsof robotics, engineering, and computer science are often seen
Paper ID #37043Combining Game-Based and Inquiry-Oriented Learning for Teaching LinearAlgebraDr. Ashish Amresh, Arizona State University Ashish Amresh is an Assistant Professor in the College of Technology and Innovation and is leading the Computer Gaming curriculum initiatives at Arizona State University, where he founded the Computer Gaming Certificate and the Camp Game summer program. IDr. Vipin Verma, Arizona State UniversityMichelle Zandieh, Arizona State University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Combining Game-Based and Inquiry-Oriented Learning for
online course format. The relationships between course grades, KarmaCollab app engagement, student self-reported sentiment via an end-of-quarter survey, and teaching staff interviews are presented to showcase interesting remote learning insights. At the start of 2020, university students, staff, and faculty faced the unforeseen challenge of transitioning to a fully online curriculum due to the COVID-19 shelter in place order. Although fully online course formats are nothing new, university courses are traditionally built around an in- person experience. One area that thrives from an in-person format is STEM laboratory courses. From chemical mixtures in a controlled lab
Paper ID #38704Latinx Culture, Music, and Computer Science Remix in a Summer CampExperience: Results from a Pilot StudyMs. Jayma Koval, Georgia Institute of Technology Jayma Koval is a Research Associate at Georgia Tech’s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathe- matics and Computing (CEISMC). At CEISMC, she focuses on educational research in the K-12 setting, curriculum development and teacher learning and professional development. She is currently a Doctoral student in Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University, focusing on Research, Measurement and Statistics.Diley Hernandez, Georgia Institute of
that utilize interdisciplinary approaches toward a better understanding of stem cell fate in the context of regenerative biomedical therapies. He is committed to the integration of research and education and has developed courses and programs that relate to entrepreneurship, service learning, and community engagement. He is an elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), an elected Fellow of BMES, and Past-President of the Institute of Biological Engineering (IBE). Awards and Honors include NSF-CAREER, Qimonda Professorship, Billingsley Professorship, IBE Presidential Citation for Distinguished Service, and University of Arkansas Honors College Distinguished
. focus on the incorporation of CT into K–12 education. The authors reviewvarious pedagogical approaches for teaching CT, including coding activities, game design, androbotics. They argued that CT should be integrated into the existing curriculum rather thantaught as a standalone subject and provided examples of how this can be done across multiplesubject areas [21]. Also, Rehmat et al. focused on exploring effective instructional strategies forteaching young learners CT. The authors highlighted the importance of developing CT skills inearly education and provided an overview of key CT concepts and skills. It was suggested touse questioning and modeling techniques to aid students in understanding the robot’smovements and associated CT
persistence within their degree programs. Combined, these theories help us 3hypothesize that the time and energy spent by NSBE members in chapter activities that supporttheir social, academic, and professional integration in engineering education in culturally affirmingways will increase the likelihood they persist in engineering.As an initial, yet limited proxy for time invested and energy expended on Black engineeringstudent participation in a NSBE chapter, we considered participation in NSBE (paid chapter levelNSBE member) and number of years of NSBE participation. Due to the importance of first-yeartransition, we also considered early participation
reliance on cloud computing and big data will continuously increase, andnew data-centric technologies and engineering approaches will be developed. Due to this rapidlydeveloping field, there is a need to track these trends and incorporate the corresponding developments intoour current science and engineering curriculum. Besides data science skills already taught in traditionalengineering curricula, such as mathematical, computational, and statistical foundations, the NationalAcademies guide discusses that key concepts in developing data acumen include domain-specificconsiderations and ethical problem-solving. This work-in-progress (WIP) paper will highlight the foundation of a comprehensive study toexplore data science education in two
taught in thissequence is basic programming.The programming instruction presented in ENGR 111 is an extension of the programming skillslearned in ENGR 110. However, ENGR 110 teaches programming basics in Python, whereas theENGR 111 instruction utilizes Arduino microcontrollers for its programming curriculum. Theprogramming instruction in ENGR 111 also forgoes standalone programming assignments forscaffolded modules that prepare students for an end-of-semester Cornerstone Project.Accordingly, students gain exposure to varying programming languages, and a wide introductionto software design concepts that help prepare them for the remainder of their academic andprofessional careers.In this paper, two semesters of ENGR 111 with two different
Northeastern University to focus on teaching and developing curriculum in the First Year Engineering program. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 What to Teach First, Hardware or Software? Improving Success in Introductory Programming CoursesAbstractThis complete evidence-based practice paper presents an analysis and lessons learned inintroductory engineering courses with content that includes problem-solving, algorithmic thinking,the use of microcontrollers, and C++ at a medium-sized private urban university. These coursesspecifically incorporate the integration of hands-on, project-based design projects with computerprogramming. The goal of the project work is to provide an
link to a digital portfolio of multimedia items such thatothers could then access a previous student’s story. This would allow engineering schools tocreate a museum of sorts with all their alumnus’ stories available to be viewed, and instead ofasking pioneers to spend significant time mentoring students, we could potentially allow studentsthemselves to explore stories and help them shift their own view of what the “Mythical Engineer”is for them.To start out this process, we would need to create these tools to help curate our stories. Then withthe tools in place, we could ask faculty and recent alumni to create a seed set of stories to start offan archive. Next, we would integrate story curation into our curriculum as activities/assignmentsthat
responsiveness to the persistence of FTIC students in STEM is understudied. Canmentorship alone, role modeling, and emotional support be the sole solution to improve femaleSTEM persistence? No. However, the institutional process will need to be situated with otherentities that can build and foster an inclusive environment through intentional student successpractices and curriculum development or modifications.Given the promising outcomes of mentoring, its success relies on its implementation, structure,and stakeholders [17]. Mentors should be formally trained to recognize students’ potential, bestewards of change and be capacity builders through intentionality [22, 25, 27, 41]. Likewise, thementees’ ability to receive support should be a prerequisite to
Intelligence (AI) applications have become an integral part of our lives, from socialapplications on smartphones to crewless vehicles. However, as they remain in the domain of“computer magic,” these new advancements of knowledge processing and reasoning using AI toolswill not be of a great benefit to humanity, unless a complementary education environment isprovided to help students and communities become involved in this scientific revolution early,ethically, and systematically. Introducing and exploring AI concepts and basics earlier in thestudents’ learning journey will help address the future AI job market needs as well as AI ethicsissues and will open the door for new innovative AI applications in all segments of life. The long-term goal of this
Paper ID #37119Work in Progress: A Systematic Literature Review of EngineeringEducation in Middle School ClassroomsMrs. Natasha Lagoudas Wilkerson, Texas A&M University Natasha Wilkerson is a Ph.D. student in Curriculum & Instruction with an emphasis in engineering edu- cation at Texas A&M University. She received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and her M.S. in Cur- riculum & Instruction from Texas A&M University. She is the President of the Cosmic Leap Foundation, Director of Space Club, and Co-Founder of Vivify, LLC.Dr. Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez, Texas A&M University Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez is an
practices to target theretention of students, particularly those from historically marginalized communities. Accordingto reports from FIU’s AIM website for retention and graduation studies [13], some of theseactions and practices included:1. Changes in grading options – The No Credit (NC) grading option replaced a D or F in any University Core Curriculum course with an NC grade. While NC grades may be considered a negative impact on retention and graduation, they are less detrimental to a student’s success than Fs. Using the NC policy as an intervention helps bring about behavior change and thus increases the number of returning students.2. Implementation of an Early Alert system to identify at-risk students – Professors sent out early
NASA University Leadership Initiative (ULI) Project “Safe AviationAutonomy with Learning-enabled Components in the Loop: from Formal Assurances to TrustedRecovery Methods” and NSF Excellent in Research (EIR) project “Integrated Sensor-RobotNetworks for Real-time Environmental Monitoring and Marine Ecosystem Restoration in theHampton River”, the authors have successfully developed a research-based course on machinelearning and robotics for undergraduate engineering students at Hampton University. This paperpresents the goals, challenges, design process, engaging strategies, assessment /outcomes, andlessons learned for the new course. Besides, this paper also presents the integration of IBM AIcourse and NVIDIA machine learning modules, along
contexts, the effects of the policy change may not transfer to othercontexts.7 Conclusion and Future WorkWe examine two different policies, a time-restricted policy and a point-restricted policy, to seewhich policy aligned more with the goal of students only submitting well-tested, quality codesubmissions. Under the point-restricted policy, we experienced a modest increase in correct firstsubmissions. For future work, we shift our focus to tackle the testing aspect of submitting onlyquality code. Integrating more explicit testing components to labs will answer the question ofhow well students are testing these submissions, which is an important component to ensure Time-Restricted vs. Point-Restricted
Paper ID #38624First-Year Students in Experiential Learning in Engineering Education:A Systematic Literature ReviewDr. Gerald Tembrevilla, Mount Saint Vincent University Gerald Tembrevilla obtained his PhD in science (physics) education at the University of British Columbia. He served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Canada and teaching and doing research on 1.) the integration of learning technologies to improve hands-on science, scientific argumentation skills, and 2.) examining the
University of Ulm (Ger- many, 2007-2010) and then an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton (2010-2013). His group’s research interests are in development and application of computational chemistry toward basic and applied studies for renewable energy and sustainability, and in 2017 he received and NSF-CAREER award. He also has interests in curriculum development for enhancing access to engineering curricula, and he currently serves on his school-wide DEI advisory committee.Dr. David V.P. Sanchez, University of Pittsburgh David V.P. Sanchez is an Associate Professor in the Swanson School of Engineering’s Civil & Envi- ronmental Engineering department and the Associate Director for the Mascaro Center for Sustainable
due to the growth oftechnologies, fast connections, and the widespread use of mobile devices. As a result,cybersecurity education is in dire need of an innovative curriculum and teaching approaches.Game-based learning is one of the emergent and quickly evolving types of computer-basedlearning. Creating cloud services and ready-to-use cybersecurity training courses, with a focus onteaching and training cybersecurity algorithms is essential [3]. Providing a virtual lab offers apractical learning environment is a crucial step, to enable thousands of students to access onlinecybersecurity education [4]. A visual lab provides students with a simulated environment wherethey can gain hands-on experience with cybersecurity tools and techniques
skilled workforce as well as design and developnew technologies and products for the aerospace enterprise. BP-AE has leveraged the CoE’s goalsto expand recruitment, curriculum development, mentorship, and research collaborations tomaximize the overall impact of the program.The leading Institution (LI) has established track records in scholarly activities, recruitment, andeducation of African American and female engineering students. The addition of U-C will furtherenhance diversity with Hispanic workforce inclusion. The coalition members have alreadydeveloped long-term partnerships with stakeholders from AFRL, NASA centers, and otherrelevant institutions in terms of integration of research and education endeavors withdemonstrated success. The BP
interestedin developing a workstation that integrated as many of the necessary equipment in anelectricity/electronics laboratory as possible and that was economically viable, even forinstitutions with limited resources. To achieve this, the UTESA-OPEX consortium embarked onthe development of several technologies and resources that enabled the functioning of all theinvolved parts in a unified way as an educational ecosystem. Therefore, at the end of the projectdevelopment time, the research team had managed to develop a workstation, a practice board, anLMS platform with educational content, and an application for the interface with the workstation.Workstation:The workstation is the hardware that has been developed to incorporate the electronic boards
Paper ID #37309The ”besTech” Technology Practice Framework for Early Childhood Educa-tionDr. Safia Malallah, Kansas State University Safia Malallah is a postdoc in the computer science department at Kansas State University working with Vision and Data science projects. She has ten years of experience as a computer analyst and graphic de- signer. Besides, she’s passionate about developing curriculums for teaching coding, data science, AI, and engineering to young children by modeling playground environments. She tries to expand her experience by facilitating and volunteering for many STEM workshopsJoshua Levi Weese, Kansas
InitiativesInitiatives to address technical interview preparation for CS majors are expanding. Companiesand organizations alike are making resources available for students to prepare for technicalinterviews [1, 13, 26, 32]. In academic settings, institutions have also begun to expand theirresources and/or adjust their CS curriculums in an effort to foster student exposure to thetechnical interview process [8, 12, 35]. Moreover, academic scholars are now conducting casestudies and related interventions to tackle potential challenges that are associated with thetechnical interview process [7, 20, 23, 25].2.3.1. Persistent Finding – Performance AnxietyWhen observing prior efforts that highlight student performance during mock technicalinterviews, anxiety has been
require engineering education practitioners for an integrated, assets-based approach to engineering and computing identity development that draws upon identity theory andresearch, community cultural wealth as well as funds of knowledge and identity. Chicana feminism offersa framework for understanding and addressing the experiences and challenges faced by Latinaengineering and computing students. Here are practical ways engineering educators might apply Chicanafeminist principles in working with Latina engineering and computing students: • Valuing cultural heritage and identity: Encourage students to explore and celebrate their cultural heritage and identity and help them understand the ways in which their cultural experiences