strategies.Dr. Lisa Benson, Clemson University Lisa Benson is a Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University, and the Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education. Her research focuses on the interactions between student mo- tivation and their learning experiences. Her projects focus on student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, development of problem solving skills, self-regulated learn- ing, and epistemic beliefs. She earned a B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of Vermont, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Clemson University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 It's the End of the
herself, "This is really mentally affecting me." Erin noticed thetoll that graduate school had on her mental health and attributed this to the lack of preparationon the part of advisors and mentors. She stated, I had realized the mental and emotional toll that grad school was heaping on [me], honestly, unrealistic level[s] of expectations, the multiple projects, and the teaching, and still dealing with personal life, and all while being thrown in the deep end. No one actually ever teaches you how to do research. You just kind of sink or swim.Giselle’s increased mental distress led to her decision to take a leave of absence. She shared, I had to take a leave of absence, because I couldn't deal with it. I had to take a
Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and the Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead). She completed her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) studying product development decision-making during complex industry projects. Dr. Olechowski completed her BSc (Engineering) at Queen’s University and her MS at MIT, both in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Olechowski and her research group Ready Lab study the processes and tools that teams of engineers use in industry as they design innovative new products. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020
What do you wish you would have known going into the process? 6 In what ways do you feel prepared to be a faculty member? Expectations and 7 What do you expect from a typical work week/day? Preparation 8 What are you most excited about regarding starting your position?Interviews were scheduled for a 90-minute period using video conferencing software. Graduatestudents on the project conducted interviews in pairs with a lead interviewer and a co-interviewer. Interviews were both video and audio recorded. Audio files were
, spatially-oriented abstractions [29] that madeintegrated circuit design accessible to a much wider range of researchers outside of thetraditional semiconductor industry. Students read Conway’s retrospective article [30] describinghow this came about along with many of the impacts of this work, including the widespreadcreation of university courses in VLSI design, the development of the foundry model pioneeredusing multi-project chips and leading to foundry companies and fabless semiconductorcompanies. It also describes how this “democratization” of integrated circuit design made itpossible for university researchers to develop new technologies such as RISC computerarchitectures.During this section students view the Silicon Run documentary [31
Paper ID #28931Student Sense of Community Through an Introductory Computer Program-mingCourse SequenceDr. Laura K Alford, University of Michigan Laura K. Alford is a Lecturer and Research Investigator at the University of Michigan. She researches ways to use data-informed analysis of students’ performance and perceptions of classroom environment to support DEI-based curricula improvements.Dr. Amir Kamil, University of MichiganDr. Andrew DeOrio, University of Michigan awdeorio@umich.edu contact Andrew DeOrio is a teaching faculty member at the University of Michigan and a consultant for web and machine learning projects
understanding in the context of undergraduateengineering students [20—22].We draw on an adapted framing of identity trajectory theory to understand how undergraduateengineering students develop their identities over time [23]. While the interwoven strands ofidentity trajectory theory are the same, the definitions and operationalization of these strands aredifferent. The original descriptions were modified to characterize experiences that influence theirpathway into engineering and development as engineers. The intellectual strand focuses on howstudents learn engineering knowledge in ways that enable students to contribute to engineeringclassrooms, team projects, and internship opportunities [23]. The institutional strand focuses onthe “structures
regular set-up funds for the faculty position. 2. Major Support for Current Faculty (original program, 2001) Supplemental funding for major research projects through WiSE offers a way to offset barriers and life-cycle related obstacles that have been shown to slow or interrupt the careers of women faculty. Some of these barriers are subtle and can range from difficulties in meeting teaching and research demands while simultaneously raising a small child, to a reduced chance a new funding opportunities because of a lack of access to a network group. Funds may also be requested to take advantage of opportunities that arise unexpectedly and therefore are not funded through regular agencies and programs. Any USC faculty member in
, if you can find the amount of force that goes into that, then I mean you can make safer cars. For like the armed forces, same Page 12.775.11 type of deal. I mean, where are you gonna get that sturdiness from? I mean that’s what we thought was really cool about our project. But I mean it wasn’t until after we developed like the nit-picky stuff, and I don’t-, I mean, I guess it’s (.) you see, I mean you see movies and everything, everyone’s showing geeks as just glasses, pocket protectors and all this stuff and (.) I mean I don’t know it’s just one of those weird terms that you just see people getting
Design is typically used to describe large systems with complex interactions Page 12.536.9between components, and the standard curriculum approach does not lend itself to tackling suchbig projects in one class. In Model-Based Design, highly simplified models of the subsystems aredeveloped and the subsystems are connected together to form a more complicated overallsystem. Once the input/output characteristics of the subsystems are finalized, different engineerscan work independently at different levels on the model. Some engineers can work at thesubsystem level and develop accurate models of the subsystem while other engineers can work atthe top
not been mentored by engineers. For example, astudent might have participated in Odyssey of the Mind, a national, project-based competitionwhere students apply math and science to build various projects according to specific criteria.While such an activity is “engineering-like,” when it was not specifically mentored by anengineer, we did not consider it engineering exposure. Similarly if a student had extensiveexperience programming or building computers but was self-taught, without the benefit ofhaving received any formal, discipline-based computer science, we considered this lowengineering exposure.Grace entered Coleman with low exposure to engineering. She enjoyed her math andphysics classes in high school, and during her senior year, she
to develop trust within the competitive environment ofengineering.9 Additionally, students report that these relationships directly contribute to aricher understanding of subject material, as well as the attainment of satisfactory grades. …create that network of friends in your cohort, to help each other, because it’s so useful and it’s so nice to be able to have a student in your class that you can trust. And it’s so nice to find people that you know are on the same pages as you, you can trust to work with, and you know are going to be reliable and dependable in doing projects and whatnot. (female, IE, upper division) …it’s really a good idea to make friends in your classes so you can bounce ideas
degree towhich positive reinforcement in the form of reassurance was present in all of the sessions coded.The level of positive reinforcement in these sessions is most likely less than what occurs in atypical engineering classroom, where typical feedback for a homework set or final project maybe mostly about what the student did incorrectly rather than what was good about the work. Wespeculate that because this was a peer environment, in which all of the participants wereapproximately at the same level, participants were tactful and reassuring about the feedback theygave because they knew that they would be receiving feedback from their peers about their workand hoped at some gut level that their work would be received respectfully. Therefore
committees, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges accreditation team, membership on Day Kimball Hospital’s Ethics and Institutional Review Board, membership on the advisory board for the Women’s Adult Correctional Facility in Rhode Island, and service on the national Committee on Qualifications for Phi Beta Kappa, as well as service as the past President of the Beta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa of Rhode Island. She has received funding at the national level through the Department of Energy to work on ethical issues related to the Human Genome Project, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the American Bar
a particulartheme of inquiry, as well as the Senior Capstone project.”2 The freshmen inquiry course onDesign & Society is one of nine themes offered.In Fall 2002, SJSU began their MUSE program for incoming freshmen. MUSE was designed tobridge the gap from high school to college. MUSE includes academic seminars on a variety ofsubjects that help the freshmen students gain skills that are necessary to academic success. Inaddition, all MUSE classes are certified in one of SJSU’s General Education areas. Therefore,students taking the MUSE seminars receive three units of General Education credit. Theseminars qualify in one of the following areas: B1 (physical science), B2 (life science), C1(arts), C2 (letters), D1 (human behavior), or E
Spectrum of Active Learning Activities in Engineering Mechanics Keywords: Active learning, hands-on activities, learning styles, Myers-BriggsAbstractThe introduction of active learning exercises into a traditional lecture has been shown to improvestudent learning. Hands-on learning opportunities in labs and projects provide a primaryapproach in the active learning toolbox. This paper presents a series of innovative hands-onactive learning activities for mechanics of materials topics. These activities are based on aMethodology for Developing Hands-on Active Learning Activities, a systematic approach forefficient and effective activity development, and were robustly evaluated at three institutions ofhigher learning. These
at a nearby university, Beyond Blackboards incorporates engineering design method andthe National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 21st Century Grand Challenges to immerse upperelementary and middle school students in design-based learning. During afterschool “InnovationClubs” throughout the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 academic year and a summer camp followingeach year, middle school students worked in teams to design, build, and program robots usingLEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT robotics kits and the NXT-G programming environment. Teamspresented the functionality of their final design, and contextualized their project by describing areal world application they researched for their robot that may help to solve one of the 14 NAE21st Century Grand Challenges
University Brian Frank is an associate professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he has taught courses in electronics and wireless systems. He is the DuPont Canada Chair in Engineering Education Research and Development, and the Director of Program Development in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science where he works on engineering curriculum development, program assessment, and developing educational technology. He is a co-founder of the Canadian Engineering Education Association and is currently coordinating the Engineering Graduate Attribute Development Project, working with National Council of Deans of Engineering and Applied Science and the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board, to develop
day. Teachers participating in the on-school-site academy, as part of theNSF funded research project, were expected to deliver “what is technology”, “what isengineering” activities, introduction to EDP, and the four EiE lessons contained in a single EiEunit during the school year.B. ParticipantsParticipants of this study are teachers either who attended the Summer Academy offered by theINSPIRE at Purdue University (National group) or the on-site Summer Academy held in a largeschool district located in South Central United States (On-site group) from 2008 to 2011. The Page 23.838.52008 to 2010 National group were volunteers from across the U.S
. Page 23.89.7 For this next interview, our focus is on learning more about “who you are” and the experiences that have shaped the way you think, act, and see yourself in the world and in relation to others. To do this effectively we will use pictures, that you own or collect from another source, that represent something important to you. These pictures may be in any form – self-portraits, graphic images, computer generated images, pictures of friends, family, homes, co-workers, projects, favorite places, etc. There are no right or wrong pictures. The pictures we will ask you to provide for this next interview will be held confidential and viewed only by the researchers of this study. The pictures will be used solely for the
provide access to and support learning of complexity.Prof. David F. Radcliffe, Purdue University, West LafayetteJi Hyun Yu, Purdue University, West Lafayette Ji Hyun Yu is a Ph.D candidate in learning design and technology at Purdue University. She has been involved in several projects, including Web 2.0-supported collaborative learning, engineering-related be- liefs (i.e. personal epistemology ontology), scientific collaboration in EER using bibliometric methods, and K-6 teacher competency modeling using a Delphi method.Sadia Nawaz, Purdue University, West Lafayette Sadia Nawaz graduated from Purdue University with master’s of science in electrical and computer en- gineering (MSECE). Her research interests include
). 2. identify and develop their personal leadership philosophy and approach using written self-reflection and peer assessment. 3. be able to work in teams and use creative problem-solving to develop a project for the purpose of creating positive and sustainable change. 4. be introduced to the concepts of leadership beyond their academic studies (whether professional or personal), including entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship.The primary course topics include: ≠ History of leadership theories ≠ Currently practiced leadership models (e.g., relational, shared, situational, etc.) ≠ Individual responsibility and ethics ≠ Diversity and globalization ≠ Team building, working in groups, and inclusive practices
education, design and selection of materials, general materials engineering, polymer science, and characterization of materials. His research interests are in innovative education in engineering and K-12 engineering outreach. He worked on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in developing modules for Physics and Chemistry and also a course on Engineering Capstone Design. He has also co-developed a Page 15.1149.1 Materials Concept Inventory for assessing fundamental knowledge of students in introductory materials engineering classes. He is currently working on NSF projects
. Without a primary focus on generic capabilities, it is especially difficult to holdstudents to the expectation that as they advance in a laboratory program the quality of their workshould advance as well.Many interdisciplinary capstone design courses in engineering implicitly emphasize genericcapabilities. Generic capabilities such as teamwork, communication, critical thinking andmaturity, together with content-specific knowledge, are important to a design group’s success [3-4]. To facilitate this type of interdisciplinary learning environment, students from differentdepartments may be grouped to work on capstone design or laboratory projects [5-8]. Studentsmay also be required to work on projects or experiments requiring knowledge across
Society for Engineering EducationResearch Activity. As indicated earlier, the appropriate method for evaluating transportationresearch activity is not clear. Involvement in the UTCP and the annual meetings of the TRB wasused here, but there are other measures. These would include financial measures, such as theamount of research funding or the number of funded projects, as well as research products, suchas publications by and citations of the faculty. The number of transportation-themeddissertations and theses completed might also be a measure of the level of research.Faculty. Although Cottrell (4) addressed the number of full-time transportation faculty at eachinstitution, this paper did not attempt to summarize this statistic. In the research
focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU. Page 24.426.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Development of Interactive Virtual Laboratories to Help Students Learn Difficult Concepts in ThermodynamicsAbstractIn this project, we explore the use of threshold concept theory as a
in the Department of Bioengineering. Her research interests include assessment of motivation, how motivation affects student learning, and student-centered active learning. She is also involved in projects that utilize Tablet PCs to enhance and assess learning, and in- corporating engineering into secondary science and math classrooms. Dr. Benson teaches introductory undergraduate engineering, biomechanics, and graduate engineering education courses. Her education includes a B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of Vermont, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Bio- engineering from Clemson University. Page
promote a deeperconceptual understanding of integration with an interpretation of the sign and magnitude of theboundary work transfer using a P-v diagram.Examples of Assignments for Enhancement of Student Depth of KnowledgeIn teaching the first course in thermodynamics for many years, authors have learned that thereare certain areas that students struggle throughout semester. We routinely assign specialproblems or mini projects every semester to help students to overcome their struggle withunderstanding of fundamental concepts. (13,14) One area of student difficulties is the evaluation ofthermodynamic properties in the compressed liquid region. Almost all thermodynamic textbooksprovide compressed liquid thermodynamics property tables only for