worked as a graduate research assistant with the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. She graduated from North Carolina State University as a Park Scholar with a BA in Physics, and spent several years teaching physics to high-school freshman. Amber’s primary research interests include K-12 teacher professional development for integrated STEM curricula and elementary student engineering design thinking and prac- tices. When she is not at work, Amber enjoys spending time with her family designing games, building LEGO, and fabricating costumes.Daniel Gordon Mendiola Bates, NCSU STEM Education Daniel is a doctoral student at NCSU, in the STEM Education Department: Technology, Engineering, and Design
which support practices best support students in STEM majors totransfer to colleges and universities and how students’ creativity and propensity for innovationaffects such transfer persistence.[Portions of this paper in the review of the literature and research design have been reprintedfrom the 2015, 2016 and 2017 ASEE Poster Session Papers which provide preliminary materialfor the reader.]1,2Motivation and overviewThere is a critical need for more students with engineering and science majors to enter into,persist, and graduate from postsecondary institutions. Increasing the diversity in engineering andscience is also a profound identified need.3 According to national statistics, the largest groups ofunderrepresented minority students in
Paper ID #242182018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29Understanding How Engineering Identity and Belongingness Predict Grit forFirst-Generation College StudentsDina Verd´ın, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Dina Verd´ın is a Ph.D. Candidate in Engineering Education and M.S. student in Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. She completed her B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at San Jos´e State University. Dina is a 2016 recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship. Her
professor in physics at the University of Maryland in the Physics Education Research (PER) Group. Turpen’s work involves designing and researching contexts for learn- ing within higher education (for both students and faculty). Her research draws from perspectives in an- thropology, cultural psychology, and the learning sciences. Through in-situ studies of classroom practice and institutional practice, she focuses on the role of culture in science learning and educational change. She pursues projects that have high potential for leveraging equitable change in undergraduate STEM pro- grams and she makes these struggles for change a direct focus of her research efforts. She also serves on several national leadership bodies
dynamics, earthquake engineering, and engineering education.Dr. Debra Fowler, Texas A&M University Dr. Debra Fowler serves as the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Texas A&M University. Following 16 years working in industry she completed a Ph.D. is in Interdisciplinary Engineering with a specific focus on engineering education from Texas A&M University. Her research areas of focus are faculty perspectives and growth through curriculum design and redesign, interdisciplinary teaching and learning, reflective eportfolios and professional development of graduate students related to teaching.Dr. James Michael Kaihatu, Texas A&M University Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M
electric submarines. Most recently includes 12 years in Research and Development and Lean Six Sigma process improvement experience troubleshooting process issues in the Paper, Chemical, and Converting Industries. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Statistical Methods Can Confirm Industry-sponsored University Design Project ResultsAbstractAn industry-sponsored project was recently developed to automatically inspect soup mixpackages. The industry sponsor had determined that its highest customer complaint was theabsence of a flavor packet within the soup mix package. It partnered with Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) to develop an
Education Excellence Award.Dr. Tonia A. Dousay, University of Idaho Tonia A. Dousay is an Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences at the University of Idaho and a Google Certified Innovator. She has more than 15 years of instructional design and eLearning project management experience. Tonia’s teaching and research focus on design-based learning activities and the knowledge and skills acquired and reinforced through these opportunities. Makerspaces currently serve as the hub of her research, creating an engaging environment to play with robotics, 3D printing, 3D modeling, and mo- bileography for K20 learners. Where some areas of education focus on STEM-learning, Tonia emphasizes STEAM-learning, giving attention to art
multiple courses provides many opportunities to study the impact of ECP on transfer oflearning from one course to another and several other research questions including whether ornot personal instrumentation makes it easier for students to learn the fundamentals ofmeasurement. Possibly the most powerful outcome of ECP is that learning experiences can besignificantly more authentic. In the intro Circuits course, for example, students are offered theoption of either doing traditional, step-by-step procedural labs or a new type of design-based lab,with both sequences addressing all course content. Finally, the general engineering electronicscourse provides a compressed version of the ECSE sequence which permits transfer to beaddressed quickly for
students to test their entrepreneurial skills. More specifically, thesimulation hopes to highlight the value of learning by doing, experimentation, productdevelopment, and market research. The simulation is designed for individuals or team play.Typically, students will spend 30 minutes or less to complete the simulation.The online simulation allows students to test the entrepreneurial acumen to design a businessapproach to maximize revenue during a five-week timeframe while operating in the city ofBoomtown. Each week, students must determine the best combination of menu offering (icecream, frozen yogurt, or smoothies) and location (arts district, beach, city market, downtown,train station, or university) to generate revenue. Students can only
this growing field. Lastly, due to thedifficulty of giving all students adequate time to practice programming on real robotic arms,there was a recognized need for lifelike and portable simulation software. Thus, a final aspect ofthis partnership was the development of such software at Michigan Tech. Titled RobotRun, thissimulation software is now available through open source licensing to assist students andindustry personnel in learning the basics of robotics programming.Results of Academic Programming and WorkshopsNearly three full years has now passed since the development of this academic programmingbetween Bay College and Michigan Tech, so initial data regarding enrollments, graduations, andworkshop participation is now available. During
engineering education in high schools in rural areas.Mr. Turhan Kendall Carroll, The Ohio State University Turhan Carroll is currently a graduate research associate in the engineering education department at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. He received BS degrees in Physics and Applied Mathematics from North Carolina State University. He also worked for approximately 7 years as an engineer performing re- search in magneto-photonics. His research interests now focus on broadening participation in engineering via the use of informal education.Dr. David A. Delaine, The Ohio State University Dr. David A. Delaine is an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University Department of Engineer- ing Education. Within
the Microelectronics Journal on Quality Electronic Design, 2005. His research interests include VLSI circuit and system design, CAD methodology for VLSI design, and bioelectronics.Prof. Zinta S. Byrne, Colorado State University Zinta S. Byrne is a tenured full professor of psychology at Colorado State University. Her previous careers were as software design and development engineer, an R&D project manager and a program manager for Hewlett-Packard Company, and management consultant for Personnel Decisions International, before becoming a professor at CSU. She is author of ”Understanding Employee Engagement: Theory, Research, and Practice” and ”Organizational Psychology and Behavior: An Integrated Approach to
involving participants from different countries and cultures may differ greatlydepending on the educational traditions of the students’ homelands. We describe our internationalactivities with a focus on international students’ projects performed in cooperation with technicaluniversities abroad in order to offer the students the possibility to train their international skills.Developing and planning of such activities often gives some more practical challenges, such asdifferences in how engineering programs are designed, the differences in academic calendars andthe amount of credits given for projects and courses in different countries. In some cases, thedifferences in academic calendars are so big, that it is a major obstacle in arranging
-practice model was developed when a team research component was included into theundergraduate aerospace engineering courses of Flight Dynamics and Control I and II. By takingadvantage of the unmanned aerial system fleet owned by the Department of AerospaceEngineering at the University of Kansas (KUAE), students were tasked with developing a physics-based model for one of eighteen different unmanned aircraft platforms, comparing the dynamicmodels to actual flight test data for the platform, and writing papers and presenting them to a panelof KUAE Faculty. As a result, forty-eight independent research projects were conceived, designed,built, and tested by teams of juniors in the aerospace engineering department. Since 2011, eightresearch projects
motivationfor in-country offices), enhanced training on the importance of seeing communities asheterogeneous, and explicitly making sure differences are accounted for in project assessment areall important best practices that should be implemented more widely.However, it is also important to note that project timelines, even in the best of circumstances, willpresent important challenges to creating positive impacts. At the very least, projectimplementation is slow given travel and student schedules. One student interviewee expressedthis concern nicely: But for them [community members] to be like, “ok so they’re gonna come do a survey, and in a half a year they’ll be back to do the rest of that survey, and in half a year they might be
of the intended purpose of each link andthe observed impact on student performance metrics. This paper should be a great value toengineering programs interested in understanding the student success strategies implemented atNC State University and their impact.A. IntroductionIn the College of Engineering at NC State University, measures of student success such asretention, matriculation, and graduation rates had remained largely unchanged for decades. Abenchmark study, and review of the literature, on student success in undergraduate engineeringeducation revealed several practices not adopted within the college. From this insight a set ofprocesses/programs aimed at pre-college, first-time fulltime, and transfer students weredeveloped into the
their work, which requires design for safety aswell as the careful consideration of the needs of multiple stakeholders, potentialenvironmental effects, and various risks and uncertainties. It is difficult to fully educateengineering students on both the breadth and depth of complex information andrequirements that they will need to be ethical and effective practicing engineers within aBachelor’s degree. This is particularly true given that many Bachelor’s degree programs inengineering are decreasing the number of credits required for their program, largely due tooutside pressures related to college costs and helping students graduate within four years.This combination of forces led the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) topropose that a
education was focused on the performance based engineering for structural systems under hazard loading, and application of innovative construction materials (fiber reinforced concrete) for underground construction. Her Ph.D. dissertation was focused on developing generalized performance-based seismic design procedures for residential buildings with a simplified format to be implemented by practice engineers. Her M.S. research was focused on performance of underground tunnel lining made from steel fiber reinforced shotcrete material. Dr. Liu is experienced in teaching structural engineering related courses and has held multiple positions as instructor at a number of engineering programs.Dr. Puttagounder Dhanasekaran
institutional context of UMBC STRIDE’screation, describes our four-part recruitment-focused conversation series, and reflects on ourprogress and lessons learned. Through this review of STRIDE’s peer education activities andapproaches, we hope to support the efforts of other institutions to design and implement theirown recruitment practices to foster faculty diversity and inclusion.Framing the Institutional ContextUMBC is a mid-sized institution that the Carnegie Foundation classifies as Doctoral University -Higher Research Activity. In 2017, the U.S. Department of Education designated UMBC as aMinority Serving Institution (MSI). We are renowned as a model for inclusive excellence inhigher education as a result of our success in preparing students from
women in tenure-track appointments have ever been promoted to associateand/or full professor. Among them, about 10 have received promotion to full professor. Untilrecently, practices used to evaluate faculty research and teaching accomplishments had notaligned well with either the OSU promotion and tenure (P&T) Guidelines or the COE strategicplan. Such misalignment made it difficult to ensure a fair and proper evaluation and also limitedany potential for guiding faculty energy in ways that best serve our mission-specific activities.For example, academia has institutionalized a number of barriers to collaboration, and these areespecially apparent to untenured faculty. Establishing independence as a researcher is oftenprioritized over
Paper ID #219982018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29A Historical and Policy Perspective on Broadening Participation in STEM:Insights from National Reports (1974-2016)Teirra K Holloman Holloman, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education Teirra Holloman is a doctoral student in engineering education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where she serves as a graduate research assistant. Teirra received her BS in Industrial En- gineering from Clemson University. Her research interests revolve around broadening participation
-10. During this timeof undergraduate research experiences, there has been a push from using inquiry into authentic science andauthenticity for classroom learning11-13.Some researchers stress the use tools such as the microscope or telescope, or activities like bioinformaticsand biodiesel production, or community collaborations and summer camps as the focus for authenticscience14-23. Tomas and Ritchie claim that integrating authentic science activities into classrooms assiststudents in learning how practicing scientists conduct research24. These types of authentic scienceexperiences can motivate students25.Interestingly, sometimes the terms are combined, such as the “reflection on authentic science inquiry26” and“authentic science inquiry27
schedules in fall and spring semesters. More details on creating theSTEP Cohorts can be found elsewhere [3].We survey students placed in cohorts at the end of each fall semester. A significant majority ofthe students reports in the survey that they have studied with other students in their cohortsoutside the classroom. Our graduating seniors have told us that the relationship they developedwith others students in the study groups which they formed during the first-year, carry over tosenior capstone design project.Factors Supporting Institutionalizing STEP at Western Michigan UniversityIn order to make lasting impacts to support student success in engineering, the best practicesidentified by projects supported by the National Science Foundation need
engineering (mechanics and computer programming – to classes ranging in size from 20 to 500+), sophomore and junior level courses on mass and energy balance applications to biological systems engineering, numerical methods, electric power and electronics for technology students, senior design, as well as a long-standing residential/online graduate course on the fundamentals of biorenewable resources and technology. He believes well trained, curious, thoughtful people are crucial to a university’s research effort, and similarly to the function and survival of society. For this reason, the overarching goal of his teaching is to impart the core content needed by the students, and to do so while encouraging inquisition and
graduation rates. Available at https://www.sariweb.ucdavis.edu/gradrates/CSRDE_Transfers_ForWebDisplay.pdf.[6] P. Golding, O.H. Salcedo, M.T. Pitcher, O.A. Perez, M. Olmos and T.Badillo, (2015) “Sharing Best Practices Toward Seamless Transfer of Engineering Students.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education’s 122nd Annual Conference and Exposition.[7] P. Wong and B. Pejcinovic, (2015) “Teaching MATLAB and C Programming in First-year Electrical Engineering Courses Using a Data Acquisition Device.” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education’s 122nd Annual Conference and Exposition.[8] T.M. Bayles, (2016) “A Chemical Engineering Success Course for Transfer Students
alignment of academia with women and industry with men stems from both personalimpressions of the field and from women professors’ observations of their own students. Womenin our sample noticed that female students tend to, for the most part, choose academia aftercompleting their engineering degrees whereas men choose industry. Academia as a “femalespace” is encouraged by graduate advisors or general societal impressions of both what is bestfor women’s and what is best for men’s interests: “…The technical things. Men like more do the technical things compared to the academician they don’t really like to teach someone…but they [men] like to do practical, do hands-on, the industry…” - Tutor, Chemical Engineering, 9 Years5.2.3
in program opportunities or events. (Check all that apply)”. Table 4 represents theareas that participants could select in the survey. These items were directly related to the collegelevel faculty development initiatives implemented starting in 2008 and over the period of the sixyears surveyed.Table 4. COE faculty development survey areas of impact and effectiveness of programs Promotion and tenure ( progression advancement) • Promotion and tenure information (progression/advancement) • Preparing / planning a path for reappointment • Preparing / planning a path for promotion Scholarly Opportunities • Seeking cross-disciplinary collaborations • Preparing for sabbatical Funding and Research Development • Looking for research
of technology to teach in secondary classrooms.Ms. C. Danielle Grimes, Mississippi State University Danielle is a fourth year doctoral student in Biomedical Engineering at Mississippi State University. She graduated Cum Laude from Mississippi State University with a Biological Engineering bachelor’s degree in May 2014, and Danielle was inducted into the Bagley College of Engineering Student Hall of Fame in April 2014. She is a current NSF GRFP Fellow. Danielle is also the standing Division Chair for the Student Division. Her research interests center around women and minorities in engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Illuminating a Computing Pathway for
Paper ID #241212018 ASEE Zone IV Conference: Boulder, Colorado Mar 25Learning Assistive Device Design Through the Creation of 3D Printed Chil-dren’s Prosthetics with Augmented Grip DiversityRyan Carroll, Canada CollegeBrian Carrozza, Canada College Brian Carrozza is currently a sophomore at Ca˜nada College in Redwood City, CA, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He believes in improving the world with better design. His research interests include AI CAD for 3D drafting and super-insulated passive homes. He will pursue a career in research and design engineering where he will utilize his creativity to innovate and problem
fervor of even themost prepared freshmen, providing opportunities to see how Mujan N. Seif received her B.S. in materialsknowledge can directly yield practical outcomes can motivate engineering from the University of Kentuckystudents from all backgrounds.[11-13] More specifically, it has in May 2017. She has been heavily involved in UK’s Material Advantage chapter as wellbeen widely shown that hands-on experiences highlighting the Society of Women Engineers. She con-complex engineering concepts are “best practices” for engag- tinues to be active in SWE as a member ofing and informing beginning engineering students.[4,9,10,14