Paper ID #29096Engagement in Practice: Building Community Capacity and Relationshipsthrough Rainwater Harvesting Initiatives – TanzaniaPatrick John Sours, The Ohio State University Patrick is a Lecturer and PhD student in Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering. Patrick received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from The Ohio State University with a minor in Humanitarian Engineering. Patrick’s graduate research focus is international development through engineering. His main research project is Maji Marwa: A Sustainable and Resilient Community Project. Patrick has been involved with Humanitarian Engineering projects at Ohio
Alpha Pi Honors Society. In addition to Foroudastan’s teaching experi- ence, he also has performed extensive research and published numerous technical papers. He has secured more than $2 million in the form of both internal and external grants and research funding. Foroudastan is the faculty advisor, coordinator, and primary fundraiser for EVP teams entering national research project competitions such as the Formula SAE Collegiate Competition, the Baja SAE Race, the SolarBike Race, the Great Moonbuggy Race, and the Solar Boat Collegiate Competition. For his concern for and ded- ication to his students, Foroudastan received MTSU awards such as the 2002-03 Outstanding Teaching Award, the 2005-06 Outstanding Public
of Tamaulipas, in 2000 and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Computer Research Center (CIC) of the Mex- ican National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico City, in 2006 and 2013 respectively. Since 2005, she has been a partial professor of computer science with the Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico / Instituto Tecnologico de Matamoros. Dr. Pineda-Brise˜no is co-creator of the Beyond Engineering Education Pro- gram and is professor leader of Arecibo Remote Command Center (ARCC) in Mexico, both projects of engineering and sciences in cross-border collaboration with The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). Her current research interests are Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (Positioning and Routing
writing, and merit-driven presentations whichinclude project narrative development and application-oriented thinking. We conducted pre- andpost-program surveys and evaluated learning outcomes for each workshop.In the following, we review the structure of our program as well as the goals, content, and outcomesof our workshops and the virtual summer research conference. Lastly, we summarize key learningfrom our students and the program in general.2. Program StructureWe selected 21 mechanical engineering undergraduate students to participate in our 12-weeksummer research program. Students were expected to work for a minimum of 20hrs/week and toparticipate in our workshop series in order to qualify for a program stipend of $1200. The programwas not
chairing ten or more graduate student culminating projects, theses, or dissertations, in 2011 and 2005. He was also nominated for 2004 UNI Book and Supply Outstanding Teaching Award, March 2004, and nominated for 2006, and 2007 Russ Nielson Service Awards, UNI. Dr. Pecen is an Engineering Tech- nology Editor of American Journal of Undergraduate Research (AJUR). He has been serving as a re- viewer on the IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing since 2001. Dr. Pecen has served on ASEE Engineering Technology Division (ETD) in Annual ASEE Conferences as a reviewer, session moderator, and co-moderator since 2002. He served as a Chair-Elect on ASEE ECC Division in 2011. He also served as a program chair
engineering from Northwestern University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Outcomes & Lessons Learned from a NSF-REU Site on Metrology & Non-Destructive InspectionAbstractThe objective of this paper is to detail the outcomes and lessons learned over the past three yearsof the project cycle, from a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU) site on metrology and non-destructive inspection (NDI). Besidesdetailing the evolution of the major activities over the course of the project progression, theproject performance in terms of meeting outcomes and the lessons learned will be elaborated on.The goal of this REU site was to enhance
problems needs to betaught to students so they will be properly prepared when they enter the workforce. While theymay be exposed to this type of problem in their capstone projects, they usually encounter verylittle of it in their core engineering classes. These ill-defined problems may also be solved usinga variety of methods, to arrive at differing answers that still reinforce one another.Where possible, teachers should give some open-ended assignments where there may be multipleacceptable solutions (Baukal 2017). Students need to determine appropriate boundary conditionsand material properties for these “fuzzy” problems. Students must then defend their ownsolutions as is typically required in industry. This teaches them that many “real” problems
engineering, and industrial engineering programs. According to stu- dents’ feedback for this course, as well as similar courses offered at different engineering programs, the course is time-intensive, involves no critical thinking, requires limited class participation, and is not well connected with real-world manufacturing problems. The suggested teaching approach is developed to include several computer-based learning com- ponents that can help in creating an active/passive/constructive learning environment for the students. A simulation-based project is used to
) and Architecture (1), from whichfive are faculty teachers at the UFRJ or other public universities.The programSoltec’s educative activities take place at three levels: a) service learning practice teams; b)elective undergraduate disciplines; c) master program in Technology for Social Development.Such levels are in a non-hierarchical order. They are summarized as follows:Service learning practice teams. Currently, six projects are running at Soltec [15]: • PAPESCA works with artisanal fishing dwellers with issues related to management, solidarity economy, empowerment, environmental sustainability, among others; • TIFS provides technical support on software engineering to social movements, co- constructing application software
data obtained through amixed-methods approach. Results indicate that students’ attitudes toward teamwork andtheir perceptions of their own teamwork skills improved over the semester.IntroductionTeamwork is vital to engineers’ professional lives. Passow 2012 surveyed over 4000practicing engineers representing eleven different disciplines asking them to evaluatethe importance of the different ABET competencies in their careers [1]. Teamwork(ABET Outcome 5, formally ABET Outcome D) received the highest rating.Considering its importance to the field, team-based assignments, particularly semester-long design projects, are commonly employed in engineering curricula. Whileteamwork can be a rewarding experience, it can also be a source of anxiety and
years.The paper concludes with a discussion of the program’s efficacy and participant benefits.Planned future changes and activities are also discussed.2. BackgroundThis section presents prior work in two areas relevant to the current study. First, prior work onexperiential education and project-based learning is presented. Next, prior relevant work incybersecurity is discussed.2.1. Experiential Education & Project-based LearningUndergraduate research experiences, as the name would suggest, fall squarely in the category ofexperiential education. Undergraduate research is a project, with answering the identified researchquestions as its key goal (from students’ perspectives). For educators, undergraduate researchprojects seek to provide students
Handling Systems, Women in Academia in STEM fields, Engineering in Education and Access to Post-Secondary Education. From August 2006 through February 2008, she was the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs of the College of Engineering. She was Co-Pi of the NSF’s UPRM ADVANCE IT Catalyst Project awarded during 2008. From 2008-2016, she was Co-PI of the USDE’s Puerto Rico Col- lege Access Challenge Grant Project. From 2015-2018, she was the Coordinator of the UPRM College of Engineering Recruitment, Retention and Distance Engineering Education Program (R2DEEP). Currently, she is Co-PI of the project ”Recruiting, Retaining, and Engaging Academically Talented Students from Economically Disadvantaged Groups into a Pathway to
themakerspace opened, there was no required 3D printing or prototyping training. A short ComputerAided Design (CAD) keychain design activity was introduced in 2016; this started as asimplified first week lab activity. In Fall 2018, it was redesigned as a full lab activity and movedto the fourth week of the class. Students now must learn both Fusion 360 and Autodesk Revitand then complete a short design activity using each software.The primary semester-long design project for the course has been also developed over the pastthree years to allow a combination of the original highly structured, robotic projects and givenprompt-based and student-initiated concept open-ended design challenges [1]. As the fabricationof the less strictly defined projects can
mathematics in order for them to becollege- and career-ready. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for secondarymathematics aim to have students practice applying what they learn to real-world scenarios andproblems, while also emphasizing communication, collaboration, problem solving, and criticalthinking skills, similar to the NGSS [2]. Currently, many K-12 science classrooms are faced with challenges when giving studentsreal opportunities to do science involving true inquiry and hands-on learning, especially in high-minority enrollment schools, as they face underfunding and under resourcing, and haveincreasingly less access to certified science teachers [3]. This project, a mobile multifunctionalweather station, utilizes a fairly simple
lauren.n.singelmann@ndsu.edu enrique.vazquez@ndsu.eduAbstractWe present a distributed, scalable, student-driven method for both defining a set of projects andsubsequently assigning students to project teams. This process has been implemented within amixed online/in-person multi-university course comprised of both undergraduate and graduatelevel students who are predominantly, but not exclusively, pursuing engineering degrees. OurInnovation Based Learning (IBL) course seeks to provide students with maximum freedom andresponsibility for their own learning; we seek to radically rethink and reduce the organizationaltasks normally performed by the instructor. Re-assigning these tasks to the students creates newopportunities to learn soft skills such as
of his experience as a researcher/academician, he has been actively involved in research and accredi- tation work related to engineering education. His technical research areas are Applied materials and manufacturing; Applied mechanics and design; Reliability engineering; and Engineering education. As part of the Applied Mechanics and Advanced Materials Research group (AM2R) at SQU, he has been involved in different applied research funded projects in excess of 4 million dollars. He has around 200 research/technical publications to his credit (2 research monographs/books, 2 edited book volumes, 5 book chapters, 145 publications in refereed international journals and conferences, and 32 technical reports). He is
CourseAbstractThis study reports on addition of a simulation module based on Finite Element Analysis (FEA)to Mechanical Engineering Materials and Laboratory course at University of Hartford. The studyaddresses two topics: (1) mastering different levels of knowledge with the help of simulations,and (2) honing new simulation skills. The course has a weekly lab session where studentsperform various materials testing such as tensile, shear, bending, and impact. The lecture portiondeals with the theories behind materials’ formation, bonding and how those relate to the materialproperties. In the recently added simulation module, students were assigned projects to simulatethe mechanical testing procedures performed in the lab. The simulations were done using
instructor for several courses including Introduction to Engineering, Introduction to Materials and Manufacturing, and Structural and Chemical Characterization of Materials.Dr. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Gender
embedded systems in a variety of courses.Typical courses can include C programming, microcontrollers, instrumentation and measurementsystems, wireless communications systems, networking, and control systems, and they can belower-division and/or upper-division courses. Lab content within these courses provides studentswith hands-on projects which are intended to support the lecture material. The intent of this paper isto demonstrate that an inexpensive Programmable System-On-Chip embedded board (PSoC 5LP)can be used as a basis for many lab projects within a wireless communications systems course. Thesoftware development environment for the PSoC provides the flexibility to program in C as well asto use the schematic entry capability. The goal of
and learning of STEM courses at both K-12 and college. Specifically, examination of factors influencing student performance in STEM related courses and instructional pedagogies at the college level associated with success in STEM courses.Kathryn Ann Bartosik, Clarkson University Kathryn is senior chemical engineering major at Clarkson University with minors in business and com- munications. Kathryn worked on the NSF-funded Innovation Corps project in the summer of 2018, and she interned at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in the summer of 2019.Pankaj Sarin, Oklahoma State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Exposure of undergraduate research students to entrepreneurial
1 Session XXXX Implementing Authentic, University-Level Engineering Design Coursework in Pre-College Programs for Low-Income Students Alex Nunez-Thompson Yes Prep Brays Oaks Matthew Wettergreen Rice University AbstractEffective engineering curricula are sparse at the secondary level, and often revolve around projects-for-a-grade instead of implementing solutions to real-world challenges
has yet to be reached, particularly weighing the disciplinary contributionsof computer science, mathematics, statistics, and other domain knowledge areas. T his need fueledthe rapid growth of data science education training the next generation of data-centric workers.Initially, data science teaching practices drew from data science's parent disciplines (e.g., computerscience, mathematics and statistics). However, because little consensus exists on the appropriateblend of these fields, pedagogical practices need to be critically evaluated for their effectivenessin the new context of data science education.T he Investigations of Student Difficulties in Data Science Instruction project addresses the earlydevelopment of concept inventory topics
Engineering Education, 2020Reservoir Rescue: A Community-Connected Elementary WaterFiltration Engineering Unit (Resource Exchange)Grade level: 3-6 (meets 5th grade engineering and earth and space science standards)Time: 12, 1-hour lessons. Final Design Challenge can also be a stand-alone design taskStandards: All NGSS 3-5-ETS standards are met, see full documentation for science standardsIn the ConnecTions in the Making project, researchers and district partners work to develop andstudy community-connected, integrated science and engineering curriculum units that supportdiverse elementary students’ science and engineering ideas, practices, and attitudes. In the units,students use human-centered design strategies to prototype and share functional
a product by the end of the lesson. Students will need to be able to determine a community need in addition to designing and creating a smaller-scale example of their solution. They will need to keep in mind who t hey are designing for; it is not for themselves! Once complete, students will present their projects in an engineering exhibit, and evaluate each other’s solutions. Looking for more inspiration? You can prompt your students to design something more specific. For example: Have your students design a shelter for victims of natural disasters or political conflict. Have your students design a library for small villages without access to this resource. The possibilities are endless! Project Checklist: What are you trying
to acurriculum that is already in place. Universities that are adding new traditional engineeringmajors to their undergraduate offerings do not face that difficulty since they have the flexibilityto design the curriculum in a way in which ST/SE education is built in rather than added on.In the case of mechanical engineering undergraduate programs, an existing course that focuseson the process followed to design and develop new products is a logical choice to includefundamental ST/SE concepts. Some of the authors of this paper were involved in a project aimedat incorporating selected ST/SE topics in sophomore-level product design and developmentcourse offered at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology [18-20]. While the overallresults
of materials. He participates in multiple projects, including the development of a Model for The Metal Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing Process. Dr. Ahmed Cherif Megri is currently the chair of the NCAT CAM’s Education subcommittee. He is organizing the outreach programs since 2015.Dr. Sameer Hamoush P.E., North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Professor and Chair of Civil and Architectural Engineering Department American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Teaching High-School Students Innovative Topics Related to Advanced Manufacturing and 3D-Printing Dr. Ahmed Cherif Megri, and
projects. His current research interests mainly focus on Smart Structures Technology, Structural Control and Health Monitoring and Innovative Engineering Education.Dr. Juan M Caicedo, University of South Carolina Dr. Caicedo is a professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Carolina. His research interests are in structural dynamics, model updating and engineering education. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the Universidad del Valle in Colombia, South America, and his M.Sc. and D.Sc. from Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Caicedo’s teaching interests include the development of critical thinking in undergraduate and graduate education. More information
Paper ID #30836From Cornerstone to Capstone: Students’ Design Thinking and ProblemSolvingKaylee A Dunnigan, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering Kaylee Dunnigan is a fourth-year undergraduate student working towards her B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. They are the head of research and development for the Introduction to Engineering and Design at Tandon. In this position they de- velop semester long design projects for students, hands-on labs, as well as mentor students throughout these projects. They have worked previously at Sandia National Labs Advanced Materials Labs
Paper ID #30904International Faculty Professional Development: Utilizing HybridEnvironments to Deepen Learning and Grow CommunityDr. Mary Slowinski, College of the Canyons Mary Slowinski is an educator/consultant specializing in educator-industry partnerships and collaborative learning research and design. She received her PhD in Learning Science from the University of Washing- ton with a dissertation on communities of practice for educators. Mary is PI and co-PI on National Science Foundation research and special project grants focused on industry/education partnerships. In addition, she has worked with several NSF
Paper ID #29660Problem Reframing and Empathy Manifestation in the Innovation ProcessMrs. Eunhye Kim, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Eunhye Kim is a Ph.D. student and research assistant in the School of Engineering Education at Pur- due University. Her research interests lie in engineering design education, engineering students’ social processes (shared cognition and group emotion) in interdisciplinary design and innovation projects. She earned a B.S. in Electronics Engineering and an M.B.A. in South Korea and worked as a hardware devel- opment engineer and an IT strategic planner