Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship between educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student understanding. He is a co- developer of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) and his work has been cited more than 2800 times and he has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals such as Science Education and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching.Lydia Ross, Arizona State University Dr. Lydia Ross is a clinical assistant professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
asked to recordtheir personality profile on the survey. The survey had two main questions requiring students torank their interest level and strength in topics discussed in the course. Projects in the courseemphasize different engineering disciplines while developing students’ professional skills inteamwork, technical communication and problem solving, along with creativity,entrepreneurship and sustainability. The course is described in detail and the survey instrument isreproduced in Reference [1]. Students rank ordered the topics from the one that appealed to themthe most (#1) to the one that appealed to them the least (#7). They also ranked a list of nineattributes related to topics covered in the course from the one in which they were the
only enhance problem-solving skills but also fosterinnovation and creativity in finding solutions to complex engineering problems. Engineers rarelywork in isolation in the professional environment. They are frequently part of multidisciplinaryteams where collaboration is vital for problem solving and project completion. In addition totechnical expertise, engineering demands strong interpersonal, leadership, and conflict-resolutionabilities. In the classroom, teamwork fosters the development of technical as well as soft skillsthat are essential for success in the workplace [1], [2]. Teamwork also exposes college studentsto diverse viewpoints and concepts, fostering creativity and ingenuity [3], [4]. It helps studentsappreciate the variety of
a Teaching Professor in the UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research and teaching are focused on course redesign, active learning, and project-based learning. He also co-directs a hands-on undergraduate research program called Engineers for Exploration, in which students apply their engineering knowledge to problems in exploration and conservation.Dr. Huihui Qi, University of California, San Diego Dr.Huihui Qi is an Associate Teaching Professor in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, at the University of California San Diego. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work in Progress: Faculty Experiences and Learning Through
engineer. This project uses Kotter’s change theory and Acker’s inequalityregimes to identify and examine signature practices and change strategies within and across sixexemplars. While previous executive summaries focused on the signature practices informed bythe interviews with faculty and staff, this year’s executive summary will characterize theinstitutional values and commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This effort will informfuture efforts to understand the intent-to-impact gap by comparing the institution's values tostudent’s lived experiences.IntroductionSubstantial investments and programmatic efforts have been dedicated to advance diversity,equity, and inclusion (DEI) in STEM disciplines and organizations for underrepresented
Texas at El Paso. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computational Science Program. He has years of research experience in different projects in the field of image data mining, machine learning, deep learning, and computer simulation for industrial and healthcare applications. In addition, Dr. Rahman has taught various engineering courses in industrial and manufacturing engineering. His research area covers advanced quality technology, AI application in smart manufacturing, health care applications, computational intelligence/data analytics, and decision support systems.Christopher Colaw, Lockheed MartinProf. Tzu-liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso Dr. Bill Tseng is a Professor and Chair of the Department of
Paper ID #43103 Arthur Hoskey is a Professor of Computer Systems at Farmingdale State College in New York. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the City University of New York Graduate Center and received his B.A. in Psychology from the State University of New York at Purchase. Dr. Hoskey worked as a software engineer prior to starting his academic career. Dr. Hoskey’s primary line of research has been around innovative pedagogical methods. One line of research was a collaboration with faculty from multiple State University of New York colleges on a project to explore and develop a semi-standardized and accessible introduction to computer science course (SUNY IITG funded research), focused on teaching
this problem by keeping the evaluation team separate from the REU program’s leaders and faculty mentors, and by keeping students’ decisions to participate in the research confidential. · Confidentiality: In addition to typical protections, participants’ identities must also be kept confidential from their research mentors. Accordingly, we carefully deidentified the survey and interview data (e.g., when students mentioned their demographics or research projects). · Consent: Wylie proposed asking students to sign consent forms to participate in the study. The IRB judged that this was unnecessary because the data would be collected from the students anyway (for evaluation), so using those data for research fell
Paper ID #43899Stories of Appalachian Engineers: A Phenomenographical Study of AppalachianStudents’ Quest for Success in Undergraduate Engineering ProgramsMr. Matthew Sheppard, Clemson University I earned my B.S. in Industrial Engineering and my M.S. in Mechanical Engineering; both at Clemson University. I have several years’ experience as a Manufacturing Engineer supporting process improvements, machine design, and capital project management. Now, I have entered into the Engineering and Science Education PhD program at Clemson University in tandem with teaching hands-on engineering principles in an undergraduate
Systems Engineering (IMSE) Department at The University of Texas at El Paso. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computational Science Program. He has years of research experience in different projects in the field of image data mining, machine learning, deep learning, and computer simulation for industrial and healthcare applications. In addition, Dr. Rahman has taught various engineering courses in industrial and manufacturing engineering. His research area covers advanced quality technology, AI application in smart manufacturing, health care applications, computational intelligence/data analytics, and decision support systems. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Virtual Reality
, hands-on components stimulate curiosity. This creates astimulating learning atmosphere that encourages in-depth exploration of the underlyingtechnological concepts and piques curiosity. When compared to more passive learning methods,experiment-centric pedagogy has been demonstrated to boost motivation, peer-learning, andretention [13]. Following a study on learners' experiences after exploration and experimentation,Connor et al. [14] emphasized that project-based pedagogy frequently contains implicit biasesthat limit learning, either in terms of the procedures followed or the expected results. This wouldresult in predictable outcomes that do not promote divergent thinking and creativity [14]. Thisleads to the authors providing evidence that
variouscomponents as “edutainment” tools.This camp had twelve students, two instructors, and one volunteer teaching assistant.The students were aged between 8-11 years old, with most students aged between 8and 9. Two students were diagnosed on the autism spectrum and one student wasdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Four of the students werefemale.Students were assessed for spatial skills with a timed test on Monday before theyplayed with any of the core components, and assessed again with the same test onFriday after completing the 4-day program. Each day began with a lecture onengineering design principles which explored the concepts of projections and theircorrelation with pictorial and multi-view orthographic representations
simulation, such as the representation ofcontinuous signals and discrete (digital) signals using the sampling theorem. This project makesuse of the state-of-the-art design principles and techniques to create a user interface and virtualenvironment that are user friendly, efficient, and effective for learning. Integration of existingthird-party software libraries is another crucial component in the rapid development of virtuallabs. This project successfully integrated SPICE, a popular circuit simulator, as the backend ofthe virtual lab, greatly expediting the overall development. This paper will discuss the techniquesfor integration of third-party software to achieve interoperability between different software.While our current development focuses on
there are diverse strategies that have been implemented to solve these problems.” (#2303) ● “Having representation of all sectors of the community is important since it helps to promote a healthier environment and it can be considered as a microcosm of our society, which also helps foundations and organizations to do better assessments and have better proposals for their future projects.” (#2305) ● “A sustainable lifestyle encompasses the study of human interaction, lifestyles, and social beings as much as its environmental aspects; in its essence, it refers to the recognition of the interconnectedness of human well-being and environmental direction. … Everyone’s ideals differ
the teaching of engineering ethics. Despite use of de-sign iteration and trial-and-error in engineering practice and projects, engineering instructionbroadly does not seem to leave much room for failure as part of the learning experience. Inclasses, students can be instructed only on how to find the right answer, and then be pun-ished, through low marks or exclusion from opportunities, for failure. Even in classes thatcultivate intuition, innovation and creativity, there is usually a right answer and thus a spe-cific, predetermined pathway to success that, unlike Elden Ring, does not repeatedly endurefailure. This may be a practical position for more introductory, knowledge and theory basedcourses (although still debatable), but one area that
facilities design to research that applied engineering and molecular biology approaches to the study of the skeletal response to mechanical loading. As a Mechanical Engineer, she worked on facility design projects involving mechanical systems that included heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and energy conservation systems, as well as R&D of air conditioning equipment for Navy ships. Additional research interests have included the investigation of relationships among components of the indoor environment, occupants, and energy usage. Specifically, the effects of the indoor environment on occupant health and well-being and in parallel, how socially-mediated energy-saving strategies can increase awareness of energy use
to further classify the 119 studies into numerous thematic headings:1) substantiating the general benefits of robotics as an educational tool, 2) learning by design andknowledge transfer, 3) social/cultural based motivation, 4) creativity based motivation, 5)increasing diversity in STEM, and 6) professional, curricular, and pedagogical development.Developing the Thematic Classification System When initially undertaking the project to conduct a literature review, our goals wereloosely defined and based on the work conducted by Benitti (2012). Nevertheless, aftersurveying a considerable number of articles during a month long period, it gradually becameapparent that Benitti’s review lacked in certain aspects. For one, while the author
theimpact of the current racial climate in the U.S. on their college experience, the third and fourthauthors of this work submitted a research proposal to the university’s advancing racial justicesolicitation [9]. This project aimed to provide information to staff, faculty, and administrators onways to improve the experiences of Black engineering students on campus.Black engineering students’ experiences at UF have not been studied at length. While theinstitution has focused on implementing general measures to address the needs of all Blackstudents, it could benefit from collaborating with its Black engineering students to identify betterapproaches to supporting them throughout their undergraduate studies. One way to achieve thisgoal is through an
and behaviors, there is aquestion about how these programs impact the long-term, deep perspective changes needed forsuccess in the profession [2] [3]. To add to this uncertainty, the empirical evidencedemonstrating leadership program effectiveness is mixed [4-6]. Identity has emerged as apotentially effective approach to leader development in both the leadership studies andengineering leadership fields, as it addresses the complex, dynamic, and long-term aspects ofleader development.This project leverages identity — how one sees oneself, and is seen by others, in society [e.g., 7,8]— to understand and support the leader development process. Using preliminary research oninstructional features of an identity-based approach (reflexive
: • The GE courses were given an entire relook; beware of a growth in percentage of GE courses • It was easy to meet the ABET accreditation requirements in the conversion. • Estimate the amount of work this will take and triple it. Fight for additional compensation for the faculty members involved. • Proceed on a serial rather than parallel approach to the conversion. • Expect your initial plans to be denied in the higher-level review process and adjust accordingly. • The most contentious issues were senior project, digital tools versus physical models, and the mode of instruction for the freshman seminar course. • The program was given a strict budget of 128 semester units but a lot of flexibility
which majority populations accumulate power that harms students underrepresented in certain contexts.Dr. Heather Lee Perkins, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign Heather graduated from the Applied Social and Community Psychology program in the spring of 2021, after completing her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati. She has participated in various research projects examining the intNelson O. O. Zounlom`e Nelson O. O. Zounlome, Ph.D., is the Founder, CEO, and a mental health & academic thrive consul- tant through Liberate The Block (https://liberatetheblock.com/) ˜ an agency dedicated to helping Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in higher ed thrive. Dr. Z. is
research projects designed to increase women’s participation in post-secondary com- puting programs. This includes working with faculty and staff from a variety of collegiate computing ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Paper ID #36431 programs to facilitate their local implementation of evidence-based recruitment and retention strategies and translating these successes into resources accessible to post-secondary computing programs on a na- tionwide scale. She also engages in project management and strategic planning for the Extension Services Program. Prior to joining NCWIT, Jamie
Paper ID #36422Inclusive Innovation: Reframing STEM Research in COVID-19Ms. Tamara N. Hamilton, Syracuse University Tamara N. Hamilton is the Co-Principal Investigator and Project Director for the National Science Foun- dation Upstate Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (ULSAMP) at Syracuse University (SU). She has held this position since November 2012. ULSAMP is a collaboration between seven institutions, five private four-year research-intensive and two community colleges, in New York. At SU, Tamara is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the ULSAMP grant and the SU LSAMP Program
Paper ID #38076Interest-Driven Major Pathways for Mid-Program Undergraduate Engineer-ingStudentsMs. Kelsey Louise Scalaro, University of Nevada, Reno Kelsey Scalaro is a doctoral candidate at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her emphasis is on undergrad- uate engineering student identity development with a dissertation focusing on how students access and interpret the recognition of their engineering identities. She seeks to leverage her B.S. and M.S. in me- chanical engineering along with her five years of aerospace industry experience to design project oriented classes that equitably support engineering identity
State University.Dr. Vitaliy Popov, University of Michigan Vitaliy Popov is an Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School. His research focuses on understanding, designing, and evaluating learning technologies and environments that foster collaborative problem solving, spatial reasoning, engineering design thinking and agency. He is currently serving as a co-principal investigator on three projects funded by the National Science Foundation ranging from studying visuospatial skills development through origami to applying multimodal learning analytics in teamwork and understanding the mechanisms of an A-ha! moment. Dr. Popov completed his Ph.D. on computer-supported
inclusion in engineering. Before coming to Stanford, she was a bilingual educator at low-income elementary schools in Texas. Prior to starting her career in education, Greses was an engineer project manager in the Caribbean. She holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Santo Domingo Technological Institute, a M.Eng. in Civil Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayag¨uez, and a M.Ed. in School Leadership from Southern Methodist Uni- versity. Her work seeks to improve education for students who experience a cultural mismatch between the ways of knowing and speaking in their communities and those in STEM.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical
Engineering Student in Qatar: Successes, Challenges, and RecommendationsIntroductionWithin the context of socio-economic transformations in the Arab Gulf and the development ofknowledge-based economies in the region, this faculty-student collaborative study investigatesthe experiences of female engineering students in Qatar at Texas A&M University at Qatar(TAMUQ). This project looks at personal experiences and institutional strengths and challenges–at university and industry levels, so as to present recommendations on how to better support,encourage, and prepare our female students for working in engineering-related careers. Byexamining TAMUQ students’ experiences within engineering, this research aims to contribute tothe
aspects of the student experience on engagement, success, and persistence and on effective methods for teaching global issues such as those pertaining to sustainability.Rachel Roberts, University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences Rachel completed her Bachelor’s degrees at the University of Wyoming in International Studies and Span- ish, spending a semester in Guatemala interviewing business owners and local residents in Antigua as part of a project to understand conflicts over the growing ecotourism industry. She also completed a Masters with the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington, collaborating on projects focusing on engaging stakeholders in forest
Systems Technology at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT), Greensboro, North Carolina for last five years. His current research focuses on Big data Analytics, Cloud Computing, and Content-based Image Retrieval. He received the best paper award for his paper on Image Clustering Using Multimodal Key- words in the International Conference on Semantics and Digital Media Technology, Athens, Greece. He has published more than 40 referred journal and conference papers and 4 book chapters. He has been project manager and a member of several research and industrial grants. Dr. Agrawal actively serves as committee member and reviewer for conferences and journals in his area of research. He is a
Paper ID #20271Engineering Technology Education in the United States: Findings and Rec-ommendations from an NAE StudyMr. Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering Greg Pearson is a Scholar with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in Washington, D.C. Greg currently serves as the responsible staff officer for the NSF-funded project ”The Status, Role, and Needs of Engineering Technology Education in the United States.” He is also study director for the Chevron-funded project, Guiding Implementation of K-12 Engineering in the United States. He was the study director for the NAE and National Research Council project