Page 26.436.2program. Influences may be internal within the program, and include expertise areas of thefaculty and related engineering and other university programs that serve as opportunity areas forcoordination. External influences certainly include accrediting bodies and licensingorganizations; in this case, both ABET and NCEES helped to define the content of our IEprogram. An important influence, especially in building the student learner population, has beenthe challenge of working in a regional environment where there is little knowledge of theindustrial engineering career path. The regional employer base also played and continues toinfluence program development, as both the IE core and the technical electives are structured tobe
program was highlycorrelated to “confidence in math and computer skills, actual math and science knowledge/skills,and career goals”3.Faculty conducted one-hour math review sessions Monday through Thursday evenings for 10sessions. All freshmen engineering majors take an Introduction to Mechanical Engineeringcourse, so classrooms were identified based on the sectioning of the course. The faculty memberwho taught the section was the lead instructor for the Math Review sessions. When an instructorcould not be present in the evening, another instructor was able to substitute in for the session.Instructors worked problems or had students work problems on the boards and discussed thesolutions. Often when the session was over, students stayed in the
, nanophotonics, and optical/wireless networking systems. He has designed several models of high frequency oscilloscopes and other electronic test and measuring instruments as an entrepreneur. He has delivered invited short courses in Penang, Malaysia and Singapore. He is also the author of a textbook in power electronics, published by Prentice-Hall, Inc. His professional career is equally divided in academia and industry. He has authored several research papers in IEEE journals and conferences. His current research is focused on renewable energy technology, smart energy grid.Prof. Ashfaq Ahmed, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology) Ashfaq Ahmed is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology
and seven principles of good feedback practice. QualityAssurance Agency for Higher Education.13 Palladino Schultheiss, D. “Elementary Career Intervention Programs: Social ActionInitiatives.” Journal of Career Development, 31:3. 2005.http://jcd.sagepub.com/content/31/3/185.full.pdf+html p. 6614 Siok San Tan, C. K. Frank Ng, (2006) "A problem-based learning approach toentrepreneurship education", Education + Training, Vol. 48 Iss: 6, pp.416 – 42815 Brown, C. (1999), “Teaching new dogs new tricks: the rise of entrepreneurshipeducation in graduate schools of business”, CELCE Digest, Vol. 99 No. 216 Weaver, K.M. and Solomon, G. (2003), “Teaching entrepreneurship to small businessand small business to entrepreneurs?”, Proceedings of the
, availability of instructors, andteaching methods have been shown to be related to attrition.5,7In an effort to improve early academic experiences and increase retention, engineering programshave focused on revamping students’ first-year engineering courses to actively engage studentsin engineering activities. For example, some engineering programs now offer first-yearengineering design courses that provide students opportunities to engage hands-on withengineering design.8,9,10 These courses offer students direct opportunities to practice engineeringdesign, team work, and communication early in their academic career.11Research suggests that engaging students in project-based learning has an array of benefits. Inparticular, participation in design
, motivation, cognitive skills, and engineering skills of K-16 engineering learners; and teaching engineering.Prof. Tamara J. Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette Tamara J. Moore, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education and Director of STEM Integration in the INSPIRE Institute at Purdue University. Dr. Moore’s research is centered on the integration of STEM concepts in K-12 and postsecondary classrooms in order to help students make connections among the STEM disciplines and achieve deep understanding. Her work focuses on defining STEM integration and investigating its power for student learning. Tamara Moore received an NSF Early CAREER award in 2010 and a Presidential Early Career Award
ofmotivation frequently cited in the literature.17 One possible approach to resolving thisapparently counterintuitive result is to consider the underlying reasons for students’learning and academic trajectory: namely, consideration of the extent to which the valueof STEM learning is couched in a professional context that may be associated with valueor utility. In this case, identified regulation could serve as an indication of how relevantor important students felt the course activities were to their chosen path toward a desiredacademic major or professional career. Since it could be argued that this path issometimes driven by desires for prestige or financial success, this may help explain howidentified motivation could display dynamics different
affect change 19.Our approach to capstone is based on the premise that as a culminating experience there shouldbe little or no formally prepared content delivered to students. Engineering faculty andexperienced engineers provide mentoring to each project team. The basic assumption is thatstudents should be prepared and ready to work on an open-ended real world project at theculmination of their undergraduate academic careers and demonstrate an ability to apply theknowledge and skills learned in prior courses to solve a practical problem. Of course, in practicewe find that this assumption is not always true. Nevertheless, we maintain that a capstoneproject is in essence a semester long exam that provides direct measures of how students
; Iterate – Use provide timely feedback, and 1.e Resources & Materials – adjust daily instruction. Explore efficient use of limited feedback from tests and ideas resources appropriately while from others to refine and 3.f Use Summative learning about materials and improve the prototype Assessments – Use their properties. iteratively. assessments and performance 1.f Engineering & Careers – 2.g Communicate & Reflect
engineer’s desire forinternational collaboration, including the relationship to education and career development. Thereport also called for studies to assess the impact of international collaboration on the careers ofscientists and engineers at all stages [13].3.0 Global Preparedness and STEM EducationInternational research experiences provide an opportunity for students to learn technical researchskills while also gaining experience working as part of a cross-cultural research team. For thisreason, they are assumed to be a useful experience for preparing students to be ‘globallycompetent,’ the term most frequently used in the engineering literature, but alternatively referredto as cultural competency, multicultural competency, intercultural
from utilitarian goals supporting career development and professionalism to moreholistic goals of citizenship and broad liberal education. Appropriate definitions andmeasures of “success” for such efforts vary, and faculty members involved in theseefforts have concerns that narrow understanding of these efforts can marginalize theseinterdisciplinary and integrative experiences. The goal of this work is to support ongoingconversations in higher education about integrative and interdisciplinary education effortsby providing a shared language and classification system for understanding these efforts.This paper presents a classification system for integrative engineering education effortsand applies it to examples from our own institutions. This
socioeconomic differences mean thatmany students that enter STEM fields may begin their careers at a disadvantage. It could also bea source of discouragement for these students, leading to a lack of diversity in engineering andother STEM fields. While this is an alarming problem, past data has shown that doing exercisesand activities that require using visual spatial skills can develop and enhance these skills. [19]The most effective tools and methods for promoting visual spatial retention and measuring theimprovements have been a topic of concern. Martin-Dorta et al. [20] created a game called“Virtual Blocks” for mobile devices to test its effectiveness in improving these skills andbridging the gap between genders. The game consisted of two activities
United States Air Force after a distinguished career, serving as a senior air traffic controller, airfield manager, security executive, and commander of the command and control school. After his retirement, Dr. Ham worked for the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA), holding positions as the senior executive responsible for regulatory compliance and managing the official enforcement automated data systems as well as the world’s largest K9 explosive program, general aviation, regulatory enforcement and regula- tory risk management.. Dr. Ham began his career at TSA by serving as an Assistant Federal Security Director for Inspections. In this role, Dr. Ham was responsible for the day-to-day
with so many professional obligations competing for our time and few tangible short-term career rewards for such activities, we often fail to get involved. This year, resolve to tithe 2% of your time to public engagement. This translates to an average of about 1 h per week writing op-ed pieces, giving lecture to community groups, providing pro bono support to a civic group – essentially anything that brings you into contact with people who do not know the difference between an IC and GC [19].But this encouragement towards public engagement in 2018 seems to contradict a prior warningoffered in an editorial in September, 2016 entitled, “Crossing The Imaginary Line,” [20] inwhich Sedlak had previously shared
engineeringeducation to more girls. That nonprofit, Techbridge, seeks particularly to serve girls of color andgirls in lower-income neighborhoods with a goal of inspiring girls to discover their passion forscience, engineering, and technology (SET). The major goal of Techbridge is to help girls seeSET careers as a possibility for their own futures because the girls know they have the ability tosucceed in those fields. To accomplish this, Techbridge helps girls learn some technical skills inSET fields, gauge their interest in a variety of areas, and have up-close experiences interactingwith SET professionals in their workplaces. In Techbridge’s afterschool programs, girls fromgrades 4 through 12 learn technical skills in science, engineering, and technology
leadership and culture in process improvement. His research is supported by the NSF and industry and has received numerous national and international awards. He is an elected Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Management and serves as an Associate Editor for both the Engineering Management Journal and Quality Approaches in Higher Education. Prior to his academic career, Schell spent 14 years in industry where he held leadership positions focused on process improvement and organizational development.Dr. Bryce E. Hughes, Montana State University Bryce E. Hughes is an Assistant Professor in Adult and Higher Education at Montana State University, and holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education and Organizational Change from
Physics and Astronomy and Director of the CASTLE Center for Advancing STEM Teaching, Learning & Evaluation at Rochester Institute of Technology. His educa- tion research includes projects on the development of identity and affiliation in physics majors throughout their undergraduate career, and, separately, how physicists express conceptual meaning in mathemati- cal formalism. He has co-directed the PEER faculty development program for four years, integrating emerging research projects into ongoing programmatic activities that seek to improve the retention of first-generation and deaf/hard-of hearing students in STEM disciplines. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Improving
. Dr. Bernstein is Principal Investigator of the CareerWISE research program, supported by the National Science Foundation since 2006. Her over 250 publications and presentations and over $4 M in external support have focused on the application of psychological science to the career advancement of women and underrepresented minorities and the development of effective learning environments for graduate education.She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and American Association for the Advancement of Science and has won a number of awards for her work on equity, inclusiveness and mentoring of students and faculty. Dr. Bern- stein holds a bachelor’s in psychology from the University of California at
undergraduate engineering settings.Introduction:Group work is becoming common practice in engineering education, as it allows students tolearn teamwork skills while learning the course material at the same time1. Desirable teamworkskills developed through group work include understanding group dynamics, supportingrelationships between individuals, teams, and the task, and establishing practices that build trust2.Furthermore, employers have found that graduates who function well in a team-basedenvironment and have these skills are more successful in their careers as new hires3.In order to understand whether new engineering graduates are prepared for the team-basedstructure of the workforce, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Council
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Benchmarking SUCCESS: How do Non-Cognitive and Affective Factors Vary Among Engineering Undergraduates?AbstractThe Studying Underlying Characteristics of Computing and Engineering Student Success(SUCCESS) survey has been distributed at three major universities in the United States to measurehow non-cognitive and affective factors influence student success. One goal of this NationalScience Foundation-sponsored study is to measure these traits and find correlations between themeasured constructs and a student’s academic performance over his or her career as an engineeringundergraduate. After compiling and analyzing data, we benchmarked engineering and computerscience
through learn-by-doing.This service learning is a good opportunity to educate students that what they learned in theclassrooms is not just academic knowledge, but should be applicable to the society and shouldserve the community. This project will better prepare the students involved by exposing them tocutting-edge technology, which will prepare them to be successful alumni. This project offersstudents active, hands on learning experiences in and out classroom, thus following the learn-by-doing paradigm. The project also helps create a collaborative network of community partnersthat can provide career and internship opportunities to college students.Benefits for university and College of EngineeringGuided by CPP’s signature motto of “learn by
, seminars, and workshops, and has developed courses, videos and software packages during his career. His areas of specialization include transportation planning, Engineering and management, legal aspects, construction contract administration, Renewable Energy and public works.Dr. Curtis R. Taylor, University of Florida Dr. Curtis R. Taylor, Ph.D. is the Associate Dean for Student Affairs for the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida (UF). Dr. Taylor leads and manages all undergraduate student service activities including aca- demic, professional, and extra-curricular activities in the College. Dr. Taylor directs the soft
advancedmanufacturing (AM) applications to increase their awareness and interest in tracking universitydegrees that give them career paths in AM.In the last few years, each summer the outreach program conveyed a dozen junior early-collegeand high-school students and two high school teachers in a ten-day program, full of activities andactive learning related to advanced manufacturing and 3D-printing. The main objective of thissummer camp is to give a limited number of students’ unique experience in both designingmodels and generate the 3D-print out of these models. 3D CAD solid modeling programInventor ™ is used for the training, since available for NCAT engineering students, andconsidered among the best programs available. The program is similar to PTC CREO
currently use active learning techniques andproblem-solving tasks in their classrooms. Instructors were asked to describe the process theyuse for creating tasks. The strategies described by the instructors were analyzed and grouped intoemergent themes. These themes are discussed in this paper and will ultimately be compiled into aguide made for instructors on how to create good problem-solving tasks for mathematics andengineering courses that heavily use mathematics. The goal is to enhance mathematics educationthroughout an entire post-secondary program to better prepare all students for their degreeprograms and careers, particularly in engineering.BackgroundThere are a variety of strategies for incorporating active learning into the classroom
meet challenges and successfully complete tasks[10]. It is important to studyself-efficacy in engineering as it has consistently been found to predict academic performance[11], [12] and career choice [13], [14]. Self-efficacy has been studied as both a task-specific setof beliefs (e.g., academic self-efficacy) [12], [15]–[19] or as a task-general set of beliefs (e.g.,generalized self-efficacy) [10], [20]. In this study, we chose to use Sherer et al’s generalized self-efficacy scale due to the open-ended nature of the mental health assignment used in the study.Additionally, some researchers suggest that improving generalized self-efficacy will alsoincrease task-specific self-efficacy [10], [21].According to Sherer et al, generalized self
://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/10-common-leadership-styles[18] Novoselich, B., Knight D., (2018). “Shared leadership in capstone design teams: Socialnetwork analysis”. Journal of Professional Engineering, Education, and Practice.” Vol. 144.Issue 4.[19] Özgen, S., Sánchez-Galofré, O., Alabart, J. R., Medir, M., & Giralt, F. (2013). Assessmentof engineering students’ leadership competencies. Leadership and Management inEngineering, 13(2), 65–75.Appendix: Interview protocols for student leadersWhat formative experiences in your life do you consider most important in your development as aleader? (If they struggle to identify any, suggest experiences in sports teams, school clubs, coursework, religious organizations, home
is the Director of Engineering Entrepreneurship and an Associate Professor of Practice in the Texas A&M University College of Engineering. He has broad industry experiences, including over 35 years in all aspects of the telecommunications industry (sales, marketing, manufacturing, business de- velopment, and technical design), the creation of a telecommunications standard (SONET - Synchronous Optical Network) for the fiber optics industry that is still in use internationally over 30 years later, a wide variety of business experiences in international companies, and startup experiences. This has helped him lead a very successful industry career. Currently he is using his technical business experiences to
has also helped students achieve better performance in the Statics course, the firstfundamental course in civil and mechanical engineering programs.Institutional BackgroundCalifornia State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA), one of 23 campuses of the CaliforniaState University (CSU) system, was ranked number one in the U.S. for the upward mobility of itsstudents, according to The Equality of Opportunity Project (2017) [11], and the College ofEngineering, Computer Science, and Technology (ECST) serves as a valuable gateway for youthfrom minority groups in East Los Angeles to enter STEM careers. In Fall 2018, the College ofECST had 3093 undergraduate students, with 62.3% Hispanic, 15.4% Asian and Pacificislanders, 5.3% White, 2.5% African
is an Academic and Career Advisor in the Engineering Education department at Virginia Tech. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from The Ohio State University. She earned her Masters plus thirty in School Psychology at Towson University. She worked as a school psychologist in the metro Washington D.C. area for five years and now serves as an Academic and Career Advisor in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech.Mr. Abram Diaz-Strandberg, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education Abram is a Ph.D. student in the Virginia Tech department of engineering education. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering (B.S.) from The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. His re- search interests
is to address needs of acommunity, it lacks these two essential components of service learning. On the other hand, servicelearning and internship are both related to practical experience and both can be on- or off-campuswith collaboration with non-profit, government, or businesses entities. However, they are differentsince the latter is not concerned with community needs and is focused mostly on skills studentsneed for their careers. Moreover, typically internships are standalone unit-bearing activities whileservice learning is just one of the pedagogical tools used by an instructor in a course.A major challenge for any service learning practice is the fine alignment between learningoutcomes for the course and community outcomes [5]. The