summing and visualization of prominenthabits of mind that emerged across all study participants [43]. The inclusion of child participantperspectives from 15 families provides diverse data for the interpretation of narrow units ofanalysis (i.e., statements, phrases) and aggregation into broader units (i.e., themes, meanings)[44].ContextThis study is part of a larger grant project, began in 2019, working in partnership with familiesand community members to develop, implement, and refine an out-of-school elementaryengineering program. The current study explored the perceptions and demonstrated creativehabits of mind of children who participated in the out-of-school engineering program duringYear 2 and 3 of this project. Children’s families were
degrees with just one additional year, whereas a traditional MSE degreetakes usually two or more years to complete after the BSE. The combined degree program allowsacademically talented (high GPA) undergraduate students replace two of their three requiredundergraduate electives with graduate courses while also replacing their industry sponsoredsenior design project (capstone) with their Master’s thesis/project. With this, they are able toreplace up to 11 undergraduate credits with graduate credits thereby accelerating their graduatedegree while also reducing cost. The compressed timeline allows the scholars enter theworkforce a year earlier thereby maximizing their earning potential. This structure helps addressthe family pressure
when considering models for course design.Keywords: course design, design object, design thinking, engineering design, backward designIntroductionDesigning courses is a nontrivial task [1,2] and an abundance of approaches, models, andmethods have been developed to guide the design of courses [3–5]. In creating a course,educators face several considerations regarding the scope of learning outcomes; the kinds ofactivities, content, or projects learners may engage in; the nature of interactions betweeninstructors and students and among students themselves; the structure or flexibility of theexperience; and many more [2,5]. As such, the potential design space is large and complex.Comparing the tradeoffs between alternatives may result in several
includes civil engineering materials, dynamics, engineering design, engineering economics, first-year engineering experience, matrix analysis, mechanics, probability and risk in engineering, statics, and structural analysis. His research aims to better society by exploring how infrastructure materials can be made to be more environmentally sustainable and resilient; and by exploring how engineering can be structured to be more welcoming of diverse perspectives, which can fuel solutions in challenging societal inequities.Monica Palomo (Professor) Dr. Mónica Palomo is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where she teaches senior projects, and environmental and
student. She served as a teaching assistant (TA) for Watson Capstone Projects for two years. She continued as a TA for the Engineering Design Division in 2017 where she taught both Introduction to Engineering Design and Analysis labs and Engineering Communications I and II classes. During that time she also served as a graduate student representative on the mechanical engineering student advisory committee (MESAC). She completed her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2020 with her research focused on design, biomechanics and finite element modeling. In that year, she also became a full-time instructor for the Engineering Design Division in the Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at Binghamton University. She
students’ non-technical skills by developing faculty’sunderstanding and implementation of instructional approaches. For example, the School ofEngineering of the Polytechnic of Porto reported on their efforts to boost students’ non-technicalskills through the implementation of active learning [6]. One study reviewed the promotion andteaching of non-technical skills in higher education across five European countries [7]. Theresearchers grouped skills that engineering students need into five categories: Technical,Metacognitive, Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Problem solving. They then presented groupingsof best pedagogical practices that may be integrated into the curriculum, such as problem-basedlearning, project-based learning, game-based
solutions andtheories are non-existent. Hence, it was not surprising to find that over 1/3 of the literature in thereview highlighted the importance of these types of experiences. As a result, learning by doing,especially in a group, is broadly recommended by the literature [e.g., 6, 26, 79]. Some note itsvalue to developing interest, some to demonstrating expertise, and some to enjoying meaningfulwork. Moreover, providing a safe environment for trialing various leadership behaviors alsoprovides a learning opportunity for all [11, 26, 27, 66]. However, group work is not a silverbullet; Rosch’s [28, 29] research found that group environments (such as are experienced in classor upper-division capstone projects) without mentoring, scaffolding, and
engagement with coding and robotics, and early childhood preservice teacher learning.Nidaa Makki Nidaa Makki is a Professor in the LeBron James Family Foundation School of Education at the University of Akron, with expertise in STEM Education. She has served as co-PI on several NSF projects, investigating STEM education interventions at the K-12 and undergraduate levels. She also has expertise as program evaluator for various STEM education programs, and has led teacher professional development in Physics Modeling, Engineering Education, and Problem Based Learning. Her research interests include teacher learning and practices in science education, engineering education, and student learning and motivation for STEM
laboratoriesrequired hands-on experiments which were difficult to execute in a remote setting. Educatorsadopted several simulation tools to replace the hands-on experiments to a certain extent. Many ofthe project-based laboratory courses suffered due to a lack of research capabilities. In addition,projects demand social interaction as students work in groups, brainstorm ideas, utilizelaboratory equipment, and closely interact with the instructors.This paper presents some of the challenges faced by the instructors and students in Electrical andComputer Engineering courses offered at one of the regional campuses of The Ohio StateUniversity. Even though some researchers have conducted studies in 2020 to investigate theeffect of the pandemic on teaching and
: An Interview-Based Study of Ethics FrameworksAbstractUnderstanding institutional leaders’ perspectives on ethics frameworks can help us betterconceptualize where, how, and for whom ethics is made explicit across and within STEM relateddisciplines and, in turn, to better understand the ways developing professionals are enculturatedtoward responsibility within their disciplines. As part of an NSF-funded institutionaltransformation project, our research team conducted interviews with academic leaders about theframeworks of ethics in their home departments, programs, and fields. This paper reports on aseries of eleven (11) interviews whose content describes the perspectives of disciplinary leadersfrom biology, chemistry, computer science
Paper ID #37847A Strategic Curriculum Design for an IntroductoryEngineering Course to Encourage Self-Empowerment ofMinority StudentsVictor Manuel Garcia (Research Associate) Victor Garcia holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Victor is currently a research civil engineer at the US Army – Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, MS. He leads research projects sponsored by the US Department of Defense that focus on improving the design and construction practices for military transportation installations. Victor has been also collaborating with UTEP faculty on
, Missouri. 10.18260/1-2--8765.Ordonez, R., & Benavidez, H., & Marchese, A. J., & Newell, J. A., & Schmalzel, J. L., & Sukumaran, B., & Ramachandran, R., & Haynes, J. (2000, June), A Pedagogical Concept Of Integrating Multidisciplinary Design And Technical Communication Paper presented at 2000 Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri. 10.18260/1-2- 8621.Pinkus, R. A., & Simmons, C. A. (2000, June), Professional Writing Seminar For Engineering Students: A Pilot Project And Evaluation Paper presented at 2000 Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri. 10.18260/1-2--8638.Ray, J. L. (2000, June), The Unrecognized Side Of Senior Capstone Design Paper presented at 2000 Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri
students toexperience urgent time through longer-term experiences, such as capstone projects andinternships. In this way, urgent time can serve as a bridge to aspirational time, helping studentsremember “the why” that lead them to engineering in the first place. Additionally, self-reflectiveprograms like the Grand Challenge Scholars Program can help students access the expansivespace and aspirational time of the Engineering Moment chronotope by framing their concreteeducational experiences in broader terms. Even minor interventions, such as the one in thisstudy, can have some impact; this study could be adapted, for instance, by having students attendalumni talks or networking events. Because Engineering Moment is an institutionallyperpetuated
science courses, networking electives and the Computer Science Capstone Course. She is a Program Chair for ACM’s SIGCSE TS 2023-2024, and member of the Academic Committee of the Grace Hopper Celebration 2020-22. Dr. Battestilli is the Faculty Advisor for NCSU’s ACM-W student chapter, 2020/2021 NCSU DELTA Faculty Fellow and 2021/2023 Cultural Competence in Computing (3C) Fellow, NCSU Equity for Women Award Nominee 2020 and Invited Member to NCSU's COVID Instruction and Student Support Task Force.Matthew Stephen Zahn Matthew Zahn is a PhD student in Computer Science at North Carolina State University. He received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science at NC State in 2021. He has worked as a Peer Teaching Fellow for the
programs because of their leadership experience in the military. However,participants also found that their military experienced helped them to be effective in teammember roles as well. In a similar vein, Stringer and McFarland [16] used Mumford’s Model ofLeadership Characteristics [44] to understand the success of a Capstone project when a veteranwas placed in a leadership position. Using the tenets of Veteran Critical Theory [45], Mobleyand colleagues were able to collect the narratives and counter-narratives of military students inengineering education, anchoring their research process in an asset-based approach [27]. Hoodand colleagues [24] created and validated the survey used in their study based on theProfessional Social Responsibility
escape rooms have teams solve a problem using puzzles, clues, and hints ina limited amount of time. Two escape rooms were developed for seniors in our environmentalengineering program. The first escape room was centered on a hazardous waste incinerationproblem that included, the Ideal Gas Law, gaussian dispersion, and risk assessment. This escaperoom was used in our Solid and Hazardous Waste course to help our seniors prepare for theFundamentals of Engineering Exam. It was also piloted with two faculty teams during a summerteaching seminar. The second escape room was built around an engineering ethics case study inour capstone design course, which will be discussed in the companion paper. Assessment andevaluation of these exercises revealed that
spawned both a series of Global GrandChallenges Summits occurring biannually and a Grand Challenges Scholars program atnumerous universities [2]. Further, research in engineering education to best integrate some or allof these challenges into undergraduate engineering curricula and also promote studentengagement became a topic of interest [3] - [5]. Innovative ideas such as Chapman University’sfour-year team-based capstone model [6] have been put forth to best represent a ‘GrandChallenge’ curriculum. However, approaches to assess how an undergraduate engineeringcurriculum prepares students to address the Grand Challenges have, to date, been rarelydiscussed in literature. In 2019, the National Academics of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
been replaced by β0 and xβ. The coefficients by β0 and β are notknown, and they must be estimated based on the available training data using a technique knownas Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE). In logistics regression, β0 is known as the interceptand xβ is known as the coefficient. Figure 6. Flipping the Logit curve into Sigmoid curve.In this project module you will discover how to use basic statistics and begin to prepareyour data for machine learning in Python using Numpy and SciPy.Both NumPy and SciPy are Python libraries used for used mathematical and numerical analysis.NumPy contains array data and basic operations such as sorting, indexing, etc. whereas, SciPyconsists of all the numerical code. SciPy has a number of sub-packages for
Context 11 Capstone, Internship, Senior Project, courses in disciplines such as physics, biology, chemistry, the humanities, or other areas Math and Statistics Calculus, discrete structures, probability theory, elementary statistics, advanced topics in statistics, and linear algebra. Table 3: Mapping of 7 competencies to 11 ACM Data Science Task Force Competencies3.5 Data Analysis Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient Analysis was conducted. Pearson correlationcoefficient
Haofan Zhang (BS, CS ’20), Trevor Dowd(BS CS ’20), Robert Dutile (BS CS ’20), Milap Patel (BS/MS ME/CS ’20), Michael Taylor (BSCS ’19), Griffin Cecil (BS CS ’19), Dimitrios Tsiakmakis (BS CS ’19), and Praneeth Appikatla(BS CS ’19), who worked on this software as part of their capstone projects. We would like tothank the students in various courses at WPI who participated in testing the software and providingvaluable feedback. We also would like to thank Prof. Nicholas Bertozzi at WPI for his efforts intesting and utilizing the software in the Unified Robotics I (RBE 2001) course.References[1] “Working Model 2D,” Working Model 2D - 2D Kinematics & Dynamics Software - Engineering Simulait. [Online]. Available: https://www.design
bycolonial-era unequal land distribution [8], poor land conversion projects and land use policiesthat enabled unhealthy ecosystems and unsafe urban environments (e.g. [9]). For example,blurring of rural-urban spatial and social boundaries, mobilized by urban sprawl, have inducednew and unexpected changes in rural America at the expense of local solidarity and socialcohesion [10]. Inner city neighborhoods are disproportionately inhabited by socially vulnerablepopulations where a multiplicity of environmental stressors compromise quality of life (e.g. [9,11]). Transformation from agrarian to urban-industrial society urged by fiscal incentives frommultinational corporation further galvanized social discords through cross-migration andintercultural
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationEngineering Seniors Survey: A survey is conducted every semester in the capstone designcourse to assess the opinions of graduating seniors on their success in achieving programoutcomes and on their attitudes toward the department. The results of the surveys are reviewedand summarized by the Chair and senior faculty and presented to the entire faculty at thedepartmental meetings.Student Exit Interview: The department chair interviews a diverse pool of graduating studentseach semester. Students provide feedback on their educational achievements, quality ofinstruction, facilities, laboratory equipment, and future plans. They also make suggestions onhow to improve the
University; Epistemologies and Discourse Analysis Noa Bruhis, Arizona State University; for Transdisciplinary Capstone Projects in Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State a Digital Media Program University; Suren Jayasuriya, Arizona State University5 2018 Understanding the Experience of Women Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State in Undergraduate Engineering Programs Polytechnic University, Pomona at Public Universities6 2021 "She's More Like a Guy"•: The Legacy Jeanne Christman
Paper ID #36732Efficacy of the Dual-Submission Homework MethodJoshua Jay Graduate student from the University of Oklahoma.Doyle Dodd (Assistant Professor of Practice) Industrial & Systems Engr. Department, University of Oklahoma. Teaching-focused professor, currently teaching CAD, Ergonomics, Intro to ISE, Capstone © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Efficacy of the Dual-Submission Homework Method Joshua Jay Dr. Doyle
engineering courses, inquiry-based learning in mechanics, and design projects to help promote adapted physical activities. Other professional interests include aviation physiology and biomechanics.Dr. Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Ben D. Lutz is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Design at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He is the leader of the Critical Research in Engineering and Technology Education (CREATE) group at Cal Poly. His research interests include critical pedagogies; efforts for diversity, equity, and inclusion in engineering, engineering design theory and practice; conceptual change and understanding; and school- to-work transitions for new engineers
project. McMasters (2006) highlights four clusters ofskills as being important to qualified engineers: foundational technical skills, professional,engineering, and business skills. Broadly speaking, there are technical and professional skills;and to combat the dualism embedded within these two domains, socio-technical skills are used torepresent the nature of engineering competencies (Faulkner, 2007). Another line of research1 https://www.abet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/C3_C5_mapping_SEC_1-13-2018.pdffocuses on how to facilitate the competency development of engineering students; andsummaries of some findings from this line of research can be found in two review papers(Ebrahiminejad, 2017; Shuman, Besterfield-Sacre, & McGourty, 2005
Paper ID #37270Can Oral Exams Increase Student Performance andMotivation?Nathan Delson (Professor) Nathan Delson is a Teaching Professor at the University of California at San Diego. His research interests include robotics, biomedical devices, and engineering education. He teaches introductory design, mechanics, mechatronics, capstone design, medical devices, and product design & entrepreneurship. His interests in design education includes increasing student motivation, teamwork, hands-on projects, and integration of theory into design projects. In 1999 he co- founded Coactive Drive Corporation (currently
design approach places emphasis on deep consideration and inclusion ofstakeholders and context in design decision making. Further, when taking a humanity-centeredapproach, designers consider how their own identities shape design approaches and outcomes,constantly reflect and analyze on𑁋𑁋and adjust𑁋𑁋their role in a design process relative to thepeople and communities who have a stake in the project, and account for impacts on futuregenerations. As a humanity-centered approach, socially engaged design thus foregrounds peopleand society (e.g., users, stakeholders, communities), context (e.g., environmental, political,economic, cultural), and designer positionality (relative to the problem, solution, and process)throughout design work [20]. This
sudden change in a student’scognitive model will not be effective. Instead, they recommend continuous revisiting andreformulating of a student’s cognitive models. Similarly, incremental imagination exercises canbe used to develop a student’s cognitive and reflexive understanding.Pitfalls in ethics instructionDiscussing ethics instruction in a broad sense is a difficult endeavor, as there are many ways inwhich ethics can be approached in the curriculum. Options can include individual modules onethics within introductory and capstone courses, embedding ethics throughout a series of courseswithin the curriculum, or requiring ethics specific courses. Ethics components can be taught byfaculty within the engineering discipline or by instructors with
Paper ID #37427Comparing labs before, during, and after COVID in aMeasurements and Analysis CourseBridget M. Smyser (Teaching Professor) Bridget Smyser is a Teaching Professor in the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering department at Northeastern University. She holds a BS in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Her research interests include capstone design and lab pedagogy, , effective methods to teach technical communication, and integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion concepts into engineering