569 Engaging Female and Underrepresented Community College Students through Humanitarian Engineering and Context Based Learning Pedagogies Rose-Margaret Itua1, 3, Sharnnia Artis 2,3 1Engineering Department, Ohlone College, Fremont California,/ 2 The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine,California/ 3 Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science, University of California, Berkeley, CaliforniaAbstractIt is a known fact that female and underrepresented ethnic
xEngFac 15 x xMST 2 xMST 3MST 5 x xMST 9 xEdFac = College of education faculty member, EngFac = College of engineering faculty memberMST = Middle school teacher, *element is linked to MS-ETS-3 in the NGSSPracticality and clarity. With a typical middle school science course in mind, the PACED-LRwas applied. The researchers found that use of the PACED-LR instrument was very valuable indiscerning lessons for their feasibility and replicability in a middle school classroom. In a fewcases
strategic initiatives of industrial leaders.In spite of the attention the topic was receiving in industry, little mind space or targeted researchwithin the academy was being focused on the looming issue. In 2011, with urging and supportfrom an Engineering Education Industrial Advisory Council (IAC), a first of its kind course waslaunched entitled “Harnessing Engineering Expertise in Industry”. The graduate course, co-developed and instructed by university faculty and members of the IAC, explored the topic ofengineering expertise from an industrial perspective. The objective of this course was to makeexplicit the concept of expertise in industry, to replicate and/or develop research basedapproaches for identifying and capturing this expertise, and
Paper ID #12041Hex-Oid Habitat Design Challenge: Teaching Engineering Design in a Multi-disciplinary Role-Play ScenarioDr. Robert H. Mayer Jr., U.S. Naval Academy Dr. Mayer is a professor of ocean engineering at the U. S. Naval Academy. He is a past chairman of the Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Department and currently teaches courses in ocean engineer- ing design, probability & statistics, and underwater search & recovery operations. His research interests relate to the application of statistics, operations research methods and computers to the management, en- gineering and construction of ocean
Paper ID #12728How Dialogue on ’Ingenuity in Nature’ Increases Enthusiasm for Engineer-ing and Science in Traditional Religious CommunitiesDr. Dominic M. Halsmer P.E., Oral Roberts University Dr. Dominic M. Halsmer is a Professor of Engineering and former Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Oral Roberts University. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Faith and Learn- ing at ORU. He has been teaching science and engineering courses there for 23 years, and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Oklahoma. He received BS and MS Degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
-thinking skills that come from studying inSTEM environments.[8] STEM learning environments provide opportunities for students to focuson discovery and the ability to solidify educational concepts in their minds by understanding aconcept in a variety of contexts. A true STEM environment has students engaged in all aspects ofa topic, incorporating knowledge and approaches from all the core K-12 subjects, not just scienceand math. Unfortunately, current methods of educating K-12 students about engineering andengineering careers have shown little impact on improving the number of students pursuing anengineering related degree.[9]Students must have a positive impression of engineering before they will consider it for theirprofession, as behavior will
the common fundamentals and practices thatdefine the theory and effective practice of engineering, technology, and science, but alsocommunicate these principles in an academic forum. With this in mind, a baccalaureatedegree program in Design Engineering was proposed in 2004. Subsequent modificationsto it were made in 2008, 2010, and 2012 based on assessment outcomes.Since the proposal of this original program, there has been an increase in demand forqualified manufacturing design engineering professionals. This is because this programoffers practical training in the area of manufacturing design engineering. Unlike atraditional Mechanical Engineering program, this program emphasizes those technicalskills that would build on each student’s
and ethical development in the college years: A scheme. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.11. Schaller, M. (2005). Wandering and wondering: Traversing the uneven terrain of the second college year. About Campus, 10(3).12. Seligman, M. (2011). Flourish. New York: Free Press.13. Tinto, V. 1987. Leaving College. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.14. University of Southern California. 2015. Center for Engineering Diversity. http://www.viterbi.usc.edu15. Vygotsky, L. (1978). Mind in Society. London: Harvard University Press. Page 26.300.15 Appendix A: Weekly ScheduleWeek 1Monday8:00am – 8:45am
,attended the meeting late and ill prepared, etc.5. ConclusionThis paper presents a study that compares the team effectiveness between globally distributedand locally distributed engineering teams that are built upon the engineering classes. The resultshows that the locally distributed teams significantly outperformed the globally distributed teamsin terms of the measures of utilization of resources, experimentation/creativity, and evaluation ofteam functions. Such results can be used for instructors to better prepare student’s mind in termsof how to succeed in a distributed teams as individuals and how to mingle all team memberstowards a more functional team. With respect to future works of this study, together with afollow up assessment of every
Paper ID #13315Exploring the role of institutional climate in preparing engineering doctoralstudents for academic careersDr. Alexandra Emelina Coso, Georgia Institute of Technology Alexandra Coso is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech’s Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning. She completed her Ph.D. in 2014 in Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. Prior to her time at Georgia Tech, she received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT and her M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. Her research interests include graduate student experiences in engineering programs, engineering
experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication
Paper ID #11690A Cross-Sectional Study of Engineering Student Perceptions and ExperiencesRelated to Global ReadinessDr. Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Sarah Zappe is Research Associate and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement and testing. In her position, Sarah is responsible for developing instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support for educational proposals and projects, and working
Paper ID #11398Design, Implementation and Evaluation of an Online Team and Activity-Based Introduction to Engineering CourseDr. Benjamin Emery Mertz, Arizona State University Dr. Benjamin Mertz received his Ph. D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2010 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2005. He is currently a part of a lecturer team at Arizona State University that focuses on the first-year engineering experience, including developing and teaching the Introduction to Engineering course. He also teaches Thermo-Fluids and High Speed Aerodynamics for the
Paper ID #12088Engineering practitioners in PhD programs: Who are they and why do theyreturn?Ms. Erika Mosyjowski, University of Michigan Erika Mosyjowski is a PhD student in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. She also earned a Master’s in Higher Education at Michigan and a Bachelor’s in Psychology and Sociology from Case Western Reserve University. Before pursuing a PhD, Erika had a dual appointment in UM’s College of Engineering working in student affairs and as a research associate. While grounded in the field of higher education, her research interests include
Paper ID #12151Just-in-Time Support: An Evidence-Based Academic-Student Affairs Part-nership to Enable Engineering Student SuccessDr. Edward J. Berger, Purdue University Edward Berger is currently an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, having joined Purdue in August 2014. Prior to that, he was the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Virginia, where this initiative took place.Mrs. Lisa Lampe, University of Virginia Lisa Lampe is the Director of Undergraduate Success in the University of
Paper ID #11993Tools for Transformation – How Engineering Education benefits from inter-active e-learning and the HumanitiesDr. Katarina Larsen, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology Katarina Larsen, researcher at KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Experience from teaching and course development in Engineering Education at Masters level and graduate courses level in areas of Organizational Studies. Ongoing research interests includes studies of institutional change, science and innovation policy, and sustainability in engineering education.Mr. Johan Gustav G¨ardebo, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Johan G¨ardebo
Paper ID #12246Understanding a New Paradigm for Engineering Science Education UsingKnowledge about Student LearningDr. Donald E. Richards, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Richards is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and teaches in the area of thermal-fluid sciences. He earned his mechanical engineering degrees at Kansas State Uni- versity (BS), Iowa State University (MS), and The Ohio State University (PhD). Prior to joining Rose- Hulman in 1988, he was on the faculty at The Ohio State University. In 1998, he joined Kenneth Wark as co-author of Thermodynamics (6th Ed
Creative Solving Processes. MS Thesis, Center for Studies in Creativity, State University College at Buffalo.19. Isaksen, S.G. and Pershyn, G. (1994). Understanding natural creative process using the KAI. KAI International 3(5).20. Gardner, H. (2011). Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravitsky, Eliot, Graham and Gandhi. New York: Basic Books, 1993.21. Herman, N. (1988), The Creative Brain, Lake Lure. NC: Brain Books.22. Klukken, P. G., Parsons, J. R., and Columbus, P. J. (1997). The creative experience in engineering practice: Implications for engineering education. Journal of Engineering Education 86(2), 133-138.23. McGraw, D. (2004). Expanding the mind. ASEE Prism 13
different idea generationmethod. Since all idea sections were conducted at the same time, four different faculty memberstaught each section. All the faculty members teaching idea generation had prior experience inteaching the engineering design process. Within the idea sections, teams of four students wereformed which are referred as ‘concept teams’ throughout the paper. The students worked withtheir concept teams in the idea sections for the duration of the study. The ‘project team’ refers tothe actual senior design project teams to avoid confusion with ‘concept team’.Idea Generation MethodsThe ideation methods that were covered in this study were brainstorming, collaborativesketching, mind-maps, morph matrix, design by analogy, TRIZ, bio-inspired
Paper ID #12099Mini-Design Projects in Capstone: Initial Design Experiences to EnhanceStudents’ Implementation of Design MethodologyMajor Cory A Cooper, United States Air Force Academy Major Cory Cooper is currently an Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering and Capstone Coordinator at the US Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He holds a PhD an MSc in Systems Engineering from the Technical University of Delft and the Air Force Institute of Technology respectively. He has held various developmental engineering and program management positions in the US Air Force, to include Deputy Director for
, and drawattention to the lack of local design epistemologies in humanitarian engineering scholarship andpractice.I argue that as students, teachers, and researchers, we equate the minds of those who occupyeconomic and social margins with the possession of marginal intellect when we set out to help oraid them without recognizing the validity of and valorizing their ways of knowing. I providethree exemplar grassroots practices of seeking feedback, perceiving needs and problems, andorganizing instrumental assistance and cooperation. Learning how members of socially andeconomically marginalized communities apply their minds, mouths, hands and feet to solvelocally occurring problems may help us interrogate our scholarly, pedagogical, and
: And for me I learned a lot about just if you set your mind to something, you can do it. I mean, I didn’t really know too much about cars in general before I started this project. I feel like I learned a whole bunch about cars just through the other team members. And then, beyond that, like I just knew that going into the engineering field now that I feel totally comfortable that I can do the job that they expect me to do. And so, I think it’s helped out a lot that way. [Focus Group, LP1] You know, I think at the beginning of the semester I was definitely like, I don't know if I'm ready to graduate, I don't know if I'm ready for this, but I think just going through, you know, senior design, just
Paper ID #13922Ta-Da! You’re a design thinker! Validating the DesignShop as a Modelfor Teaching Design Thinking to Non-Designers and Achieving Systemic Re-Design in the Education SystemMs. Jessica Asly Artiles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jessica A. Artiles: Mechanical Engineer, Masters of Science Candidate in the Technology and Policy Pro- gram, Masters of Science Candidate in the Mechanical Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, jartiles@mit.eduMiss Katherine E LeVine, Wellesley College Katherine LeVine has been working to improve education during her four years at Wellesley College
Initiatives,” includedspeakers from The Gatsby Charitable Trust and The Kavli Foundation, both private foundationssupporting neuroscience research, as well as researchers from the United States and Japan whodescribed their contributions toward the BRAIN Initiative and the Brain/MINDS project,respectively. The panelists described funding priorities and international efforts to understandthe fundamental mechanisms of the brain.STEM Policy ActivitiesAlthough my sabbatical goal included attendance at meetings and workshops related tobiomedical engineering policy, the opportunity arose to participate in activities related toScience, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) policy issues.I served as the AIMBE representative for a workshop held by the
Paper ID #11935Using Design Process Timelines to Teach Design: Implementing Research Re-sultsDr. Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington Cynthia J. Atman is the founding director of the Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT), a professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering, and the inaugural holder of the Mitchell T. & Lella Blanche Bowie Endowed Chair at the University of Washington. Dr. Atman is co-director of the newly-formed Consortium for Promoting Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE), funded by a $4.4 million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. She was
encouraging When a peer gives you feedback on your writing, it is common to feel a little defensive, especially when you have put a lot of hard work into a piece of writing. However, try to hear feedback with an open mind. You and your peers are all trying to do the same thing: become better engineers. As you read your peer’s paper, remember how this might feel. Be encouraging. You have nothing to lose and they have everything to gain from your encouragement. Remember to comment on aspects of their paper that are strong at the same time as you are suggesting areas of improvement. Write
expectations for engineering graduates to design effective solutions to globalproblems have never been higher3, 4, 5. A wide variety of engineering design methodologies andsupporting tools exist, including TRIZ6, 7, axiomatic design8, mind-mapping7,9, andbrainstorming10, all of which help engineers apply their engineering knowledge to the solution ofcomplex, system-level problems and find the optimal solution to meet multiple requirements11, 12.Recently, engineering design has shifted to a user-centered focus, incorporating principles fromthe field of human-computer interactions13, 14. Within this shift, design thinking has emerged as astrong methodology that encourages user-centered design and the creation of innovativesolutions to complex problems15
Spring 2014 semester is likely due to the move to electronic surveying methods, whichdecreased the student response rate and in the minds of many faculty at our institution, skewedresponses to the negative, based upon the opinion that those students who had a bad experiencewere more likely to take the time to respond. Page 26.184.9On the positive side, the course has also been very well received by members of the department’sIndustrial Advisory Board and company interviewers. Students have discovered that discussingthe course with potential employers and even bringing their Stirling Engine to interviews to beparticularly impactful. One instance
Paper ID #12650Engineering Education meets Human-Computer Interaction (HCI): Explor-ing how the work on ”probes” can guide the design of reflection activitiesMania Orand, University of Washington Mania Orand is a researcher in the field of Human Computer Interaction at the University of Washington. Her research interests are on using reflection in designing web and mobile technologies, user experience, and digital media.Dr. Brook Sattler, University of Washington Dr. Sattler is a Research Scientist for the Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT) and a Multi-Campus Coordinator for the Consortium to Promote
Paper ID #11163Looking back: A Student Review and History of AerosPACE – a Multi-University, Multi-Disciplinary, Distributed, Industry-University Capstone ProjectMrs. Larissa Cannon, Brigham Young University Larissa Cannon participated in AerosPACE for her Senior Capstone project. She has since graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University and is currently working in the aerospace industry. Her undergraduate experience included three internships at Pratt & Whitney and one internship at ATK. She is the co-author of two published papers and has four years experience of