curriculum development. While her current position places her in many roles, she spends the majority of her time guiding and empowering educators to bring high quality, inclusive STEM to their students. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 I AM STEM An Engineering Lesson Library for PK-5 Educators (Resource Exchange) Solve problems in storybooksEmpower students to become proud problem solvers Read Brainstorm Plan Create Test Improve Communicate Identify the Explore Sketch your
URM students placing lower onaverage than the median student on admission and placement tests [18].The result can be that URM students are more likely to be admitted to pre-engineering programsor institutions with open enrollment. The assumption is that they will need to take remedialcourses before taking courses required for an engineering major.Ten ABET accredited programs were evaluated to see whether a student unprepared for theregular course plan could finish in four years. Random civil engineering programs were selectedsince the author was familiar with the curriculum. Twenty percent had no room for additionalthree-credit courses without overloading. The majority of programs had room for one coursewithout becoming overloaded, and a
benefits of engaging with engineering technologies.ContextIn Fall 2020, we worked with two western US rural mountain middle schools. Due to schooldistrict pandemic regulations, teachers Eva and Sean (Pseudonyms) taught four days in-person(one-hour long sessions) with one day for asynchronous learning and lesson planning. Membersof the research team provided remote/virtual curriculum resources, research instruments, andongoing support in the form of weekly video calls and other communication. We designed a 3Dprinting curriculum using an instructional design approach called storylining [6], to promotecoherence, relevance, and meaning from the students’ perspectives by using students’ questionsto drive the lessons. Students solved the question: “How
Publications & Workshops Future Plans Key Future RQs: Local & National Impact 1. How is engineering intuition 1. Home Institution and Engineering developed among different Program disciplines? 2. Local Communities (e.g., Introduce a 2. What game-changing classroom Girl to Engineering and Girls RockIt interventions can we create that days) improve students’ ability to develop, 3. Affiliated societies (e.g., AIChE, recognize, and improve upon their ASEE
true engineering practice, capstone engineering classes. This work inprogress paper is about a school district’s initial attempt to implement an engineering capstoneclass in their 8th grade, and our plan to support them in making the class better in the future.Capstone PilotA medium size school district in our area is attempting to implement an engineering capstonecourse in the 8th grade at their middle schools. They want to provide their students with anauthentic engineering design experience where the students plan, design and create a solution toa problem over a semester. This class focuses on the design process, teamwork skills,communication, critical thinking and creativity [2]. These skills are needed in industry. In 1991the Labor
c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Online COVERAGE (Competition Of VEX Educational Robotics to Advance Girls Education) (Research-to-Practice, Strand: Other)IntroductionThe major objective of the COVERAGE (Competition Of VEX Educational Robotics toAdvance Girls Education) project is to increase female West Virginia middle school students’interest in Computer Science and STEM. As the original plan of the COVERAGE project, GirlsRobotics Clubs would be organized in three counties of West Virginia, including Kanawha,Fayette, and Lincoln Counties, to prepare female middle school students for a regional roboticscompetition at the end of 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic started soon
grant is to incentivize faculty to adopt, adapt, and create OER for their courses. Thisprogram has already brought OER into 26 courses and are now saving enrolled studentsapproximately $150 each.The first cycle of CDHE grant included a detailed plan to provide faculty with educational forumsand workshops on various OER topics, including open pedagogy, copyright, and licensing.However, an unfunded Term OER Librarian position made it difficult for the team to provide thissupport to the funded faculty. While the team had the expertise to provide this training, theylacked the capacity to realize this aspect of the grant as intended. The OER Steering Committee atMines developed the OER @ Mines Champion certificate program as a solution for
InternationalCoaching Federation, defines coaching as, “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking andcreative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.” [2]Renowned coach Dr. Pamela McLean describes coaching as distinct from other methods ofdevelopment, including consulting, counseling, and mentoring, in its focus, role of the helper,and intended outcomes. Coaching is focused on the future and supporting the client as he/sheinvestigates, identifies, and works towards a desired end state. In coaching, the client choosesthe direction and areas for growth, and the coach facilitates through inquiry and active listening.The intended outcome, then, is a vision for the future, with goals and a plan to reach it, that areall
engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts 5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives 6. an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions 7. an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.The term “complex” appears in both the department mission statement as well as in the firststudent outcome. For the purpose of this paper, the ABET [3] definition of
Cunningham [5],encouraged a natural engagement in the design process, presented in Figure 1 below, whichmeant that children may communicate their design and even do so as they created their solutionsin lieu of drawing a plan. Students communicated their thinking even as they synchronouslyplanned and created. Similarly, children could change their designs to improve traps as they werein the creation stage, in order to “promote creativity and a solution” that best suited the problem[5]. This model is representative of skills students need for 21st century jobs and is intentional asa nonlinear model of problem-solving and is open-ended at each stage of the design process. Figure 1. Engineering Design Process based on Engineering is Elementary
theclassroom. Discussion forums and sharing of computational artifacts (lesson plans anddemonstrations) were central to the structure of this class to address Practice 1 (Fostering anInclusive Computing Culture in an exploration of cyber citizenship), Practice 2 (CollaboratingAround Computing in the creation and sharing of computer artifacts), and Practice 7(Communicating About Computing). Application Development reinforces computationalthinking and traditional programming skills (Practices 5 & 6) in the development of artifacts thathave immediate classroom applications. To summarize, with the directive issues by former Governor Mead, and the Practicesoutlined in the Wyoming Computer Science Standards, it became clear that COSC 1010
adjust to the distance learning mode include: a) decomposition of the course context into three modules and clear specification of the corresponding learning objectives of each module; b) combination of different technologies to create friendly and inclusive learning environment; c) frequent assessment of students' performance via online quizzes/tests; and d) carefully- designed laboratory assignments via MATLAB simulations that are able to demonstrate the entire feedback control process. A comparison of students' performance under the traditional face-to-face learning mode and the new distance learning mode is conducted. Based on assessment results, we will evaluate the effectiveness of our current teaching methodology/plan developed
obtain original construction documents, including architectural andstructural plans. At least five school construction documents were available. The selectedbuilding had a typical structural system observed in many local schools and it was known thatthis school was affected by the seismic activity in the south area of Puerto Rico on January 7,2020. Table 4: Conference case study outline.Case Study OutlineTitle: Seismic Vulnerability in Puerto RicoDescription: Seismic hazard in PR including Tsunami and Liquefaction risksParticipants: All the teamsLocation: Puerto RicoEnvironmental condition studied: earthquake risks, building fragility, code compliance,tsunami risks, liquefaction maps, power plants risks, methods for
, a midwestern STEM-focusedinstitution, received an internal grant to develop a class in research for undergraduates. Thisclass, which is designed to be offered online either for cohorts or for individual students as anindependent study, contains information and resources on a diverse range of issues such asmotivation for research, research ethics, planning a research project, conducting literaturesearches, experimental procedures, keeping lab documentation for various types of projects, dataanalysis, technical writing, intellectual property, and issues relevant to scoping out one’s ownresearch project.This paper will give the background for the course development, evaluation of the requiredcontent and decisions on structure and format, and
previous semester (Summer 2020) to meet the elements of the UF+QM Rubric. Creating aneffective online platform (Fall 2020) takes a lot of planning and innovative organization. This work in progress will focus on the element of making teaching effectively online andmeasure the impact of this reformed creative platform on student engagement and student learning. Theelement was selected as new events led to Universities transitioning to online learning. Apart from meeting the standards of the UF+QM Rubric, the course shell was organized in aninnovative fashion to provide explicit directions, learning paths, and weekly directions to students. Theobjective of this paper is to compare the impact on the learning outcomes of the course
participants’ high school curricula. The majorityof the students have never seen a female or BIPOC engineer, so a portion of the course involvesguest lecturers who dispel the belief that there is no diversity in STEM. Students have theopportunity to see the significant impact of CEEs through field trips to public works, like damsmanaged by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who plan, design, build, and operate locks anddams.Current undergraduate students have shared that we need to highlight more exciting andtechnologically-savvy opportunities within the field and share the opportunities to make a socialimpact if we want to attract more students from underrepresented communities to the field ofCEE rather than other engineering fields. To do this, the
pursuing a bachelor’s degree of science in Industrial and Manufacturing Engi- neering with a minor in mathematics at the University of Southern Indiana. His expected graduation date is May 2022. He is the recipient of a full-ride scholarship, which has allowed him to study and engage in research abroad. In his studies, Jotam is focusing on engineering education and data science. Jotam has worked as an intern at the Panama Canal Authority and at the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana. After undergraduate school, his plans are to pursue a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and work in research and academia. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021
STEM and coaches a robotics team comprised of girls from 22 high schools. Shoshanah holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford, an MA in Technology Strategy from Boston University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.Mr. Jeff Wood, Stanford University Goal: Make a difference in the world, through development and training of engineers to solve the most pressing problems facing the world today. ME Capstone Course and Lab Project Development Director Jeff is the ME Capstone Course and Lab Projects Development Director at Stanford, where he brings his 25-year industry experience to the role. He is responsible for the ongoing strategy, design, curriculum plan and instruction plans for capstone courses
-structuredinterviews with around 20 faculty across the university. The interviews included discussions of thepedagogy’s faculty used within their newly designed courses, who faculty interacted with and howthey gained the ethical and intercultural competencies, and the challenges faculty faced inredesigning the courses. Preliminary results have found that some of the more common challengesthat faculty are facing is the lack of institutional guidance and resources, the lack of support fromother faculty, and a lack of time to implement the required changes. Moving forward, we plan toexpand this study to reinterview faculty as the program progresses and faculty learn more abouthow to teach in online settings. 1. Introduction Ethical and global
mentioned at thebeginning of this section plus plenty of perseverance, a student is forcedvery soon. to consider a change in his or her career plans. 249ConclusionNo or only minimal contact with the students removes those factors fromthe Gennan professor that make teaching the involved, time consuming andsatisfying endeaver it is in this country. Particularly during times ofhigh enrollment and/or faculty shortages, the overloaded American pro-fessor might be tempted to adopt some of the German ways, such as masslectures, no exams at all or only few comprehensive exams instead of manyquizzes, in order to ease the load and to find time for research andother necessary academic pursuits besides teaching. Of course, many
problem-solvers Engineers improve people s lives and make the world better Engineers help shape the future Engineering problems usually have multiple solutions Engineers are from all races, ethnicities, and genders There are many different fields of engineering There are many great career opportunities in engineeringFamily Engineering Program ComponentsAs mentioned above, the Family Engineering program is being modeled after twopreviously developed and successful programs – Family Science and Family Math.Key program components include the following: Publication of a book of hands-on activities titled Family Engineering: An Activity and Event Planning Guide, with both English and Spanish
Forefront, 2) Strive for socially relevant contexts.Authenticity to Engineering, 4) Focus on Depth over • Engineering in Action: Being social whileBreadth, 4) Build Upon Children’s Natural Problem- social distancing.Solving Abilities, 5) Leverage Making as a Form of • Engineering the reduction of food waste:Active Learning, and 6) Connect with Student Interests, Teaching problem framing and projectCulture, and Experiences. Building from these guiding management through culturally situatedprinciples, the framework provides a lesson plan learning.template and example lessons to showcase how • Teaching engineering concepts throughintentional engineering concepts
Harvard Biode- sign Lab, which brings together researchers from the engineering, industrial design, medical and business communities to develop smart medical devices and translate them to industrial partners in collaboration with the Wyss Institute’s Advanced Technology Team. Conor received his B.A.I and B.A. degrees in Mechanical and Manufacturing engineering from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, in 2003 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006 and 2010. He has been the recipient of over a dozen invention, entrepreneurship, and student mentoring awards including the MIT $100K business plan competition, Whitaker Health Sciences Fund Fellowship
, and planned for this to be a 30 students in totalcornerstone of our program. 15 menUSF is one of the most ethnically diverse 14 womenschools in the nation. 1 non-binaryWe have a great deal to offer to the tech, 30% Hispanicdesign and engineering world. 13.3% Black 20% Asian 13.3% two or more races 23.3% White Admission Criteria• Three years of high school math - to highest level offered at the school• Three years of science, two of them with labs• Passion activities• Community engagement activities First two years
Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation, J. M. Cohoon and W. Aspray, Eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006, pp. 139-182.[16] Strategic planning for recruiting women into undergraduate computing: High yield in the short term (2015 update). 2015. [Online]. Available: https://www.ncwit.org/resources/strategic-planning-recruiting-women-undergraduate- computing-high-yield-short-term-2015. [Accessed November 5, 2019].[17] Strategic planning for retaining women in undergraduate computing. 2009. [Online]. Available: https://www.ncwit.org/resources/strategic-planning-retaining-women- undergraduate-computing. [Accessed November 5, 2019].[18] Barker, L. J., Hovey, C. L., and Thompson, L. D. “Results
graduated from 2000 to 2010 (the most recent data), the frequencyof their responses is shown above.The most common reason, at 10%, was that they were not interested in engineering. Interestingly, 8% said they neverplanned to enter engineering. Since they were able to select multiple responses, we don’t know how many of the womenwho were not interested in engineering after graduating with an engineering degree never planned to enter engineering.But clearly some women lost interest in engineering after starting school but before getting their first job in engineering.This lack of interest in engineering is something I think we need to consider more often when discussing how to retainmore women engineers.Source: N. A. Fouad and R. Singh, “STEMMING THE
socioeconomically just engineering education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Week of Action: #EngineersShowUp as intersectional advocatesIntroductionIn this roundtable and open panel discussion, members of the engineering education communitywill reflect upon their experiences during a planned week of action that took place February 23rd– 29th as part of a larger project on addressing root causes of inequity. This event follows aplanning and organizing workshop held at the 2019 CoNECD conference, and continued effortssince then to meet virtually and plan towards collective actions to build awareness and shiftnarratives. Through these meetings and open-ended
-week on-campus experience. In the successof the first year, expansion, to include a satellite campus, was planned for year two. This wasnever realized due to COVID-19.The summer 2020 delivery and curriculum was redesigned two short months before delivery.The decision was made to offer a much abbreviated online version of the camp, whilemaintaining the maximum capacity. Through a partnership with cyber.org, curriculum wasselected and a virtual capture-the-flag was offered. The capture-the-flag competition served topromote participation in the recruitment activities. Through the use of pre and post tests, datawas collected as to familiarity with the university, the Department of Computer Science degreeofferings, job opportunities in the field
outsourced to a major engineering firm that isrenowned for its innovative approaches to civil engineering projects. Our project team seeksto implement yet another improvement effort. The goals of this project are threefold:(1) Develop an understanding of how to balance industry involvement(2) Generate mechanisms for sustainable adoption of changes (e.g. consensus building)(3) Evaluate short- and long-term student outcomes for the courseIn this work-in-progress paper, we will detail the context around the integrated capstonedesign (ICD) course and provide an overview of our intended adjustments to the course. Thisproject involves both programmatic implementation and research elements. We will explainour research plans and current status as well as
aviation administration programmay choose to take an undergraduate level course on airport administration, which is one of thecore courses in the program. This course explores the key aspects in airport administration, suchas airport planning, government relationship, airport-airline relationship, airport budget andfinance management. The course was an on-campus face-to-face course which includes bothlecture and field trip before 2020. However, the course has to be redesigned to be a 100% onlinecourse in 2020 Fall semester because of the COVID-19.Many issues were considered when the course was transferred into a 100% online course. Forexample, a majority of the undergraduate students came from economically underdevelopedareas. Those students may