various field in engineering for over 30 years. Aimee received her degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Business Administration from Ohio State. She began her career as a packaging equipment engineer at Procter and Gamble, then moved to Anheuser-Busch where she worked for over 27 years. She worked as project manager, engineering manager, utility manager, maintenance manager, and finally as the Resident Engineer managing all technical areas of the facility. During her tenure, the brewery saw dramatic increases in productivity improvement, increased use of automation systems, and significant cost reductions in all areas including utilities where they received the internal award for having the best utility
support teams to transition the concepts into the marketplace (NSF, I-Corps, 2012).I-Corps Sites share the principles of the I-Corps Curriculum and the teams at each site aremodeled after the composition of I-Corps Teams (NSF, I-Corps, 2012). Start-ups founded byparticipants are the main vehicle for commercialization activities, and the projects will beprepared for business formation.NSF recognizes that the transitioning of technologies out of an academic laboratory requires skillsets and knowledge that differ from those necessary for basic research. NSF’s I-Corps programwill develop entrepreneurial skills and knowledge in the new generation of scientists andengineers. An innovative ecosystem will develop if NSF’s past, current, and future
elementary,middle and high school levels. Thanks to strong support from the industrial sector, Texas A&MUniversity at Qatar has been successful in executing an array of outreach initiatives for studentsin grades 5–12. In particular, programs for students in grades 7–12 highlight the role ofengineering toward Qatar’s grand challenges, and integrated, problem-based learning is at thecenter of projects and activities designed to educate, enrich and stimulate young minds towardSTEM studies and careers, especially in areas of Qatar’s greatest need and demand.Literature ReviewRecent research indicates that an experience with STEM learning on a university campus can bea “decision point” for prospective STEM students. A study conducted in Norway found
and mechanical engineering. Campbell University started the engineering program in 2016, and she is leading the design and imple- mentation of the chemical engineering curriculum at Campbell’s innovative, project based pedagogical approach. She has a PhD in chemical engineering from Washington State University, where she special- ized in miniaturizing industrial systems for applications in the undergraduate engineering classroom.Dr. Olusola Adesope, Washington State University Dr. Olusola O. Adesope is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and a Boeing Distinguished Professor of STEM Education at Washington State University, Pullman. His research is at the intersection of educational psychology, learning
, Developing Research Report, and Understanding School Culture. Mr. Beigpourian currently works in the CATME project, which is NSF funding project, on optimizing teamwork skills and assessing the quality of Peer Evaluations.Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Matthew W. Ohland is Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation and his
broaden participation in engineering study andcareers by introducing youth to undergraduate students as engineering role models. However,little research has been done on how students select role models and how to optimize theinteractions between young students and university students to increase role model uptake. Thispaper presents preliminary data and analysis from Role Models in Elementary EngineeringEducation, an NSF-funded research project that is examining the dynamics betweenundergraduate students providing outreach and elementary school student participants. This casestudy of a 5th grade classroom focuses on how dynamics related to sharing personal information,engineering identity, and other interests interact with elementary school
]. Acknowledging and overcoming these fundamental barriers can sometimes bemore easily accomplished through more informal STEM education settings, such as summercamps, than in traditional classroom settings [7].Research has also shown that women and underrepresented minorities respond better to STEMeducation in settings where the task are contextualized, the projects that are socially-relevant,and when activities are multi-media and hands-on [6], [8], [9]. Studies have shown that womenare typically more attracted to projects that seek to improve society and consider this factor whenchoosing their college majors [10]. Several schools with engineering programs devoted toimproving society have large majorities of women enrolled in these programs, which
Paper ID #21811Technology Enhanced Pre-Calculus Classrooms (Work in Progress)Dr. Melissa Danforth, California State University, Bakersfield Melissa Danforth is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at CSUB. Dr. Danforth was the PI for a NSF Federal Cyber Service grant (NSF- DUE1241636) to create models for information assurance education and outreach. Dr. Danforth was the Project Director for a U.S. Department of Education grant (P031S100081) to create engineering pathways for students in the CSUB service area. She is the co-PI for an NSF IUSE grant for STEM
, qualityassurance/control, operations, maintenance, and demolition of the nation’s buildings andinfrastructure. Their position titles include but are not limited to Field Engineer, Superintendent,Supervisor, Transportation Technician, Project Engineer, Project Inspector, Project Manager,Estimator, and Safety Director. In these roles, graduates need the knowledge and confidence tomake decisions related to construction materials, labor, equipment, subcontractors, schedules,costs, sustainability, safety, and quality. There is the need for facts and evidence-based decisionwhen leaders of the engineering and construction industry are providing solutions to emergingproblems associated with smart buildings, smart infrastructure, interconnected systems
engineering student retention is unlikely to be instrumentalfor veteran students. The limited literature on veteran engineering student retention revealedsignificantly higher attrition rates (dismissal or discontinued enrollment) overall for thispopulation and identified that the first year is the most critical period [4]. This research project seeks to investigate and determine if social responsibility is afundamental motivator that encourages many to join the military, and can be linked to veteranstudent success when incorporated in the classroom starting with first-year engineering students.The term social responsibility refers to the ways engineering can positively impact society [7]and the responsibility of engineers to evaluate the broad
of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) studying Computer Science, soon to graduate in December of 2021. I am a first generation college student within my family in the United States. I take an interest in learning how technological solutions are utilized and the effectiveness of these solu- tions. Additionally, I want to be able to understand real-world problems and potential solutions to assess these issues. During the summer of 2021, I took the opportunity to work with an early learning organization, The Children’s Center (TCC), in South Carolina. Continuing the project started by a peer at USCB and working with another peer the summer of 2021, I learned the importance of working with real world problems and
instruction.Dr. Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Stephanie Cutler has a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech. Her dissertation explored faculty adoption of research-based instructional strategies in the statics classroom. Currently, Dr. Cutler works as an assessment and instructional support specialist with the Leonhard Center for the Enhance- ment of Engineering Education at Penn State. She aids in the educational assessment of faculty-led projects while also supporting instructors to improve their teaching in the classroom. Previously, Dr. Cutler worked as the research specialist with the Rothwell Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence Worldwide Campus (CTLE - W) for Embry
communities. Morgan works with schools, libraries, and makerspaces to design, document, and open source new lessons, projects, and technical solutions for the community.Dr. Katherine Fu, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Kate Fu is an Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to this appointment, she has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). In May 2012, she completed her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2009, and her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University in 2007. Her
Paper ID #20034Engagement in Practice: Outreach Program to Introduce Computer Scienceto Middle School StudentsMr. Sifat Islam, Florida Atlantic University Sifat Islam is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, FL. He earned his MS degree in computer engineering from FAU. He has over 10 years of experience on variety of software projects starting from requirement gathering to post implementation. His current research interests include Educational Data Mining and Semantic Web.Dr. Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic
people. There were a total ofabout 80 new MS students. The leaders were coached online with conversation starter ideas anda one page flyer of communication tools. The flyer covered open/closed ended questions, activelistening description, and the importance of body language. Leaders completed a one pageprofile with a picture, a short self-introduction, and advice to incoming students. The profileswere sent to the corresponding group members prior to the event. The day of the event, a printedlist of campus resources along with the assigned group members were given to leaders. Theevent was held the day after the program’s graduate orientation over a lunch hour. Food wasprovided. Academic projects and research dominated the conversations.Feedback
base of Chinese Academy of Engineering. I studied information and computing science for my bachelor degree. And I became a PhD Candidate in Educational Economy and Management in Zhejiang University after my graduation. Engineering education, as one of the main research field in ICSTEP, has become my research topic since I have participated in several research projects of engineering education funded by Chinese Academy of Engineering and Ministry of Education.Prof. Wei Zhang, Zhejiang University 2015-Present Professor, Institute of China’s Science,Technology and Education Strategy, Zhejiang Uni- versity Associate director of Research Center on Science and Education Development Strategy, Zhejiang University 2012-2014
nano educational labs, as well as mentoring students in their senior capstone projects. His current projects include indus- try integration in the curriculum, undergraduate professional development, and entrepreneurial minded learning in the classroom.Amena Shermadou, Ohio State University Amena Shermadou is an Engineering Education graduate student at The Ohio State University. She received her Bachelors and Masters in Biomedical Engineering from Wright State University, in Day- ton, Ohio. Her experience with teaching first-year engineering students has led to research interests in curriculum development, student empowerment and the development of holistic engineers through the collaboration with engineering
, engineering design, and humanities and social science courses; that work resulted in Engineering Justice: Transforming En- gineering Education and Practice (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2018). His current research grant project explores how to foster and assess sociotechnical thinking in engineering science and design courses.Jacquelene D. Walter, Colorado School of Mines Jacquelene Walter is a third year undergraduate student at Colorado School of Mines pursuing a major in Electrical Engineering. She has been a general tutor at Colorado School of Mines for first and second year students and will continue to assist with the research in sociotechnical integration until her graduation in 2020.Dr. Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of
Paper ID #25221Is Summer Semester Effective Enough in Studio-based Construction Pro-grams?Dr. Saeed Rokooei, Mississippi State University Saeed Rokooei is an assistant professor of Building Construction Science at Mississippi State Univer- sity. Saeed obtained his bachelor’s degree in Architecture and then continued his studies in Project and Construction Management. Saeed completed his Ph.D. in Construction Management and a master of science in Management Information Systems. Saeed’s main research interests include simulation and se- rious games, project management methodologies, construction education, data analytics
researchers observed that improving 3-Dvisualization leads to better performance in engineering graphics and in most other engineeringcoursework resulting in improved retention and graduation rates. The majority of the 3-Dvisualization exercises currently being used by students in Design and Graphics classes presentthe objects in isometric views already in 3-D, asking the viewer to create multiple views, foldpatterns, manipulate, reflect, or rotate them. Other exercises present the objects in incompletemulti-view projections and ask the students to add missing lines. The newly proposed methoduses a different approach. It uses the standard multi-view projections to show a number ofrectangular bricks arranged in various patterns. The viewer must count
Texas A&M University, post- graduate training in evaluation at The Evaluators Institute (TEI) at George Washington University and the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute. Besides teaching, she has worked as an evaluator in grants awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Department of Agriculture (USDA), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Currently she is the internal evaluator for the projects Recruiting, Retaining and Engaging Academically Talented Students from Economically Disadvantaged Groups into a Pathway to Successful Engineering Careers (PEARLS) and for Building Capacity at Collaborative Undergraduate STEM Program in Resilient and
scaledreplication into other legacy industrial cities. Circling back to the mature pilot at the close of thegrant, researchers examined demographic differences in the influence of the BCE2 programmingusing data from the final two cohort years. Furthermore, we also explored elements of theprogramming that influence place attachment shown by program alumni.Methodological ApproachIn previous examinations of the C-EEEM, researchers identified the challenges of measurementfor a program with a focus on multidimensional diversity [2]. By design, the program assemblescohorts of students that have a broad range of education, skills, and experiences – includingstudents from high school, community college, and research universities – into teams forcommunity projects
RED NSF RevED project at Rowan University.Dr. Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University Dr. Stephanie Farrell is Interim Dean and Professor and Founding Chair of Experiential Engineering Education Department in the Henry M. Rowan College at Rowan University (USA). She is the immediate past president of ASEE. Dr. Farrell has contributed to engineering education through her work in inductive pedagogy, spatial skills, and inclusion and diversity. She has been honored by the American Society of Engineering Education with several teaching awards such as the 2004 National Outstanding Teaching Medal and the 2005 Quinn Award for experiential learning, and she was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin
and interviews to generatedata testing the hypothesis that connecting physics applications to scenarios derived from thestudents’ life experiences enhances girls’ understanding of the social benefits attainable throughengineering design. The resulting teaching paradigm uses team-based, project-based learningtechniques that create knowledge using processes directly applicable to engineering. Thefindings demonstrate trends indicating that male students may also increase in self-efficacy usingthis paradigm. This paper outlines the generalizable lesson plan and teaching techniques, andexamines the unexpected outcomes citing numerous relevant peer-reviewed studies and reports.IntroductionEngineering persists as a female-deficient profession in
formal and informal STEM learning experiences for students. She is also excited about using AI and other quantitative methods to improve student learning and instruction. Prior to UD, she worked at the Research Group of Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley to conduct science and engineering related education research and evalua- tions (e.g., field trips, teacher professional development). During her master’s degree, she worked at the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions on research projects to promote minority students’ success in STEM disciplines and interned at a Philadelphia non-profit organization to examine the effectiveness of after-school programs. c American Society for
, Journal of Research on Adolescence, Contemporary Educational Psychology, and Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. She received a Spencer Foundation Grant in 2007 to examine academic prospects, interpersonal relationships, and social well-being of students in school districts with a high concentration of students of Arab and Chaldean origins. Recently, she received in- ternal grants from the University of Toledo to conduct mindfulness intervention projects with elementary school students and preservice teachers. She is also the recipient of the Fulbright Specialist Fellowship to pursue her interest in culture, mindfulness, and motivation in cross-cultural and international contexts.Ms. Marjory A. Goodloe
Paper ID #17843Building Supports for Diversity through Engineering TeamsDr. Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His re- search focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and their learning experiences. His projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers, their problem solving processes, and cultural fit. His education includes a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Bioengineering and Ph.D. in
projects focused on STEM education and mentoring.Dr. Monique S Ross, Florida International University Monique Ross holds a doctoral degree in Engineering Education from Purdue University. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Elizabethtown College, a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Auburn University, eleven years of experience in industry as a software engineer, and three years as a full-time faculty in the departments of computer science and engineering. Her interests focus on broadening participation in engineering through the exploration of: 1) race, gender, and identity in the engineering workplace; 2) discipline-based education research (with a focus on computer
. Currently, he is leading a multi-institutional course redesign project in Math 1324 for the THECB. He is also active in a NSF funded GK-12 project with rural middle schools. Allen is editor of the Math/Science-Online Newsletter and a consulting editor for Thomson Learning. He is also associated editor for the Schools Science and Mathematics Journal and the Focus on Mathematics Pedagogy and Content. Allen, with more than 50 publications, has given nearly 40 professional develop- ment workshops and over 150 seminars throughout the U.S. and Europe. In particular, he has participated in numerous professional development workshops primarily for Texas high school teachers, including those in technonlogy, algebra, pre-calculus
includes sections on previous work, curricular context, description of the robotichardware with associated integrated development environment (IDE), and educationalexperiences for the robot builders as well as the first-year students. The results of a shortquestionnaire are provided and analyzed and appropriate conclusions drawn.Previous WorkThe importance of laboratory experiences and projects in engineering education can be justifiedby various learning theories, e.g., “Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle.” According to Kolb1,regardless of the learning style, people learn best if they follow a cycle consisting of four steps(axes): experiencing (concrete experience), watching (reflective observation), thinking/modeling(abstract conceptualization