enter.ResultsFor the analysis which follows, the individual responses from the first survey administration inboth engineering cohorts have been combined into a single data set. Likewise, the responsesfrom the second engineering class survey administration have been combined. These datasets arereferred to as ENG #1 and ENG #2, respectively. The results from the first and secondadministration in the BCOM class are labeled as BCOM #1 and BCOM #2, respectively. Exceptfor one instance in the engineering class, surveys were completed online by studentsindependently in the Qualtrics system. Students using a live polling tool (TurningPoint fromTurning Technologies) independently completed the first survey for one of the engineeringcohorts in class.For each survey
constitute often come intoplay, some of which are not always found to be valid by a visiting ABET program evaluator.On Design “Design is the practice of intentional creation to enhance the world. It is a field of doing and making, creating great products and services that fit human needs, that delight and inform. Design is exciting because it calls upon the arts and humanities, the social, physical, and biological sciences, engineering and business.” – Don Norman, “State of Design: How Design Education Must Change”2Anyone can design a product, yet good design involves making a product both useful andunderstandable. Design is more than just the application of technology: because products interactwith people at
Paper ID #27310Queer(y)-ing Technical Practice: Queer Experiences in Student Theater Pro-ductions at a Technical UniversityMitch Cieminski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Mitch Cieminski received a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Olin College of Engineering in Needham, MA in 2017. They are currently pursuing a PhD in Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, studying the intersections of engineering cultures, peace and ethics, educational power structures, and the experiences of disabled, queer, and trans engineers. c American Society for Engineering
at University of Minnesota and her Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University. She teaches courses in both Industrial and Mechanical Engineering at SAU, focusing in Engineering Graphics, Manufacturing, the Engineering Sciences, and Design. She was recently the PI of an NSF S-STEM grant to recruit rural stu- dents from Iowa and Illinois into STEM. Dr. Prosise mentors the collegiate chapter of SWE and organizes many outreach events encourage girls to go into STEM. She leads a study-abroad trip for engineering students to Brazil every-other-year, where students design, build, and implement assistive technologies for people with disabilities. Her research focus is to develop
: Differential student impact is evident within an inquiry- focused secondary/post-secondary collaborative STEM program (Evaluation)AbstractSecondary school science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curricula generally focuson delivery of knowledge in an effort to ensure achievement of learning outcomes related toimportant scientific concepts, in preparation for post-secondary study. Considering a globallearning environment of rapid technological change at the cutting edge, this knowledge quicklyloses its relevance to application, highlighting the importance in focusing on development of acritical thinking framework for students. In 2016, graduate students at the University of Torontocreated
process to build the robotic cat and solve the mystery, Sadina and her friends learn about artificial intelligence and experience ethical dilemmas paralleling the kinds of situations that professional engineers and technologically literate citizens might face. In TimeTilter, fourteen-year-old Singer joins a band of displaced teens in a futuristic gaming site created by the mysterious company Collusia. Trapped in the TimeTilter, Singer and her team become the unwilling subjects of Collusia’s dangerous research on the limits of human perception. Under the influence of a new and proprietary chemical called the superzeitgeber, the team loses all sense of time—while other senses become mysteriously enhanced. In order to escape
of Calgary we have incorporated bio-inspired design as aproject and successfully run a design challenge with first year engineering students, to present anadditional component to the traditional design process1 of specifying the: Design Problem o Problem Statement o Functional Requirements o Constraints Design Options Selection Prototyping Testing and ValidationStudents were given a biomimicry presentation by a company that researches bio-inspired designsolutions and given the opportunity to study technical details of biomimetic aircraft (dragonflyand albatross), to see how technology could be mapped to create biomimetic motion. Studentswere given small, elastic-band powered “flyers
&M UniversityDr. Astrid Layton, Texas A&M University Astrid Layton is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University in the Mechanical Engineering depart- ment and received her Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. She is interested in bio-inspired system design problems and is currently working at the intersection of ecology and engi- neering for the design of complex human networks and systems. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 An Analysis of Factors Impacting Design Self-Efficacy of Senior Design StudentsIn many engineering senior design programs, students are taught an engineering design processthat
, Virginia Tech Dr. Vinod K. Lohani is a Professor of Engineering Education and also serves as the Director of education and global initiatives at an interdisciplinary research institute called the Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) at Virginia Tech. He is the founding director of an interdisciplinary lab called Learning Enhanced Watershed Assessment System (LEWAS) at VT. He received a Ph.D. in civil engineering from VT. His research interests are in the areas of computer-supported research and learning systems, hydrology, engineering education, and international collaboration. He has served as a PI or co-PI on 16 projects, funded by the National Science Foundation, with a $6.4 million research
Paper ID #31245Socioeconomic and Gender Differences in Students’ Perceptions ofPhysics in Mexican schoolsProf. Genaro Zavala, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico and Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago,Chile Genaro Zavala is a Full Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Engineering and Sciences at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico. He collaborates with the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad Andres Bello in Santiago, Chile. Professor Zavala is National Researcher Level 1 of the National System of Researchers of Mexico. He works with the following research lines: conceptual
Utah.Dr. Mercedes Ward, University of UtahProf. Tariq J. Banuri, University of UtahProf. Sajjad Ahmad, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Dr. Ahmad is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). His teaching and research interests are in the area of sus- tainable planning and management of water resources, water-energy nexus, and stormwater management . He is particularly interested in using systems approach to address water sustainability issues.Dr. Rasool Bux Mahar, Mehran University, Pakistan He is a working as Professor in U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Water at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro
: Evolution of an ABET Assessment Program for Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, a regional Hispanic-serving InstitutionIntroductionEngineering baccalaureate programs in the United States have been accredited by theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) through review of engineeringdegree programs for the last eighty years. Significant changes in the accreditation processdictated by ABET have occurred recently, such as the revision of the student outcomes. As partof these changes, engineering faculty have implemented revisions to their assessment programsto ensure they are in line with ABET expectations. DeNucci and Garcia describe a detailedsystem of performance indicators
is not the case in engineering design. This may discourage creative studentsfrom pursuing engineering, resulting in reduced intellectual diversity in students and possiblyreduced gender and cultural diversity as well. However, many universities now recognize theimportance of a comprehensive education that includes interdisciplinary studies. This has led to anew movement to turn STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) into STEAM, withthe A representing Art [9]. The authors wish to showcase their work in the national STEM toSTEAM dialogue as an example of how this movement can successfully unite art and science.The first showcase will be at the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD), as an education symposium
challenging synchronizing the EEG, eye tracking, and video recordings as they operateindependently from one another. Moving forward we will be redesigning our data collection platform sothat they are more accurately synchronized for higher quality data in our continuing experimentation. References:[1] National Academy of Engineering. Grand Challenges for Engineering. http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/challenges/learning.aspx. Accessed: 2020-10-22.[2] White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Draft national strategy on microelectronics research. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/SML-DRAFT-Microlectronics- Strategy-For-Public-Comment.pdf. Accessed: 2022-10-22.[3] A. Y. Kolb and D. A
studentsa,bHamidreza Sharifan*, aJanie MooreaDepartment of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, TAMU 2117,College Station, Texas 77840, United StatesbDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University, 1320 CampusDelivery, Fort Collins,Colorado 80523, United States*hsharifan@tamu.eduAbstractIdentification of driving factors in progress and success of minority students at higher educationlevels in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at four-year colleges anduniversities is of high importance. Innovative approaches that integrate the driving factors ineducation will inspire students with diverse backgrounds engagement for better learning andeffective practice. The key role
methods and tools for engineering projects and organizations. Dr. Smith-Colin received her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she simultaneously earned a Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning. Her engineering educa- tion research interests include the formation of engineering identity in underrepresented girls and women, social threats to this identity, and the development of professional skills and systems thinking amongst civil engineers. Dr. Smith-Colin was a 2019 American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) ExCEED Teaching Fellow.Dr. Jeanna Wieselmann, Southern Methodist University Dr. Jeanna R. Wieselmann is a Research Assistant Professor at
. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020First-graders' Computational Thinking in Informal Learning Settings (Work in Progress)IntroductionRecently computational thinking has emerged as a fundamental skill for pre-college students. One way ofintegrating this new skill into the curriculum is through integrated STEM education. The importance ofSTEM education as a driving force for economic stability and growth is unquestionable and has been acatalyst for change across the globe in recent years. Given the growth of technology and digital computersin the 21stcentury and the demands for professionals and engineers with computer science and problem-solving skills, computational thinking (CT) has gained
Paper ID #23073Undergraduate Research and Curricular Redesign of IPLS Laboratory CoursesMr. Nathaniel Raymond Nunez, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Detroit Mercy,Detroit, MI 48221. Undergraduate researcher and Rebuild Scholar at the University of Detroit Mercy department of Chem- istry and Biochemistry.Dr. E. Prasad Venugopal, University of Detroit Mercy E. Prasad Venugopal is an Associate Professor of Physics in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of Detroit Mercy. His research interests include physics education research and science and technology studies. Venugopal
Paper ID #37520How We Teach: Capstone DesignDr. Laura P. Ford, The University of Tulsa LAURA P. FORD is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Tulsa. She teaches engineering science thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, mass transfer/separations, and chemi- cal engineering senior labs. She is a co-advisor for TU’s Engineers Without Borders - USA chapter and is a co-PI for the Refining Technologies Joint Industry Project.Dr. Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University Jennifer Cole is the Assistant Chair in Chemical and Biological Engineering in the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and
Paper ID #38906Research Data Sharing in Engineering: A Report on Faculty Practices andPreferences Prior to the Tri-Agency PolicyMs. Sarah Parker, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Sarah Parker is an engineering librarian at the University of British Columbia where she also received her MLIS in 2014. She regularly promotes and contributes to open scholarship activities at UBC and incorporates her interest in open science and using open resources into her teaching. In addition to her liaison role, she aids in graduate student programming for UBC’s Research Commons and co-teaches the Science and Technology Information
andchange in K-12 STEM teachers [14]-[16].STEM as social justiceSustained emphasis on STEM education as a means for global competition places significantpressure on educators to promote science and math curriculum in their classrooms [2],[3]. Recentpolicies for STEM education reform aim for “lifelong access to high-quality STEM education”and for the United States to be “the global leader in STEM literacy, innovation, andemployment” [17]. These aims require us to provide college- and career-readiness, qualitySTEM instruction, and accessibility to technology as a civil right for all STEM students [16].Through a social justice perspective, we can use engineering as an instrument for informedcitizenship, action and agency, critical thinking in our
connections between how thepractices play out in actual engineering research, deepen the teachers’ engagement as researchapprentices and members of a team conducting authentic research, and help teachers makeconnections between their RET experience and their teaching practice. In this paper, we describe the design, implementation, program evaluation, and iterationsof a RET program at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) at the Universityof Washington, a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center. The field of neuralengineering is at the cutting edge of using technology to interface with the nervous system toimprove people lives. The Center, which is in the seventh year of a ten-year funding period, aims“to restore
complex nature of engineering problemsis the requirement to utilize multiple forms of reasoning, including intuition, to effectively solvethem.Common expectations of engineering graduates focus on the ability to solve open-ended,complex problems and incorporate intuitive reasoning in their problem-solving processes. Forexample, a recent revision of the undergraduate student outcomes by the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) outlines an expectation for the modern engineer to solveengineering problems within dynamic contexts. This is present in the language of three of theseven ABET Student Outcomes proposed for the 2019-20 accreditation year, either implicitly asthe application of design situated in complex social systems or
expert and kind of engineering scientist by the subreddit to be not very successful.Among the possible factors leading to this is that members of that subreddit most often link newsarticles, blog posts, and other content as a post rather than an entire essay written by oneself. Itwas not deleted by moderators, but it does not follow the conventions of this community.YouTube ChannelsOne four-person group and one individual participant, Participant 3, made YouTube channelswith a series of videos that set out to convey the fundamentals of PV solar technology, and in thelatter case, how it relates to his research project. In a similar vein as Participant 2’scharacterization of researcher in her Wiki article, they make bids to position themselves as
curriculum. However, curricula are constrained, and facultymay not feel qualified to teach an entire course on this complex topic. Equitable infrastructurecould be integrated into more standard required courses such as an introduction to infrastructure(e.g., a required sophomore level course at the University of Wisconsin Platteville), sustainablecivil engineering (e.g., a required sophomore course at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology),civil engineering systems (e.g., Georgia Tech, University of Texas Austin), transportationengineering (sophomore / junior level course at many institutions), fundamentals ofenvironmental engineering (sophomore / junior level course at many institutions), or professionalissues (junior / senior level course at
knowledgeof technology and the engineering design process for linguistically diverse students. The view ofengineering learning taken here emphasizes processes (or antecedents to learning outcomes) aswell as products of instruction (conceptual understanding and achievement). One implication ofthis domain specific approach is that instruction should focus on helping students acquire thecore ideas and ways of thinking central to a particular domain of knowledge. Consistent with thislearning perspective, the extent to which an emphasis on joint negotiation practices (i.e.,academic conversations) during hands-on design and literacy activities increased student learningwas investigated. To answer the research question, a 2 (group: trained and control) by 3
in technology. Engineers can no longer expect alinear environment, but rather a “network, web, or system.” 2 No longer are the “number ofvariables … severely constrained, and … problems reduced to quantitative dimensions,” butsystems are complex and “so heterogeneous that interdisciplinary interactive groups sharingperspectives and information are needed to create and control them.”2 In other words, theprofessional engineer cannot continue to be a “disengaged problem solver” and, likewise, themethods used to educate new engineers cannot consist of disengaged students working throughlinear, constrained, quantitative problems with single answers. A more complex, inter-connectedworld is emerging and science and engineering jobs are adapting
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Paper ID #37265Assessment of a Final Project of a Large Statics Course on FosteringCreativity and InclusionProf. Shinae Jang, University of Connecticut Dr. Shinae Jang is an Associate Professor-in-Residence and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut. She received her B.S. and M.S. from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Civil Engineering. Dr. Jang’s research interests include wireless smart structures, structural health monitoring, non-destructive evaluation for
, 2008, doi: https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2835046.[18] L. Nabulsi, A. Nguyen, and O. Odeleye, "A Comparison of the Effects of Two Different Online Homework Systems on Levels of Knowledge Retention in General Chemistry Students," Journal of Science Education and Technology, vol. 30, pp. 31–39, 2020, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-020-09872-2.[19] A. L. Elias, D. G. Elliott, and J. A. W. Elliott, "Student perceptions and instructor experiences in implementing an online homework system in a large second-year engineering course," Education for Chemical Engineers, vol. 21, pp. 40-49, 2017, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ece.2017.07.005.[20] J. S. Lee and J. Verrett, "Webwork as an open online homework system in material