, workshops, and field trips (Appendix C). Specialcare is given in selecting participants who can function in a highly independent and technicalenvironment. YSP participants are monitored closely, but encouraged to contribute to furthering Page 26.415.5research projects, and actively taking part in all aspects of the program.Program ResultsBRAIN GamesThe following charts contain questions asked of those participating in BRAIN games. Students learned alot from this activity 100.00% 90.00% 80.00% 70.00% Response Rate
-take the FCC examination for full credit atother examination sites by the end of the course period. Over the last 5 years, over 700 ElectricalEngineering students have successfully passed their amateur radio examination as part of the 1styear orientation class. Projects created by the amateur radio community were incorporated intothe formal and informal curriculum for the Electrical Engineering department to take advantageof the newly FCC licensed students. Informal assessment of 1st year amateur radio licensingincludes increased interest in the RF/microwave/communication concentration of the curriculum,strong membership growth in the amateur radio club on campus, and a devoted group of licensedAlumni who come back to campus each year to
-characterization of theflipped classroom as an instructional strategy rather than a “classroom”. The dissenting viewsoffer insight into the perception of the flipped classroom and identify some common criticisms ofthe phenomenon. Student engagement and facilitation of instruction are common additions to thedefinition. This facilitation is described in terms of both instructor-student and student-studentinteractions. Other definitions given discuss practical applications or project work being part of the in-person component of instruction (Figure 2). Two brought the appropriateness of the definitiondescribing it as an instructional strategy and “not a classroom at all,” and that it assumestraditional instruction is lecture-based. The latter also
conference proceedings. He has been either PI or Co-PI for numerous grants and contracts, totaling more than $10 million in the past 15 years. NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Instruments and Lucent Technologies have funded his research projects. He is the recipient of the excellence in engineering research award at the College of Engineering at UTSA in 2010; the best teacher award in the College of Engineering at UTEP in 1994 and NASA monetary award for contribution to the space exploration. He has been the General Chair, Session Chair, TPC Chair, and Panelist in several
Paper ID #16493Lessons Learned from a High School Robotics WorkshopDr. Gloria Guohua Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology Gloria Ma is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Technology. She has been teaching robotics with Lego Mindstorm to ME freshmen for several years. She is actively involved in community services of offering robotics workshops to middle- and high-school girls. Her research interests are dynamics and system modeling, geometry modeling, project based engineering design, and robotics in manufacturing.Dr. Lili Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology Lili Ma is an associate
analysis. Miniaturized fluid systems areimplemented in credit card-sized, clear plastic ‘chips’ that host a network of conduits, chambers,filters, manifolds, and flow control devices. The chips are connected to programmable syringepumps. With colored and fluorescent dyes, images and videos of flow characteristics and mixingcan be captured, processed, and analyzed with low-cost CCD cameras and along with imageprocessing software (ImageJ or MATLAB®). Moreover, heats of mixing, heats of reaction, andconvective, conductive, and radiative heat transfer in fluid systems can be analyzed using thermalimage infrared (8-12 microns) cameras. Student projects include CAD of microfluidic chips,fabrication of chips using a CO2 laser cutter, 3D-printer, or CNC
insight into both their creative writing processes as well as their computerprogramming writing processes. Throughout the semester, students are challenged to understand,think critically to solve writing and computing problems, analyze narrative structure, compareand contrast stories, and apply various narrative structures to their project. Students workcollaboratively on this group project to create a video game prototype and an accompanyinggame design document. The game design document describes the project and discusses elementsof analysis and design. Moreover, students prepare and revise an annotated bibliography tofacilitate their ability to make connections across academic disciplines. This strategy requiresstudents to write one paragraph
withprofessional skills 1,2 or research skills. 8We also believe that teaching offers opportunities to enhance transferable skills such ascommunication skills, interpersonal skills, and problem-solving skills. 9 It is often necessary inprofessional contexts to convey complex information to diverse audiences as well as to managediverse teams and projects. Additionally, teachers deal with a host of issues in areas such as oraland written communication, interpersonal communication, and empathy, all of which occur inmany other professional settings. It is our assumption that new GTAs may not recognize the waysskills acquired through teaching transfer to other contexts. Further, in an environment whereresearch is valued over teaching, a teaching assignment may
availability of the software? This paper will review the results ofsurveys conducted both before and after implementation of Electronic Lab Notebooksoftware.BackgroundNew York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) is a portal campus of New York University inNew York City, USA. Located in the United Arab Emirates in the city of Abu Dhabi,NYUAD is a liberal arts university with over 20 majors that students can choose fromunder the disciplines Arts and Humanities, Social Science, Sciences, andEngineering[1, 2]. With slightly more than 1000 students, NYUAD boasts a 5:1 Studentto Faculty ratio. Faculty conduct research in each of 4 aforementioned areas. Inaddition, the Research Institute consists of over 12 centers, labs, and projects, themajority of which fall
a positive direction from 2016 to 2017 (with the exception of the mixed sex sessiongirls). For example, “I learned a lot,” “I am good at it,” and “I have gotten a lot better at it” aretrending upward while “I didn’t know what I was doing” and “It was frustrating” are trendingdownward. Most of this improvement is due to changes early in the week that better scaffold theprogramming activities and integrate them with small build projects. 100 Girls-single sex 2016 Boys-single sex 2016 Girls-mixed 2017 Boys-mixed 2017 Girls-single sex 2017 90 80 70% of of Times Cited 60 50
awareness & isolation environments, e.g., study work groups & - Peer networks seen as more important project teams for women & URMs - Formal & informal peer networks seen as highly beneficial Faculty - Mixed reviews on instructional & - Micro-aggressions by faculty against Interactions mentoring experiences women & URMs - Some faculty promote “weed-out” culture - URMs more conscious of lack of & chilly climate diversity amongst faculty Professional - Design projects
absence of sufficiently developed soft-skills, resulting inan extremely challenging situation for both students and instructors. In response to this, SittingBull College (SBC) has embarked on a program, hereafter called IFYEP (Integrated First YearExperience Project), to incorporate a focus on soft-skills development into a cohort-focused firstyear experience. The IFYEP model can serve to enhance the cultivation of soft-skills without theneed for significant curricular change. Furthermore, this program model is capable of fostering aculturally appropriate learning community that helps bridge the gap between mainstreamacademic settings and the students’ collective culture of origin (see [8], [9] for background). Thepurpose of this paper is to
from critical pedagogy to make elegant, complex casesfor incorporating engineering instruction into high-needs elementary schools [16]. And they weresupporting their cases with evidence from their own classrooms.This work has implications for engineering teacher education, as it suggests that early careerelementary teachers have interest and capacity for weaving engineering into their work as alliesof students in high-needs schools and advocates for liberating pedagogy that enables all studentsto use the STEM subjects in service of “reading the world” and carving out their place in it.Teacher educators should consider introducing engineering to elementary teachers throughcommunity-based projects and support them in developing their own
4th year Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Evansville, with minors in Mathematics and Chemistry. He is also a Student Trainee (Mechanical Engineer) at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Use of computer coding to teach design in a mechanics course, resulting in an implementation of a kinematic mechanism design tool using PYTHONAbstractUse of a computer project to teach design of simple mechanisms as a part of a traditionalmechanisms course is discussed. Multiple software platforms were implemented, with sampleoutput from each individual platform, including MATLAB source code is included in the
in various research projects examining the interaction between stereotypes and science interest and confi- dence, their influence upon womens’ performance in school and the workplace, and their presence in the media and consequences for viewers. Her primary research interest is science identity, STEM education, and participation in online communities.Mrs. Marissa A. Tsugawa-Nieves, University of Nevada, Reno Marissa Tsugawa is a graduate research assistant studying at the University of Nevada, Reno in the PRiDE Research Group. She is currently working towards a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. She expects to graduate May of 2019. Her research interests include student development of identity and motivation in
Paper ID #24968Building Community Through Professional Development: The LATTICE Pro-gramDr. Cara Margherio, University of Washington Cara Margherio is the Assistant Director of the UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE). Cara manages the evaluation of several NSF- and NIH-funded projects, primarily working with national professional development programs for early-career academics from groups underrepresented in STEM. She is also currently serving as a Virtual Visiting Scholar of the ADVANCE Research and Coordination Network. Her research is grounded in critical race and feminist theories, and her
Resources Group. Fluent in both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, her research uses theories from interdisciplinary sources including cultural stud- ies, critical race, gender and feminist theories. Central to her work are questions of culture, power and inequality. She is affiliated faculty with the Department of Ethnic Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Latin American Studies.Dr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 30 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the
at Bucknell University. Before the start of the Fall 2018 Workshops, our data predict that they are missing vitalsemester, Workshop leaders were asked to respond to the People experiences and increasing their chances of performing lessLike Me survey questions, and we crafted their responses into well in their courses than their White and Asian peers. Toprofiles. We then posted these profiles for students in the courses attempt to address this situation, the UR Workshop Programto view on a platform on which we could track those views at the has partnered with the People Like Me project at Bucknellindividual student level. In this work-in-progress, we
- neer, Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics, Inc., Charleston, WV Synergistic Activities: Project Leadership Team for STEM Achievement in Baltimore Elementary Schools (SABES), an NSF Funded Math Science Partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools Grant No. DUE- 1237992, 2012 – present. Co-Lead, STEM workgroup, Consortium for Urban Education, Baltimore, MD 2014-2015 Maryland State Department of Education STEM Equity workgroup 2014-2015 Professional Engineer, Commonwealth of Virginia, License No. 021864, 1996-2010 Board of Directors, Maryland Science Olympiad, 2010-present Champions Board, Mid Atlantic Girls Collaborative NetworkMs. Margaret Hart, Johns Hopkins University Margaret Hart, Ed. M is the STEM Outreach
Development in the school of engineering and associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Dayton. She teaches undergraduate and graduate materials related courses including Introduction to Ma- terials, Materials Laboratory, Engineering Innovation, Biomaterials and Engineering Design and Appro- priate Technology (ETHOS). She was director of the (Engineers in Technical Humanitarian Opportunities of Service-Learning) for approximately ten years. She has incorporated service-learning projects into her classes and laboratories since she started teaching in 2000. Her research interests include community engaged learning and pedagogy, K-12 outreach, biomaterials and materials
Paper ID #27821How was your internship? Stories about the engineering internship experi-ence from five female engineering studentsAmy Huynh, University of California, Irvine Amy Huynh is a mechanical and aerospace engineering major at the University of California, Irvine. She is interested in better understanding and supporting the experiences of female engineers in the classroom and in industry. She is involved in senior design projects for the CanSat and Design/Build/Fly competi- tions.Prof. Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine Natascha Trellinger Buswell is an assistant professor of teaching in
educational projects to enhance environmental engineering education while at Rowan University. Dr. Bauer is an active member of ASEE and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and currently serves as the Faculty Advisor for Rowan’s Student Chapter of SWE. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Integration of Environmental Humanities Modules into the Environmental Engineering ClassroomAbstractIn today’s rapidly changing world, engineers and scientists are challenged with solving themultitudes of environmental and social problems our society is currently facing. The rapidgrowth of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research and pedagogy iscritical for
with higher spatial ability (79% of graduating engineering students) maintain a highlevel of spatial ability and graduate with only a slightly higher overall GPA than theircounterparts with low spatial ability.Given past work in this area [1,3,9], it would appear that either the curriculum at Stevens is notas reliant on spatial skills in order to be successful, or that students are able to work around anydeficiencies in these skills that they might experience. As the design courses at Stevens, an arenawhere students are most likely to need greater levels of SVS, are almost exclusively basedaround teamwork and group projects, students with lower levels of spatial ability may be aidedby their group for example.As discussed in previous work
expertise in mechanical engineeringwas required. Thus, during a departmental faculty meeting two senior professors were selected forhelping the students with technical issues; one professor in the area of thermo-fluidics and the other inmaterials, machine tools and manufacturing. Each one was given one and half (1.5) credit hours of releasetime per semester for mentoring the undergraduate students with their specific technical problems, suchas technical projects and their oral presentations, preparing them for job interviews, writing technicalpapers for publication in journals and conference proceedings, etc. Both the professors maintained awritten document like a log-book or field notes for each mentoring session. These are powerful tools, forthe
design introductory level engineering courses to increase factual knowledge. Hydeet al. stated that people, hoping for engineering education to change, assume that increasingenvironmental content make practicing engineers more environmentally sensitive [1]. For acourse to change attitudes, and develop environmental concern and activism among students, itneeds to be designed specifically for affective learning [4], [5], [26]. Utarasakul [27], Al-Balushiand Al-Amri [28] have mentioned the importance of active learning tools, such as ProblemBased Learning or Project Based Learning, and collaborative learning in effectively engagingstudents in environmental education to achieve the aforementioned student outcomes. To addressthe relationship between
. degree in physics from Villanova University, and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. I was a communication system engineer at General Electric in both military and commer- cial communication satellite operations for over nine years. I establish technical, college level, programs of study for modernized classroom and laboratory curricula including online course platforms, and inte- grated technologies. I have been involved in several grant efforts as the author and project director that have enhanced the programs at Bucks. I am currently the PI of an NSF ATE grant to increase the num- ber of engineering technicians in Southeastern Pennsylvania. This grant involves a
of the scales and an acceptable level of internal consistency wasestablished for each dataset (Table 2).The Innovation Self-Efficacy (ISE) scale represents an average of five items that measureconfidence in one’s ability to “ask a lot of questions,” “experiment as a way to understand howthings work,” and “connect concepts and ideas that appear, at first glance, to be unconnected.”ISE was measured on a five-point Likert scale ranging from “Not confident” (0) to “Extremelyconfident” (4).Engineering Task Self-Efficacy (ETSE) also measures confidence in one’s ability to “conductexperiments, build prototypes, or construct mathematical models to develop or evaluate adesign,” “design a new product or project to meet specified requirements,” and
compare it with the traditional regression method. Additionally, studentswill learn how to manage the data set for better prediction as well as the key factors that mayaffect the overall forecasts.As far as the application of the proposed model in a classroom setting, one can use the model foreither two 4-hr labs or a one-semester project, which includes data collection, modeling, andvalidation. For the lab instruction, the instructor can guide through the data collection andmanaging procedures as well as the primary data set for the region of interest during the first lab.The instructor can then teach how to use open-source functions and their functionality formodeling. In the second lab, the instructor can introduce how to train and validate
Engineering Bridge, transferring to Illinois Tech for Biomedical Engineering and will be doing NSF REU: I-BEST, through University of California Merced.Bohan Ren, City Colleges of Chicago Bohan Ren completed his Associate in Engineering Science (AES) at City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College. Bohan is pursuing his bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He attended the NSF HSI Building Bridges into Engineering Bridge. At Wright, Bohan served as a tutor and a research assistant.Kendrit Tahiraj, City Colleges of Chicago Kendrit Tahiraj was a bridge participant and research assistant of the NSF-HSI Building Bridges project. He earned his Associate Degree in Engineering
Management • Problem Analysis and Solving • Knowledge Management (Capture and reuse)Table 9: Manufacturing Management (block 12) Topic Changed to Strategic Planning Strategic Planning Including: Social, Environmental, Governance, and DEI Social Responsibility Strategic Planning Including: Social, Environmental, Governance, and DEI Project Management Leadership and Project Management Labor Relations Workforce Development – Personnel Management/Labor Relations Personnel Management