rooted in real problems, and offers expertise thatbenefits both the students AND the faculty members involved. In addition to added capabilityfor the military, these partnerships with the DOD give another avenue for engineers in themilitary when considering potential career paths or transitioning to the civilian sector.5. Outcomes Achieved as a Result of This Project and Partnership5. A. Achievement of ABET and ASCE BOK Outcomes This project arguably achieved all technical and professional student outcomes of ABEThighlighted earlier, but specifically achieved outcomes 1, 5, and 7 in depth. This project allowedstudents to identify problems with current blast modeling and apply foundational knowledge onmaterial behavior and mathematics to
educators at the local technical college, in orderto better support his students’ career pathways in the community.Although González and colleagues recommended that teachers visit students’ homes to learnabout their funds of knowledge,4 both teachers worked in school districts whose policiesprohibited middle school teachers from visiting students in their homes. Given this constraint,Andrew and Alex both participated in a multi-year professional development project in whichthey read articles about pedagogies for linguistically diverse students, including funds ofknowledge pedagogies and honoring and incorporating students’ home languages and linguisticrepertoires through using strategies recommended in translanguaging approaches. They alsoobserved
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, use digital media toadvance their academic careers and have been exposed to this technology for all of their lives.This Generation Z cohort, students roughly between the ages of 17-22 have particular learningstyles and it is important as engineering educators to modify our teaching methods to best meettheir needs. Kalkhurst [1] writes that GenZ students are disrupting many ingrained practices ineducation and that colleges and universities are forced to adapt at a rapid pace or becomeirrelevant. GenZ students are accomplished self-learners, can process information at a fast paceand it is important to be brief and visual to capture and hold their attention [2].Seemiller and Grace [3] highlight an important characteristic of GenZ learners: a
OverviewThe overall goal of this three year project is to increase awareness and preparedness of rural andindigenous youth to pursue engineering and engineering-related careers. To reach this goal, weare working with elementary pre and in-service teachers in rural and reservation communities touse ethnographic methods to connect local funds of knowledge with classroom curriculum. Morespecifically, the first phase (current phase) is on training participating teachers, whereas thesecond phase will be on supporting their implementation of the engineering curricula. This paperdescribes the first summer professional development, which focused on two items: (1) trainingelementary teachers and pre-service teachers in ethnographic methods and photo
the role of menteecould promote relational identity development as the mentee creates a bond with their mentor,and later on the role of mentor might promote communal identity development as the mentorshifts focus to giving back to the community. The researchers plan to further explore thesepossible relationships as they relate to RQ3, particularly relating to the complexity of developingrelationships and community against the backdrop of the global pandemic. In an effort to supportmentors and mentees in their academic careers both as they participate within and beyond thecontainer of the Program, future research will begin the consideration of a systemic frameworkthat is capable of registering the relationships between more discrete
American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Ashmun Express - A Mobile-Based Study Application for STEM StudentsAbstractThere has been an increase in the usage of technology in classrooms nationwide, fromsmartboards to study applications. The dearth of the latter as a part of the curriculum for STEMstudents in higher education and particularly at a historically black university prompted twoprofessors in biology and computer science to develop a mobile application that focuses on mathapplications in a variety of biological fields.The prime objective of the mobile app - codenamed Ashmun Express - is to serve as a tool forearly career STEM majors, almost all of whom have
focused on the organometallic chemistry and electrocatalytic reduction of CO2. During his postdoctoral work at Indiana University he continued to focus on small molecule activation using molecular modeling methods under supervision of professors, Baik, Caulton and Mindiola. Jos´e started his teaching career at Lamar University in 2012 and has been part of the teaching faculty at the University of Illinois since 2014. At Illinois, Jos´e has a deep interest in interdisciplinary projects, including study abroad courses and more recently with the Illinois Global Institute.Dr. Olivia C. Coiado, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Olivia C Coiado Teaching Assistant Professor, Medical Education Facilitator Course
gender in science class,” J Res Sci Teach, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 474–488, Apr. 2015, doi: 10.1002/tea.21224.[23] S. J. Basu, “Powerful learners and critical agents: The goals of five urban Caribbean youth in a conceptual physics classroom,” Science Education, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 252–277, 2008, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.20241.[24] A. Godwin, G. Potvin, Z. Hazari, and R. Lock, “Identity, Critical Agency, and Engineering: An Affective Model for Predicting Engineering as a Career Choice,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 105, no. 2, pp. 312–340, 2016, doi: 10.1002/jee.20118.[25] E. B. Moje and C. Lewis, “Examining opportunities to learn Literacy: the role of critical sociocultural literacy research,” in Reframing
with university faculty to promote and extend K20 STEM outreach in Ohio, Oregon, Texas, and Wyoming. He has authored peer-reviewed articles and papers, presented at national and international conferences, and taught under- graduate/graduate courses in Computer Security, Data Mining, VLSI and pedagogy in STEM.Dr. Andrea Carneal Burrows, University of Wyoming Dr. Andrea C. Burrows is a Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs at the University of Wyoming (UW) in the College of Education (CoEd).She received her doctorate degree from the Uni- versity of Cincinnati in 2011.She was awarded the UW CoEd Early Career Fellowship (2013), UW CoEd Faculty Award for Outstanding Research and Scholarship (2015), UW
: Throughout the project, I have learned plenty of skills. Some skills that I strengthened during this project were problem solving, designing of new parts, and integrating creative ideas to simulate something in the real world. Problem solving skills are essential to everyday life and especially in the field of engineering. These skills within this project showed through the process of designing the modular pieces to become something truly relevant in the real world and it proved to be difficult at some times. Throughout my high school and college career, I’ve loved designing new parts by using applications such as SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor. By designing the new parts such as spur gears, rack
as a learning tool,” while another wrote, “problem solving takes going back and retrying,refitting, over and over again to get it right, or what you want it to be. Along the way you learnregardless.” Teachers especially liked the portion of the lessons where students wereconstructing, testing, and revising their designs, as this both engaged students and helped themlearn through trial and error, like engineers do. Interactive science centers are in a uniqueposition to provide opportunities for engineering education through K-12 field trip programs.Early experiences in engineering and science have been shown to be important for developing aninterest in STEM and motivation for pursuing STEM careers. The Engineering Explorationscurriculum
pages serve are engineering educators andfaculty members, similar to us, the authors of this paper. We are international engineeringeducators in the United States, who are in the early phases of our careers, and identify as womenof color. As universities switched to the online format during the Spring 2020 semester, we, likemany of our colleagues, had to adapt to new and unusual circumstances as well as makesignificant adjustments to our professional and personal lives. At the onset of the pandemic, wecreated a support group to share our experiences as we navigated these unprecedentedcircumstances. Through the course of the months following the sudden shift in learningenvironments, we continued to reflect and record our personal challenges of
thecurriculum to better prepare students for their future careers. His three courses though were allon-campus and viewed from one instructor's perspective. The challenges he faced were budget,logistics, and course workload issues and he plans to address them in his future work.Team formation is always a challenging task in a group design project. It is always a dilemmawhere the students will select their team members or the instructor will assign the team members.However, it is found that the success of a team doesn't depend on the team formation procedure[18]. In a second-year client-centered design course at the University of Ottawa, the teams wereformed in two ways by dividing the students into two groups. One group could pick their teammembers as
viewed asemployees. In this view, students develop the engineering knowledge and skills they need fortheir career, akin to employees producing products to a specification. As with an assembledproduct, the quality of the value-added process at each stage of a manufacturing process directlyimpacts downstream components, especially if there is a direct reliance for a particularrequirement. For example, calculus is required in nearly all engineering courses, and competencyin calculus can be analogous to quality of an input stage early in the manufacturing processinitiated by the employee.Finally, we present a learner-centered course redesign of a statics course to show theapplicability of modern manufacturing principles towards improving engineering
Paper ID #34756A Model for Conducting K-12 STEM Summer Outreach Programs DuringtheCOVID-19 PandemicDr. William A. Kitch, Angelo State University Dr. Kitch is Professor and Chair of the David L. Hirschfeld Department of Engineering at Angelo State University. Before starting his academic career he spent 24 years as a practicing engineer in both the public and private sector. He is a registered professional engineer in Colorado, California and TexasMs. Andrea L. Robledo, Angelo State University Dr. Andrea Robledo received her PhD in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Indiana University. Dr. Robledo currently serves as
mightthey be feeling? What might they be seeing? What might they be hearing? Can you see yourselfin the subjects or do you see someone distinctly different from you? Can you hear your ownvoice narrating or the voice of someone you know? Can you feel what they are feeling or are youchallenged by the unfamiliarity of the narratives?The Circle DanceOn a round stage, circling the point of engineering identity, I fix my eyes on the identity I aspire to.Circling and circling my eyes stay fixed on the goal. All of me committed to an idea, my education, my career, my thoughts, my values, my sense of worth, my ego, my paradigm… me. I am going to be an engineer.Standing, tightly circling in place, on the point of
, andpromote critical thinking [2]. In the learning context of PBL, students develop authenticquestions for problems that are situated within real-world practices [3], which leads tomeaningful learning experiences [4].Competences, such as critical thinking and communication skills promoted by PBLmethodologies, are increasingly important for engineering practice. In the labor market it isexpected that engineers not only work in technical contexts, developing solutions that meetclients’ needs, but also perform their work through effective collaboration with others [5]. Inengineering schools, these competencies are usually taught in the design courses at the finalstages of the career (Capstone Course), which use project-based learning
over their summer experience are at the foundation of the scientific methodand discovery and more importantly invaluable in their holistic engineering education. Theylearned to understand experimental protocol (and to revise it as needed) and to use and revise newscientific equipment; these skills are applicable to life beyond university in industry, academe orconsultancy. Their design and application of new data capture technologies and the significant dataanalysis and interpretation associated with real world investigations will serve them well in theirremaining years as students and their careers beyond. During this research, the student teamworked independently, provided regular communications of status and progress and learned howexciting
, 2019.[2] J. G. Wells, “STEM Education: The Potential of Technology Education,” in 95th Annual Mississippi Valley Technology Teacher Education Conference, 2008.[3] M. ElZomor, C. Mann, K. D. Snitker, K. Parrish, M. Chester“Leveraging Vertically Integrated Courses and Problem-Based Learning to Improve Students ’ Performance and Skills,” J. Prof. Issues Eng. Educ. Pract. ASCE, vol. 144, no. 1, 2018.[4] S. Portz, “The Challenges of STEM Education,” 43rd Sp. Congr., vol. 2015, 2015.[5] M. Brzozowy et al., “Making STEM education attractive for young people by presenting key scientific challenges and their impact on our life and career perspectives,” INTED2017 Proc., pp. 9948–9957, 2017.[6] M. ElZomor, K. Parrish, C
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deformation and failure mechanisms at the micro-scale. In 1998 he received a NSF CAREER award to study thermal barrier coatings and was later active in studying dura- bility of solid oxide fuel cell materials. After one year at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics in Holzkirchen, Germany, in July of 2015, Dr. Walter joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. At UCI Dr. Walter teaches regular MAE classes and helps to manage the senior projects program.Prof. Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine Natascha Trellinger Buswell is an assistant professor of teaching in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the
humanities, social sciences, naturalsciences, and applied sciences. By the end of the second week, 154 learners were active. Thehighest number of submissions received for an assignment in the first two weeks was 69 (slightlyless than 50% of students on the Credit Eligible Track).Apart from their goal of earning college credit and/or admission to the university, these learnersalso had a variety of other reasons for enrolling in the course. Learners’ interests range fromexpanding their knowledge to advancing their career; from learning about engineering and theGrand Challenges to learning new and creative ways to implement business ideas in the realworld; from gaining insights on effectively innovating for their customers to developing
connections between this course and courses in their major,or the usefulness of the material in their future careers. Beginning in Fall 2016 severalpedagogical changes were incorporated into the course. The full study collected student data tosee the effects each aspect had on different student groups. This work in progress paper willexamine the student’s perceptions of course structure and support based on their demographicinformation.Prior to this study, the course was taught in 70-100 person sections primarily in a lecture style.Topics in the course were only vaguely connected to their chosen disciple and thus studentswould struggle to find the benefit in the course. Many students had never programmed beforeand found the thought process completely
program at Boys Republic. To date, manyengineering students have received engineering career opportunities as a direct result of theirwork on Ponderosa.I. IntroductionRobotics and automation systems are now a standard method of manufacturing across manyindustries. The design of these systems requires careful consideration and thought for theintegration of design topics including engineering disciplines of mechanical design, electricaldesign, software engineering, and controls engineering1. Within these disciplines, furtherdiscipline decomposition such as machine design, fluid dynamics, analog and digital electronics,computer vision, and real-time software are further required2. Designers of such systems mustbe able to understand the
for engineering careers. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Chemistry and Transportation Engineering Experiment- Centric Pedagogy with Hands-on LabsAbstractThis project developed small, portable sensor-based experiments as an alternative to thoseconducted in a traditional laboratory setting. Experiment-centric pedagogy was used in thisstudy and hands-on laboratory experiments were developed using USB-based measurementdevices. Three experiments were developed for Chemistry namely pH meter, thermochemistry,and spectrophotometry. During pH settlement, the voltage was recorded, and the calibrationcurve drawn using
struggles faced by our participants intheir studies and in their efforts to graduate and pursue their professional pathways. Theparticular challenges faced by transfronterizx students in this study included: getting andmaintaining a student visa; struggles to cross the border; limits on professional trajectoriesbecause of citizenship status; and navigating a lack of diversity in career settings. Participantsdescribed overcoming these sociopolitical challenges by persevering through their majors tokeep their immigration status, showing tenacity through internship and job rejections, andfinding resilience to graduate and find a job. In this section, we highlight illustrative examplesof engineering/CS students in navigating these sociopolitical
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interest for thestructured review; 2) the career status of the participant; 3) a commitment to co-author a structuredreview as part of the workshop; and 4) prior experience with authoring reviews.Workshop organizers:1. DanielB.Oerther,PhD,PE,BCEE,FellowoftheAmericanAcademyofNursing,Professorof environmentalhealthengineering,MissouriUniversityofScienceandTechnology, oertherd@mst.edu2. HeatherRoss,PhD,DNP,RN,FellowoftheAmericanAcademyofNursePractitioners, Professorofnursingandhealthinnovation,ArizonaStateUniversity, Heather.M.Ross@asu.edu3. PascalSaikaly,PhD,Professor,KingAbdullahUniversityofScienceandTechnology, pascal.saikaly@kaust.edu.sa4. MuhammadAli,PhD,Postdoctoralfellow,KingAbdullahUniversityofScienceand Technology,muhammad.ali