Graphics, Juniper, R3Logic, Cisco, Qualcomm, MediaTeck, etc.) and the Government (NSF, ARO, MDA, DOD, AFOSR, DOE, etc.). He is a recipient of several best paper awards, the 2009 NSF CAREER award, the 2014 MURI award, the 2008 IEEE Computer Society (CS) Meritorious Service Award, the 2012 IEEE CS Outstanding Contri- bution, the 2010 IEEE CS Most Successful Technical Event for co-founding and chairing HOST Sympo- sium, the 2009 and 2014 UConn ECE Research Excellence Award, and the 2012 UConn SOE Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award. He serves on the program committee of more than a dozen leading conferences and workshops. Prof. Tehranipoor served as the guest editor for JETTA, IEEE Design and Test of Computers, and IEEE
, several undeclaredlearning outcomes resulted from the course structure and project choice-1) Acquiring an appreciation for not being too ambitious under a given set of constraints. Thislife lesson is important for practicing engineers, who inevitably work under time and costconstraints for their entire careers. At least one of an inability to print 3D designs, poor quality of3D printed components, student-selected components arriving late or out-of-stock, low lightoutput of prototype, failure of supplied components (the failure rate of the levitators was over20%), LED overheating (one prototype lamp LED fell off when the solder melted due toovercurrent) or extensive redesigns were experienced by many of the students. This was reflectedin some of
along with his Master’s of Science and Bachelor of Science from Purdue’s School of Civil Engineering. Justin is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the STEM Education Research Institute at IUPUI. Justin’s research interests include developing pedagogical strategies to improve STEM students’ ethical reasoning skills; exploring the role of empathy within design, innovation and sustainability; synthesizing the influence of societal and individual worldviews on decision-making; assessing STEM students’ learning in the spaces of design, ethics, and sustainability; and exploring the impact of pre-engineering curriculum on students’ abilities and career trajectories. c American Society for
Science Foundation’s most prestigious, Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. She is a Fellow of the American So- ciety of Engineering Education, holds membership in a number of organizations and presently serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Society of Black Engineers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Increasing Engineering Literacy among Non-engineering Students Definitions of engineering literacy, as a concept, revolve around abilities andawarenesses those who are engineering literate have
increase in production of overseas engineers. Adaptiveexpertise is a skill set that would support students’ preparation for the complex problem solvingenvironments of the real-world. The display of adaptive expertise has been said to "ultimatelylead to students' depth of knowledge and habits of mind that lead to success in their career andenable them to be innovators in the field" [2]. For this reason, it is important for educators andscholars to explore how we can better prepare our students to showcase adaptive expertise. It isequally important to assess the effectiveness of our attempts at facilitating this development.Think-a-louds, [3] interviews [1], and self-report surveys [4] [1] [5][6] [7] have all been used tomeasure adaptive expertise
student will participate in a related internship at INL in the summer of 2016. Students from the most recent offering of the class were surveyed through standard course evaluations at the University of Idaho and an additional course survey. The course evaluation was completed by 10 of 15 students. The course and the instructors were rated on a 0 to 4 scale with 4 as the most favorable rating. The survey included a ranking of the value to career or academic pursuits, perceived difficulty, enjoyment of the class and opportunity to comment on the relevancy of the course to their field. Two students from 2014 completed the survey and 4 from 2015. Students provided values of 0 (least favorable) to 5 (most favorable) on the questions of value
University of Singapore in 1997. She served as Assistant Professor and subsequently Associate Professor in mechatronics engineering at University of Adelaide, Australia, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, respectively. In 2006, she resigned from her faculty job and came to Connecticut for family reunion. Throughout her academic career in Australia and Sin- gapore, she had developed a very strong interest in learning psychology and educational measurement. She then opted for a second Ph.D. in educational psychology, specialized in measurement, evaluation and assessment at University of Connecticut. She earned her second Ph.D. in 2010. Li has a unique cross- disciplinary educational and research background in
satisfies a statisticsrequirement in the Agricultural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering curricula. Hence, thevariety of technical background of the students taking the course leads to wide range ofexpectations of the course by students. Furthermore, this IE course will be the only directexposure to probability in some students’ coursework, while others will rely on it to preparethem for more advanced coursework on these topics (e.g., design of experiments, simulation,stochastic processes). Hence, it must serve both as a terminal course that prepares students fortheir careers after graduation, as well as an introductory course that provides a foundation forfuture academic study including related sequenced courses in other engineering
? Yes 49 92% No 4 8% Table 8. Results from post development question 2 Spring 2016. Question 3 of the post iAdvise usage survey focuses on ease of access to information.Due to inaccessibility, information that could be gathered by the agent is seldom sought out.Even if the agents understand the notion of “the more credits that I enroll in and pass the faster Igraduate”, it is not often that agents actually take the time to calculate their time to graduation.According to Landis, an expert in the field of engineering education, the more time and effort astudent devotes to planning their career
financial aid granted to students may inform theinstitutions they choose to attend as well as the majors they pursue after matriculation (Kim,2004; Stater, 2011). Notably, Stater’s (2011) study found that higher net costs of attendancedecreased the probability that students would choose a major in STEM.Additionally, after matriculation, a host of institutional factors may support, or impede, studentsuccess in STEM. For example, research indicates that institutional practices, such as career andacademic advising, play a critical role in facilitating retention, persistence, and degree attainmentin college (Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005). A number of studies have demonstrated that students’perceptions of, and experiences with, academic advising may
number of experimental pedagogical interventions toteach the kinds of teamwork that could become interdisciplinary, involving writing and dramaticperformance [12], research experience [13], and workshops on crucial team work skills [14].Thecourse we describe here is part of a robust movement in the field that seeks to help preparestudents for their careers as holistic engineers, with interest in the socio-technical context of theirknowledge.MethodsStudent PopulationDr. Gordon Hoople, an Assistant Professor in the General Engineering Department of Universityof San Diego’s Shiley Marcos School of Engineering partnered with Dr. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick,an Assistant Professor in the Kroc School of Peace Studies and an Associate Professor at
were often ignored, and the team wasdominated by men.In the second paper, Berenson et al. [21] investigated the impression of female students insoftware engineering about doing projects as a team instead of working alone. These studentsused pair-programming and solo group modes of collaboration on projects in this class. Inthis study, the authors interviewed with three female students to understand their opinionsabout collaborating in teams. According to this paper, all three females had positive viewsabout this collaboration. Face-to-face meeting increased the satisfaction among femalestudents, collaboration increased the quality of females’ work, increased their confidence, andthey became more interested to work on career related to their
at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering students’ identity devel- opment. She is the recipient of a 2014 American Society for Engineering
Carlisle, Oregon State University, School of Chemical Biological and Environmental Engineer-ingDr. Natasha Mallette P.E., Oregon State University Dr. Mallette worked as a design, process and research engineer before obtaining her PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering. She uses her engineering experience to enrich undergraduate education and has chosen to focus on teamwork as a research area. Natasha experienced the successes and failures that go along with functional and dysfunctional teaming, so hopes to help students learn skills to function effec- tively on multi-disciplinary and cross-departmental teams during their careers. She started her teaching career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was lucky
strategies. She co-designed the environmental engineering synthesis and design studios and the design spine for the mechanical engineering program at UGA. She is engaged in mentoring early career faculty at her univer- sity and within the PEER National Collaborative. In 2013 she was selected to be a National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education Faculty Member. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Understanding international engineering doctoral students’ sense of belonging through their interpersonal interactions in the academic communityIntroduction and Background This study explores the ‘sense of belonging’ from the
design in their technical products in various ways (software interface, web pages, product design, etc) to enhance the user experience. As such, students with a combination of technical skills and design skills can pursue careers at companies focused on media (television, film and games) as well as at more traditional software companies. Example positions include: user experience/user interface (UX/UI) designers , concept artists, game designers, software engineer, effects artists, technical directors on full‑length feature films, digital production artists, designers for a software engineering project (including web pages, user interfaces, etc.), for public art
regular NAU graduate programs in EE or CS. For the remainder ofthe students, some of them were accepted to graduated programs from other U.S. universities, orthey decided to return to China to pursue career or graduate school there. In addition to highGPA, these students were evaluated highly among NAU faculties, including those courseinstructors and Capstone project mentors. In particular, a group of the 3+1 students developed aninstrumented bike and cell phone applet for their Capstone project. This work was thensubmitted as a conference paper and received the Best Student Paper Award in the smart sensorsection at the 2018 International Symposium in Sensing and Instrumentation in IoT Era (ISSI) inShanghai, China9.Comparison of teaching
, improving accessibility and creating novel methods that encourage new learning opportunities and foster vibrant learning communities.Prof. Karin Jensen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Karin Jensen, Ph.D. is a Teaching Assistant Professor in bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include student mental health and wellness, engineering stu- dent career pathways, and engagement of engineering faculty in engineering education research. She was awarded a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for her research on undergraduate mental health in engineering programs. Before joining UIUC she completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Sanofi Oncology in
finding aligns with anotherstudy finding that students’ emotional health declines over the beginning of their college career[19]. Many students also expressed a somewhat neutral or negative sentiment about beingaccepted to the engineering college, noting that it was something that was expected of them orwas simply not exciting to them. Several students discussed finances when discussing theirfeelings about starting school, even though only one student used a word related to finances onthe survey. Most students discussed finances in a positive way (in that they received financial aidor a lower tuition at this university) but one student discussed it as being a detriment to theirexcitement about starting college.The fact that the focus group
and graduate students through their engagement in laboratories,discussion sections, and mentoring activities. It is essential to train graduate students in effectivepedagogy, including teaching methods that promote student-centered learning, reflective teachingpractices, and engagement of a broad diversity of students. This investment in graduate studenttraining pays dividends in an enhanced learning environment for students now and in the future asgraduate students go on to careers that often include teaching and mentoring as core skillsets.This paper details an instructional improvement project targeting a pedagogy course for first-yeargraduate students in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at a large, public, research
through college.Dr. Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University Kristen Wendell is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Associate Professor of Education at Tufts University. Her research efforts at at the Center for Engineering Education and Out- reach focus on supporting discourse and design practices during K-12, teacher education, and college- level engineering learning experiences, and increasing access to engineering in the elementary school ex- perience, especially in under-resourced schools. In 2016 she was a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). https://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/faculty/kristen- bethke-wendellProf. Chris Buergin
engineering education, workforce development and faculty professional development. As for the Impacts of Technology on Society, her technology-optimization focused research includes solar energy and digital manufacturing.Jennifer Brinker, Northeast WI Technical College Jennifer Brinker’s teaching emphasizes learning from real-life projects. She recognizes and teaches the importance of saving energy, money and the environment, along with meeting customer comfort and pro- duction needs. She holds a Master’s Degree in Land Resources and Energy Analysis and Policy from UW-Madison and achieved Certified Energy Manager (CEM) certification. Jenny has conducted hun- dreds of commercial energy audits since beginning a career in
, and to take students to women in computing events. Dr. Villani has been active publishing and presenting these experiences in an effort to share within the research community and to ultimately broaden participation. Dr. Villani is the co-advisor of the Supporting Women in Computing Club where she has mentored many women students in the program. Dr. Villani is the recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, 2012. Prior to joining FSC, Dr. Villani had a 15 year computer consulting career in the Risk Management and Insurance Industry.Dr. Lisa Cullington, Sacred Heart University Lisa Cullington, Ph.D. is an educational researcher with expertise in academic program development, learning outcomes and
physical and sensorydisabilities may feel hesitant to request accommodations, or how there are still gaps present inthe design and provision of these accommodations.Challenges in the Engineering Field. Certain students with disabilities in engineering programsthink about leaving their careers or they do not see themselves working as engineers in the nearfuture [4] [9] [11]. Some of these students find engineering education “as individualistic andcompetitive” and encounter barriers in the engineering curricula, such as struggling to passmandatory courses or experiencing a waning interest in the curriculum's content [11]. Additionalhurdles in engineering include students with disabilities facing a lack of readiness for college-level coursework after
typically workclosely with faculty and other researchers on a specific research project, and in some cases aregranted stipends [6]. Studies have shown that students who participate in REUs show increasedinterest in pursuing degrees and careers in the STEM fields [3]. REUs provide students withopportunities to develop skills valued by both graduate schools and employers, such as workingon challenging problems, presenting research to an audience, and communicating findingsthrough technical writing [3].While REUs have the potential to positively influence persistence in STEM fields, there areinequities in who gets to participate in these experiences. Questions have been raised as to whysome REU programs receive very few applications from students in
Paper ID #42838A Cross-Institutional Study of Engineering Education Faculty ProfilesMr. Gadhaun Aslam, University of Florida Gadhaun Aslam is currently advancing his academic and research career as a Ph.D. student in the Transforming Workforce by Interconnecting Structures of Training, Education, and Research (TWISTER) Lab within the Department of Engineering Education at University of Florida (UF). His research interests include conducting systematic literature reviews by extracting data from institutional websites, using multi-modal tools (e.g., eye tracking and physiological electrodermal sensors) and integrating
) financial literacy education. She serves as the Director of the READi Lab (readilab.com) where her research portfolio consists of equity, access, and inclusion within education for historically excluded individuals, with a particular focus on women in engineering and computing and STEM education at HBCUs. Additionally, Dr. Fletcher is researching economic equity, and the impact of finances on students’ success and academic persistence. She is a 2022 recipient of the NSF Early CAREER award and has received several awards at the institutional and national levels. Prior to academia, Dr. Fletcher served as the Director of Pre-college for the National Society of Black Engineers and worked for two Fortune 500 companies. You
projectwith new learning objectives was incorporated into both courses. Through expert lectures and arobust project, students were introduced to technology commercialization and the entrepreneurialmindset, skills that aid in the development of career-ready and innovative engineers. Studentsapplied these concepts through a laboratory-based design project by participating in a productpitch competition to justify the value of their design to a panel of experts in the field whoexemplified potential investors. To measure outcomes, we assessed students’ self-reportedexpertise in various components of these disciplines through surveys administered at multiplepoints throughout the modules and gathered anonymous feedback through end-of-semestercourse
prototyping, where learners can simulatescenarios, such as building robots in virtual factories or optimizing traffic flows in simulatedcities. The practical, gamified experiences not only enhance CT, but also serve as powerfulmotivators for learners, helping them develop problem-solving skills that are essential forengineering careers [25], [26]. The comparison between a CAVE and HMDs is summarized in Table 1. CAVEs provide a more immersive and spatial experience, enabling users to walk and interact naturally within the virtual environment, making them advantageous for collaborative learning and group projects. In contrast, HMDs, although immersive, may have limitations in physical movement and may require networked solutions for collaboration
engineering and a Masters in engineering management from Stanford University and a BS from the United States Military Academy, West Point. He is a retired US Army Corps of Engineers officer who has had assignments in the US, Germany, Korea, and Afghanistan. During his military career he spent over 10 years on the faculty at the US Military Academy at West Point teaching civil engineering. He also served as the Director, Graduate Professional Development at Northeastern University’s College of Engineering. He is the recipient of the 2021 NSPE Engineering Education Excellence Award and the 2019 ASCE Thomas A Lenox ExCEEd Leadership Award.Dr. Xiaomei Wang, Brigham Young University Dr. Xiaomei Wang, a Civil Engineering