intend that the change we’ve made to our laboratory courses to equip thestudents with function lab equipment to use at their remote locations will maximize theprobability that all students are able to gain suitable practical laboratory experience that isimportant for their career. Vutukuru6 reports that remote electronic laboratory students weremore engaged and eager to learn by building circuits in the comfort of their own homes thanwhen on campus. Vutukuru also reports that laboratory exercises were creatively adapted so thatstudents got a full laboratory experience though remotely. We believe that the adaptability andinnovation that Vutukuru discusses is a key component that can lead to positive studentlaboratory experiences in spite of the
InvolvementBecause this work is done at a primarily undergraduate institution, there are many challenges indeveloping a long term robotics project such as this one. It is difficult to maintain continuity in ahardware/software development environment when students are only able to actively contributefor 3-6 months at a time during their college careers. It is a challenging balance to find the rightcombination of student and faculty involvement on a long term project. If students retain mostof the technical knowledge during initial development, then when they graduate, a significantportion of the system knowledge is lost, leaving new students with the tasks of figuring out howthe system was organized. On the other hand, if faculty members are overly involved
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other on campus. Programs may also create partnershipswith community-based organizations in order to encourage engineering-focused activities thatbring together Latino fathers and their daughters (e.g., parent/guardian and daughter roboticscompetitions and design competitions). In particular, this institutional support might take theform of starting or increasing support for First Robotics, Lego League, or Girls Who Codeinitiatives. Embedded within these community programs could be materials geared towardLatino males on the underrepresentation of Latinas in engineering and other STEM fields and therole their support can play in supporting female students in these majors and careers. This study also found that involvement with women’s
and interacting set of studentperceptions arose from the data For example, a commonly expressed theme in the focus groupswas the relative sense of gender parity in our engineering programs, but participants across theboard consistently shared experiences of gendered microaggressions. The findings suggestavenues for future research, as well as provide insights for interventions to improve the climateand experiences of underrepresented students.IntroductionResearch on student choice of and persistence in engineering majors emphasizes the importanceof students’ identification with a major or career in motivating their persistence and success [1-3]. Despite durable myths that students leave engineering primarily due to the difficulty of
topics leads to good job prospects and careers; moreover, science shows us that a greater diversityof perspectives in engineering teams leads to better results [6]; it is thus both a moral and practical imperativeto find ways to achieve greater diversity within engineering and technology fields.This paper describes experiences developing a new course at UMass Amherst, called Queer Lights, that aimsto share the excitement and potential of electronics and computing with students who might not otherwiseexperience these topics by pursuing an engineering major. The course has the following description: “QueerLights will cast light on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and asexual (LGBTQA) topics while the studentsin the class literally cast light
college. My NSF CAREER project focuses on understanding how broader, more social contextsfor engineering design activities can better appeal to grades 5-9 students’ personal interests. Inthis context, I think about diversity in three distinct ways--the diversity of engineering, thediversity of solutions, and the diversity of people. The diversity of engineering relates to thediverse projects, fields, and domains engineers work on or in. My goal is to highlight to youngstudents that engineers do much more than build bridges, buildings, and cars. The diversity ofsolutions relates to the idea that any problem will have multiple possible solutions and that eachone brings its own unique benefits and tradeoffs. I want students to understand that
across the United States and Internationally. In addition to painting, he is known for new media environmental installations in the Northeast US, including Mt. Desert Island, Saranac Lake, Portland ME, St. Lawrence University, and Weymouth Nova Scotia. During 2017 he was a visiting fellow at Munich University of Applied Sciences, where he developed and auditioned his latest project, ”Convergence.” In addition to his art career he is a former New York State Assistant Forest Ranger for the Department of Environmental Conservation and is currently a licensed NYS guide in the Adirondacks. Burnett is currently an Associate Professor in the Graphic and Multimedia Design Program at the State University of New York
, MS). He has authored/co-authored over a hundred technical papers and reports during his career in private industry, government and academia. His current research interests are nearshore wave trans- formations, coastal structures, tsunami inundation, hurricane surges, high performance computing, and engineering education.Ms. Qing Pang, Jackson State University Ms Qing Pang is Instructor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Science, Engineering & Technology, Jackson State University. She earned her MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000. She worked for several private companies before joining Jackson State University in 2007 as an
programaffected their own classrooms and/or career. In addition, this post-implementation survey polledteachers on their self-reported knowledge in trends in bioengineering research, and solicitedfeedback to help identify weaknesses and suggestions for program improvements. Self-reportedinformation in a pre-program survey was used as the baseline metric to evaluate changes inknowledge and perception of preparedness before and after program participation.In addition to the exit surveys, BEST participants also presented their work at the conclusion ofthe program to each other and representatives of of the CPS central office.Teacher participants disseminated their curriculum frameworks, instructional materials, andstudent assessments to science teachers at
, the University leads the UK, producing highlyskilled, employable graduates many of whom go on to have professional careers. The ChangingFutures Project was conducted in the University’s School of Engineering & Applied Science.The School has around 2,500 students studying on a range of different undergraduate andpostgraduate Engineering & Applied Science Programmes in 6 different ‘discipline areas’including: Mechanical Engineering & Design: Computing Sciences: Chemical Engineering &Chemistry: Information Engineering & Maths: Electronic, Electrical Engineering & Physics:Engineering Systems and Engineer Management.Despite the breadth of literature and debate, the question of why engineering students are morelikely to fail
here) only so the youth could get out of the vicious cycle and advance tocompetitive careers of global reach. They reluctantly agreed, with reservations.(e) Cost-Benefit Ratio: Utilitarianism also received mixed reactions. Strong Rule utilitarianism was the norm forboth groups A and B. For Group-B, Weak Rule and Act utilitarianism allowed the rich andpowerful to get away with violations. But it was the cost-benefit ratio approach to ethics thatraised the most hackles. As engineers, students from both groups appreciated the logical needand scientific basis for cost-benefit ratio as a decision-maker for the rightness of an action. Butproblems arose on which population and what impacts to consider for the costs and benefits. The Government
Paper ID #14621Grading the Capstone Written Design Reports: A Comparison of ExternalJudges and Faculty ScoresMiss Amber N. Lyerly, East Carolina University Amber Lyerly is a 2016 Engineering graduate from East Carolina University. She is pursuing a career as a Mechanical Engineer. While at ECU she was a Research Assistant in the Rapid Prototyping Lab and a Teaching Assistant for a Graphics course that teaches SolidWorks. Lyerly was selected to be a NC Space Grant Scholar for 2014-2015. She is a member of the Society of Women Engineers. In the summer of 2015, she was a Mechanical Engineering Intern at Hayward Industries
learning about the recentdevelopments in their field from various media including the mass media and news.Students reported that sharing the recent news activity has provided them with the opportunitiesto expand their knowledge in the field, including HPC. They believed that reading the recentnews and discussing them in class sessions prepared them for future careers because they wereable to learn about the most recent project work in the field through the recent news activities.A student has written that the recent news activity was a helpful method to expand theirknowledge and become more prepared to enter the workforce and exposed to different projects.Another student found that sharing the news daily among the class was quite necessary
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hand calculations over the use of software, but we believe this approach to be a disservice to engineering students in an introductory course because it is in stark contrast to what they will encounter during their careers. A well-designed, relevant, and engaging curriculum will provide ample opportunities for rigorous exploration of the concepts. We believe that aligning the curriculum more closely with modern practices (i.e., emphasis on software, real data sets, etc.) and integrating oral and digital communication principles into this course represents a natural progression for an engineering statistics curriculum. Our goal in thisTable 3 – Redesign Roadmap SM19
in these skills, and there is agender and racial gap in students’ performance on visuospatial tasks [5]–[8]. Fortunately,visuospatial skills can be explicitly taught [1], [5], [9]–[11]; research shows that when studentswho struggle in this area take a freshman-level course in visuospatial thinking, they havemeasurably better performance throughout their college career than those who do not [12], [13].Additionally, training can lead to significant improvements in visuospatial skills that persist intime and can translate to other tasks [1], [10], [11].For these reasons, the Ohio State University (OSU) offers a visuospatial skills course aimed atincoming freshman engineering students with relatively weak visuospatial skills. Relatedstrategies
, Germany. He performed his post-doctoral research on biosensors at ASU during the years 2003-2005. Before joining ASU as a faculty member, Goryll spent several years at the Research Centre J¨ulich, the largest national research lab in Germany, focusing on SiGe chemical vapor deposition and biosensor development. Dr. Goryll’s current research interests are in the field of silicon processing for nanopore devices, the integration of biogenic nanostruc- tures with silicon MEMS and the development of low-noise wide-bandwidth electronics for the recording of ionic currents in the pA range. Dr. Goryll is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2012 as well as numerous teaching awards, including the 2012 Fulton Schools of
relevance ofthose reflections towards the student’s ability to use what had been taught in the academic andprofessional setting. This grading scheme removed the higher scores that the women may havehad purely based on that most women have higher scores in English than their male counterparts.Instead, this shows that the women were benefiting more from the journal and the ability to drawconnections between the given lesson and the relevance on future assignments or career related Page 26.1740.11items.This improvement becomes more noticeable when comparing the median and mean scores asopposed to the complete table of data. In Figures 2 and 3, showing
which students feel they are part of the discussion and understand that their inputmatters.We help students see that the skills developed in an active learning environment are remarkablysimilar to the life skills that many of them hope to develop during their college careers: initiativeand self directed growth, critical thinking and creative problem solving, communication,leadership and collaboration skills, information and technology literacy, and global awareness.Importantly, we put biology into a meaningful context for our engineering students. Studentsbecome more engaged when they can see the possible applications of the knowledge they areobtaining.Lesson 4: Change requires trust and good leadership. It is important to build a
professional meetings and conferences. Lastly, Najafi attends courses, seminars and workshops, and has developed courses, videos and software packages during his career. His areas of specialization include transportation planning and management, legal aspects, construction contract administration, and public works. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Technical Review of Companies able to Support the Education and Naval Installations’ Renewable Energy Goals through the use of Tidal and Hydro Kinetic Energy DevicesAbstractTidal Energy uses the earth’s gravitational interactions with the sun and moon to converthydraulic energy into usable electric power for
- neering from Montana State University (MSU). He is an Assistant Professor in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering at MSU with research interests in engineering education and the role of leadership and culture in process improvement. He serves as an Associate Editor for both the Engineering Man- agement Journal and Quality Approaches in Higher Education. Prior to his academic career, he spent 14 years in industry where he held leadership and executive positions focused on process improvement and organizational development.Dr. Sandra Wilson Kuntz, Montana State University Sandra W. Kuntz, PhD, RN is an associate professor at Montana State University, College of Nursing on the Missoula Campus. Her research
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),among many other institutions, sponsor research to include undergraduate students. Russell,Hancock and McCullough found that undergraduate research opportunities often increase astudent’s interest in STEM careers and higher degrees, with 68% saying their interest increasedeither “somewhat” or “a lot” (Russell, Hancock & McCullough, 2007).One of the benefits of undergraduate participation in research is improved student retention.Nagda et al found that “faculty-undergraduate research partnerships are most effective inpromoting the retention of students at greater risk for college attrition, African Americanstudents and students with low GPAs” (Nagda et al, 1998).Accreditation of engineering
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, they get connected with career services and are provided information on how to registerfor the next semester. At this university due to space constraints, the one hour course could onlybe offered on Friday. For the fall semester, there were two sections, each made up of about 400students. One of the changes that was made was in how the communications were written whensent to students who had not completed the first assignment or had missed a class in the firstthree weeks.The first assignment in the class was for the student to meet with their advisor to go over theweekly study plan and a semester planner. Students were asked to complete this within the firstthree weeks of the semester. The purpose of this assignment was to introduce students
Foundation’s Early Career Award in 2009. He is co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research (CHEER) published by Cam- bridge University Press, New York, NY. Dr. Johri earned his Ph.D. in Learning Sciences and Technology Design at Stanford University and a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering at Delhi College of Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Situated Cognition Genres: A Situated Learning Approach for Examining Informal Learning in an Online Community of MakersAbstractThis theory paper revisits the situated cognition paradigm through the lens of Makers andMaking and argues that to better understand engineering learning in emerging
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