software engineering from Southern Methodist Uni- versity and his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Texas A&M. Before joining Texas A&M, he worked at Ericsson (now Sony-Ericsson) in the network development and Digital Switch Corporation, and Motorola in cellular infrastructure development, project management and technical marketing. He also owned a company that developed custom networked and computer-controlled automation equipment.Dr. Karan Watson P.E., Texas A&M University Karan L. Watson, Ph.D., P.E., is currently a Regents Senior Professor of Electrical and Computer Engi- neering, having joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 1983 as an Assistant Professor. She is also serving as the
optimization of intelligent systems through the acquisition, integration, and mining of large scale, disparate data. He is currently working on a project that ambition to design a sys- tem capable of providing students customized motivational stimuli and performance feedback based on their affective states.Dr. Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Tucker holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in Engineering Design and Industrial En- gineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also affiliate faculty in Computer Science and Engineering. He teaches Introduction to Engineering Design (EDSGN 100) at the undergraduate level and developed and taught a graduate-level course titled
achieving underserved students differ by gender? 2. How do their computing identities differ by field (CS, IT, CE)? 3. How do their computing identities differ by first year versus upper class status?2 BACKGROUNDNational attention to retaining U.S. prominence on the global stage has precipitated a necessity togarner interest, enrollment, and subsequent graduation of computing majors. The demand for atechnologically trained workforce far outpaces the growth. After all, computing is projected tocontinue to grow at a rate of 17% from 2014-2024, much faster than the average for alloccupations [2]. This urgency has prompted an expansion in literature on understanding theengagement of women, underrepresented minorities, and diverse socio
Professor in Industrial and Manufac- turing Engineering at Cal Poly, SLO. In her current role she overseas Engineering Students Services and diversity effort in the college. Coming from a 24 year career of practicing innovative pedagogies from Project based learning to flipped classrooms, she now works to transform the institution of high education through structures and practices.Dr. Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Jane Lehr is Chair of the Women’s & Gender Studies Department and a Professor in Ethnic Studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is also the Faculty Director of the Cal Poly Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority and Underrepresented
author found that somepredictors of success for women were related to frequency of working on group projects while formen it had to do with satisfaction with math and science coursework and the opportunity to conductresearch. It appeared that the college environment was a greater predictor of success compared tobackground characteristics or precollege experiences. The study also indicated that the collegeenvironment makes students less sure of their motivation to achieve. This may indicate that despitelack of academic preparation, these students can achieve success if the college climate issupportive and conducive to success. Strayhorn [12] summarized his study on the social barriers and supports for URM studentsin STEM fields based upon
undergraduate elective at California State University,Sacramento that focuses on the design of steel structures for civil engineering majors. Thiscourse meets twice a week for 75 minutes and has 29 meetings over the 15 week semester. Oneclass period is spent on the midterm exam and another 2 hour time period beyond the 15 weeksemester is spent on the final exam. The course covers content regarding the analysis and designof tension members, compression members, beams, beam-columns, and connections in steelstructures. Students in both sections engage in an open-ended service learning project, completenine in-class conceptual quizzes, are provided with suggested homework problem sets andsolutions (not graded), and have access to examples with solutions
tenured full professor. CSULB is a teaching-intensive institution and thus, he has taught classes at different levels from introduction to programming and data structures; to junior level classes in database design; senior level classes on database, web development, and senior projects; and finally to graduate classes in database systems. In 2014, Dr. Monge joined a team at Google that created NCWIT’s EngageCSEdu, an online living col- lection of peer-reviewed teaching instruments that use research-based techniques that retain and engage students, particularly effective in broadening participation in computing. Dr. Monge’s research inter- ests have evolved over time. Through his participation in an NSF sponsored
this program concluded, the authors determined to use whatthey had learned with local CCs to work with non-metropolitan CCs. The authors then received aone year NSF exploratory grant (#0836050) to work with three non-metropolitan CCs. Based onthis successful project, ASU was awarded a five-year STEP grant from NSF (#0856834) to workwith five non-metropolitan CCs, only one of which was within an hour’s drive of the university;most are about three hours distant. After the program was expanded out from Maricopa County,our acronym METS was defined to stand for “Motivated Engineering Transfer Students” with anunderstanding that computer science is included in the term “engineering.”Our “Motivated Engineering Transfers STEM Talen Expansion Program
MindsetBusiness acumen • Understanding engineers’ roles within the organization • Understanding the role of management functions • Discussing their products and services in business and economic terms • Being willing to make decisions with incomplete information • Effectively collaborating in a team setting • Effectively managing projects and commercialization processUnderstanding • Searching for market opportunities for technological innovationcustomer needs • Recognizing customer segments and their needs or problems • Constructing and communicating customer
evaluation of the projectssuccess, psychometric survey-based measures of these social psychological outcomes will alsobe operationalized as dependent variables, thus providing both quantitative and qualitativeassessments. A vital first phase of this RED project then involves the development of thepsychometric scales (i.e., testing of the tests), that will be used. Although researchers have developed a number of survey-based measures of socialpsychological aspects of the learning process, and recent efforts have been made to assess causal 2models of the multiple social psychological influences on educational and career outcomeswithin the area of engineering [cf. 4, 2, 5]. Importantly, the
art facilities.One of the more effective ways to increase knowledge about science, technology, engineering,and math (STEM) careers is to increase the knowledge of teachers. As part of a National ScienceFoundation Advanced Technological Education project, a group of high school teachers wasoffered the opportunity to work in advanced manufacturing labs with engineering faculty. Theseprojects included additive manufacturing (AM) of ceramics, surface characterization of AMmetal parts, and surface alteration. The teachers were tasked with developing lesson plans whichincorporated the advanced manufacturing concepts that they had learned.As part of the assessment of the program, teachers were given pre- and post- research experiencesurveys
by the high schoolparticipants themselves. Most reports of service learning outreach focus on the experience ofundergraduate and graduate student volunteers, including recent studies of efforts to recruitwomen [15, 16]. Other studies involving K-12 outreach do not address effectiveness of specificmaterials in engaging underrepresented students, but instead focus on general best practices,program development, or assessment [17-20]. Additionally, groundbreaking studies involvingbest practices in teaching engineering to K-12 students have not been within the context ofoutreach, but instead have focused on formal classroom teaching approaches in general such asproblem-, inquiry- and project-based approaches [21]. One program that evaluates
”). Professional codes of ethics and ABET requirements are sometimes applied, withsustainability introduced as a design constraint.3 In our experience, these professionalrequirements are often treated only in senior design projects, and then only as items on achecklist. Optional minor and certificate programs may exist for those engineering students whoare interested, but even here crucial tensions often go unexplored between definitions ofsustainability (between weak and strong sustainability4, 5, between “technological sustainability”and “ecological sustainability”6, between “eco-efficiency” and “eco-effectiveness”7, or betweensustainability and sustainable development8, 9, 10, 11) and even between areas of the triple bottomline.3 Missing, too, are
independently, but the students were always recruitedfrom the same two sections of the course (n-range 28-34). This study was approved by theinstitutional review board at the University (IRB# PRO2017002152) and may form the basis of along-term project in the future. The tests consisted of two related instruments – the Defining Issues Test version 2 (DIT-2) [8] and the Engineering Ethical Reasoning Instrument (EERI) [9]. The DIT-2 is used to assessthe moral judgement of individuals when faced with ethical dilemmas. In this test, a specific setof five (5) ethical dilemmas is presented to the individual, who must decide how to solve eachdilemma. The individual is then presented with a series of statements suggesting how they madetheir decision
Paper ID #19539The Roots of Entrepreneurial Career Goals among Today’s Engineering Un-dergraduate StudentsMr. Gunther Rameseder, Stanford University Gunther Rameseder, MSc., studied Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Universidad de Barcelona (UB). His majors were Mathematical Finance, Statistics and Operations Re- search with a minor in Economics. During his studies, Gunther gained loads of industry experience at Allianz, Roland Berger, UnternehmerTUM and Finleap where he was involved in projects regarding the digital transformation of organizations as well as corporate venturing. Gunther
. From 2003 through 2006, he was involved with Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL in developing direct computer control for hydrogen powered automotives. He is also involved in several direct computer control and wireless process control related research projects. His current interests are in the area of packaging machinery system design & control, industrial transducers, industrial process control systems, modeling and simulation of Mechatronics devices and systems in virtual environment, programmable logic controllers, programmable logic devices, renewable energy related projects, wireless controls, statistical process control, computer aided design and fabrication of printed circuit board
Paper ID #18000Redesigning Housing and Rethinking Programs through Design-BuildMr. Scott Gerald Shall, Lawrence Technological University Scott Gerald Shall, AIA, is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean of the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) and the founding director of the International Design Clinic (IDC, www.internationaldesignclinic.org), a registered non-profit that realizes socially- responsive creative action with communities in need around the world. Since founding the IDC in 2006, Shall has worked through this organization to complete over a dozen projects on
University 2014-present: Assistant Director of Diversity and Inclusion: Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic Univer- sity 2010-2012 Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Research: Workforce Central Florida/USDOL 2008-2010 Director or STEM and New and Emerging Industries Special Projects: Workforce Central Florida/USDOL 2007-2008 Education Special Project Manager: Workforce Central Florida/USDOL 2005- 2007 Science Department Chairperson: Orange County Public Schools; Orlando Florida 2002-2007 Physics and Biology Teacher: Orange County Public Schools; Orlando Florida Selected Publications 2013 American Society of Engineering Education. Dagley, M., Ramlakhan,N., Georgiopoulos, M., Young, C
Paper ID #17743Exploring nontraditional characteristics of students in a freshman engineer-ing courseMr. William B. Corley, University of Louisville William B. Corley, M.S., is the graduate research assistant on this project. He is an experimental psychol- ogy graduate student with the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at University of Louisville. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in experimental psychology with a cogni- tive psychology concentration. His background includes several educational research projects and training in statistical methods.Dr. J C McNeil, University of
Paper ID #19771First-Year Engineering Students’ Perceptions of their Abilities to SucceedDr. Tanya Dugat Wickliff, Texas A&M University Delivering significant results in pivotal roles such as Sr. Consultant to high-profile clients, Sr. Project Manager directing teams, and Executive Leader of initiatives and programs that boost organizational effectiveness and optimize operations have been hallmarks of Dr. Wickliff’s career spanning more than 24 years with leaders in the oil & gas and semiconductor industries. As an expert in the areas of Executive Leadership and Team Development, Strategy Design & Execution
committee [3], [4].Air quality is increasing in importance, as more people reside in urban than rural areas. The UnitedNations [5] projects that “urbanization, the gradual shift in residence of the human population fromrural to urban areas, combined with the overall growth of the world’s population could add another2.5 billion people to urban areas by 2050.” In a recent analysis, the World Health Organization(WHO) projects that 91% of the planet’s population lives in cities that do not meet standards foracceptable air quality [6]. Combining the projections from the UN and the WHO, air pollution isa challenge that not only threatens basic human welfare, but also damages natural and physicalcapital, and constrains economic growth [7].Air pollution is
’ career and professionaldevelopment. When interpreting Figure 1, it should be noted that the Senior Design programintersects with the SEE Initiative but is not part of the new initiative. Because the Senior Designcourse is already a prominent and well-established part of students’ senior year, the SEEInitiative focuses primarily on students’ experiences in the department prior to their senior year.The Senior Design course provides an opportunity for students to work closely with industrythrough sponsored design projects. It is structured to emulate an industry-based engineering teamenvironment and has been very well reviewed by students, faculty and industry sponsors with thecourse consistently rated above its targets (4.0 on a five point rating
steel design, engineering mechanics: statics, building foundations and numerical analysis. Professor Ramming has recently been named Halliburton Outstanding Young Faculty and the Outstanding Teacher for the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology. She has also published books for Project Lead the Way and a text on Numerical Structural Analysis. Professor Ramming enjoys spending time with the students of CEAT as the advisor of the Ar- chitectural Engineering Institute, Tau Beta Pi, Women Inspiring Successful Engineers, and CEAT Student Council. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Diversity and Culture in Structural Engineering
againstcyber treats is education. According to Frost and Sullivan [7], a global shortage of 1.8 millioncybersecurity professionals is projected by 2022. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projected 37%of information security job growth from 2012 to 2022 and announced that more than 200,000cybersecurity jobs in U.S. are not filled every year.Education in cybersecurity draws more attention from K-12 to adult. Recently, U.S. Congresshas urged to develop high-quality educators to cybersecurity education [8]. Many researchersstudied teaching methodologies to maximize the student learning. One of the key components inengineering and science education is a laboratory-based course, which includes a practical hand-on exercise. Many academic institutes developed
academically talented students with financial need inearning their 4-year STEM degrees in a timely manner. The grants have recently expanded toinclude collaborations between 2-year and 4-year colleges, in which community college studentsapply for a scholarship which is transferable to the participating four year college or colleges. S-STEM programs are required to add social science as well as external evaluation elements todocument and assess the benefits of the programs, as well as any unanticipated challenges. Thefirst author serves as social science researcher on multiple S-STEM projects. In that role, theauthor utilizes quantitative and qualitative research methods to understand the impact of the S-STEM funds on students in different academic
Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engineering Boot Camp: An Intense, Transformative Program for Incoming FreshmenAbstractThis complete evidence-based practice describes a new summer boot camp program withobjectives to prepare students for the rigors of university courses and increase student retention.This boot camp is a subset of a university wide program specifically for students entering theCollege of Engineering. It is not a remedial course and all incoming freshmen engineeringstudents are encouraged to apply. This is an intense week-long course requiring students toattend lectures, complete homework assignments and projects, take exams, and partake in skillssessions meant to help students adjust to university life and
at the undergrad-uate curriculum level is slow and elementary [9], [10]. Few hands-on, lab-based teaching materialsexist in this area both for the undergraduate faculty members and the students. Seeing the value ofSDN through our recent study (Senior Capstone Project), we believe it is a great opportunity anda critical mission to identify and enhance the right tools and platforms that enable educators andstudents to teach, learn, and stay up-to-date on SDN. We also believe that it’s imperative to demon-strate how these tools may be effectively utilized and applied through the development and deliveryof fully tested hands-on labs and exercises to our undergraduate inter-networking classes.The paper is organized as follows. In section 2, we
introduce PNMSat/CubeSat [13], [14], [15]mission design in a systems engineering framework and foster leadership development amongparticipants. The objectives of the course catered towards – (i) Introducing Systems Engineeringfor PNMSats, (ii) Engage students in the design of a PNMSat with a novel payload and (iii)Foster leadership and team development through learning stages. The course agenda consisted of3 phases and the following outcomes were sought for assessing the success of the course.1. Demonstrate a basic understanding of PNMSats and their purpose.2. Demonstrate an understanding of systems engineering and its need for the design and development of PNMSats.3. Envision a project life cycle of a PNMSat mission and plan to be successful.4
State University. Her research focuses on (a) new literacies of online reading comprehension, particularly in complex and ill-structured learning domains, (b) teaching and learning in synchronous hy- brid learning environments, where physically present and remote participants interact in real time through such technologies as video conferencing tools and robots, and (c) the use of augmented reality in STEM education.Dr. Hannah Klautke, Michigan State University Hannah Klautke is a User Experience Research Associate with Usability/Accessibility Research and Con- sulting (Michigan State University Outreach and Engagement). She is involved in usability evaluations, focus groups, and information architecture projects for
– Six Sigma – Time Studies – Work Sampling Production Project Management Supply Chain – Production Scheduling – Project Scheduling – Supply Chain Alignment – Theory of Constraints – Risk Management – Material Logistic – Budgets & Forecasts – Inventory Control – Crew Empowerment – Supplier Support – Defect Analysis – Make/Buy Process