orientation. Overtime, these guide dogs become their best friends, and an essential part of their daily life. TheRFID based assistive devices reduce the dependency on guide dog, affecting the overallrelationship between the user and the dog. On the positive side, these devices reduce the usersdependency on family and friends, and help them become more active in the community. As itcan be seen here, the RFID-AD projects have both positive and negative impacts on the enduser. It is up to the design engineer to qualitatively assess both the pros and cons incontemporary issues and make a judgment as to the directions to pursue in this project. Overall, the RFID-AD serves as an excellent platform for students to enhance theirknowledge and understanding
University of Michigan. As a graduate student in the Burns lab, she researched dual-wavelength stereolithographic 3D printing. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Unique and Randomized Quiz Generation for Enhanced LearningAbstractAssessment of student learning is difficult in even the best of times. During the pandemic, whenmost classes pivoted to remote instruction in a span of days, administering assessments such asquizzes and exams became even more complicated. Answer sharing and web searches, things thatare relatively easy to control during an in-person exam, are next to impossible to monitor in aremote situation. Even with
Microsoft’s Technology Education and Learning Support (TEALS)1,Google’s CS Research Mentorship Program (CSRMP)2 and Meta University3, among others.Motivated by prior works’ calls for additional research on effective diversity programs intechnology [21] and the links between programs’ design choices and students’ affectiveoutcomes [22], our work investigates how specific features of a CS-specific support programcontributed to the social capital and persistence in CS of students whose identities areunderrepresented in CS. More specifically, we investigate the impact of students’ participation inGoogle’s Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI): a 3-week-long program where graduatinghigh school students from historically underrepresented groups in CS
Copyright © 2010, American Society for Engineering Education 104Why Teach the Holocaust?While from a pragmatic point of view, such instruction can help engineering educators addressABET outcomes that deal with professionalism, ethics, and the societal/global impact ofengineering, a deeper reason for studying this historical period involves the maintenance ofcivilized society in general. According to the Task Force for International Cooperation onHolocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research, founded in 1998 by Göran Persson, theSwedish prime minister, the Holocaust warrants continued study because ―it fundamentallychallenged the foundations
programs, andoutlines the current research on how design thinking processes could be taught and learned. Itexplores also the currently most-favored pedagogical model for teaching design, namely:Project-Based Learning (PBL). The paper identifies several contexts for PBL along with someavailable data on it success. Finally, the paper raises some of the questions that should beanswered to identify the most effective pedagogical practices of improving design learning.IntroductionDesign is widely considered to be the most distinguishing activity of engineering. It has also longbeen understood that engineering institutions should graduate engineers who could designeffectively to meet societal needs. Historically, engineering curricula have been based
Society for Engineering Education, 2024Benefits of the Culture of Inclusion SurveyAbstractIn the pursuit of addressing critical societal challenges, National Science Foundation (NSF)Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) strive to create a culture of inclusion that will empowerindividuals to harness their full potential, creativity, and expertise. This Work-in-Progress paper willoutline the development and implementation of a Culture of Inclusion (COI) survey instrument thatwas designed to evaluate the inclusivity of ERCs and other large multi-institutional organizationsthat are education focused.The COI survey differs from a wealth of other inclusion-related surveys because of this focus, aswell as its reliance on social psychological constructs
universities, and a literature and industry review of sales engineeringcurriculum. These activities were performed by a committee established within the Industrial and Manufacturing SystemsEngineering department (IMSE).Review of Sales and Marketing Positions for EngineersThe committee conducted a review of sales and marketing postings within the COE, on the number of advertised positionsthat had Sales or Marketing in their title or description, as well as the number of graduates with Sales or Marketing in theirjob title. It was interesting to find that while nearly 15% of job postings indicated Sales or Marketing functions, that onlyaround 1% of post-graduation job titles included Sales or Marketing. This difference is attributed, in part, to the fact
experiences.Constraints in curriculum expansion set by state mandates make it difficult to add additionalcourses as graduation requirements, even one credit hour seminar courses, so the program wasspecifically developed to tie into an existing course, CEE 463, “Civil Engineering Professions.”The combination of a general lecture and a course component allows for impact on the entireCEE student body while imposing a required component on graduating seniors. One potentialbenefit of this approach is that by the time students reach their senior year, they have a betterunderstanding of societal and global impacts than they would have if they were only exposed to aseminar class in their senior year.Program DevelopmentTwo components were developed to address the goals
create a set of pedagogical objectives that would clearlyoutline the goals of the material. For instance, on the topic of research ethics we establishedearly in the process that our primary goals were two-fold. First, we wanted students tounderstand the importance of their ethical obligation to credit the work of others. Always anecessary issue to address in writing courses, the problem of plagiarism is compounded by theunprecedented volume of material readily available to students. Second, we wanted to foster ourstudents' ability to distinguish credible sources from others, another challenge that is intensifiedby the vast resources on the Internet. Both of these goals are imbedded in the practical goal ofteaching students to research and write
Bioelectromagnetics and engineering education. She has served as research mentor to postdoctoral fellows and many graduate students.Dr. Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno Ann-Marie Vollstedt is a teaching associate professor for the College of Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). Dr. Vollstedt completed her dissertation at UNR, which focused on exploring the use of statistical process control methods to assess course changes in order to increase student learning in engineering. Dr. Vollstedt teaches courses in engineering design as well as statics and runs the Engineering Freshmen Intensive Training Program. She is the recipient of the Paul and Judy Bible Teaching Excellence Award, F. Donald Tibbitt’s
combination of lecture and student-led project work designed tointroduce/guide students through the engineering design process. The instructional team metseveral times to discuss desired improvements to curriculum and student communicationoutcomes. Based on those initial meetings, the technical communications faculty developedactivities and delivered lectures over a range of topics including: • Writing for audience and purpose • Common professional genres (emails, memos, reports) • Technical communications style • Best practices for developing and delivering presentations • Best practices for poster presentations • Best practices for document design • Providing peer feedback • Data visualization and effective graphics
more pressing in countries like the DR where most of its young population is from marginal communities. Young people are the country’s most valuable resource. It will be difficult for the DR to emerge as an innovative player in the global economy without developing this wealth.In addition to resources and cost, lack of prior experiences in the country with programs likeMACILE has made the program design more challenging. Another limitation has been the lackof studies dealing specifically with the conditions of education in Ytabo or the socio-economiccharacteristics of the communities. Research works dealing with education in the DR have beenvery general. A study phase was necessary, as a result. This phase helped develop
- cle Management Certificate Programs for working professionals. Prior to joining Purdue in 2002, Mark was employed by Caterpillar, Inc for 35 years with assignments in Product Design, Research and De- velopment, Supplier Management, Quality Management, Logistics Management and various leadership positions. He holds an Associate Degree in Drafting Technology from North Iowa Area Community College, a BS in Business Administration and MS in Management from Indiana Wesleyan University. Mark is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education and serves on the Executive Board of the Continuing Professional Development Division. He is also a member of College/Industry Partner- ships, Engineering Technology and
is the course director in circuits and electronics area. She taught variety of underrated and graduate courses including capstone design in Electrical and Computer Engineering area. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Design and Development of an Auto-Fetch Dog System Using a Systems Engineering Approach in an Electrical Engineering Master’s Capstone Course John Santiago, Jr., Ph.D. and Jing Guo, D.Eng. Colorado Technical University (CTU), College of Engineering, Colorado Springs, COIntroductionRecently, the College of Engineering (COE) Master of Science in Electrical Engineeringprogram shifted emphasis in the
morespecifically the founding members, have provided an atmosphere to inform and inspire new civilengineering faculty to climb Lowman’s ladder. This paper seeks to extend the vision of theworkshop for ExCEEd graduates and entice those who wish to improve their pedagogicalpractices in the spirit of the ExCEEd Teaching Model. The authors gratefully acknowledge thesupport of the entire ASCE ExCEEd family.Bibliography1. Lowman, J., 1995. Mastering the techniques of teaching. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA.2. Estes, A.C., Welch, R.W., and Ressler, S.J., 2005. “The ExCEEd Teaching Model.” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 131(4), 218-222.3. Estes, A. and Welch, R., 2006. “Lowman’s model goes to the movies.” ASEE Annual
survey results. Overall, the researchand evaluation team’s intention is to provide insight to the project’s leadership in how best tosupport the success of first-year engineering and computing students.IntroductionWhat do students in engineering programs at a research-intensive Southeastern universityperceive to be the most helpful supports for student success? What kinds and levels of stress dothey experience? How do they use their time? How do these perceptions relate to six identity-related factors? This paper summarizes some of the findings from a cross-sectional survey ofengineering students, some of whom were participants in an NSF-funded S-STEM project(#1930492), that explored these questions. Invitations to the survey were sent by email
. Melton is a member of the American Evaluators Association, Society for Neuroscience, GeneticsSociety of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi and BetaKappa Chi. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Preparing Future Minority Faculty for the Professoriate: A Competency-Based ModelIntroductionThe Preparing Future Minority Faculty (PFMF) program seeks to train underrepresentedminority (URM) Ph.D. students and postdocs for successful careers in academia by providingmentorship, extensive training in best practices, and actual experiences in teaching, research, andservice. In developing the program, the following research questions were
) and whether better practices inthese areas vary by discipline. A common claim in engineering is that internships form the firststep of an engineering student’s transition into the workplace, yet little peer-reviewed evidence(quantitative or qualitative) characterizes the impact of internships on career paths at a largescale, let alone how these career trajectories might differ for students doing virtual internships.Additionally, researchers might evaluate differences, whether in design or outcomes, betweeninternships planned as virtual from the start and those that were designed in-person but becamevirtual due to extraordinary circumstances (i.e. COVID-19). Repeat surveys might indicate whatimpact the pivot to remote internships might have
. They are strongly interested in getting the best education they can.The main challenge in the coming years will be to cope with the area of conflict – deliveringconsistently high quality, while experiencing worsening conditions and rising costs.From our point of view the next steps should be a re-design of our degree program with aview to reducing the students’ workload and clearing outdated content out. We also aim toestablish optimum conditions for efficient project-based-learning. In addition, we need tocomplete our research into the reasons behind the high drop-out rate and implementcountermeasures. Finally, further harmonization of assessment criteria of external and internallecturers is also essential.AcknowledgmentsOur special thanks go
positions available [10]. A majority of companiesbelieve that this shortfall puts them at moderate or extreme risk [11].Paradoxically, some recent cybersecurity graduates report difficulties in obtaining an initialplacement, as entry-level positions often require significant practical experience and credentials.Experiential learning activities, especially those that involve active engagement with employers,can prove effective in breaking this “catch-22” for recent graduates.The low level of ethnic, racial, and gender diversity in the cyber workforce is both a seriousproblem and an area of opportunity: gains in inclusion and diversity would bring qualitative aswell as quantitative benefits. A more diverse workforce can improve a company’s or
addition, this form of debriefing should promote focused-thinking about professional goals and the professional self – a documented indicator of successin persisting ET learners.Research Grant: Phase IThe overarching design of the first project utilized an electronic portfolio as integral to thecurriculum rather than as a reflective journaling exercise, occasionally utilized in some first yearseminar sections. Integration with degree-specific courses will promote the archival andvisibility of curricular milestones – associated with clearly articulated student outcomes.Multiple student touchpoints strengthens the potential positive impact of the electronic portfolio.Project Objectives of Phase I: Create the framework for an electronic portfolio
Paper ID #6685How Underrepresented Minority Engineering Students Derive a Sense of Be-longing from EngineeringDr. Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington Elizabeth Litzler, Ph.D., is the Director for Research at the University of Washington (UW) Center for Workforce Development (CWD) and an Affiliate Assistant Professor in UW Sociology. She directs re- search projects from conceptualization, methodological design, collection of data and analysis, to dis- semination of research findings. Dr. Litzler manages the Sloan-funded Project to Assess Climate in Engineering (PACE), which uses quantitative and qualitative methods
, PhD, is a post-doctoral research associate in the General Engineering department in the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, where she innovatively integrates social justice, humanitarian advancement, and peace into the traditional engineering canon. Before joining USD in August 2017, Bre spent 9 years at Clemson University, where she was a three-time graduate of the bioengineering program (BS, MS, and PhD), founder of The Design & Entrepreneurship Network (DEN), and Division I rower. In her spare time, Bre teaches design thinking workshops for higher education faculty/administrators at the Stanford d.School as a University Innovation Fellow, coaches a global community of learners through IDEO U, and fails
applications and select the best applicants for each project based ondiscipline, technical knowledge and overall interest. For the IEEE Senior Design project,disciplines of interest were Electrical, Computer and Mechanical Engineering and at least oneEngineering Technology student for practical applications experience. The combination ofdisciplines allow students to gain valued experience working on interdisciplinary team whiletackling their problem: building an autonomous robot that is directly related to each discipline.IEEE Region 3 Student Hardware Competition teamsThis paper compares teams, based on their SOW, for work completed and the final results fromeach competition. As mention earlier, the faculty mentor generates a description of the
, terawatt lasers. He has authored over 70 publications, has served as a consultant to several companies, and has supervised the research of over 30 graduate students. Dr. Young is a registered professional engineer, a Fellow of the IEEE and of the Optical Society of America, and a member of ASEE; he was chosen as an IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Soci- ety Distinguished Lecturer for 1991-1992. His scholarship now focuses on engineering education, both undergraduate and K12 levels. His interest in engineering education and pedagogy was stimulated by the challenge of teaching Introduction to Engineering Design to a mix of engineering and non-engineering students, and by leading a task force for the Rice Dean of Engineering
Paper ID #22581An Ecosystem for Success in Engineering and Computer ScienceDr. Horacio Vasquez, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley Dr. Horacio Vasquez is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), in Edinburg, Texas. His current research interests are in the areas of control systems, mechatronics, measurements and instrumentation, and engineering education.Dr. Virgil U. Pierce, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley Dr. Virgil Pierce is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas – Pan American. His research is in
student learningand development in three key areas: communication, time management and project management.Student self-assessment of their experience in the studio environment resulted in positive evaluation ofgrowth in the areas outlined above.Design Studio RequirementsOur design studio model was created with four pillars of distinction, as overviewed in Figure 2. Each ofthe pillars is required to capture the design studio practice in its breadth and craft a unique and fulfillingexperience for the participating students.Figure 2. The four pillars of the design firm capstone studio model establish consistency in the model,continuity of projects, satisfaction of clients and most importantly a student experience crafted togenerate exposure to an
academic professionals from more than 10 academic disciplines in using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) as a qualitative research method to examine identity and shame in a variety of contexts. Dr. Huff serves as Associate Editor for Studies in Engineering Education, Journal of Engineering Education, and is on the Editorial Board of Personality and Social Psychology Review. He has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Harding University, an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University.Dr. Amy L. Brooks, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Amy Brooks is a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of
study are components that can continue to be utilized in a positive manner tohelp pay for a college education. Student loans and off campus employment should be utilizedonly when absolutely necessary as they both have consequences affecting the students financialobligations downstream or their academics respectively.Bibliography1. Miller, P. and W. Coady, Vocational Ethics. Toward the Development of an Enabling Work Ethic. 1986, Illinois State Board of Education, Department of Adult, Vocational and Technical Education: Springfield, IL.2. Ford, F.A. and R.V. Herren, The Teaching of Work Ethics: Current Practices of Work Program Coordinators in Georgia. Journal of Vocational Education Research, 1995. 20(1): p. 79-95.3
, and socially just. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and alumni are described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She has received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of