, and Starr Counties in Texas, and he has worked with a variety of issues surrounding entry level mathematics and science at two-year and four-year schools in Texas.Dr. Javier Angel Kypuros, University of Texas, Pan American Javier Kypuros received a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University in 1996. He later received an M.S.E. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1998 and 2001 from The University of Texas at Austin. Javier began his career at The University of Texas at El Paso in 2001 and later joined the faculty at The University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) in 2002. He is currently a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs in the College
structure they designed is an invaluable opportunity that can directlyapply towards their future careers. Incorporating the competition within a constructionmanagement curriculum allows for cross-collaboration between multiple courses (e.g., buildinginformation modeling, safety, structures, project management) emulating the collaborative natureof the design-build industry. Faculty and universities who want to compete in this type ofdesign-build competition need to understand the level of commitment required for successfulparticipation. Overall university support is beneficial, but fabrication space is a necessity.Additional support from multiple academic departments and administrative units at theuniversity may also be needed. The event also
Dakota State University, NDSU.PEEC is a program to expand the inclusion of Native American students into the engineeringcareer field while at the same time opening awareness of the opportunities available in tribalcommunities for engineering talent. It is proposed that such an inclusion will expand theopportunities for engineering career fields on the reservation. A description will be provided asto how the initial concepts have evolved during the years of operation. Also contained within thepaper will be a description of the serendipitous events relating to resources, administration staffand students success stories and the implications they have for future successes. Following thatwill be a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the less
graduate students in research activities at Mississippi State. He has presented his education research at ASEE conferences in the past.Dr. Dennis D. Truax PE, BCEE, F.ASCE, Mississippi State University Dr. Dennis D. Truax, P.E., BCEE, F.ASCE, is Head and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Mississippi State University. He is in his ninth year as the James T. White Chair of Civil and Environ- mental Engineering and serves as Director of the Mississippi Transportation Research Center (MTRC). A member of the faculty for 34 years, he is a licensed professional engineer and board certified environmen- tal engineer. During his academic career, he has published over 100 refereed and reference papers and report
the areas of innovation andentrepreneurship. These students will start their career with an edge over other engineeringstudents because they will be able to launch businesses successfully by using concepts learned inour program. The offering of this course provided a culture of life-long innovation in our college;it enhanced our engineering students’ entrepreneurship skills. With this new course, our studentswill establish a foundation for a small business incubator in the region. Page 26.1275.9References1. Bousaba, N. and Conrad, J., “Recent Graduates’ Perspectives on Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Creation of New Entrepreneurship
-Champaign. Prior to joining Illinois he was on the faculties of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University and the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Davis. Prof. West holds a Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology and a B.Sc. in Pure and Applied Mathematics from the University of Western Australia. His research is in the field of scientific computing and numerical analysis, where he works on computational algorithms for simulating complex stochastic systems such as atmospheric aerosols and feedback control. Prof. West is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award and is a University of Illinois Distinguished Teacher-Scholar and
Paper ID #12527Refinement and Dissemination of a Digital Platform for Sharing Transporta-tion Education MaterialsAllie S Peters, Oregon State UniversityDr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a study to characterize practicing engineers’ understand- ings of core engineering concepts.Dr. Kevin Chang P.E., University of Idaho, Moscow Kevin Chang, Ph.D., P.E., is an
Midwestern university for the past three years. WIC leaders believe that participantsgreatly benefit from improved communication in terms of behaviors and resulting skills arethe focus of this paper. Communication has been identified by business executives as one of the top skillsneeded by professionals in the current workplace1. Professionals with good oral and writtenskills, as well as presentation and listening proficiency are more likely to be hired and leadsuccessful careers. ABET’s accreditation criterion for student outcomes include the “abilityto communicate effectively” 2.The WIC Competition Once a week participants from all majors ranging from the college of arts andsciences to law school come to the engineering school where
the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB).The Exito Sin Limites (ESL) project was undertaken to enable a 2- and 4-year institution to worktogether in providing matching opportunities for students; who can now transfer seamlesslybetween the El Paso Community College (EPCC) and the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)in science and engineering education. This has increased retention and graduation ofunderrepresented ethnic minorities, particularly women, in scientific and technological careers toover 22-% of all engineering graduates in engineering at UTEP, beyond the original project goalof 15-%.At the completion of their program students can earn both an Associate of Science degree fromEPCC and a Bachelor of Science in their
Paper ID #12230Spatial Visualization Skills Intervention for First Year Engineering Students:Everyone’s a Winner!Dr. S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University S. Patrick Walton received his B.ChE. from Georgia Tech, where he began his biomedical research career in the Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He then attended MIT where he earned his M.S. and Sc.D. while working jointly with researchers at the Shriners Burns Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. While at MIT, he was awarded a Shell Foundation Fellowship and was an NIH biotechnology Predoctoral Trainee. Upon completion of his doctoral studies, he
[homework assignments] in this class this term? Yes No 2. On a scale of 1 to 5 where 1 represents not at all committed and 5 represents extremely committed, how committed are you to completing your [homework assignments] in this class this term? 1 2 3 4 5 3. Please take a moment and think about those assignments. a. What is the primary reason that you want to be successful on them? Be specific. (ex: It will help me in my future career; so I don’t fail the course) ______________________________________ b. Finally, write a statement of your goal for [the assignment] on the line below. Start
impression that engineering will be a rewarding career increased for all students (mean4.5 to 4.6), males (4.5 to 4.7), and URMs (4.4 to 4.7).Additional assessment results have been obtained for ESCAPE. In 2011 a matched sample gradeanalysis was performed for the 2008 entering cohort of attendees. These results are summarized inthe form of grade point averages and retention of participating students in subsequent semesters. Thesample analysis in Table 2 is interesting for two reasons. Women who attend the ESCAPE bridgeprogram are identified from a group at risk of leaving the College. The grade analysis indicates thatthey perform at least as well as women who do not attend and out-perform males.Table 2: ESCAPE Matched Sample Grade Analysis for 2008
participation in class discussions in US graduate seminars.”Given Lee, English for Specific Purposes 28 (2009) 142–156“Crossing the Distance: Adjustment of Taiwanese Graduate Students in the United States”.4Michelle A. Swagler and Michael V. Ellis. Journal of Counseling Psychology. (2003), Vol. 50, No. 4, 420 – 4375 “Why Keep Silent? The Classroom Participation Experiences of Non-Native-English-speaking Students”. SibelTatar, Language and Intercultural Communication, (2005) 5:3-4, 284-293, DOI: 10.1080/147084705086689026 Bakker et al. (2010), “The Role of Personality in the Job Demands-Resources Model: A study of Australianacademic staff”. Career Development International, Vol. 15 No. 7, 2010, pp. 622-6367 “Correlates of Deficiencies in a First-Quarter
in engineering is considered to be one of the critical coursesstudents will take in their journey towards the attainment of an engineering degree as a key piecein career development. However, not all departments support the idea of a multidisciplinarycapstone because they fear it will negatively impact their ability to meet their department’sspecific curricular needs, and ensure ABET requirements are met. The administration andfacilitation of a multidisciplinary capstone takes significant resource dedication, and asustainable structure would need to be built the appropriate infrastructure to ensure futuresuccess.Implications and RecommendationsMultidisciplinary capstone has much support across campus, as it reflects experiences studentswill
faculty represented the majority (93%) of respondentscovering all degree levels (Baccalaureate – 93%, Masters – 84.5%, and Doctoral – 34.5%).Instructional areas included engineering (5%), technology (19%), engineering technology (10%),engineering and technology teacher education (32%), design (10%), and education (7%).Building construction management, business, sustainability, and career and technical educationare also represented instructional areas in the data set. Tenured or tenure-track professorscomprised 89% of the respondents. Thirty percent of respondents report greater than 30 years ofteaching experience with all other respondents distributed consistently from 4-30 years ofteaching experience. When asked if they have flipped a classroom
1 Detail 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 - Question 4 did not received any answersDiscussion and Implications for Teaching and LearningThe results suggest that the participants possessed several misconceptions and conceptual gapson basic knowledge of how to secure a communication between the server and the web browser.This fact was unexpected given that the students were coursing the last year of aTelecommunication and Networking career. The results imply a necessity to strengthen generalsecurity and web security concepts on cybersecurity education as suggested by McGettrick [11] inhis work “Toward Effective Cybersecurity Education”.Third-party validation is a
interesting motion.The goal is to motivate students to think about designing and prototyping programmable, electro-mechanical devices at an early stage of their engineering career. In doing so, they apply funda-mentals to a fun and exciting design problem of their choice, learn to think critically, communicateideas, and work in a team.ResourcesAlthough, the aforementioned CLOs comprise of a fairly comprehensive range of topics seeking toprepare students for their final project, it would be naive to assume that at freshman level studentscan apply a basic knowledge of Statics, Kinematics, Dynamics, Strength of Materials, DesignMethodology, Mechanisms and Machines, Sensors, Actuation, and Micro-controller programmingto carry out a project of such
physical equipment that are available through the Internet – are an important part ofthis phenomenon and are constantly gaining motion in the higher education scenario.However, remote laboratories can also be effective assets in pre-university education. Severalinitiatives and projects have been or are being carried out worldwide aiming at exploring theuse of remote and virtual laboratories by secondary school students. For example, theEuropean Commission funded project Go-Lab (http://www.go-lab-project.eu/) is building afederation of Online Laboratories and tools to embed these labs in the lectures of secondaryschool teachers to serve as a motivation for students to pursue a career in STEM subjects.However, most of these projects treat students
emailaddresses (N=2301) via repeated emails (Constant Contact) with links to an online survey(Qualtrics). Responses were solicited for a two-week period from mid-September to earlyOctober 2015.The survey began with questions about our current curriculum and our alumni’s satisfaction withtheir overall level of preparation for their respective careers. This was followed by questionsabout self-perceptions and the importance of three core areas of emphasis for our undergraduateprogram: Active Learning, Professional Development, and New Technologies. Assessment itemsfor the Design Studio were embedded in the Active Learning section, which included ratings ofthe quality and importance of undergraduate laboratory and design spaces, design projects, in-class
science career decisions and active learning.CBE - Life Sciences Education, 6, 297-306.[4] Lopatto, D. (2004). Survey of Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE): First findings. Cell BiologyEducation, 3, 270-277.[5] Lopatto, D. (2004). What undergraduate research can tell us about research on learning. Washington, DC:Project Kaleidoscope.[6] Doreen Hinkel, Scott Henke J. Nat. Resour. Life Sci. Educ. Issue 35 pp.194–201 (2006)[7] Philip D. Mannheim, “Alternatives to Standard Gravity”, Physical Review D, 2006[8] James G. O’Brien and Robert Moss, “Rotation Curve for the Milky Way Galaxy in Conformal Gravity”,American Journal of Modern Physics, 2014[9] Greg Sirokman, “Student-constructed Biodiesel Processor: Applied Undergraduate Research in
University and Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. She has been teaching chemistry in higher education since 1995 and has been recognized with several teaching awards over the years.Dr. Jackie Greene, Florida Gulf Coast University Dr. Jackie Greene is Assistant Director of the Lucas Center for Faculty Development at Florida Gulf Coast University. She worked in faculty development during her career with public schools, the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, and in her current position. She is involved with the SPARCT Program as a member of the planning committee and she analyzes the qualitative data for program review and assessment purposes. Dr. Greene received her degrees from Kent
differentiation refers to the preference from an evolutionary perspective thatlife becomes more complicated and more diverse. Subjectivity is a recasting of theadmonishment against treating others as objects rather than as subjects each possessing their ownunique set of self interests. Communion refers to the intricate web that we belong to as citizensof the Universe. An act is ethical if it promotes differentiation, subjectivity and/or communion; itis unethical if it violates these principles.Upon completion of this introduction to applied ethical theory with a specific emphasis onengineering ethics, the course focuses upon a set of ethical issues described by Kaebnick7 thatmay confront them in their future careers as biomedical engineers including the
applications of nanoscience and nanotechnology. It also covers ethical, social, andenvironmental impacts of nanomaterials. The second course uses a combination of lecture anddiscussion in addition to case studies and problem-based learning.The results pertaining to student knowledge are being analyzed and will be covered in a laterpublication. In addition, the collaborators are collecting data to determine students’ interests innanoscience and nanotechnology as a discipline and as a career field, as well as their attitudestoward the societal and economic impact of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Participatingstudents are asked to complete a survey about their awareness of and attitude aboutnanotechnology, their motivation for studying nanotechnology
Institute of IUPUI. She is also a graduate student in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology. She is currently pur- suing a Master in Technology degree in Organizational Leadership and Human Resource Development. Her primary foci of her research include: assessing, evaluating, and improving leadership programs, as well as career and professional training and development. Tiffany is currently redeveloping the assess- ment plans for the Organizational Leadership and Technical Communication undergraduate programs in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI. She is also involved in the strategic planning, facilitation, and analysis of program needs assessments for IUPUI and external organizations
Experiences Grant awarded byTexas A&M University at Qatar. The idea of transformative educational experiences (TEE) hasbeen adopted by many colleges and universities in order to encourage undergraduate researchand meaningful student-centered work. These types of experiences are especially meaningful forengineering students, as their future careers will require them to work in teams and thinkcritically about project decisions. Equally as important are the children that these engineeringstudents hope to reach. As Carlson and Sullivan note, “Preparing children with the skillsnecessary to flourish in an increasingly technological world becomes more challenging everyday…engineering is about building things to help people and society.”[6] This project
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Paper ID #18126Case Studies Under Your Nose: Using Campus Projects as Case Studies forEngineering EconomyAimee T Ulstad P.E., Ohio State University Aimee Ulstad, P.E is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Integrated Systems Engineering Department at The Ohio State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Ohio State, Aimee was an industry professional in various field in engineering for over 30 years. Aimee received her degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Business Administration from Ohio State. She began her career as a packaging equipment engineer at Procter and Gamble, then moved to Anheuser-Busch
an educational psychologist, studying motivation among pre-service teachers and college faculty members. Along with teaching pre-service teachers, she is the project manager for the STEAM project, a First in the World grant project, funded by the US Department of Education. She works for the Center for Instructional of Excellence at Purdue University.Dr. Mark French, Purdue University Mark French started his career as a civilian aerospace engineer for the US Air Force after getting a BS in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at VA Tech. While working for the Air Force, he did an MS and a PhD at the University of Dayton. His dissertation was on the design of aeroelastically scaled wind tunnel models. After 10 years
Paper ID #18768IR Sensing Integrated with a Single Board Computer for Development andDemonstration of Autonomous Vehicle FollowingDr. H. Bryan Riley, Ohio University Dr. H. Bryan Riley, who joined Ohio University in 2010, has taught courses in signal processing, electrical communication systems, EE capstone design, electric machines, adaptive signal processing, and hybrid and electric vehicles. Riley, who spent his early career in the automotive industry, has managed multi- disciplined and global engineering teams responsible for introducing advanced electronic features on production passenger vehicles such as
Paper ID #17745A Pharmacokinetic Simulation-Based Module to Introduce Mass Balancesand Chemical Engineering Design Concepts to Engineering FreshmenGrace Katherine Harrell, Oklahoma State University Graduate of Oklahoma State University class of 2016 with a degree in chemical engineering. Currently pursuing a career in software engineering at Quorum Business Solutions in Dallas, TX.Ms. Alexandra Nicole McPeak, Oklahoma State University In 2016, Alexandra McPeak earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Oklahoma State University. She is currently employed by International Paper at their Valliant, OK Mill. Her current role is in