subtest B thatboth subtests of the TMCT will demonstrate sufficient reliability. Future work with the TMCTwill include using the instrument among sighted populations to measure gains in spatial ability asthe result of tactile spatial interventions. In order to ensure quality of results from this study,future projects will include replicating the study with both lighting formats. Such a study willhelp narrow down possible reasons for the difference in test reliability between groups.Further use of the TMCT among sighted engineering students will include a qualitative study todetermine what strategies sighted individuals employ when solving spatial tasks on the TMCT.Results from this work may be able to better inform educators of the tactile
, sustainability, cybersecurity, facilities design, green logis- tics, production management, and predictive analytics. He has been a principal investigator in sponsored projects from the National Science Foundation, the National Security Agency, the U.S. Department of Labor, and Venture Well. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Decoding Challenges in Organizing Innovation Competitions and Programs: A Thematic Analysis of Interviews with OrganizersAbstractEducational programs like innovation competitions and programs (ICPs) play a pivotal role inentrepreneurial development among student participants. Students focusing on science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields tend
Hiroshima • 80 students, 3 TAs, 4 co-instructors from one US institution • Classes in Tokyo held at a Japanese university • Class format: primarily project-based learning • Reflection assignments • 2 pages each • 1 at the beginning of class, 2 during, 1 at end • Prior to the last reflection due date: class about CCW 10 INTRODUCTION METHODS RESULTS IMPLICATIONS & CONCLUSIONS● The class was taught by one member of the author team at the home institution for students at that US-based institution● Students earned 3 credit hours (engineering elective) towards
Paper ID #40893Utilizing art exhibits as a low-stakes activity to improve teamworkexperiencesDr. Amy Borello Gruss, Kennesaw State University Amy Borello Gruss is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at Kennesaw State University. Dr. Gruss graduated with her PhD in environmental engineering from the University of Florida studying aqueous mercury removal from industrial wastewaters using photochemical processes on an NSF Grad- uate Research Fellowship Program grant. Dr. Gruss gained experience in the consulting field working on water projects such as novel disinfection processes within water resource
BalanceWork-life balance is crucial for women engineers, as it pertains to finding a balance betweentheir professional responsibilities as engineers and personal commitments outside of work. Itinvolves effectively managing their time, energy, and priorities to ensure they find fulfillmentboth in their careers and personal lives. To achieve this balance, they need to be able to pursuetheir career aspirations, meet job demands, and engage in meaningful projects while alsofulfilling their family responsibilities, personal interests, and self-care routines.The ability to achieve work-life balance enables women engineers to thrive in their careers whilemaintaining overall well-being and satisfaction in their personal lives. They can achieve this
Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Flexural Mechanical Properties and Microstructures of Three- Dimensional (3D) Printed Thermoplastics Raymond K.F. Lam, Uzair Abbas, Bernard Hunter, and Joseph Seiter Queensborough Community College, The City University of New York, New York, U.S.A. 1. Introduction Three-dimensional (3D) printing or additive manufacturing is utilized to manufacture products in industries of aerospace, automotive, and medical [1]. One example is General Electric (GE)’s decision to deploy 3D printers to manufacture nozzles for its LEAP engines. GE Aviation projects have printed more than 30,000 fuel nozzle tips in 2018 [2]. Manufacturing by 3D printing is experiencing an explosive
Identification, and Value Creation into Problem-basedLearning Modules with Examples and Assessment Specific to Fluid Mechanics,” Proceedings ofthe 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA, June 2016.[17] L. Liu, J. Mynderse, A. Gerhart, and S. Arslan, “Fostering the Entrepreneurial Mindset inthe Junior and Senior Mechanical Engineering Curriculum with a Multi-Course Problem-basedLearning Experience,” Proceedings of the 45th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference,El Paso, TX, October 2015.[18] A.L. Gerhart, D.D. Carpenter, and R.W. Fletcher, “Developing Design and ProfessionalSkills through Project-based Learning focused on the Grand Challenges for Engineering,”Proceedings of the International Symposium on Project Approaches in
inengineering education at HSIs. The findings are expected to provide guidance for furtherresearch, inform policy decisions, and help shape practices that lead to a more inclusive andsupportive engineering educational environment. Specifically, we offer implications to betterserve Latinx and BIPOC engineering students and their communities at HSIs. MethodsTo better understand the implications from existing literature for engineering faculty membersand administrators at HSIs, we conducted a systematic review of literature on engineeringeducation at HSIs. This paper is part of a larger project for which we collected article data thataddressed STEM undergraduate education at HSIs. With specific inclusion
role in student problem solving approaches, then how will students solve real lifeengineering problems outside of this context? Many researchers have studied students’ ability tosolve real-world problems with bleak conclusions [5], [25], [26]. Additionally, there has beensignificant and inspiring work to understand how students may learn better from open-endedproblems [27], [28] and project-based courses [29], but significant barriers prevent theirwidespread adoption [6], [7], [16], [28]. There has been little research that digs into thepeculiarities of the status quo and even less that suggests a direction for piecemeal progress.Describing student behavior and contextualizing practices that might otherwise be chalked up tomisconceptions or
system and novel meaningful use implementations through the Massachusetts Health Information Exchange. At Wentworth, Dr. Feldman is focused on project-based instruction, hands-on simulations, experiential learning approaches, and first year curriculum. Dr. Feldman is one of the lead instructors for Introduction to Engineering courses, with enrollments in the hundreds each fall. His research and teaching interests, in addition to first year engineering, include telemedicine, health informatics, rehabilitation engineering, and medical robotics. Dr. Feldman has collaborated with researchers and engineers from organizations including Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Vecnacares, and
the Summer Academy ensure ongoing guidance and feedback.Certification: • Upon completing the program, fellows receive a certificate from a nationally recognized organization, affirming their participation and achievement in this innovative educational initiative.This structured approach to implementing the project ensures a blend of rigor and engagingcontent aimed at fostering interest in STEM fields among younger students. Throughprofessional development activities and expert-led workshops, graduate students are equipped todeliver high-quality educational experiences, contributing to the broader goal of promotingSTEM education.2.4. Sample Program Descriptions developed and created by graduate students.The initial Cohort in
social context within the learningenvironment. This entails encouraging learners to connect and collaborate with peers, be itthrough formal avenues such as group projects or mentoring programs [10].Figure 1: The 3Cs Framework [13].The emphasis on connection in social learning highlights the importance of instructors not onlyfacilitating student interaction during traditional lectures or lab sessions but also fostering onlineactivities [15]. Instructors should establish a mentorship environment within the classroom,encouraging students to learn not only from the instructors but also from each other. Thisreciprocal learning benefits both students and mentors through reinforced learning. Thisdeliberate shift in strategy aims to broaden access to
to integrate and track conscientious engineering aspects throughout the undergraduate educational experience across the college. His efforts include formally integrating sustainability design requirements into the mechanical engineering capstone projects, introducing non-profit partnerships related to designs for persons with disabilities, and founding the Social/Environmental Design Impact Award. He manages several outreach and diversity efforts including the large-scale Get Out And Learn (GOAL) engineering kit program that reaches thousands of local K-12 students.Dr. Natasha Andrade, University of Maryland, College Park Dr. Natasha Andrade is a Senior Lecturer and the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in
to transition into a new field [9]. Therefore,rather than switching undergraduate majors from chemistry to chemical engineering, a morenatural choice would be pursuing a graduate degree in engineering to maximize earning potentialand employment opportunities.According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers [10], a master’s degree canlead to a 20% increase in earnings compared to a bachelor’s degree. The national median salary,national projected growth rate, and state mean annual salary estimates for mechanical, electrical,biomedical, and computer engineering are given in Table 1 below. All engineering majors have aprojected growth rate higher than the national average of 3%, indicating a healthy demand fordegreed engineers
project that primarilyfocused on two specific groups of students within graduate engineering education. One group isdenoted as Returners, who are defined within this study as those students who have completedtheir undergraduate degrees five or more years before returning to obtain a master’s inengineering. They may have completed other training or another master’s but have waited thislength of time before enrolling in a graduate engineering program. Direct Pathway students arethose who have elected to enroll in graduate school for a master’s in engineering or who havecompleted a joint bachelor/master program concurrent to or less than five years from when theycompleted their undergraduate degree.Research QuestionsThe focus of the overarching
Paper ID #37977Design of a Massively Open Online Course on Electrical Microgrids withReal DatasetsDr. Roxana Maria Melendez-Norona, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Roxana M. Melendez-Norona is an electrical engineer and engineering project management special- ist with a Master’s and Doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, Florida, United States). As a professional Dr. Melendez-Norona continues being an engineering patroness and advocate since her energy and dedication towards engineering education are her best ref- erence. She has been working in the engineering industry since
. ● We were just introducing the first concepts of programming (variables, etc). 4 ● We hadn't done any "Computing in the World" readings, reflections, or discussions yet. ● Since then we also did bigger assignments like the "Solar Panel Project" or the "MBTA/Transit Project". ● We've done a lot of data manipulation, analysis, visualization, and interpretation. For this assignment, please reflect on: ● How do you NOW feel about the "Are We Automating Racism?" video? ● Do you have remaining questions about the content? ● Thinking back to "you in Week 02," are your perspectives the
assignments for college students, and active learning. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025Designing and Developing Summer K-12 STEM Outreach Programs Through a Tenure-Track Faculty’s PerspectiveAbstractWhile projected science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) job employment increasesof 10% are expected by 2033, the number of trained professionals is not expected to keep upwith that demand. In 2025, it is projected to include 3.5 million new STEM related jobs.However, the current workforce is not qualified to completely fill those new positions. As aresult, it is imperative that we reach K-12 students in STEM fields to inspire and educatestudents to pursue STEM related fields
with students one-on-one to help them navigate challengesthey may face. The SEED program seeks to achieve these same goals in a more cost-effectivemanner through the counseling facilitators, the part-time administrator, the industry mentors, andfaculty mentors who are assigned to each of the students.Program evaluation and outcomesThe external evaluator for the project administers a survey upon the students’ entry to the SEEDprogram with follow-up surveys and focus groups conducted annually thereafter. These methodsseek feedback from the scholars about program activities, while also tracking the evolution of thestudents’ STEM identity and self-efficacy. Here we report on student opinions on the impact ofthe different core elements of the SEED
ofengineering education. In fact, the assertion appears even more fitting given the noticeablecongruence between the academic rigor of engineering programs and Ignelzi’s observation thatstudents often face educational challenges which exceed the academic support they receive. As itrelates to engineering programs, Ignelzi’s theorization makes appropriate use of Kegan’s workwhich previously acknowledged students’ dismay in constantly feeling “in over their heads.” MethodologyUnlike the structured IPA study from which this secondary project evolved, this work presents ageneric exploratory style of qualitative inquiry35. Rather than adhering to strict methodologicalcanons, this study allowed us to follow an
undergraduate pre-engineering program Abstract— This WIP project focuses on the declining STEM proficiency in the UnitedStates, requiring universities to explicitly focus on and understand students' needs. It exploresstudents' learning experiences, attitudes, and challenges in pre-engineering at a publicuniversity in Michigan. College access and success are some of the most pressing issuesconfronting the United States in post-secondary education. This work aims to address andinvestigate the barriers perceived by students while entering pre-engineering, understand theirexperiences during the program and examine pre-engineering through professors' andacademic advisors' lenses. Thus, focusing on the challenge framed: "How might weunderstand students
similar meaning into categories toform themes. For example, the three preliminary codes mentioned earlier in this paragraph werecombined into a theme of a sense of belonging to Engineering. For more examples refer tocolumn three in Table 2. To enhance the quality and trustworthiness of the study planning, datacollection, analysis, interpretations, and reporting, we solicited feedback from the research teamon all steps of the study. This included but was not limited to revising the interview protocol andcodebook, piloting interviews, and soliciting feedback from co-authors and other colleagues ascoding and analysis progressed through the project [25].Table 2. Example analytic process for data excerptsInterview excerpts [1
consistent, engaging and hands-on experience for first-year students, hoping to excite and inspire them in the first step of their journey. There is a strong team, continuously improving on project-based curriculum for the first-year and beyond. Sudan Freeman is also the Associate Dean, Undergraduate Education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Student Definitions of DEI in First-Year Engineering and Capstone DesignLike many universities, Northeastern University has several initiatives to improve diversity,equity, and inclusion (DEI) in its various programs. The authors have received an internal grantto develop the “New Engineering Toolbox”, which will be a resource to help
., 2014), it is important that every interaction establishes an inclusive community. Informalcommunity-building and relationships with faculty and staff help students develop a sense ofbelonging in college (Myers et al., 2015). Additionally, students should be encouraged tointegrate their outside lives with academics. Community involvement in research projects canhelp engage students in problem-solving (Loeser et al., 2021). This is important particularly forstudents who have a strong sense of cultural and community identity. At United Tribes TechnicalCollege, a primarily residential college, the entire community gets involved in STEM education,joining in on environmental research projects led by students (Bahnson, 2020). Qaqish et al.(2020
Bias Busters groups created by industry and academia, especially the Bias Busters @ Carnegie Mellon University and the Bias Busters in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at University of California Berkeley. The student ambassadors were given broad objectives to improve the college community and educate the student population about diversity, equity, and inclusion. An initial planned project of the ambassadors was to organize a DEI Takeover Week during spring of 2020. This project had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The student ambassadors took this as an opportunity to instead develop programs focused on equity and inclusion issues that arose due to the pandemic and the transition to
participants indicated that their advisors had helped them debug code; most of the othersdescribed their meetings as covering only big-picture topics. In fact, Glen reports that after the firstfew challenges, he realized that his advisor “really didn’t have time to actually get into weeds tohelp me out with something.” The relative independence advisors expect from their students seemsto have been a surprise to some of our participants. For example, Patricia says that she came inthinking that she would be assigned to work on an existing project, but instead found that “it wasmy job to figure out a research idea and then work on that.” Her advisor was willing to guide her,but was “pretty hands off” when it came to understanding what she needed to do on
Paper ID #38106Narratives of Identity Coherence and Separation in the Figured Worlds ofUndergraduate Engineering EducationGabriel Van Dyke, Utah State University Gabriel Van Dyke is a Graduate Student and Research Assistant in the Engineering Education Department at Utah State University. His current research interests are engineering culture and applying cognitive load theory in the engineering classroom. He is currently working on an NSF project attempting to improve dissemination of student narratives using innovative audio approaches. Gabe has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Utah State University
. Eddington, Kansas State University Sean Eddington (Ph.D., Purdue University) is an assistant professor of Communication Studies at Kansas State University. Sean’s primary research interests exist at the intersections of organizational communi- cation, new media, gender, and organizing.Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Carla B. Zoltowski is an assistant professor of engineering practice in the Elmore Family School of Elec- trical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and (by courtesy) the School of Engineering Education, and Director of the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program within the College of Engineering at Pur- due. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in
Summit into the training of its Clark Scholars and MEP Envoys. The ClarkScholars are socially responsible leaders and innovators, with the drive to make a broad impactboth within the Penn State community and beyond. Through their academic pursuits, outreach, andcommunity service projects, the Clark Scholars uphold the four pillars of the program, 1) businessand entrepreneurship, 2) leadership, 3) social equity and global citizenship, and 4) communityengagement. The Clark Scholars are engaged in a yearly seminar, one of which is an EngineeringEquity Seminar. A component of this course includes attending and reflecting on the annualEngineering Equity Summit. The MEP Envoys are a group of 6 students dedicated to developingcultural and identity
intersec- tion of race and learning in adult education, DesiCrit (theorizing the racialized experiences of South Asian Americans using Critical Race Theory), Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) as a framework to analyze learning, and qualitative research. She is currently working on the following research projects: Environmental racism, Racialized experience of South Asian Americans, and Mothering during the pan- demic. Her selected publications include ”Learning to teach about race: The racialized experience of a South Asian American feminist educator” in Adult Learning, ”New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education” in New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, and a chapter entitled ”Gender still