Orleans’ Chapter of the Structural Engineering Institute. Norma Jean also has served in the past on several National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) committees and task forces, serving as chair of the Board-level NCEES Education Committee and is an Emeritus Member of NCEES. She was named by the Governor of Louisiana to Louisiana’s licensing board for pro- fessional engineers, LAPELS, serving as Chairman of the LAPELS Board in 2011-12. Mattei received her BSCE in 1982 from Tulane University and practiced as a consulting engineer in the New Orleans area for a decade before returning to Tulane (PhD, 1994). Her research areas of interest include engineering ethics, public policy and leadership
delivery of content in each different course. However, choosing the best course for thismodular approach can be difficult and one has to consider the compatibility of goals and outcomes for awell-suited match. For our beta-trial, we chose an Introduction to Engineering course as our point ofentry. This course was well match of our purpose due its diverse student major and multiple sectionavailability.Project Management Lecture ModuleOur Project management modules used a student-centric, backward-design curriculum.To impact our students and keep them heavily engage--- Technology-centric PIT successes and projectsstellar project management efforts are showcased to drill home the powerful impact of PIT. Followingeach “new clipping” our lecture series
for all learners. Valerie has over 15 years of experience working in higher education, primarily in online graduate education, faculty support, and instructional design. She holds an M.S. in Instructional Design and Technology and an M.A. in Anthropology from Brandeis University.Dr. Kimberly LeChasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Dr. Kimberly LeChasseur is a researcher and evaluator with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She holds a dual appointment with the Center for Project-Based Learning and the Morgan Teaching and Learning Center. She holds a PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from Temple University and has more than ten years of experience researching professional learning of educators
questioned those practices to be an equitable instructor and researcher.Avneet is an Assistant Professor in the Human-Centered Engineering Program at BostonCollege. She was a graduate student in Purdue’s School of Engineering education from 2014 to2018. After Purdue, she worked in the corporate sector at MathWorks for a year and a half. Afterthat, she returned to academia, first as a Research Scientist at MIT, and then in her current role asan inaugural faculty member of a new undergraduate engineering program in a Jesuit LiberalArts College. Avneet grew up in several cities in India and considers her father’s military serviceand mother’s work as an educator and social worker to have influenced her life’s values. Shebelieves that her time at Purdue
do differently the next time?; and (4) Whatis the most important thing you have learned from your experience teaching engineering design? Five themes emerged through the analysis of responses. These included the following: (1)time and time management; (2) selection and properties of materials; (3) classroom management;(4) grouping and teamwork; and (5) improved attitudes toward teaching engineering toelementary students. Implications for future iterations of teacher preparation include theimportance of being a participant, a planner, and a facilitator of engineering design.Introduction Best practices for preparing preservice teachers to integrate engineering design into theK-6 curriculum are still being determined. This paper
developing their skills and interest in the STEM fields to ensuretheir success at the post-secondary level and beyond. The fundamental principles of E-CADEMY are based on a combination of best practices from research including: a project-basedlearning (PBL) curriculum, high dosage model, cohort of like-minded peers, engagement withSTEM professionals, and family engagement [4]-[8]. This paper provides an overview of theprogram’s component, student feedback and program model future considerations.II. Program Overview Project SYNCERE has provided equitable hands-on engineering experiences for morethan 20,000 underrepresented students in grades three through twelve since 2011. The goal of theorganization’s work is to create pathways for
students may predominantly learn from on-the-job experience, as different from a combination of on-the-job experience and in-classroom experience. The necessary prerequisites should be made available tostudents to fill the learning gaps, and the coverage of the prerequisites should go farenough. The objective of this paper is to evaluate current practice and make necessarymodifications to the construction materials and methods course (a lower-level course) tobetter prepare students in the construction related programs. The research follows aqualitative research method. The research evaluated the need for prerequisites, as wellas the need to design prerequisite courses with relevant course content. A synthesis ofcurrent materials covered in the
received a stipend to assistASSURE-US leadership team members in conducting research projects that included: • Real-Time Object Detection using Artificial Intelligence • Self-driving Lego Robot using Artificial Intelligence • Hardware Accelerated Deep Neural Networks • High-Performance Computing using Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) • Study of Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting for IoT Devices • Design, Fabrication, and Analysis of Low-Cost Solar Powered Energy Harvesting Micro Air Vehicles using 3D Printing • Design, Fabrication, and Analysis of Low-Cost Customized Electric Skateboards • Data science projects using Jupyter Notebook The SURE took place in the labs associated with each discipline. The students were
or 1.10 in a particular subject area. 1.15 1.1 1.05 Ratio Score 1 0.95 0.9 0.85 0.8Figure 2. Ratio scores for example FE Subject Matter Report.From the graph in Figure 2, we see that the mechanical engineering students at the exampleinstitution did the best in probability and statistics (ratio score of 1.12 and scaled score of 0.39)compared to all other students taking the exam. Conversely, the same students did the worst inmechanical design and analysis (ratio score of 0.93 and scaled score of -0.24). Comparison ofthese ratio scores over multiple tests and years facilitates the determination of long-term trends.The results
retention through activities, pro- grams, and events. Dr. Jones assumes a leadership role in the national engineering diversity and inclusion conversation regarding standards, benchmarks and best practices. She brings experience and proven track record of success in diversity and student development related work. Dr. Jones has held positions at Princeton University, California Institute of Technology, Occidental College, and California State Univer- sity, Long Beach. Dr. Jones’ professional experience is enhanced by her Doctorate in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania, combined with her research focus on experiences of underrepresented minority students in engineering disciplines.Prof. Helen
individual student and the institution. At the institutional level it is understoodas a mechanism that contributes to reducing attrition rates and enhancing recruitment plans butthere is a scarcity of empirical research related to PhD programs to understand this phenomenon.Contemporarily, Di Pierro [15] conceptualized doctoral mentoring as part of an institution’spragmatic retention plan to counter economic losses, potential loss in Carnegie classification, andvoids in research. Thus, mentoring should not be thought of as a disjointed obscure process, butone that is integrated and benchmarked as part of an institution’s best practices particularly forunderrepresented populations. For individual students mentoring often times is described as akey
Paper ID #32327Developing an Equally Effective Alternate-access Plan forVision-impaired and Blind Students Enrolled in Mechanical EngineeringTechnology CoursesDr. Nancy E. Study, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Nancy E. Study is an Associate Teaching Professor in the School of Engineering at Penn State Behrend where she teaches courses in engineering graphics and rapid prototyping, and is the coordinator of the rapid prototyping lab. Her research interests include visualization, standardization of CAD practices, design for 3D printing, and haptics. Nancy is a former chair of the ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division
Paper ID #34808Introducing Engineering Principles in a Diverse InterdisciplinaryVirtual Summer Camp for Underrepresented 9th - 12th Graders in RuralLouisiana (Evaluation, Diversity)Dr. Mehmet Emre Bahadir, Southeastern Louisiana University Mehmet Emre Bahadir is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Technology at Southeastern Louisiana Uni- versity. His teaching and research interests are in the field of product design, industrial ecology, sustain- able manufacturing, and additive manufacturing.Dr. Ahmad Fayed, Southeastern Louisiana University Ahmad Fayed is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology, a former member
-college, interdisciplinary engineering, virtual summer camp,experiential learning, multidisciplinary engineering, hands-on, simulationLiterature ReviewThe popularity of STEM focused summer camps has increased as a result of investments inSTEM workforce development. Early exposure to STEM principles and concepts increasesinterest in and pursuit of STEM careers. (National Research Council, 2011) The need for suchprograms is amplified for underrepresented populations. (Mau & Li, 2018) Underrepresentedpopulations face barriers to STEM access that are self-perceived and institutional. (Grossman &Porche, 2014) Investigations measuring the impact of STEM summer enrichment programs onself-efficacy, interest in STEM careers, and STEM identity has
. Student work has extended learning on reinforced concrete (RC), delved into new blastengineering design knowledge, incorporated the generation Mathcad-based engineering tools,and investigated performance-based alternatives to support rotation limits for one-way structuralmembers identified in the UFC 3-340-02. The project has provided a wealth of opportunities toprepare students for graduate level experiences and learn new content, while the analysis andresults from this capstone project will provide DOD engineers with new tools for design. Thispaper reports on the results of this effort leveraging DOD expertise and research withundergraduate experiential learning. The authors will demonstrate that through Project BasedLearning (PBL) the
Foundation, Tennessee Department of Transportation, DENSO and ASEE (ETD mini- grants) and several other organizations for a total of more than $2 million. His current research interest focuses on rural community engagement for transportation projects, road user cost, sustainable design and construction for knowledge based decision making, and engineering technology education. He also con- tributed to data analysis methods and cost effective practices of highway construction quality assurance program.Dr. Uddin is a proponent of project based learning and developed innovative teaching strategies to engage his students in solving a real-world problems and prepare them with skills and knowledge that industry requires. Dr
United States with morethan 11 thousand members. For more than 30 years, SHPE organized and hosted its premier, three-day leadership conference in the first week of August, known today as the National Institute forLeadership Advancement (NILA). As part of NILA, SHPE chapters send one of their electedrepresentatives, typically the chapter president, to be developed into a leader. After attendingNILA, the representatives, now leaders, would lead their chapter leadership and members towarda successful post-graduation transition into the STEM workforce (students) and career upward-mobility and positive impact within the Hispanic community (professionals). Throughout the first half of the past decade, NILA’s curriculum and overall design
Postdoctoral Fellow working at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. While in the UK, he investigated the system level feasibility of photonic devices based on piezoelectric multiple quantum well structures which exhibit blue shifting absorption character- istics. In 1996, Dr. Beyette joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Cincinnati where he served as a faculty member and graduate program di- rector. In 2017, Dr. Beyette joined the faculty of the University of Georgia where he currently serves as the founding chair for the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering. He is currently performing research and teaching in areas related to design
Paper ID #32774Meaning to Succeed: Learning Strategies of First-Year EngineeringTransfer StudentsMrs. Natalie C.T. Van Tyne P.E., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Natalie Van Tyne is an Associate Professor of Practice at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Uni- versity, where she teaches first year engineering design as a foundation course for Virginia Tech’s under- graduate engineering degree programs. She holds bachelors and masters degrees from Rutgers University, Lehigh University and Colorado School of Mines, and studies best practices in pedagogy, reflective learn- ing and critical thinking as
financialization isintroduced into the mix. But, in understanding what might have happened in the cockpit, it isessential to understand that the cockpit is a socio-technical system, the technical design ofwhich impacts on the behaviour of pilots [19].Flight simulator training is very expensive: but, Boeing made the assumption that it would beunnecessary because the aircraft was a development of the 737 series for which the pilots tobe used on the 737Max were already trained [CS 5]. Substantial training might also haveindicated to the FAA and others that the changes in design which necessitated such trainingwould not be considered as a natural development of the 737 and, therefore, require costlyand time consuming new certification. The company’s actions
Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He holds degrees in Industrial Engineering (BS, MS), Master of Business Administration (MBA) and in Engineering Education (PhD). Homero has 15 years of international experience working in industry and academia. His research focuses on contemporary and inclusive pedagogical practices, industry-driven competency development in engineering, and understanding the experiences of Latinx and Native Amer- icans in engineering from an asset-based perspective. Homero has been recognized as a Diggs Teaching Scholar, a Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence Fellow, a Diversity Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, and was inducted in the Bouchet Honor Society. American
discussion is generally rewarding for students who are more “verbally gifted” inwritten expression and may create advantages for certain groups of students over another onespecifically those whom English is not their first language. Verbal communication is an essentialskill for engineers and the impact of the online discussion on developing communication skillscould be studied in the future research. The strategies and tools discussed in this study could beinspiring for instructors as to how they may repurpose the available resources and learning toolsto maximize their instructional practice. While the approach presented in this study is focusedon using a specific discussion tool, the presented approach can be implemented for other onlinecourses
support teaching and learning activities, a struggle for educators isdetermining which tools work best for different scenarios and teaching approaches [19-21]. Supporting factors that influence teaching and learning activities include learningenvironments, lecturer competences, learning media, curriculum, teaching materials, facilities, andinfrastructure [22]. Teacher competency, facilities, and adequate infrastructure become supportingfactors for successful implementation [23,24]. To achieve excellence in online teaching andincrease student retention, best practices should be adopted to develop high quality onlinematerials that can additionally be used in resident instruction [23,25]. While such research hasinfluenced the development of
enter into Rowan University’s PhD pro- gram for Engineering with a specialization in engineering education. Alexandra aspires to continue in the research field and hopes to work for a university as a research professor and advisor.Samantha Resnick, Rowan University Samantha Resnick is a senior Chemical Engineering student at Rowan University. She began research in the Experiential Education (ExEEd) department in Spring 2020 as part of her Junior Engineering Clinic. Besides research, Samantha is an Engineering Learning Community Mentor, where she helps first year engineering students adjust to college and provides academic tutoring. Upon graduation, she plans to attend graduate school to further her studies in
the Bioengineering faculty at Northeastern University and be- came the Director of Life Sciences and Engineering Programs at The Roux Institute (Portland, Maine). Dr. Huang-Saad has a fourteen- year history of bringing about organizational change in higher educa- tion, leveraging evidence-based practices at University of Michigan. She created the U-M BME graduate design program, co-founded the U-M College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship, launched the U-M National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node, and developed the U-M BME Instructional In- cubator. She is a canonical instructor for both the NSF and National Institute of Health (NIH) I-Corps Programs. Dr. Huang- Saad has received numerous awards for
Education.Dr. Julia D. Thompson, University of San Francisco r. Julia Thompson is an Assistant Professor at University of San Francisco. She has a passion for integrat- ing the soul’s work into the engineering design process and technology. She is driven to help students, and people in general, look at technology as a pathway toward healing of earth and unjust social structure. Julia did her undergrad in chemical engineering at UC Berkeley and her PhD in engineering education at Purdue. Her research interests focus on how engineering design practices impact the relationships that engineering programs create with the community. American c Society for Engineering
Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World, the artist, design researcher, and OlinCollege professor Sara Hendren writes, “Engineering is not the science of the laboratory alone…It is fundamentally applied, which means its results live in the world. It belongs to people, notjust as ‘users’ but as protagonists of their dimensional lives” [1, p. 23]. Hendren’s invocation of avision of engineering as radically human-centered provided the philosophical and humanisticcore to our interdisciplinary teaching team as we embarked on designing a new course forfirst-year students at Boston College (BC). Our course, Making the Modern World: Design,Ethics, and Engineering (MMW), situated engineering practice and knowledge within its social,political, and
important logistics for operating a mobile studiobased curriculum; Section V presents lessons learned through the planning process; the paperconcludes in Section VI.II Literature ReviewOur literature review focuses on strategies and best practices for implementing the use of portableinstrumentation (“Mobile Studio”) in an electrical engineering curriculum, and metrics formeasuring the impact of implementing that concept on student learning. In the category ofstrategies, we found that Mobile Studio has the potential to include diverse groups intoengineering programs. In [2], the implementation of Mobile Studio concepts were intended toempower female students. In [3], the focus is on African-American students. The authors in [4]examine the impact of
modalities for the transfer and co-creation ofknowledge, requirements, and possibilities for change in operational models and tapping into theboundary-breaking opportunities fostered by digital ways of teaching and learning. This studyaims to provide a future-proof pathway for the engineering education ecosystem to better equip itfor solving real-world problems with a multi-disciplinary approach to create new value forsociety. In the process, the study also sheds light on relevant new research avenues.1. IntroductionNeeds-driven innovation (also known as needs-based innovation) has been in use in the field ofBio-design for nearly 20 years now. [1]. One of these innovation techniques is framed through a'why or what and how' approach by Kate
and aspects of tech- nological and engineering philosophy and literacy. In particular how such literacy and competency are reflected in curricular and student activities. His interests also include Design and Engineering, the human side of engineering, new ways of teaching engineering in particular Electromagnetism and other classes that are mathematically driven. His research and activities also include on avenues to connect Product Design and Engineering Education in a synergetic way. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021The challenge: The role of the student in Engineering and TechnologicalLiteracy programs, perspectives, discussions, and