underrepresented minorities in STEM. Dr. Liou-Mark was awarded the 2018 Teaching Recognition Award at City Tech, and she was selected as the 2017-2018 Scholar on Campus. She was awarded the 2017 Best of New York Award for her contributions to City Tech. Her research interest in the implementation of the Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) instructional model in mathematics has won her the 2011 CUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics Instruction and the Mathematical Association of America Metro New York Section 2014 Award for Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics. She was the former Director of the Peer-Led Team Learning Leadership Program at City Tech, and she has trained over 300 underrepresented minority
technologies like sign language gloves with the intent of “helping” the deaf, even iftheir intended users repeatedly state that these technologies are not beneficial [2]. In the contextof engineers and engineering students with hearing loss, deafness is often framed as a challengeor barrier to be overcome; one paper on “Enhancing the Educational Experience for Deaf andHard of Hearing Students in Software Engineering” explains that “Deaf/HoH students are proneto losing a large amount of both verbal and nonverbal communication…” and describes theirexperience of teaching Deaf/HoH students as involving “significant hurdles” [3].Authors: Stanislow, Dannels, and Chua Page 1 of 7 ASEE St
lecturer for two years in 2016-2017 teaching Microwave Measurements Laboratory and mentoring the UCCS Applied Electro- magnetics and Anechoic Chamber Laboratory. Between 2011 and 2012, he joined the design team in DAR Engineering as an electrical/protection design engineer designing high voltage services. He was also an associate field professional in the Wireline and Perforating Services of Halliburton.Prof. Jamal Nayfeh, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University Dean of Engineering Professor of Mechanical Engineering Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Quality Assurance of Capstone Senior Design Projects: A Case StudyAbstractA Capstone Senior
] Prince, M. and Felder, R., 2007. The many faces of inductive teaching and learning. Journal of college science teaching, 36(5), p.14.[5] Moor, S.S. and Piergiovanni, P.R., 2003. Experiments in the classroom: Examples of inductive learning with classroom-friendly laboratory kits. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings.[6] Meyers, C. and Jones, T.B., 1993. Promoting Active Learning. Strategies for the College Classroom. Jossey- Bass Inc., Publishers, 350 Sansome Street, San Francisco, CA 94104.[7] Walker, S.E., 2003. Active learning strategies to promote critical thinking. Journal of athletic training, 38(3), p.263.[8] Kolb, A.Y. and Kolb, D.A., 2005. Learning styles and learning spaces: Enhancing experiential learning in
and has invited the AGEP-NC Fellows to participate. Another University has embarked on an initiative to improve the research climate on campus by training graduate faculty who seek to be better research mentors using the evidence-based practices of the CIMER Institute (Center for Improved Mentoring Experiences in Research) at the University of Wisconsin. At another university, the Graduate College, and Academic Teaching and Learning Center are collaborating on developing a sustainable program of online and in-person faculty mentor training based on CIMER resources.2) At one university, the College of Sciences has invited the AGEP-NC leadership to work with their newly-formed task force on climate in research laboratories.3
between chemistry, physics, engi- neering, and biology preparing the trainees for careers in academe, national laboratories, and industry. In addition to research, she devotes significant time developing and implementing effective pedagogical approaches in her teaching of undergraduate courses to train engineers who are critical thinkers, problem solvers, and able to understand the societal contexts in which they are working to addressing the grand challenges of the 21st century.Dr. Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico Jamie Gomez, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer III in the department of Chemical & Biological Engineering (CBE) at the University of New Mexico. She is a co- principal investigator for the following
Technical College, where he also serves as the director of the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education (CREATE). Dr. Walz is also an adjunct professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wiscon- sin. He has served as teacher for the UW Delta Center for Integrating Research, Teaching and Learning, and has mentored several graduate students who completed teaching internships while creating new in- structional materials for renewable energy and chemical education. Dr. Walz is also an instructor with the Wisconsin K-12 Energy Education Program (KEEP), delivering professional development courses in energy science for public school teachers. Dr. Walz is an alumnus of the
heat transfer. He has held a summer research position with Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories and has also served as a consulting mechatronics engineer with two startup technology companies, in the areas of force sensing in gaming devices and the control of multi-actuator haptics. His research interests include nonlinear dynamical and control systems, and the analysis and design of mechatronic systems, especially in the context of cyber-physical systems—in particular making them secure and resilient.Dr. Vishesh Vikas, The University of Alabama Vishesh Vikas is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Al- abama, Tuscaloosa (UA) and the director of the Agile Robotics Lab at UA
obtain help with course materialwhile other students were taking exams and quizzes. This paper compares the overallperformance of both sets of students in order to determine which assessment approach was moreeffective in helping the students learn the course material. This paper also addresses the questionof whether distributed assessment provided true “academic” benefits or whether it simply actedas a mechanism to encourage students to remain current with the course’s subject matter.IntroductionTeaching innovations such as the flipped classroom and the studio format are a result ofinstructors seeking methods to improve their ability to teach. The literature generally agrees onthe overall improvement in student achievement provided by these
assist teachers with student engagement, helping them to be successful throughout the STEM pipeline. A few of these key areas include enhancing student’s spatial abilities (k-12 and higher education), integrating ser- vice learning into the classroom, implementing new instructional methodologies, and design optimization using additive manufacturing.Dr. Charles D. Eggleton, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Dr. Charles Dionisio Eggleton is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Uni- versity of Maryland Baltimore County. He has twenty-two years of experience teaching theoretical and laboratory courses in thermo-fluids to undergraduate students and was Department Chair from 2011 - 2017
oxygen conducting mixed oxide membranes and teaching reactor engineering, and she has been teaching back at CSM since 2004. She is now a Teaching Professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at CSM. Her primary research focus is in pedagogy, specifically in utilizing online resources and other technology and different teaching methods to increase student engage- ment and reduce/eliminate lecturing in the classroom. She likes to play with her kids, play racquetball, run, bike, swim, and play pool in her free time. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Creating and Facilitating an Engaging, Rigorous, Fully-Online Technical Course (or just Online Content
Paper ID #30274Development of a Mentorship Program between Upper-class and First YearEngineering Students through 3D printingDr. Charlotte Marr de Vries, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Dr. Charlotte de Vries is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts in 2009. She received her M.S. (2013) and Ph.D. (2014) in Mechanical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. She teaches Introduction to Engineering Design, Capstone Design, Dynamics, System Dy- namics, and Instrumentation
AND MOTIVATIONHow many educators are frustrated when students seem unable to recall something discussed inclass the previous week? How often are teachers disappointed in their students’ ability to identifyand correctly apply concepts from prerequisite courses to their current course? How many timesdo students disappoint their instructors by not seeing how the concept currently being coveredbuilds directly on a concept previously learned? After first teaching CE404 (Design of SteelStructures) and CE483 (Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures), the author responded to eachof these questions with: “Quite often! Nearly every lesson! I’m frustrated about this! What can Ido about it?” Importantly, it is not instructor frustration that matters
Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer En- gineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology and Missouri State University’s Coopera- tive Engineering Program. His research interests include engineering education. (http://web.mst.edu/˜rdua/) c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 WIMPAVR: Schematic Capture Design and FPGA Emulation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Missouri, USAIntroduction The Electrical (EE) and Computer (CpE) Engineering program, at Missouri University ofScience and Technology (Missouri S&T), provides several
going. Also, because of cancelled meetings, some students could not complete the 10hrs and/or 10 visits. But we evaluated these students on case by case basis, giving them full credit for this part of the rubric.Acknowledgements:The authors would like to thank Brian Halderman, Program Director, Center for CivicEngagement for all the logistics support; Christopher von Brecht, the teaching assistant for thecourse for helping with the laboratories. This research was supported by NSF grant 1566463 toPAB and US Dept. of Education grant to LC.References[1] US Department of Education,Hispanics and STEM education,http://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/list/hispanic-initiative/stem-factsheet.pdf[2] Passel, J.S. and Cohn D. US population
8 ISSUE 2ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONA Temperature Control Project that Facilitates Learningof Difficult Concepts in Control Theory Project-Based-Learning, or PBL, has been broadly adopted by the engineering education commu-nity [2-8] as an effective instructional approach. Cohesive PBL pedagogy brings many advantages: itmotivates students, offers student-centered learning [7], makes meaningful connections to the realworld [8], and facilitates communication among students [9]. Specific to control theory teaching,PBL has been utilized to help students to learn about function blocks in a feedback control system[10-12] and to design advanced controllers [13-17]. Recognizing teaching/learning benefits throughPBL, the author developed a
foundthe concept maps less useful on quizzes and exams based on the adopted grading scheme.Students in the active-approach course completed regular topic-specific quizzes, whereasstudents in the passive-approach course completed comprehensive exams at regular intervals.Students in the passive-approach course also commented on the benefits of concept maps forexam preparation in the open response prompts.The responses may also be skewed by the additional resources available to students whencompleting homework or in-class activities. Both instructors restricted use of reference materialson quizzes and exams but allowed the concept map as an approved reference.Presented in Figure 7, student responses indicated a preference for teaching the course with
Engineering) from Anna University [Tamilnadu, India], her MS in Industrial Engineering from Auburn University, her MA in Management Science and MS in Applied Statistics from The University of Alabama. She has experience working with many industries such as automotive, chemical distribution, etc. on transporta- tion and operations management projects. She works extensively with food banks and food pantries on supply chain management and logistics focused initiatives. Her graduate and undergraduate students are an integral part of her service-learning based logistics classes. She teaches courses in strategic relationships among industrial distributors and distribution logistics. Her recent research focuses on engineering
South Korea. She currently works as graduate research assistant in engineering education department. Her research interests are assessment for learners in diverse settings, and teacher education in multicultural settings.Prof. Jeffrey F Rhoads, Purdue University at West Lafayette Jeffrey F. Rhoads is a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University and is affiliated with both the Birck Nanotechnology Center and Ray W. Herrick Laboratories at the same insti- tution. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, each in mechanical engineering, from Michigan State University in 2002, 2004, and 2007, respectively. Dr. Rhoads’ current research interests include the predictive design, analysis, and
director of the Translational Biomechanics Laboratory where his research applies approaches from mechanical testing, image analysis, mathematical and computational modeling, and device design to solve problems related to female pelvic health. He has secured funding from the NIH, DOD, NSF, and other sources to support these efforts. He is also co-director of 2 NSF sponsored programs focused on the success of underrepresented minorities and a national award winner (BMES 2019) for his work in diversity and inclusion.Dr. SYLVANUS N. WOSU, University of Pittsburgh Sylvanus Wosu is the Associate Dean for Diversity Affairs and Associate Professor of mechanical engi- neering and materials science at the University of Pittsburgh
, solidification of drug/excipient matrices, en- vironmental control technology, and electrodispersion precipitation processes. Prior to joining Purdue in 2002, he was on the faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is the author of 97 publications and 11 patents. At Purdue he has supervised 22 PhD students, of whom ten have been female and three have been African American. He earned his BS at Mississippi State University, and his MS and PhD from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville – all in chemical engineering.Dr. Maryanne Sydlik, Western Michigan University Dr. Mary Anne Sydlik is a Research Emerita involved in the external evaluation of a number of
Paper ID #29840Required Computer Science Education in BME Undergraduate ProgramsProf. Robert A Linsenmeier, Northwestern University Robert Linsenmeier is a Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering, Neurobiology, and Ophthalmol- ogy at Northwestern University. His interests are in the microenvironment of the mammalian retina and engineering education. His teaching is primarily in physiology for both biology and BME majors. He is a fellow if the Biomedical Engineering Society, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engi- neering, and Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. He is the co-leader of CIRTL at
Paper ID #30133Enlightened Education: Solar Engineering Design to Energize SchoolFacilitiesDr. Kenneth A. Walz, Madison Area Technical College Dr. Walz completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, while conducting electrochemical research on lithium-ion batteries with Argonne National Laboratory and Rayovac. His studies also included re- search with the University of Rochester Center for Photo-Induced Charge Transfer. Since 2003, Dr. Walz has taught science and engineering at Madison Area Technical College, where he serves as the director of the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education (CREATE
ComputerScience Education, 2004.[17] McKinney, D. and L.F. Denton. Affective Assessment of Team Skills in Agile CS1 Labs:The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE Technical Symposium onComputer Science Education, 2005.[18] McKinney, D. Where do I belong: A team-based, inquiry-based, and service-learningapproach to an introductory course in computer science. Sixth Annual South AlabamaConference on Teaching and Learning. Mobile, AL, 2016.[19] McKinney, D. and L.F. Denton. Developing Collaborative Skills Early in the CSCurriculum in a Laboratory Environment, Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE TechnicalSymposium on Computer Science Education, 2006.[20] Michaelsen, L. K., A.B. Knight, and L.D. Fink. Team-based learning: A transformative
Laboratories before teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years. Brian has taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo since 2006. During the 2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory, developing model-eliciting activities in mechanical engineering courses, inquiry-based learning in mechanics, and design projects to help promote adapted physical activities. Other professional interests include aviation physiology and biomechanics. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020
complexglobal challenges, the need for engineers with inclusive mindsets has become more apparent.One aspect of inclusion is the awareness of our potential for biases in the models we create of theworld -- engineering models that go on to influence the technologies we produce.This paper presents a work-in-progress case study of an intervention in a middle-years analyticalcourse with a heavy focus on mathematical modeling. The intervention is designed to makestudents aware of biases in model base learning, their own tendencies towards these kinds ofbiases, and the sorts of impacts these biases can have on real populations. An importantcomponent of the intervention is that it is embedded into the teaching of analytical content, ratherthan being an
; Environmental Engineering Department at Bucknell Uni- versity. Her teaching and research focus on sustainable production of biofuels and bioproducts. She and her students use laboratory studies and modeling techniques—such as life cycle assessment—to develop and improve the environmental performance of resource recovery from wastewater and multi-product biorefineries.Dr. Craig Beal, Bucknell University Craig E. Beal earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Bucknell University in 2005 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 2007 and 2011. Dr. Beal is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Bucknell University and was the Jane W. Griffith Faculty Fellow from 2012-2015
engineering students at an all-female college. As part of thecurriculum, these women designed toys to teach students about technology. Students reported thattheir understanding of the design process and the relationship between engineers and society wereincreased as a result of project participation. Many more examples exist that illustrate howhumanities may be used with STEM to support students as they explore engineering and scientificprinciples 19-22.In summary, empathy and ethical reasoning are often an afterthought for STEM students 5. Teamteaching among humanities and STEM instructors can encourage the development of empathy andsoft skills 23 through instructional modeling with team-teaching. The HDSTEM course titled “War,Machine, Culture, and
opportunity.References[1] B. Vojak, R. Price and A. Griffin, “Corporate innovation.” In R. Frodeman, J. T. Klein, & C. Mitcham (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity (pp. 546–560). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010.[2] C.M. Czerniak, “Interdisciplinary science teaching.” In S. K. Abell & N. G. Lederman (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Science Education (pp. 537–559). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.[3] J. Moran, Interdisciplinarity, London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2002.[4] Z. Irani, “The university of the future will be interdisciplinary.” The Guardian, 24 January 2018.[5] T.S. McLaren, “A microelectronics fabrication and packaging learning laboratory
fundamental engineering knowledge to model and design complexengineering systems. These findings have had a major impact on the revision of nationalaccreditation criteria for engineering programs [3]. The engineering education paradigm hasshifted to not being “what is taught” to “what is being learnt”through program educationalobjectives and student learning outcomes [4]. These developments in industry needs andaccreditation criteria have necessitated the need of changing the focus of delivery of engineeringeducation to more hands-on student-centered teaching and learning methodologies in contrastwith mostly static and one-way lecture-based teaching.Engineering Design and Project Based LearningThe primary goal of engineering curriculum is to prepare