Paper ID #21854A Strategic Plan to Improve Engineering Student Success: Development, Im-plementation, and OutcomesDr. Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University Jerome P. Lavelle is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of engineering economic analysis, decision analysis, project management, leadership, engineering management and engineering education.Dr. Matthew T. Stimpson, North Carolina State University Matthew Stimpson is the Director of Assessment in the Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs at NC
Knaphus-Soran, University of Washington Emily Knaphus-Soran is a Research Associate at the Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE) at the University of Washington. She works on the evaluation of several projects aimed at improving diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM fields. She also conducts research on the social- psychological and institutional forces that contribute to the persistence of race and class inequalities in the United States. Emily earned a PhD and MA in Sociology from the University of Washington, and a BA in Sociology from Smith College.Dr. Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University Donna Crystal Llewellyn received her BA (major in Mathematics and minor in Economics) with High
professional goals. While serving as the Associate Director of the Center for Women in Technology at UMBC she was a co-investigator on a number of successful NSF funded research projects related to improving the retention and success of transfer students, underrepresented groups in STEM, and first-year computing majors. Dr. Martin earned her Ed.D. in Higher Education from The George Washington University, a M.A. in College Student Personnel from The University of Maryland, College Park, and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.Dr. Gymama Slaughter, University of Maryland Baltimore CountyDr. Carolyn Seaman, UMBC Dr. Seaman is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the
librarian in the Engineering Library. He was director from 1987-2001 and 2006-2008; from 2002-2005 he went on partial research leave as Director of Collection Development for the NSF-funded National Science Digital Library Project.52 In 2009 he was appointed Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resourcesand Special Collections. He served as principal investigator on the Kinematic Models for DesignDigital Library (KMODDL)53 involving the Reuleaux Collection of 19th-century kinematicmachines. He led the Task Force to examine library-related needs for the Cornell Tech campus inNew York City
Paper ID #18243Critical Pedagogies and First-year Engineering Students’ Conceptions of ’Whatit Means to be an Engineer’Ms. Ashley R. Taylor, Virginia Tech Ashley Taylor is a doctoral student in engineering education at Virginia Polytechnic and State University, where she also serves as a program assistant for the Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity and an advisor for international senior design projects in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Ashley received her MS in Mechanical Engineering, MPH in Public Health Education, and BS in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include
training for teachers. Project Lead the Way, for example, allows schools to offer engineeringexperiences through design courses in a variety of disciplines [26]. University-based K-12outreach programs have also shown promise in promoting engineering knowledge, self-efficacy,and interest [27]-[30]. It must be understood that, by necessity, knowledge of these standards andprograms must be communicated to school counselors to increase student awareness andaccessibility. Schools advocating for these programs have indicated their commitment to studentpreparation for STEM careers and school personnel should understand the mechanisms by whichthese programs do so.Research questions. This pilot, ongoing research explores the following overarching
: Albany City School District” , and ”Educational Leadership Program Enhancement Project at Syracuse University” Teacher Leadership Quality Program. She is also the PI on both ”Syracuse City School District Title II B Mathematics and Science Partnership: Science Project and Mathematics MSP Grant initiatives. She is currently the principle investigator on a number of grants including a 21st century grant and an NSF Transformong Undergraduate Education in STEM grant.Robin L. Getz, Analog Devices, Inc. Robin is currently the Director of Systems Engineering at Analog Devices, and has over twenty years of diverse industry experience in engineering leadership, product marketing and sales with multi-national semiconductor
students discuss when they use EBR. One initialexploration of student discussions demonstrated that students were able to use unit-based scienceand mathematics content during EBR [20]. However, there has not yet been research aboutwhether and how all four STEM disciplines are represented in students’ EBR. Thus, the purposeof this study is to do an initial exploration about the variety of STEM content that a team ofstudents discussed when they practiced EBR. Specifically, in this project, we are interested inanswering the following research question: While generating and justifying solutions to anengineering design problem in an engineering design-based STEM integration unit, what STEMcontent does a team of elementary school students discuss
marketing [7], andpedagogical improvements [8]. Our project focuses on a relatively unique area, i.e., curiositydetection in text. This paper presents preliminary, yet promising, results of empirically miningwords that demonstrate a curious disposition (of the students) in text data produced by studentsin response to thought-provoking and critical-thinking exercises. The success of our projectcould positively impact efforts to assess both curiosity and its impact on educational outcomes.For many decades, psychologists have wrestled with understanding the nature of curiosity.Recent work by Grossnickle [9] has provided a framework for understanding facets, factors anddimensions of the construct of curiosity that are relevant to the education audience
Paper ID #26467Designing an Undergraduate Engineering Mentoring Program to EnhanceGender Diversity through Application of Lean Six Sigma Methods and ToolsEmily Kloos, University of Dayton Emily Kloos is a Graduate Assistant at the University of Dayton in the Department of Engineering Man- agement, Systems & Technology where she performs research in order to develop a STEM mentoring program for the University of Dayton. She has experience working as an engineer at various companies with a demonstrated history of working in the food production and manufacturing industries. Skilled in project management, customer service
Purdue University. She also holds a M.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a B.S. in Astronomy and Meteorology both from Kyungpook National University in South Korea. Her work centers on engineer- ing education research, as a psychometrician, program evaluator, and institutional data analyst. She has research interests on spatial ability, creativity, gifted education, STEM education, and meta-analyses. She has authored/co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings and served as a journal reviewer in engineering education, STEM education, and educational psychology, as well as a co-PI, an external evaluator or advisory board member on several NSF-funded projects (CA- REER, iCorps
Engineering (EE) from the Virginia Military Institute, Master’s Degree in EE from the George Washington University, and Ph.D. from the University of Louisville in Computer Engineering. He is also a graduate of the Signal Officer Basic Course, Signal Captain’s Career Course, and the Army Command and General Staff College. At West Point, LTC Lowrance also serves as a senior researcher in the Robotics Research Center. He has led multiple research projects related to robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. His research has led to over 25 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, several of which have won best paper awards.Major Eric M. Sturzinger, United States Military Academy MAJ Eric Sturzinger is a
semester. The final project requires students to design a space truss and test itusing a provided Matlab program.Table 2: Statics Sections taught by Author with Enrollments between Fall 2008 and Fall 2013 Section 1 Section 2 Section 3Fall 2008 Phase 2 (54) Phase 2 (100) Phase 2 (103)Spring 2009 Phase 2 (69) Phase 2 (76)Fall 2009 Phase 2 (56) Phase 2 (104) Phase 2 (109)Spring 2010 Phase 3 (65) Phase 2 (71)Fall 2010 Phase 2 (54) Phase 2 (96)Spring 2011 Phase 2 (53) Phase 3 (114)Fall 2011 Phase 2 (97
engineering education practitioners whohave identified issues in the discipline and are interested in enacting change in the higherinstitutional setting. Such work has implications for engineering education reform and organizingpossibilities toward enabling educators to seed the changes they seek.Background: Prior Research and Fields of InfluenceOne of the main fields of inquiry for this research project has been how to leverage and query thepossibility for social movement organizing in academia from the ground up while demanding forand advocating for change at the institutional level. For our analytical purchase andcontributions, we look to social movement studies in STS, our own prior research into organizingwork in higher academic institutional
in a style that should be interesting and accessible tostudents and is not overly long. However, it is somewhat dated. The paper could form the basisfor in-class discussion or a written reflection if an instructor generated appropriate prompts.There are also more detailed case studies related to privacy that would be good vehicles forinstruction, including Google Street View [40, 41] and “optimizing schools” [42]. These cases donot explicitly discuss a human rights perspective, so this framing would need to be added by theinstructor.Right to Property – Article 17Article 17 relates to the right to own and not “be arbitrarily deprived of [ ] property” [1]. Thisrelates to civil engineering and the use of eminent domain for projects, which is of
her role at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she was employed as a project engineer at SKA Consulting Engineers, Inc. in the building solutions group for 7 years. Her job responsibilities included performing forensic investigations to determine condition of building structural components; including concrete, masonry, wood and steel; preparing remedial designs; and performing construction administration. She is currently a second year PhD student in Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.Dr. Sandra Loree Dika, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Dr. Sandra Dika is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of educational research, mea
learning, and problem solving experiences and can be enriched usinghands-on project-based learning.10 Even the best students often do just enough to pass an exam,after which they forget everything they learned. The material taught in a course quickly fadesunless the student has applied the knowledge in some way. There are two things that stay withstudents after a class ends: the interactive and stimulating hands-on experience they gainedpracticing the use of some instrument or software package, and any material that was ofparticular interest to them. This is why it is as important to spark interest, building motivation forstudents to learn the desired material, as well as to provide relevant hands-on activities. Excitement is contagious. One of
Simmons P.E., Virginia Tech Denise R. Simmons, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Myers-Lawson School of Construction and in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, and an affiliate faculty of the Department of Engi- neering Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in civil engineering and a graduate certificate in engineering education – all from Clemson University. Un- til 2012, she was the director of the Savannah River Environmental Sciences Field Station. Dr. Simmons has nearly fourteen years of engineering and project management experience working with public util- ity companies, a project management consulting company, and a software
previousNational Science Education Standards (NRC, 1990), The Framework and the NGSSoutline a learning progression of science and engineering practices for which studentsshould develop increasingly complex skills as they progress from early elementarythrough high school. Moreover, The Framework and the NGSS outline grade level andgrade band performance expectations related to engineering design. As a result,students are expected to engage in engineering design projects and engineering-relatedproblems in their science coursework. In an effort to address the need for high quality K12 engineering curricula, wedeveloped, implemented, and piloted the Biomedical Engineering Curriculum (BMEC, apseudonym for our program). BMEC curricula apply mathematics
structures and materials in the School ofAeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University.As previously noted, the difference between our activities and PLTL/SI was that our TA-ledsupervised homework session used the assigned homework problems from the lecture to learnconcepts on structural mechanics, whereas the previously-reported projects used supplementalmaterials to teach the materials. More specifically, in our research, a problem was discussed bythe TA using a document camera and projector. Since no small group activities were involved,the TA-led supervised session was not a cooperative learning session.As the TA led the session by showing the key concepts needed to solve the problems, the TAcontinually asked questions on the important ideas
University, Virginia, in 1996. Dr. Yerraballi’s teaching interests and experience span a broad swath of the Computing curriculum from, Theory of Computing, Algorithms and Data Structures, Introductory, Object-Oriented and Systems Pro- gramming, Embedded Systems, Operating Systems, Real-Time Systems, Distributed Systems, Computer Architecture and Performance Analysis of Computer Systems. He has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and particularly enjoys teaching at the undergraduate level.Chad Fulton, University of Texas - Austin Chad is a Project Manager in Learning Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He has played key roles in several campus Request for Proposals and product implementations
. Oscilloscope basics like vertical system controls, horizontal system controls,trigger controls, sin-wave measurement, amplitude measurement, and time measurement arecovered.Lab 9 and 10: PSpice Analysis of RLC circuitsThis two week laboratory session is a project which focuses on using the transient analysisfeature of PSpice on RLC circuits and comparing this with the results obtained by handcalculation in order to reinforce the concept covered in the Circuit I lecture class.In the first laboratory session, the format of the formal laboratory report was discussed. Studentsare made aware that the following are, in general, the contents required in the formal report: (1)title page, (2) abstract, (3) acknowledgments, (4) table of contents, (5) list of
courses in thermodynamics, heat transfer, energy systems laboratory, cryogenics, and vacuum technology.Mr. David J Gagnon, University of Wisconsin - Madison David J. Gagnon (University of Wisconsin, Madison) is a Discovery Fellow and program director of the Mobile Learning Lab in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at University of Wisconsin, Madison. He directs a team of educational researchers, software engineers, artists and storytellers that explore the inter- sections of learning science and media design, specializing in mobile media, video games and simulation. David is also the Director of the ARIS project, a free and open tool that allows anyone to produce mo- bile games, stories and tours. He is also active
native English speakers.2.2 Interview ProtocolsInterviews, which were part of a larger project on gender and interpersonal communication inengineering, were 75 minutes long and took place in a private room at the participants’ campus.For one week prior to the interview, participants were asked to keep a journal chronicling anytime they felt the need to complain or ask help. Interviews began by asking students somegeneral questions about their study and then asked them to elaborate on one or two incidents inthe journal. During the discussion, participants were explicitly asked who they went to whenthey needed help and whether or not they felt comfortable asking professors and peers for helpwith academic work. Participants were then shown some
University, Lehigh University,University of Texas–Tyler, University of Rhode Island, Michigan Technological University andUniversity of Pittsburgh also have developed curriculums that cultivate core global competencyskills through intensive coursework, projects and/or thesis work, and international study-abroadexperiences. The main issue with some of these programs, however, is the duration of theinternational experience and the amount of training that the student receives before embarkingabroad. In 2012, 341,284 U.S. students participated in some form of international study abroadprogram (4% engineering discipline), however less than 1% of the total served or studied abroadfor more than one academic year3. Comparative studies have demonstrated the
projects in the program. He is also keen in engaging students in his classrooms using a variety of methods while developing some. Page 26.934.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 In-class anonymous student feedback and interactivity at the speed of light!AbstractDespite their utility, traditional approaches to gauge student understanding and collecting theirresponses in class have multiple shortcomings. This paper discusses the shortfalls of thesetraditional methods (student raising hand, use of clickers, etc) and compares them with a newmethod
. With expertise in the design of PD and learning communities, Beth leads a collaboration with educators as co-PI on an NSF K12 engineering education project. She is the 2014 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education Massachusetts Professor of the Year.Ms. Isabel Huff, Springfield Technical Community College After participating in the instructional design of Through My Window during her four years as an un- dergraduate, Isabel is thrilled to be working full-time as the outreach coordinator. She graduated summa cum laude from Smith College with a double major in Economics and Spanish in Spring 2014 and now works on the Springfield Technical
years of academic experience. He taught courses in Engineering, Computer Science, and Networking. Presently he is teaching courses in Cisco, Microsoft, UNIX, Data Communi- cations, and Emerging Technologies. Dr. Taher began his career as a Project Engineer for Zenith Data Systems Company. He worked at Benton Harbor Plant in Michigan for 2 years. Professor Taher is a member of IEEE and ASEE.Dr. Ahmed S. Khan, DeVry University, Addison Dr. Ahmed S. Khan is a Senior Professor in the College of Engineering and Information Sciences at DeVry University, Addison, Illinois. Dr. Khan has more than thirty-two years of experience in research, instruction, curricula design and development, program evaluation and
Paper ID #11470Engineering Students’ Perceptions of the Future: Exploratory InstrumentDevelopmentAdam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno Adam Kirn is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at University of Nevada, Reno. His re- search focuses on the interactions between engineering cultures, student motivation, and their learning experiences. His projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers, their problem solving processes, and cultural fit. His education includes a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a M.S. in
its battery depletion in 6 months, the resulting (now secure)device would be unacceptable, life-threatening, and impractical to use. Page 26.989.2In this paper, we present integrating emerging cryptographic engineering (used for protecting theaforementioned deeply-embedded systems) research with security education. This project isaddressing the respective tradeoffs between the security levels (noting the larger attack surfacefor deeply-embedded systems) and affording the overheads applicably, which are the two mainfacets of the proposed integration. To meet this objective, we have used such methodology formore than a year in educating graduate