interactions between student moti- vation and their learning experiences. Her projects involve the study of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and their problem solving processes. Other projects in the Benson group include effects of student-centered active learning, self-regulated learning, and incor- porating engineering into secondary science and mathematics classrooms. Her education includes a B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of Vermont, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Clemson University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Effects of an Intensive Mathematics Course on Freshmen
an arbitrary flow or heat transfer experiment. The FlowGo toolkitaims to promote several outcomes. First, fluid mechanics and heat transfer could help a different demo-graphic of students become interested in engineering. For example, research on female students’ interestin science has shown that they are motivated by projects that have personal connections or allow themto help [8]. FlowGo could support female interest as it can be used for projects to help people or animals,such as irrigation or pet water-providing systems, or artistic expression, such as fountains or water sculpture.Second, FlowGo could serve as a classroom tool that helps teachers meet new teaching standards on engi-neering subjects. For example, the Next Generation
Columbia University Medical Center, working on research and implementation projects as a senior Information and Communication Technologies lead in various U.S. CDC-funded multi-year re- search grants in public health informatics. His current research grants study mobile data collection in cloud-based health informatics infrastructures. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Toward Engineering-Oriented Health Informatics EducationAbstractThe need for informatics-trained professionals in health organizations has been ever-increasing.In addition, there is also a significant need to orchestrate data collection through informaticsinfrastructure, manage computing resources, store data, and
Paper ID #14789Low-Cost Robot Arms for the Robotic Operating System (ROS) and MoveItDr. Asad Yousuf, Savannah State UniversityMr. William Lehman, Bill’s Robotic Solutions William Lehman is President of Bill’s Robotic Solutions which he started in July of 2013. He has had over twenty years of experience in software and hardware development. He has worked on numerous projects in digital communication systems, robotics, and aerospace applications. Mr. Lehman received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1979 from Catholic University of America.Dr. Mohamad A. Mustafa, Savannah State University
and technology education by connecting college students to community members in service learning projects. Clark is a maker who has built electric go-carts, scooters, bikes, hybrid automobiles and co-launched the first student-designed college campus solar-charged, electric bike share in the US. He holds 12 US patents ranging from Megawatt-scale power inverters to hydrogen fuel cell membranes. Before teaching, he worked 11 years in industry as an engineer for Westinghouse, Ford/Visteon, and General Motors R&D. His current research is on using smartphone technology to prevent automobile crashes. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 MAKER: Spirographtm-Style Drawing
factor analysis, the 22 characteristics were categorized into seven differentfactors, defined in Table 2. Five of these factors (intrinsic, extrinsic, social, altruistic, andleisure) directly align with factors found in the work by Twenge et al [10] with a largelongitudinal data set from the Monitoring the Future project. The two additional factors (long-term and supervision) were from other literature on work expectations found in these agegroups [11,12,13].Table 2: Job Expectation Factors Factors Description Intrinsic Does the job provide a sense of personal meaning (be creative, learn, see results, maintain current skills)? Extrinsic Does the job provide financial
member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), serving as the past Program Chair for the Minorities in En- gineering Division. He has served as a chair, vice-chair, program chair, and program committee member for numerous conferences of ASEE.Dr. Jinan Ziade, I have a PhD in Organizational Leadership with emphasis in IST from University of Phoenix, and an MBA from the same university. I have over 7 years of extensive leadership experience in advertising, marketing, strategies, and project team lead. Currently serving as Program Chair of Guild volunteer at St. Jude Medical Center and working with Memorial Foundation on philanthropic endeavors. My research interest include knowledge of cultural
use 3D printers in many of theircourses. Individual interviews with a number of students addressed questions about the usefulnessof 3D printing technologies. Our results show that students show great enthusiasm for 3D printingtechnologies and through years of use they develop expertise.A new engineering design culture has emerged. It revolves around the 3D printing lab whichbecame a crucial element in required courses, special projects, independent studies, senior projectdesign courses, master thesis research, as well as, events supported by student sections ofengineering societies (IEEE and IIE), and community events. Funding from the University and theDepartment of Engineering enabled this cultural change by supporting two half
. In fact, implicit biases can directly conflict with our explicitly held beliefs.This makes implicit bias a sensitive subject by nature.To introduce students to common implicit biases and spark reflection on their own potentialimplicit biases, each student takes an online Implicit Bias Assessment from Project Implicitdesigned at Harvard University [15]. This is done in class, and each student is given an implicitbias worksheet to guide their reflection and keep them engaged in the process. This worksheetincludes questions such as: (1) What assessment did you choose to take?; (2) Without sharingyour results [to protect student privacy and avoid discomfort on this sensitive topic], did yourresults surprise you at all?; (3) Based on your
areoften ignored as legitimate ways of being in engineering. Our prior work from a pilot qualitativestudy showed how students value the diversity of thought in engineering; however, theyacknowledged how certain ways of thinking and being in engineering are privileged in anengineering classroom, despite what is valued in the workforce [6]. These findings also providedpilot data to developing the constructs measured in the CAREER survey described briefly in ourproject overview.Project OverviewThis project examines the incoming attitudes and beliefs students hold about particular ways ofbeing, thinking, and knowing that are associated with engineering as well as how engineeringculture and education may shape specific students’ identities and
and STEM careers as well as the development of instruments and evaluation tools to assess these constructs.Dr. Euisuk Sung, Indiana University Euisuk Sung is a postdoctoral researcher at Indiana University. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Engineering and Technology Teacher Education at Purdue University. He has computer science degree and worked as a computer software developer for three years. then he served as an engineering and technology educator in high school for 9 years in South Korea. Currently he is working in NSF Funded project, titled TRAILS. His research interests are design cognition, maker education, computer science education, and all about STEM education.Dr. Adam V. Maltese, Indiana University
, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and engineering economics and ethics, and graduate finite elements, numerical methods, thermodynamics, statistical me- chanics, plasma fundamentals and gas dynamics. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 What Can DISC and Motivation Profiles Disclose About Student Retention in Engineering?AbstractIn 2015 the engineering departments at the University of Denver (DU) partnered with theIndigo Project to perform an assessment of the freshman engineering students using DISCand Motivation profiles. These profiles are a part of the overall Indigo Assessment, whichhelps educators observe the non-academic traits of their students. The multi
institutionscontinue to push their goals and strategic plans of increasing the science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. Attempts to increase STEM enrollment atUniversities consistently include the same concepts; bridge programs, learning communities,research experiences and group projects [1]. While attempting to increase undergraduateretention of (URM), these experiences often focus solely on first-year students. In order to meettheir needs, diverse students must matriculate through the Colleges and Universities via thepipeline from secondary education to employment. NSF [2] reports show the attrition rates forblack and Hispanic or Latino students in STEM fields from 2007 to 2013 is low. When lookingat all the students earning
experimenting with the curriculum to reduce the number of engineering credit hours,introduce of a project-based design spine, and the creation of a variety of structured curricularpathways aligned to the interests of our students. As more engineering programs diverge fromthe dominant pattern we can begin to empirically examine the impact of our program designchoices and, in time, both close the leaky pipeline of women pursuing engineering degrees aswell as increase the migration into the degree.References[1] L. B. Cavagnaro and H. Fasihuddin, “A Moonshot Approach to Change in Higher Education: Creativity, Innovation, and the Redesign of Academia,” Lib. Educ., vol. 102, no. 2, 2016.[2] M. W. Ohland, S. D. Sheppard, G. Lichtenstein, O. Eris, D
use among suicidal college students. Journal of American College Health 60, 104-114 (2012).14 Smart, J. C., Feldman, K. A. & Ethington, C. A. Academic disciplines: Holland's theory and the study of college students and faculty. (Vanderbilt University Press, 2000).15 Tonso, K. L. in Cambridge handbook of engineering education research (eds Aditya Johri & Barbara M. Olds) Ch. 14, 267-282 (Cambridge University Press, 2014).16 Kapp, E. Improving student teamwork in a collaborative project-based course. College Teaching 57, 139-143 (2009).17 Cross, K. J. The Experiences of African-American Males on Multiracial Student Teams in Engineering. (2015).18 Marra, R. M., Rodgers, K. A., Shen, D. & Bogue, B
7th Grade (AB7G) has been launched as a pilot program from National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates (NAMEPA), hosted by the University of Cincinnati and Purdue University. The program begins with students in the 3rd grade and continues each year until the 7th grade where the students are exposed to Algebra and hands on projects. The students’ progress and test scores are tracked and monitored. Our pilot sites meet two Saturdays of each month. All participants are required to have access to the Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS) web-based student assessment system or a similar software program. The system can measure which skills the student has mastered and skills in which the students need more
Jennifer Blue, Amy Summerville, Brian P Kirkmeyer1 A sense of social belonging appears to be a crucial factor in student success and retention in STEM. As part of a larger NSF-funded project, we collected data about students’ perceived social belonging in the department for a calculus-based physics course taken by the majority of engineering majors and in an early programming course. Students completed surveys in the first two weeks of the semester, and again approximately one month later, after the first exam (6-8 weeks into the semester). Students reported a decrease in belonging over time. We examined whether this pattern differed for several historically marginalized groups: women, non-white
, BradRoth, Julie Walters, Sanela Martic, Joi Cunningham, Kathleen Moore, Jo Reger andDavid StoneInstitution: Oakland University in Rochester, MichiganSubmitted to: 2019 CoNECD (April 2019) 1Oakland University started the Women in Science and Engineering program(WISE@OU) in 2011. The program was funded by an NSF ADVANCE PAID Grant(Award 1107072). The PAID grant program focused on partnerships for adaptation,implementation, and dissemination. The proposed project included a very largevariety of activities designed to recruit and retain women STEM faculty at OaklandUniversity (OU) with a four-pronged approach. The first prong involved a thoroughcampus analysis and
, an ideal institution would provide asmuch access and training for that tool, etc. as possible. Students must be prepared for theworkforce as it is today, not as it was 10 years ago.Educators should seek to create useful access points to learning wherever possible. Many accesspoints can be reused, and often the time input for the professor is mostly up front with long-termbenefits. This is true for online content like videos and notes, hands-on project plans, group-workactivities, interactive practice problem sets and exams (created through Typeform, Classmarker,the institution’s own site, etc.), and other access points devised by educators.Examples of Access Points to Learning (List not exhaustive): ● Class time ● Homework ● Textbooks
Mathematics and Statistics at Sonoma State University in California. Her research background is in areas of algebraic geometry and mathematics education. She received her PhD in mathematics and her masters degree in mathematics education at the University of Georgia.Therese M. Azevedo Therese Azevedo is a third year student at Sonoma State University pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Statistics. Over the summer she had the opportunity to work with Dr. Anne Lucietto and Meher Tale- yarkhan (Graduate Student) on a project related to math anxiety focused on female and minority students. Therese has been able to continue this project with her research advisor, Dr. Natalie Hobson, at her home institution
purpose of this paper is to explain the process by which we improved a Minecraft-based educational intervention through incorporation of principles of video game design toimprove learner engagement. In this paper, we outline the research supporting use of digitalgame-based learning to improve kids' spatial reasoning, the elements of video game design, andthe steps we took between years 1 and 2 to improve our Minecraft-based educationalintervention. Results from both years are compared to show areas where our interventionimproved, and future directions and challenges are outlined based on lessons learned from theprocess. The outcomes of our project are intended to inform other efforts to employ digital game-based learning to maximize the utility
industry working with the ”Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat” where he worked on funded projects to compare different structural systems performance when made of steel vs. concrete. He also worked as an intern at Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) for two summers. Part of his work at IDOT involved collection and analysis of aggregates from different queries and sending reports to headquarters in Springfield, Illinois. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Enhancing Student Learning Through Pre-Lab Assignments and Virtual Reality / Simulation Components in the Strength of Materials Laboratory ExperimentsAbstractApplied Strength of
-solving, and criticalthinking skills. Furthermore, Zydney et al. [15] reported that the student-faculty interactionplayed an important role in helping students determine their career choice after college.This paper presents an application of the undergraduate research experience for students withlimited access to research opportunities at their home campus. The application is more unique byincorporating a research project design that includes students working with a faculty at theirhome institution as well as collaborating with a second faculty at another university campus.This two-campus design allows the student high-impact interactions with multiple faculty andgraduate students, as well as promotes new faculty collaborations. Follow up
-disaster evacuation ofnatural disasters should be taught in college. The next steps and any future study should includea larger sample population with an investigation of the implementation of resilience in aconstruction curriculum. Educational outcomes would also be an area of interest for futureresearch.References[1] McLeman, R., and Smit, B. (2006). "Migration as an Adaptation to Climate Change." Climatic Change, 76, 31–53.[2] Williams, J. W., Jackson, S. T., and Kutzbach, J. E. (2007). "Projected distributions of novel and disappearing climates by 2100 AD." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104 (14); 5738-5742.[3] Mora, C., Frazier, A. G., Longman, R. J., Dacks, R. S
Development Assistant at the Center for Teach- ing and Learning at TAMUQ, where he assists in organizing faculty oriented workshops, investigating effective teaching techniques in STEM, and conducting faculty evaluations.Ms. Jude Aloudeh, Texas A&M University at Qatar I am an undergraduate electrical engineer studying electrical engineering at Texas A&M University at Qatar. My interest lies in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and different aspects of power and communication. I have completed various research projects that relate to both scientific and social issues. I have received a first-place award from the Weil Cornell Medical Conference regarding the 2030 Qatar Vision, where my group and
was converted to a flipped classroom environment for half of the course material. The mainobjective of this research pilot project is to investigate the impact of video length and videoactivities on the retention and understanding of Gen-Z engineering students for a software-basedsimulation course. Results show that students are more likely to watch medium-length videos thanshort-length videos, but those who do watch short-length videos have better learning outcomes.KeywordsGeneration Z, flipped classroom, engineering education, video length1. IntroductionThe engineering students today are from Generation Z, the cohort of individuals born from 1996-2010 [1]. They are high-efficiency multi-taskers with 8-second attention spans, typically
attendance check, all students in the classare required to take pictures (10 pictures in our project for averaging) through the built-in webcamera. These pictures are used to generate the student face database as a reference for real-timeface recognition. To check the attendance of a student for the class, the computer takes facepictures of the student through the real-time video stream and employs deep learning neuralnetworks to predict whether the student matches anyone in the database, and (if yes) furtheridentifies the name of the student. The result of this face recognition will be used to update theattendance record in the format of an excel file. Fig.1 Architecture of the proposed attendance system2.2 Face Detection
, community engagement projects, evaluation tools and technology, and gender issues in STEM education. https://orcid.org/0000- 0002-0383-0179Prof. Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile Mar´ıa Elena Truyol, Ph.D., is full professor and researcher of the Universidad Andr´es Bello (UNAB). She graduated as physics teacher (for middle and high school), physics (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. in Physics at Universidad Nacional de C´ordoba, Argentina. In 2013 she obtained a three-year postdoctoral position at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her focus is set on educational research, physics education, problem-solving, design of instructional material, teacher training and gender studies. She teaches undergraduate courses
these universities who serve asconsultants on the research project. The email included a link to the survey, with a briefdescription of the research, confirmation of participant age, and consent to have their responsesused for research purposes. This research project and its associated materials were reviewed andapproved by the Colorado School of Mine’s IRB. The survey consisted of four parts, theEngineering and Science Issues Test (ESIT) to measure ethical reasoning [22], MoralFoundations Questionnaire (MFQ) to measure moral intuitions [23], questions about the natureof values and ethical behaviors in engineering and technology [24], and demographic items.The ESIT is a neo-Kohlbergian measure that asks participants to decide on
Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He is an affiliated faculty member of the NTU Centre for Research and Development in Learning (CRADLE) and the NTU Institute for Science and Technology for Humanity (NISTH). He serves as the Director of the World MOON Project and holds editorial roles as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education and Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning. He is also the upcoming Program Chair-Elect of the PCEE Division at ASEE. His current research interests include STEM+C education, specifically artificial intelligence literacy, computational thinking, and engineering.Ms. Sharyn Anastasia Limas, Nanyang Technological University