Paper ID #28631Work-In-Progress: Engineering Self-Efficacy in First-Year DesignMegan Gray, Duke University Megan Gray is a Research Analyst in Evaluation and Engagement at Duke University’s Social Science Research Institute (SSRI). She serves as a project manager and researcher for both qualitative and quanti- tative evaluation and research efforts, in partnership with community-based programs as well as campus- based initiatives. Megan came to Duke from the nonprofit field, where she evaluated and monitored implementation of county-wide early childhood programs. Her prior experience includes school-based social work
motions.The implemented prototype has the ability to move in 4 axis directions with 4 servo motors. Thevoltage across variable resistors is not completely linear rather a noisy one. Capacitors are used acrosseach resistor to filter out this noise, as shown in figure 1. This voltage represents the control positionand is fed into four ADC channels of Arduino to get corresponding digital values. The Arduino UNOADC has a resolution of 10 bit, means it maps input voltages between 0 and 5V into digital valuesbetween 0 and 1023; in other words, 4.9mV per unit. This project is very helpful for beginners whowant to make a robotic arm with low cost.Objectives Create artificial arms for different inhuman situation Motivate new students in robot
College of Engineering. In this role she seeks to develop mechanisms for engaging diverse populations and creating cultures of inclusion. She is also a Senior Sustainability Scientist and was previously a Senior Program Coordinator for Sustainability in Science Museums at Arizona State University (ASU). She holds a Ph.D. in Sustainability Science from ASU and an M.A. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of New Haven c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Developing a Research Agenda for the Engineering AmbassadorCommunityProject GoalsThe overarching goal of the project includes three-phases in order to create a shared researchagenda. This project is bringing
Paper ID #28821Development and Insights from the Measure of Framing AgencyDr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information and Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical and Biological Engineer- ing Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revo- lutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Education
Paper ID #31120Empathy in a Service-Learning Design CourseNusaybah Abu-Mulaweh, PURDUE UNIVERSITY Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh is a Continuing Lecturer in the Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS) Program at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. She received her Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering from Purdue University Fort Wayne, and received her Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. After working as a software engineer in industry, she returned to academia as a lecturer and she is currently pursuing her PhD in Engineering
Paper ID #30442Evaluating Student Success in a Pre-College General Engineering Program(Evaluation)Dr. Duncan Davis, Northeastern University Duncan Davis is an Assistant Teaching Professor in First Year Engineering. His research focuses on using gamification to convey course content in first year classes. Mostly recently, he has implemented a series of escape room projects to teach engineering to first year students through the process of designing, prototyping, and building these play experiences.Mr. Matthew BurnsDr. John Sangster P.E., Northeastern University Dr. Sangster is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the First
Paper ID #30494Results of Integrating a Makerspace into a First-Year Engineering CourseDr. Stephanie M Gillespie, University of New Haven Stephanie Gillespie is a lecturer at the University of New Haven in the Engineering and Applied Science Education department. She previously specialized in service learning while teaching at the Arizona State University in the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program. Her current teaching and research interests are in developing study skills and identity in first-year engineering students and improving retention rates. She acts as the faculty liaison for the University
Educational Partnerships, Old Dominion University Joe Brobst holds a BS in Biological Sciences, MA in Curriculum & Instruction, and Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, all from the University of Delaware. Formerly a high school biology teacher, he is now an ed- ucational research and program evaluation specialist with experience working on a wide range of projects sponsored by organizations including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Of- fice of Naval Research, U.S. Department of Education, and Corporation for National and Community Service. His areas of interest and expertise include broadening participation in STEM higher education, K-12 STEM teacher professional development, and preservice
important aspect of teaching this course is gettingstudents familiar with the steel frame and common connections which are used in theconstruction of a frame. This paper presents the construction of a steel frame sculpture withdetailed beam to column and column to footing connections. This frame was constructed as astudent project completely on campus. American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)motivates faculties and students nationally to design and built a steel sculpture for theiruniversities by providing construction plans for them. Although the authors used AISC’s idea tobuild the steel sculpture, the sculpture presented in this poster is not built the plan provided byAISC. A tree shaped sculpture was drafted in SketchUp and the sculpture
students and practitioners of different levels, we present an initial exploration intowhat distinguishes these different foci when solving complex engineering problems.Participants and Data Collection. Data presented in the current paper are drawn from ourteam’s larger study, which includes interviews with 46 engineering students and practitionersabout their lived experiences solving complex systems thinking. Participants for these interviewswere recruited on the basis of several selection criteria, which we collected in a brief screeningquestionnaire. All participants were asked to identify an experience they had working on acomplex project, defined broadly as any project that had multiple potential solutions and forwhich there were multiple
Paper ID #29114Work In Progress: Is Our Capstone Mentorship Model Working?Dr. C. Richard Compeau Jr, Texas State University C. Richard Compeau Jr. is a Professor of Practice in the Ingram School of Engineering, and the Electrical Engineering Program Coordinator. He is interested in teaching and curriculum development. His work is typically project-specific for the EE Capstone courses, with an emphasis on applied electromagnetics.Dr. Austin Talley P.E., Texas State University Dr. Austin Talley is a Senior Lecturer in the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas
systems. Students will solve realistic, complex engineeringproblems (multi DOF vibrating systems) using modern analytical tools (MATLAB® andSimscape MultibodyTM [14]), including a special emphasis on appropriate approximationmethods (ABET 1). Students will design vibration isolators (ABET 2).Table 1: Course topics. Unit Topic Sessions Assessments 1 Lagrangian Mechanics 4 Exam I 2 1-DoF systems and Simscape 7 Exam II and Project 1 MultibodyTM 3 Multi-DoF Systems 8 Exam III and Project 2 + Simulation 4 Wave Equation
-shelf engineering ethics textbooks, produce a mix of factors thatmay result in the common finding that students often become measurably less ethical as theyprogress through their undergraduate career [9], [10].In response to this, the College of Engineering at Boise State University is taking advantage ofsystemic curricular change efforts made possible by an NSF sponsored RED grant(Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments) to its Department ofComputer Science [11]–[17], and adapting innovations from that project to other engineeringdepartments. This manuscript describes efforts in the Department of Mechanical and BiomedicalEngineering and Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering. These efforts
Rebecca Levison is a graduate research fellow working on her doctorate in education at the University of Portland. As a research fellow, Rebecca works on a KEEN assessment project and partnership between the School of Education and the School of Engineering to improve engineering education. When not working on the KEEN project, she works full time for Portland Public Schools as an ESL Teacher on Special Assignment. In that role, Rebecca writes science curriculum accessible to language learners that aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards and trains teachers how to implement new strategies for all learners.Dr. Nicole Ralston, University of Portland c American Society for Engineering
&M University. He has developed and implemented mobile learning solution with iPad, eBooks and educational apps for the MID program – first of its kind at Texas A&M University for working professionals in distance education graduate program. He has more than 20 years of experience in teaching, applied research, academic program management and business development. For more than 15 years he has worked with the Global Supply Chain Lab- oratory at Texas A&M University on applied industry consulting projects, consortia and professional development programs for more than 100 industrial manufacturers and distributors. He has published in academic journals and industry publications. His research areas include
due to recent financial cutbacks, and the fact that you are one of the highest paid employees in your division, in view of your knowledge and experience. Wayne Davidson’s You are a project manager in the Aerospace Division of Occidental Engineering. You have worked at this firm for 9 years and devotedSupervisor (Deborah) much of your time and energy to its success. Only a few people in the firm know that the idea to low-ball the bid for this project was yours. You assured those people that this was a golden opportunity for the company and that you would make sure that the project was successful
, theresearchers will explore how individual students learn and become self-employed, or learn to usetheir local knowledge assets on behalf of their employers; that is, do students see themselves as acontributor to a company and enjoying a career dedicated to helping a firm remain competitive ina global market.Research Questions and DesignThe overarching goal of this project is to improve rural manufacturing capacity by betterunderstanding the relationship between NW Florida employers, employees, and curriculum viathe following research questions:RQ1. How do the AM competencies graduates gain through Associate’s level AM programscompare to the needs of employers?RQ2. How do the AM competencies graduates gain through Associate’s level AM programscompare to
, group learning, etc. However, one type of PL, group-to-group peer learning(GGPL) is not addressed in literature. GGPL can be defined as a learning method where two ormore peer groups interact to increase the knowledge of all members. Here, the scope of the workis limited to only classmates working in pairs on their lab design projects and receiving help onlyfrom other classmate pairs. This pair-to-pair peer learning (PPPL) represents the simplest form ofGGPL where group size includes only two members per group.This paper mainly addresses students’ experiences with a novel PPPL method as it is implementedin a lab setting during a lab design project encompassing two different engineering programs,mechatronics and industrial engineering. The lab
earn a Master of Science in Engineering in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, while working with the Austin chapter of Engineers Without Borders as a volunteer and project lead for a project in Peru. She has published and presented on incentivizing decentralized sanitation and wastewater treatment, on sustainability of coastal community water and sanitation service options, as well as on integrating liberal arts and STEM education, currently through the vehicle of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program. She has co-designed workshops oriented toward educational change for Olin’s Summer Institute and the joint Olin College-Emerson
and never having two assignments due on one day, usinga new learning management tool that enables students to submit their projects as often as they canand get instant feedback about their assignments, using a new scheduling tool to make it easier forstudents to schedule appointments with the instructor, using an always-active anonymousfeedback survey for students to constantly provide feedback about different aspects of the course,providing some additional resources, and removing some barriers. Furthermore, these smallchanges had a surprisingly positive impact on the standards of the course. Students’ raw grades –i.e., grades before final raise/curve – significantly improved and the class’ final projects reachedhigher standards.1
populations, i.e. students who tend to be first generation, minorities, and/orcommuters. These universities encounter similar challenges in first-year retention and graduationrates, especially in the STEM disciplines. As they strive to improve the first year engineeringand/or mathematics student experience at their campuses, they have engaged in differentapproaches; including Peer Led Team Learning (PLTL), formation of an Engineering LearningCommunity (ELC), and engaging students in outreach as STEM Ambassadors. Incorporatingthese individual strengths with new activities that will be shared across institutions, the team iscurrently embarking on a multi-year research project to uncover how students develop STEMidentity in an urban context, identify
Research Center (SSRC) since its inception in 1998 - most recently as center Director. She has more than 20 years of experience with survey research, data collection, data analysis, program evaluation, report writing, and general grant/contract management. She is responsible for the day-to-day management of the SSRC’s operations, as well as serving as project manager/principal investigator for most of the SSRC’s projects. She has taught undergraduate courses in criminal justice and graduate courses in public policy and survey research. She has managed research and evaluation activities on a variety of topics including: the effectiveness of early intervention services, im- plementation fidelity of positive behavioral
ABEToutcomes and their KPIs along with the mapping of old to new outcomes is shown in Appendix A. Assessment of Learning OutcomesABET SOs (a) through (k) are assessed mainly through direct assessment methods such asassignments, exams, design projects, laboratory work, etc. A record of the assessment methods andstudent work samples for each course taught in a semester are maintained through course portfolios.The course portfolios also include a course assessment report (CAR) completed by courseinstructors who are required to self-evaluate the delivery of their courses and identify areas forimprovement with an action plan. Each course has a set of course learning outcomes (CLOs) definedin the course specifications document
prior research experience. In total 20 students(ten per year) participated in the program and worked on individual project topics under theguidance of faculty and graduate student mentors. Unlike a typical REU program, theCybermanufacturing REU involved a few unique activities, such as a 48-hour intense design andprototype build experience (also known as Aggies Invent), industry seminars, and industry visits.Overall, the REU students demonstrated significant gains in all of the twelve research-relatedcompetencies that were assessed as a part of formative and summative evaluation process. Whilealmost all of them wanted to pursue a career in advanced manufacturing, includingCybermanufacturing, the majority of the participants preferred industry
University of DenverAbstractTo broaden participation of Latinx in engineering, we conducted the largest scale, longitudinalretention study of an underrepresented minority group in engineering to date. Here, we presentquantitative and qualitative findings of the first 3 years of this 5-year project, which investigatedthe temporal effects of social cognitive, personal, and contextual factors on engineering students’persistence decisions as posited by Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) [1, 2]. We presentthemes that emerged from individual interviews with 32 Latinx and White engineering students[3]. Using a large sample of over 800 Latinx engineering students from 6 Hispanic ServingInstitutions and 5 Predominantly White Institutions, we found that
considering writing a Faculty Early CareerDevelopment (CAREER) proposal for the National Science Foundation. The paper focuses onthree topics that could be considered part of the “hidden curriculum” of successful proposalwriting for this program: situating your project within your vision for your academic career,communicating effectively with program officers, and developing a support network for yourproposal writing. Examples of career visions are included from Engineering Education CAREERawardees. Writing prompts are included to help prospective investigators develop their owncareer visison.Keywords: NSF CAREER, proposal writing, program officer, career visionIntroductionThe Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) competition is a unique program
(e.g. sameinstitution or different institution), the style of mentorship preferred by mentor and mentee, theability for mentees to network within the EER community, the academic rank of the mentor andmentee, and the interpersonal relationships between RIEF grantee pairings. The aim of thepresent work is to illuminate the ways in which these findings resonate within the EERcommunity, as well as to move towards impactful distribution of future results. The outcomes ofthe study are related to a larger project which will fuse our team’s experience hostingworkshops, networking with RIEF grantees, and developing training materials for faculty joiningthe EER community. Developing an understanding of best practices for faculty-faculty peermentorship
built by carefully designingventure development projects. Here, the students are asked to generate a business idea and wouldneed to conduct all the necessary investigation and evaluation involved in generating a realisticventure concept and taking it through to the point of commencement of operations [4]. Since manyof these investigation and evaluation tasks are relatively new for the students, certain trainingmaterials should be provided by the instructor. However, this should not be to the extent that theprocess be dominated by input from the instructor. Instead, the students should be given room toexplore, make mistakes, learn from those mistakes and try something new. Another importantaspect here is to ensure that the overall goal is not
technology, and readings in diverse canonical and non-canonical works of sciencefiction. This humanistic course concluded with a summative group project, which requiredstudents to draw upon all aspects of the diverse curriculum in order to fulfill assignment goals.The project, which was designed to activate both creative and critical thinking abilities, directedstudents to create utopian societies. In order to imagine visionary alternative societies, studentsemployed ethical principles, invoked themes and ideas from literature, and utilized new and evenspeculative technologies. In designing planned "perfect" communities, the students examined ourmost pressing social, scientific, and cultural challenges, responding to these problems byenvisioning new
theirinspiration for a design project. We created a case study for each scenario, where we tried to set-up the situation and teach students the correct or Instructor-expected response. We created threeethics related assignments.2.1 Assignment 1 and Quiz 1In the first assignment, the students were asked to read the Academic Integrity Policy for ouruniversity. The policy is available in the ATU Student Handbook and we created a link to it inBlackboard for the students. The policy lists types of academic integrity violations and includesdefinitions and examples for cheating, plagiarism, collusion, impersonation, fabrication, andforgery. The students were asked to read the policy and then answer 5 questions. The completeassignment is given in figure 1