allthree of these sets of content. If the computational-based content has a more direct relation to theengineering profession and later engineering courses, students would be exposed to basicconcepts of future courses and have an early understanding of these relevant engineering topics.This research aims to present data which shows the effects that a computational-based first-yearengineering course can have on student preparation for later engineering courses. This researchis based on four years of data collection regarding how the computational-based spring semesterfirst year course CE 113 (Civil Engineering Analysis) has impacted student performance inPhysics 1, Statics, and Mechanics of Materials. This research also provides an outline for
primary material associated with the topic.Students were asked to consider ore extraction, raw material processing, product manufacturing,and end-of-life of the material, with a primary focus on the materials processing-properties-structure triad. Projects will be assessed by a team of faculty and graduate students who are notresponsible for the course using a cognitive domain rubric. In addition, students will be asked tocomplete a survey that both addresses the cognitive domain as well as the affective domain relatedto the connections between concepts in materials science and their professional goals. Data will becompared across groups provided different types of mentorship during the development of theirproject. We will report on the final
their work, thestudents can direct the focus of their research and what they will be learning through the IL process.The iterative nature of incorporating this feedback allows the instructor to provide a form ofguidance for the students towards understanding the socio-technological interactions in theirnuclear systems.ConclusionsOverall, we find that guided inquiry learning is an impactful approach to integrating engineeringethics education in a traditional, technical course. This study helped us identify important factorsthat supported our pedagogical design, which is specific to our local context. These include theinterest and knowledgeability of the instructional staff in the sociotechnical content (e.g.sustainability, policy, design ethics
performance (GPA), and community connection(one-year retention) as seen in the Results and Discussion section. These programs are acombination of new and old initiatives whose mutual support lays the foundation for the holisticapproach to student support that OSDS is striving to achieve. These programs include: • Engage ME! (Multicultural Engineers) • WE Engage! (Women in Engineering) • Maximizing Academic and Professional Success (MAPS) Coaching and Mentoring • Engineering Freshman Learning Community (EFLC)Regular, consistent assessment and evaluation of academic success and retention metrics throughthese initiatives will allow us to narrow the strategic focus of each program to develop a commonset of complimentary best practices
Engineering from Purdue University in 2015. Her primary focus is on the application of research-based teaching methods in engineering education.Dr. Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University Jennifer Cole is the Assistant Chair in Chemical and Biological Engineering in the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University and the Associate Director of the Northwestern Center for Engineering Education Research. Dr. Cole’s primary teaching is in capstone and freshman design, and her research interest are in engineering design education.Dr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He earned his BS from Worces- ter Polytechnic
choice into two critical assignments.Foundational Course InitiativeBeginning in May 2018, ENGR 110 was involved in a multi-year, transformative course designprocess in partnership with the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) throughthe Foundational Course Initiative (FCI). FCI was created in an effort to transform large-enrollment introductory courses or introductory courses that have a high-impact on the studentpopulation at the University of Michigan. Through systematic inquiry, purposeful exploration ofideas, and thoughtful implementation, courses are redesigned with the intention of producingstudent success. Assignment redesign and assessment for ENGR 110 were accomplishedthrough a collaborative course design (CCD) process
classes, conduct research, andinteract with departmental faculty, staff, and other graduate students, the climate they experienceand the support they receive at the departmental level can have a major impact on their success.When interventions address students directly, once they graduate, there may be no lasting changein the department. However, when faculty attitudes and mentoring practices along withdepartmental processes and procedures change, the changes are likely to be more sustainable.Using institutional theory as the analytical lens, the purpose of this paper is to examine how onecollaborative project implements a faculty-led institutional change model for diversifying theSTEM professoriate. Each participating doctoral granting
and act globally’. The transitionfrom STEM to STEAM can have that global impact by leveraging the arts as a way to communicate andconnect globally.Key words: Art, aesthetics, design in engineering, expressive and sensory qualities, form.IntroductionAesthetics as a subject of formal study in higher education was first emphasized by John Dewey for theUS schools. Dewey referred to art as an experience between the artist, the work of art and its observer[1]. Each time an observer looks at Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, a new Mona Lisa is born. Art is acontinuum from the germination of an idea to the culmination of a complex creation in its supremeform. Aesthetics is a common thread in this process which is essentially a process of the
, at the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS). Dr. Ilhem F. Hakem joined the Colloids, Polymers and Surfaces (CPS) Program and the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 2018 as Teaching Professor to support and expand the educational activi- ties of the CPS Program. This involves teaching of undergraduate and graduate level courses, supervising undergraduate and Master students in research projects related to soft materials and finally develop and get involved in K-12 outreach activities. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: A Summer Outreach Program in Chemical Engineering Emphasizing
. The originaloffering was cohort-based and it employed a weekend format; meeting from Friday throughSunday. The cohort met three times a semester, twice in the summer semester, for a total of fivesemesters (Fall, Spring, Summer, Fall and Spring). After 22 months, all members of the initialcohort format graduated in the May 2000 graduation ceremony. Because of its non-traditionalapproach, the state’s authorization included the establishment of a different fee structure thannormal on-campus classes which resulted in a program cost that was higher than traditional on-campus equivalent programs.The Center for Professional Studies in Technology and Applied Research (ProSTAR) wasapproved by Purdue University under the College of Technology as an
” as an assistant instructor in the University of Texas at Austin for five years.Mr. Andrew Michael Erdman, Pennsylvania State University Andrew M. ”Mike” Erdman received his B.S. in Engineering Science from Penn State and his M.S. from USC. At Rocketdyne (Pratt & Whitney), he helped design the Space Shuttle. As manager of Reactor Safety Analysis, Experimental Engineering, and Fluid Dynamics Technology at KAPL (Bechtel), he con- ducted research for Naval Reactors. He currently serves as the Walter L. Robb director of Engineering Leadership and as a Professor of Practice in SEDTAPP and Engineering Science at Penn State. Erdman has chaired the local Jaycees, Department of Social Services Advisory Council, GE Share
leverage practices and the use of technology. To enhance students’ passion for learning and commitment to lifelong learning. To increase student engagement. To create a community in which faculty share best practices, learn from one another, collaborate across departments, and support each other.Approved Applied LearningApproved applied learning technique has also been applied to enhance student engagement.Applied learning refers to an educational approach whereby students learn by engaging in directapplication of skills, theories and models. Students apply knowledge and skills gained fromtraditional classroom learning to hands-on and/or real-world settings, creative projects orindependent or directed research, and in turn
. Norman is a 2018-2019 Fulbright Scholar who actively volunteers as a NASA Solar System Am- bassador. She is also a US Army Veteran who has enjoyed contributing to and learning from a variety of organizations. Dr. Norman is active in helping faculty establish successful research portfolios. Her research interests include fundamental aeronautics; Hypersonics; Theoretical Physics; Planetary Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) system design and analysis; Dewar and Cryostat design and cryogenic mate- rial testing; Advances in STEM Education and Curriculum development;Dr. Yuetong Lin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide Yuetong Lin received the Ph.D. degree in Systems and Industrial Engineering from the University of
not pursuing a STEM field by college are not likely to go into aSTEM field, this includes undecided freshmen (Boesdorfer and Staude, 2016). Thus, middleschoolers and high schoolers are at the prime age for being influenced into STEM fields.This is just a pilot study and evaluation for the first year in the seven year project. In future work,the researchers will collect quantitative and qualitative data from future summer camps andanalyze the data concurrently in a mixed methods research design. This will help increase ourunderstanding of student interest and motivation in STEM as well as the factors influencing thisinterest. Additionally, future research will examine the differences in interest between variousgroups such as males and females
developing an outline for this work.Researchers were supported in this work through the National Science Foundation-IntegrativeGraduate Education and Research Traineeship: Sustainable Electronics Grant (Grant Number1144843) and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under GrantNumber DGE-1333468.Bibliography[1] American Psychological Association. "APA Dictionary of Psychology: Cultural Bias."(accessed 2020).[2] L. McAllister, G. Whiteford, B. Hill, N. Thomas, and M. Fitzgerald, "Reflection inintercultural learning: examining the international experience through a critical incidentapproach," Reflective Practice, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 367-381, 2006, doi:10.1080/14623940600837624.[3] H. C. Triandis, Theoretical concepts
four years of premedical education in a college or university; • Earn a medical degree (MD, DO or other credential approved by an ABMS Member Board) from a qualified medical school; • Complete three to five years of full-time experience in a residency training program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME); • Provide letters of attestation from their program director and/or faculty; • Obtain an unrestricted medical license to practice medicine in the United States or Canada; and • Pass a written and, in some cases, an oral examination created and administered by an ABMS Member Board.* We emphasize this point, because in the ongoing ASCE discussion of
engineering, engineering practices, and quality control. Quality oriented with a strong sense of integrity c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Evaluating the Evolution of Construction Management Students’ Conflict Management Styles as a Result of Andragogical Methods David W. Martin, Ph.D, CPC Central Washington University Ellensburg, WA Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is becoming common in construction thought and practice. Although IPD has its success stories and continues to grow, IPD failures exist. Much of the research on IPD focuses on both the
enrollment in many majors.NEET is based on the following four principles: 1. Our education should focus on preparing our students to develop the new machines and systems that they will build in the middle of the 21st century. 2. We should help our students prepare themselves to be makers, discoverers or positioned along this spectrum, and we should teach engineering fundamentals as a foundation for careers in both research and practice. 3. We should build our education around the way our students learn best, engaging them in their learning, and implementing pilots to understand the desirable balance of classroom, project, and digital education for the digital natives. 4. In view of the speed of scientific
. Previously, he conducted research as a Student Summer Fellow in the Hypersonic Sciences Branch at the Air Force Research Laboratory under the direction of Dr. Roger Kimmel. Carson is a Graduate Associate for the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Notre Dame, where he designs, prepares, and delivers workshops on effective teaching strategies and pedagogy for faculty, postdoctoral students, and graduate students. He is also a Graduate Fellow with the Research and Assessment for Learning (ReAL) Design Lab at the University of Notre Dame, where he conducts research to create predictive learning analytics and dynamic driven admissions criteria to better serve underprepared and underserved engineering
. However, these very traits oftenlead to problems when building large scale software systems. As has been reported by Felder[2], most engineering students tend to be introverted and sensing in their nature. This makes itdifficult for students to interact with others and can lead to problems when building complexsoftware systems. Software engineers often fail to understand the human aspects of the systemsthey design, yielding non-optimum results when finished.We know from the research that appropriate requirements gathering, and elicitation are critical tothe success of software engineering projects. Efforts in effectively defining requirements pay offin both faster deliveries and more successful projects [3]. Thus, it is essential that a
HBCUs and minority-serving institutions was critical toexpanding our applicant pool. We also advertised through the National Society of BlackEngineers, for which one of our department’s graduate students was in a leadership position atthe national level. We did observe that simply broadly increasing the applicant pool, as webelieve occurred when switching to the common application in 2019, did not correspondinglyincrease the number of underrepresented applicants, as the percentage of URM applicantsdeclined slightly. Our best yields from HBCUs were from an institution at which several of ushad developed a relationship over the past several years (including one of our faculty visiting thecampus and giving a research seminar, co-writing grants
. ConclusionIn this paper, we provided theoretical foundations supporting the need for moral imagination andreconstruction of relational identities when making ethical decisions. The disconnect betweenthese concepts and ways that ethics is traditionally addressed in engineering curriculum wasnoted. We then explained instructional approaches that can be considered in ethics instruction toprepare students for the moral imagination required to make ethical decisions. Examples wereprovided of assignments that were introduced in a senior level design class in order tocomplement traditional instruction. In practice these descriptions are intended to promotediscussion on how imagination can be included in instruction and integrated throughout thecurriculum
operations was developed. In orderto assess the impact of the inquiry-based learning module, a short post-survey was used. Thefeedback indicated that the students were satisfied with the way the class was taught and that themethod of instruction kept them engaged and focused. This method will be developed furtherover the next few offerings of the course, and tests on how well this method can be used for othertopics in transportation engineering courses will be conducted.IntroductionHighway and traffic engineers study topics related to roads, including their design and operation.Most Civil Engineering undergraduate curriculum includes an introduction to transportationengineering course that covers the fundamentals of design and operation of
graduating seniors to complete a form in which they rate their attainment of each outcome using a suitable Lickert scale. This could be done in the senior capstone design course, or through exit interviews with the department chair. The survey could be given to individuals, or could be a team-based rating form, where the team members discuss the ratings amongst themselves before completing the form. Because of the complex wording structure of the proposed seven ABET student outcomes, the survey form may need two levels: one for overall outcome (global level) and one for individual wordings (granular level). For example, an evaluation form for proposed student outcome (1) may look like Figure 2. Please rate your knowledge
. URMstudents in completion of their STEM doctorates and pursuing academic careers [8]. This well-known program (formally known as PROMISE) formed an alliance with University of Baltimore(UMB) and University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) based on best practices that havebeen actualized by the Meyerhoff Undergraduate and Graduate programs. Thus, as a whole,UMBC has been recognized as a top institution for cultivating and producing URM STEMgraduates [9].Based on the notion that we should learn from institutions that have been successful, severalinstitutions have tried to replicate components of programs housed at UMBC [10], [11].However, none have garnered the record success of UMBC. Some critics have argued thatalthough the Meyerhoff program is
interdisciplinary courses.Change the World: Olin’s First GCSP CourseOlin’s GCSP redesign culminated in the creation of a new course, Change the World: PersonalValues, Global Impacts, and Making an Olin GCSP. It was co-designed by Assistant Professor ofEnvironmental Engineering Alison Wood (who is also Olin’s GCSP Director) and Professor ofthe History of Science and Technology Robert Martello to serve as the cornerstone of theprogram. The main goal of the course is to provide structured support for a culminating reflectivesynthesis. As mentioned above, in the early years of Olin’s GCSP, graduating seniorsaccomplished their reflection through mentored writing outside of any course, which workedwell for students in the early years of the program but less so
development. He is the recipient of several ASEE awards, including the Fahein award for young faculty teaching and educational scholarship, the Corcoran award for best article in the journal Chemical Engineering Education (twice), and the Martin award for best paper in the ChE Division at the ASEE Annual Meeting.Dr. Sarah A Wilson, University of Kentucky Sarah Wilson is a lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Kentucky. She completed her bachelor’s degree at Rowan University in New Jersey before attending graduate school for her PhD at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. Sarah conducted her thesis research on the production of the anti-cancer compound Paclitaxel
professionalism, ethics, and trust/ trustworthiness in professional-client relationships. A licensed engineer with over 35 years experience in engineering education and practice, Dr. Lawson has provided project management and technical oversight for geotechnical, construction ma- terials, transportation, environmental, and facilities projects nationwide.Theodore G. Cleveland, Texas Tech University Dr. Cleveland combines laboratory and field methods with information management, experimental design, and computational modeling. He is an experimental researcher, modeler, and teacher. His technical background includes environmental and civil engineering, and his research work is focused on water resources problems encompassed in
in Fall 2008 after completing his PhD at the University of Califor- nia, Davis. Prior to that he received his MS from Stanford University and BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Fell’s research concentration is on the behavior of steel structures under seismic effects. His course offerings include structural analysis, structural dynamics and the design of steel structures. Dr. Fell is a registered Professional Engineer in California, an advisor to several student engineering chapters, and a representative to the University Faculty Senate and College Academic Council. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Effect of Letter Exchange Program on Student Development
, active aerodynamic control systems, Tesla turbine design, and improving pre-requisite knowledge retention.Dr. John W. Sanders, California State University, Fullerton Dr. John W. Sanders is currently an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Fullerton. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.S. in Engineering Physics and Mathematics from Saint Louis University. His research interests include clean energy, solid mechanics, micromechanics of mate- rials, fracture mechanics, and STEM education research. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 A Curriculum