our students that are designed to build on our strengths and provide new areas of success.IntroductionMakerspaces are no longer novel or rare and are regularly being established on campuses and inurban spaces across the United States and beyond. A variety of research has been conducted tocatalog the positive impacts of makerspaces especially as it relates to engineering education. Ascampuses develop makerspaces, they have used the spaces as a type of laboratory to test theimpact of projects and courses related to making. We will build on this growing literature as wedevelop programming and policies for our Innovation Center (expected to open in the Fallsemester of 2022) that will promote an open and inclusive experience for users.New
include develop- mental psychology; sociocultural theories of communication, learning, and identity; qualitative methods; and discourse analysis.Dr. Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder Beth A. Myers is the Director of Analytics, Assessment and Accreditation at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a BA in biochemistry, ME in engineering management and PhD in civil engineering. Her interests are in quantitative and qualitative research and data analysis as related to equity in education. She has been involved in the new pilot Engineering Math course at CU-Boulder since the start.Dr. Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder Jacquelyn Sullivan is founding co-director of the Engineering Plus
graduate studies in Engineering Education. Her research interests include emotion in design and empathetic classroom practices.Ms. Gina Marie Quan, University of Maryland, College Park Gina Quan is a doctoral candidate in Physics Education Research at the University of Maryland, Col- lege Park. She graduated in 2012 with a B.A. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include understanding community and identity formation, unpacking students’ re- lationships to design, and cultivating institutional change. Ms. Quan is also a founding member of the Access Network, a research-practice community dedicated to fostering supportive communities in under- graduate physics departments, and
Session 2530unstable, and can vary widely depending on what the current headlines say aboutemerging technologies. The image of engineering is also negatively affected by its close association withscience [4]. Thus, it is useful to look at the research in science for information onpotential reactions to engineering. Girls and boys develop ideas about science and who isqualified to be a scientist early in their education, often based largely on messages theyreceive outside of the school walls [6]. In order to effectively address students’ ideasabout science, it is important to understand the nature of those ideas [7, 8, 9]. Similarly,in order to address students’ ideas about engineering, it is important to understand whatideas students have
engineering, as design requires a mixture of technical and professional skills.However, despite the similarities that design courses may offer to real-world experiences,educators face challenges balancing what the curriculum can simulate (e.g., realistic designconstraints, access to stakeholders) and what would be most helpful in developing students forthe complex, multidisciplinary work environment they will enter after graduation [3]. As such,there is currently a gap between what educational opportunities are feasible within academiaversus what is required to excel in collaborative, multidisciplinary design environments. This gaphas been echoed in current literature through discussions of the need to enhance professionalskills such as communication
federal funding fortraining grants that facilitate the comprehensive education of students, the National ScienceFoundation implemented the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT)program. Catalyzed by an IGERT grant, a comprehensive graduate education and researchtraining program has been developed within the Center for Multiphase Environmental Researchat Washington State University. The program is designed to produce students who:6 • have a broad cross-disciplinary education and awareness • readily integrate interdisciplinary knowledge • work in a collaborative mode • have a global perspective • have effective communication skills, both oral and written • benefit from professional conferences
, this paper describes the key functions and roles associated with mentoring in thecapstone course as well as a factors that can influence these mentoring environments. The resultsprovide the engineering education community with a more complete understanding of the natureof design teaching in a way that can be used not only for professional development of currentdesign faculty, but also in the training of new design educators.IntroductionThe capstone course in engineering emerged as a result of the perceived lack of practical skillsin graduates that resulted from a strong focus on theoretical knowledge in the curriculum in thecold war era 1, 2. Among the strategies for addressing that imbalance, ABET, Inc. now requiredthat programs incorporate a
published learning objectives of engineering departmentsdirect students to "develop a sense of responsibility and appreciation for the continuous wellbeing" of the student's program,15 and the role of enculturation in engineering education is ofcourse one of tremendous historical significance, especially regarding matters of equity in race,gender, sexual identity, physical ability and age.16, 17, 18 But more subtle, perhaps, are invocationsof "professional" attainment or conduct in descriptions of engineering coursework. These mayexert a fearful influence on students. Such invocations make existing curricula or coursematerials appear to students to be the only legitimate ones, and sweepingly associate existingcurricula with life goals such as
and a second-year introduction to project development course. Bothuse a collaborative project-based-learning approach to teach engineering design while integratingmaking activities directly into their curriculum. Students work on an open-ended problemdirectly with a real-time client from the external community. Students in both courses arerequired to build a functional prototype by the end of the course with a $100 budget. The coursesencourage students to follow design thinking methodology, an approach to learning that focuseson developing students’ creative confidence through hands-on projects that train students onempathy, promote a bias toward action, encourage ideation and foster active problem-solving[13].Moreover, both courses integrate
AC 2012-5144: ENHANCING THE EXPERIENCE IN A FIRST-YEAR EN-GINEERING COURSE THROUGH THE INCORPORATION OF GRAPH-ICAL PROGRAMMING AND DATA ACQUISITION TECHNOLOGYDr. Gregory Warren Bucks, Ohio Northern University Gregory Bucks graduated with his Ph.D. in 2010 from the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He received his B.S.E.E. from the Pennsylvania State University and his M.S.E.C.E. from Purdue University. While at Purdue, he has been heavily involved with the EPICS program, as well as working with the First-year Engineering program. He is currently a visiting Assistant Professor in the electrical and computer engineering and computer science department at Ohio Northern University.Dr. William C. Oakes
school. Her research is focused on solving problems relating to educating and developing engi- neers, teachers, and the community at all levels (P12, undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate). A few of these key areas include engineering identity and mindsets, global competencies, failure culture, first year experiences in engineering, capstone design thinking, integrating service and authentic learning into the engineering classroom, implementing new instructional methodologies, and design optimization using traditional and non-traditional manufacturing. She seeks to identify best practices and develop assess- ments methods that assist in optimizing computing and engineering learning. Dr. Gurganus was one the inaugural
identities. She developed and continues to work on Engineering Moment, a classroom-based podcast project about the social role of engineering, and Vision Venture, a co-curricular interactive video series exploring students’ engineering identities, agency, and purpose after graduation.Yee Lan Elaine Wong Yee Lan Elaine Wong is a Master of Visual Anthropology student at the University of Southern California and is investigating emotions in the modern workplace through her thesis film. She holds a BSc in An- thropology from University College London and previously created content for WNJ Ventures - a Hong Kong-based boutique research house educating investors about the latest trends inspiring Millennials and Gen Zs. She
hundreds of new and experienced engineers. His research interests include; design education, product architecture, mechanical reliability, design for manufacture and quality. Mark graduated from Rensselaer with a B.S. in mechanical engineering in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1987.Mr. Kurt Stephen Stresau, University of Central Florida c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Case Study Approach for Understanding the Impact of Team Selection on the Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Capstone TeamsAn important ingredient for capstone project success is teamwork. Most, if not all, capstoneteams will deal with issues such as poor communication, social
in thisarea [2]. Launched in 2014 and refined each semester subsequently, this training program isdesigned and delivered consistently with the literature on teaching workplace skills toundergraduate students.As a result, engineering students in the capstone course and business students in a businesscommunication course at the same university receive identical professional communicationtraining in teamwork skills, conflict management techniques, presentation skills, and teamleadership from the same communications instructor. The goal is to help students developprofessional skills considered essential by employers who hire new college graduates. Each year,the National Association of Colleges and Employers' (NACE) Job Outlook survey
on Sense of Community in Engineering. Int. Journal of Com. WB 4, 549–580 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42413-021-00149-z[20] Benson, L., Bolding, C., Ogle, J. H., McGough, C., Murphy, J., & Lanning, R. (2019). Engineering Students’ Perceptions of Belongingness in Civil Engineering. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings.[21] Verdín, D. (2021). The power of interest: Minoritized women’s interest in engineering fosters persistence beliefs beyond belongingness and engineering identity. International Journal of STEM Education, 8(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-021-00292-1[22] Johnson, & Ulseth, R. (2016). Development of professional competency through
adaptive problem solvers and have cognitive flexibilitywhen solving problems—an essential skill for these future engineers to learn if they are goingwork toward developing a sustainable society. Our vision in teaching the design process is toenable mastery through directed and non-directed, group-based and independent, structured andunstructured, problem-based learning experiences that incrementally expose and reiterate thedesign process. The following overarching attributes build this vision: Balance between Theory and Practice. An education in engineering design must blend design Page 25.81.5 theory and methodology with practice. This is
patents.Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He has been teaching Sophomore Design, Senior Design, and Combustion Engine Systems, testing of catalytic engine systems, conducting action research in the college classrooms, teaching and documenting open-ended problem solving, and designing professional development activities. He is a Member of the Transferable Integrated Design Engineering Education (TIDEE) consortium that produced and field tested a three component Design Team Readiness Assessment. He is a Co-PI on the NSF Enriched Learning Environment grant with primary responsibility for the formation and ongoing development of a community of research
monitoring.We envision engineering education pedagogy as being at a crossroads, especially as it relates toelectrical and computer engineering. We have observed at the University of Virginia thatrelatively few of our undergraduates gain employment designing discrete circuits, i.e. transistoramplifiers. Yet, understanding these low level concepts is seen as valuable especially as itprovides students with an introduction to the concepts of tradeoffs and operational limits that aresuch an essential element of engineering design. An overarching goal of an engineeringeducation is to allow students to develop an appreciation that large scale systems are assembledfrom smaller building blocks and that a truly professional designer must have some sense ofboth
engineering students with an outreach mission to high school students. Her area of expertise is turbine cooling and using additive manufacturing to develop innovative cooling technologies. She has published over 220 archival papers and advised 70 dissertations and theses. Dr. Thole has provided service leadership to numerous organizations including being a member of ASME’s Board of Governors. She has also served as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the ASME’s International Gas Turbine Institute in which she led a number of initiatives to promote communities of women engineers and students. In her roles as an educator, researcher, and mentor, Dr. Thole has received numerous awards. The most notable awards include
observations regarding the development ofstudents’ design competency as well as the success and limitations of Funskill are deliberated.This work is part of ongoing research that explores how various instructional tools impactengineering students’ systems thinking tendencies and design skills.1. IntroductionAs the complexity of the infrastructure, consumer electronics, and virtually all other engineeredsystems increases, so too, does the need for engineering programs to graduate engineers anddesigners capable of tackling the complex design problems associated with these increasinglyintricate systems. Effective design is something that novice engineers and engineering studentshave routinely struggled with in the absence of explicit education or
, paradigms and advising syllabus concept have been used to develop aprofessional development curriculum for faculty advisors in our College of Engineering. Theprimary assumption of this program is that advising is a form of teaching, and that faculty canlearn to use effective advising techniques through their involvement in a community of advising.The program and initial results are described below.The Designated Faculty Advisor Development Program at San José State UniversityFor the past three years, the College of Engineering at San José State University has beenengaged in a significant effort to improve faculty advising 32 because we believe it will improveretention and graduation rates and because it will ultimately result in better educated
high attrition rates in engineering was due to freshmen students’inability to connect their college coursework to their engineering career.44 To address this,cornerstone design courses have been introduced to present an introductory-type design course toshow students how engineering allows you to go from designing a system to building one.The impact of cornerstone design courses has reached beyond education, as industry partnerswanted a stake of what students were learning. Industry yearned for students to gain skills inproblem solving, critical thinking, and communication within a team format at an earlier stage intheir education.45Cornerstone and capstone design courses are opportunities for students to develop teamwork skillsand improve
Colorado Co-Director and an Instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received B.S. and M.S degrees in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Kotys-Schwartz has focused her research in engineering student learning, retention, and student identity development within the context of engineering design. She is currently investigating the impact of a four-year hands-on design curriculum in engineering, a holistic ap- proach to student retention, the effects of service learning in engineering education, and informal learning in engineering
activities related to interacting with stakeholders and conducting needs assessments.Dr. Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton (2003) and a Ph.D. in Engineering Edu- cation from Purdue University (2008). Her research focuses on strategies for design innovations through divergent and convergent thinking as well as through deep needs and community assessments using design ethnography, and translating those strategies to design tools and education. She teaches design and en- trepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, focusing on front-end
coursework, campus climate, administration/leadership, classmates, and faculty.However, in a field which trails in reflecting the diversity of the society served, engineering hasthe potential to promote change in not only classroom content, but also in connections within thecampus and with the external community. Engineering educational systems must integratestructures which disable the exclusion and attrition of marginalized students, instead designing andrefining how programs like EPIC affect retention and potential, through: investigating themotivations surrounding organizational and professional commitments, analyzing student needsin order to provide students with equitably support the institutional and classroom experiences,and merging societal
years of Naval service, Takeshi Jonathan Ei commenced undergraduate studies at Northamp- ton Community College in Bethlehem, Penn. He then transferred to York College of Pennsylvania and graduated with a bachelor’s of science in mechanical engineering in June 2011. Ei has interests in marine systems and power generation technologies and plans to pursue a postgraduate degree and a career in the field of commercial or military shipbuilding.Mr. Edward Miller Jr., York College of Pennsylvania Edward Miller received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in Aug. 2011 from York College of Pennsylvania. Miller is interested in power systems and renewable energy technologies. He plans to pursue a postgraduate degree, as
- sign and Engineering). His engineering design research focuses on developing computational represen- tation and reasoning support for managing complex system design. The goal of Dr. Morkos’ research is to fundamentally reframe our understanding and utilization of system representations and computational reasoning capabilities to support the development of system models which help engineers and project planners intelligently make informed decisions at earlier stages of engineering design. On the engineer- ing education front, Dr. Morkos’ research explores means to integrate innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering education through entrepreneurially-minded learning, improve persistence in engineering, address
Page 11.792.9would like to apply more security tools to the development process. Code reviews could be en-hanced through the assistance of better static analysis tools with more instructor assistance. Thereare also a wide variety of web application security scanners, which offer features beyond the proxyand custom perl tools used in previous versions of the course. To address the issue of time constraints, we are creating a graduate class in secure softwareengineering. This class has both software engineering and information security prerequisites, al-lowing us to build upon a foundation of both security and software development skills. Graduatestudents also typically have a stronger mathematical background than undergraduates, opening
engineering course in engineeringeducation is essential to prepare the students to solve industry challenges. Innovative methods inteaching, including the cross-cultural student integration, have proven effective to enhancesuccess in multidisciplinary engineering design teams.Senior design projects are essential to demonstrate engineering graduates’ industry-readiness [5].The Engineering Technology program at UTRGV offers a wide range of options from which thestudents will develop engineering skills to address engineering and technological challenges. Atthe end of the coursework, the students must complete an industry-related, research-basedcapstone project, which in specific cases involves the design and development of a functionalprototype.The
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