, performance, and processing. The sixmodules covered 1: Atomic structure of engineering materials; 2: Grain structure of metal alloys;3: Tensile tests on engineering materials to obtain mechanical properties of materials; 4: Effectof temperature and strain rate on mechanical properties of engineering materials; 5: Coldworking and annealing of metal alloys, and 6: Phase transformation and phase diagram. Modules1 and 2 were on microstructure, Modules 3 and 4 on properties and Modules 5 and 6 onprocessing. In all the modules, students were required to discuss the performance (application) ofmaterials. For each module, student groups were assigned one of up to10 different tasks tocomplete. Students first completed a pre-module self-directed learning
indeveloping effective mosquito population control methods. One of the potential mosquitobreeding spots are stagnant waters [1-4]. It would be beneficial to the mosquito researchers tomonitor and analyze the water properties of the potential mosquito breeding spots [5][6]. Researchers who may want to analyze the water in these breeding hotspots need a way tocollect the sample. This can be very difficult as these areas can be very hard to access [7][8].Current methods of collecting these samples may include a researcher taking a boat out onto thewater to collect samples or being within reaching distance of the source. Therefore, theinstrumentation presented in this paper is to create a way to aid in research for mosquitopopulation control as many
Materials Engineering CourseIntroductionShortages in the engineering and technology fields is an urgent priority for the US governmentand the country as a whole. In many technical industries, there is a shortage of people graduatingwith the skills needed to take on careers in fields like microelectronics. The microelectronicsindustry specifically is raising concerns regarding talent shortages, with 77% of semiconductormanufacturers surveyed were concerned about a talent shortage in the industry. [1]Workforce development programs have become a strategy to help areas of technological need getmore attention from potential engineers and technical workers and retain those who are alreadyin these fields. For example, the National Science Foundation (NSF
undergraduate…I went to talk to a professor in the electrical engineering department. He made it very clear: He was not interested in having me in his department. On deciding to become an astronaut: ‘I really needed to see’ people like Sally Ride do it first On fighting discrimination in the workplace: ‘These were people who didn’t know me at all’ Fig. 1. Interview excerpt [34] with the CNBC featuring Astronaut Dr. Ellen Ochoa who logged 1,000 hours in space and served in NASA as the Director of the Johnson Space Center. She was the first Latino and second woman to serve in this capacity [34].As a panacea to the ongoing diversity problem, we propose to explore multiple identities.Identity is a precursor variable to motivation that leads to
example. Morebroadly, we are examining how annuities can be best evaluated as an investment.Annuities are often sold by insurance companies but are also widely offered through brokeragefirms [1]. They are widely recommended as a low-risk investment, primarily as guaranteedretirement income [2]. The people who buy annuities are usually looking for guaranteed incomefor life, as a hedge against outliving their savings and investments [3]. Social Security benefitsfill a similar need, and a good class exercise is asking how large an annuity purchase needs to beto match those benefits.Annuities can be used as a continuity example when teaching engineering economics. Annuityincome estimates are publicly available and can be looked up by students. This
changes in real student programs in our course. The study showedabout 32% of students in the initial leaps group, and 5% in the gave up group, which we manuallyconfirmed as actual cheating. Furthermore, 24% of initial leap students and 47% of gave up studentssubsequently solution hopped. We plan to make our drastic change detection tool available to the CScommunity as a free web tool.IntroductionA common form of cheating on programming assignments involves a student initially trying, thenstruggling, and eventually giving up and copying a solution from elsewhere. Regarding such cheating,Malan [1], who teaches Harvard's CS50, notes "All too often were students’ acts the result of late-nightpanic". Fig. 1 provides an example from real code
importance of selecting and adapting project frameworks to enhance studentengagement when incorporating societal connections and humanities topics into engineeringcurriculum.IntroductionThe educational experience for engineers rightly focuses on the detailed design process.However, in 2018 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published anextensive report exploring the integration of the humanities and arts in the sciences andengineering [1]. The chair of the committee later extracted the key findings: Integration of the arts and humanities into STEM courses and curricula is associated with positive student outcomes, including higher order thinking, creative problem solving, content mastery of complex
; BackgroundThere exists a great variety of research communities which aim to improve engineeringeducation through innovative, evidence-based practice. While many of these researchcommunities work to develop new educational strategies with great success, there appears to be amissing link: that between the dissemination of evidence-based educational strategies and theiruse in an actual educational environment. Although new pedagogical methods continue to bedeveloped, tested, and published, instructors can often struggle to fit them into their classrooms[1]-[3]. This gap is influenced by a few factors: resources available to faculty members [4]-[6], afaculty member’s willingness to make changes to their pedagogy [7]-[8], and the social networks(or lack
provide an opportunity to demonstrate key conceptsapplicable to submarine design without dependence on access to water. The Naval Research andDevelopment Framework and corresponding Addendum speaks to the need for “[u]nderseadominance…as the Navy designs and build the next generation of strategic and tacticalsubmarines” including “[e]xpanded use of autonomous undersea vehicles…” [1]. Furthermore,the Addendum’s Integrated Research Portfolio on Warfighter Supremacy speaks to training andeducation as well as development of biologically inspired autonomous systems. Current interestin biologically inspired vehicles is documented in the Navy’s proposed FY22 budget [2]. Hands-on robotics activities using LTA platforms provide a novel opportunity to
been promoted thoroughly and there aremany reasons for why they are crucial in the modern world. Kay and Greenhill (2010) identifiedthree main shifts that have inspired the movement for these skills as 1) changes in the economyand society that have reshaped the way we live, 2) an increase in global competitiveness hasUnited States students struggling to keep up, and 3) companies shifting the way they do businessdue to technological and economic changes, leaving workers with more responsibility tocontribute to both productivity and innovation. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (2011)identifies global awareness, creativity, critical thinking, communication skills, contextuallearning ability, and information and media literacy as key
helps in improving students’ learning experience, satisfaction, and overallperformance. The purpose of this study is to explore the story of how one engineering facultymember integrates teacher empathy into their course, including motivations, barriers, difficultiesfaced, and benefits to becoming more empathetic in the classroom. The model of empathyframework developed by Walther and colleagues was used to frame our study on teacherempathy [1]. We used Action Research (AR) methodology for this study as AR allows theresearcher to work with the participant instead of on the participant. In this study, we were partof a teaching team for an Engineering Mechanics class. In two pre-study interviews, wediscussed the meaning of teacher empathy and the
early engineering education in the U.S. prior to1850, state that engineering education was first observed at four colleges in the Northeast in theearly 1800s: the U.S. Military Academy (West Point, NY), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute(Troy, NY), Norwich University (Northfield, VT), and Union College (Schenectady, NY) [1].The U.S. Military Academy, henceforth called West Point, and Norwich University were eachestablished as military and engineering schools. At West Point, artillery officers and engineerswere trained as early as 1796 to support the Continental Army. However, the U.S. MilitaryAcademy was officially established by Act of Congress under President Thomas Jefferson in1802, making it the first military academy in the U.S [2]. A
broader cultural experiences related to the support required to besuccessful in the field, mentorship, and research capability development.IntroductionCalls have reverberated across higher education to improve the professional formation of futurefaculty members [1], [2]. Professional formation describes the processes and value systemsthrough which an individual assumes their professional role, including skill acquisition, identitydevelopment, and acculturation [3]. The professional landscape is shifting for faculty membersdue to evolving approaches to teaching, increasing workloads, growing expectations for research,and changing conditions in the academic job market [4], which places greater impetus onpreparing the future and current faculty
) Ronald W. Welch, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, F.ASEE, F.SAME Professor of Civil Engineering Ron Welch received his B.S. degree in Engineering Mechanics from the United States Military Academy in 1982. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1990 and 1999, respectively. He was Dean of the School of Engineering at The Citadel from 1 July 2011- 30 June 2021. He is currently Professor of Civil Engineering at The Citadel after completing a sabbatical. Prior to his current position, he was the Department Head of Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Tyler from Jan 2007 to June 2011 as well as served in the Army Corps of Engineers for over 24 years
for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comWork-in-Progress: The Transformative Cauldron, Development of the Optimal Space-in-BetweenAbstractWhat are the elements of an optimal space in-between for cross-disciplinary designteams? Specifically, how does the development of high-quality soft skills, such as openness toperspective-taking, openness to failure, healthy problem-solving approaches, a growth mindset, astrong sense of agency, healthy curiosity/creativity, and an openness to a culture of inquiry bybuilding shared meaning impact the design experience of cross-disciplinary teams’ work?Deleuze and Guatarri [1] identify the ‘space in-between’ as a place where teammates negotiateshared
multipleengineering disciplines. Equipping engineering students with MATLAB proficiency has beenincorporated into the curriculum of many engineering programs. MATLAB programmingexercises are required in homework in a Mechanical Vibrations course and computer lab projectsin a Signals and Systems course taught by the two authors respectively. Manual grading thoseexercises is a time-consuming process for the instructor or teaching assistant, so the feedback tothe student comes when they are no longer thinking of the problem. Studies have shown thatautomated grading tools can help reduce the drop-out rate [1], improve student grades [1] [2],better engaging students in nontraditional teaching modalities such as condensed summercourses and hybrid (online/in-person
, housing construction, among others. He was also a Project Management Associate for a Habitat For Humanity housing project in the USA. (ii) RESEARCH: Miguel Andrés' research focuses on (1) decision-making for the design and construction of infrastructure projects, (2) the planning of sustainable, smart and resilient cities, and (3) the development of engineers who not only have solid technical and practical knowledge, but also social understanding for, through infrastructure, address local and global challenges on humanitarian, environmental, social and equity issues. (iii) EDUCATION RESEARCH: Related to STEM education, Miguel Andrés is developing and applying contemporary pedagogies and tools for innovation and
environment, integrated building assessment, building physics, building envelope and materials, and built environment sustainability.Mohamad RazkenariPaul Crovella © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comConstruction Management Education with Reality Capture: Enabling Communication andTeamwork in a Learner-centered ApproachShaghayegh Kurzinski1, Shayan Mirzabeigi2, Mohamad A. Razkenari3, Paul L. Crovella31 Ph.D. Candidate in Sustainable Construction Management, Department of Sustainable Resources Management, StateUniversity of New York, College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, New York.2 Ph.D. Student in
thesystems engineering framework (Cynefin) that will guide the application of collaborative inquiryin the special session. As part of the discussion, we will also provide some groundinginformation regarding the course the session participants will be exploring.Collaborative InquiryCollaborative Inquiry is a process through which individuals work together to investigate,analyze, and test solutions to complex situations and/or problems. It has been used in manydisciplines, though K12 education stands out for using this technique across teacher professionaldevelopment [e.g., 1], in the classroom as a pedagogical tool in the K12 classroom [e.g., 2, 3],and as a research [4] or evaluation [5] method. Computer-mediated versions accelerated its usein the
when students participate inclass activities when compared to students passively listening to lectures [1]. These activitiesmay include games, discussions, group activities for face-to-face delivery of softwareengineering topics, and cannot be used without modification in the online delivery of the coursematerials. Following Covid protocols in face-to-face classes also requires modification of activelearning course materials.Courses offered by the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) rely heavily onlectures as the primary vehicle of instruction even when the emphasis is on student project work.As a consequence of this delivery style, computing students (Computer and Information Science(CIS), Data Science (DS), Software
era. Einde et al. [1] focused on the related question ofspatial visualization and its suitability for remote learning. They report on their experiences usingthe spatial vis app designed to allow for free hand sketching in developing these skills. The appfacilitates the quantification of usage data which allows the impact on learning and engagementduring remote learning to be measured. As a work-in-progress they note that no firm conclusionshave yet been drawn. However, they were able to identify differences in scores of studentsbefore and during the pandemic which they believe can be attributed to the impact of remotelearning.Dagman et al. [2] report on their experiences of the shift to online learning for a CAD class.Their main finding was
in the modeling portion of thefinal exam.IntroductionThe creation of solid models can be a mostly math-free introduction to the engineering designprocess. There are numerous acceptable ways to create a solid model, but all good models sharethe same characteristics — good solid models incorporate the design intent that was expressed inthe original layout drawing. Design intent is a method used in computer-aided design that definesrelationships between objects, so that a change to one propagates automatically to others [1].Incorporating design intent into a solid model results in a model that typically has the minimumnumber of dimensional values. This is accomplished by using a sufficient number of geometricalconstraints in fully constrained
thechoices made as the comics were developed. Similar to Matusovich, et. al. (2020) we undertook ananalytical autoethnography approach, borrowing from Anderson (2006), and prioritized pragmatic reflections -recollections and discussions that focussed on experiences and outcomes. A reflective assignment was shared with thefirst three authors of this paper. Questions on the reflective assignment helped the authors delve deeper into the needfor such comics and understand their personal motivations for undertaking this project. The primary questions drivingthe reflections from the author/participants of this study include: 1. What do comics offer that traditional curriculum do not? What are your motivations for working on developing an
, teamspresent the progress of their projects to the class on three occasions. Companies sponsor projects in avariety of domains representing the Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE) Body of Knowledge (BoK)[1] (see Table 1). Table 1. Body of knowledge areas as defined by IISE. 1. Work Design & Measurement 8. Supply Chain Management 2. Operations Research & Analysis 9. Engineering Management 3. Engineering Economic Analysis 10. Safety 4. Facilities Engineering & Energy Management 11. Information Engineering 5. Quality & Reliability Engineering 12. Design &
by the eastern coast of Sutwik Island, Alaska on December 31, 2019. The vessel isshown in Figure 1. The last 40-hour transit is depicted in her Automatic Identification System(AIS) tracking in Figure 2. She left her port on the northeast of Kodiak Island at approximately2100 (Alaskan time) on December 30, 2019, and transited southwest through the ShelikofStraight where the vessel experienced 20-foot seas and starboard-side winds. At approximately2200 on December 31, 2019, a MAYDAY was broadcast to the area. The Scandies Rose rolledand eventually capsized to starboard side. Five lives were lost out of the seven-person crew. Thetwo survivors, Dean Gribble and Jon Lawler, were rescued by Coast Guard helicopter atapproximately 0200 on January 1
the past will not be sufficient. The challenges we face are becoming more intertwinedwith the systems that connect us all. Working across traditional disciplines of study to developnew approaches to problem solving is essential if we are to invent solutions to identified Grand 1Challenges [1] and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals [2] as well as other new,novel, and useful creations that add value to people’s lives. Furthermore, these challenges alsorequire participation from diverse groups who are often still excluded from innovationopportunities, including engineering design, invention, and entrepreneurship.While the pathway to
explanation was found for lack ofpost-test gains and this topic remains a subject for future studies. Overall, the detailed analysis ofstudent sketches identified a number of recommendations for improving the CBL environment.These included additional early assignments on Top Views and also assignments to improvealignment and orientation of orthographic views. Findings highlight the need for additional datamining and research to improve instructional design and feedback for spatial visualization skilltraining for all students.1. IntroductionUsing software tools for learning has many advantages; students can progress at their own paceand receive immediate feedback regarding the correctness of their answers. This is a rapidlygrowing area of research
focused on artificial intelligence/machine learning and interested in Natural Language Processing applications. Passionate about diversity in the tech industry!Monique Ross Assistant Professor, Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences and STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University, research interests include broadening participation in computing through the exploration of: 1) race, gender, and identity in the academy and industry; 2) discipline-based education research that informs pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women and minorities in computer-related fields. She uses her scholarship to challenge the perceptions of who belong in computing.Mark Finlayson
, educational valuesand lessons learned via the capstone experience as well as the detail of the educational ROV willbe presented.I. Introduction For Ocean exploration, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) can be used, and it can be a formof an unmanned and tethered underwater vehicle. There are various sizes of the ROVs dependingon the tasks and the depth of the explorations [1-3]. In order to dive a deep ocean floor, the sizeof the ROVs is large. But, for a survey task and explorations in shallow channels, a small scaleROV can be used [4-6]. This small scale ROV can allow engineering students to understand thewater property, and the ROV has various electrical and mechanical components that allows themto build their engineering skill sets. This small