ways of generating, distributing and re-using water resources;Manufacturing systems aimed at supporting the manufacturing sector of the nation throughresearch activities in the fields of mechatronics, control systems and appropriate technologydevelopments; and Sustainable mining practices with risk and safety management andenvironmental issues as a focus area for research activities in the mining sector (John, 2014).Another challenge in expanding Namibia’s STEM capacity is the lack of university staff withpost-graduate credentials in the country, with fewer than 200 having a PhD (Jauhiaiene andHooli, 2017). The impact of this was something the author witnessed firsthand while hosted bythe Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DCEE
and efforts to make School climatemore inclusive [11]. Administering the climate survey annually to all undergraduates will allowboth cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses, supporting a tracking of the impacts of specificchanges to School-wide practices.Research in Organizational Change -Using a design-based implementation research (DBIR) approach implementation “problems” and“successes” provide important information for redesign and elaboration decisions [12]-[13]. Ourongoing analyses are currently being used to inform design decisions. The Studio 2.0 progressdescribed above provides a good example of this. Based on observations of student engagementduring the early versions of studio tasks, a group of faculty began meeting to develop
doctorate in mechanical engineering in 2011, all from WVU. At WVU, she has previously served as the Undergraduate and Outreach Advisor for the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department and the Assistant Director of the Center for Building Energy Efficiency. She has previously taught courses such as Thermodynamics, Thermal Fluids Laboratory, and Guided Missiles Systems, as well as serving as a Senior Design Project Advisor for Mechanical Engineering Students. Her research interests include energy and thermodynamic related topics. Since 2007 she has been actively involved in recruiting and outreach for the Statler College, as part of this involvement Dr. Morris frequently makes presentations to groups of K-12
CommonGuidelines for Education Research and Development[3] to generate research questions,hypotheses, a literature search, and mechanisms to gather prior evidence supporting the problemstatement, intellectual merit and broader impacts. Emphasis is placed on gaining a broaderperspective of the state of the art in research practice, and the importance of forming keypartnerships to discover and advance knowledge. The RSA also includes identification ofinternal data sources for evidence gathering to establish baseline data and help measure researchoutcomes and impacts.With a well-defined research concept, the college is ready to approach an NSF Program Officer(PO), discuss the fit to the PO's NSF program, and gain other valuable feedback. If the NSF POagrees
Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin as well as Adjunct Professor of Imaging Physics at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Markey is a 1994 graduate of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. She has a B.S. in computational biology (1998). Dr. Markey earned her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering (2002), along with a certificate in bioinformatics, from Duke University. Dr. Markey has been recognized for excellence in research and teaching with awards from organizations such as the American Medical Informatics Association, the American Society for Engineering Education, the American Cancer Society, and the Society for Women’s Health Research. She is a Fellow of both the American Association
How Metacognition Supports SDLStudies show there is a gap between what graduating engineers can do and what employers want.Engineers are primarily hired and rewarded for solving ill-structured problems [8], [9]. Ill-structured problems are context and content dependent [10] and require the ability to generate avariety of novel solutions (no single solution is necessarily right or wrong) and to decide whichsolution is the best for the given problem in the given context [11]. Thus, engineers must havethe metacognitive skills and be able to self-direct their problem solving activities to negotiate theproblems they encounter in practice.In a prior paper [12], we reported on data from alumni of IRE who participated in our study anddescribed how
engineering identity? H4. Engineering undergraduates’ leadership self-concept negatively correlates with engineering identity H5. Experiences that contribute to engineering identity will negatively impact leadership self-concept for engineering undergraduates.The quantitative analysis will provide a key foundation for a second phase of the project deployingqualitative methods. This qualitative study will utilize grounded theory to explore engineeringstudents’ experiences to answer the following research question: 3. How do engineering undergraduates define engineering leadership and develop a sense of engineering leadership identity?The project is currently completing the quantitative
Paper ID #22280Work in Progress: Retrospective Analysis on the Perspective of Instructorsabout Transitioning to Using Active-learning Strategies to Teach MechanicalEngineering ClassesMr. Sreenidhi Krishnamoorthy, University of California - Davis Mr. Sreenidhi Krishnamoorthy is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cali- fornia - Davis. He works as a Graduate Student Researcher at the Western Cooling Efficiency Laboratory and as a Teaching Assistant Consultant at the Center for Educational Effectiveness, both on the UC Davis campus. As a Teaching Assistant Consultant, Sreenidhi focuses on improving
Paper ID #22684Enhancing Learning by Assessing More than Content KnowledgeProf. Renee Cole, University of Iowa Dr. Ren´ee Cole is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Iowa. Dr. Cole earned a B.A. in chemistry from Hendrix College, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physical chemistry from the University of Okla- homa. Her research focuses on issues related to how students learn chemistry and how that guides the design of instructional materials and teaching strategies as well on efforts related to faculty development and the connection between chemistry education research and the practice of teaching. She is a PI
provide a sophisticated period to implement integratedenvironments for teaching/learning systems. It is in fact a way to reduce the evasion ofengineering courses, showing a glimpse of what it is to be an engineer and the wide varieties ofopportunities worldwide.COPEC - SCIENCE AND EDUCATION RESEARCH COUNCIL PERSPECTIVEThis is an organization of about 18 years of existence a multi-disciplinary organization that is aleader on advance science and its application to the development of technology serving society.It started its activities sixteen years ago and since then this organization has made a majorcontribution to the development of science and education, working to increase the best practicesin several research fields.Integration activities
disciplines and warrantfurther study with a larger sample of ET students.While student GPA at graduation is a valid measure of how students perform in the classroom,not all learning is best measured by a graded, quantitative scale. To measure classroomperformance in a “non-graded” way, the “seriousness of purpose” measure was conceptualized.The measure is intended to evaluate the student’s ability to apply what he or she has learned inan open-ended and practical way. In engineering and ET fields, the senior capstone course iswhere theory and practice collide, so assessing students on their capstone performance is alogical way to measure classroom performance. The qualitative measure of “seriousness ofpurpose” provides an alternative way to measure
Paper ID #23752MAKER: Simple Making Activities to Expose Middle School Girls to STEMCareersDr. Lunal Khuon, Drexel University Dr. Lunal Khuon is an Associate Clinical Professor at Drexel University in the Engineering Technology (ET) Department. He also serves as the Assistant Department Head for Graduate Studies and the Director of Research for the ET Department as well as oversees the Biomedical Engineering Technology concen- tration. Prior to Drexel, Dr. Khuon had previously held design and system positions at Texas Instruments, Motorola, Hughes, and IBM and faculty positions as an Assistant Professor at Villanova
doing (25, 26) .The activities must be designed aroundimportant learning outcomes and promote thoughtful engagement on the part of thestudents.There are some pitfalls for young engineering faculty, in particular, those who pickup an article or two to learn how active learning works, and how they would beapplying it to enhance their teaching. They should be advised to look at a broad rangeof learning methods and do their level best in scrutinizing information and publishedstatistics, move into active learning gradually and cautiously, and seek the assistanceand guidance of well-informed people, prior to embarking seriously on a specificstrategy. No matter how data on a selected strategy and/or teaching method ispresented, young faculty adopting
Development major at Utah Valley University.Prof. Marty J Clayton, Digital Media Undergraduate degree at The Ohio State University Graduate Degree at Savannah College of Art and Design Full time Instructor at Columbus College of Art and Design Adjunct professor at University of Utah Associate Professor at Utah Valley University Marty Clayton entered the 3D animation and video game industries through the ”back door” when those industries were in their infancy. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from The Ohio State University in a rigorous design program in which he learned how to design indoor and outdoor spaces. He graduated with the Senior Award for his program and his senior design for the Baltimore Inner Harbor was
Paper ID #21193CAREER: Actualizing Latent Diversity: Building Innovation through Engi-neering Students’ Identity DevelopmentDr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in
community development. Mr. Melchior has served as the lead evaluation partner for the FIRST robotics programs since 2002 and has conducted more than a dozen studies of FIRST’s national after-school robotics programs. He is currently the co-Principal evaluator on the multi-year longitudinal impact study of FIRST programs.Matthew Hoover, Brandeis University Matthew Hoover is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Youth and Communities at Brandeis University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Do After-School Robotics Programs Expand the Pipeline into STEM Majors in College? I. IntroductionFor more than a decade
having “the potential to be one of the best “ABET EC 2000” assessmentinstruments for showing continuous improvement” [36]. These standardized tests are designed tobe valid and reliable research instruments. Although they typically use multiple-choice questions,the distractors for the questions are convincing to students who do not have a strong conceptualknowledge; thus, despite being multiple-choice questionnaires that take 1-2 minutes per question,concept inventories can assess student working knowledge. Some analyses of concept inventorieshave found possible issues with validity [37]; with that said, analysis of this depth is not evenpossible for the FE without cooperation from NCEES.If a program were to have problems with graduates having
Paper ID #21065How to Make Engineering Statistics More Appealing to Millennial StudentsDr. Robert G. Batson P.E., University of Alabama Bob Batson is a professor of construction engineering at The University of Alabama. His Ph.D. train- ing was in operations research, and he has developed expertise in applied statistics over the past thirty years. He currently teaches the required courses in project management, safety engineering, engineering management, and engineering statistics within the undergraduate programs of the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department, and graduate courses in operations
University of Rhode Island with research work done at Rhode Island Hospital. Previously, he was an assistant di- rector at Massachusetts General Hospital (a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School) in Boston. He has also held faculty appointments in Illinois, Miami and Singapore. At NTU in Singapore, he was the founding director of the BME Research Center and the founding head of the Bioengineering division. He was the Principal Investigator for several Biomedical Engineering projects. He also worked in R&D at Coulter Electronics in Miami and in hospital design and operations management at Bechtel for healthcare megaprojects. He has served in the National Medical Research Council in Singapore. His research in
peer leader. These topicsbecome the basis for the formation of new practice groups. Each group then designs theirapproach to investigating the topic and plans for ways to present this new information. Thepurpose of the final project is to share the knowledge they have researched or generated withothers in the course support community as a whole (Community of Practice).Training our peer leaders to model self-directed learning approaches in their sessions is the firststep toward supporting students as they transition into college and develop skills in reflecting onchallenges and adapting to improve success. We have intentionally designed our peer leadertraining course to immerse new leaders in a self-directed learning environment, by allowing
University (Fort Collins, CO, USA). She has experience working as a graduate teaching assistant for computer aided engineering, biomedical engi- neering capstone design, and biomedical engineering introductory classes. Nicole’s engineering education interests include active learning, metacognitive thinking, and the use of technology platforms. Her doc- toral research is focused on the material properties of spinal cord tissues to contribute to the understanding and treatment of spinal cord injuries.Jasmine Erin Nejad, Colorado State University Jasmine Nejad is a PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering program at Colorado State University (CSU). She completed her B.S. in Biochemistry and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at
course should be accompanied with a series of laboratoryexercises and projects. A larger lists of cyber physical system courses can be found in [17].d. Machine Learning CoursesMachine learning is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed.In the past decade, machine learning was a key technology in the development of self-drivingcars, practical speech recognition, effective web search, and a vastly improved understanding ofthe human genome. Many researchers also believe it is the best way to make progress towardshuman-level artificial intelligence (AI).Machine learning courses should provide students with a broad introduction to machine learning,data mining, supervised and unsupervised learning, processing of
as ERP). During her studies in the United States she worked a research assistant at the Center for Innovation on Healthcare Logistics CIHL, her work for CIHL focused on assessing the impact of GS1 standards adoption in the healthcare supply chain. Her research interests are related to the modeling of technology adoption and in particular HIT. She also works in the adaptation of existing manufacturing and logistics models and structures to the healthcare supply chain with a specific focus on medical supplies. She is part of the IE Department at Universidad Icesi since 1998. She has over ten years experience as a teacher and served as Director of the Undergraduate Program in Industrial Engineering (2003-2007
Paper ID #23944Technology’s Role in Student Understanding of Mathematics in Modern Un-dergraduate Engineering CoursesAndrew Phillips, The Ohio State University Andrew H. Phillips graduated summa cum laude from The Ohio State University in May 2016 with a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and with Honors Research Distinction. He is currently fin- ishing his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and then he will pursue a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. His engineering education interests include first-year engineering, active learning, learning theory, and teaching design, programming, and mathematics. As a
, spring semester of the sophomore year, wasmade to mirror spring semester of the first year at UWI-St. Augustine to facilitate futuresemester-length student exchanges. An aspirational goal of this program is that each engineeringstudent will have at least one study and/or research abroad experience before graduation. Furtherthere is need for adaptation of an assessment instrument to evaluate the global skills the studentsdevelop because of these international research experiences. Several instruments are beingconsidered, such as, Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory (BEVI), Global Perspective Inventory(GPI) and Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). 8References1. ASEE. Going the distance: best practices and strategies for retaining
. Harding, T. S., Lai, H.-Y., Tuttle, B. L., and White, C. V., “Integrating Manufacturing, Design and Teamwork into a Materials and Processes Selection Course,” 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Proceedings, Montreal, Canada, June 17-19, 2002. Session 1526.8. Newcomer, J. L., “An Industrial Robotics Course for Manufacturing Engineers,” 2016 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, New Orleans, LA, June 26 – 29, 2016. Paper ID 15654.9. Sirinterlikci, A., “Practical Hands-on Industrial Robotics Laboratory Development,” 2012 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, San Antonio
Grid Technologies (ISGT) Conference, Minneapolis, MN.Furthermore, we have successfully cast engineering design problems as complex engineeringprojects. The most substantial research findings are currently being documented in a manuscript,and it will be submitted to a relevant, major journal such as The Engineering Economist for a peerreview in the very near future.3. MethodologyIn Spring 2017 and Fall 2017, the structure of the aforementioned elementary teaching moduletaught in IE 305 is as follows. The module consists of 4 class periods (50 minutes per period).Period 1. A pre-test, traditional net present value approach, new questions under uncertainty such as flexible design.Period 2. Using Min [9] (for Periods 2-4
under Sciences or Engineering.Pre-Use SurveyAs a STEM Librarian, Amani Magid provides outreach to her constituents via STEMLibrarian Day. Every other week, she spends the day in the science building, fieldingquestions about library resources and services. As this service has been provided forthe last 4 years, she has become acquainted with many of the faculty, staff, postdocsand graduate students, even given the growth of the university. As a result, there aresome who attend the STEM Librarian Day for the social aspect, as said Librarianwelcomes this as well, for it forges ties and can build friendships. On one such day, oneof the scientists who came for a social visit, began talking about business and began todiscuss the instrumentation he
editing expert?Julie – I’m not a video editor by any means. The extent that I do is to snip my lecture capturesinto smaller pieces. I’m not terribly concerned about bells and whistles; I’m all for the KISSprinciple. I use what is supported by the IT staff at my university. If you determine that youneed to generate videos (note that you may be able to use other resources), work with your CTLand/or IT staff to survey the available tools and choose one that will work best for your situationand purposes. Maybe an undergraduate student who is savvy in media technologies might behelpful (and low cost). When my graduate mentor developed an MEB web course,29 hecollaborated with a graphic design/computer expert on campus
. Military Academy, West Point, NY. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is an active member of ASEE and a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia. His research areas include climate change impact on water resource systems and infrastructure. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Helping Students Learn Engineering Mechanics Concepts through Integration of Simulation Software in Undergraduate CoursesABSTRACTThis paper describes recent experience within the civil engineering program at the U.S. MilitaryAcademy (USMA) to integrate simulation tools to assist students in