alsoeducated about careers that require this skill set and were introduced to a programminglanguage called “Processing”. We observed that students showed increased enthusiasmtowards CS. In addition, we noticed that the group activity component of the classesencouraged sociability and idea synthesis among peers. This CS community outreachprogram motivated us to extend the effort to teach science concepts using the Processinglanguage. This may potentially promote sociability, creativity, and empowerment inSTEM among middle school students. Specifically, we plan to use the Processingprogramming language to facilitate learning of biological and chemical concepts, sincesuch concepts can be difficult for students to visualize from a textbook. This
a recruitment tool for graduate school.Community college students in the program showed an increase of 25% in interest for pursuing amaster’s degree and Ph.D. degree. Before the program, three participants were planning topursue their master’s degree, and two participants were planning to pursue their Ph.D.Following, all four participants were planning to pursue a master’s degree, and three participantswere planning to pursue a Ph.D. In Figure 2, students’ graduate school choice, the field, andacceptance rate were most influenced by the REU Program. All community college participantswere looking to complete STEM-related majors such as: Astrophysics, Structural Engineering,Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.TransitioningAll
Paper ID #22097Engagement in Practice: the Student Engagement Continuum (SEC) – Op-portunities and Challenges for a Sustainable Pipeline Enhancement Model atan Urban InstitutionDr. Gregory E. Triplett, Virginia Commonwealth University Triplett is a Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Triplett oversees all aspects of graduate engineering programs including curriculum de- velopment, student recruitment and matriculation, strategic planning, student funding, graduate research, and online education. Prior to being Associate Dean, Triplett was Director of
Louisiana State University (LSU) in energy researchto engage participating students in innovative projects related to biofuels, energy storage, andcatalysis. Participants interact with university faculty as well as local industry and entrepreneurs.Over the course of the summer, students develop a commercialization plan for their summerresearch project aided by mentors from the LSU Business & Technology Center. The combinationof local industry, entrepreneurship, and world-class research facilities and faculty offer the REUstudents an opportunity that is hard to match. In recent years the authors have discussed the uniqueopportunities available to those with graduate degrees with undergraduate chemical engineeringstudents at LSU. Through these
, Peru and providing seed funds to foster collaborations in research, teaching,and service between these institutions. In addition to addressing the UN SDGs, these engagementactivities seek to create and sustain and international collaboration in a platform known as thefourth age of research [2]. Following these initiatives at Penn State and recognizing the need toprepare our students to make a meaningful contribution to the implementation of the SDGs, wedeveloped a six-week long faculty-led program called: Global Engineering Culture and Society.This paper describes the overall vision of the program, and focus on the design, development,implementation, challenges, assessment plans, and what is next for the course: GlobalEngineering Culture and
institution, what programs had you heard of?” Inresponse to this question, students ranked the entrepreneurship LLC fifth (n = 141) among thetop ten programs identified, Table 1. Table 1 Response to freshman questionnaire: “Prior to coming to our institution, what programs had you heard of?To amplify our in-person marketing effort, we plan to enlist current program participants asguides for tours with prospective students and parents. This may increase the eventual numberof applications if more students join our institution specifically because we have this program.The freshman survey sought to address the issue of program attractiveness with the question,“Which of the following programs had an impact on your decision
inthe College of Engineering, Mathematics and Science (EMS). UW-Platteville is a medium-sized,primarily undergraduate, public institution with a total undergraduate enrollment ofapproximately 8,000. Many of the university’s STEM degree programs, including sevenengineering programs, computer science, and chemistry, are housed within the College ofEngineering, Mathematics and Science (EMS), which has an enrollment of approximately 2,700students. In 2013, the team obtained a National Science Foundation STEP grant (#1161180College of EMS Recruitment and Retention Program). The primary purpose of the grant is toincrease undergraduate student engagement and to plan, market, and advance programs thatsupport recruitment and retention efforts in STEM
Afghanistan. During his work, he worked very closely with the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) and Kabul based universities. He was a visiting scholar at Virginia Polytechnic, Institute and Sate University in the USA in 1991 – 1992. ———————————————- Dr Judith Watson has been a senior research fellow at the Univer- sity of Brighton in England since 2001, where she conducts research in education studies, particularly the geography of education and training. She has conducted numerous projects for governmental and NGO bodies in the UK on educational eval- uation and planning. She currently runs the only course in the geography of education currently offered in a UK university at undergraduate level, and is preparing a
Admission Compact The GMU-NOVA Dual Admission Compact for Mechanical Engineering is designed tooutline a pathway from a successful completion of the Associate of Science (A.S.) degree inEngineering to the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Mechanical Engineering. Dualadmission status consists of non-degree status at GMU for students who are full-time degreeseeking students at NOVA. Access into the Compact is established using the followingeligibility requirements: 1. Plan to earn an Associate of Science (A.S.) degree from NOVA Community College 2. Plan to pursue the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in GMU School of Engineering within one year of completing the A.S. degree 3. Have earned 18 or fewer transferable college credits
Conference (HI-TEC).A web page was created to allow applicants to see the research projects, mentors, and activities.The application package needed to include (1) a personal information data sheet, (2) an essaydescribing the applicant’s curriculum design experience, and (3) a recommendation letter. Thepersonal data sheet allowed the project director to group applicants based on their researchinterests. The project director then worked with each individual mentor to select participants.General Program InformationAs described earlier, the program’s goals included: (1) to participate and learn about a researchproject with a graduate student and mentor; (2) develop a lesson plan for disseminating theresearch experience into the classroom. To achieve
the three-time National Championship SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge Team and is a Fellow of ASME. Dr. Den Braven joined SCGSSM in early 2014 as the director of the GSSM residential engineering program and Accelerate, the new virtual engineering program for gifted high-school students in the state.Dr. Elaine R. Parshall, SC Governors School of Science and Mathematics Elaine R. Parshall is the Academic Coordinator for Accelerate, a blended online high-school engineering program offered to students grades 10-12 around the state. Her current responsibilities include course integration, planning summer camps and Saturday experiences, working with faculty, and general trouble- shooting for this new program. Formerly, she
limits resulted in the removal of five credits from the manufacturing plan of study andseven credits from the mechanical plan. Ensuring that graduates continue to be well prepared forengineering technology careers within the constraints of reduced curricula requires betterlearning and more effective corresponding instruction. Lower than desired manufacturing andmechanical engineering technology retention rates juxtaposed against national calls forincreasing the number of engineers and other STEM professionals also point to a need forinstructional change.4. For these reasons, effective educational innovation must happen inengineering technology education. The strategic question of how to connect innovation inteaching with the creation of learning
Survey Question All Business Engineer Extrinsic Chances for promotion are good 4.33 4.35 4.20* Intrinsic See results of what you do 4.31 4.31 4.31 Intrinsic Learn new things, skills 4.25 4.23 4.32 Long Term Good health care, benefits 4.24 4.27 4.03** Long Term Predictable, secure future 4.17 4.21 3.87** Long Term Good retirement plan (e.g., 401K) 4.09 4.13 3.85** Extrinsic Chance to earn good deal of money 4.07 4.10 3.87** Supervision Supervisor supports personal commitments
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Mentored, Unpaid Design Team Internship ExperienceAbstractAn international team of 7 undergraduate interns working pro bono during the summer madesignificant advances in several areas of Space Solar Power. Distinct from a capstone designeffort, this study group revived the practice common in the 1970s and 1980s of consideringbroad topics of high relevance to public citizens and elected decision-makers. Significantobstacles to success included lack of research experience, lack of motivating paycheck, and ahighly-complex system under study. Each student was assigned a mentor from the aerospaceindustry or academia to guide the creation of a research plan, and to periodically
Paper ID #22461Increasing Student Construction Interest by Engaging Elementary Studentsin an Inquiry-Based 3D Modelling After School ProgramDr. Geoff Wright, Brigham Young University Dr. Geoffrey A. Wright is a professor of Technology and Engineering Studies in the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology at Brigham Young University.Dr. Justin Earl Weidman, Brigham Young University Justin Weidman is an Assistant Professor in Construction Management at Brigham Young University. He earned his PhD from Virginia Tech in Environmental Design and Planning. c American Society for Engineering
briefly present the salient features of the IFYEP model as manifestedin a pilot program at SBC.IMPLEMENTATION OF IFYEPFor purposes of comparison, we briefly indicate the structure of the first semester at SBC beforethe implementation of the IFYEP. Students typically had a fixed schedule of classes their firstsemester, with some divergence (depending upon degree plan) taking place in the secondsemester. For example, first semester students take courses in student success (PSYC 100),computer skills (CSCI 101), composition (ENGL 110), and math (MATH 099 thru 103) inalignment with their placement test. The classes and the instructors more or less operatedindependently, with few students ending up in multiple classes together.The development of the
programs offered. The research instituteinitiated a Diversity and Inclusion Seed Investment funding program. Starting in fiscal year2017, $203,480 was invested in 20 faculty to assist them with establishing and solidifyingHBCU-MSI partnerships. Feedback has been continually collected to improve the program, nowin its third year. In this paper, we first describe the original intent of the funding opportunity,how the opportunity has changed since its inception and how impactful this investment modelhas been. Preliminary findings will be presented, major criteria for funding will be explained,and outcome measures will be explored to assess the effectiveness of the program. Lastly, wepresent our plan for a more comprehensive assessment strategy, which
improvements. Students get realistic design and applicationopportunities and experience that lead to no shortage of the best job offers, giving their careers agreat start.Electrical Demand ChallengeElectrical demand is a means for public utilities to charge customers more fairly for their use ofthe utilities’ infrastructure. Utilities plan and build their electrical distribution systems to belarge enough to provide enough power to meet the demands of their customers. The more that autility expects its customers to demand, the larger must be the utility’s investment in equipment.Equipment has a capital cost and a maintenance cost. To help meet these costs, most publicutilities have demand charges in their billing structure for commercial and industrial
Practice: Establishing a Culture of Service Learning in Engineering Orientation Classes at Kennesaw State UniversityIntroduction and Literature ReviewWith a goal of increasing access to more engaged learning opportunities, service learning waschosen as one of the three high-impact practices for our university to focus on in ouraccreditation quality enhancement plan (QEP), along with undergraduate research andinternships. However, within the college of engineering very little formal service learning wasbeing conducted at the time. In our orientation classes, service learning was newly a part of theindustrial and systems engineering orientation course and fall 2019 it was incorporated into themechanical
planning, sustainability rating system, and environmental plan assessment.Dr. Elaine Rawley Goetz, Ohio University Office of Sustainability Elaine Goetz is the Director of Sustainability at Ohio University. She has a PhD in Civil Engineering and is a LEED AP O&M. Elaine taught a Sustainable Construction course at Ohio University, a precursor to the LEED Lab course, in the spring of 2018. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Student Construction Sustainability Evaluation: A LEED Lab Case StudyAbstractConstruction sustainability involves processes, decisions, and actions during a project life cycle toenhance the project’s social, economic, and environmental performance. Much of the
received her M.S. in User Experience from Arizona State University and B.S. in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Broadening Participation and the Mission of Engineering for US All: A Case Study of Engineering in a Classroom Serving Students with Disabilities (Work in Progress) AbstractStrategic Goal 1 of the NSF 2022-2026 Strategic Plan aims to broaden the participation of the "MissingMillions" or under-served, underrepresented, and marginalized populations to fully participate in STEM.Students with disabilities represent one of these marginalized groups. In response to this NSF
knowledgeable of the dynamic intersection of sustainability, transportation, and human37 rights has become essential in an era of deep climate events and disruption. According to the38 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), environmentally and socially responsible39 emission reduction solutions are needed. One of those strategies emphasizes how, through40 sustainable planning and transportation systems, engineers can design walkable, compact cities41 that will contribute to significant emission reductions. This becomes critical because although42 world cities are responsible for more than 80% of the gross domestic product and are key engines43 for development, they also consume over 75% of the energy produced worldwide and
± 1.0 2.5 ± 1.0 2.7 ± 0.9 2.9 ± 0.8 2.7 ± 1.1 2.6 ± 0.9 Advisor about courses and major requirements.Self-Efficacy Consulted with a Program 2.2 ± 1.1 2.3 ± 1.0 2.2 ± 1.1 2.2 ± 1.1 2.2 ± 1.1 2.4 ± 1.0 2.3 ± 1.2 2.1 ± 1.0 Advisor about career plans. Agree Agree Agree AgreePeer Support I have friends among the 3.7 ± 1.4 3.6 ± 1.4 3.8 ± 1.3 3.4 ± 1.5 3.7 ± 1.3 4.0 ± 1.2 3.6 ± 1.3 3.6 ± 1.4 STEM majors here.Peer Support I know others who are 4.3 ± 1.1 4.4 ± 1.0 4.3 ± 1.2 4.0 ± 1.3
DEI roles and responsibilities.In terms of research questions, the overarching question guiding the research plan is: How canwe prepare the next generation of DEI leaders to implement effective, sustainable, long-term DEIinitiatives? The project has the following sub-questions: RQ1. How do Engineering Education DEI Leaders navigate their roles? RQ2. How do traditionally marginalized engineering graduate students understand their preparation to face DEI challenges? RQ3. How do traditionally marginalized early career engineering faculty members understand their preparation to face DEI challenges? Table 1 – Research Plan Overview Phase 1
read something about microelectronics. 2. I have had one or more instructors talk about microelectronics. 3. I have watched a video about microelectronics. 4. I have participated in an activity involving microelectronics. 5. I have taken at least one university class about microelectronics.The scale yielded an alpha coefficient of .83 for the full sample. Each student's ranking acrossthe five questions was totaled (minimum 5, maximum 25).The KAM survey included six Likert scale questions (range 1 = strongly disagree to 5 = stronglyagree) to measure students' motivation to learn more about microelectronics. The questions were: 1. I plan to read about microelectronics. 2. I plan to take a class about microelectronics. 3. I
work involved a trip near a wind farm where sounds generated from the wind turbinescould be collected using an outdoor microphone and sound level meter recording device. Thestudents and advisors met with a local resident who acted as a guide to help identify locationswhere wind turbine noises could be collected. The students made decisions about where and howto set up the equipment, and they documented the details about the measurement site and weatherconditions. This data was collected specifically for use as samples in the psychoacoustic studythat the students were helping to plan and were responsible for completing. Upon return tocampus, the students downloaded the wind farm noise samples and identified and classifiedsamples that contained
‘simple after a while’. No other players explicitlycommented on the multi-role formulation, but generally affirmed their favor of the gamestructure and ability to learn about decision-making. This feedback in combination with ourobservations of gameplay in the multi-role format, we plan to further solidify the implementationof the multi-roles. We plan to adopt additional rules that can further encourage players to assumetheir special role. One suggestion from a game player was for teams to not be able to select toenact the same special role twice in a row. We plan to continue to investigate the multi-roleimplementation.Conclusion & Future DevelopmentWe presented the multi-role expansion of the game-based learning module for resilience
divided into three main components: quizzes(30%), labs (40%), and projects (30%). Quizzes included pre-lecture and post-lectureassessments to reinforce learning. Labs offered hands-on experience with sensors, requiringdetailed lab reports. Projects involved building two medical device prototypes, allowing studentsto apply theoretical knowledge to practical designs. Project evaluation focused on creativity,fabrication quality, device performance, user interface simulation, measurement accuracy, anddemonstration clarity.The course development process took 12 months, including one month of pre-planning, sixmonths to secure expert commitments, and five months for content finalization.Challenges and Future WorkThe development process faced several
slow its inclusion into this field of study. This paper proposes the Dataying framework to teach data science concepts to young children ages 4–7 years old. The framework development included identifying K–12 data science elements and then validating element suitability for young students. Six cycled steps were identified: identifying a problem, questioning, imagining and planning, collecting, analyzing, and story sharing. This paper also presents examples of data decision problems and demonstrates use of a proposed Insight- Detective method with a plan worksheet for Dataying.IntroductionThe expected growth of data science careers worldwide over the next ten years means thatstudents of all ages
responded to an IRB-approved follow-up survey about their learningexperiences. Reflective student feedback from both multidisciplinary trips indicated thatengineering students deepened their understanding of chosen topics in consideration of global,cultural, and societal factors, and that the non-engineering students enjoyed the visits more thanthey expected and overcame initial fears about engineering-related coursework, discoveringengineering practices in many aspects of their social lives. Overall, the students gave positivefeedback about the multidisciplinary trips and demonstrated achievement of the learningoutcomes. In the future, the authors plan to continue collaborations to further integrate the coursemodules and regularly evaluate the