distributions. This work sheds light on potentialfuture clinical trials to improve the procedures.Keywords: Syndactyly; finite element analysis; dorsal flapIntroductionSyndactyly, one of the most common congenital malformations of the hand, is a result of a failedseparation of adjacent digits. Based on the extent of skin and bone that are involved, syndactylyis classified into simple and complex types; based on how far the fusing of digits or webbingspans down the fingers, syndactyly is classified into incomplete and complete types.1 For anytype of syndactyly, reconstructive surgery would be needed to separate the digital skin,reconstruct the web space between fingers, and cover the separated digits with soft tissues.2 Forthe second step, web
,Jane and Grace would be able to catalogue and prepare items for display, but they simply don’thave the time to do both jobs. Our timeline has since been pushed back an entire calendar yearto allow for the hiring of another AmeriCorps volunteer whose job it will be to get the collectionready to be displayed.BackgroundHere’s the sum-total of what we know about Harry Outen Cole if we just search his full name onthe open web.1) There is an entry on the web page of the West Virginia & Regional History Center(WVRHC.) It reads in its entirety:Papers of Harry Outen Cole (1874-1950), a Morgantown, West Virginia engineer who was withthe Pacific Division of the Panama Canal, 1908-1912. In addition to correspondence there arereports, speeches
motivated to continue learning inside and outside the classroom. Although STEM is nota settled curriculum, neither aims to take the place of the national curriculum parameters, STEMhas the intention of providing flexible and enriching learning through practical and playfulresources, encouraging both teachers and students throughout the process of making teaching andlearning fun and rewarding activities for a long-term advantage 1. It is important for the teacher to be the mediator of the STEM pedagogical proposal. Theway of teaching integrates the areas of knowledge and allows the student to use them forconnections when solving daily problems. Advising on the format of classes, providing training,Proceedings of the 2023 ASEE North Central
. Proceedings of the 2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference Copyright © 2023, American Society for Engineering Education 1Traditional ways of teaching the definite integral are at least partly to blame. Often Riemannsums are not taught, or are underemphasized.2,6 The area-under-the-curve conception is typicallyforegrounded in approaches to the definite integral, though often with little or no motivation. Asdiscussed above, this conception is useful as an interpretation of a definite integral understoodquantitatively in a problem’s context; it is less useful as a basis for building that quantitativeunderstanding. Tallman et. al., in a study of 254 Calculus 1 final exams from across the UnitedStates, found
. School of Engineering Grand Valley State University Grand Rapids, MI 49504 Email: bainen@gvsu.eduIntroductionWhy are there not more engineering students studying abroad? Study abroad programs have beenaround for a long time, yet most students do not choose to take part in them with only 1 in 10U.S. college students decide to study abroad [1]. Such programs are far more popular withstudents studying business or other STEM majors.Engineering changes the world. Engineers have the ability to solve problems within the world aswell as unintentionally cause them. That is why it is essential for engineering graduates to have asense of the effect of
Ada, Ohio 45810 Email: j-estell@onu.edu, s-coffman-wolph@onu.eduIntroductionFemale representation has been - and continues to be - an issue within computing, includingcomputer gaming. It spans the gamut from exclusion via being forced to play the role of a maleprotagonist,1 to a “surface equity” where women are present but their gender is notacknowledged,2 to where women are objectified in a hypersexualized manner. 3 Even softwarethat at first glance appears benign can have underlying issues. As an example, for over 50 yearsThe Oregon Trail computer game4 has been used in social studies classrooms across the UnitedStates to teach about Westward Expansion, allowing students to outfit a wagon for a 2000-miletrek where
-on undergraduate research, and how the interdisciplinary nature of theresearch team increased the educational value of the experience.IntroductionAgrivoltaics is a system in which crops and/or livestock share the same land space with aphotovoltaic array, allowing for renewable energy production and agriculture to coexist whilereducing overall land use [1]. Due to the essential production of food and energy, agrivoltaic farmshave the potential to be a key component to the clean, renewable energy transition which iscurrently underway throughout the world.As the global population continues to grow, increases in the production of both renewable energyand agricultural products will be needed, but these two needs will be in conflict over limited
are described below.Course learning outcomesCourse learning outcomes supported ABET student outcomes related to communication andethical and professional responsibilities. Specifically, students that successfully complete thecourse will be able to: 1. Discuss influential women engineers and their contributions to engineering and technological accomplishmentsProceedings of the 2023 ASEE North Central Section ConferenceCopyright © 2023, American Society for Engineering Education 1 2. Identify and discuss barriers that result in gender inequality in the engineering and technology workforce 3. Apply professional development skills to move into and to sustain in a diverse engineering
Electrical & Com-puter Engineering Nate is a Senior Computer Science and future graduate student in the Master’s of Software Engineering program at the University of Detroit Mercy. He has ˜1 year of professional experience at automotive suppliers and strives to work for an OEM post-graduation. His areas of interest include autonomous vehicles, embedded systems, and artificial intelligence.Nathan Garay, University of Detroit Mercy, College of Engineering & Science, Department of Electrical &Computer Engineering Nathan is a computer science student in his fourth year at the University of Detroit Mercy pursuing a master’s in software engineering.Dr. Nassif E Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy Nassif Rayess is
(Lecture/Lab), Penn State University, Fayette, USA 6/2015 –8/2016 Chemistry Faculty (Lecture/Lab), Southwest Tennessee Community College, Memphis, USA 5/2007–10/2016 Technical Consultancy (Project and Technology Development), Industrial 8/2005– 8/2011 University of Memphis, Memphis, TN Assistant Professor, Analytical/Materials/Inorganic Chem- istry 1/2003-7/2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Postdoctoral Research Asso- ciate 8/1999-12/2002 Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL Research Assistant, Chemistry/Analytical MaterialsHasan El RifaiRana Mouhamad Jisr ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 A Colligative Property Experiment using the Solvent
for Engineering Education, 2022 American Society of Engineering Education, April 22-23rd, 2022 – Wentworth Institute of Technology Printable Flexible Robots for Remote Learning Savita V. Kendre,1 Gus. T. Teran,1 Lauryn Whiteside,1 Tyler Looney,1 Ryley Wheelock,1 Surya Ghai,1 and Markus P. Nemitz1*The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of digital fabrication to enable onlinelearning, which remains a challenge for robotics courses. We introduce a teaching methodologythat allows students to participate remotely in a hands-on robotics course involving the design andfabrication of robots. Our methodology employs 3D printing techniques with flexible filaments tocreate innovative soft robots; robots are made
hands-on job training. It often is apaid job where students learn knowledge while they gain practical experiences. Alongside on-the-job training, apprentices spend part of their working hours completing classroom-basedlearning with a college, university, or training provider which leads to a nationally recognizedqualification or certification [1]. Apprenticeships, which incorporate real-world situations intothe learning process, are seeing a resurgence within the context of higher education [1-2].The goal of the apprenticeship is to provide practical training to students in such a way that theycan find full-time employment after college. For the last two years, the New York Jobs CEOCouncil has offered an apprenticeship program that has provided
challenge; however, students involved in this program have achievedsuccess.Program Design and Approach Against the backdrop of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technologyreport calling for one million new STEM graduates,1 the University of Idaho developed andimplemented Career Launch, a five-year NSF S-STEM funded program, in 2015. The hypothesisof the program was that reducing the hours students needed to work outside of school throughscholarship support would allow them to spend more time participating in activities that wouldenhance persistence by enriching their academic experience while progressing toward their futurecareer goals.2-4 The target pool for scholarship recipients had high financial need and were enrolledin
acknowledge the differing valuesand perspectives of others.This research seeks to (1) identify energy examples outside of those traditionally used in theengineering canon; (2) develop and teach a course that integrates these non-traditional examplesusing CSPs; and (3) deepen educators’ understanding of how CSPs impact student learning,mindsets, and attitudes. These materials are being disseminated so that other faculty may use aCSPs approach to engage their students. An overarching goal of this work is to promoteinclusion within engineering to support broader participation and thus increase diversity. CSPsmay be a key tool in changing the dominant discourse of engineering education, improving theexperience for those students already here and making
quarter, a final grade for each student was determined based on the sum of allweekly task scores, a final score on the most updated proposal manuscript, and professionalism/ethics scores based on quarter-wide performance. The final grade was compared against thecumulative work hours to determine relationship.Time spent versus scores received were expected to exhibit a sigmoidal trend with the currentstudent population. Therefore a curve-fitting method [1] was employed using the equation (𝑦𝑚𝑎𝑥 − 𝑦𝑚𝑖𝑛 ) 𝑦 = 𝑦𝑚𝑖𝑛 + 1 + 10𝑛(log 𝑥50 −log 𝑥)where 𝑦 : score data 𝑦𝑚𝑖𝑛 : minimum value of 𝑦 in data set
and is a liaison for the department to the Office of the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies for the college. Her doctoral work is centered on exploring sys- temic/institutional factors impacting the psychosocial and academic outcomes of students experiencing marginalization in post-secondary STEM programs. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 1 Relationship Between Goal Orientation, Agency, and Motivation in Undergraduate Civil Engineering StudentsAbstractUnderstanding the underlying psychological constructs that affect undergraduate
governments and universities [1] [2]. Chile is no exception.In 2019, 28.7% of students who entered STEM disciplines were women, increasing only by 1.3% in2020 to 30%. Family, cultural, economic and social factors influence this under-representation, factorswhich tend to reduce women´s self-concept on learning and ability in this area. Women have lowerself-concept in the STEM disciplines than do men, consequently the dropout rate for women is doublethat of men [3].An intervention was designed aiming to promote and increase self-concept in learning capabilities infirst-year engineering students in Computer Engineering and Industrial Engineering. Such interventionwas based on three types of collaborative activities within the classroom, which seek to
engineering communication and integration of process safety into a unit operations course.Melanie E. Miller, University of Kentucky Melanie Miller, M.S., (She/her/hers) is a Counseling Psychology Ph.D. student at the University of Ken- tucky. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 1 Understanding the Relationship Between Mental Health Concerns and Help-Seeking Attitudes and Behaviors Among Engineering StudentsBackgroundCollege can be a stressful time in a person’s life. For many students, their college years
approaches (adaptingitems from existing instruments) to the development of the two survey instruments: (1) a facultysurvey to identify engaging strategies, and (2) a student survey to evaluate these strategies in aself-reported Likert format along with open-ended questions. This paper primarily presents thedevelopment of the two surveys and the validation of the student engagement survey usingexploratory structured equation modeling technique. It only briefly presents students’ evaluationof the engagement strategies as this is not the primary focus of this paper.Background and Motivation:Distance learning has been a staple of educational systems around the world since the 1700’s [1],but has only become a major topic of research in recent decades
the incoming students [1]. Following the success of the first AEDesign Days event, the same project model was implemented in 2019, with minormodifications to improve the event logistics and student experience. This paper discussesthe planning and implementation of the most recent edition of the event held in 2020 and thedramatic overhaul required as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the transition toonline/remote learning. With new constraints and potential opportunities associated with theonline learning platform, the event saw its overall intent and structure shift to prime thestudents for working online in an AE context, and to provide a vessel to introduce students tothe program and build new relationships, since these efforts are
forward in working topromote engineering and other STEM fields collectively, while also bridging the gap between theundergraduate research opportunities provided to community college and university students. Data willbe shared on the effectiveness of and increased student engagement created through the remoteundergraduate research experience.IntroductionCommunity colleges are cost-effective and positioned to provide personalized academic experiences incomparison to established baccalaureate universities. However, community college students are at anacute disadvantage in terms of attaining undergraduate research experiences, which are often reservedfor elite students at baccalaureate universities [1, 2]. This disadvantage can be attributed to a
students either preferred in-class active learning or were not sure for theSpring2020 semester. The percentage of students preferring online instruction increased for theSummer 2020 and Fall2020 semesters. As an example, just slightly over 50 percent of thestudents preferred in-class instruction as of the Fall2020 semester.Keywords: Active learning, In-class exercises, Fluid mechanics, Online learning exercises,1. IntroductionFluid mechanics is a core course for many, if not all, mechanical, civil, and environmentalengineering undergraduate curriculums throughout the world. However, previous studiesindicated that the students typically view the undergraduate Fluid Mechanics course(s) aschallenging, resulting in low student performance
Students, Contract DeliveryMethods, Construction Management CurriculaBackground and MotivationAccelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) is an innovative bridge construction technique that hasdrastically improved highway construction practices through the integration of effective plans,high-performance materials, safe designs, and reducing the overall construction time of newbridges or rehabilitation of existing bridges. However, recent studies have highlighted majorissues in the ABC technique which include the high initial cost of ABC, lack of standardization,inexperienced contractors, and inefficacy of traditional project delivery methods [1]. Traditionalproject delivery methods such as Design-Bid-Build (DBB) involve solicitation of theconstruction
Academically Talented Low-Income Engineering StudentsAbstractThis paper provides the details of a poster that will be presented in the National Science Foundation(NSF) Grantees Poster Session at the 2021 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. The posterwill report the status of an NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (S-STEM) project. The objectives of this project are 1) enhancing students’ learning by providingaccess to extra and co-curricular experiences, 2) creating a positive student experience throughmentorship, and 3) ensuring successful student placement in the STEM workforce, graduate, orprofessional school. The students who are supported by this project receive financial andeducational assistance through various
designedto guide graduate students as they are building their research engineer identity. As part of the program,students were provided a web-based survey that provided us with information about how they connect toone another within and outside the university. In this pilot study, we aim to analyze the networks ofinteraction that result from their responses to the survey questions. We specifically want to address thefollowing questions: 1. In visualizing the networks of students based on their coursework, do we obtain useful information about how they perceive themselves? 2. Specifically, is there a relationship between the network relationships between students, their bridging and bonding social capital, and their sense of
are evaluated by their districts, in part, by usingthe International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Educator Standards. The sevenISTE Standards for Educators were used to evaluate the learning of teachers in the RET programafter a six-week research experience in partnership with graduate research groups at ametropolitan research university in the south-central U.S. From participation in focus groups andprogram products such as seminar presentations, we found that teachers expressed value in beingable to feel like a student again (ISTE Standard #1; Teacher as Learner). Additionally, teachersexpressed that thinking critically and using problem solving skills in an area with which theywere not familiar offered necessary insight
Entrepreneurship Work for CollegeStudents” [1], requiring local governments to vigorously promote innovative andentrepreneurship education and college students’ self-employment work to achievebreakthrough progress. The innovative and entrepreneurship education of colleges anduniversities in Chinese mainland has entered a stage of comprehensive advancement underthe guidance of the education administration. Since then, the State Council and the Ministryof Education have successively issued programmatic documents on innovative andentrepreneurship education, such as “Basic Requirements for Entrepreneurship Educationand Teaching in General Undergraduate Schools (Trial)” [2], and established policyorientation for innovative and entrepreneurship education.In
business sectors. The quality assurance inengineering education is a systematic project, facing a special internal and external policyenvironment. At present, engineering education accreditation has become the main qualityassurance mechanism for higher engineering education, and has promoted the formation oftwo major engineering education accreditation systems: Washington Accord (WA) andEuropean Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education (ENAEE). The globalengineering education accreditation presents the result-oriented, international connection,continuous improvement and industry-university cooperation trend [1]. Under this framework,colleges and universities in various countries and regions have tried to explore the path ofquality
. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Research Through Design: A Promising Methodology for Engineering Education (WIP)IntroductionEngineering education research (EER) is a fairly young and interdisciplinary field. As such, awide variety of methods and methodologies have been imported from both positivist andinterpretivist traditions in other domains[1]. Design inquiry approaches, however, have yet to bewidely adopted in the field. These research methodologies leverage design, not as a means ofprimarily solving a problem or generating an artifact, but as a means of surfacing theoreticalknowledge. Given EER’s roots in engineering, design inquiry approaches seem a
computationalthinking skills needed to excel in the digital economy. One program that was created as part ofthe President’s initiative was the Research-Practitioner Partnership (RPP) grants issued by theNational Science Foundation. The program has four objectives: 1) develop a connectedcommunity of practice; 2) develop and manage a participant-driven and multi-site researchagenda; 3) convene a researcher evaluator working group to develop a process for advancing theshared-research agenda; and 4) collect qualitative and quantitative data about RPP’simplementation and common impact data. However, there has been no detailed reports or studiesof these funded RPP projects thus making their impacts difficult to observe. Thus, this researchentailed a systematic