graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree and Aerospace Engineer- ing and Mathematics minors from Kennesaw State University in December of 2017. As a student at Kennesaw State, Andrew volunteered as a member of the Kennesaw State Aerial Robotics Competition Team where he founded the SAE AeroDesign Team and served as SAE Team Captain, and Team Pilot. Under Andrew’s leadership, the SAE AeroDesign Team designed, built, tested, and flew several large- scale radio-controlled airplanes capable of carrying a substantial payload. Additionally, Andrew served as Structures Designer and Pilot for the Sting One Owl Mascot Project where he designed, built, and flew a five-foot by five-foot hexa-copter drone designed to emulate
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participants Pre/post Students report changes in their career interests and academic S-STEM pathways?Participant OverviewDuring the summer of 2015, ten high school teachers (nine female and one male) from the localuniversity’s urban school districts spent six weeks on the university campus involved in variousareas of nanotechnology research. In the subsequent school year, they integrated some aspect ofnanotechnology into their course. Six of the teachers had five years or less of teachingexperience and four of the teachers had six to ten years of previous teaching experience.Participants were primarily female (n = 9). Teachers taught courses in astronomy, biology,biomedical sciences (through Project Lead the Way), chemistry, and
education. Currently, Adrienne works at Louisiana State University, managing all aspects of the STEP project that consists of a large-scale peer mentoring program in the College of Engineering. Previously, she founded and coordinated the Scope-On-A-Rope Outreach Program (SOAR) in the Department of Biological Sciences, where she worked for 10 years. Prior to her positions at LSU, Adrienne was the Science Education Curator at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum in Baton Rouge. Adrienne has a Master of Science degree in zoology from LSU, where she studied in the Museum of Natural Science collections, and an Education Specialist Certification in science education.Dr. Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University
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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
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promote diversity in all disciplines, thereby ensuring equity andachievement of full creative potential? The data shown in this paper demonstrate that computingand engineering have made considerable progress in becoming more gender diverse, even if theprogress has not always been on a consistent trend for computing. In contrast, several importantand large disciplinary areas are on course to continue becoming less gender diverse, as theybecome increasingly tilted towards more women receiving degrees. Ready arguments to expressstrong concern for reducing male dominance of computing and engineering can be made alignedwith the high demand and projected continued high demand for STEM degrees and competitivelevels of compensation. But, one of the
offeringappointments in December 2018. The Comm Lab is staffed by 5 advanced undergraduate peertutors, all of whom are engineering students. During the two-year pilot phase funded through agrant from a private foundation, the Comm Lab is tailoring its services to student competitionteams in Rose-Hulman’s makerspace, where students work on co-curricular projects like HumanPowered Vehicle and Concrete Canoe (Figure 1). These teams must submit design and safetyreports and make presentations as part of their national competitions, but because these teams’activities happen outside the context of a course, students received no formal writing orcommunication support, and team leaders and faculty advisors do not have the expertise or timeto devote to enhancing teams
out to students that they believe could be a good fit to be a TA. ● If at all possible, it would be great to have an extensive database that TAs can reference ahead of time to become aware of what topics the students' homework assignments and projects will contain. In addition, some more community-building activities could benefit the students' experiences and hopefully inspire them to continue pursuing engineering. ● More specialization with regards to which classes which TAs know best.DiscussionThe results support the conclusion that this new program, aimed at supportingunderprepared students through their prerequisites, both academically and emotionallyis having the
. Advised by Parent / Teacher / Mentor b. Heard about it on the News / Internet c. Personal Experience d. School Project e. Internship f. Other: ____________________________________________________________ 4. What are your expectations for the week? 5. How did you hear about the summer camp at LTU? a. Advertisement b. Email/Newsletter c. Facebook d. Family or Friend e. Newspaper or Magazine Article f. Website/Search Engine g. Other: _____________________Appendix CNANOTECHNOLOGYENGINEERINGSUMMERCAMP2015We hope you enjoyed the Nanotechnology Summer Camp. To help us improve the quality of the camp, please complete this survey. Thank you
, Seoul National University Associate Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Seoul National Uni- versity in Seoul, Korea. He has worked on construction management, occupational health and safety in construction, disaster management, and IT applications in construction specifically using advanced tech- nologies including Big Data analysis, PMIS (Project Information Management Systems), video mining, and smart sensing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Smartphone-based Tool for Checking Attendance of Students in Classroom Automatically Myungchul Kwak, Junghwan Song, Selin Chun, Taekyoung (Ted) Kwon, Seokho Chi
, the group projects and the quizzes. Completing exercises from the textbook. Group work with in class helps me in improving and sharing the ideas with my group mates. Flexible group work makes to get in touch with every person in the class.What is hindering your learning in this course? The time to complete the class prep problems is sometimes hard to come by. No, not in this class. Not prepare lessons and materials before class. The slides for chapter 10 "2 sample inferences" (week 11 I believe) that were on Isidore were terrible, because they were just a copy from the book. The other slides were good because the presented the concepts in a different way which provided insight into what
global issues such as those pertaining to sustainability.Dr. Melani Plett, Seattle Pacific University Prof. Melani Plett is a Professor in Electrical Engineering at Seattle Pacific University. She has over sev- enteen years of experience in teaching a variety of engineering undergraduate students (freshman through senior) and has participated in several engineering education research projects, with a focus how faculty can best facilitate student learning.Prof. Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato Rebecca A. Bates received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington in 2004. She also received the M.T.S. degree from Harvard Divinity School in 1993. She is currently a
educational process.AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to sincerely thank to College of Engineering and Department of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering for their support of the inversion of this course. Special thanks go tothe always reliable Victoria Minerva, College Coordinator of E-Learning for facilitating themaintenance of videos on the Mediasite system and for personally generating numerous usagereports. This study would not have been possible without her assistance.Bibliography 1. Mills, J.E. and Treagus, D.F. (2003) “Engineering Education, Is Problem-Based or Project-Based Learning the Answer?” Australian Journal of Engineering Education. 2. Perrenet, J., Bouhuijs, P., and Smits, J. (2000) “The Suitability of Problem-Based
unfortunately this is turning many of them off thefield altogether. Even though he’s a man, Bob’s comments also echo the “Stemming the Tide”report, which showed that most women engineers leave the engineering workforce not due towork-life balance issues (as is often claimed) but due to a hostile, unsupportive environment17.LimitationsThe narrowness of the work (only three students’ stories are presented here, though many morewere interviewed) is a clear limitation. This research project was just started within the last year.We hope, with time, to be able to incorporate other students’ interviews and provide a richeranalysis. If trends across race, gender, and major eventually develop, we plan to administer asurvey to target a much larger pool of
for the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program’s African American History Project. He is also a founding member of the Society of Black Archaeologists and blogs for GradHacker. He was recently named a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow for the 2014-2017 academic years.Janise McNair, University of Florida Janise McNair is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Florida, where she served as Graduate Student Recruitment and Admissions Chair for four years. She earned her B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia
other engineering instructors share my sentiment of being a novice in reconciling thesocial and technical worlds of the engineering science course. To us, it is tempting to abandonthe pursuit of reconciling these worlds. Though we may agree such integration would benefitstudents’ professional preparation, the tension of the social/technical paradox might be a placethat the instructor wishes to avoid. I find Palmer’s guidance to be a useful conceptual tool here.We may long to embody and project a coherent integration between the technical concepts weare drawn to and the social world that we live in. Until we find that integration, however, we can“live out the resolution” of the social/technical paradox that accompanies our profession, thereby
Attitudessurvey.Research ProblemThis paper examines the following research questions: 1. What are the professional persistence characteristics of present day aerospace engineering students? 2. How does the aerospace engineering education experience influence student perception of aerospace engineering?MethodsData Set The dataset used for this investigation contained the results of the 2009 administration ofthe web-based Survey of Aerospace Student Attitudes9, a cross-institution study administered bythe Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to the population of aerospace engineeringstudents in aerospace, aeronautical, or astronautical engineering programs across the UnitedStates. Principle investigator for the project
retaining underrepresented minorities and women in STEM. Prior to Purdue, she spent time in industry holding technical and operations-based roles and has experience with informal STEM community and outreach projects. She holds a BS degree in Industrial Technology and a MS degree in Engineering Management.Dr. Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West LafayetteDr. Joyce B. Main, Purdue University, West Lafayette Joyce B. Main is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a Ph.D. in Learning, Teaching, and Social Policy from Cornell University, and an Ed.M. in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education
scales developed by the Assessing Men and Women in Engineering (AWE)project.16 We have developed summated rating scales using exploratory factor analysistechniques and analysis of the content of the items when possible. The questionnaire, given atthe beginning of 6th and then again at the end of 8th grade, has items related to interests inSTEM, attitudes toward STEM, knowledge of engineering, efficacy beliefs surrounding STEM,and items related to careers and high school course taking. Responses from 6th and 8th grade forour cohorts who completed 8th grade in 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 were matched by state IDnumber, and only matched data were included in analyses.Standardized Student Achievement. The school district has assessed students on
women and underrepresented minorities. He received his M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech and his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University.Dr. Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Matusovich is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Programs in Vir- ginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 8 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using
firststudent cohort matriculated into the GE+ degree program in fall 2014, with 25 first-year studentsand 19 sophomore through senior transfer students.Students in the GE+ program complete four or more project-centered design courses, fiverequired core engineering courses, choose a 15-credit-hour engineering discipline emphasis(aerospace, architectural, civil, electrical, environmental or mechanical), and 12 or more credithours in a technical or non-technical “concentration” of their own choosing. Concentrations mustbe pre-approved, purposeful sequences of courses, generally culminating in at least one senior-level course. Concentration examples include engineering management, entrepreneurship,environmental policy, business, pre-med, and Spanish
ScienceFoundation’s ADVANCE program (http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/advance/), which seeks toincrease the participation and advancement of women in the sciences and engineering.ADVANCE projects have resulted in a variety of dual-career hiring programs at institutions suchas Virginia Tech (http://www.portal.advance.vt.edu/index.php/tags/dual-career), the Universityof Nebraska (http://advance.unl.edu/), Rutgers (http://sciencewomen.rutgers.edu/Dual-Career_Initiative), and Michigan State University (http://worklife.msu.edu/dual-career).Strategies and Stories from Couples Who Have Recently Found Their Two-Body SolutionsThis paper is intended as a companion piece to a panel discussion on dual-career job search atthe June 2015 American Society for Engineering
that I took her course and I have used the knowledge I gained from her already.Student 6My assessment of the Law class is that the class was great. I learned a lot about the subjectmatter in a very productive way. It was good to change gears and read 1000 pages and have biweekly discussions regarding the read materials. I found it very insightful working with the lawstudents in class and on projects because it gave me a view and word choice I hadn't used before.I am considering law school as one of my options after undergraduate and a couple years ofexperience. Next time I would ask the teacher to provide more detailed drawing that patentsinclude. Also would ask to be taught the entire patent writing process and ask to have us write uppractice
being accomplished through a synergetic collaboration ofexpert staff from the Office of Multicultural Recruitment, Academic Affairs, Student Services,the Outreach Office, and the Commission for Women at our university and seasoned role modelfaculty members. The project team has extensive experience working with female and minorityundergraduate students. Rigorous evaluations were built into the management plan to assesstargeted enrollment goals, retention rates, and the impact of mentor/mentee activities, taking intoaccount the unique characteristics of the targeted groups. This proposal was further strengthenedby leveraging the resources of the Office of Development at Penn State Harrisburg to sustain thiseffort over time. This paper deals with
configurations to achieve proper phase shifts. Open-circuit and short-circuit tests.The first six experiments were also done in fall 2013. Experiment #7, on three-phase transformerconnections, was only done in fall 2014 and it will be performed in the new hardware lab startingin fall 2015. Based on a summer 2014 senior design project, and using single-phase transformersthat were salvaged from the old lab, we are constructing new transformer banks on carts withwiring panels to support this experiment #7, and also to support research in the lab. This was themost complicated and lengthy software experiment, and will work better in the hardware lab.Figure 4: Finite Element Based Actuator Model Interfaced to a Drive Circuit and LoadFigure 5: Brushless