exploration and design project began in Fall 2018 and features cross-disciplinarycollaboration between engineering, math, psychology, and math education faculty to developlearning activities with 3D-printed models for integral calculus and engineering statics. We areexploring how such models can scaffold spatial abilities and support learners’ development ofconceptual understanding and representational competence. The project is addressing thesequestions through parallel work piloting model-based learning activities in the classroom and byinvestigating specific attributes of the activities in lab studies and focus groups. To date we havedeveloped and piloted a mature suite of activities covering a variety of topics for both calculusand statics.After
, epistemologies, assessment, and modeling of student learning, student success, student team effectiveness, and global competencies He helped establish the scholarly foundation for engineering education as an academic discipline through lead authorship of the landmark 2006 JEE special reports ”The National Engineering Education Research Colloquies” and ”The Research Agenda for the New Dis- cipline of Engineering Education.” He has a passion for designing state-of-the-art learning spaces. While at Purdue University, Imbrie co-led the creation of the First-Year Engineering Program’s Ideas to Inno- vation (i2i) Learning Laboratory, a design-oriented facility that engages students in team-based, socially relevant projects. While
, underrepresentedminorities and/or low-income. They often work 20-40 hours a week in jobs unrelated to theircourse of study. The Program compensates interns through financial aid scholarships. It aims toreplace their unrelated work experiences with relevant, real-world engineering internships. Most NSF-sponsored projects like our work are awarded to two-year institutions and areresearch-related. This sponsoring University is a four-year institution. The Program focuses onnon-academic, industry-connected internships. In the following, we describe our experiencesimplementing the internship pipeline. We share best practices for individuals who hope to followour model. Conclusions from the evaluation team are highlighted. The challenges overcome by theteam were
Underrepresented Minorities in Aerospace EngineeringAbstractTraditionally, aerospace engineering disciplines are substantially underrepresented by AfricanAmerican, Hispanic, and female students. For example, Black and Hispanic American studentscollectively earn only 10.6%, 8.4%, and 6.4% of the BS, MS, and Ph.D.’s in aerospaceengineering, respectively. They are among the lowest percentages of all major engineeringdisciplines, leading to underutilization of the talent pool in the aerospace industry. 1 To tackle thisconcern, a multi-institution coalition sponsored by NASA is established to engageunderrepresented minorities in coordinated educational and professional development activities,including senior design projects, undergraduate research experiences
most impactful time toenergize students about careers in STEM is in K-12 settings. To emphasize and spotlight the importance ofbuildings on humans, along with providing an interactive learning experience for potential future STEMstudents, a five-day summer camp focused on multi-disciplinary building design was held at (insertuniversity name). The camp curriculum included hands-on, design-oriented projects from severaldisciplines: architecture, mechanical, structural, construction, sustainability, acoustics, and lighting. Inaddition, tours of several buildings on campus were conducted along with after-hours relaxation time forcampers. The implementation of activities and the well-designed hands-on projects not only increased thestudents
’ experiences in makerspaces and their perceived belonging. Thisstudy specifically focused on the experiences of four women, with varying levels of makingexperience and use of different makerspaces at their common academic institution.3.1 Data sourcesParticipantsThe study reported here includes interviews with 4 women makers in an undergraduateengineering context, selected from a larger data set of interview participants because they all hadvarying degrees of makerspace experience and were engaged in makerspaces at the academicinstitution. The participants self-identified as people who had worked on a project in amakerspace at the university (either for a curricular project, co-curricular project, or personalproject). Three of the women were mechanical
# 1914869) for an associated research study. She is, and has been, principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on multiple NSF grants related to computer science and STEM education. She integrates multidisci- plinary collaborative projects in her courses, to create immersive learning experiences that deeply engage students with a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. Students in her research lab are researching and implementing machine learning and collective intelligence algorithms, that harness the cognitive abilities of large numbers of human users to solve complex problems.Prof. Kim E. Pearson, The College of New Jersey Kim Pearson is professor of journalism at The College of New Jersey who teaches a range of courses
. He aims to help students improve intercultural competency and teamwork competency by interventions, counseling, pedagogy, and tool selection to promote DEI. In addition, he also works on many research-to-practice projects to enhance educational technology usage in engineering classrooms and educational research. Siqing also works as the technical development and support manager at the CATME research group.Amirreza Mehrabi, Purdue University I am Amirreza Mehrabi, a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Purdue University, West Lafayette. Now I am working in computer adaptive testing (CAT) enhancement with AI and analyzing big data with machine learning (ML) under Prof. J. W. Morphew at the ENE department. My
Society for Engineering Education, 2023Investigating Creativity, Confidence, and an Entrepreneurial Mindset Through Curricular Modification and Community EngagementIn the Spring of 2022, the South Dakota Mines Department of Materials andMetallurgical Engineering faculty modified their junior-level Principles ofMetallurgical Design course to utilize local Black Hills minerals to formulate andproduce a clay-based ceramic body. The final body functionality was left to thestudent teams to help create an open end to the design process. The course provideda unique learning environment for students and faculty. The students learned theiterative design process through this project-based learning approach as well as theunique challenges that the use of
, with colleagues in Purdue’s College of En- gineering. The project focuses on developing a scalable and sustainable workforce development program for microelectronics that will serve as a model for other workforce development efforts (i.e., artificial intelligence, hypersonics). In this role, she examines organizational and leadership issues that span across an ecosystem of partners within the following areas: defense, government, industry, community colleges, and universities. Dr. Linvill’s research is strategically designed to address organizational challenges and create novel solutions to those challenges. Her work has been presented at national and international conferences and has been published in The Routledge
address the various skill levels of the students at regional campuses and support studentsand faculty with a variety of academic needs.IntroductionTraditionally, First-Year Engineering Experience involves two semesters’ worth of coursework.During these two years, students explore a variety of engineering disciplines in order to makeinformed decisions about the field they are interested in pursuing their Bachelor’s degree.Engineering is considered a practical and challenging degree that involves applied math andscience coursework. In addition, there are hands-on labs and open-ended projects in the first-yearcurriculum that provide students with critical thinking, problem-solving, and project management
the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She holds both a BS and MS in Industrial and Systems Engineer- ing. Her research interests include facilitating diversity and inclusion within engineering education and applications of operations research in an education context.Alexis Gillmore, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Alexis is a PhD student in soil science - they also teach interdisciplinary senior design and are pursuing a certificate in engineering educationMs. Isabel A. Boyd, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Isabel is a third-year student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville studying biomedical engineering. She has conducted several mixed methods research projects centered around diversity and inclusion in
presentations with eightteams per group; groups are at the same project level–either all seniors or all sophomore/juniorhybrid teams. Maintaining the preliminary presentation groups is a conscious choice to ensurestudents in the Show and Tell session are already familiar with other teams’ project backgroundstatements and initial ideas.The students are instructed to bring only their current prototype and/or representation of theirfinal design. No slides, posters, or other auxiliary materials are allowed. To maintain alow-stakes environment, involvement is not graded. However, the session is moderated by aninstructor and follows a speed-dating format. Teams are split in half so that half of each teampresents and the other half rotates around the room
Competence for Engineering Formation (Work in Progress)1. IntroductionThe purpose of this project is to determine to what extent global engineering competence can bedeveloped in engineering students through the use of four minimally to moderately intensiveglobal engagement interventions. The specific global engagement interventions evaluatedinclude the use of international engineering case studies in a quantitative analysis course, theintentional formation of multinational student design teams within a capstone design course, aCollaborative Online International Learning (COIL) research project in a fluid flow (transportphenomena) course, and an engineering short course coupled to a community engaged project.The specific
-known methodologies utilized in laboratories for overcoming some of thementioned challenges in engineering education [6]. It aims to expose students to hands-onexperience, increasing their level of expertise required by the job market [7]. Besides adoptingcapstone project learning, using simulation software as an educational tool through courses andexaminations has also been a step toward bridging the gap between education and job marketrequirements. It will likely expose students to software optimization tools like Matlab and codingplatforms like Python, which are commonly utilized in the study and instruction of statics anddynamics of mechanics of machines [8].Despite their proximity to the real world, project and simulation learning tools
Jensen, Ph.D. (she/her) is an assistant professor in biomedical engineering and engineering edu- cation research at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include student mental health and wellness, engineering student career pathways, and engagement of engineering faculty in engineering education research.Dr. Lisa Benson, Clemson University Lisa Benson is a Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University, and the past editor of the Journal of Engineering Education. Her research focuses on the interactions between student motivation and their learning experiences. Her projects include studies of student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, and
University of Pisa. He served as a Program Evaluator for ABET- ETAC commission, as a trainer for Siemens Technik Akademy, and was the elected chair of the Engineering section of the Tennessee Academy of Science in 2022 and 2017. His research interests include MEMS, Lipid Bilayer Membrane sciences, and advanced manufacturing. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Integrating Entrepreneurial Mindset, Bio-design, and Art into a Rapid Prototyping and Reverse Engineering CourseAbstractThe study aims to integrate entrepreneurial mindset, bio-design, and art into a rapid prototypingcourse during the duration of its semester long project. The author has been employingconstruction toy
instructors and validatesstudent learning, making it a culturally responsive approach to teaching.In addition to allowing multiple attempts, the instructor requires students to submit neatlyformatted engineering calculations (preferably organized in Excel spreadsheets) to be morerepresentative of real world project calculation and documentation. It is the goal that students notonly learn how to present engineering work but also that they might have a collection ofspreadsheets to aid them as they begin their engineering design careers.The following paper documents the instructor’s first and second attempts at using mastery basedassessments in a reinforced concrete design course. Like the variability of concrete, the instructoridentified some strengths
increase the sophistication of MATLAB algorithms. By junior year, the required coursesinvolve MATLAB coding so that the students can now apply their software knowledge toengineering design problems and simulation projects. Senior year, the students apply the skillsthey learned thus far to their project oriented and capstone design courses. As Figure 1 shows,space may exist to implement PLM concepts as well as select software packages each year throughPLM software workshops for interested students. Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior ENGR 1020: ME 2220: ME 3330: ME 4010: Engineering Mechanical Mechanical
improvingcommunication skills, on a scale of 1 to 10—with 1 being no impact and 10 being greatimpact. In general, across all categories delivering in-person presentations were ratedhigher than delivering pre-recorded presentations, with an average mean score of7.91±1.92 versus 4.24±2.94. Similar trends were seen in the results for audience learningfor in-person versus pre-recorded presentations. Learning objectives assessed for beingan audience member during each presentation style included understanding of the projectpresented, ability to think critically about the project, willingness to ask questions, andunderstanding of the overall module. Across all audience learning categories, in-personpresentation scores averaged 7.5±1.66 while pre-recorded
any area [21]. The Gallup-Purdue index went on to find how satisfied alumni were with their alma maters.It was found that if the alumni felt that their college prepared them for life, their engagement atwork was tripled. The important ways that the university environment prepared them for lifeincluded six elements. The student needed a professor that supported them, got them excitedabout learning, and encouraged their dreams. The more engaged employees also had meaningfulinternships, worked on a project that took a year or more, and were actively engaged inextracurriculars during their college career. Others continued the research to determine whattypes of interactions created the most impactful faculty-student interactions. They agreed
, evaluation, and results of these integrated curricula in chemicalengineering has been provided elsewhere [A1], [A2], [A3], [A4], [A5]. The technical content ofthese courses and unit operation laboratories have been progressively enriched with training insafety. Lectures on safety have been added in close connection with the specific content of someof the six pillar courses. Projects have been included in several pillars for students to incorporatesafety analysis and proposals. Table 1. CHE Core CurriculumYear (Semester) Core course Cr Companion course CrSophomore (I) Foundations in Chemical 6 Foundations of CHE Lab 1
Paper ID #37188Using Active Learning and Gamification to Teach Software Engineering inGame Design CoursesDr. Bruce R. Maxim, University of Michigan, Dearborn Bruce R. Maxim is Professor of CIS and the Nattu Natarajan Professor of Engineering. He has worked as a software engineer, project manager, professor, author, and consultant for more than forty years. His research interests include software engineering, human computer interaction, game design, and artificial intelligenceDr. Jeffrey Jonathan Yackley, University of Michigan, Flint Jeffrey J. Yackley is an assistant professor of software engineering in the College of
insights generated from the initial implementation of a journeymapping methodology and this methodology’s ability to inform doctoral program design andassessment. This paper explores journey mapping as a UX method for researching and assessing doctoralengineering programs and offers preliminary findings from journey mapping data collection. Asresearch participants, doctoral engineering students create journey maps to identify programexperiences that range from highly positive to highly negative in their personal identitydevelopment as engineering researchers. Among the most frequent experiences identified asdevelopmental were courses, projects and assignments, and individual research; less frequent butnevertheless key experiences were
Paper ID #36421External review letters for promotion and tenure decisions atresearch-intensive institutions: An analysis of the content of templateletters for bias and recommendations for inclusive languageProf. Cinzia Cervato, Iowa State University Cinzia Cervato is the lead PI of the NSF-funded ADVANCE Midwest Partnership project and Morrill Professor of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences. She has served as a faculty fellow for early career and term faculty in the Office of the Provost and faculty fellow for strategic planning in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. She earned a doctor of geology degree from the
canprovide relevance to concepts students learn in the classroom while fostering their interest in aSTEM field [10]. Other scholars identified that a sustained interest in engineering, for example,is important for students as they make decisions about their careers [11]. Project OverviewTaking this context into account, this CAREER project originally focused primarily on exploringengineering career pathways in rural, Appalachian communities in Southwest Virginia, buildingon previous efforts described in other sources [12]. The original goals of the project sought tomore deeply understand the longitudinal development of engineering interest from middle schoolthrough post-secondary education, and sought to
Kacey Beddoes is a Project Director in the College of Engineering Dean’s Office at San Jose State Univer- sity. She holds a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. Further information about her work can be found at www.sociologyofengineering.org. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Mental Health in Engineering Education Before, During, and After COVID- 19 Related DisruptionsAbstract: This paper summarizes the results of our NSF funded longitudinal study on mentalhealth in engineering education (EEC #1929484 and #1929478). Survey instruments were usedto measure the prevalence of several mental health conditions in engineering students at
, an FCA project is mapped to engineering disciplines.The results of this paper are intended to bring to light integrative engineering pedagogy throughthe utilization of an FCA project in the classroom.Research MethodologyThis study analyzed and categorized existing research on facility engineering practice and facilityengineering education from 1993 to 2023 by conducting a search of literature. Limited researchexists associated with the topic matter, so an extended search of industry organizations andaffiliations that support facility engineering was conducted. Further search criteria includedarchitectural engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering,structural engineering, technology engineering of
presentation is two-fold: 1) to provide an overview of our NSF project,Pandemic Impact: Undergraduates’ Social Capital and Engineering Professional Skills, and 2)to report our progress and preliminary quantitative findings. We hope to discuss our project andpreliminary results with fellow engineering educators and receive feedback.The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted engineering education in multiple ways that willcontinue to be felt for years to come. One of the less understood ways the pandemic hascontinued to leave a residue on engineering education is how social distancing and onlinecourses altered students’ professional development. Of particular concern are students who wereeither new to the institution or started their college education during
Adoption Among FacultyDuring the current 4th industrial revolution, technology is changing at an ever increasing pace[1]. Thus, it is essential that engineering educators continually adopt and teach new engineeringtechnologies to both keep the technologies used in engineering coursework relevant for graduatesentering industry, as well as to model lifelong learning for their students. In fact, ABET requiresfaculty to teach relevant tools for modern engineering, as well as equip students with life-longlearning skills [2]. However, the time restrictions on faculty are well documented [3 - 4] and canmake learning new technologies challenging.This poster summarizes the preliminary results of an NSF project funded through the Directoratefor Engineering