they will be exposed to and how this will shape their future career goals whileothers are content with just exploring the discipline until they make concrete decisions aboutwhere they will end up. Conversely, we have some students who are not able to articulate muchin this regard, and others who already have substantial identification with the disciplines.However, this discussion is very preliminary. Future research plans include continued analysis ofinterviews to explore what differences or similarities exist between students at our twoinstitutions and among the six programs of study. One key area of focus will be furtherexploration of participants’ familial background, first generation, socioeconomic status andcareer intentions as
[1]. Society demands engineers capable of co-creatinga sustainable society. The need to integrate sustainable development as a red thread throughall education has existed for a long time, and with the formation of the 17 sustainabilitydevelopment goals (SDGs) [2] in combination with the contemporary climate debate, thisneed is even more obvious regarding engineering education in 2030 than it is now.In addition to the challenge of sustainability, another challenge is posed by the industrydemand for engineers who are experienced in project management and who have the ability tolearn and adapt quickly, given that career paths will change more rapidly in the near future[3], [4], [1]. Therefore, these future requirements for employability
Paper ID #25877The Use of Technology in Statistics CoursesDr. Cathy Poliak, University of Houston I have been teaching undergraduate statistics for over 20 years. As an instructor of statistics it is my goal to develop and encourage students’ statistical skills for use in other courses and their careers. Ph.D.: North- ern Illinois University, 2007 , Mathematics with concentration in Statistics Masters: Akron University, 1996, Statistics Bachelors: Mount Vernon University, 1991, Mathematics c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019The Use of Technology in Statistics CoursesAbstractA
integratingthese fundamentals with Hi-Tech courses never face obsolescence. Theauthor has been involved in this art of integration for the last three decadesand has witnessed several hundreds of his students achieved high success intheir careers. The mantra in the classroom has been only those students whosuccessfully integrate fundamentals in Hi-Tech courses become wise, elsethey remain otherwise. My earnest attempt has been to place all of mystudents into the category of ‘wise’.AcknowledgementI wish to thank my administration as well as the administration of regionalHi-tech industries for supporting me in these educational endeavors. I wantto especially thank the industries who have made a long term commitmentfor Instructional Processing and Research
has designed several models of high frequency oscilloscopes and other electronic test and measuring instruments as an entrepreneur. He has delivered invited short courses in Penang, Malaysia and Singapore. He is also the author of a textbook in power electronics, published by Prentice-Hall, Inc. His professional career is equally divided in academia and industry. He has authored several research papers in IEEE journals and conferences. His current research is focused on renewable energy technology, smart energy grid.Prof. Omer Farook, Purdue University Northwest Omer Farook is a member of the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at Purdue University, Nothwest. Farook received the diploma of
two meetings were dedicated to discussing mentorship-related needsengineering faculty have and brainstorming potential next steps. The informal component ofmentorship emerged as an important theme in these discussions because it occurs daily in subtleways. Although these interacts continuously affect faculty development, they are difficult tomanage or support structurally. The team conducted a “customer discovery” or havingdiscussions with recently promoted faculty to learn more about their mentorship-related needs.The reasoning for this is that incoming faculty receive a great deal of onboarding support whenthey first begin their faculty careers. There are ample workshops and other resources to supportthem in teaching, research, work-life
well as helping to improve thestudent’s design competencies that are necessary for AM. This current paper will report thenature of the current AM coalition and share a sample student project designed and producedduring the Fall 2018 semester. The feedback received from the students will also be shared.BackgroundAM, also known as 3D Printing, is one of the most commonly used fabrication technologies usedin design, STEM, art, and healthcare lately to solidify students’ learning and success [1]. It hasbeen proven that students who gain the skill sets of today’s industry have a better chance ingetting a competitive job in their future careers [2]. So, it is clear that the impact of AM onseveral fields is growing widely [3], [4]. However, several
Paper ID #24824Positive Statistical Impact of Online Homework Assignments on Exam andOverall Course GradesProf. Shalabh C. Maroo, Syracuse University Shalabh C. Maroo is an Associate Professor in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department at Syracuse University. He received his B.Tech from IIT Bombay in 2003, and MS and PhD from University of Florida in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT from 2010-2011. Dr. Maroo is the recipient of 2015 NSF CAREER award, and the 2009 best PhD dissertation award in ’Thermal-Fluid Sciences’ at University of Florida. His research interests are in multi
factorsto a successful team [1]. Kahn [2, p708] defined psychological safety as ‘feeling able to showand employ one's self without fear of negative consequences to self‐image, status, or career’ ,and Edmondson [3, p350] defined it as ‘shared belief held by members of a team that theteam is safe for interpersonal risk taking’. In this paper, we explored the advantage ofmeasuring “Psychological Safety” in engineering teams because there is a potential for thismetric to be used by educators as a way to measure student comfort and inclusion on a teamproject.We searched for literature written about psychological safety and teams in STEM education.Although we might miss existing papers, our literature research provided hits thatpsychological safety is
Integrated Engineering Design (thecapstone course) along with a masters level course in Engineering Management Cases arestudied using critical thinking concepts and associated tools. Role of engineering decisionmaking in engineers’ careers is another focal point of this paper including human error asdemonstrated by Safety and Methods and Engineering Management Cases courses. Evaluation ofstudent work in some of these courses is also presented.The paper is concluded with a design proposal of a senior level elective on critical thinking inmanufacturing engineering.IntroductionIn the Tufts University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Design Handbook aimed for theirseniors, Michael Tran tries to answer the question of what critical thinking is [2
concepts throughout theircollege career. Indeed, as their studies delve deeper into upper division courses, matters evolvefrom conceptually straightforward (i.e., statics) to more sophisticated (deformable) andpotentially abstract (thermodynamics). Challenges can arise correcting mistaken preconceptions,and linking perceptually-abstract mathematical formulas to real-world examples. Indeed, studies[1], [2] show that students value real life applications of the material covered, and that suchapplications contribute to a deep conceptual knowledge.Western Kentucky University offers programs in civil, electrical and mechanical engineering,presented with a focus on project-based learning. The institution further maintain activerelationships with the
industry.With notable growth in supply chain activities in manufacturing and other industries in the UnitedStates, there has been a huge chance for equipping our university students in supply chainengineering technology (SCET) career path. Thus, we propose that additional research is neededfor at least two reasons. First, Nicholson [7] reminded us that optimization in industry and schoolmaterials’ are inherently linked; as such we would expect SCET to be particularly relevant in theindustry discipline [8] [9]. Therefore, an absence of some important courses’ presence in SCETprograms would reflect an essential gap in curriculum development and, conversely, its presencewould signal that technology and some engineering departments have been proactive in
Paper ID #26013Digilent Analog Discovery and Bench-top Instruments: A ComparisonDr. Shaghayegh Abbasi, University of San Diego Shaghayegh Abbasi received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington in 2011. In her thesis, titled ’Integrating top-down and bottom-up nanomanufacturing: Controlling the growth and composition of seeded nanostructures’, an innovative nanomanufacturing method is explored and optimized. Upon graduation, she started her career as Senior System Design Engineer at Lumedyne Technologies. She worked on design, simulation, and testing of a Time Domain Switched (TDS) ac
used, which isa small (900 MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU) single-boardcomputer [6]; and 3) Module 3: institutional strategies to supporteach team to design and implement team projects successfully alongwith the project-based learning and evidence-based researchstrategies [2].Figure 1. Flowchart of the technical platform through evidence-based teaching.Outcomes and measurement of the proposed platforms:The outcomes are rated by three factors, such as the measurement ofthe three modules, student feedback, and career development status.Firstly, the measurement of the three basic modules are as follows:1) Module 1 measurement: one (or two) exam(s) and teachingevaluations for several lectures; 2) Module 2 measurement: labreports’ grading
students an opportunity to see estimating as a dynamic career path was to integrate fieldconditions into their understanding of estimating which was challenging to coordinate butworked out well. Again, a small but measurable increase was observed in course and studentevaluation for the course between this most recent year and the same course the previous year, asshown in Table 2, giving support to this method of engagement for student perceptions andsatisfaction. Table 2: Course Evaluation and Student Evaluation for CE301 Construction Estimating Pre and Post Minka House Project Material Incorporation Course Evlauation Student Evaluation
Paper ID #26448Examining How Skill-building Workshops Affect Women’s Confidence overTimeMs. Megan Keogh, University of Colorado, Boulder Megan Keogh is an undergraduate student studying environmental engineering and environmental policy at the University of Colorado Boulder. Megan has been involved in education outreach and mentorship for much of her college career. She completed a STEM education class in which she shadowed a local 5th grade teacher and taught three of her own STEM lessons. Megan has also been a new-student mentor through her department’s peer mentoring program. Now, Megan is interested in researching
career goals. In allcases, students are assigned to a project (or team mate) that was listed in one of their three choices.Most of the students are assigned to their first choice of project or teammate.During the two senior design courses, students work on their project within their project team. Thecourse allows the student to demonstrate their understanding of the theory in a practical real worldengineering challenge and gain experience. Teams present weekly to an advisory board consistingof at least a customer, professor, and a graduate student. This advisory board serves to monitorstudent progress throughout the course of the project. During the first semester, students definetheir problem statement, develop requirements, generate concepts
, outlines the disaster and its impacts 30 years later. The video is very powerful, so timeis reserved at the end of class for open discussion where students are able to voice their thoughtsand a discussion around ethics and responsibility is encouraged.The fourth and final stage of the lesson is a homework assignment where students reflect on thedisaster and what they learned. A snapshot of the assignment is presented in Figure 4. Inparticular, the assignment asks students to reflect on the ethical repercussions of the change inthe design and how they can and will use ethics and compassion in their careers as engineers.The intentional order of the stages allows students to first focus on the statics with no knowledgeof the skywalk failure. The
ESI through community engagement and theexpectations of being tenure track faculty. So basically the whole time I've been on tenure track, I've been the faculty adviser and I've traveled four times with the group. But at the same time I can also see like OK once I get tenure and there's less pressure on myself to be like, OK I need a proposal, I need a paper, I'm wasting, I'm not wasting, but like all my time could be committed to that.Another interviewee who developed and teaches sustainability electives for engineering studentsdescribed that tenure was the catalyst for a career pivot. He described that tenure emboldenedhim to move from traditional lab-based research and teaching of core content in chemicalengineering to doing
in the classroom.”The in-service teachers also appreciated being paired with a pre-service teacher because the pre-service teachers brought fresh insights, new theories, and up-to-date pedagogical research to thepairing. One in-service teacher said, “It has been a while since I got my degree, so it was eye-opening to hear what they are learning about in their classes these days.” Another one said, “Itsounds like they look at a lot of research about pedagogy, so I liked hearing about some of thenew techniques to engage students in the classroom.”Pre-Service TeachersInterviews conducted specifically with the pre-service teachers produced quality informationabout how the RET program is directly affecting their career path. Several of them
Concepts to Harness Future Innovators and Technologists) project. Since September 2016, she co-leads the NSF STEM+C project, Curriculum and Assessment Design to Study the Development of Motivation and Computational Thinking for Middle School Students across Three Learning Contexts, that builds on TECHFIT. Professor Harriger’s current interests include outreach to K-12 to interest more students to pursue computing careers, applying IT skills to innovating fitness tools, and wearable computing.Arjun Shakdher, Purdue University Arjun Shakdher is currently a graduate student in the department of Computer and Information Tech- nology at Purdue University. He has been working as a Graduate Research Assistant since 2017 on an
are defined below:Transfer: how knowledge from this course is applied in another course.Real-world application: students explaining how features from this course also apply toproblems in their everyday lives.Team work: students recognizing how working in dyads applies to careers in engineering.The Table below displays student quotes from the three developed themes. Theme Student quotes Transfer Yeah, I find that to I'm trying to think of what I used it I'm trying to biochemistry I, there are classes. Yeah. I would say remember what class I like certain types of so. In the other problem- used it this summer. I
understanding the long-term impacts of the work being done in this area. Amongthe tools under consideration for development are the housing of certain evaluation instrumentsdirectly on the site with data to be collected from the instruments available for analysis as well asa recollective survey for past participants in activities to reflect on the impacts those activitieshad on their current education and career choices.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation underGrant Nos. 165005, 1625335, 1757402, and 1745199.References [Need to blind][1] Code.org. Available online: https://code.org/ (Accessed 4 February 2019).[2] Girls Who Code. Available online: https://girlswhocode.com/ (Accessed 4
elements into each research topic and provided outreach to K-12 students in the local community; 3. The project provided research and service opportunities to undergraduate students, allowed them to work in interdisciplinary teams and better prepared them for success in their professional degree careers; 4. The project provided a model for future undergraduate research-based EPIC Learning opportunities at Wentworth.The project was designed as a set of different undergraduate research projects that include thecommon theme of metals analysis. Multiple research projects were conducted by a team ofinterdisciplinary faculty (the PI and co-PIs as well as other faculty and staff) with students fromdiffering majors. The students
. Timemanagement and seeking a balance between curricular and extracurricular activities is thebiggest challenge Aiden has faced. He feels like he has been getting much better as time goes oneven though the coursework continues to get harder. Aiden is interested in this scholarshipprogram as it will lessen the time he has to spend at work and applying for other scholarships andallow him to focus more on his classes. He would also appreciate some of the other componentsof the program, like the internship and career focus that could help him be on track to a great jobafter graduation and a successful engineering career.Student 2: Alexander Smith, Successful ApplicantAlex was born and raised in North Carolina. Neither of his parents attended college. To
, the feedback comes more quickly. An author canusually see the feedback as soon as the reviewer provides it, rather than having to wait until theinstructor or TA is finished grading all the students. Finally, peer assessment forces students towrite in a way that their peers can understand. They can’t use shorthand that the instructor, withhis/her superior knowledge, is expected to decipher. They learn to write for an audience of theirpeers, which is exactly the skill they need for later in their careers. Peer assessment has beenshown to improve learning across the curriculum [1].Online peer-assessment systems perform the same basic functions, though they often havefeatures aimed at the types of courses taught by their designers, e.g., art
workshops or resources that are useful for supporting teaching.Policy and Process Recommendations Related to Teaching-focused Faculty Career PathsAs teaching-focused promotion paths are still being developed by the university, we askedparticipants to provide their insights on the topic. Much like some of the other themes, we hearda lot about transparency and the need for clear processes. • Clarify promotion pathways for different tracks of instructional faculty. • Clarify metrics for advancement. • Move away from an adjunct faculty model. • Ensure everyone has an opportunity to share their views. • Support the professional development of instruction-focused faculty.Institutional Data Explorer DashboardBecause a key component of
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need and well understood career path for traditional disciplines it is clear thatmany of the skills needed to participate in the future workforce do not fit neatly into a particulardiscipline. An increasing number of jobs and professions require knowledge and skills that arenot provided through traditional coursework. Big data analysis and artificial intelligence are twosuch topics that individuals from traditional disciplines including electrical engineers,mechanical engineers, civil engineers and others are requesting that are not part of a traditionalcurriculum.The University Cincinnati Master of Engineering program provides a flexible platform on whichto construct new degree programs intended to meet the emerging needs of the workforce
computer science, engineering, and applied math through a comprehensive professional development program that included targeted lab-based research experience focused on computer science (CS) and engineering aligned with NGSS and advanced lesson study; • To build and maintain long-term collaborative partnerships between middle and high school teachers and the university research community that positively impact student achievement and career paths.These programs have served middle and high school teachers and their students in urban settings.To date, we have served 87 middle and high school teachers and their 12,436 students (combinedin nine years; 2010-2018). Accordingly, the programs had both broad-based and deep impact