electric energy, sustainability, and Maine's uniqueecology; a project-based first-year course about power, energy, sustainability, and robotics; mentoringopportunities with local Boston middle and high school students; study group opportunities, and exposureto IEEE PES Society events and other professional activities, such as seminars and conferences. Our goalwas a 90% second-year retention rate, and a 90% five-year graduation rate, with at least 50% of theScholars going on to intern and work in the electric power industry.The program started in October, 2021 and seven qualified EE students (Cohort 1) received the award in2021. An eight scholar was later added that year. Since these students had already started the fallsemester, they did not do
statistics, predictive analytics, stochastic processes, quality engineering and management, simulation, etc.Dr. Eric Specking, University of Arkansas Dr. Eric A. Specking serves as the Assistant Dean for Enrollment Management and Retention for the Col- lege of Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Specking received a B.S. in Computer Engineering, a M.S. in Industrial Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Arkansas. His research interest includes decision quality, resilient design, set-based design, engineering and project management, and engineering education. During his time at the University of Arkansas, Eric has served as Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator, or Senior
through the scary woods: you’d better stay on the trail or risk getting very lost.Each of these lab models has important benefits, pedagogically and practically. The followingsection introduces low-cost FPGAs, which combine many of the benefits of these differentapproaches.Low-cost FPGAsNot long ago, “Low-cost FPGA” was an oxymoron. That is no longer the case: There are nownumerous FPGA development boards under $50, including the UPduino 3.1 [5], WebFPGA [6],and the tinyFPGA family [7].Lattice Semiconductor defined this category with the iCE40, a lineup of simple and low-powerFPGAs with a few thousand logic elements and a few dozen I/O pins [8]. The IceStorm project[9] publicly reverse-engineered the iCE40 architecture and bitstream format, and
study also anticipates increase in student retentionand reduce failure rate in thermodynamics course. This teaching style can enhance higher order thinkingapproach in students and help them connect theoretical concepts with real world applications. 2. BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATIONAfter graduation, engineering students work in industries where they are required to work on differentdesign projects with co-workers. Some of the challenges faced by students are not being able to relatetextbook knowledge to real world design applications, work with others as a team and be an extrovert. It isvery important to introduce students to project based (PrjBL), problem based (PrbBL) and active learningall together (POPBL) at an early
completing groups projects are evaluated with rubrics in order to check if ethicalbehavior is being exhibited in dealing with peers. In the higher-level course, a rubric is used forassessment. Each of the students, after the project is completed, gives anonymous feedback aboutthemselves and colleagues using the following rubric: “Proceedings of the 2023 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright @2023, American Society for Engineering Education” ETD 445 Fig. 1. Example of group project rubric.Each student’s grade is based on the percentage of the rubric averages of all the
Foundation sponsoredsenior design project a speed radar system is designed and developed. The components,functionalities, and objectives of the project are listed as follows: (i) A camera will detect andidentify a vehicle and distinguish it from other objects; (ii) a radar sensor will measure the speedof the vehicle; (iii) a microprocessor (Raspberry Pi) will acquire the speed data, send it to thedisplay, and analyze and log it in a server; and (iv) a stand-alone solar Photovoltaic system willprovide electrical power to and guarantee the continuous operation of the entire system. Thissenior design project was conducted by a group of undergraduate students in the electrical andcomputer engineering technology program at New Jersey Institute of
changes to the programme handbook, a resource developed by students forstudents, and changes to the content and delivery of certain modules that could accommodateEDI, or the identification of modules/courses that do. As part of the research/verificationprocess, a limited amount of survey data was collected from students to help us establishunderlying issues and how suggested sustainable changes might be perceived. In conductingthis work, certain challenges have arisen as well as opportunities.IntroductionIn this introductory section, we set the scene and explain the rationale for the project reportedupon in this paper. A working definition of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) is animportant first step with a suitable one provided by the
equivalent to 1.5 quarter credits. 30% of thesurveyed ISE programs require a thesis or a project course for graduation, while one of themoffers the option between 3-credit project and 6-credit thesis. Another 30% of these programshave the thesis/project course as an optional requirement. 40% of the remaining surveyed ISEprograms don’t have a thesis or a project requirement for graduation; final oral defense exam isrequired in of the nonthesis programs. 8 surveyed SCM programs require 30 credit hours forgraduation and 2 programs require 40 or more credit hours; one program requires 40 credit hoursand the other one requires 45 credit hours. Thesis track option is less common among the toponline master’s SCM programs in comparison to their counterparts
Teaching with Heart in CommunityCortney HollesCortney Holles, Ed.D. is a teaching professor at Colorado School of Mines who teaches sciencecommunication, service learning, writing, and ethics. She researches faculty-student interaction and well-being in higher education and also writes poetry and memoir.Cynthia JamesRoel SniederQin Zhu © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Developing Teaching with Heart: An Early ReflectionAbstract: Teaching with Heart is a project to bring faculty development workshops to STEMprofessors in higher education, focused on bringing love and compassion into the collegeclassroom to the benefit of both faculty and students. Researchers from Colorado School of
prediction based on selected drilling. The reservoir maintenance included: water/gas injection and gas lift for selected wells to optimize reservoir production plateau and prolonging well’s economic life. Terra Tek, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, 1985-1987; Director of Reservoir Engineering; Responsible of con- ducting research for reservoir engineering projects, multiphase flow, well testing, in situ stress measure- ments, SCA, hydraulic fracturing and other assigned research programs. In addition, as a group director have been responsible for all management and administrative duties, budgeting, and marketing of the ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023
)essons are theory-focused passive content withcomprehension quizzes at the end. (E)mulates are worked examples with a think-aloud protocolwhere students are required to submit the emulated problem solution. (A)ctivities are akin totraditional homework assignments; new problems that can be solved using the tools andtechniques demonstrated in the Lesson and Emulate tasks. (R)eflections are meta-cognitivereflection surveys. (N)ext Steps are an application of the content toward their final project. Out-of-class instruction is contained across the Lesson and Emulate tasks. In-class time is now spentin one-on-one or small group consultation to answer questions and help students move forwardthrough the content. The flipped nature of the course enabled
Paper ID #39081Scaffolding Training on Digital Manufacturing: Prepare for the Workforce4.0Dr. Rui Li, New York University Dr. Rui Li earned his Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering in 2009 from Imperial College of London and his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2020 from the University of Georgia, College of Engineering. He is currently an industrial assistant professor, who works in General Engineering program at New York University. He taught first-year engineering course as well as vertically integrated project. He has strong interests in educational robotics, project-based learning and first-year STEM
-Qatar Joint Collaborative Project between Temple University, USA, University of Idaho, USA and Qatar University. Also, she was a visiting scholar for Wichita State University. She received her Ph.D. (with distinction) in Com- puter Science and Engineering Department while she was a Tata Consultancy Services Research Scholar at Indian Institute of Technology, India. She received her bachelor’s in Computer Science Engineering from College of Technology and Engineering in 2010 with Honors. She has also worked professionally as Design Executive with Phosphate India Private Limited and academically as Guest/Assistant Professor with the University of Texas, Austin and SS College of Engineering, India respectively. She has
for a mixed-methods project focused on the connections between engineering students’ experiences workingin teams, their team disagreements, and their engineering identities. First, we describe the largerresearch project that this effort is a part of. Then, we share the process we used to develop aninterview protocol to gather qualitative data for this project and the subsequent analysis. Finally,we present preliminary findings from our qualitative analysis.MethodsThis work is a part of a two-year. mixed-methods project which has gathered quantitative datavia a survey instrument and qualitative data via student interviews. The survey instrumentincluded measures of teamwork behaviors, disagreement, and engineering identity to exploreconnections
veteran students in STEM degree paths, 2) heighten the interest ofveteran students through engaging research opportunities relevant to the Navy and Department ofDefense (DOD), and 3) increase the number of veteran graduates interested in Navy science andtechnology employment. To reach these goals, and providing additional transition support tostudent Veterans, SERVE also implemented a variety of social events and mentoring programs.The combination of defense relevant research projects and veteran support infrastructure wasdesigned to provide participating veterans with the motivation and knowledge needed to considereither graduate school at one of the participating universities, or the option of returning to serviceas a civilian in the DoD STEM
to develop a college-ready curriculum for high school students. She also recently completed an Action Research Project regarding current classroom events and a STEM-ed democratizing education fellowship. During the summer, she is the academic director of Northwestern University’s 9-12 Center for Talent Development program. Prior to Wolcott, she was the team lead of Physics at Chicago Bulls College Prep. Her Physics classroom achieved top-of-network growth, and her team achieved network-leading results similar to hers. She also created the Noble Network’s baseline cur- riculum for Physics, led the Science and Physics collaboration rooms, and was a founding instructional professional development provider. Before
software used for these three CAD courses are mostly the same. Thispaper describes redesigning the three CAD courses with OER materials. The instructors whoteach the courses are involved in this OER project and will implement OER supported courses inSpring 2023. Use of free and open course materials send a positive signal to the students that theprofessor and the university care about them—view them as people with tight budgets, jobs, andfamilies—and want them to succeed in the class. Increasing access and fostering a greater senseof belonging makes students want to stay enrolled and graduate.IntroductionEngineering design is a crucial component of innovation and new product development.Effective engineering design can improve quality, reduce
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 WIP: The Benefits and Challenges of Faculty Development through Interdisciplinary Public OutreachAbstractThis WIP paper will highlight emergent findings from a research project related to the facultydevelopment benefits and challenges that arose when STEAM (science, technology, engineering,arts, and mathematics) researchers engaged in interdisciplinary public outreach events. Withincreasing calls for interdisciplinary research teams and task forces, the need for faculty todevelop their interdisciplinary networks and cross-discipline communication skills is at an all-time high. Similarly, recent global events and crises have highlighted the need to increase andimprove the publics
infographics to increase environmental health literacy) reflectsthe direction provided through the DipLab project. Over a period of eight years, a total of130 students have participated in the process of community engagement by completingthis module incorporated into three different courses, and this article summarizes thelessons learned.MethodsCourse Catalog Description. A module was developed and incorporated into threeseparate courses. The descriptions of each course are provided, below: 1. CArE 5001: Experimental Course: “Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematic (STEAM) Diplomacy aims to excite interdisciplinary students to consider diplomatic craft and foreign policy to further professional business interests as well
a one-week civil engineering summercourse, high school students were challenged to approach engineering problems with thisintegrated mindset. The authors introduced the students to an eight-phase engineering designprocess on the first day of class. This framework was developed in [1] based on realisticscenarios used in engineering and was proven effective in the literature for novice audiences inengineering. In class, students interacted with real-world problems and brainstormed creative andinnovative solutions each day, either working toward the final project or with in-class activities.Using this framework, students were encouraged to identify and/or create new, unique, oratypical solutions while accommodating real-life constraints such
Engineering Accreditation Commission [11] in 2019. Thisexploratory study draws on interviews with industrial advisory board members. The followingresearch questions were formulated to guide the study: 1. What do industry members consider important in terms of the competencies acquired by recent graduates? 2. What are industry members’ views on the role of international accreditation for the enhancement of engineering programs?Conceptual FrameworkTo inform the study, we chose the conceptual framework proposed by Volkwein et al. [12](Figure 1), developed for the project "Engineering Change: A Study of the Impact of EC2000". Itpostulates that the modified EC2000 accreditation standards will effect changes in curriculum
©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Experienced Teaching Assistants’ Perceptions of a Simulated Environment for Facilitating Discussions with Individual Student Avatars from a Design Team in ConflictIntroductionThis Complete Research paper describes the outcomes of using a simulated environment forteaching assistants (TAs) to practice managing conflicts on teams of undergraduate studentsengaged in a design project. Team-based projects are frequently used in engineeringundergraduate courses, especially in introductory engineering courses. In addition to technicalcompetence, team-based design projects support the development of collaboration andcommunication skills and engage novice engineers in higher
time and date for the number ofdays the medicine is prescribed. The system could involve feedback to the pharmacist/doctor as tothe state of the blister package if the patient tries to tamper with it and tries to gain unauthorizedaccess to the medicine.Project Progress to Date and Relevance to Engineering Education 1. Electronics In terms of electronics this project is to be carried out in two parts. First to create a functionalcircuit for the remote opening and closing of the blister pack cell and second to miniaturize thesystem to the blister pack level. At the current stage, the students are using their knowledge from electronics and computerapplication courses to complete the circuitry and coding needed to open/close a gate
subjecting all direct and indirect operations in a manufacturing orservice industry to scrutiny.”1 It includes introduction of improvements resulting in making workeasier, to perform and allowing work to be done in less time and to improve workflow. In otherwords, the methods engineers increase productivity and throughput, reduce process, and cycletime and lower the costs of operations for products or services. To accomplish this taskpractitioners must have a working knowledge of work design and measurement.Time studies have been done for many decades. They form the bedrock for many project proposalswhere effort estimation become the basis. All production-based industries use time studies as theirplatform to measure productivity. Software companies
designed to give GTAs a basic understanding of active learning, inclusiveclassroom practices and community building, strategies for student engagement, formative andsummative assessment, and rubric-based grading. GTAs were also introduced to academicresources on campus that may be helpful for students in their courses. The workshop format wasdesigned to be interactive with participants engaging in sample inquiry-based learning activitiesand reflecting on their own experiences with inclusive (or not) classrooms.The GTA training workshop described in this paper is part of a larger project that aims to makeactive learning the default method of instruction in highly enrolled gateway courses and todevelop a departmental (and university) culture that
Bache- lor’s degree in Business Administration and Psychology and her Master’s degree in Industrial and Orga- nizational Psychology from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. She has presented her research at annual meeting of the Academy of Management and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology annual conference. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Elective Track Choice and Career Attitudes in Engineering Undergraduate Education: Antecedents, Gender Differences, and ImplicationsIntroduction With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Program,this Institutional and Community Transformation project aims to serve the national interest
funded several projects at the University of Puerto Rico. Inthis paper, we will discuss the projects that share the common goal of retention, graduation, andcontinuation in STEM careers; EECOS, NoTeS and RISE-UP.2. NSF-funded Projects and Results. 2.1. EECOSThe primary goal of the Ecosystem for Expanding Capabilities and Opportunities (EECOS)for STEM Scholars project was to provide an ecosystem with financial, academic, and socio-emotional support to increase retentionand persistence of STEM studentsseverely affected by Hurricane María onSeptember 20, 2017, in the first place.EECOS served 65 talented low-incomeSTEM Hispanic students from 2018 to2021. EECOS received a secondsupplement granted in March of 2020 tosupport a group of 16 STEM
University, and a B.S. in general engineering from Gonzaga University.Sidrah MGWatson ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023CAREER: Testing the Performance of Outcome Measures for LGBTQ STEM Students and their PeersAbstractThe purpose of this NSF CAREER project is to explore the participation of LGBTQ students inSTEM fields. LGBTQ students leave engineering and other STEM majors and careers at higherrates than their heterosexual, cisgender peers, and the climate within these fields is a contributingfactor to this difference in attrition. In order to develop a diverse engineering workforce andadequately prepare the next generation of engineers and other STEM professionals
theresearcher-in-residence altogether) explore how one learns through making. We make variousprojects alone and together with others, all along reflecting on the practices and experiences oflearning through making.Building on designs developed in a STEM learning program by the second author [22], Making toLearn is organized around five making projects: restorying making, make something move,interaction, making do, and movements and improvements. The materials and tools presented toparticipants and the prompt for each project are listed in Table 1.Participants also read research papers and articles that focus on important issues of equity inmaking and have regular discussions. They interrogated the narrative of “the maker movement” -while Dougherty [23
could be submitted for feedback throughout thesemester, allowing students to correct their work and assemble a completed portfolio of work demonstratingtheir mastery over the course outcomes at the end of the semester. In process control, course outcomescould be completed by work on a semester-long course project, while other exercises were simplyhomework and exam problems from previous iterations of the course restructured to allow students toprocess their understanding and better apply their skills for a more considered performance ofunderstanding.Students completed a number of self-assessment assignments throughout the semester, and a final gradewas determined for each student in discussion with the instructor based on a reasoned