AC 2009-1806: COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF REMOTEELECTRONICS LABORATORIES: THE ELVIS ILABAdnaan Jiwaji, MIT Adnaan Jiwaji is a Masters of Engineering graduate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His thesis was development of remote laboratories for Africa with iLabs. Currently he is a Software Engineer for the Clusters and Parallel Storage Technology group at Oracle.James Hardison, MIT James Hardison is a Research Engineer with the Center for Educational Computing Initiatives at MIT. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Presently, he is involved with the management and development of online
production design, the impact of technology paired with active learning pedagogies on student learning, and effective strategies for increasing gender diversity in STEM disciplines.Prof. Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology Dr. Jeanne Christman is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology. She holds a BS in Electrical En- gineering, an MS in Computer Science and a PhD in Curriculum, Instruction and the Science of Learning. Utilizing her educational background, her teaching specialty is digital and embedded system design and her research areas include engineering education culture, equity in engineering education
State University in 2002, 2004, and 2007, respectively. Dr. Rhoads’ current research inter- ests include the predictive design, analysis, and implementation of resonant micro/nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) for use in chemical and biological sensing, electromechanical signal processing, and computing; the dynamics of parametrically-excited systems and coupled oscillators; the behavior of electromechanical and thermomechanical systems, including energetic materials, operating in rich, multi- physics environments; and mechanics education. Dr. Rhoads is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), where he serves on the Design
the homework worksheet to class, and engage in short, 1:1meetings with classmates (approximately 8 minutes per pair) during which time they explaintheir paper to their partner, with the opportunity to collaboratively work out any questions theyhave about the data or the research. This enables non-STE students to harness the expertise ofthe STE majors, while those with stronger techno-scientific backgrounds are challenged toexplain their papers in layperson’s terms to a non-major audience. Students exchange pairsapproximately 5 times, and then the class is surveyed for superlatives- “the most importantfinding,” “the most unexpected application,” “the application likely to impact the most people,”etc. In practice, this generates an extremely
Florida Richard Gilbert is a Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Florida’s College of Engineering . Richard is the Co-PI for the grant that supports the NSF designated Center of Excellence for Advanced Technological EducatMr. Sidney E Martin III, Saint Petersburg Junior College Program Director at St. Petersburg CollegeDr. Ron Eaglin, Daytona State College Professor - Daytona State College of Technology ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Footprint for Engineering Technology Technician EducationAbstractEngineering Technology (ET) professionals span the entire industry environment and its relatedworkspaces. The world of two-year degree
Paper ID #12318The Engineering Technician and Technologist WorkforceMr. Daniel Peter Kuehn, The Urban Institute Daniel Kuehn is a Research Associate I in the Urban Institute’s Income and Benefits Policy Center and a doctoral student in American University’s Department of Economics. He has eight years of experience conducting and managing research on the economics of education and training, the science and engineer- ing workforce, human capital, and impact analyses of labor market programs. He has published numerous peer reviewed articles, book chapters, reports, and policy briefs, and presented his research to academic
and machine design. Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in Mechanical Engineering and Faculty Advisor if the PACE Global Vehicle ProjectMr. Brendan P. Sullivan , New Mexico State University Brendan P. Sullivan is a MS graduate student in the Department of Industrial Engineering at New Mexico State University (NMSU) where his research focuses on additive manufacturing and systems engineering. He holds a Masters Degree in Political Science with a concentration in international relations and security issues. Brendan has served as team lead for the NMSU institutional involvement in the Partnership for the Advancement of Engineering Education (PACE), is vice chair of the Institute for Industrial Engineers student
University has formed a multiple-disciplinarylearning community, in which senior students from different disciplines work together andachieve hands-on learning in multiple-disciplinary robotic projects18. Students regard thisexperience as the best thing they do in their four years at college. Some students have chosen tocontinue onto graduate studies, or have started careers related to their experience. In BucknellUniversity, upper-level students participate in designing a lab for a freshmen-level course andserved as TAs, and learn how to create a lab experiment and how to present the information,while the freshmen have the opportunity to contact with upper-level students and obtain hands-on experience 19.To make STEM more meaningful and inspire
-making, is one of the critical ways practical labs and hands-on experience can be facilitated (Desha et al., 2007). Creating a toolset for educational andprofessional environments requires utilizing principles related to force sustainability andanalytical tools that are specifically matched with data analysis. To demonstrate and facilitate theengineering management student experience, the researchers utilized foundational tools likeExcel, tableau, and Orange and sophisticated experiments using IBM Watson.Excel serves as a significant touch point for graduate students in analyzing data on sustainabilityconcepts. It also offers a platform for statistical viewpoints and a practical bridge to decision-making. Engineering management students could
safer in community contextsand to use this privilege to increase the safety of female faculty and students in communitycontexts where they often do not feel safe.MethodsBuilding a preliminary academic and professional network. Prior to a semester-longsabbatical, I researched and contacted several universities with programs or initiatives that couldpotentially become places for HE education and practice. This process included identifying afaculty leader who had the ability to reach out to students and open spaces for dialogue withfaculty and students once I would be in person in Colombia. These programs included theInstitute for Engineering Education at Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medellin (UNAL-Medellin), the technology for accessibility
engineering projects fail (Ibrahim, Costello, &Wilkinson, 2013; Lawrence & Scanlan, 2007), the failures have been attributed to technical,communication, and/or contextual issues. Leading schools have begun emphasizing the othertwo categories of skills development. Texas A&M has been among the leaders with a variety ofco-curricular activities that provide intense design experience in interdisciplinary teams (AggiesInvent) and focus on building skills and experience with developing a technical and businessproject proposal (through an online summer internship).Researchers have for decades attempted to identify and describe effective educational practices(Chickering & Gamson, 1987; Kuh, 2008). In 2008, Kuh coined the term high
Faculty as well as faculty from other colleges and universities on STEM related grants, activities, and endeavors. Dr. Fontenot teachers Professional Communications for Engineers: practical applications to written, oral, and Internet communication as well as an introduction to engineering ethics and service learning. She sits on numerous councils and boards, including the Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Board, Texas Tech Teacher Education Council, the Pre College Engineering Council, and the Service Learning Faculty Advisory Council. She publishes in engineering related journals and presents at STEM conferences like ASEE, STEM Best Practices, and Frontiers in Education.Mr. Richard A Burgess, Texas Tech
Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationCategory Items to Include“Courses Taught Course number, title, and enrollment; Student evaluationsStudents Advised Graduate: Include your designation (advisor/co-advisor); the title of the thesis, dissertation, or creative component; the date of completion. Undergraduate: Include your designation; special research projects; the date of completion.Papers Published or Refereed; Nonrefereed; Proceedings; Research reports and othersAccepted for PublicationIntellectual Properties Patents
the process to achieve the results are presented here.OVERALL STRATEGYCURRICULUM The curriculum definition process followed three phases: Preliminary Benchmarking, Detailed Design,and External Validation. Preliminary benchmarking. Realizing that a significant amount of work has already been done bygroups from industry and academia in the area of skills requirements, the Curriculum content team focused on Page 1.362.1 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedingsidentifying best practices with respect to manufacturing skills. Key sources included, but were not limited to,the following
, while the US suffers anincreasingly serious decline in the number of engineering graduates and a lack of well-educatedengineers.While until quite recently U.S. engineering firms dominated in global infrastructure projects andthe development of new design and engineering solutions, they are now becoming minorparticipants and are quite often not even invited to propose and bid for important projects. Earlierlast century the US has built structures such as the Empire State Building in fewer than 18 Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering
Moore’s law are nowreaching both physical and economic limits. Pure object-oriented programming approaches offerbenefits for hardware that is highly parallel and that is of non-traditional design. This workdescribes the evolution of computational technology, explores features of pure object-orientedlanguages such as Squeak Smalltalk, and discusses proactive curricula options.IntroductionProgramming literacy and proficiency are key curricula concerns whether as an independentspecialty or as a fundamental component of other engineering specialties. Software educationtypically emphasized procedural-based programming languages. Such programming approaches,which use sequential calculations and simple decision-making processes, are the
Paper ID #35798Virtual Meetups for Remote LearnersDr. David G. Novick, University of Texas at El Paso David G. Novick, Mike Loya Distinguished Chair in Engineering and Professor of Engineering Education and Leadership, earned his J.D.at Harvard University in 1977 and his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science at the University of Oregon in 1988. Before coming to UTEP he was on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Oregon Graduate Institute and then Director of Research at the European Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Engineering. At UTEP he has served in a number of positions
Outstanding Mentor Award.Dr. Deborah M. Grzybowski, The Ohio State University Dr. Deborah M. Grzybowski is Asst. Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Practice in the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University. She has been involved with developing and assessing curriculum for nearly 20 years. Her research focuses on making engineering accessible to all.Dr. Bryant Hutson, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillDr. Megan Morin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Megan Morin (she/her) graduated from the University of Dayton with a bachelor’s degree in Middle Childhood Education and completed her Master’s and Ph.D. at NC State in Engineering and Technology Education. Megan’s research interests in
competition requires the team to design and build a medium-sized robot to autonomously traverse an outdoor obstacle course. Obstacles normally consist of colored barrels, construction netting, white lines and trees. The team uses stereovision cameras as the primary obstacle detection sensor. The team is currently exploring several algorithms for path planning. Paul recently become a member of the UMR Applied Computational Intelligence Lab. He recently spent the summer developing adaptive user-interfaces as part of a research partnership with Boeing.Donald Wunsch, Missouri University of Science and Technology Donald C. Wunsch II (S’87–M’92–SM’94–F’05) received the B.S. degree
good learning experience for me. One more good thing is that my confidence about writing a technical report is increased now.” (Student, Fall 2008)Based on this preliminary evidence, we designed an empirical study to formally evaluate theimpact of the proposed intervention at the undergraduate and graduate level in two engineeringcourses. Next, we describe the research study and the results obtained during the first round ofdata collection.Research MethodologyA quasi-experimental research study was conducted to address the following research question:What is the impact of the proposed collaborative tool and the associated instructionalscaffolding on teamwork competencies?An intervention was designed consisting of web-based information and
continue after the summer and provide long-term support for oneanother as STEM professionals. At CISTAR, they joined a larger cohort of Research Experiencefor Undergraduate (REU) students from across the U.S. and worked in research teams (so theyhad a peer in the research lab). Similarly, the teacher participants joined a cohort of STEMteachers who were part of a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program with CISTAR.Further, program participants had multiple mentors in keeping with best mentoring practices(i.e., faculty and graduate mentors, and professional staff mentors who made themselvesavailable after doing a session or workshop with the students). In addition, there were someinformal teacher-student interactions where they could learn
contained four faculty staffgroups from different regions who had not met for several years. Participants found the connectionvaluable, feeling empowered to face new challenges during the pandemic [10].Lipscomb and Tate developed a program by the name “Fast Track to Teaching Online” at the Uni-versity of Arkansas at Little Rock where an effort was made to “engage faculty to think intention-ally about expanding their online teaching practice beyond initial COVID-based remote deliveryto fundamental research-based course design and delivery quality standards” [11]. In their effort, acourse was developed to work on improving the quality of online course offerings dubbed “STaROnline Course Design Quality Assurance Standards” to aid faculty in their
engineering students into the workforce.Branislav RADELJIC, Aula Fellowship for AI Science, Tech, and PolicySara KodeiriDr. Sreyoshi Bhaduri, Private Corporation Dr. Sreyoshi Bhaduri is an AI scientist. Currently, she spearheads innovative research in applying generative AI to solve complex supply chain logistics and operations challenges. Her expertise spans applied statistics and natural language processing, with a PhD from Virginia Tech and specialized training in Responsible AI from MILA. Sreyoshi has been recognized as a Graduate Academy for Teaching Excellence (VTGrATE) Fellow, a Global Perspectives Program (GPP) Fellow, and was inducted in the Bouchet Honor Society in 2017. Sreyoshi is committed to demystifying and
and associate provost for diversity emerita in the School of Education and Hu- man Development at Texas A&M University. She served the university in administrative roles including vice president for diversity, executive associate dean, associate dean of faculties, and assistant depart- ment head. Her publications include Faculty of Color: Teaching in Predominantly White Colleges and Universities, and her scholarship has appeared in American Educational Research Journal and Educa- tional Researcher. She is the recipient of departmental, college, university and national awards for faculty and graduate student mentoring, faculty development, and diversity and inclusion including the named, Christine A. Stanley
instructor mentioned the self-reflection worksheet. Yet, many did cite the classroomvideo as a useful learning tool: “Putting into practice some of the skills learned thus far, watching myself on video - it wasn't as horrible as it felt and therefore gave me more confidence.” “The video and the graduate student feedback (not that the staff feedback wasn't useful, but it was really nice hearing if from a student). Overall it was also a great confidence booster!” “Watch myself and get 'free' feedback from the visitors.”This feedback indicates that we may need to provide more guidance for reviewing the videoand completing the self-reflection worksheet—including a checklist and model of what weexpect. Completing
gamesare too difficult or expensive to use. For this purpose, the board game Markopoly was designed to aid in the teaching ofdiscrete-time Markov chains in a junior-level industrial engineering class, ProbabilisticOperations Research (POR). Markov chains represent a form of mathematics and a way oflooking at the world that most of the students have never seen before, and many of them strugglewith the concepts – how to use them, what the different statistics mean, and which ones to use inwhich situations. Markopoly was designed to help guide students through the concepts usingmore open-ended questions than is typical for a class assignment. Four different versions of thegame were played in class by groups of two to five players, and then
. in ECE from the University of Central Florida (UCF) in 2016 and 2020, respectively. He has expertise in the areas of hardware security and IoT supply-chain security as well as applied ML for secure hardware design. Moreover, he has designed novel circuits and architectures for secure and accelerated computing. He has received several nominations and award recognition, which include the Outstanding Reviewer Award at IEEE/ACM DAC’23, the Best Poster Award at ACM GLSVLSI’19, the Best Paper Award Nominee at IEEE ISQED’17 as well as the Best Presentation at UC Davis Postdoctoral Research Symposium in 2021, and the Best Graduate Teaching Assistant Award at UCF in 2016.Pratik Satam, University of Arizona
. Participants included engineering instructors,graduate teaching assistants, and education researchers. The diversity of the participants'backgrounds ensured a rich exchange of ideas and experiences, contributing to the overalleffectiveness of the workshop.Figure 1. Workshop slide samples3. Workshop ResultsThe project consultant designed pre-post survey questions to investigate the effectiveness of theworkshop on the participants’ professional development, evaluate the module contents, and seekroom for improvement on the project.3.1 Pre/post Survey Results SummaryPre-Survey Key FindingsParticipants showed varying levels of familiarity with rhetorical elements of writing and writingpedagogy. Many participants had developed rubrics for their writing
analysis was used to gain insights in the qualitative data from the oralinterviews conducted with students and university supervisors for improvement of theintervention model in the future.Unique context at Mbarara University of Science and TechnologyChallenges influenced the design and execution of this project, namely, included unpaidinternships, COVID-19 disruptions, shortened internship periods, and limited resources forfaculty researchers. Although these challenges limited the internship experience for students,they did not impact the conclusions of this research.Evaluation criteriaPerformance was assessed using inputs from three supervisors, combined into a single measurewith the following weightings: • University supervisor assessment
achieved this goal byshowing students examples of the significant impacts of relatively simple technologies, wellwithin the scope of their abilities, or if not, accessible through thoughtful research and guidance.The students, galvanized by their personal passions and the opportunity to exercise theircreativity, were able to design projects that reflect the energy they devoted to the class and thepotential for their far-reaching impact to make the world a better place.Appendix I: Example Student ProjectsThe projects described here are work completed over a single 13-week semester. The narrativeexpands on the motivation of each student group, the details of their design, and anticipatedfuture steps. Each project reflects the evaluation criteria as