. CSM’s curriculum also engages students in humanities, ethics, and social sciences.Students can earn a minor in Public Affairs through the 21-credit hour McBride Honors Program,which integrates STEM, liberal arts, public policy, anthropology, and experiential learning to givestudents a well-rounded education. Additionally, students can earn an 18-credit hour HumanitarianEngineering Minor, which emphasizes how engineering can contribute to co-creating just andsustainable solutions for communities.SummaryWe believe findings from our longitudinal, mixed-methods study will have considerablepotential to enhance ongoing efforts to cultivate social and ethical responsibility among futureengineers, including by investigating differences in perceptions
curriculum. All Bridge students enroll inSCLC. The SCLCs are one-credit courses, and the students meet twice a week for two hourswith an instructor dedicated specifically for the course. The students enrolled in SCLCs areprovided with additional instruction and time for problem-solving. This instruction requiresstudents to interact in heterogeneous groups of 3-4 to master the course material usingcooperative learning strategy23, 24, and grades are based on mandatory attendance andparticipation in the cooperative learning process. It further strengthens the learning communitybuilt in the Summer Bridge Scholars Program.NETWORKING The networking strategies include: academic assessment and monitoring program; monthlysocials; MentorNet; community
responses is being analyzed to determine the most impactfulprogram aspects and to assess the participant’s feelings of belonging and inclusion.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1644119. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.6.0 References[1] O. Brown, M. Morris, R. Hensel, and J. Dygert, “An Integrated Supplemental Program to Enhance theFirst-year Engineering Experience,” ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, June2018.
educating student to generate creative concepts; 2. train instructors on how to teach Design Heuristics within existing engineering classes; 3. assess learning outcomes from Design Heuristics pedagogy from diverse instructors, courses and universities; 4. incorporate the lessons learned to develop an effective, easy-to-adopt pedagogy for educating students about how to generate creative ideas.Key research questions include: How do instructors’ emphases on concept generation change asa result of introduction to Design Heuristics at a workshop? How do instructors integrate DesignHeuristics in their courses? What similarities and differences exist in Design Heuristicspedagogy across course level and type? How do students
AC 2012-4699: ENHANCING LABORATORY EXPERIENCES WITH PORTABLEELECTRONICS EXPERIMENT KITSDr. Jason Yao, East Carolina University Jianchu (Jason) Yao received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Kansas State University in 2005. He is currently an Associate Professor of engineering at East Carolina University. His research in- terests include wearable medical devices, elehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, control systems, and biosig- nal processing. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven learning and integration of research into undergraduate education. Yao is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
school building impacted by a swarm of earthquakes that started in December 2019,followed by a 6.4 earthquake on January 7, 2020. Visits to sites impacted by natural disasters are part of the curriculum of the ResilientInfrastructure and Sustainability Undergraduate Program (RISE-UP). This interdisciplinaryprogram was developed to educate future engineers and environmental design professionals todesign and build more resilient and sustainable infrastructure in Puerto Rico. [3]. Currently theisland is in the process of reconstruction after Hurricane María in 2018 and a major earthquake in2020. RISE-UP developed a novel curriculum sequence that is recognized by the University ofPuerto Rico (UPR) as a Minor degree in Integrated
CoachingPeer mentoring and reciprocal peer coaching are integral components of our project, as weexpect the engineering peer mentors to provide real-time, instructive feedback as well asguidance on efficient study habits to students enrolled in calculus and who are consideringengineering as an academic major. Moreover, we use peer mentors to connect students to campusresources as well as to one another. Peer mentoring is regarded as a successful intervention toaddress issues of student retention in academic programs12. Peer mentoring, as defined byKram13 is “a helping relationship in which two individuals of similar age and/or experience cometogether … in the pursuit of fulfilling some combination of functions that are career-related andpsychosocial
classes, they learn to use their skills toanalyze an experiment or create a budget, and to apply them as part of critical thinking. As artificialintelligence/machine learning/data science (AI/ML/DS) techniques become a part of everyday life,and as state standards change to encompass CS topics, educators are faced with challenges tointegrate these into the K-12 curriculum. As research and development in these fields expands evermore rapidly, both in power and in scope, so does how we interact with it within and across otherdisciplines.Many industries face challenges in recruiting, and in trying to match employee skills with theseadvanced computational skills. The development of these understandings and skills falls to P16educators even though many
“Identity and Security in a TechnologicalWorld” to fit into Union College’s general education curriculum as a Sophomore ResearchSeminar. The course is team-taught by faculty members from the Electrical Engineering andEnglish departments and addresses the implementation and socio-cultural impact of newidentification and security systems. The course is taken by engineering and non-engineeringstudents and blends the study of technology with literature (both fiction and non-fiction). Biometric technology overlaps with language processing, psychology, neuroscience,biology, philosophy, ethics, and is an ideal subject area for inter-disciplinary teaching anddiscussion. Students in the course have many different majors and have various levels
laboratories cannot offer [13].Optics and Photonics AppTo address this issue, several geometric optics lessons and curriculums were analyzed todetermine the most important aspects of this subject. Using this information in addition tovaluable feedback provided by professors regarding the topic, it was determined that the mostappropriate approach to teaching geometric optics was an educational mobile app. Studies haveshown that learning scientific topics through interactive activities significantly improvesstudents’ understanding of various scientific concepts. When learning about an idea with theassistance of an activity, it was found that recalling that idea later activated the same region ofthe brain responsible for interacting with said activity
as discuss the results of their implementation beforetaking the examine, without delaying other topics in the curriculum. It is worth noting thatcollection and grading of the worksheets and homework sections we provide with the LCDLMsis left up to the instructors’ discretion. In addition, we recommend assigning the short YouTubechannel videos for each LCDLM that we made to clarify conceptual understanding, and whichwere originally developed as an add-on while offering alternative synchronous and asynchronoususe of LCDLM exercises during the COVID-19 pandemic.Workshop changesOver the past several years, our methodology for mentoring faculty to implement LCDLMs intheir classrooms has continued to improve. When we started in late 2018, we
other subjects. Moreover,there are many questions about the dispositions for, attitudes toward, and stereotypes concerningcomputational thinking and how they connect to stronger learner identity. Investigatingdifferences between how males and females develop computational thinking is also needed, aswell as the trajectory between novice and expert computational thinking. Very little research hasbeen published on how teachers learn to incorporate computational thinking into their content.Project ActivitiesWe envisioned a professional learning experience for secondary STEM teachers that wouldprovide an authentic research experience in data science. We also wanted to help translate thatexperience into high quality curriculum that incorporates the
work in curriculum, Dr. Linder has multiple national publications relating to early childhood and elementary mathematics motivation and achievement, preservice and inservice teacher quality and professional development, cross-curricular and technology integration in mathematics, and teacher beliefs related to mathematics pedagogy.Dr. Cindy M. Lee, Clemson University Cindy M. Lee serves as the department chair of Clemson University’s Engineering and Science Education Department, a graduate-only department that offers a graduate certificate program in STEM education pedagogy and introduction to education research methods as well as a PhD program in STEM education research. Cindy’s research and teaching has focused on
engineering makerspaces have on engineering students. It was clear in our initialefforts of survey development and implantation that there was a greater depth and moreopenness to the questions that we were asking about makerspaces. These three studies thatwe have presented here address our current state of research on makerspaces. While itconstitutes both a review of previous literature that has been published and new findings, thispapers aims to showcase how to integrate different approaches for studying a highly complexand uncontrolled space. Longitudinal data of design self-efficacy, retention, GPA, demographicsand makerspace involvement are all being collected. In order to interpret and expand on thedata, we pursued implementing an ethnographic
21st century of digital learning, and technology integration. Yang’s latest research focuses on employing an innovative synergis- tic approach to prevent/eliminate misconceptions from forming with first-year engineering students, and teaching STEM disciplines in online environments.Dr. Inanc Senocak, Boise State University Dr. Inanc Senocak is an associate professor with the Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineer- ing at Boise State University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Florida in 2002. Dr. Senocak served as a postdoctoral research associate at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Stanford University prior to joining Boise State in 2007. Dr. Senocak
materials as they progress through theengineering curriculum. Moreover, by introducing engineering through the lens of the NAEGrand Challenges, we ought to be able to capture and motivate a broader, more diverse array ofstudents. The Elective Units are electronic in format, learner-centered and designed for on-linedelivery. These materials are thus readily translated and integrated into the freshman engineeringcurricula at most any college or university.The ENGR 102 HS component of the proposed work addresses national interest in theproduction of skilled STEM professionals (including K−12 teachers) and citizens knowledgeableabout STEM. In this innovative arrangement between the College of Engineering and highschools in Arizona, students gain an
need to widenor build new roadways; (3) improve transportation access for the young, older adults, and peoplewith disabilities; (4) reduce costs associated with delivering freight, and (5) reduce the need toengage in driving, and thereby reduce stress associated with driving and allow for moreproductive use of commuting time. To that end, the development of AV and other transportationdisruptive technologies has and will continue to require an interdisciplinary approach, leveraginginput from engineers and scientists from multiple fields and varied backgrounds.However, there are significant challenges with introducing new and cutting-edge content (e.g.,transportation disruptive technologies) into the curriculum for a broad population of
fairness and mistreatment in the workplace and in STEM classrooms and programs.Dr. Jeffrey E. Froyd, Ohio State University Dr. Jeffrey E. Froyd is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education in the College of En- gineering at Ohio State University, College Station. He received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He was an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and a Research Profes- sor at Texas A&M University. At Rose-Hulman, he co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum
through during a design. Tobuild upon concepts learned and components used, few sensors and integrated circuits were added to thedesign to construct the full hardware of a smart street light in figure 3. Smart street lights are the public streetlighting that adapt to the light in the surrounding where they are automatically turned OFF or ON during theday and night respectively. To add functionality to the design, a simple introduction to programming was donewhere participants wrote a simple code to make an LED blink. Fig. 3: Smart street light hardware design.Day 4: Smart Street Light Software Design (Related Disciplines: Engineering, Technology, and AppliedScience, Computer Science)Participants were
Cybersecurity program and serves as Academic Coordinator of the M.S. in Software Engineering Program at West Virginia University. She has served on program and organizing committees of many international conferences and workshops.Dr. Erin Carll, University of Washington Erin Carll is a research scientist at the University of Washington Center for Evaluation and Research for STEM Equity. She earned a PhD and MA in Sociology as well as a certificate in demographic methods and a concentration in social statistics from UW. She also earned an MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from Columbia University, a BA in Political Science and Russian Studies from Central Connecticut State University, and an AA in Liberal
virtual lab experiences havemuch more possibilities without being limited to lab courses. The project team and faculty in EEsuccessfully integrated laboratory experiences into purely theoretical courses via Hardware-in-Homework (HiH) concept [13, 14]. The Analog Discovery kit is a good example of HiH, whichcan play an important role for students who learn EE materials in an online setting. The uniquemeasurement features of the Analog Discovery kit can be appropriately applied to lower to upper-level courses [14]. Due to its readily available and portable nature, it will be beneficial forstudents who learn well with hands-on activities. With a growing need of an integration of online labs in engineering curriculum, it isimperative that we
experience for thesynthesis and integration of prior engineering content knowledge [1]. It may have implication onthe disciplinary approach to teaching and learning, as well as how different educationalexperience and interventions in the classroom may advance learning. With an ultimate goal offacilitating more effective teaching and learning of design [2], this study proposes thedevelopment of methods to assess engineering understanding [3], conceptions of engineering anddesign, and an assessment framework for design learning. For the purposes of this study wedifferentiate between design and engineering ways of knowing, thinking and doing (problemformulation and problem solving), and design and engineering learning (focused on change inthe student’s
VOLTA can be used as an effective learning tool in circuits’ laboratories.1. IntroductionLaboratories have always been an integral part of the engineering education, where engineeringconcepts were reinforced by hands-on experience in laboratory experiments. Traditional on-siteexperiment-based laboratories have several limitations, such as expensive laboratory resources,limited space, schedule conflicts and short term exposure. Therefore, it is necessary to find Page 26.449.2alternative methods for enhancing the engineering laboratory experience.1,2.Over the past few decades, interesting laboratories have been developed in different branches
2011, she has been a Teaching Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Currently, she is the Education Director for the NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST).Dr. Pam Page Carpenter, Pam Page Carpenter, Ed.D is Director of Education programs for the National Science Foundation Fu- ture Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center headquartered at NC State University. She has developed and led K-20 programs in renewable energy and alternative transportation with a focus on and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). She is an
. Connie Mosher Syharat, University of Connecticut Connie Mosher Syharat is a Ph.D. student in Curriculum and Instruction and a Research Assistant at the University of Connecticut as a part of two neurodiversity-centered NSF-funded projects, Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (NSF:RED) ”Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engi- neering Innovation” and Innovations in Graduate Education (NSF:IGE) Encouraging the Participation of Neurodiverse Students in STEM Graduate Programs to Radically Enhance the Creativity of the Pro- fessional Workforce”. In her time at the University of Connecticut she has also has served as Program Assistant for an summer program in engineering for middle school students with
, quality, novelty, and variety of the solutions. Results indicatedthat the task-specific self-concept scores of self-efficacy, motivation, and outcome expectancydid not change significantly as students progressed through the engineering curriculum, althoughthe level of anxiety was less for the seniors than the sophomores. It was also found that the task-specific self-concept scores were not accurate predictors of the design ideation abilities of thestudents.IntroductionSelf-efficacy is defined as an individual’s belief in his or her own capabilities to performactivities in order to successfully achieve a specific outcome. A student with high self-efficacytends to expend more effort towards the activity, persevere when encountering obstacles
students mustobtain prior to attending these courses. In an effort to identify and attract more entry-level college studentsto these programs, faculty at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) have been working with OnondagaCommunity College and Corning Community College to develop a sequence of entertaining, engaging, andeducational forensic games, suitable for first year students in college. We explore game-based learningstrategies to engage students learning through interactive game scenarios. Following narrative and/orstorylines of the game via interactive dialogs and visualized abstract concepts, we expect that students willbe motivated and engaged to obtain the necessary knowledge, and to develop their problem-solving skillswhile playing
. Page 24.714.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Improvements through the Second Year Research Experiences for Teachers ProgramAbstractWe have successfully finished our second summer in our National Science Foundation (NSF)supported Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site entitled “Multidisciplinary EngineeringResearch for Rural Michigan's Future.” The summer program was 6 weeks long and hosted 7 in-service teachers (high school science) and 5 pre-service teachers (integrated science majors).Participants were split into 6 groups and teamed up with an engineering faculty and anengineering undergraduate student each. During their 40 hours/week work
Engineering Education, Shuman is the Founding Editor of Advances in Engineering Education. He has published widely in engineering education literature, and is co-author of Engineering Ethics: Balancing Cost, Schedule and Risk - Lessons Learned from the Space Shuttle (Cambridge University Press). He received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University in Operations Research and a B.S.E.E. from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Shuman is an ASEE Fellow.Dr. Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Mary Besterfield-Sacre is the Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor in Industrial Engineering at the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh. She is the Director for the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson
2015.1,2 Research and development in nanotechnology is likely to changecompletely the design, analysis, and manufacturing for a wide range of engineering products.Nanotechnology, however, is still mostly a topic for graduate schools whereas undergraduateprograms that focus on nanotechnology remain sporadic.3 Our NSF-NUE award will builda multidisciplinary, cross-campus educational program that integrates nanotechnology to theundergraduate curricula in science and engineering. Our educational program in nanotechnologywill also reach out to high school (K9-K12) and graduate students.In the development of an educational program for introducing nanotechnology to undergraduate(UG) students majoring in STEM at the New Jersey Institute of Technology