education in pre-college, the Next Generations ScienceStandards (NGSS) was integrated into science education, where engineering education cutsacross disciplines, skills, and practices. It means that each discipline that composes STEMeducation has their-self evolution as an individual discipline too. As a result of thesedevelopments, there has been significant research to explore how engineering education mightsupport learning outcomes, including concept mastery in a social context [18], literacy [15], andlong-term engagement [15]. While these efforts are critical, far less attention has been placed ondesigning learning experiences that support diversity and inclusion. Given what we know aboutthe trajectory of how contemporary engineering education
equipstudents with competencies to perform particular tasks once they join the workforce [2], andmaking sure that the engineering curriculum delivers the outcomes that the company needs is oneof its goals. Oftentimes, the development of core knowledge, such as science and mathematics,comes first in an engineering program. The next step is discipline-specific coursework, whichconcludes with a design project [3] It is essential to impart foundational knowledge and abilitiesto engineering students, especially at the undergraduate level, and new engineers should have aset of skills pertinent to their future professions [4]. Employers nowadays are finding itchallenging to identify and hire engineering graduates who can "hit the ground running” [5]–[7].Based
scripts can bedistributed via an online course management system, or even via email or text. One option is toconduct a course in a computer lab, though in the author’s experience sufficient numbers ofstudents bring laptops or tablets to class that working in a lab isn’t necessary if students team upfor activities. Students can also use their phones by launching the live scripts in the MATLABMobile environment.When integrating the virtual activities into class time, it is important to structure the class so thatthe activities help the students achieve the desired outcomes. For example, the author has foundit helpful to provide the students a very direct question that they can try to answer as a result ofthe activity, rather than asking something
theimplementation of VLEs in all levels of undergraduate engineering education. This researchgauges student receptiveness and investigates how the integration of this technology cansuccessfully produce a highly inventive, cutting-edge environment for teaching engineering-related curriculum that has the potential to be widely used across many domains and subject areas.KeywordsVirtual learning environments, laboratory, gaming, augmented realityIntroductionAlthough the history of the first virtual reality machine, a 3D cinematic platform called Sensorama,dates to 1956,1 it has been less than a decade since students could first utilize technology likeFactory I/O2 to put themselves on a manufacturing floor to see all the moving parts of a conveyorbelt up close
different technical and non-technical methods to enhance the learning processes of undergraduate engineering students.Dr. Angela Minichiello, Utah State University Angela Minichiello is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University (USU) and a registered professional mechanical engineer. Her research examines issues of access, diversity, and inclusivity in engineering.Mr. Assad Iqbal, Arizona State University Assad Iqbal is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Arizona State University working on the National Sci- ence Foundation-funded research project i.e., Engineering For Us All (e4usa). Assad Iqbal is an informa- tion system engineer with a Ph.D. in Engineering Education and
interest in teaching students about AI ethics, little is known how toteach or incorporate ethics related issues in AI curriculum. The traditional approach of teachingethics as an isolated part in undergraduate computer science courses has failed to translate intoexperiences outside the classroom and left students unprepared for the current and future work intechnology [7], [8]. Educators agreed that to prepare students to create ethical designs, ethicseducation needs to be embedded across the curriculum and engage students in practicing ethicaldecisions during the building of technologies. Yet there are still many debates about how to bestaccomplish the goals of ethics education, and the ways that different programs teach ethics arefar from
, University of Connecticut Davis Chacon Hurtado, Ph.D., is an assistant research professor at UConn. He co-directs the Engineering for Human Rights Initiative, which is a collaboration between UConn’s Office of the Vice Provost for Research, the School of Engineering, and the Human Rights Institute, to promote and advance interdisci- plinary research in engineering with a clear focus on societal outcomes. Davis is working with a number of faculty on campus to develop research and curriculum at the intersection of human rights and engi- neering, such as the one discussed herein. Davis completed his Ph.D. in Transportation and Infrastructure Systems at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, in 2018. His research
cyber and the power system. The White Househas recently identified approximately 700,000 cybersecurity open positions at the National CyberWorkforce and Education Summit and has prioritized the need to invest in cyber training, edu-cation, and skill-based pathways to tackle the national security challenge 4 . With the vision ofcreating a new-generation workforce trained with relevant cyber skills for the critical power in-frastructure, West Virginia University has set up the Smart Grid REsiliency and Analytics Lab(SG-REAL). The SG-REAL provides undergraduate students with a state-of-the-art smart gridcybersecurity testbed platform and a Grid Operation Lab (GO-Lab) that is integrated into course-work curriculum and extensively used to conduct
MCC curriculum integrated elders’ knowledge of the particulardesign of unique artifacts. These artifacts are then integrated into mathematical problem-solvingsituations that connect that knowledge to the teaching of mathematics concepts. The authorsbelieve the power of these cases resides in the long-term collaborative work between insiders andoutsiders, resulting in an effective culturally-based curriculum. These studies demonstrate thatMCC’s math curriculum makes a difference in the math performance of AI/AN students and thedata shows that consistent instruction using math instruction with cultural contexts can alsopotentially close academic performance gaps.Acknowledge the Indigenous WorldviewOur conception of the world- our worldview- is
partnership, from one directionalpartnership to co-design [10]. However, at each level, even the most equal partnership, thefeedback and design process were initiated by the faculty member. In another study of LApartnerships, similar types of partnerships were identified: (a) students, (b) informants, (c)consultants, (d) co-instructors, and (e) co-creators [11]. The type of partnership that wasexperienced by students was found to be mediated within the discourse, meaning that these rolesthat an LA may take up were fluid and dependent on the context. Partnerships between facultyand students in spaces such as teaching and curriculum design are difficult to be completely openfor students to take the lead.In the NF team, we see something different from
physical computinginto their future instruction. However, when examining the descriptive statistics and mean ranks,females reported higher ratings regarding their intent to develop their own physical computingdesign challenges to integrate within the curriculum. Given that the majority of femaleparticipants were elementary educators (75%), Rosie Revere’s Orangutan Dilemma designchallenge [29] may have sparked interest in creating design challenges that incorporated achildren’s book, non-fiction text, or poem related to their current curriculum. Although notstatistically significant, the authors view this as a positive outcome aligned with the goals of thisPD. This finding suggests an increased interest in physical computing among female
students. Approximately 700 students take the second-semester course, Introductionto Computing and Problem-Solving, annually across fourteen sections. Course deliveries rangefrom face-to-face, online synchronous, hyflex, and hybrid. Students learn to problem-solveusing MATLAB©. Additionally, the successful implementation of auto-graded assignmentsthrough an integrated Zybooks© and MATLAB© Grader environment provides real-timefeedback for students and supports a mastery-based assessment approach to learning weeklycontent. Because of a significant support structure integrated into the course by undergraduateteaching assistants (UTA), additional student success workshops had not been needed. However,in response to a significant drop in student
been defined as a service model where an academic librarian participates in acourse or program on a continuing basis in order to understand the learning objectives anddetermine which library resources best support them [11, p.2]. Being an embedded librarian is apartnership between the faculty and librarian. As an embedded librarian, you are working withthe faculty on many aspects of their curriculum and your information literacy instruction learningoutcomes and assessments. An embedded librarian is a collaborator, as building a strongrelationship with the faculty is seen as one of the critical elements in successful incorporation ofinformation literacy instruction into a university curriculum [2]. Embedded librarianship goesbeyond being part
create a powerful impacton STEM education and consolidate the achievements of DEI from the institutional level efforts.Prior research has shown that diverse faculty leadership plays an important role in fostering aDEI culture [11]. Faculty members’ curricular decisions and pedagogy, including theirinteractions with students, can help create more inclusive climates. Research also reveals that thereflection of students in the curriculum helps create a sense of belonging for them and fostersinclusion [11, 12]. Incorporating DEI in classroom teaching needs a good understanding ofstudents’ and instructors’ perceptions of inclusiveness, such as self-assurance, belonging,empathy, student's voice, trust towards student peers and instructors, as well as
Paper ID #37542Board 168: Exploring K-12 S,T,E,M Teachers’ Views of Nature ofEngineering Knowledge (Work-in-Progress)Dr. Jeffrey D. Radloff, SUNY Cortland Dr. Jeffrey Radloff is an assistant professor in the Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department at SUNY Cortland, where he teaches elementary science methods, STEM foundations, and critical media literacy courses. He has a background in biology and pre-college engineering education, and he received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Purdue University. Dr. Radloff’s interests are in understand- ing how to best support pre- and in-service teachers
) thecommunity building practices and norms of the STS program and (ii) emergent ways thatstudents talk about STS curriculum and activities (including its service learning experiences).Four salient themes emerge from this study of students’ experiences in the first year of thetwo-year STS program: 1. examining things from multiple perspectives to make sense of issues/systems, 2. making the invisible visible, 3. empowering students to develop moral stances as citizens and scientists/engineers in society, and 4. prioritizing human wellbeing (an ethics of care).Not surprisingly, these four themes are highly interrelated and emerge in different ways and withdifferent degrees of salience for different students, which makes analyzing these themes
engage them in an advanced curriculum that makes them suitable to be hiredby the industry. The preliminary learning objectives for the introductory high school UAS lesson are to beable to: 1) Define a drone and types of drones; 2) Identify the major components of a drone and its function; 3) List the advantages of using drones in plants and animal agriculture; 4) List various sensors that can be used with a drone; 5) Define drone remote sensing; 6) Learn visual coding to control various drone operations; 7) Learn to integrate sensors with drones; and 8) Learn to collect data using drones. The course module will consist of
stages; in the first stage, themapping of the curriculum to define the learning competences considered as core specific knowledgein each program was the target. These curriculum maps make the result of coordinators' developmentvisible, not only revealing their learnings in relation to the stages and characteristics of the process,but also making it evident that the process itself ended up being a locus for undergrad modernization,oriented by an authorial and innovative positioning of the University in relation to curriculummanagement processes. Thus, both the management of the learning process implemented, and its ownimplementation process triggered a series of transformations, from a curricular level to a universityeducational management
results of the pre-assessment and their performance in the course material. Laman and Brannon investigated theneed to integrate prerequisite materials in a structural design of foundations course utilizingelectronic media [14]. Velegol et al. provided online modules for prerequisite topics for online orflipped courses. Their results showed an improvement in the students' knowledge of theseprerequisites after watching the videos [15]. Weiss and Sanders created a Review Video Library(or RVL) to help students review the prerequisite topics for several courses in the mechanicalengineering curriculum. Survey results showed that undergraduates who watched the reviewvideos felt that they improved their knowledge in that subject [16]. In another study
programs. Following her PhD, Fatima joined the Physics Education Research Group at the University of Maryland’s Department of Physics as a postdoctoral researcher, and now focuses on the study of ethics and institutional change in STEM higher education.Sona Chudamani, University of Maryland, College Park Sona Chudamani is a junior Computer Science major in the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the co-corporate contact for the UMD Association for Women in Computing (AWC), a club that strives to create an inclusive community to promote gender equality and empowerment in computing fields. She is also the Editor-in-Chief for QUESTPress, a newspaper in
. biomedical engineering)misconduct occurs in both industry and academia – and perhaps even occurs more often inacademia than in industry. (It is perhaps ironic to point out that biomedical engineers are nottypically licensed, and in any case, licenses are typically not required for engineers to teach inacademia.) Looking inward towards the academy, practicing academic integrity during students’formative educational years is often thought of as an engineer’s first steps into the professionalengineering scene. However, such academic integrity practice does not always go well. As notedby the academic integrity scholar Bertram Gallant (2021), academic integrity violations bystudents arise out of “breakdowns in the moral obligations supply chain
introducestudents to manufacturing and prototyping to reinforce concepts and visualize the consequencesof their design decisions. However, identifying outdated aspects of the course to be substitutedwith their modern counterparts can be challenging. In this paper, we describe the decisions madeto create a more advanced design environment in an introductory-level engineering design andgraphics course without losing critical engineering design foundations. This includes building aproject-based curriculum focused on computer aided design of a product with considerations formultiple manufacturing methods, including 3D printing, laser cutting, and injection molding.IntroductionThe objective of pedagogical improvements in engineering education is to strive
aims to address this challenge through theintroduction of an innovative multi-disciplinary project-based pilot course called "InnovationThrough Making".The "Innovation Through Making" course blends Entrepreneurial Mindset skills with coreEngineering Sciences (ES) curriculum providing aspiring engineers with a fundamentalunderstanding of knowledge and skills necessary for success in specialized areas of engineering,including mechanical, electrical, civil, chemical, and computer engineering. By mastering thecore engineering sciences, students develop a strong analytical and problem-solving ability thatis essential for success in the field of engineering [7-8].In this work-in-progress paper, we explore the development of the pilot course and aim
as a group, and allowing for a post-critique of the teaching to allowthe teacher to get feedback on their teaching approach. We have created a protocol for thisapproach that we are happy to share.One key aspect to note about an FLC is the goal is not to provide a specified curriculum thatimproves teachers by prescribing skills and knowledge. Instead, the goal is for a learningcommunity to have a focused discussion with respect to a formalized theme (as prescribed by Cox[22]), with the participants helping guide the experiences.Proposed Evaluation of InterventionOur FLC organization is the mechanism by which we use board games to enable and guideteachers’ experiences of learning again in compartmentalized 2-hour meetings. Our overallresearch
that face society will likely require new ways ofthinking that can emerge by applying different disciplinary lens/viewpoints to problems. But, thedisciplinary structures in higher education, while not all bad, do not readily provide a place for studentsand faculty within these disciplines to converge. For example, assigning multiple instructors fromdifferent colleges to teach in the same room at the same time do not coincide with universitysystems/structures/values. Also, gaining curriculum approvals within a larger institution across academicunits, each with their own curriculum oversight committees, is a difficult and time-consuming process.That said, the following sections will provide an overview of this model and lessons learned from
Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her current interests include recruitment and retention of under-represented students in STEM, K-12 outreach, integrative training for graduate teaching assistants, service learning, and curriculum innovation for introductory computing courses.Prof. Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Blake Everett Johnson is a Teaching Assistant Professor and instructional laboratory manager in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include experimental fluid mechanics, measurement science, engineering education, engineering leadership, and
implementing acceptablesolutions; (2) to make connections from many information resources to intersect ideas,particularly by using structured methods for generating concept designs for their ideas onsustainable products and services; and (3) to develop product designs that create environmental,economic, and social value. Student teams completed a design project incorporating these newlearning materials. This paper provides an outline of the various lecture modules in the coursewith a brief description of the module contents. The paper also illustrates the integration of lifecycle analyses, entrepreneurial-minded learning principles [3], and structured product designmethods with an example student-generated project in the course.A brief overview of
to increasethe participation of students from diverse backgrounds in engineering majors. Additionally, theAccreditation Board of Engineering and Technology recently made a commitment to diversityand is considering changes to curriculum criteria which would require engineering programs todemonstrate a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion [1]. In alignment with USAFA’sstrategic plan and the anticipated accreditation criteria, the authors are developing a newfoundational engineering course as one element of an institution-wide effort to improve students’sense of belonging, make engineering majors more accessible to a wider audience, andultimately increase diversity among engineering graduates.In addition to exploring best practices from
importantimplications. In order to further effectively achieve teacher cooperation, theevaluation committee needs to work closely with the curriculum committee.3.3 Student power“Student-centered” teaching is one of the educational philosophies followed by 4colleges and universities. The main function of the school is to maximize the role ofthe student in teaching. “student-centered” teaching is the foundation of the survivaland development of colleges and universities, and individualized education forstudents is the embodiment of the school’s characteristics. Taking WPI as an example,“student-centered” teaching is the basic educational philosophy of the “WPI Plan”.Under the guidance of the “student-centered” teaching
Photovoice with Entrepreneurial Design Projects as a High Impact Practice in Engineering Technology EducationIn the recent years, interdisciplinary research has become a necessary tool for successfullyfinding solutions to real-world problems. Yet, in the undergraduate engineering technologycurriculum interdisciplinary projects is extremely limited (if used at all), particularly in non-capstone project courses. In this study we present findings and lessons learned from aninterdisciplinary research project that integrates entrepreneurial mindset, bio-inspired design, andart into in an engineering technology classroom in the sophomore-year of the post-secondaryengineering technology education. Engineering