), Washington, D.C., Boston, Modesto (Calif.), Hong Kong and Mel- bourne (Australia). In the fall of 2001, she was invited as the Lise Meitner Visiting Professor, department of design sciences, Lund Technical University, Lund, Sweden. Prior to teaching at WPI, she worked as a manufacturing engineer for the Norton Company in Worcester, Mass., and product development engineer for the Olin Corporation in East Alton, Ill. Professor Ault’s primary teaching responsibilities include undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in computer-aided design, mechanical design, and rehabilitation engineering. Her research interests include computer-aided mechanical design, geometric modeling, kinematics, machine design, rehabilitation engi
feelingof loneliness and isolation associated with online learning have detrimental effects on thelearning and mental well-being of the students involved. Students in online classes are morelikely to drop the course [18], less likely to take another class in the same subject area, and lesslikely to graduate [19]. A sense of belonging in an online learning community is important forthe learner’s degree of emotional participation [20]. Higher amounts of interaction in a course,both quantitatively and qualitatively, increase students’ satisfaction in the course [15]. Therefore,higher levels of interaction are beneficial for both the students and the professors.One of the greatest factors that impacts a student’s experience in the course is the
faculty enhance the content of undergraduate educationin ways that will better prepare tomorrow's graduates for careers in a global environment and,to have faculty observe the Boeing environments, processes, and procedures with ‘freshperspectives.’ Faculty will use their expertise to help identify areas for possible improvementsand document their observations at Boeing.” Overall, the program was very valuable for meprofessionally. Boeing also received valued feedback on their operations. Some of theFellows’ observations led to constructive suggestions offered to help the Welliver programprocess improve. The paper will also outline how the Welliver program has impacted myteaching in my subsequent courses and how I am able to share my experiences
-crafting, and self-care. She earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University, a M.S. in Education from Indiana University, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. She has four years of experience as a process engineer in industry and more than twenty years of experience in education and career counseling. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 The Graduate Student Role in Undergraduate Research Mentoring: A Systematic Literature ReviewAbstractBackground: Graduate students have an important role in undergraduate research. Theyare typically in a triad mentoring relationship, where they mentor the undergraduate and arementored by
graduate student at Virginia Tech (2011-2017), he worked at the Center for Human-Computer Interaction under the guidance of Dr. Doug Bowman, researching the impact of audience interaction using serious games and VR on young student audiences visiting informal learning spaces. His teaching experience involves being an Adjunct faculty member and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech, serving as a Teaching Assistant in multiple CS courses, and teaching diverse audiences about IT and New Media Technologies. His dissertation received the Out- standing Research award for 2017-2018 from the CS department at Virginia Tech. Panagiotis has also extensive experience as a Senior Interactive Systems Designer and
building bridgeswith tinker toys, organizing and implementing the most effective delivery andtransportation process and establishing a supply chain distribution strategy for theBeer Game.What we learnedOne of the limitations of this introductory semester of this lab project was time.The lab design team, which was made up of six graduate students, was chargedwith the responsibility of designing and implementing six labs for the fallsemester. Lab sessions were conducted every other week with students enrolled inthe class divided in an “A” and “B” group to control the number of students in thelab at any given time. Groups met on alternating weeks and they were giventopic-related reading assignments and questions for the week they did not attendthe
questions regarding their working relationship with their mentor and time spentengaged in research. Again, responses varied; some reported mostly “fair” to “excellent”experiences. “Poor” ratings (a frequency of 3) were only observed for the last item regardingadvice given about careers or graduate school. As with the WREP, the program recognizes thecritical role of faculty mentors in the experience students receive and steps may need to be taken toprovide faculty mentors with best practice mentoring techniques that the “outstanding mentors”use. Average responses are presented in Table 9. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for
working with Dr. Nicholas Peppas to develop carbohydrate-decorated hydrogels for oral protein delivery. She is currently serving a two year term as the National Student President of the Society For Biomaterials. Page 14.685.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Impact of Integration of Undergraduate Students in an Engineering Research Laboratory: A Case StudyAbstractParticipation in undergraduate research projects in engineering can result in lasting benefits forthe education and careers of both the undergraduate students and their graduate student mentorsand supervising professors. This
will focus on theselection of photos to be used, and the best practices for choosing them. This would allow futurefacilitators to adapt to any field of study and level.The design of these modules requires close collaboration of people from different divisions,departments, and backgrounds. This combination of expertise has been a driving force for thesuccess of this module, and future work will include codifying what worked well for this teamand recommendations for interdisciplinary work.AcknowledgementsThis research is supported by an Externally Collaborative, Project-based, InterdisciplinaryCulture (EPIC) grant from Wentworth Institute of Technology. The authors would like to thankTes Zakrzewski for lending two sets of iVisual Explorer cards
2006-952: CURRICULUM DESIGN FOR THE ENGINEER OF 2020: AUNIVERSITY COMMUNITY CREATES A PUBLIC AFFAIRS CURRICULUMFOR ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATESWendy Harrison, Colorado School of Mines WENDY J. HARRISON is Professor of Geology and Geochemistry at the Colorado School of Mines, and is the Principal Tutor and Interim Director of the McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs for Engineers. She teaches in the geological sciences at both undergraduate and graduate levels as well as interdisciplinary courses at CSM. She has been awarded federal grants for innovative approaches to teaching undergraduate analytical methods in mineral and rock characterization, and has been a workshop leader in NSF’s funded “On the
University of Ulster in Northern Ireland, M.Sc. (1995) in research methods in psychology from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and a Ph.D. (2003) in psychology from South Bank University, London. She is currently Project Manager for the MemphiSTEP project at the University of Memphis,a project funded by the National Science Foundation, designed to increase the number of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics graduates. She is also a Co-PI on the Transforming a Civil Engineering curriculum through Geographic Information Systems Project at the University of Memphis, also funded by the National Sci- ence Foundation. Best has an extensive research background and served as lead researcher on a range of
seniors wereconsidering both work and graduate school inside and outside of engineering, indicating that onein four seniors were unsure whether an engineering or non-engineering path would be the best fitfor them6. Actual engineering graduate school enrollment is the most valid measure of graduateschool attendance because graduate school plans might be different from the actual post-graduateoutcomes. Still, understanding the factors that influence college students’ career or graduateschool plans upon graduation is an important focus for research because such plans are typicallyamong the best predictors of actual choice of professions or graduate school enrollment 7 8 9 10.Given one finding from a qualitative study that engineering students
information. Obviously, practically everything is available online, this is a greatresource, but requires a lot of self-study to pick out the pearls of knowledge amongst all thevolumes of material to look at. Local distributors have trained sales professionals that cansummarize a lot of that data to deliver the main points. They are also a great resource for what’sgoing on in the industrial world, since they are exposed to so many different companies andindustries. And, one of the best ways to completely immerse yourself and go into as much detailas you could ever want, is to attend local and national trade shows. There is no other source thatcan give you this kind of access to information and factory representatives, across so manydifferent brands
Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Sustaining Change: Embedding Research Outcomes into School Practices, Policies and NormsWith an NSF Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments (RED) grant, theSchool of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering seeks to create (1) a culturewhere everyone in the CBEE community feels valued and that they belong, and (2) to create alearning environment that prompts students and faculty to meaningfully connect curricular andco-curricular activities and experiences to each other and to professional practice. We aim tohave students connect what they learn to the context of their lives, identities, and emergingcareers. We want CBEE graduates to be
a global environment, not only in terms of markets butalso design, production and service. It is therefore essential that engineering graduates have anorientation towards this globalization and are prepared to operate effectively within it.”37This curriculum will enhance our students’ education by providing them a unique opportunity towork on multidisciplinary teams and attack global issues. Presenting students with problems thataffect the world around us will always create more compassionate graduates. In this case, thereare also best practices that promote this type of curriculum.The Engineering Technology degrees offered by the School of Engineering and Technology areaccredited by ABET. As part of the accreditation, programs decide on
. Mayled et al., “Coaching and feedback in a faculty professional development program that integrates the entrepreneurial mindset and pedagogical best practices into capstone design courses,” ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2019, doi: 10.18260/1-2--32513.[6] S. Zappe, K. Hochstedt, E. Kisenwether, and A. Shartrand, “Teaching to innovate: Beliefs and perceptions of instructors who teach entrepreneurship to engineering students,” International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 45–62, 2013.[7] F. M. Connelly and D. J. Clandinin, “Stories of Experience and Narrative Inquiry,” Educational Researcher, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 2–14, Jun. 1990, doi: 10.3102
. The NSF S-STEM Scholarship is an excellentprogram, and I would highly recommend it to any student.ConclusionThere are numerous ways to measure success in a particular program: retention, graduation,increased GPA. One metric that we have observed is the increase in undergraduate researchactivity. Undergraduate research, as considered by George Kuh, is a high impact practice, whichgives undergraduate students the skills needed in the workforce and supports STEM gains [19,20]. Practices such as this and others, integrated in our NSF S-STEM program, are proving to beeffective in retaining students in their respective degree majors through graduation. Students areengaged by the variety of seminars, speakers, workshops, field trips, one-to-one end
through a switch (e.g., puff and sip or joystick). The students completedone week on campus, then traveled to the camp for children with disabilities for a week. Duringthis week, the students ate meals and attended various activities with the campers and met withvarious stakeholders. They also involved the campers in the design of the tree house. After Page 24.690.2spending a week at camp, the students returned to campus to continue work on the designs.This paper briefly describes the immersive learning experience and examines the impact that animmersive community engagement experience has had on student learning of design, addressingthe research
Paper ID #15745From Undergraduates to Ambassadors: The Impact of Engineering Ambas-sador Network TrainingDr. Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University Dr. Garner is Associate Director for Program Development and a Research Associate Professor in The Center for Educational Partnerships at Old Dominion University, VA.Mr. Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University - University Park Michael Alley is an associate professor of engineering communication at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer-Verlag, 2013) and founder of the web- site Writing Guidelines for
knowledge has been gained at university, usually involvingstudy from both a scientific and an engineering perspective. However, this is usually insufficient for theeffective practice of engineering. The effective engineer-leader must develop the skill of applyingscientific knowledge not only to the solution of “routine” problems but also to new and unique problems.The latter requires continual self-directed learning.Technical Knowledge Technologies change very rapidly. While the engineer’s education does not becomeoutdated, he or she must continually learn about new technologies as they evolve. These new technologiesoften represent emerging best practices that can be employed in the effective solution to a newengineering challenge. The effective
STEM education for future researchers. He is currently participating in an NSF-funded grant (#1923452) to spearhead research into middle school students’ digital literacies and assessment. Recently, Dr. Hsu has received a seed grant at UML to investigate how undergradu- ate engineering students’ digital inequalities and self-directed learning characteristics (e.g., self-efficacy) affect their learning outcomes in a virtual laboratory environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Hsu’s research interests include advanced quantitative design and analysis and their applications in STEM education, large-scale assessment data (e.g., PISA), and engineering students’ perception of faculty en- couragement and
, agricultural, orliberal arts institutions.)Development of SurveyThe HBCU Leadership Impact and Implications Survey was developed by the research team forHBCU stakeholders to determine factors impacting President/ Chancellor turnover withinHBCUs. A thorough design, redesign, and review process was implemented to develop thesurvey using relevant research questions and best practices. Questions within the survey askedparticipants to report their relationship with HBCUs, their current role related to HBCUs, theirtime affiliated with HBCUs, information about the HBCU with which they were affiliated,factors impacting president/chancellor turnover, the impact of turnover on the university, andparticipant demographic information. The survey consisted of
students designed a balsa wood bridge, assessed a real-world problem anddeveloped at least one feasible solution. Also, the teams conducted research on practical designconsiderations and integration of the trusses by utilizing project management and teamwork.Air Quality: A regional research case study helped students to understand the impact of airquality on human health effects. The students conducted experimental research on air emissioncontrol technologies and identified the fundamentals of oxidation, absorption and biofiltrationcontrol technologies. The case study demonstrated the effects of air pollutants such as ozone,carbon monoxide and particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) on human respiratory andcardiovascular system. The students also
postgraduate degrees.However, creative/innovative engineers will, and must, enhance their skills beyond their highest attaineddegree.Engineering leaders must be developed who will, in turn, guide other engineers to develop innovativenew designs, and who will lead the development of products providing what the customer wants andneeds. Management styles that will both encourage innovation, and meet the basic human needs ofengineers are needed. This will include the adoption of cutting-edge concepts and best practices fromother nations. This, in turn, will lay the groundwork for turning theory into practice. Engineers must alsodrive changes in their fields. The field of engineering is changing so rapidly, that an engineer must keepup with the rapid
leadership skills [8], [10], [27]. West andcolleagues found an REU was able to help students develop skills directly related to theengineering of 2020 [10]. Their work further highlighted a need for engineering students to learntechnical skills in societal and professional contexts and practice interacting with people fromdifferent demographic backgrounds [10]. Prior research on undergraduate research experienceshighlights the impact of these experiences on diversity, equity, and inclusion in scienceeducation by providing students from underrepresented groups with opportunities forprofessional development and job attainment [29]. Undergraduate research experiences allowstudents from diverse backgrounds to develop skills such as critical thinking
tenured Associate Professor of Engineering Physics at Lewis-Clark State College. Dr. Utschig consults with faculty across the university about bringing scholarly teaching and learning innovations into their classroom and assessing their impact. He has regularly published and presented work on a variety of topics including assessment instruments and methodologies, using technology in the classroom, instructional design, team-based learning, and peer coaching. Dr. Utschig completed his PhD in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Connecting Theory with Practice: Four Change Projects in Faculty
merits of the relevant factors, and whatleads toward the best course of action. This paper describes several reasons why teaching ethicsto undergraduate engineers is important, and how the students should discern what are, and whatare not, ethical decisions. This paper also lists several benefits of practicing ethics at theworkplace for the individual employee and the organization as a whole.Graduates need to know their relevant professional organizations and the expected professionalbehaviors from the members. ABET also outlines various human aspects that may be impactedby engineering solutions,and how ethical considerations help make the best decisions. Theauthors discuss how electrical (EE) and computer (COE) engineering majors are taught
Outcomes and Analysis of Student Evaluation of Instruction ReportsThe course is offered to junior students in two different section for Fall 2016 semester. Thestudent count in the first section is 30 students, and the second session consist of 49 students.There were two sessions per section in a given week each of which last 1 hour 50 minutes.In line with ABET specifications, following student outcomes are identified with thisEngineering Course. • Student outcome M2: Manufacturing Engineering Graduates have proficiency in process, assembly and product engineering and understand the design of products and the equipment, tooling, and environment necessary for their manufacture. • Student outcome M3: Manufacturing Graduates
. Recirculation hasbeen added in the new and innovative manufacturing processes, including reuse,remanufacture, and recycle.Design for the EnvironmentStudents have to learn what the Design for Environment (DfE) is in the course. Designfor Environment has the common known acronym DfE and can be viewed in differentways. DfE is a philosophy that advocates that consideration be given to the environmentwhen developing new products and processes. DfE is an engineering design initiative thatpromotes environmentally sound decisions at every step of the production process fromchemical design, process engineering, procurement practices, and end productspecification to post-use disposal. The concept is developing in the environmental/engineering fields and is
. Possible methods for collecting indicators or metrics from a makerspace on thoseattributes were also proposed. The proposed framework should be a strong starting point thatwould allow a more direct comparison between makerspaces and help administrators andpractitioners to determine if reported best practices from literature might be applicable for aspecific makerspace of interest.There is still much research to be done in the field of makerspace benchmarking and comparison.In particular, emphasis on makerspaces in English-speaking countries and their observableelements limits the scope of the proposed system, whereas cultural terms and conventions inother cultures would be valuable addition. There is also significant room for clarification