Paper ID #30677High Altitude Water Shortage Issues in Peru.Mrs. Mary Andrade, University of Louisville Mary Andrade is the Director of the Career Development and Cooperative Education office at the Uni- versity of Louisville - J.B. Speed School of Engineering. In this role she oversees the mandatory co-op program for more than 1000 students each year. She is an active member of the Cooperative and Experi- ential Education Division of ASEE.Mr. Michael Scott Keibler, University of LouisvilleJosh Rivard c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Engagement in Practice: Relationship Based
data comparesto theory. The understanding and knowledge of these IE statistical tools prepares ChemE students for theirfuture careers in industry and research.Next Steps An important part of DOE is to check for model adequacy which is done by analyzing the model’sresiduals. This was not done during this pilot test with this one lab class but could be easily added to theMinitab tutorial for future labs. Another important part of DOE is to randomize the experiment runs tominimize any variability due to uncontrollable factors. That was not possible during this lab due toequipment set up and time constraints. In the future more factors could be added to the experiment. Many students had situations wherechosen factors proved not to be
Paper ID #29948Paper: Exploring How Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Students SpendTheir Time Inside and Outside of the Classroom (WIP)Alaa Abdalla, Virginia Tech Alaa Abdalla is a first year PhD student in Engineering Education with a background in Mechanical Engineering. Her primary research interests are culture and identity, teaching and learning, and design of learning spaces. Her ultimate career goal is to bring together engineering, education, and design thinking.Dr. Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Tech Nicole is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Prior to
different problems and different solutions. For example, a Software Engineer may work on computers and chips where a Mechanical Engineer may be in charge of buildings, cars, and other objects. UES: n = 0; n/a Conceptions of Engineers & Engineering PST: n = 35; I understand now that engineering is more hands-on than I thought, and it is a group effort. I used to think engineering was a single person activity that was behind a desk as their career. I now understand that those are all of the things that engineering
Paper ID #28683Program Assessment through Product Based Learning in UndergraduateEngineering Programmes in IndiaDr. Venugopalan Kovaichelvan, TVS Institute for Quality and Leadership Dr. V. KOVAICHELVAN is the Director of TVS Institute for Quality and Leadership, the Corporate University of TVS Motor Company Limited, India. The Institute focus on holistic development of talent through career lifecycle with focus on Functional & Professional skills, Cultural capabilities, Collective capabilities, Support business strategy and Corporate Social Responsibility.Dr. Calvin Sophistus King Ph.D., Dr. Mahalingam College of
]. Furthermore, teachers report that the K-12 IP needs to be a good “fit” for theschool context [4].By design, summer camps mitigate some of the challenges faced by teachers during the schoolyear, offering a flexible format unburdened by standards or testing schedules. Furthermore, thereis evidence to suggest that STEM summer camps may be especially useful for promoting STEMinterest in K-12 populations. For example, participants in STEM summer camps report increasedpositive attitudes towards STEM, confidence in their understanding of STEM content, and anintent to continue taking classes in STEM fields or to pursue a STEM career after finishing theprogram [10]-[16].Summer camps specifically related to invention have also shown positive student outcomes
Communication Value Rubrics https://www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/written-communication[4] E. Friend and C. Chen, “Capstone to Career,” Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science, vol. 94, no. 1-2, p. 19, June 2019.[5] M. J. Purdy, M. Sproul, M. Mercer and A. Salama, “Home Keyless Entry Capstone project experience,” presented at the 129th Annual Meeting of the Tennessee Academy of Science. Columbia, Tennessee. November 22, 2019. (Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science publish date to be received)
immigration and visa threats emerging or expected; increased reporting and disclosure rules •Personnel shakeup continues to undermine federal agencies –Loss of career staff reduces capacity and responsiveness with lasting effects –Continued attempts to dismantle regulatory agencies •Rising deficits threaten longer term spending cutsFederal Funding for FY 2020 Agency FY 2018 FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2020 Final Enacted Enacted vs. FY 2019 NSF $7.82B $8.08B $8.28B 2.5% DOD Basic $2.26B $2.53B $2.60B 2.9% Research DOE Science $6.26B $6.58B $7.00B 6.2% ARPA
learnhow to select the best possible design option within the constraints of time, cost, tools, andmaterials. They follow systematic and iterative design cycle that involves planning, modeling,simulation, building, and testing prototypes.As the success in engineering career largely depends on thorough understanding of engineeringdesign process, the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) has laid out Student Learning Outcomes in GeneralCriterion 3. Three of the key outcomes of engineering education are: to prepare engineeringstudents to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems, to apply engineeringdesign to produce solutions, and to function effectively on a team [3
States, 2013). This additionhas increased students’ opportunities to develop the skills that are necessary to meet the demandsof a competitive STEM college degree and career. Many adults and children do not demonstrate an awareness of what engineering is as aprofession. Students’ portrayal of engineers often reveal that they don’t have an understandingof what engineers do (Gibbons, Hirsch, Kimmel, Rockland, & Bloom, 2004). The reasoningbehind student conceptions is complex, but often forms because of a personal connection to anengineer or to how they see engineers portrayed in the media (Bevins, Brodie, and Brodie, 2005).The Draw-an-Engineer-Test (DAET) has been widely used to gain an understanding of studentconceptions of engineers
Paper ID #30386promote opportunities for all students to pursue education and careers in Science Technology Engineer-ing and Mathematics (STEM). As an individual researcher, an administrator and as a leader in the stateand national community, Dr. Peeples has made an impact on improving access to STEM careers throughpersonal commitment, local partnerships, institutional leadership and effective collaboration. Dr. Peeplesis biochemical engineering researcher and served as Associate Director of the UI Center for Biocatalysisand Bioprocessing and on the coordinating committee for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) traininggrant in biotechnology. As a Professor, she has mentored a diverse group of high school, undergraduateand graduate students
classrooms in order to help students make connections among the STEM disciplines and achieve deep understanding. Her work focuses on defining STEM inte- gration and investigating its power for student learning. Tamara Moore received an NSF Early CAREER award in 2010 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012.Siddika Selcen Guzey, Purdue University at West Lafayette Dr. Guzey is an assistant professor of science education at Purdue University. Her research and teaching focus on integrated STEM Education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Talking about design ideas: Middle school teachers’ support of
of the most important fields in engineering and science with profoundimpacts and many applications in other non-engineering fields. This course is a pre-requisite forseveral core courses in mechanical engineering as well as many elective courses. This is a vitalcourse for students’ degree completion and their overall career success. The author has utilizedsome modern and innovative pedagogical approaches in teaching Thermodynamics, includingflipped classes, active learning, research-based teaching [14], and integration of simulationsoftware tools [15-16] to help students with different learning styles.After implementing these approaches, particularly the flipped class model, and attending severalfaculty learning communities (FLCs) about
communities in our city through research, training, and communityengagement. The importance of involving undergraduate and graduate students in all stages ofthis work, as well as creating career opportunities for them, is emphasized.BackgroundUrban universities have an increasingly important role in the growth and development of citiesand their communities. According to the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities, in the pastquarter century urban universities have recognized the many challenges facing their cities andhave increased their engagement efforts to address pressing community issues [1]. In the processof expanding their community engagement, universities are providing opportunities to studentsto broaden their education, be involved in real
Swanson School of Engineering, he was with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the Department of Transportation in Washington, DC, performing technical policy analysis for vehicle fuel economy regulations.Dr. Mark David Bedillion, Carnegie Mellon University Dr. Bedillion received the BS degree in 1998, the MS degree in 2001, and the PhD degree in 2005, all from the mechanical engineering department of Carnegie Mellon University. After a seven year career in the hard disk drive industry, Dr. Bedillion was on the faculty of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology for over 5 years before joining Carnegie Mellon as a Teaching Faculty in 2016. Dr. Be- dillion’s research interests include
correlated with amotivation. However, amotivation was buffered by the intervention condition; students in the intervention condition did not have their performance affected by their amotivation. Students in the control condition still did. This work is supported by NSF grant 1540627.IntroductionThe demand for engineers in the market is increasing as technology continues to increase incomplexity. However, college students in engineering fields often experience decreases inmotivation due to loss of interest and reduced competence beliefs [1, 2], which leads to thereduced retention in an engineering major and career [3].Motivation is an important component in predicting a variety of academic outcomes such asperformance
about engineering careers, let alone introduce K-12skills and knowledge in engineering into their classrooms [3]. Engineering is often perceived asesoteric among early elementary education instructors, which can lead adults to be wary aboutadapting engineering curricula [4]. It is worth considering whether or to what extent middle orhigh school educators perceive engineering in similar ways. Engineering for US All (E4USA): A National Pilot Program for High School EngineeringCourse and Database is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative designed to address thisnational need. The E4USA project aims to make engineering more inclusive and accessible tohigh school educators and students, particularly those from underrepresented
content and the major assessments as well as the connections betweenthe different course topics and the students’ overall professional development. Moving forward,additional scaffolding (such as a course concept map and an individual professional developmentplan) will be used to help frame the course and the assessments to help students see thealignment within the course as well as alignment with their graduate careers and overallprofessional development.3) What are the challenges that instructors reported in teaching the course and what are thestrategies to resolve the challenges? All three professors agreed (in their interviews) that the implementation went well for thefirst time, pilot offering. However, three major challenges were
engineering in 46 episodes of approximately 10 minuteseach. Over the course of the series, the origin of each branch of engineering was discussed,followed by discussion of core concepts of conservation, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, heatand mass transfer, materials, statics, safety and ethics. The series then described applications ofthe different engineering fields, including robotics, genetic engineering, and signal processing, aswell as specific extensions of core engineering fields, such as transportation and geotechnicalengineering. The series concluded with an explanation of engineering design, careers inengineering, and the future problems to be solved. The authors of this paper were part of the collaboration in the development and
local schools, participating as advisory board member at local schools, member of the JEF Grant Committee, and presenter at the Career Exploration and STEMM programs. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Computer Analysis of Structures for Architectural Technology StudentsABSTRACTArchitectural technology students at our institution, Baker College Flint, Michigan, USA, opt forone of the two career pathways- a two-year Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree or afour-year Bachelor of Science degree (BS). The AAS degree gives graduating students theopportunity to join workforce, or the BS program (usually at the junior
Paper ID #32026Synthesis of a Correcting Equation for 3 Point Bending Test DataMr. Jacob Allen Poremski, Geneva College Jacob A. Poremski is currently an undergraduate student at Geneva College. He is a senior pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Concentration in Mechanical Engineering) and a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics. He has worked as an Apprentice Product Engineering Intern at Kennametal INC during the summers of 2018 and 2019. I am interested in the mechanics side of mechanical engineering. More specifically, I seek to pursue a career that deals with the design, optimization, and
career paths for teaching undergraduate engineering courses. It consists of twocourses in active learning and curriculum design, an education elective course, a teaching practicum,and teaching portfolio preparation. The semester –long teaching practicum is an opportunity forgraduate students (“student-teachers”) to gain experience designing instructional activities andimplementing them in the classroom under the mentorship of a supervising faculty member and withsupport from the practicum course instructor and other student-teacher peers. Student-teachers areencouraged to try new teaching methods and active learning activities to increase confidence anddecide what tools they may use in their future teaching. The supervising faculty member agrees
lockdown continues onto Spring 2021, there would be a sizable collection of worked-example videos in virtual depository and faculty mentoring challenge-based learning wouldbecome reality. Recently, a PER (Physics Education Research) publication found that challenge-based learning was successful to increase the scientific literacy in the studied students [3].Research projects using data available on the web would be suitable to be delivered online fromprofessors to community college students. There have been articles describing the negativeimpact of COVID-19 lockdown on scientist parents and academic mothers in science careers [4,5]. Although the reports focused on professionals, the negative impact of COVID-19 lockdownon engineering students with
those that are targeting an applied career in industry. METstudents in the ABET accredited program at NJIT take similar courses to their MechanicalEngineering (ME) counterparts with the reduction of specific math courses that would be neededfor a theoretical background utilized in ME graduate studies. Please see the ME (Click Here) [5]and MET (Click Here) [6] curriculum differences described on our University’s website. Thetheoretical or intensive math-based ME courses are replaced with MET key courses that are moreapplied in nature. This includes mechatronics, which has been seen to be a key course for appliedengineers entering the industrial workforce. There are different focus areas that can be taken in amechatronic education program, namely
Engineering Students’ Communication, Teamwork, and Leadership Skills, vol. 57, no. 3. Springer Netherlands, 2016.[5] B. A. Burt, D. D. Carpenter, C. J. Finelli, and T. S. Harding, “Outcomes of engaging engineering undergraduates in co-curricular experiences.”[6] L. C. Strauss and P. T. Terenzini, “The Effects of Students’ In- and Out-of-Class Experiences on their Analytical and Group Skills: A Study of Engineering Education,” Res. High. Educ., vol. 48, no. 8, pp. 967–992, Dec. 2007.[7] A. L. Miller, L. M. Rocconi, and A. D. Dumford, “Focus on the finish line: does high- impact practice participation influence career plans and early job attainment?,” High. Educ., vol. 75, no. 3, pp. 489–506, 2018.[8] S
more active role in shaping theprogram’s direction, the authors decided to survey current and past student leaders to gatherfeedback on the program’s growth to date.Survey designFor this study, the researchers surveyed current and past OHI/O student leaders for threepurposes: (1) to determine why the students took on a leadership role within the program; (2) tounderstand whether being involved with the program shaped their college experience, helpedthem secure employment, or provided them with useful career skills; and (3) to test thehypothesis that participation in the leadership of the program led to transferable skills in theworkplace. This study qualified and was approved as Institutional Review Board (IRB)-exemptresearch.The research team
West Lafayette Dr. Karen Marais’ educational research focuses on improving systems engineering education. She is the author of several technical publications, including 20 journal papers and two book chapters. She received an NSF CAREER award in 2014. Dr. Marais has worked in engineering for two decades, first in industry and then in academia. She holds a B. Eng. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Stellenbosch, a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of South Africa, and an S.M and Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020
the co-op employmenton the students’ behavioral traits and competencies and, in particular as it relates to employerbehavior and work conditions. On that front, research shows that socialization, mentorship aswell as a positive and nurturing work environment have a quantifiable effect on student well-being and development [4].The engineering curriculum at University of Detroit Mercy is designed to direct the studentstoward professional practice very early, requiring three co-op semesters beginning in the summerof their freshman year. The likelihood of professional success and, more importantly, the levelof satisfaction derived from a professional career are due, in no small part, to self-knowledge andto the use of that knowledge to place
Education, Champaign, IL: National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2012, pp. 24–30.[3] International Engineering Alliance, “Celebrating international engineering education standards and recognition,” Washington, 2014.[4] S. Borwein, “The great skills divide: A review of the literature,” Toronto, Ontario, 2014.[5] National Association of Colleges and Employers, “Career Readiness Competencies: Employer Survey Results,” 2014. [Online]. Available: https://www.naceweb.org/knowledge/career-readiness-employer-survey- results.aspx?terms=employer survey skills. [Accessed: 07-Aug-2019].[6] J. Trevelyan, “Reconstructing engineering from practice,” Eng. Stud., vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 175–195, 2010.[7
electric motors and battery packs. The Vehicle Research Institute operates as a technology development center that provides undergradu- ate students with opportunities for career specific training and research. Funding comes from a variety of sources including the Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, EPA, Paul Allen Family Foundation, BP, Washington State Department of Agriculture, Whatcom Public Utility District, Boeing, Janicki Industries, Northwest Porsche Club, Danner Corp. and Fluke. Past supporters include the De- partment of Defense, Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru), PACCAR, Mazda, Ford, Bentley (parent company Audi), Alcoa, Conoco-Phillips, CNG Fuels of Canada, Chrysler, and DaimlerChrysler