Paper ID #33693Sustainable Bridges from Campus to Campus: The Creation and Conduct ofOnline Synchronous Summer Bridge Programs in 2020Dr. Catherine L. Cohan, Pennsylvania State University Catherine Cohan, Ph.D. has been a research psychologist for over 20 years. Her areas of expertise include engineering education, retention of underrepresented students, measurement, and assessment. She is currently an Assistant Research Professor and coordinates the Sustainable Bridges NSF IUSE project (Peter Butler, PI). Previously, she was the project coordinator the the Toys’n MORE NSF STEP project (Renata Engel, PI).Dr. Lauren A
Brandenberg, University of California, Los Angeles Scott is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion for the Samueli Engineering School at UCLA.Anabella Gonzalez American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 NSF BEATSCreating an Academic Innovation Ecosystem to Drive Student SuccessThe overriding objective of the National Science Foundation funded Broadening EcosystemAttributes for Talented Scholars (BEATS) project is to recruit, retain, develop, mentor andgraduate low-income, underrepresented engineering and computer science students.Historically underrepresented engineering
systems can be designed andcreated to provide an integrative learning environment via a theme that connects and transfers theknowledge across a curriculum. The paper will focus on the results of the project from twoperspectives: technological and educational. The technological perspective will describe theresearch efforts of automatically generating virtual environments using the reinforcementlearning (RL) approach while the educational perspective will summarize the results on theeffectiveness of the CLICK approach on students’ motivation, engineering identity, and learningoutcomes.IntroductionThis paper presents the results of our NSF project entitled Leveraging Virtual Reality (VR) toConnect Learning and Integrate Course Knowledge (CLICK) in
Paper ID #32822Explaining Choice, Persistence, and Attrition of Black Students inElectrical, Computer, and Mechanical Engineering: Year 3Dr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 30 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since 2004, she been a member of the NSF-funded
, like mathematics or science. Therefore, it is necessary forresearchers to continue to explore engineering content, practices and pedagogy at this level togain a better understanding of what engineering could and should look like and how to supportthe integration of engineering into K-12 settings.Project Overview The project, PECASE: Implementing K-12 Engineering Standards through STEMIntegration, was the Early Faculty Career Award for Tamara J. Moore [NSF #1442416]. Thegoal of this project was to better understand engineering integration in K-12 schools through aSTEM Integration research paradigm (Moore, Glancy, et al., 2014). Dr. Moore and her researchteam were concerned primarily with how K-12 standards, curriculum, teachers, and
University. He received his B.S. (2005), M.S. (2008), and Ph.D. (2012) from Michigan State University. His area of expertise is in cementitious composites which includes: fracture and fatigue mechanics of quasi-brittle materials, recycled concrete, conductive concrete, reinforced concrete, pervious concrete, geopolymer, and structural dynamics. He currently teaches a wide array of courses that includes statics, reinforced concrete design, structural analysis, and materials engineering. Dr. Brake actively integrates project based and peer assisted learning pedagogies into his curriculum.Dr. Xianchang Li, Lamar University Dr. Li received his Ph.D. degree from Clemson University in 1999 and now serves as an associate profes
civil engineering and a graduate certificate in engineering education – all from Clemson University. She has over ten years of construction and civil engineering experience working for energy companies and as a project management consultant. Dr. Simmons has extensive experience leading and conducting multi-institutional, workforce-related re- search and outreach. She is a leader in research investigating the competencies professionals need to compete in and sustain the construction workforce. Dr. Simmons oversees the Simmons Research Lab (www.denisersimmons.com), which is home to a dynamic, interdisciplinary mix of graduate researchers and postdoctoral researchers who work together to explore human, technology and
. This project focuses on the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)'s SummerEngineering Experiences for Kids (SEEK) program. This multi-partner project allows us toexpand and strengthen the experience, conduct research on the impact of the program, andconduct research on how such outreach programs might grow in sustainable manners. Our posterwill present a summary of the large-scale data collection that occurred during the summer of2018 at all 16 sites located across the US. We administered a variety of instruments to identifychanges in the children's STEM-related outcomes over the course of the SEEK experience. Tofurther operationalize the variation in organizational contexts across sites, we collected data fromparents and mentors. In the
of Mechatronics and Digital Manufacturing Lab at ODU and a lead of Area of Specialization Mecha- tronics Systems Design. She worked as a Visiting Researcher at Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing in Disputanta, VA on projects focusing on digital thread and cyber security of manufactur- ing systems. She has funded research in broadening participation efforts of underrepresented students in STEM funded by Office of Naval Research, focusing on mechatronic pathways. She is part of the ONR project related to the additive manufacturing training of active military. She is also part of the research team that leads the summer camp to nine graders that focus on broadening participation of underrepre- sented
, University of PittsburghProf. Kristen Parrish, Arizona State University Kristen Parrish is an Assistant Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environ- ment at Arizona State University (ASU). Kristen’s work focuses on integrating energy efficiency measures into building design, construction, and operations processes. Specifically, she is interested in novel design processes that financially and technically facilitate energy-efficient buildings. Her work also explores how principles of lean manufacturing facilitate energy-efficiency in the commercial building industry. Another research interest of Kristen’s is engineering education, where she explores how project- and
and exploit taxonomies, intrusion detection systems, virtual test beds, and a relay setting automation program used by a top 20 investor owned utility. He has authored more than 40 peer reviewed research conference and journal articles in these areas. Dr. Morris’s research projects are funded by the National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, NASA, the US Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Research Development Center (ERDC), Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation, and Entergy Corporation. Prior to joining MSU, Dr. Morris worked at Texas Instruments (TI) for 17 years in multiple roles including circuit design and verification engineer, applications engineer
engineering pedagogy and instructional tech- nologies. Awards that he has received include the NSF CAREER award, the 2016 Alexander Crombie Humphreys Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor award (Stevens), the 2014 Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award from the Stevens Student Government Association, the 2009 ASEE Mechanics Division Outstanding New Educator Award, and the 2009 Outstanding Teacher Award from the Stevens Alumni Association.Dr. Patricia J. Holahan, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Engineering and Science) Patricia J. Holahan is an Associate Professor of Management in the School of Business, Stevens Insti- tute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA. She has served as PI/PD on several NSF funded projects
Paper ID #29591Explaining Choice, Persistence, and Attrition of Black Students inElectrical, Computer, and Mechanical Engineering: Award# EEC-1734347Grantee Poster Session - Year 2Dr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 30 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since
hubs that serve as locations for one-time training workshops for geographically close “spoke” participants, specifically the Southeastand Central Hubs. Due to weather, the workshops were consolidated. At the workshop,participants heard presentations on the motivation behind this project, DLM design, instructionalphilosophy, and best implementation practices, and also had a chance to use all four modules inconjunction with suggested classroom worksheets.The effectiveness of the LC-DLMs has been previously tested; however, there was a lack ofrobust measures for assessing student understanding in prior implementations of LC-DLMs. Toaddress this, we used Bloom’s taxonomy to categorize learning outcomes, measure learninggains, and better analyze
NationalScience Foundation) have been widely reported (e.g., Refs. 7, 8).Several of the studies have involved bringing research activities directly into the curriculum(e.g., Refs. 9, 10, 11, 12). Most of these investigations appear to keep research as the focal pointof the experience for the students. Sanford-Bernhardt and Roth reported multiple options foradministratively promoting research activities for students. 9 Others have reported research-oriented capstone project experiences (e.g., Ref. 10). A lesser amount of research experiences forconventional lecture and/or laboratory courses has been reported (e.g., Refs. 11, 12), especiallyin civil engineering. When incorporated, students have reacted favorably to having curricularcontent that is not
. Nekovei is currently co-PI for two NSF projects related to teaching by design research and develop- ment, one in nanotechnology (NSF-NUE) and another in robotics (NSF-CCLI). He was a senior Fulbright grantee at Bucharest Polytechnic University during 2008-09 academic year where he performed collabora- tive research in computationally complex circuits and studied ”teaching by design” methodology. Nekovei was the recipient of university distinguished teaching award in 2008. He is a member of IEEE and Etta Kappa Nu honor society.Ms. Alexandra Chincarini, RETainUS Page 25.1173.1 c American
contaminants in engineered systems and sustainable developments for cementitious materials. I have published impactful articles and secured several external grants for projects from the EPA, NSF, and DoD. As a mentor and educator, I strive to adapt to each student’s needs and foster a collaborative environment.Dr. Sukjoon Na, Marshall University Since 2018, Dr. Sukjoon Na has been an assistant professor of Civil Engineering at Marshall University in West Virginia. With a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering earned from Drexel University, Dr. Na specializes in developing innovative and sustainable construction materials, coupled with expertise in failure analysis. His notable contributions include presentations at prestigious journals
qualitative and mixed-methods research projects centered around diversity and inclusion in engineering. She will begin a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering with a focus on Engineering Education at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Fall 2024.Alexis Gillmore, University of Tennessee at Knoxville Alexis is a PhD student in soil science - they also teach interdisciplinary senior design and are pursuing a certificate in engineering education. Alexis is interested in developing participatory research strategies to make scientific knowledge that is useful and usable to those who need it. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Initial Explorations to Understand how our Research
, engineering and operations. His research interests include systems engineering, product design process and engineering education.Dr. Elizabeth A. Debartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, PhD is the Director of the Multidisciplinary Senior Design Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where students from Biomedical, Computer, Electrical, Industrial, and Mechanical Engineering work together on multidisciplinary projects. She is active in the national Capstone Design Community, and received her BSE in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science from Duke University and her MS and PhD from Purdue University.Shun Takai, Northern Illinois University Dr. Shun Takai is an associate professor
director for the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division in the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, VA. She was the director of Graduate Programs of the ECE Department in 2007, before joining the leadership team of Gen 3 NSF-ERC Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center. There she led the Education Pro- gram from 2008-2011, and leads the REU-site ”Engineering the Grid.” She has served on several IEEE executive and technical committee conferences, national and international governments’ ad-hoc commit- tees for grants and projects reviews. She has authored and co-authored more than 100 publications and conference
from the semiconductor industry, and teaches Electrical Engineering, and General En- gineering classes at San Jose State University. He participates in a project to bring applied computing to non engineering majors. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Learning Experiences of Social Science Students in an Interdisciplinary Computing MinorAbstractThe rapid growth of the digital economy and an associated increase in user-generated data hascreated a strong need for interdisciplinary computing professionals possessing both technicalskills and knowledge of human behavior. To help meet this need and with funds from NSF IUSE,we
Paper ID #30386Sustainable bridges from campus to campus: Aggregate results forEngineering Ahead Cohorts One to Three (#1525367)Dr. Catherine L. Cohan, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Catherine Cohan, Ph.D. has been a research psychologist for over 20 years. Her areas of expertise include engineering education, retention of underrepresented students, measurement, and assessment. She is currently an Assistant Research Professor and coordinates the Sustainable Bridges NSF IUSE project (Peter Butler, PI). Previously, she was the project coordinator the the Toys’n MORE NSF STEP project (Renata Engel, PI).Dr
2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory, developing model-eliciting activities in mechanical engineering courses, inquiry-based learning in mechanics, and design projects to help promote adapted physical activities. Other professional interests include aviation physiology and biomechanics.Prof. Dominic J Dal Bello, Allan Hancock College Dom Dal Bello is Professor of Engineering at Allan Hancock College (AHC), a California Community College between UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He is Chair of the Mathematical Sciences
then seven years as director of education research at Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons. At Yale since 2011, Dr. Graham has assumed positions of increasing responsibility and evaluation project management. He has published a number of peer-reviewed articles on evaluation, assessment, and, recently in the journal Science, student persistence in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. At New Haven Reads, Mark works as a volunteer with New Haven K-12 kids on their reading skills and homework. Page 26.511.1 c American Society for
Paper ID #30131Interactions Between Engineering Student Researcher Identity andEpistemic ThinkingDr. Lisa Benson, Clemson University Lisa Benson is a Professor of Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University, and the Editor of the Journal of Engineering Education. Her research focuses on the interactions between student mo- tivation and their learning experiences. Her projects focus on student perceptions, beliefs and attitudes towards becoming engineers and scientists, development of problem solving skills, self-regulated learn- ing, and epistemic beliefs. She earned a B.S. in Bioengineering from the
investigated in more detail with another controlled study. According to Sunk CostEffect, as designers spend more time building physical models of their initial ideas, they tend tofixate to the variations of those. Our second controlled study confirms this theory. To infer theseresults in real-life situations, the data from a few industry-sponsored graduate projects and casestudies of development of award-winning innovative products are analyzed qualitatively. Theresults from these qualitative studies show that in real-life design problem solving, buildingprototypes help designers to identify the problems in their ideas and rectify them. At the sametime, building also tends to fixate designers to the variations of their initial ideas, which is
IT2017 task group, who authored the ”Curriculum Guidelines for Baccalaureate Degree Programs in Information Technology” report. She received external funding awards from the National Science Foundation, New Hampshire Innovation Re- search Center, Google for Education, and other private and corporate foundations for projects that support computing learning by students and teachers. Sabin serves on the ACM Education Board and on the ACM SIGITE Executive Committee as Vice-Chair for Education. She also represents SIGITE on the ACM Edu- cation Advisory Committee. She is a founding member of the Computer Science Teacher Association NH Chapter and of the CS4NH alliance. Sabin is an ABET Program Evaluator, a member of the
the How People Learn framework.Dr. Emily Binks-Cantrell, Texas A&M University Emily Binks-Cantrell, Ph.D., is a faculty member in the Department of Teaching, Learning & Culture at Texas A&M University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the field of reading education. Additionally, she serves as a statistical consultant for the NSF-funded Live Energy project, a collaborative e-textbook project for freshmen engineering courses between Texas A&M University, Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University, California State University Long Beach, and Prairie View A&M University. She has published several articles and book chapters on the importance of quality teacher
, Professor Zoe Wood’s projects unite visual arts, mathematics and computer science.Prof. Eun-young Kang, California State University, Los Angeles Professor Computer Science California State University, Los AngelesDr. Ayaan M. Kazerouni, California Polytechnic State UniversityDr. Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University Jane Lehr is a Professor in Ethnic Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies and Director of the Office of Student Research at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is affiliated faculty in Computer Science & Software Engineering andDr. Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation and Research Consulting Dr. Sarah Hug is director of the Colorado Evaluation & Research Consulting. Dr
approach the problem, and what they would need to pay particularattention to. Participants were then presented with a proposed solution to the problem and wereasked several questions aimed at gathering participants’ critiques of the solution and problem-solving process that produced that solution.To provide a variety of aspects covered by the scenarios, each interview had one scenariofocused on medical or biomechancial devices and one scenario focused on energy andenvironmental projects. The goal used in each engineering scenario is presented in Table 1 toprovide brief insight into each of the scenarios.Table 1: Summary of Engineering Scenarios Scenario Focus Scenario Name Scenario Goal