. His career experiences include industrial consulting and managing an outreach center. His research interests include Distance education qual ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: An Analysis of the Existence of Metrics for University/Industry CollaborationIntroduction:Partnerships between universities and commercial enterprises have become relatively commonand take a variety of forms. From traditional research projects at universities that yield data andknowledge businesses and industries can then use to improve processes and practice, to morespecific training and development programs that focus on building particular skills for
Teamwork has increasingly gained the interest of educators as an effective pedagogical toolfor the preparation of students for the “real-world” (Gantasala, 2016). Collaborative assignmentsand projects, which invariably involve teamwork are considered high impact practices (HIPs) inhigher education (Adrade et al, 2020). High impact practices engage students in purposeful,interactive learning aimed at developing skills such as communication, problem solving,teamwork, critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, and information literacy (Kuh, 2008). Pastresearch shows that students who participate in HIP, including those who are historicallyunderserved by higher education, improve their performance, and have higher persistence andgraduation rates
, MathCAD) [4]. 4AssessmentGraded assignments may consist of individual written homeworks, group projects, and quizzes;traditional written exams are generally avoided. Students might keep a weekly journal ofreflections, e.g. regarding campus activities in which they have participated or academicdifficulties they have encountered and overcome [4]. Ambitious programs ask each student tocreate a portfolio of work (including narrated audio/video reflections) which helps him/her toidentify as an engineer [10].Most published literature recommends that a large portion of first-year students’ grades be basedon projects -- generally team efforts [5, 6, 10, 18, 20–23]. Assignments can tie back to aunifying
Design (SoftDes), is not a traditionalone: many topics typical of a CS1 course are left out to make room for project work and skillslikely to be used in practice, such as version control and data science tools. However, retentionrates and student perceptions of SoftDes say little about how students view the course in thecontext of their overalll education, or how these skills are useful in their future studies,internships, or jobs. Despite this, SoftDes is designed to better equip students with computingskills, whatever they may end up doing, and traditional metrics do not capture the success of thecourse in that goal.In the summer of 2020, we undertook a major redesign of SoftDes in preparation for the Fall 2020semester. Our changes were
AISC. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Implementing the Engineering for One Planet Framework in a Civil Engineering Technology ProgramAbstractTo address the challenges facing the built environment and promote sustainability, it is essentialfor the future engineering workforce to be well-equipped to design, construct, operate, andmanage infrastructure projects and systems. Civil engineers play a vital role in this process bycontributing their expertise to develop sustainable building solutions that enhance the builtenvironment. The primary goal of the Engineering for One Planet (EOP) Framework is toprovide engineers with the necessary skills and knowledge to safeguard the
featuring over 100 authours from 17 countries. Dr. Mosobalaje is open to post-doctoral fellow- ship/internship opportunities, especially in petroleum data analytics as well as engineering education.Moses Olayemi, Purdue University, West Lafayette Moses Olayemi is a Doctoral Candidate and Bilsland Dissertation Fellow in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His research interests revolve around the professional development of engineering educators in low resource/post conflict settings and the design and contextualization of in- struments to measure the impact of educational interventions. Research projects on these topics have and are currently being conducted in Nigeria, South Sudan, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya
Paper ID #36943Teamwork Perception in Engineering Programs through the Lens of Genderand RaceDr. Raheleh Miralami, Mississippi State UniversityDr. Saeed Rokooei, Mississippi State University Saeed Rokooei is an assistant professor in the Building Construction Science program at Mississippi State University. His professional responsibilities include project planning and management as well as architectural design practice in private and public construction and engineering firms. He has taught in architecture and construction programs since 2006. Dr. Rokooei’s primary research interests include simulation and serious games
University of Puerto Rico, MayagA¼ez Campus. She has a M.S. in Clinical Psychology from the Caribbean Center of Advanced Studies in Puerto Rico [today the Carlos Albizu University] and a Ph.D. in EducationDr. Aidsa I. Santiago-Roman, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Dr. Aidsa I. Santiago-Rom´an is a Professor and Former Chair in the Engineering Sciences and Materials (CIIM) Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayag¨uez Campus (UPRM). Dr. Santiago earned a BS and MS in Industrial Engineering from UPRM and Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Dr. Santiago has over 20 years of experience in academia and has been successful in obtaining funding and publishing for various research projects
engineering courses. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Lessons Learned: Implementing Equitable Teaming Practices in first-year GE CoursesBackground and MotivationAspiring engineering students at Virginia Tech initially enroll in a General Engineering programduring their first year of the curriculum. In this program, students are expected to develop, alongwith other skills, professional teamwork strategies in an engineering setting through asemester-long team project. These types of team projects have been shown to influence students'sense of belonging as they begin their studies, something that can be a factor in retention andsuccess in an engineering program. Many instructors
to develop and sustain an effective engineering workforce with specific emphasis on inclusion. She has over ten years of construction and civil engineering experience working for energy companies and as a project management consultant; nearly 20 years of experience in academia; and extensive experience leading and conducting multi-institutional, workforce-related research and outreach. She holds civil engi- neering degrees (BS, MS, PhD) from Clemson University and is a registered Professional Engineer (PE), Project Management Professional (PMP), and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accred- ited Professional (LEED-AP).Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida ©American Society for
&M University. She earned her PhD in industrial-organizational psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include workplace safety, occupa- tional health, and fairness and mistreatment in the workplace and in STEM classrooms and programs.David Christopher SeetsEmma Edoga, Texas A&M UniversityLuis Angel RodriguezGuillermo Aguilar, Texas A&M University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Evidence Based Practice: Innovation training and its impact on faculty approach to curricular or pedagogical changesIntroductionThe Project called Teams for Creating Opportunities for Revolutionizing the Preparation ofStudents (TCORPS), is
resources can be harnessed tocommunicate technical ideas to others in their discipline to get them to understand new ideas andthen take action based on that information [3]. This challenge is prevalent in academia, morespecifically in engineering-serving institutions.Engineering programs across various institutions have integrated professional communicationskills through community engagement projects, dovetailed with existing assignments inengineering courses, or have developed a separate communication for engineers course [4-7].These programs have utilized collaborative efforts from Engineering, English, Communication,Education, and Applied Linguistics faculty [7-11]. The challenges often encountered are theintegration techniques and logistics
efforts becomemore varied resulting in camps, workshops, or other short sessions that focus on helpingprospective college students understand the various aspects of STEM disciplines.This paper details how Purdue University Northwest (PNW) took a novel approach to STEMoutreach by developing a peer-to-peer “STEM on the Road” (SotR) program. This initiative tookthe emphasis off recruitment and placed it on STEM college students sharing their collegiatecompetition and individualized research projects with high school and middle school students.The program helped the college students transport their projects, whether they were small hand-held electronics or full-sized competition vehicles, to area high schools and middle schools for aone-day exhibit
further. To date, 3 professors,10 students, and a company have participated in this project. A company called LAB-VEEEducational TechMaker has been created for commercialization and an LMS with didacticcontent. The LMS was implemented in 2021 by a school in the country, with more than 60students taking classes, having access to only theoretical content. A study was conducted on thisimplementation to measure the level of learning of these students compared to others who studiedin a traditional way, and recently a university in the country has implemented LAB-VEE toconduct a study that will allow them to know its impact on the academic performance ofuniversity students.IntroductionLatin America and the Caribbean share many similarities, from
across the curriculum. This paper serves as one example ofsharing student perspectives that continue to inform the project. Student perspectives guide us inimproving the integration of character education within engineering education. Key facets thatare essential to this integration are the project-based learning environment that cuts across thecurriculum from year one to year four and other innovative pedagogies (e.g., use of mastery-based learning approaches, flipped classrooms environments, case-based learning, andcollaborative learning).Table 2 presents some of the engineering courses and their associated primary virtues targeted.Courses with targeted virtues means that engineering faculty took intentional steps to introduceand talk about
Paper ID #39628Cornerstone to Capstone Engineering Design: Evolving StudentPerspectives through the Academic Journey with Implementable CurricularImplicationsDr. Kris Jaeger-Helton, Northeastern University Professor Beverly Kris Jaeger-Helton (Kris), Ph.D. is on the full-time faculty in the Department of Me- chanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University (NU) teaching Simulation Modeling & Analysis, Human-Machine Systems, Facilities Planning & Material Handling, and Capstone. She has also been a faculty advisor for Capstone design projects in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineer- ing, and
learning outcomes lay a strong foundational base thatproves crucial throughout students’ journeys in and beyond academia and in a variety oftechnical disciplines as well. To ensure these valuable outcomes are met, introductory ECEeducators invest significant effort in course assessment and improvement. Such efforts have beendocumented in literature, including developing new lab tools, incorporating project-basedlearning, and proposing new course assessment methodologies and educational interventions.Adopting a student-centric lens, we propose a new methodology for early ECE courseassessment called CARE, referring to the intersecting areas of the most Challenging AndRewarding Experiences that students have had in line with the main course
competency development via education and training; interactions between humans and technology; and conceptualization of leadership in engineering. Supported by more than $7.5M in federal funding and with results disseminated across more than 100 refereed publications, her research aims to develop and sustain an effective engineering workforce with specific emphasis on inclusion. She has over ten years of construction and civil engineering experience working for energy companies and as a project management consultant; nearly 20 years of experience in academia; and extensive experience leading and conducting multi-institutional, workforce-related research and outreach. She holds civil engi- neering degrees (BS, MS, PhD
research is associated with the Modernization of Undergraduate Education Program(PMG), supported by FULBRIGHT, CAPES, and U.S. Embassy in Brazil [26]. Industrialengineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul is one of the participatingcourses. This public university has participated in this project since 2019, with professors onmissions to partner with North American institutions [26], [27]. 2. MethodologyTo investigate whether the teaching strategies present in North American universities can beused in Brazilian universities, an investigation of different necessary factors was carried outin loco. For this, we used a qualitative and descriptive study to highlight the main points usedby these teaching methodologies from the perception
) Statics, 3) Construction materials/Mechanics of Materials, 4)Construction Safety/Safety Engineering, 5) Construction Estimating, 6) ConstructionScheduling, 7) Mechanical Systems, 8) Electrical Systems, 9) Engineering Graphics, 10) VirtualDesign/Construction, 11) Engineering Economics, 12) Contracts and Specs/Legal Aspects, 13)Project Management, 14) Construction Means and Methods, 15) Heavy Civil Construction, 16)Temporary Structures/Construction, 17) Surveying, 18) Geotechnical Engineering/SoilMechanics, 19) Structural Engineering/Design, 20) Concrete Design, 21) Steel Design, and 22)Senior Design/Capstone.After identifying the courses for which they have experience teaching, the faculty were asked toidentify the frequency with which they update
Small class sizes 90 52 University Characteristics Financial aid 26 15 31% (172) Location 25 15 Mission 21 12 Transfer process 10 6 Faculty 101 50 Senior design project 42 21 Department Academics Learning environment
an engineering students’ weekly activity is completing homeworkproblems, problem sets, or working on projects. While a significant amount of research hasexamined how students work together to complete design projects and learn design [4]–[6] fewstudies have examined students solving homework problems or projects in engineering sciencecourses, an understudied area of research [7]. Lord and Chen [8] have called for more researchinto the “middle years” of the engineering degree, where students must take a number ofdisconnected courses with high levels of mathematical problem solving that are not highlyengaging for students.Douglas and colleagues have answered this call by examining the types of problems in typicaltextbooks [9], students' use of
: Containing Design: Rethinking Design Instruction to Support Engineering Device Development for Low-Income CountriesAbstractWork-in-Progress: One of the primary benefits of a makerspace is the concentration of tools,materials, and expertise in one place [1]. Without makerspaces, design education in many low- tomiddle-income countries (LMIC) stops with a “paper” design and does not move onto a physicalprototype. More than 75% of registered makerspaces are in North America and Europe [2], andless than 4% of registered makerspaces are in Africa [3].As part of a joint project between Duke University (NC, USA) and Makerere University(Kampala, Uganda), “twin” makerspaces were built at the respective universities. At Makerere,this makerspace was a first
student participants ofinternational research experiences that involved deep interactions with communitymembers and in regions with more cultural differences developed different competenciesthan students who traveled to regions with more cultural similarities and fewer communityinteractions (Verbyla et al. 2023). On the other hand, Maltby et al. (2016) found thatnursing students who completed international experiences in developing countriesdeveloped similar competencies as students who traveled to industrialized countries.We studied the impact of a six-week summer international research experience on theskills and abilities of student participants. The overall goal of the broader project was tohelp students: 1) understand wastewater treatment
Paper ID #39333Work in Progress: Measuring Interdisciplinary Teams´ Sustainable Designwith an SDG lense – Case StudyHolbeein Josu´e Vel´asquezDr. Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ MiguelAndres is an Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering at Uni- versidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with emphasis in Sustainable Construction from Virginia Tech, and two Grad- uate Certificates from
elements(e.g., modality, structure, depth, breadth, etc.) were perceived to be satisfactory and results showfavor for lab-based learning over project-based learning (PBL). Finally, results indicate positiveself-reported progress in four general competency areas: design, problem-solving, © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedingscommunication, and group/teamwork. A second cohort will take the transformed gatewayexperience in the Fall of 2024 to strengthen the overall sample power, and data from the fouryears (Fall 2018-2022) preceding the transformation will be collected and analyzed incomparison to groups involved in the revised course.Key Words
erroneous results simply because the simulation produced them.In this paper, the authors propose a methodology for teaching power systems analysis that teachesstudents how to run power flow simulations using a commercial tool and gives them a deepintuition of what the simulator is doing. The authors propose that students learn how to truly learnto use a simulator by developing one from scratch. This simulator is developed over the course ofa semester by coupling the active learning techniques of the flipped classroom model and project-based learning. In the course, students watch videos prior to class to learn about modeling andimplementation techniques. In the class, students work with instructors and teaching assistants tobuild a simulator in a
Technical Education (CTE) programs.However, mere availability of 3DP is not enough for teachers to fully utilize its potential in theirclassrooms. While basic 3DP skills can be obtained through a few hours of training, the basictraining is insufficient to ensure effective teaching Engineering Design Process (EDP) at the highschool level. To address this problem, this project develops an EDP course tightly integrated with3DP for preservice teachers (PST) who are going to enter the workforce in high schools.Engineering design process (EDP) has become an essential part for preservice teachers (PST),especially for high school STEM. 3DP brought transformative change to EDP which is an iterativeprocess that needs virtual/physical prototyping. The new PST
topractice via a project in which they must implement 2D image convolution on a Field-ProgrammableGate Array (FPGA), using HLS tools. The impact of the instruction on students is assessed via surveysand the results show that students find the material to be challenging, yet interesting. The results alsoshow that there is ample room to provide additional instruction to students on topics that are core tomodern hardware design, such as Direct-Memory Access (DMA).1. IntroductionCourses on digital design are essential components of all computer engineering curricula [1]. Mostprograms have an introductory digital design course, where students learn the basics of logic gates,hardware description languages, and FPGA design. This introduction is typically
UniversityAbstract Amidst concerns of climate change, pollution, and a rapid increase in oil prices, hybrid cars have become more favorable than traditional fuel cars. However, purchasing a new hybrid car is an expensive endeavor. The purpose of our project was to design a combination device that can be installed in an old gas car to give it the advantages of a hybrid. Companies such as Toyota and Tesla are using similar technical principles, but the essence of our approach is the development of a device compatible with older vehicles. This allows customers who previously owned the vehicle to enjoy the same performance improvements and fuel economy as an expensive hybrid at a lower price. The core idea of the design is regenerative braking, which