, innovation suffers and emergingengineering students are left with a skill gap which employers are limited by their resources tofill4, 7-8. Therefore, in order to fill gap and create the next generation of innovative engineering,universities must adjust current engineering curriculum and find a balance between engineeringdisciplines and practical experience. Over the past decade many universities have adjusting curriculums to develop studentsinto T- Shape professionals, professionals who are highly trained in a single discipline, but havethe capability of communicating, understanding, and working with people from a variety of otherareas3-4, 9. Figure 1 represents a diagram that clearly defines the qualities of a T-shaped
the E-book and use the calculatorand interest tables to help themselves. This app has been developed for both Apple iOS andGoogle Android platforms, and they have been released in the Google Play and Apple App Store.The cross-platform app development allows easy deployment to multiple mobile platforms. Thisapp is intended to give students more opportunity to learn and practice concepts of EngineeringEconomics whenever and where they want using their mobile devices.* Acknowledgment: This project is partially supported by a grant from the National ScienceFoundation DUE-1140457 to Lamar University. Page 26.541.2 1. Introduction Engineering
Lesson 1 (Day 1 & 2) Lesson 2 (Day 3-5) Lesson 3 (Day 6 & 7) Introduction: Biotechnology: Surface Area: Engineering & Cells DNA Extractions Data Analysis & Measurement - Introduction to the - Learn how to extract DNA - Use physical and graphical models to design challenge from cells explain the relationship of exterior and STEM Integration Activities - Review cell
Paper ID #13075Engineering Graphics Concepts: A Delphi StudyDr. Mary A. Sadowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette Mary A. Sadowski has been at Purdue since 2003 and until September 1, 2011 served as the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Learning in the Purdue College of Technology where she provided leadership for strategic initiatives in undergraduate education. As a professor of Computer Graphics, her research interests include enhancing visualization skills, cre- ative thinking, and learning styles. She is currently funded to begin gathering data to create a concept inventory for engineering graphics. As
on the experiences of African-Americans onmultiracial teams and this study aims to fill that gap.This qualitative study employs a phenomenological approach, using a three-interview sequencewith eight African-American male engineering students across academic levels (average age =19) as they worked on team projects at a large research-intensive, predominantly whiteinstitution (PWI). The project durations ranged from two weeks to two full semesters. The semi-structured interviews 1) gathered background information about participants, 2) exploredparticipant descriptions of the team functionality during the project, and 3) asked participants toreflect on the experience in the context of their engineering education and identities. Followingthe
. Page 26.1275.2Introduction and Literature ReviewPast research shows the need for an educational shift in the general engineering curricula from apurely technical focus to one that will add entrepreneurial skills to complement theirundergraduate engineering major.1 Angela Shartrand, et al.2, in “Technology Entrepreneurshipprograms in U.S. Engineering Schools: An Analysis of programs at the undergraduate level”examined programs and courses offered at 340 ASEE member schools in the U.S. Theirresearch showed that “entrepreneurship education is available in at least half of the engineeringprogrammed examined and has been integrated within the engineering program in approximately25% of these programs”2. We asked ourselves the question “do engineer
materials and teaching methods.1 While thesematerials and methods are evidence-based and shown to positively affect student learningand educational outcomes, they have been slow to be adopted or disseminated.In an effort to improve curriculum sharing, there is currently a two-part study underway forthe development and dissemination of a web based repository containing curriculummaterials and best practices. These two efforts are in place to understand, facilitate, andencourage sharing of materials and best practices between educators. The first is thedevelopment and refinement of the web-based repository for curriculum materials; thesecond is a study on the curricular decision-making processes of transportation engineeringeducators.The overarching
the areas of integration of computation in engineering curricula and in developing Page 26.1390.1 comprehensive strategies to retain early engineering students. She is active nationally and internationally in engineering accreditation and is a Fellow of ABET and of the AIChE. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Spatial Visualization Skills Intervention for First Year Engineering Students: Everyone’s a Winner!IntroductionThe connection between spatial visualization skills and performance in engineering courseworkis becoming more evident 1-3
engineering is an up-to-date issue and is a topic of internationaldiscussions. US, European and Asian researches suggested many innovative ideas that allowfor better international engineering interaction and students’ readiness for the open world [1],[3], [6], [8], [9]. For example corporate education presented by Herman Schneider more thana hundred years ago was successfully implemented as the option for students to gain secondlanguage proficiency and international job experience [3]. Page 26.425.2 Leading Russian universities also take part in the global integration process. Thenumber of international students is increasing from year to year
scientific and engineering principles with the new tools of technology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Enabling Machine Design Innovation among Freshman Mechanical Engineering Students Anurag Purwar Research Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Director, Computer-Aided Design and Innovation Lab Stony Brook University (SUNY), New York, USA anurag.purwar@stonybrook.edu1 IntroductionThis paper presents 1) creation and teaching of a newly developed Freshman Design Innovation(FDI) class for Mechanical Engineering students at Stony Brook University (SBU), and 2) Mo-tionGen, a
study their preferences and therefore acquire knowledge to build age appropriate userinterfaces to control the Online Laboratory in order to make these more attractive andtherefore improve the learning experiences.Together with national and international partners we are carrying out a project that placesstudents of technical secondary schools in Austria in the role of remote laboratory developersunder the supervision and tutoring of the project staff. Students are actively involved in thescientific process and actively participate in the acquisition of knowledge.The project pursues three main objectives: 1. Studies on age-appropriate requirements for the use of Online Laboratories at secondary schools. 2. Peer feedback to improve the
/engineering technology course that was designed to support student retention. Anew course could not simply be added to the existing curriculum of the university’s engineeringand engineering technology degrees, however, as state law capped the hours required for anundergraduate degree. Instead, the researchers customized an introduction to the universityfreshman seminar course for engineering and engineering technology majors. This course designadapted elements from successful first-year introductory classes in Engineering and EngineeringTechnology at other universities. Besides fostering a learning community between Engineeringand Engineering Technology students, the objectives of the new course include: (1) introductionof design and problem solving
along theway. We believe that this intentional emphasis on connections between disciplines develops theinterdisciplinary skills and perspectives which are important for graduation, and it lays thegroundwork for interdisciplinary thinking in the workplace.1. Interdisciplinary Learning in Undergraduate EducationUndergraduate degree programs consist of courses for a major and general education courses.Each degree program has learning outcomes mapped to the outcomes of its courses. Ideally,students establish synergistic connections among the different courses in the curriculum.However, abundant evidence suggests that transfer of skills between courses is relatively rare.1-3Students often do not make connections between general education courses and
, and opportunity for all in fostering successful community partnershipsand addressing environmental issues such as biodegradation, solid waste management, andpollution prevention. Activities focused on complex social issues surrounding food insecurityand availability of healthy food in urban communities as well as successful citizen reentry fromprison into communities will also be discussed.IntroductionIn 2020, Bret Eynon and Jonathan Iuzzini published an ATD Teaching and Learning Toolkitwith Achieving the Dream [1] that presents a body of work that was developed from the NewLearning Compact Framework in 2019 by Every Learner Everywhere [2] with the intent offostering a culture of teaching and learning excellence designed to enhance student
universityrates, scholarship students showed above-average retention and graduation rates, with themajority pursuing graduate studies or careers in STEM. These findings highlight the importanceof comprehensive support programs that integrate financial aid, mentorship, and professionaldevelopment to promote persistence and success among URM students in STEM fields.Introduction Many students leave Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) aftertaking introductory science and/or mathematics courses [1]. This not only impacts thedevelopment of a STEM workforce; it also negatively impacts humanity’s chances of addressingthe complex issues our societies are currently facing. Issues such as climate change andenvironmental degradation need
applied to develop high-quality CS curricula and train large numbers of teachers, primarily through one-week summerworkshops. For example, the percentage of public high schools in the United States that offer afoundational computer science course has grown from 47% in 2019-2020 to 57.5% during the2022-2023 academic year [1]. Despite these gains in access, there is still work to be done,especially for students historically underrepresented in the field. In 2021-2022, Black studentsmade up only 6.73% of national Advanced Placement (AP) CS exam takers [2] even though theymake up approximately 15% of the overall high school population [3]. Furthermore, only32.37% of Black AP CS exam takers passed, compared to the overall pass rate of 64.62% [2].With
STEM Education (EDU) todevelop a model promoting the equitable advancement of early career tenure-stream engineering facultyfrom historically underrepresented groups, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians,Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders (AGEP) faculty. The goal of this FacultyCareer Pathways Alliance Model (FCPAM) project is to develop, implement, self-study, andinstitutionalize a career pathway model that can be adapted for use at similar institutions, for advancingearly career engineering faculty from these groups. The Alliance interventions for this project focus onthree major pillars of activity: 1) equity-focused institutional change designed to make structural changesthat support the
learning), and vibrancy (engagingwith active participation). Each indicator is further broken into assessable principles (Figure 1),with observable behaviors aligned to the framework of community cultural wealth [viii]. ThePOTP includes the following features: (a) Customizable Focus: Faculty are observed on selected,specific observable behaviors (from a total of 55) to prioritize during observation, enablingfaculty to focus on their assets and encouraging targeted growth; (b) Reflective Process: Pre- andpost-observation meetings promote meaningful dialogue between the observer and the observee,enabling the sharing of insights and resources from the Eco-STEM Resource Repository [viii] (c)Flexible Usage: The tool can be used for peer-to-peer
% of Hispanic/Latinx residents 25 years orolder hold a bachelor’s degree, compared to 51% of White, non-Hispanic residents. At C6colleges, the Hispanic/Latinx vs White transfer gap is 16% (34% vs. 50%, respectively).Supporting and encouraging LSAMP student populations as they prepare to transfer is vital.The C6-LSAMP project supports LSAMP students via three pillars: (1) Research Opportunities:Fall Research Symposium and university partnerships, (2) Academic Support: Embedded Tutorsin gateway STEM courses, and (3) Professional Development/Career Exploration for studentsand for faculty: workshops, mentoring, and networking. Reinforcing each pillar is a commitmentto create culturally sensitive, relevant and responsive learning environments.This
engineering: A recent review of the educationliterature on mathematical practices in engineering found that only 2 out of 5,466 even discuss"uncertainty" or "error" [1]. A scoping review of textbooks actively used to teach engineeringcourses found that only 11% of textbooks mentioned "variability" [2]. Despite this neglect,variability remains important to engineering practice; for example, female automobilepassengers in the U.S. experience 47% higher odds of injury than males [3], a disparity that theGovernment Accountability Office attributes to poor statistical modeling practices in crashtesting [4].This project is a mixed-methods study of statistical thinking, informed by engineering practice.The early (qualitative) phases of this project
benefitof this simulation is that it enables students to more deeply experience real-world problems withdire consequences that they traditionally know very little about, and to experience some empathyfor those affected by such problems.This paper describes three different crises simulations that we have developed over the last threeyears, outlines the major learning goals, and presents an analysis of the student and volunteerreflections.Literature reviewThe history of using games and simulations for learning purposes is long, and has been discussedextensively in literature. Langton et al. 1 suggest that games were first introduced as trainingtools by and for the military in the 18th century, and it was a century and a half later when gamesand
achieve sharedaims in engineering education: encourage student autonomy and exploration, grow diverselearning communities and environments, and positively impact retention for those students atrisk of leaving.Prior Work on Maker SpacesTo date, there have been a number of studies of academic and non-academic maker spaces thatprovide answers to important questions. To identify best practices for those planning new makerspaces, Wilczynski2 conducted a review of six of the first university maker spaces illuminatingthe need for 1) a clear mission statement, 2) user training, 3) proper staffing, 4) collaboration, 5)alignment with student work schedules, and 6) attention to creating a maker community oncampus. Similarly, Barrett et al.,1 reviewed
PostsecondaryStudent Aid Study: 2009-2010, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics(NCES), found that low-income students face higher unmet need than other students. As a result,even though the target population may be receiving financial aid, it does not necessarily meanthat their financial needs are met. Students whose financial needs are unmet by school aidpackages typically will compensate by working part- or full-time, or taking out additional loans.However, working while attending college can have negative impacts. It has been found thatwhile 1 to 15 hours of work per week contributes positively to retention, working more than 15hours per week tends to result in weaker grades and a lower chance of graduation.5 On the otherhand, even
mathclasses taken) to determine the class a student will enter. At the University of Arizona, studentstake either a placement test that covers intermediate algebra skills or one that covers collegealgebra and trigonometry [1]. At St. Olaf College in Minnesota, a combination of student data,including high school rank and GPA, as well as a placement test coupled indicates where astudent is placed [2]. A self-assessment test is given to all incoming students at the University ofSydney to assist them in deciding whether or not to enroll in the highest level math classavailable to freshmen [3]. Other institutions use certain pieces of high school information, suchas GPA and/or standardized test scores [2, 4, 5]. At the study institution, a southern
diversity, and understand their effects in students performance. Isabel received her professional degree in biological engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile and her MA in policy, organizations and leadership studies at Stanford Graduate School of Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Redesigning engineering education in Chile: How selective institutions respond to an ambitious national reformIntroductionIn 2012, the Chilean government launched the “Nueva Ingeniería para el 2030” program, whichaims to redesign engineering education, enhance applied research, technology development,innovation and entrepreneurship around engineering campuses.1
focusing on humanitarian engineer- ing. In addition, she teaches STEP 1 and STEP 2 education courses through CU Teach Engineering, a new General Engineering Plus program specifically designed to prepare students to earn a secondary math or science teacher licensure through engineering. She manages and mentors graduate and undergraduate engineering Fellows who teach in local K-12 classrooms through the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program’s TEAMS initiative, is on the development team for the TeachEngineering digital library, and is faculty advisor for CU-Boulder’s Society of Women Engineers (SWE).Jaclyn L. Cunitz, University of Colorado Boulder Jaclyn L. Cunitz is an undergraduate student in the department of
approach that strives to produce professionals that have sustainablevalues. Sustainable values include being self-directed, self-learner, lifelong learner, etc.Although Sustainable Development has inspired the creation of the term SoTE, it is not to bemixed with the term ESD.In Figure 1, we depict the desirable SoTE, the possible realities of being sustainable, partiallysustainable, barely sustainable, and the change needed. Being partially sustainable means havinga satisfactory ability to improve with a growing capacity to endure. Being partially sustainablealso means having a satisfactory capacity to endure with a growing ability to improve. Theattribute of being barely sustainable means having growing ability to improve and capacity
engineeringdegree programs of 155.7. The GE+ program plans to seek accreditation under ABET’s generalengineering program criteria.BackgroundIn the 2005 publication, Educating the Engineer of 2020, the National Academy of Engineeringrecommended that undergraduate engineering programs introduce interdisciplinary learning and“more vigorously exploit the flexibility inherent in the outcomes-based accreditation approach toexperiment with novel approaches for baccalaureate education.”1 The American Society ofMechanical Engineers (ASME) Vision 2030 Task Force echoed this recommendation and named“increased curricular flexibility” as one of seven recommended actions intended to strengthenundergraduate mechanical engineering education.2 Developmentally, infusing
urgent need to develop a well-qualifiedand diverse STEM workforce, underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities (URMs) such as Blacksand Latinos continue to make up only 7-10% of the science and engineering workforce.1 Evenwhen URMs enroll in engineering and related majors, they are more likely to switch to non-STEM majors and much less likely to complete their degree within 6 years than their Whitepeers.2-4 URM students in STEM report feelings of alienation and invisibility, difficulty applyingtheory and curriculum to practice, and a lack of pre-college preparation in STEM majors – all ofwhich may contribute to the aforementioned enrollment and departure trends.5To reverse these trends and address many of the challenges and barriers facing URMs
and motivated by NCState’s strategic plan to expand the proportion of transfer students, the College of Engineeringteamed with the College of Education at NC State. We established initiatives aimed directly atNC CC’s and their communities: 1) to disseminate accurate information regarding engineering atNC State and 2) to develop a valuable network of higher education institutions in North Carolina.In addition to promoting the transfer of high quality students into engineering at NC State, ourgoal was to improve their retention and performance. In this paper, we detail the strategies weemployed to achieve these goals, including programming and publications created by the Collegeof Engineering, targeted solely to NC CC students and advisors. We