ofcompetencies, even though they are not listed in the revised version[9].The NICE Framework was developed from some of the earlier attempts in the US to develop aminimum foundation that CSEC professionals graduating from an academic program shouldhave. An example here is the NSA Centers for Academic Excellence (CAE) in InformationSecurity that focused more on the theoretical aspects of CSEC and not much on the skills andabilities [10]. The next large-scale effort was more international and was spearheaded by theIEEE-CS and ACM and produced the Joint Task Force on Cybersecurity EducationCybersecurity Curriculum Guidelines for Post-Secondary Degree Programs in Cybersecurity(CSEC 2017). But here again, workforce development was not a large focus (if any
andsuccess is commonly measured using exams scores or letter grades at the end of the semester.In an undergraduate engineering curriculum, the many different types of classes pose challengesand difficulties for students. To achieve a letter grade B or better, some courses are moredemanding and require more effort than the other courses. For instance, Fluid Mechanics isconsidered one of the conceptually challenging classes at the California State University, LongBeach (CSULB). Students are challenged to integrate knowledge from their prerequisite classes(math and statics) to understand the Fluid mechanics concepts and principals. Specific topicscovered in the course include Fluid Statics, Fluid Kinematics, Pressure Variation in MovingFluids
case study provides an in-depth study of the challenges andmilestones faced by the evaluation team. One challenge was understanding the uniqueengineering design-based curriculum. Another challenge was exploring the impact of a pureinquiry-based teaching program. One key milestone reached was creating a participatoryenvironment for the program evaluation. The result was an evaluation regime that was useful tothe rocket program stakeholders. Engineering an Evaluation for a Growing Rocket Program: Lessons LearnedIntroduction Perennially, educators, industrialists, social commentators, and politicians call forscience, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instruction that matches anincreasingly multifaceted global economy
ethics module in Ethics Seminar course by assessing theimpact of the integrated e-learning module on: 1. knowledge of code(s) of ethics 2. using code(s) of ethics for ethical reasoning 3. conducting ethical reasoning 4. FE exam ethics section preparedness 5. ethical behavioral growthOnline Ethics ModuleThe University of New Haven developed a series of 18 online learning modules as part of their effort todevelop the entrepreneurial mindset of their engineering and computer science students [18]. Theuniversity’s plan is to integrate the modules into core engineering, and applied science courses and doesnot plan to use the modules outside off core classes. Content experts developed the modules with an onlineeducation
. 2 AbstractIn response to the need for a diverse, highly skilled STEM workforce that can workcollaboratively and communicate effectively, colleges of engineering have developed diversity-focused recruitment, retention, and outreach efforts. Many programs have also begun toemphasize technical communication skills. A national organization that integrates these prioritiesis the Engineering Ambassadors Network (EAN), which trains undergraduates to raise awarenessof what engineers do and how they contribute to society. Typical ambassador activities includethe delivery of a presentation and a hands-on activity to middle or high school students.Currently, there are an estimated 634 EAs in the United States
,self-worth) [6].Sense of community is defined as “the perception of similarity to others, an acknowledgedinterdependence with others, a willingness to maintain this interdependence by giving to or doingfor others what one expects from them, and the feeling that one is part of a larger dependable andstable structure [7].” It is comprised of the following sub-factors [8], [9], [10]: 1. Membership: feeling that one has invested part of oneself. 2. Influence: sense of opportunity to affect outcomes. 3. Needs fulfillment: both individual and community needs are met reciprocally. 4. Emotional connection: shared history, personal investment, and quality interaction.Commuter students face additional challenges in integrating into
graduating from the United States Air Force Academy(USAFA). In 2010 there were 28 graduates. In 2020 there were 15 ECE graduates. This declineis not necessarily unique to USAFA. The United States saw only 10% of the global science,technology, engineering, and math (STEM) bachelor’s degrees in 2018 [1]. About half ofstudents who enter a STEM program do not graduate with a STEM degree; most of thesestudents drop out during their first or second year of college due to the increasing difficulty andcomplexity of STEM programs [2], [3], [4]. To motivate and engage students, undergraduateeducators must design a curriculum that integrates hands-on learning early in the program that isrelevant and can provide students a sense of ownership of their educations
to integrate science, language arts, and engineering education within the context of Next Generation Science Standards. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Measuring Engineering Perceptions of Fifth Grade Minority Students with the Draw-an-Engineer-Test (DAET) (Work In Progress)IntroductionResearch continues to combat the national decline in STEM fields through motivationalstrategies that can be applied in teaching students 1,2,3,4. Next Generation Science Standards(NGSS) underscore the importance of making engineering education available to all students,especially minorities in STEM 5. NGSS creates a holistic approach to understanding engineeringby blending scientific and
Michigan. Her educational research interests include conceptual understanding of electrical engineering concepts and assessing the impact of curriculum changes. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Incorporating Giving Voice to Values (GVV) into an Engineering Ethics CourseAbstractThe Department of Engineering and Society instructors at the University of Virginia recentlydeveloped a new course on Engineering Ethics aimed at second- and third-year students. Unlikeprevious courses in the department, the mid-level course emphasizes micro-ethics and employsthe Giving Voice to Values (GVV) framework. The emphasis on micro-ethics is timely andappropriate
Paper ID #12044What does it take to deliver an active hands-on course?Dr. Steve C. Hsiung, Old Dominion University Steve Hsiung is a professor of electrical engineering technology at Old Dominion University. Prior to his current position, Dr. Hsiung had worked for Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., Seagate Technology, Inc., and Lam Research Corp., all in Silicon Valley, CA. Dr. Hsiung also taught at Utah State University and California University of Pennsylvania. He earned his BS degree from National Kauhsiung Normal University in 1980, MS degrees from University of North Dakota in 1986 and Kansas State University in
Complement an Integrated Curriculum,” in Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Engineering Education, Manchester, UK. August 2002, 2002.[13] Richardson, J.; Dantzler, J., "Effect of a freshman engineering program on retention and academic performance," in Frontiers in Education, 2002.[14] C. Pomalaza-Ráez and B. H. Groff, “Retention 101: Where robots go… students follow,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 92, no. 1, pp. 85–90, 2003.[15] A. Saterbak, M. Embree and M. Oden, "Client-based projects in freshman design," in American Society of Engineering Education Conference Proceedings, San Antonio, 2012.[16] IBM Corp. Released 2015. IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 23.0. Armonk, NY: IBM
. The program has developed an academic innovation ecosystem in which S-STEMscholars will be embedded in order to benefit from the talents and knowledge of over 300underrepresented engineering peers. However, the NSF scholars will be the strategic focus of theBEATS’ academic and social integration programs that include specialized counseling, mentoring,and professional development but will not exist as a separate S-STEM cohort apart from peers. Tothat end, a collateral project objective is to further develop a more cohesive multiculturalcommunity in which S-STEM low income and “At Risk” scholars can gain a strong sense ofbelonging, self-efficacy, teamwork and collective sense of academic purpose.3) Thirdly, the project team seeks to gain
Paper ID #25863Participation in Small Group Engineering Design Activities at the MiddleSchool Level: An Investigation of Gender DifferencesJeanna R. Wieselmann, University of Minnesota Jeanna R. Wieselmann is a Ph.D. Candidate in Curriculum and Instruction and National Science Foun- dation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on gender equity in STEM and maintaining elementary girls’ interest in STEM through both in-school and out-of-school experiences. She is interested in integrated STEM curriculum development and teacher professional de- velopment to support gender-equitable
Paper ID #43871Work-in Progress: Aligning an Engineering Hands-On Learning Programto College Strategy: Reducing Implementation Barriers to Support Faculty,Students, and Their SuccessMs. Rachel Sharpe, University of Colorado Boulder Rachel Sharpe is a Senior Engineering Projects Consultant at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. Rachel’s work as a senior engineer has allowed her to collaborate with faculty members across seven departments, contributing her expertise to the development and successful implementation of over thirty hands-on lab activities. Rachel has overseen the
applying much of thecourse content to calculate seepage, stress and the potential for liquefaction.As a discipline, geotechnical engineering is dynamic and deeply connected to the drama ofhuman fortunes and misfortunes. In didactic settings, however, mastering its concepts andtechniques can be experienced as complex, tedious, and disconnected from meaning. To supportstudents in achieving the intended learning outcomes, the instructors of this course have, overtime, come to incorporate both transmedia and IE elements, using an iterative process of design,testing, and adaptation to refine and optimize the curriculum and its components. Four types ofunderstanding — mythic, romantic, theoretic, and ironic — and their associated cognitive toolswere
Paper ID #44219Progress Report on BE-TEC: An NSF S-STEM ProjectDr. Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University Afsaneh Minaie is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Utah Valley University. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. all in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include gender issues in the academic sciences, embedded system, internet of things, wireless sensor network, and robotics.Dr. Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University Reza Sanati-Mehrizy is a professor of Computer Science Department at Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah. He received his M.S. and
these codes were written [4, 5]. Yarmus [18] and Russell [17] articulate the first line ofthinking. While there are differences in the tones of their arguments, both argue that engineers’ professional societies should use their members’ technical integrity and exemplary ethics as ameans of raising the status and stature of the profession. Unfortunately, by framing engineers’professional integrity as an unwavering platform upon which enhanced occupational statusshould be advocated, they leave little space for critique or improvement in this realm.Hill et al. and Andrews adopt the second line of reasoning. In contrast to Yarmus and Russell,these authors accept that engineers have room for improvement when it comes to ethicalconduct, but by
- orating with other faculty members in the classroom and is invested in research, classes and assignments that provide overlap and continuity within the engineering curriculum and engineering pipeline. Nick is also a mentor for the REU program at Olin which studies the educational experiences of undergraduate engineers.Ms. Lauren Van Beek, University of St. Thomas Lauren Van Beek is an undergraduate studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of St. Thomas.Laura Ann Lilienkamp, Smith College c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Student Identity Development through Self-Directed Learning in the First SemesterAbstractThis research paper investigates
experiences during the first several months areshown in blue font to highlight the adaptive nature of the AGEP-NC model, an important featureof “robust project design” in the Kezar and Eckel model of change. • Summer year 1: o Collect baseline data, refine evaluation plan and logic model o Recruit and select Fellows, develop Fellow curriculum, select readings and speakers o Announce project to participating departments and administrators and develop website o Meet with External Advisory Board for input and feedback on plans, baseline data, and evaluation plan o Select Student Leadership Council members • Fall year 1: o Fellows’ reading group
Paper ID #34925Engineering Graduate Education: An Overwhelming Journey ofFirst-Generation ImmigrantsDr. Hoda Ehsan, Georgia Institute of Technology Hoda is a postdoctoral fellow at Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics & Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Engineering Education, Purdue. She received her B.S. in mechanical engineering in Iran, and obtained her M.S. in Childhood Education and New York teaching certification from City College of New York (CUNY-CCNY). She is now a graduate research assistant on STEM+C project. Her research interests
Paper ID #37528Board 151: An After-school STEM Program with a Novel Equitable andInclusive Structure (Work in Progress, Diversity)Dr. Matthew Aldeman, Illinois State University Matt Aldeman is an Associate Professor of Technology at Illinois State University, where he teaches in the Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology programs. Matt joined the Technology department faculty after working at the Illinois State University Center for Renewable Energy for over five years. Previously, he worked at General Electric as a wind site manager at the Grand Ridge and Rail Splitter wind projects. Matt’s experience also
Paper ID #31588Designing an Engineering Computer Instructional Laboratory: Working withthe PanopticonDr. Shehla Arif, University of Mount Union I am a thermal-fluids sciences educator. My doctoral and postdoctoral work is on experimental fluid dynamics of bubbles. My emphasis is interdisciplinary moving between mechanical engineering, geology, and biology. I acquired PhD from Northwestern University, IL and a post-doc at McGill University, Canada. I am passionate about integrating Engineering education with liberal arts studies. To that end, I am interested in embedding social justice and peace studies into engineering
challenges in training interdisciplinary scholars; even in an established interdisciplinary program like IDR, developing interdisciplinary graduate students grapple with the influence of disciplinary microsystems– whether they were engineering or nonSTEM based, and often at the expense of their interdisciplinary work.Introduction or at least two decades, U.S. agencies have called for a sustained source of interdisciplinaryFresearchers who can integrate research methods, theories, vocabularies, and cultures across fields. Researchers and educators have responded, aligning graduate settings and curricula to develop this interdisciplinary professoriate[1], [2], [3], [20], [21
Paper ID #14839Utilization of an Engineering Peer Tutoring Center for Undergraduate Stu-dentsDr. Ben Pelleg, Drexel University Dr. Ben Pelleg is an Assistant Teaching professor for the engineering core curriculum department at Drexel University. He earned a B.S. degree in applied and engineering physics from Cornell University in 2008 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University in 2014.Miss Kristin Imhoff, Drexel University Kristin Imhoff graduated from Drexel University with her Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering in 2009. She began her career at Drexel in 2009 as an academic advisor for the Mechanical
, attend Citadel evening courses beginning in their junior year. The curriculum for thesetwo years of the program is exactly the same as the daytime cadet program and is taught by thesame civil engineering faculty.Summary of ExCEL Program Structure and Support ServicesStudents were selected for admission into the ExCEL program based on financial need andacademic performance. Financial need was determined based on students’ submission of theFree Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and the Federal Methodology formula.Incoming freshmen were required to have a 1250 SAT score and a 3.8 high school GPA. Tofurther assess a student’s potential for success in the program, potential recipients were requiredto participate in an interview and submit a
sufficiently modest—we may have asolution for you! If this describes your motivations, we invite you to read on.Various authors have confronted the problem of semiconductor curve tracing in theundergraduate electronics laboratory and have described their work in ASEE conferences. Wethus turn to the work of those who have gone before, of the giants upon whose shoulders wepropose to stand.A curve-tracing system for pn diodes, NPN and PNP BJTs, and n-channel MOSFETs relied uponLabVIEW running on a desktop computer and laboratory instruments (power supply andvoltmeter) communicating with the program through a GPIB (General-Purpose Instrument Bus)connection.1 While the system was successfully integrated into the curriculum, it had thedisadvantage of being
challenges faced by students entering college [3]. The prerequisiteskills required in an engineering program leave students more likely to experience thesechallenges [2], [4]. First-year engineering students are often simultaneously enrolled in coremath, engineering, and science courses which require strong fundamentals and involvecomputationally intensive content [2], [5].Efforts have been made to better understand these transitional challenges for first-yearengineering students [6]. Tinto's Model of Integration emphasizes the importance of academicand social integration for first-year student success [7], which has been used as the foundationfor models related to engineering retention in engineering education [2], [8]. University ofMichigan
" instead of identifying tasks they can do. Also often at busy times, it's hard to prioritize what needs to be done first.And a third participant echoed that her biggest challenge in this phase had been “Becoming a tasklead for an intern, and two junior engineers. Delegating work, answering questions, checking workwhile managing my own workload.”While the particular focus of each phase of learning varied, what remained constant was thesalience of needing to learn how to establish, navigate, manage and overcome challenges relatedto new processes and relationships. This integrated relationship among processes, relationships,and outcomes is depicted in Figure 2. Outcomes
Paper ID #17864Interim Results of an Engineering S-STEM ProgramDr. Tanya Kunberger, Florida Gulf Coast University Dr. Kunberger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering in the U. A. Whitaker College of Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. Dr. Kunberger received her B.C.E. and certificate in Geochemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a minor in Soil Science from North Carolina State University. Her areas of specialization are geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering. Educational areas of interest are self
Paper ID #40850Program Evaluation of an International University-SponsoredService-Learning ExperienceDr. Sarah K. Bauer, Mercer University Dr. Sarah Bauer (Ph.D., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA) is an Assistant Professor of Environ- mental and Civil Engineering at Mercer University, Macon, GA. Her primary research interests are water and wastewater treatment, waste management, pollution prevention, and renewable energy technologies. Her research work focuses on developing sustainable techniques for the production of clean energy and clean water, with specific interest in the FEW Nexus. Her research work has