at Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Virginia in 2009 and moved to VCU in August 2016. Debra has served on the advisory board for Lighthouse for Computer Science (LH4CS). The goal of the Lighthouse project is to improve computer science diversity through faculty professional development. In addition, she is a member of the Advisory Council for the Deep Run High School’s Center for Informa- tion Technology in Glen Allen, Virginia, where she provides program support and assists in curriculum development for their technology-based preparatory program for future computer scientists.Dr. Mandayam Thirunarayanan, Florida International University Mandayam Osuri Thirunarayanan is an associate professor in the School of
framework for teaching writing in thediscipline for engineering students [8]-[9]. These include pointing to technical and report writingattributes that should be emphasized, such as planning, clarity, simplicity, brevity, word choiceand more.There have also been several attempts to facilitate report writing by developing frameworks andapplications that guide and help students in preparing technical and scientific reports, both inengineering schools in the United States [10]-[11] and abroad [12].At our institution, we have an engineering department embedded in a liberal-arts generaleducation setting. Engineering students are required to take a wide core curriculum to integratetheir scientific and technical education in engineering. Still, to obtain
withcustom PCB work, the EE team integrated commercial off the shelf (COTS) components into theoverall electrical architecture shown on Figure 6, primarily the CPU’s, motherboard, andArduinos, components that were used after students made an informed decision that someexisting circuit boards would meet all requirements and promote system simplicity andreadiness.The computer science (CS) team were uniquely challenged by the hands-on experience gainedthrough Robosub. CS students, in general, rarely have the opportunity to work on a hands-onproject throughout their curriculum. The CS team was responsible for the AUV’s computervision system and the integration of the EE team’s navigation algorithms into a largernavigation/overall vehicle communication
Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education (AE3) at UIUC. At the national level, she served as the Executive Director of the biomedical engineering honor society, Alpha Eta Mu Beta (2011-2017) and is an ABET evaluator (2018-present).Prof. Marina Marjanovic, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Marina Marjanovic is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Asso- ciate Director of Center for Optical Molecular Imaging in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is teaching several undergraduate and graduate courses, and she is active member in the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. She has been Principal
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Approach to Empathetic Electrical Engineering CoursesAbstractBackgroundThe ability to empathize provides the basis to understand others, an often-overlookedprofessional skill in engineering curriculums. Studies have shown that engineering students haveless empathy after completing their degree than when they had entered. Having low amounts ofempathy in engineers can result in less concern for public welfare and social considerationsduring the engineering design process.PurposeIn this work, we consider when engineering students are entering an empathetic cycle. Moststudies develop a model based on an educators’ perspective and how empathy is a teachable andlearnable skill. This study examines how engineering students can
Paper ID #25154Engineering Major Certainty: A Look at Major Discernment Initiatives Preand PostDr. Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame Dr. Kerry Meyers holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education (B.S. & M.S. Mechanical Engineering) and is specifically focused on programs that influence student’s experience, affect retention rates, and the factors that determine the overall long term success of students entering an engineering program. She is the Assistant Dean for Student Development in the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. She is committed to the betterment of the undergraduate curriculum and
students develop ideas based on opportunities they identify inorder to validate a market and assess the creation of value. The winner is often offered a“contract” to produce the product for university purposes [14] .Some schools integrated EML in their course projects. The authors of the paper “EntrepreneurialMindset and the University Curriculum [15]” applied technology based dynamic live case studywith color graphics animated computer simulation in their entrepreneurial course. The live casestudy involves multiple student visits to existing companies. Students construct a companysupply chain under the professor’s guidance. Bilen, et al suggested to provide students withmultiple exposures to what it means to have an entrepreneurial mindset [16
AEprograms while 20% (n= 3) were from 5-year programs. Two of the programs have both 4 and 5-year program options for students, and four programs have integrated Bachelor/Master Degrees. Note: Blue Marker indicates an AE programs, and Green Pin indicates AE programs that responded to survey Figure 1: ABET accredited AE programs in the United StatesCurriculum Placement of the CapstoneCapstone courses are meant to showcase a student’s accumulation of knowledge and applicationof this knowledge to a design project. To accomplish this, almost every program has their capstonecourse occurring within a single year in the curriculum, either in a single semester or over twoconsecutive semesters. In surveying the programs, we asked where
. Denning, “Evaluating Cybersecurity Education Interventions: Three Case Studies,” IEEE Secur. Priv., vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 63– 69, May 2015.[17] M. A. . Harris and K. P. Patten, “Using Bloom’s and Webb’s Taxonomies to Integrate Emerging Cybersecurity Topics into a Computing Curriculum,” J. Inf. Syst. Educ., vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 219–234, 2015.[18] T. Chothia and C. Novakovic, “An Offline Capture The Flag-Style Virtual Machine and an Assessment of Its Value for Cybersecurity Education.” 2015.[19] D. Fenton, T. Traylor, G. Hokanson, and J. Straub, “Integrating Cyber Range Technologies And Certification Programs To Improve Cybersecurity Training Programs,” in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference
undergraduate curriculum. While overall students saw some value in developingvisual-spatial skills, civil and mechanical students rated the importance higher. Studentsgenerally did not indicate that body-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, or intrapersonal werebeing addressed within the curriculum. Furthermore, they did not think that body-kinesthetic ormusical should be addressed within the curriculum. However, they saw some value inaddressing interpersonal and intrapersonal skills. Figure 2: Student assessment of the extent to which an MI is currently addressed within the curriculum and the extent to which it should be addressed.We did not observe any significant gender differences with one exception: females self-evaluatedtheir
No 7a. Do you consider this activity or course to be a high‐impact learning activity? Yes No This activity allowed me to Reflect Apply Integrate 8. Did you participate in “Service Learning” or “Community‐based Learning” activity or project? Yes No 8a. Do you consider “Service Learning” or “Community‐based Learning” to be a high‐impact learning activity? Yes No This activity allowed me to Reflect Apply Integrate 9. Did you participate in an internship? Yes
Paper ID #26387Resources and Partnerships for Community College Engineering and Tech-nology ProgramsProf. Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology/Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing Dr. Karen Wosczyna-Birch is the Executive Director and Principal Investigator of the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing, an National Science Foundation Center of Excellence. She is the State Director for the College of Technology, a seamless pathway in technology and engineering from all 12 public community colleges to 8 public and private universities. Dr. Wosczyna-Birch has expertise with both the recruitment
modelled and experimental results as a means to validate the current researchapproach. The process of integrating a summer internship along with an independent studyexperience has strengthened the resolve of the authors that engineering is for everyone. Thestudent authors participated in the internship at various time in their undergraduate experience(two prior to Junior year and one prior to Senior year). Through researching methods to improveRO feed spacer design, the student authors were able to more completely appreciate the toolsobtained throughout their environmental engineering curriculum that supports their ability todevelop innovative solutions to ill-defined problems as well as to further attain the ABET EACCriteria – especially
countries, higher education institutions in Latin American arestill dominated by the concept of a ‘traditional education’ that emphasize the transmission ofdisciplinary contents and the paramount role of professors inside the classroom. This modelfocuses more on what is it taught (contents and topics of different subjects), and less on whatstudent will be able to do and how will be able to use acquired knowledge and skills in his or herprofessional life after graduating the program.To switch the traditional focus from teaching to learning is not easy since it implies theassumption of new curriculum concepts that should lead and assure an effective learning [7].It is worth noting, for example, that in some Latin American countries where academic
area of curriculum and academic program development, construction management, construction material waste minimization, sustainable residential construction, greenhouse gas reduction, green building rating programs and process evaluation. Don possesses diverse work experience in the design, construction and project management of various types of building and infrastructure projects.Mrs. Neetu Sharma, MacEwan University Neetu Sharma is an Associate Professor with the Department of Accounting and Finance at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Experiential Student Learning through Collaborative Simulated
enhancing the graduate mathematics curriculum with statistics courses. She is the 2017 recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award. Weems earned her BS in mathematics from Spelman College and her MA and PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park. She completed postdoctoral studies in the Statistics Depart- ment at NC State University, where she later joined the faculty and served for two years as Co-Director of Statistics Graduate Programs until moving to NCCU. She is a member of the American Statistical As- sociation and the National Association of Mathematicians as well as an advisory board member of the Infinite Possibilities Conference for women of color in
expose more students to the makerspace and to leverage making in helping studentslearn engineering concepts while applying them in projects. Both women and men had a near equaltendency to request a more integrated curriculum that includes utilizing the makerspace intoassignments, as a direct function of these students valuing making as an integral part ofengineering. For example, Waldo, a white man, discussed his idea to better integrate making intothe curriculum. We do have students coming in from a handful of classes that want to use the printers for their projects, but it's not as integrated into the curriculum as I think it should be. That's something we're definitely working on. Talking to professors saying, ‘Hey
this problem. A fairly well-known approach, first proposed by faculty from Wright StateUniversity, involves teaching an Engineering Mathematics class to freshmen engineeringstudents. This class, typically taught by engineers (and not mathematicians), covers only thosetopics from the entire Calculus curriculum that are actually used in early engineering courses suchas Physics, Statics, Dynamics, Circuit Theory, etc. Passing this course allows students to continueinto freshmen and sophomore level engineering classes while they are still continuing to finishthe traditional sequence of Calculus courses. This class was recently added to the engineeringcurriculum at University of Detroit Mercy. In this paper the author will present the course
experience report presents elements of yet early intervention can help to improve students’ self-an outreach program to elementary school children to efficacy and increase motivation. This deficiency is morebroaden participation in computing. The program is based predominant among minorities, including African Americanon a unique multi-faceted curriculum that facilitates the and Latino students, who are often largely underrepresentedpresentation of abstract computer science (CS) concepts in computing [2], [3], [4]. Hence, it is becoming increasinglywithin a summer camp setting. The curriculum exposes critical to research and experiment with effective methodsthe same abstract content to
Missouri-Rolla. Michelle is co-leading an Undergraduate Research Community to support students learning through research, efforts to integrate open-ended problems throughout students’ curricula, research to remove stormwater pollu- tants via engineered treatment wetlands, and development of appropriate technology courses and research with strong emphasis on social sustainability.Dr. Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Jennifer Mueller, PhD, PE, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental En- gineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She obtained her BS in Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University, and she earned her MS and PhD in Civil Engineering
curriculum design project that students deliver both as a written document and as aposter presentation.Two major challenges have arisen in converting this course for an online audience. Onechallenge lies with the content itself and the second challenge lies in a core aspect of the teachingphilosophy.What about the content is challenging to convey online? The essence of ENE 506 is the abilityto align various aspects of curricular design into one unified whole. The goal is for students tosee how aspects of what is learned (content) map to how to measure learning (assessment) andhow students practice that learning (pedagogy). This process, which is at the heart of the course,is a very holistic, integrated, iterative process. However, the learning
different fields of study [3],[5],[6]. Many times social responsibility inengineering is incorporated into engineering degree programs via service-learning, volunteerism,clubs, etc.; however, sometimes the mark is missed because students do not fully understand the“inequalities and injustices among those helping and those being helped” [3].Our course, The Sky’s the Limit: Drones for Social Good, was designed to engage engineeringstudents with concepts of social justice integrated into an engineering curriculum. While someengineering classes introduce themes of social awareness, such as ethics, into the curriculum, thepresentation is often done as a discrete class component lasting for a week or so. The inclusion ofsocial justice material in
ready for an aerial survey ofthe disaster area in order to gain as much information as possible to plan a potential rescue/aidresponse for a town named ‘Disasterville.’Disasterville: Aerial survey of a disaster areaOur UAV curriculum includes a capstone challenge titled “Aerial Survey of a Disaster Area”. Tocomplete the challenge, students must conduct an aerial survey, using their UAVs with theircameras, of a model town that has been damaged by a natural disaster. The model town, dubbed“Disasterville”, includes buildings made of blocks, toy cars, and figurines of people. Studentscannot directly see the town; Disasterville is hidden from them by an intervening “mountainrange” (a plastic tarp over some chairs). Students must fly their UAV over
engineeringethics” was observed (a) in situations where interview subjects articulate initiatives entailing engi-neering ethics intervention and their respective involvement in the process, or (b) in general whensubjects remark on engineering and its ethical and societal implications. This umbrella code rep-resenting various justifications or rationales of engineering ethics then probed further to identifynuances of “why engineering ethics” in each case. The low level codes, finally were integrated intoarguments used to rationalize promotion of engineering ethics education.3.1 Compliance Argument: Meeting RequirementsABET Engineering Criteria (EC) 2000, as well as the recent revisions modifying or clarifyingrequirements, explicitly mention ”an ability
engineering practice will produce graduates who can address a wider range ofsocietal problems bringing new perspectives to traditional areas. We highlight examples from arange of engineering courses throughout the undergraduate curriculum. Some of these effortsincorporate modules in traditional engineering classes including Electrical Circuits, MaterialsScience, Operations Research, and Heat Transfer. We have redesigned our User-CenteredDesign class to more explicitly engage with these topics. In addition, we have developedinnovative new courses that integrate a sociotechnical view of engineering throughout the courseincluding Engineering and Social Justice and Engineering Peace. We have also replaced ourexternal evaluator team with an external
Connecticut and a Ph.D. in Polymer Science in 1977 from the Institute of Materials Science at the University of Connecticut. Tom was the past international chairman of the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) Tech- nical Committee, TC 113 on Nanotechnology Standardization for Electrical and Electronic Components and Subsystems. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Maximizing the effectiveness of one-time standards instruction sessions with formativeassessmentAbstractThere are multiple obstacles associated with integrating standards education into the collegecurriculum, including the limited experience faculty may have with standards, and the difficultyto fit such training into an
undergraduate classes as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the engineering curriculum. In particular, she is interested in the impact that these tools can have on student perception of the classroom environment, motivation and learning outcomes. She obtained her certifica- tion as a Training and Development Professional (CTDP) from the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) in 2010, providing her with a solid background in instructional design, facilitation and evaluation. She was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Fron- tiers of Engineering Education Symposium in 2013 and awarded the American Society for Engineering Education Educational Research
Logic Array (FPGA) architecture and design methodology, Engineer- ing Technology Education, and hardware description language modeling. Dr. Alaraje is a 2013-2014 Fulbright scholarship recipient at Qatar University, where he taught courses on Embedded Systems. Ad- ditionally, Dr. Alaraje is a recipient of an NSF award for a digital logic design curriculum revision in collaboration with the College of Lake County in Illinois, and a NSF award in collaboration with the University of New Mexico, Drake State Technical College, and Chandler-Gilbert Community College. The award focused on expanding outreach activities to increase the awareness of potential college stu- dents about career opportunities in electronics
Mathematical/Computational Methods. He is the recipient of numer- ous teaching and pedagogical research awards, including the NCSU Outstanding Teacher Award, NCSU Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor Award, ASEE Chemical Engineering Division Raymond W. Fahien Award, and the 2013 and 2017 ASEE Joseph J. Martin Awards for Best Conference Paper. Dr. Cooper’s research interests include effective teaching, conceptual and inductive learning, and integrating writing and speaking into the curriculum and professional ethics.Dr. Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University Cheryl A. Bodnar, Ph.D., CTDP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University. Dr. Bodnar’s research interests