results above.Self Paced LearningThe instructors now monitor the online resources. Students must submit the certificate ofcompletion as an individual graded assignment. More online resources regarding safety withCNC machines have been added, and individual follow-up assignments are required and graded.These were established to hold students accountable to engage with the provided onlineresources, and we expect that adding these requirements will make students more prepared in thelab. Therefore, assignments can be completed more quickly, and we plan to include a project inthe last month of the spring 2022 semester.Peer to Peer LearningStudents in the pilot semester felt it was hard to absorb information during lectures and indicatedthey learned
a prominent role in the community toaddress the local opioid epidemic beyond immediate care. However, recently, the organizationadded opioid education and prevention to their strategic plan. There exist diverse opinions,internally and externally, on the most effective role of a hospital in addressing communitystigma. The project focused on querying internal hospital staff and community perceptions on theenvisioned role of the healthcare system in addressing this local crisis. The projects goals arelisted below:• Assess staff and community attitudes on contributing factors and envisioned role of the hospital relative to local opioid crisis;• Develop educational intervention to shift selected staff and community perceptions.The project
new "hybrid modality". Table 1. Advantages and Disadvantages for Traditional and Virtual Education [6]-[11] Traditional Education Virtual Education Advantages - Engagement with professors Synchronous Asynchronous and course content - Active learning - Student - Social connection strategies. attendance - Ability to work in groups - Provides direction - Course - Provides direction and a solid and a solid plan for available plan for students. students. anywhere
after NSF support ends.The 2021-2022 academic year is the third of the five-year program, although, given emergentrecruitment issues, we foresee application for a no-cost extension. The primary concern is thelow number of students currently supported in comparison to our goals, highlighting recruitmentfor further examination. We planned to support up to twenty students in year 1, 52 students inyear 2, and 70 students in year 3, but our actual numbers in the first three years are 7, 12, and 28students. Given this trend, our concern over how we recruit students into SPECTRA is now atthe forefront of our work. The program is not reaching eligible students, and low recruitment haslimited the quality of research needed to inform the construction of
software development lifecycle (SDLC),helps produce high-quality software at a low cost in software engineering. The SDLC consist offive phases planning, creating, testing, deployment, and maintenance. A few popular SDLCmodels are the waterfall, iterative, spiral, v-model, and big bang models [20]. Requirement Analysis Design Development Testing MaintenaceFigure 5. AR application design and development waterfall model with iterative approach (Adapted from Otero, C [21])The authors used the
systems and exercises are currently being developed with plans to conduct pilotstudies later in 2022.4. User BaseEngineering is one of the fastest growing majors at SFSU with a highly diverse underrepresentedminority (URM) student population, the vast majority of whom are first-generation collegestudents from low-income backgrounds. However, in the past few years, only 29% of Hispanicengineering students graduated in six years. Additionally, only 14% of engineering studentssurveyed at the time of graduation secured full-time employment. There is a critical need to buildinstitutional capacity to enhance the quality of engineering curriculum and to increase therecruitment, retention and graduation rates of engineering students at SFSU.Research on
together provideleadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meetobjectives." [11]. Group work can offer many benefits, including improving communication andteamwork skills, appreciation and respect for others. However, group work activity sometimesleads students into a challenging experience, especially for students who are not familiar withgroup activities at university, and may also decrease individual performance. When creatinggroups, instructors are faced with deciding whether to allow students to form their groups or assignthem to groups, whether to switch groups or keep them the same all semester and whether torequire students to submit their work individually or as a group [12,13
summer component when it was already so late in the summer. The plan is to increase thienumber of particpants to 20 next year, and 30 the year after. The goal is to have 40 students inthe program by the academic year of 2024–2025. We plan to keep it at or below 40 students tomaintain a tight-knit community and hopefully integrate it successfully with the EngineeringLiving Learning Community.In the upcoming academic year, the PM will begin a group chat in the summer term to facilitatepeer interactions from the beginning. The PM and PTs observed that students often deferredquestions to the upperclassmen students, rather than their peers who were in the same classes.With a group chat including the PM, students can ask questions to one another, and
undergraduate education. The utilization of Massive Open OnlineCourses (MOOCs) in undergraduate education is increasing in popularity due to their accessibility,user-friendly format, and their ability to prepare students with the specific skills and knowledge to entertheir desired field. In 2024, NASA plans to land the next man and the first woman on the Moon throughthe Artemis program. Preparing for this mission requires astrodynamics and trajectory design knowledgethat is beyond the scope of most undergraduate, and even graduate, education. It is critical that theengineers working on this mission overcome this knowledge gap to ensure a successful mission. Our teamhas created a MOOC entitled Teaching the Moonshot to help bridge this gap for
: • Technical: Tasks related to software development and testing, construction projects, and product and system integration, • Non-technical: Tasks that face the customer on a technology-mediated end or face-to- face, such as shops and services, • Research: Tasks related to data collection and analysis and following supervisor’s or research guidelines and research plan, • Service: Tasks related to volunteer work and community service such as working with kids, the elderly, religious centers, • Clubs: Tasks related to event planning and participation, and activities in the form of games, social events, or competitions, • Intramurals: Tasks related to fictitious or non-fictitious small-scale projects
. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Electronics – A First Course for Printed Circuit Board DesignThe design of printed circuit board (PCB) is an essential aspect in learning circuits and systemsin the electrical and computer engineering (ECE) curricula. In fact, many institutions haveallowed for this opportunity in 3D printing labs for students to rapidly prototype their circuitdesigns and other 3-D printed projects. Further, we see a high importance for students to learnpractical aspects of circuit design in the sophomore year, and to retain ECE students who feel agreater level of accomplishment in computer science courses or plan to drop out. In this articlewe
major since the students are exposed to all levels ofcognitive difficulties such as, applying and linking the fundamental knowledge and theories into amore complex real-world application. Learning-by-doing can be very impactful in comprehendingabstract engineering concepts at the introductory level. So, a first-year scholar develops learn-to-learn by yourself skills by learning-by-doing. Some important benefits of participating inundergraduate research that might assist in the student’s preparation for either graduate educationor a professional career, include gaining experience and learning the research process, increasingknowledge and how the knowledge is applied, defining their future career plan, learning aboutacademia and graduate life
faculty have mentionedinclude: • Thinking about building systems as a whole, instead of individual systems • Different design strategies that can be used to create a net-zero building • Education on building science and construction • Real world operations and how to apply theoretical knowledge.Participating in a team-oriented project also allows students to build their soft skills. Here are someways that our students and faculty have said they have grown with the Solar Decathlon: • How to sell a story • Learning how to get architecture and engineering students to work together • Increasing their ability for proactive planning and research • Growing their own agency and confidence • Finding external partners
the vast majority of class activities anddeliverables are team-based. In-class lesson plans, especially those associated with buildingtowards the Cornerstone Project, are scaffolded in a manner such that resolution becomes moredependent on team dynamics as the semester progresses. ENGR 111 student feedback pertainingto the teamwork experience had been overwhelmingly positive prior to the pandemic [3].ENGR 111 also employs various forms of active learning, including collaborative, cooperative,problem-based, project-based, and discovery-based learning [8-16]. Cooperative learning takesplace when students pursue common goals as a team while being assessed individually and hasbeen shown to increase students’ sense of belonging, which, in turn
mostnegatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic may not be responding to surveys due to thestruggles they are facing. Although we were unable to undergo a thorough validation andreliability verification process for the added survey items, we felt it was acceptable to moveforward due to the fast-paced nature of the pandemic. We plan to continue to collect survey data and as classes move to in-person and hybridformats, recruiting participants will likely be more successful. We plan to conduct interviewswith students, selecting participants based on their demographics and the depth of their originalresponses to the survey. For example, our results showed a statistical difference between studentswho identified as Hispanic/Latino and White in terms
integration of engineering design and technology intoSTEM instruction for pre-college students. Roehrig and Moore expand upon this position stating, “... toprepare students to address the problems of our increasingly technological society, it is necessary toprovide them with opportunities to understand the problems through rich, engaging, and powerfulexperiences that integrate the disciplines of STEM” (Roehrig et al., 2012). They identify the EDP as a keystandard for inclusion in the scope of knowledge and skills for the K-12 student population (Roehrig etal., 2012).eSTEM Challenge PilotIn April 2021, NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs’ staff planned, implemented, and hosted a pilot ofour eSTEM Design Challenge. In partnership with NJIT’s Newark
interests/passions and STEM fields I I plan to apply for a STEM discipline when I go to college. E I know how to find out more about STEM if I want to. 0.5 0 A B C D E F G H I Figure 4. Program participants’ responses to pre- and post-program survey.funded researchers, as they are often looking for ways to add a broader impact component to theirresearch projects. The cost of these projects is as low to the host research group, as the projectsuse relatively inexpensive and commonly available equipment
generalautomotive engineering knowledge. Some of the topics that were covered are the following: 1. Baseline automotive engineering terminology 2. Vehicle setup and performance measures 3. Chassis design 4. Suspension design 5. Tire analysis 6. Engines 7. Drivetrain* 8. Brakes* 9. Aerodynamics* 10. Telemetry and Data Acquisition* 11. Vehicle models* 12. Analysis of common vehicle components** At the time of this submission these topics have yet to be covered however, there are plans tocover this information in future lectures.After the 30 minute lecture, the students were provided time to provide progress updates, ask foradvice/approval on projects they were working on, and go to the machine shop to continueworking on
time at UB, she was the architect of a strategic growth plan for engineering. Previously, she performed research and development on nanoscale magnetic materials and devices in support of the data storage industry for 16 years in Silicon Valley. Dr. Folks has co-authored more than 60 archival peer reviewed journal articles and 14 US patents, resulting in more than 12,400 citations. She served as President of the IEEE Magnetics Society from 2013-2014 - the first female president. She also served as chair of the congressionally-mandated National Academies panel which delivered the “2020 Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative” report. Dr. Folks has long been a champion for women and underrepresented
from theco-teacher would be from a similar perspective as the course student, a practice typically employed by co-hosts to make the topic more appealing to the audience [18]. For example, the co-teacher may ask agenuine or pre-planned question that leads to an alternate explanation, potentially leading to furtherdiscussions and helping students to better understand the topic. Studies indicate that students can alsoimprove their question asking skills from similar interactions as part of a vicarious learning strategy [19].This concept of employing graduate students as co-teachers is comparable to how students in fields suchas education and social science are traditionally trained through practicum courses and real-worldteaching
approaches were carried out as described below9,10 but they were based on acustom build manufacturing system and were not scalable nor reconfigurable alike thepreviously described efforts 5,6,7,8: • Yip-Hoi and Pasek developed a manufacturing system handling LEGO blocks9. Their paper focused on a general concept for a computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) environment intended for the design and assembly of ‘products’ built out of LEGO blocks. The ‘products’ are designed within a Lego CAD System. Process and trajectory planning software was utilized to determine the build sequence and robot program for assembling the products directly from the CAD models. The robot program is downloaded into a cell controller
significantly impactedby the pandemic.In our first year, travel restrictions and rescissions of internship offers led us to delay our initialpilot by a year. During this most recent summer of year two, we proceeded with delivery of ourenhanced internships albeit with online delivery of the pre- and post-internship workshops insteadof face-to-face delivery as originally planned. Despite some of the conveniences afforded byremote delivery, and the incentive of receiving $50 electronic Amazon gift card upon completionof the program, we were still only able to yield a net enrollment of 5 students who investedapproximately 14 hours to complete all activities associated with the enhanced internship.In addition to the significant impact of COVID, we
phrases became“Building Information Model,” known as BIM.Recently, BIM has been rapidly increasing in the design and construction industry due to fosteringcollaborations among many disciplines [11]. As the results of the Zion Market Research (2021),the BIM industry accumulated revenue of US$ 22.58 billion in 2020 and is planned to gain profitsworth US$ 30.24 billion by 2028. Furthermore, BIM acts as an essential key tool for growth inArchitecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry globally. According to Zion MarketResearch [12], 40 percent of U.S. BIM building owners expect to increase use to 75 percent ofprojects in the next two years.Due to the demands of the environment, the construction industry is moving towards Sustainability[13
with the Landivar University students.This also helped with trust-building, an important element in successful education.On the other hand, the remote interaction between Villanova University students and LandivarUniversity students has been less successful. Challenges in communication and internetinfrastructure in Guatemala, as well as bringing the students from Landivar University rather lateinto the project led to the limited success of the project.We plan to continue to work on the second project with a new set of students from VillanovaUniversity and may include a trip to Guatemala for those students to both get a better contextualunderstanding of the country as well as meet the students from Landivar University. In previousprojects
d'oeuvre served by the cheffor free [20]. This challenge asked students to reimagine theirfavorite holiday dish on a single spoon using the techniquesdeveloped in class. To help students design their dishes,brainstorming activities were conducted which included (1)asking students to derive lists of common foods used inthanksgiving meals, (2) selecting dinner vs. dessert, (3)discussing broad concepts for their dishes with peers,teammates, and instructors, and (4) sketching their dishes on Figure 2. Example worksheet itemworksheets with appetizer spoons (Figure 2). for students to plan their amuse bouche dishes.Dishes must include each of the following elements
it encouraged teamwork and co-operating between all groups in the class. • I would also keep all the PR deliverables, as they kept groups on track with the project. • I enjoyed having an entire semester to plan and build our project • I would say overall it was good. everything about the project was fun. • Though it was tough, learning things on the go forced us to learn a lot over the semester - at least for me • The idea of the scale project. I felt that it was a good mixture of software, electrical, and mechanical. • The scale project because it dementrates [sic] the process of making something. • I would also keep the budget as is. It was difficult at first trying to figure out what we had to get
Program (WIEP) at Purdue University employs manyundergraduate and graduate students. WIEP personnel work individually and cooperativelywithin multidisciplinary engineering work-groups. Student workers work up to 10 hours per weekand have different work responsibilities depending on the program they were hired into: • Mentoring Leaders (ML): Plan, schedule, organize, and execute monthly mentoring and networking events for a large (600+ participant) undergraduate peer mentoring program. The mentoring program employs from 12 to 15 student workers annually. • Recruiting Leaders (RL): Organize events and activities for recruitment of high schoolers into engineering undergraduate programs. Student workers also design physical and
individuals who participatedin Innovative Readiness Training for their annual training, building homes for Cherokee veteransin partnership with the Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation. This human subjects researchwas reviewed and approved by an Institutional Review Board (Protocol # 21-0218).Participant recruitment took place through the Sunday “Right Start” unit briefings held by theInnovative Readiness Training summer duration staff every two weeks, jobsite walk-aboutimpromptu volunteer interactions, and phone calls with higher level planning personnel.Volunteer interviews were conducted from May through July 2021. The first author conductedthe interviews.Discussing individual motivations for joining the military and selecting a
severaldifferent departments, with a focus on biology, physics, engineering, and geology, as these bestalign with the broad areas of content in the NGSS [19]. Twenty-eight of these GSs consented toour GIFT study. A summary of the demographic characteristics of these participants can befound in Table 1. Table 1 Graduate Identity Formation through Teaching Participants First Self-Identifi Race/ Generation Graduate Graduate Field Future Career Plans ed Gender Ethnicity College Program Type
"Distinguished Citizen by the City Council of Asunción" for his contributions to education in Paraguay's space sector. And in December of the same year, he was mentioned as the "Outstanding Protagonist of 2017" by the newspaper Ultima Hora. Currently, in addition to his activities in academia, Dr. Kurita is working as the General Director of Planning and Management at the Paraguay Space Agency. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comStudent Paper: Workshop evaluating the systems integration of a CubeSatas an effective tool for STEAM education, a case study of work in progress.IntroductionThe STEAM approach and Aerospace Education have