processes in future engagements with design. In the spring break week prior to the startof the quarter students documented a design project that they were engaging in. These projectswere either part of a course or project they were already working on. Each student journaledabout their process and notes using a basic design notebook template. This journal was thenbuilt-upon and examined using different lenses (e.g., design models and research results ondesign expertise) throughout the seminar to deepen their understanding of design processes andwhat design awareness could mean. See Table 1 for the list of class activities. Studentsparticipated in brainstorming and ideation sessions to generate ideas for tools that could helpthem maintain design
experience in engineering education, several projects in innovation of engi- neering education such as the use of 3D virtual ambiences as a way of developing competences.Prof. Israel Zamora-Hernandez, Tecnologico de Monterrey Israel Zamora-Hern´andez has a B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico. He has a M.Sc. in Digital Systems from Tecnologico de Monterrey. He has been a lecturer in the School of Engineering for over 18 years. His work especializes in attracting new stu- dents to STEM programs at University level. He has directed several teams in the Admissions Office at Tecnologico de Monterrey.Dr. Gibr´an Sayeg-S´anchez, Tecnologico de Monterrey Dr. Gibr´an Sayeg-S´anchez is
Paper ID #30116Analyzing Student Achievement to Measure the Effectivenss of ActiveLearning Strategies in the Engineering ClassroomSarah Hoyt, Arizona State University Sarah Hoyt is currently the Education Project Manager for the NSF-funded JTFD Engineering faculty development program. Her educational background includes two Master’s degrees from Grand Canyon University in Curriculum and Instruction and Education Administration. Her areas of interest are in student inclusion programs and creating faculty development that ultimately boost engagement and per- formance in students from lower SES backgrounds. Prior to her role
movement organizing theories employed and the networks engaged bothinside and outside of engineering in order to achieve these goals. We then provide detailsregarding our organizing practices and the specific activities that participants engaged in duringthe week of action. Finally, we will share reflections on lessons learned about the process and itsoutcomes, with the expectation that conversation and feedback received from the broaderengineering education community will inform recurring efforts in this domain, and growparticipation in a social movement approach to change in engineering education.IntroductionThe #EngineersShowUp campaign is organized as part of the Relational Organizing/ActionResearch (ROAR) project, which explores the utility
scholarships to offset tuition costs.Second S-STEM Cohort 2015-2020The last academic year of the second S-STEM project started with 13 seniors spanningbiomedical engineering (4), chemical engineering (5), civil engineering (3), and computerengineering (1). Five of the seniors were women and 8 were men. Of the 13 continuing students,8 were directly admitted students while five were college-ready students. Two of the biomedicalengineering ‘senior’ students graduated at the end of the fall semester.Five new college-ready and one direct admit freshmen were recruited for the last year of theprogram. Three of the freshmen were male, three female, five Caucasian and one AfricanAmerican. One student was pursuing a biology degree, one electrical engineering
Programs are currently funded in Engineering.Most REU Sites are based at a single institution. This traditional model for REU Sites typicallyinvolves 8-12 participants per summer, housed in close proximity on campus, engaged inresearch projects united by a common theme. Having a unifying theme and developing strongcamaraderie are two aspects deemed critical to a successful REU program [3].A small but growing number of summer REU programs have operated as a single programacross multiple, geographically dispersed institutions. Multi-campus Sites offer access to abroader network of researchers, exposure to multiple institutions, and immersion in an extendedresearch community working towards common goals. However, operating a Site acrossgeographically
Paper ID #29390Integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Aerial Photogrammetry into aCivil Engineering Course to Enhance Technology CompetencyMary Kay Camarillo P.E., University of the Pacific Mary Kay Camarillo is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of the Pacific in Stockton. She specializes in water treatment and in domestic and industrial waste treatment. Dr. Camar- illo’s research includes development of biomass energy projects for agricultural wastes and treatability assessments for oilfield produced water. She focuses on environmental problems in California. Dr. Ca- marillo earned her
often attempted in upper-level engineering classes associatedwith a design project or other commercialization activity. An often cited impediment to insertingEM into the course content of lower level classes are that essential course content must besupplanted and that students are not yet at the knowledge level to have the technical maturity tobe meaningfully involved in value creation projects. Others have pointed to the contrasting viewthat although with less depth, exposure to innovation and creativity processes allows beginningengineering students to more easily implement them in upper-level projects and classes.4 Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by
used to encourage brainstorming and help enhance creativity. This iswhy innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership are critical skills for engineering students.Keywords – Projects, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, LeadershipIntroductionPractical innovative projects help students develop their portable skills. Portable skills are skills that cantransfer from one occupation to another, and from school to work. Both soft skills and hard skills helpencourage mobility of employees. This paper outlines the process for teaching these critical skills in ourclass “Introduction to Engineering.” The steps are idea generation, market research including stakeholderanalysis, evaluation, product design and development, product protection, and
organizations to bring leadership opportunities to industry professionals and works with undergraduate students in student clubs and organizations. Milan has a BASc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.Ms. Emily Macdonald-Roach American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020Wisdom Through Adversity: Situated Leadership Learning of Engineering LeadersWisdom Through Adversity: Situated Leadership Learning of Engineering LeadersAbstractAs part of a larger research project involving career history interviews, this qualitative studyexplored the struggles and failures of 29 senior engineering leaders, to understand how theirexperiences of adversity
system’s life cycle; 2)Comprehend and incorporate different concepts, principles, and tools of systems engineering insolving problems and developing balanced system solutions; 3) Establish collaboration amongall organizational functional areas necessary for effective systems engineering application; 4)Apply critical thinking to execute the SE process in realistic scenarios and projects and todefend your decisions and positions. The research objectives were to: 1) Apply systems engineering methods and tools to design a community-based integratedmodel of the food justice system. 2) To incorporate a real-world experiential learning opportunity into a graduate-levelsystems engineering course designed to raise the students’ awareness and create a
Ph.D. are from Stanford University, and her B.S. is from University of Wisconsin-Madison.Dr. Chi-Ning Chang, University of Kansas Chi-Ning Chang (Ph.D., Texas AM University) is an Assistant Research Professor at the Life Span In- stitute at the University of Kansas. His research work centers on engineering graduate education, STEM motivation and diversity, and quantitative methods. He was a graduate researcher in several STEM ed- ucation projects funded by the NRT (National Science Foundation Research Traineeship) program and NSF-AGEP (Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate) program.Dr. Audrey Boklage, University of Texas at Austin Audrey Boklage is research assistant and director of the curriculum
Paper ID #29514Teaching ’Diversity in Design and the Design Thinking Process throughhands-on in-classroom prototyping (Resource Exchange, Diversity)D’Andre Jermaine Wilson-Ihejirika P.Eng., BrainSTEM Alliance D’Andre Wilson-Ihejirika completed her B.Eng in Chemical Engineering at McGill University and her MASc. from the Centre for Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship (CMTE) at the University of Toronto. She worked for several years as a Professional Chemical Engineer in the Athabasca Oil Sands, before taking a Project Management role in Research & Innovation at York University. D’Andre is the founder the STEM
leaders think through the tradeoffsassociated with selecting different structures for their international collaborations.BackgroundThe National Science Foundation’s International Research Experiences for Students (IRES)program supports international research experiences for U.S. undergraduate and graduateengineering students. IRES programs seek to develop globally connected future researcherswhile also facilitating broader long-term collaborations between U.S.-based and internationalresearch groups. Faculty and student exchanges are expected to result in international linkagesbetween the researchers that bring new insights and methods to U.S.-based research projects,leading to transformative research. Faculty members who are awarded IRES grants
students in interdisciplinary research, help them develop a globalperspective on collaboration, and motivate them to pursue a career in STEM research. Over thelifetime of this 3-year project (2019-2021), the participating institutions will have a cohort of 5students every year for a total of 15.The unifying research theme of IRiKA is smart systems with the subtopics of sensors, emergingelectronics, and materials & process development. The theme leverages previous, ongoing, andnew collaborations between the three US-based lead investigators and the Korean partnerinstitutions. In addition to lab work and weekly cohort meetings to discuss progress, IRiKAstudents have the opportunity to visit Korea's government research institutions and global
by AI by studying software agents, problem solving bysearching, various ways to represent knowledge, and methods of learning. Additionally, thiscourse will discuss both the ethics and risks associated with the fields of AI. Topics coveredduring the course fall into 4 major categories: (1) Knowledge, Reasoning, Planning, andUncertain Knowledge, (2) Learning and Philosophical Foundations, (3) Communicating,Perceiving, and Acting, and (4) Ethics and Risks. Previously, the authors have used the “flipped”classroom concept in courses. The flipped classroom, when mastered and done well, has beendemonstrated to be beneficial to the students’ ability to learn material [1]. One of the goals forthis project is for students to help create a repository
a printed circuit board, assembling andtesting by hand, modeling and 3D printing the enclosure and programming the firmware.Course time is divided into four periods, at-home, in-lecture, in-lab and external to the course. Athome, students are given links to tutorial videos designed specifically for the course. These areintended to replace traditional lecture material. They also brainstorm product ideas to pursue as aclass project and when their startup prototype is completed, a marketing video is created toshowcase their company. Lecture periods are designed to be interactive and students worktogether to complete various group technical challenges. This time is also used for presentingprogress on their startup project. Lab time consists, at
research projects and experiences1. Despite the relatively uncontested importance ofundergraduate research experience on engineering student success, little discussion has focused onhow to integrate students into unfamiliar research settings. To shed light on effective mentorshippractices, we report cases based on the experiences of the first three authors, who participated inundergraduate research and share insights from the fourth author, who directs an undergraduateresearch program. We share characteristics of mentorship that maximize student success. Results and DiscussionCase 1. MWF worked in a laboratory that focused on nanoparticle synthesis for medicalapplications. She learned basic laboratory skills
the last several years. Seguranca is a smart, wearable devicedesigned to set the minds of parents and guardians at ease. The goal is to reduce uncertainty andincrease the overall wellbeing of users who use this device. This project takes advantage of thecapabilities that the Internet of Things (IoT) offers to collect data about location and pulse(heartbeat) while allowing communication between the user and the parent or guardian. IntroductionDuring the research period of project development, we were looking at social issues concerningsafety for which there were few (or no) technological solutions available on the market. We foundthat the number of missing persons had been gradually increasing over
Center School of Public Health, found that call centeremployees with sit-stand desks were almost 50% more productive than their colleagues who sat inthe office. This correlates with our project due to our innovation of creating a smart desk withfunctionalities that were obtained from a survey our group conducted prior to developing the desk.Through this project, we are improving the workspace by creating an augmented desk along withmany other features. We believe that with this product we can provide relief, comfort, and simplicityback to the common desk-user. IntroductionThe Vault - Smart Desk was conceptualized by one of our team members who saw the need for cost-efficient and more technical smart
than 25 papers span a wide spectrum of problems in the dynamics of systems and structures. Dr. Orabi has also been involved in developing schemes for vibration control of space structures during the lift off and in orbit. Professor Orabi has taught courses in both undergraduate and graduate level Mechanical Vibrations and undergraduate level capstone design courses, thermodynamics, Measurement Systems, Engineering Mechanics and Introduction to Engineering. One of Professor Orabi’s most recent projects involves the development of learning modules. These modules provide undergraduate engineer- ing students with improved learning of basic, conceptually-difficult engineering concepts in the context of a basic knowledge
design) and designintegration and presentation. The students learn how architects and engineers work together inmulti-disciplinary teams to complete a building design project. The course is assessed each yearthrough course assessment plans, course assessment reports, student course critiques andprogram graduation surveys. Quantitative and qualitative assessment data are presented. Itsupports multiple ABET student outcomes and criteria. Students rate it among their favoriteundergraduate courses. More importantly, it prepares them for their future roles in designing andmanaging real building projects.Keywords: ABET, architecture, civil engineering, engineering design, interdisciplinary, BIMIntroductionUndergraduate civil engineering programs
inthe program and to collect baseline data on their attitudes towards research and publicengagement. A section of the survey was developed based on a pre-existing instrument by theFINS/RIESS project team [9]. The original instrument was used to examine how post-PhDresearchers view themselves as researchers as well as their feelings towards research and theresearch community [9]. Questions were adapted from this survey to apply to faculty members inour context.Survey questions asked about the researchers’ engagement with research and their currentresearch community. We related these items back to Self-Determination Theory. These questionswere scored on a 7-point Likert-style scale. The researchers were also asked to answer open-ended questions
learning theories, 2) to study learning in context,3) to develop measures of learning, and 4) to contribute to new designs and learning theories [2]for the program development. The work incorporates the four phases of DBR identified byKolmos [3]: design; implementation; data collection and analysis; and findings and conclusions.The DBR phases were adapted and combined with Andriessen’s [4] dual purpose of DBR modelas illustrated in Figure 1. The focus of the program design is progressive refinement through theproblem statement; defining the design and learning objectives; planning (project management)of the curricular design, development of the curricular ideation and selection of a design forinitial implementation; and ultimately a continuously
Educational Planning, Developing Research Report, and Understanding School Culture. Mr. Beigpourian currently works in the CATME project, which is NSF funding project, on optimizing teamwork skills and assessing the quality of Peer Evaluations.Dr. Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Matthew W. Ohland is Associate Head and Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He has degrees from Swarthmore College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Florida. His research on the longitudinal study of engineering students, team assignment, peer evaluation, and active and collaborative teaching methods has been supported by the National Science
Paper ID #29974Effective Methods to Promote Undergraduate Research in Civil EngineeringProf. Jieun Hur P.E., Ohio State University Dr. Jieun Hur is an assistant professor of practice at the Ohio State University (OSU). She received her Master and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Her research focuses on the structural analysis and design applying probabilistic methods for performance and damage assess- ment of structural and nonstructural components. Dr. Hur has extensive research and work experience. She has lead and participated in various research projects and has advised
Science Museums at Arizona State University (ASU). She holds a Ph.D. in Sustainability Science from ASU and an M.A. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of New Haven c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Improving the Engineering Pipeline Through University & Community-Developed Museum-Based Educational KitsObjectives or purposes Museums provide much-needed opportunities for creative thinking, exploration, andSTEM identity development. This paper describes the pilot testing a two-year NSF project inwhich researchers partnered with museums across the U.S. and internationally, to developculturally-relevant, hands-on activities that are distributed to over 50
have knowledge inbeing culturally responsive, it is often a struggle to identify finite means by which to implementthese ideas into engineering courses and to determine quantitative measures of success.The following paper will examine the results of a systematic inquiry project undertaken as partof the author’s participation in the Certificate of College Teaching and Learning in HispanicServing Institutions through ESCALA Educational Services Inc. Through the project, the authortook a third-year structural analysis class on a “tour of the world” through pictures, redesignedexample problems, stories, and a World Structures Report and Presentation assignment.In addition to the implementation of the course, assessment data will be presented for
paper reports on the first half of this ongoing project, including the summer workshops and summer andfall coaching sessions. This paper reports and reflects on coaching session notes and discussions with participants.Evaluation includes trend analysis to identify themes raised during coaching sessions, and assessment of theeffectiveness of the coaching meetings. Future survey data will be used to measure the effectiveness of coachingsessions for implementation and accountability of project goals.IntroductionOver the last two decades, the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) with support from the KernFamily Foundation has actively supported, developed, and promoted programs to create a change in engineeringeducation [1]. Specifically
libraries for undergraduate and K-12 learn- ing. Reitsma’s research concentrates on how people apply information systems to solve problems with emphasis on digital library navigation.Mr. Brian Gordon Hoglund, Oregon State University Brian Hoglund is a software developer and research assistant for the College of Business at Oregon State University. As part of a NSF funded research project with teachengineering.org, his work involves net- work visualization and analysis of the K-12 Next Generation Science Standards. Brian has a bachelors degree in mathematics from Oregon State University and is currently pursuing a second degree in com- puter science. He is currently working on the network visualization of K-12 NGSS