PracticesInformal STEM EducationPromoting engineering and STEM through summer camps is a well-developed practice. Theliterature outlines several best approaches to effectively implement learning into camps. Workingwith hands-on activities increases interest in engineering while allowing students to practiceproblem solving and designing their own solutions to a problem [9 -11]. Such activities reinforceteamwork and communication skills as students collaborate in groups to develop solutions andexplain their ideas [11]. While using hands-on projects are common practice, they often lack amathematical component, which gives a less than accurate representation of college engineeringprograms [10]. The UACOE camps implements mathematical concepts within the
outside of the classroom. Reacting tothis emergency, within three weeks, the President of SEC and Professors of the Practice from theengineering entrepreneurship program developed a summer instruction program which focusedon professional skill development through a virtual implementation. All faculty involved hadimplemented internship programs in their companies and were convinced that a program couldbe offered, not to completely replace an internship at a company, but to build the professionalskills students would need in their jobs. Ultimately, the virtual internship program involved over350 students, almost 60 mentors, and seven faculty. It was divided into two 6-week phases – 1)professional skill training and 2) teamwork project
across programs betweendifferent engineering disciplines.Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinary:As noted in Figure 1, multidisciplinarity is not a new phenomenon while interdisciplinarity is agrowing trend. However, there is a lack of consensus in the literature as to the definition of‘‘interdisciplinarity’’. Stokols et al. [5] provided distinct definitions describing the levels ofunion among different disciplines such as interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, cross disciplinary,and transdisciplinary science. In a multidisciplinary project, participants work independentlyusing their own discipline-specific knowledge to address a common problem. Relatedly, amultidisciplinary individual has knowledge in two or more academic
biogas using anaerobic digestion. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Food-to-Energy: A K12/University Partnership to Develop a Resource Recovery ProgramAbstractAn on-going, multi-faceted university/K-12 partnership, now in its third year, integrates aschool-wide food waste recovery program with classroom and extracurricular education inresource recovery. Pre- and post-consumer food waste from the high school and middle schoolcafeterias at a nearby K-12 school district is treated at an anaerobic digester system as part of anon-going University research project investigating the benefits of supplementing dairy farmdigester feed
developed. Thelearning is deductive only and provides no context for students on why they are learning thematerial or how it will apply to their future engineering careers [1]. Many pedagogical tools thataim to establish connections between the engineering curriculum and industry practices havebeen investigated and implemented with varying degrees of success, such as project basedlearning (PBL) [2,3] competency based learning (CBL) [4], and inductive teaching [1]. However,adjustments to the curriculum to support these alternate pedagogical tools may still overlook theformat of the corresponding assessment items. Assessment techniques that have not beendesigned specifically to complement the course remain in a generic format that is only relevantto
students’ understanding. Ethics, for example, is often taught in civilengineering through the use of case studies. Further, case studies offer an opportunity forinterdisciplinary discussions centered on human dignity and justice goals [8] and likewisedevelop empathy for the users impacted by the project. Empathy is increasingly beingrecognized for the central role it may play in connecting crucial inter- and intrapersonal skillswith enhanced abilities to understand and productively work in multidisciplinary environmentswith diverse stakeholder groups [9]. Finally, some professors may not feel comfortable directlydiscussing race and related topics within an otherwise technical classroom environment; casestudies allow the emphasis to be taken off of
process models, as reviewed by Wynn and Clarkson [7], where it isdescribed as; problem definition [8], clarifying the client’s requirements [9], statement of theproblem [10], clarifying the task and product planning [11], [12], preparation of problemassignment [13], functional requirements [14]. In software engineering design, the whole processis referred to as Requirements Engineering (RE), though RE is rooted in systems engineering andapplies more broadly than just software-intensive projects [15]. In Human-Centered Design andDesign Thinking, requirements development is intrinsically tied to the Understand (Empathize)and Synthesize (Define) phases where unmet needs are explored [16], [17] though requirementsare not necessarily discussed
nomeasurable differences in testing performances among the three classes, but a positivecorrelation was demonstrated between better homework or quiz grades and testing grades.Copies of example of quizzes and an example project are provided. The results from studentsurveys indicate fairly strong support for the quizzes over homework and the use of a websiteover a more tradition format for the course. However, almost 25% of the students prefer a moretradition course format of weekly homework and writing on the board. IntroductionThe ultimate skill to be learned in an undergraduate engineering curriculum is “problemsolving.” Since essentially all engineering (and science) classes are limited to a narrowdiscipline
”Developing Changemaking Engineers”, anNSF-sponsored Revolutionizing Engineering Education (RED) project. Dr. Lord is the 2018 recipient ofthe IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Reimagining Energy Year 3: Reflections on Course OfferingOverviewThis National Science Foundation (NSF) project focuses on the development of a new, requiredenergy course, “An Integrated Approach to Energy,” for second-year students that considersways to best include, represent, and honor students from all backgrounds using a collection ofpedagogical approaches known as culturally sustaining pedagogies (CSPs). It is sponsored by theDivision of Undergraduate
university began in mid-January 2020. At this point, themakerspace and faculty development programs were operating as they had in previous semesters.This included courses introducing projects that would use the makerspace, monthly facultylunches in the space in which curriculum design challenges, successes, and opportunities werediscussed, and one-on-one curriculum support sessions with the makerspace staff and thecurriculum support team. During this time, over 4,000 students and thirty-two courses within thecollege of engineering were using the makerspace to support student learning in their classes. This momentum came to a grinding halt on Friday, March 13, 2020 when the universityannounced all of its classes would transition to online
andindustry. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 NSF: Integrative Manufacturing and Production Engineering Education Leveraging Data Science Program (IMPEL)AbstractIMPEL is a transformative workforce education and training program that addresses the currentand projected skills gaps and requirements in data science in the U.S. manufacturing sector. Themission of IMPEL is to facilitate lifelong learning for the production engineering STEMworkforce through designing sustainable, pedagogically proven data science curricula viamodular courses with interactive online learning labs and experiential project-based learning.The planned tasks for IMPEL include an online
model, or any other type of model. After this, the students were asked to submit a plan to build their own model alongwith a cost estimate. The students were told to decide a topic and proposal with a cost estimatein one week. They were then given one more week to build the model. Class time allotted forthis module was one-week (1 hour lecture and 4-hour lab). The students had another week towork on the project as a homework. The students made a variety of models including a Residential House FrameDemonstration, Da Vinci bridge, soil structure model, a canoe, 3-D printed shapes, and aseptic tank. The students used their own background, strengths, and interests to develop apersonalized learning module which is evident from the
2011-2012 academic year he participated in a professor exchange, teaching at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. His engineering education interests include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory, developing model-eliciting activities in mechanical engineering courses, inquiry-based learning in mechanics, and design projects to help promote adapted physical activities. Other professional interests include aviation physiology and biomechanics.Dr. Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is the McDonnell Family Bridge Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and in the Department of Education at Tufts University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC
new to university and are generally students whorecently completed their high school education. The second semester course is taken by students thatsuccessfully completed the first semester course as well as students transferring to the university fromcommunity colleges or other universities.Description of Team ActivitiesIn the first semester course, students are tasked with working in a team of 4 students on a wind turbinepower generation project. Students have to go through several stages of the design process [11] includingto conduct research and brainstorm, to develop concepts, and to build and test prototypes for maximumpower generation. In the second semester course, students have to work in teams of 2 to 4 students togenerate concepts
Article ReadingPre-departure symposium Following the 10-week training program, students will meet at the University of SanDiego (USD) for a 4-day pre-departure symposium designed to prepare the IRES participants fortheir research projects. The topics covered during this symposium will begin with generalprinciples that are applicable to all IRES participants and conclude with individualized codingsessions that are specific to each student’s project (Table 2). The first day will focus onwelcoming the students, discussing career paths in bioinformatics and include a special sessionfrom the on-campus international center. Since a main goal of this program is to encouragematriculation onto graduate school, a large portion of the first day will
-readers. He holds 30 patents related to semiconductor devices and microfabrication and has published in IEEE and AIP journals and conferences. His current research interests include instrumentation for combustion science, novel methods for environmental re- mediation, and microelectronics including surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices. In addition to teaching in the field of electrical engineering, he coordinates the senior engineering capstone program which is a multidisciplinary, two-semester course sequence with projects sponsored by industrial partners. Within this role, he focuses on industrial outreach and the teaching and assessment of professional skills. He received his Ph.D. and S.M. degrees from MIT in 2007
groups have access to HIEP activities,however, remain as questions to investigate. In this project, we examine engineering andcomputer science student participation in HIEP at two public land grant institutions. In thisstudy, we seek to understand how and why students participate in HIEP and how participationaffects their persistence and success in engineering and computer science majors. Set within therural, public land grant university context, this study conceptualizes diversity in a broad senseand includes women, members of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, first generationcollege students, adult learners, and nontraditional student as groups contributing to the diversityof academic programs and the technical workforce.Purpose
beyond ethical reasoning,engineering educators need fundamental knowledge about engineers’ moral formation. Toinvestigate engineers’ moral formation, the first author has begun a dissertation project that hasthree parts. The first part is a mixed-methods study of the influence of organizational culture onthe moral formation of practicing engineers. The second part is a similar mixed-methods study ofengineering students. The third part is an educational intervention whose content will be informedby the results of the first two parts. This work-in-progress paper describes the dissertation project,with specific details about the quantitative phase of the first mixed-methods study.IntroductionAccording to recent research, current engineering
challenge students at a timewhen they are particularly vulnerable to nonacademic distractions. LaPREP, which takesplace on the LSU-Shreveport campus seven weeks a summer over two consecutivesummers, emphasizes abstract reasoning, problem solving and technical writing skills,mainly through mathematics enrichment courses and seminars. Class assignments,laboratory projects and scheduled exams are integral parts of LaPREP. The faculty isdrawn from LSU-Shreveport and the local school system. Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationLaPREP targets bright students who
Paper ID #34275Supporting Equitable Team Experiences Using Tandem, an Online Assess-mentand Learning ToolDr. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios. She is one of the faculty co-innovators behind Tandem.Dr
class time, there are active discussions andhands-on learning related to the learned course content. The design thinking course has threeprojects- the first two projects are small projects aimed to help students learn the designthinking process. The third project is a larger course capstone project where students apply thedesign process to solve a real time problem and come up with functional prototypes as a projectoutcome. All the projects are group-based projects and the final project groups are selected bystudents themselves based on their interest area for the project. To understand the context ofthis study, the next section describes a typical class meeting.Daily Routine- Design Thinking Course Students read and complete the
Paper ID #34368From UML Design to Implementation of a Reliable Student Information Sys-temBriana Marie BaileyDr. Yujian Fu P.E., Alabama A&M University Dr. Yujian Fu is an associate professor of computer science department at Alabama A&M University. Her research interests fall in formal verification of cyber physical systems, behavioral analysis of mobile security, software architecture and design analysis of safety-critical and mission-critical systems. Her projects are supported by NSF, Air Force and DoD. She have several publications regarding to the research and educational projects
work on transparent conducting oxides. Before he started at UIUC he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on a project that aimed at a description of non-adiabatic electron ion dynamics. His research revolves around excited electronic states and their dynamics in various materials using accurate computational methods and making use of modern super computers in order to understand, for instance, how light is absorbed in photo-voltaic materials. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Incorporating the use of a materials database into a Materials Science and Engineering freshman
University, Beijing, China, 1999. WORKING EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Cal Poly Pomona, 2016 – present. • Teach Process Design and Process Control for senior students. Process/Project Engineer, Wahlco Inc, Santa Ana, CA, 2014-2016. • Lead Urea to Ammonia process development. • Responsible for marketing research review. • Conduct internal and customer factory acceptance test. • Design process control system with PLC/DCS implementation. Project Manager/Senior Engineer, ClearWaterBay Technology Inc. Pomona, CA, 2007-2014. • Managed a Large-scale Refinery Energy Optimization Project, 2012-2014. • Major project in process design: 30+ units and 2 utility systems, with
UniversityMs. Briceland McLaughlin, Boise State University Briceland McLaughlin is an academic advisor at Boise State University. She graduated with an M.Ed. from the University of Kansas in 2011 and has worked at higher education institutions across the country over the last decade in both student affairs and academic support roles. Briceland is interested in the intersectionality of student development theory and curriculum design.Dr. Donald Plumlee P.E., Boise State University Dr. Plumlee is certified as a Professional Engineer in the state of Idaho. He has spent the last ten years es- tablishing the Ceramic MEMS laboratory at Boise State University. Dr. Plumlee is involved in numerous projects developing micro-electro
through the program. A chi-square test found a statistically significantdifference between groups of students who had participated for an entire year in the LMP andstudents who had not participated at all. An independent samples t-test found an observable, butnot statistically significant, positive association between LMP participation and GPAs.Emergent themes resulting from a preliminary coding of student interviews pointed to atransition in student behavior and identify as they progressed through the LMP. The researchersconclude by proposing a systemic understanding of mentorship programs as a means to providedynamic supports that relate to students’ dynamic STEM identities.IntroductionA multi-institutional NSF S-STEM Project is in its second
Engineering.Mr. Abdullah J. Nafakh, Purdue University Abdullah J. Nafakh is a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in Trans- portation at Purdue University. Abdullah gained both his B.S.C.E. and M.S.C.E. at Purdue University. After gaining his M.S.C.E. degree, Abdullah worked for two years as a roadways engineer carrying out several roadway projects for public Indiana agencies before returning to Purdue as a PhD student. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 AN EVALUATION OF A UNIVERSITY-LEVEL, HIGH SCHOOL COURSE TAUGHT TO FOSTER INTEREST IN CIVIL ENGINEERING (EVALUATION)ABSTRACTHigh school
institutional factors that contribute to a ”culture of disengagement” from the ethical dimension of engineering work among students in the engineering profession. His Ph.D. project is funded by the NSF and is concerned with promoting and im- proving engineering students’ ethical behavior and sensitivity through on-campus student organizations. His academic interests include mental health, international development, human rights, and engineering ethics. Currently, his ambition is to work within an international organization such as UNESCO and to be an advocate for promoting science and technology as critical tools of sustainable development as well as to participate in the dialogue between scientists, policy-makers, and
ONSIndustrial Engineering Technology Basic & Applied Training Services Transfer Research Operations chart 187 3. INDUSTRIAL T~AINING AT IJl.MC1. IN-DEPTH PROGRAM (IDP)2. TECHNICAL AWARENESS PROGRAM (TAP)3. MANAGEMENT AWARENESS PROGRAM (MAP)4. GENERAL AWARENESS PROGRAM (GAP) 188 3- THE IDP STRUCTURE• 8 COURSES• EACH COURSE 12 WEEKS• ONE EVENING SESSION PER WEEK• THREE HOURS OF LECTURE PER SESSION0 Two HOURS OF LAB/TUTORIAL PER SESSIONo ONE ASSIGNMENT PER SESSION• ONE INDIVIDUAL PROJECT PER COURSEo
Lab at ODU and a lead of Area of Specialization Mechatronics Systems Design. She worked as a Visiting Researcher at Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing in Disputanta, VA on projects focusing on digital thread and cyber security of manufacturing systems.Dr. Rafael E. Landaeta, Old Dominion University Dr. Landaeta is an Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and an M.S. in Engineering Management from the University of Central Florida, as well as, a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UNITEC Venezuela. He serves as an Associate Editor for the