Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) - the recognized accreditation body in the U.S. for applied science, computing,engineering, and technology. This paper provides an overview of various demographics of theHSIs and Emerging HSIs in relevance to ABET engineering accreditation. Data on institutionalcharacteristics, faculty, student enrollment, persistence and graduation will is presented. Thispaper is a prelude to a proposed study investigating the broader implications on the value of“Hispanic-Serving” and “Hispanic-Enrolling” in the context of engineering education forHispanic students. The goal of this study is to eventually provide summative recommendationsregarding the role of ABET-accredited HSIs and ABET-accredited Emerging
. Eseonu’s area of research focus is public policy and technical entrepreneurship, with focus on the effect of networks and technical professionals on the policy process. Mr. Eseonu is a graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa and received his Masters in Engineering Management at the University of Minnesota.Dr. David A. Wyrick PE, PEM, Texas Tech University David A. Wyrick is Professor and Bryan Pearce Bagley Regents Chair of Engineering at Texas Tech University. He has accepted the position of Dean of the School of Science and Engineering at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. His interests include effective management of technology, small and medium enterprises (SMEs
providespecific findings related to the role of digital media and devices on socializing and learningactivities of freshmen engineering students. Findings also indicated that female freshmenengineering students are more likely to use the cellphone for talking, texting as well asparticipation in Wikipedia platform when compared to the males.IntroductionThe need to innovate in engineering education has led to increased calls for integratinginformation technology with instruction and adoption of a wide variety of media and internet-based learning platforms to enhance learning3. Several studies have reported the success ofleveraging technology in improving engineering learning and for instance, Rutz and hiscolleagues28 investigated the use of instructional
electronics, applications of RFID technologies, and manufacturing engineering pedagogy. Through his research, Wells has supervised the completion of twelve graduate de- grees in the past seven years. His publication history includes nearly seventy print publications and over forty invited presentations. He has addressed professional audiences in Ukraine, Japan, India, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and Canada, as well as in many United States venues. For many years, he has been ac- tive in the national leadership of Society of Manufacturing Engineers, American Society for Engineering Education, and ABET. Over the past 28 years, he has been a central figure in the design, development, and articulation of curricula for educating
future construction professionals. Page 25.1335.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Road to Creating, Evaluating and Changing a BIM Learning EnvironmentAbstractArchitecture, engineering and construction (AEC) undergraduate programs continue to grapplewith the task of developing meaningful learning environments that allow students to explorebuilding information technologies in undergraduate course work. There are significantlydiffering approaches by universities and departments in the United States on how best tointroduce and reinforce
AC 2012-4927: KEYWORD, FIELD, AND SOCIAL NETWORK ANALY-SIS TRENDS FOR K-12 ENGINEERING EDUCATION RESEARCHMallory Lancaster, Purdue UniversityYi LuoDr. Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette Johannes Strobel is Director of INSPIRE, Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning, and Assistant Professor of engineering education and learning design and technology at Purdue University. NSF and several private foundations fund his research. His research and teaching focuses on policy of P-12 engineering, how to support teachers and students’ academic achievements through engineering learning, the measurement and support of change of habits of mind, particularly in regards to sustainability and the use
AC 2012-3131: DO STUDENTS DREAM BEYOND LEDS? INNOVATIVEQUALITIES OF IDEAS GENERATED BY FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERINGSTUDENTSNicholas D. Fila, Purdue University Nicholas D. Fila is a doctoral student and graduate research assistant in the School of Engineering Educa- tion at Purdue University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois. He has published conference papers on cooperative learning and team innovation. His research focuses on teamwork, innovation, and laboratory education.Dr. Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette Senay Purzer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education and is the Director of Assessment Research for
AC 2012-5454: ENHANCING STUDENTS’ HIGHER-ORDER SKILLS THROUGHCOMMUNITY SERVICE LEARNING USING SCAFFOLDING FOR CRE-ATIVE PROBLEM SOLVINGProf. Wei Zheng, Jackson State University Dr. Wei Zheng is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Jackson State University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001 and has over10-year industrial experience. Since becoming a faculty member at JSU in 2005, he has made continuous efforts to integrate emerging technologies and cognitive skill development into engineering curriculum.Dr. Jianjun Yin, Jackson State University Jianjun Yin, Ph.D is a professor of education in the College of Education at Jackson State University. His
summarizescurrent progress and plans for the NSF project. Finally, it discusses student reactions, lessonslearned, and future directions.IntroductionTo improve student learning, enthusiasm, and retention, especially in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) areas, educators have developed a wide variety of activelearning approaches to engage students, enhance learning, and emphasize attitudes and skills inaddition to knowledge; a few reports are summarized below. Baldwin2 described experiences,benefits, and pitfalls with discovery learning, which broadly refers to learning through self-teaching. McConnell17 discussed active and collaborative learning (ACL), a set of ACLactivities, associated risks and ways of addressing them
AC 2012-3638: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CLASSES CAN BE FUN: WHATFACULTY CAN DO TO KEEP STUDENTS ENGAGEDDr. Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University Adeel Khalid, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of systems engineering, Southern Polytechnic State Univer- sity. Office: 678-915-7241; Fax: 678-915-5527; Web: http://www.spsu.edu/akhalid. Page 25.1229.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Systems Engineering Classes Can Be Fun – What Faculty Can Do To Keep Students EngagedAbstractActive learning techniques have been studied and applied successfully in
isintended to improve conceptual intuition about structures by exposing students to astructural form finding method that finds the optimal form to resist a given set of loads.Traditional engineering education is largely concerned with teaching the normative caseand students rarely engage with contemporary practice or new innovative technologies.Architecture education, by contrast consciously studies contemporary practice andstudents are very aware of new technologies and methods that are in vogue. As such,architecture is a very good testing ground for the computational design tool of topologyoptimization, which is currently undergoing growth across many engineering disciplines. 2.2 Topology OptimzationTopology optimization is a free-form
universities, with a focus on liberal education (e.g., engineeringcommunications, engineering ethics and leadership, technology and entrepreneurship) andcapstone design. While the bulk of GECE’s network is domestic, we have wrought some tieswith Pennsylvania State University, Oxford University, and Smith College. We envision that theexpansion of the network to additional universities outside of Korea may be beneficial not onlyto us, but also to our counterparts, as students gain the opportunity to work with peers fromdifferent socio-cultural backgrounds. This presentation will include a short history of the GECE,samples of the center’s recent educational activities, and future outlook, especially regarding thepotential of on-line teaching as a tool
Engineering Edu- cation (iFoundry). The mission of iFoundry is to change radically the learning experiences of engineering students. Dr. Price was the Founding Director of the Illinois Leadership Center from 2002-2006. The Center’s mission is to encourage leadership development among Illinois students by providing opportunities to learn and then apply leadership skills. Dr. Price initiated the Technology Entrepreneur Center in 1999 to support scientist and engineering en- trepreneurs in the development and growth of new businesses. Through education, the Center prepares students to start and grow companies. Through a network of support, the Center surrounds entrepreneurs with a success environment that includes
AC 2012-4338: CHANGE IN ELEMENTARY STUDENT CONCEPTIONSOF ENGINEERING FOLLOWING AN INTERVENTION AS SEEN FROMTHE DRAW-AN-ENGINEER TESTMr. Ronald L. Carr, Purdue University Ronald Carr serves as the P-12 Engineering Education Research Fellow for the Institute for P-12 En- gineering Research and Learning (INSPIRE) in Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education. Carr is a doctoral student in the Learning Design and Technology program through the Purdue College of Education and holds a master’s degree in educational studies/gifted and talented education and a bach- elor’s degree in elementary education from Purdue. In addition to curriculum design related to problem solving and cognitive strategies, Carr’s
Award.Ms. Elizabeth Ann Holden, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Elizabeth Holden is a physics lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville. She has a M.S. in physics from Northern Illinois University. In addition to physics, she teaches Women in Science and Engineering and is leading a short term study abroad, the History of Science and Technology. I am currently interested in creating an engineering outreach program based around the science of dogs.Kim M. Lobdell P.E., KL Engineering, Inc. Page 25.1402.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012
AC 2012-3387: ENHANCING CROSS-CULTURAL INTERACTION IN COURSESWITH A LARGE COMPONENT OF VISITING STUDY ABROAD STU-DENTSDr. Alex Friess, Rochester Institute of Technology, Dubai Alex Friess holds a Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering and a B.Sc. in physics from Rensselaer Polytech- nic Institute (Troy, N.Y. 1997), and has served as Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at RIT, Dubai, since 2009. In addition to undergraduate activities, he teaches in the sustainable energy concen- tration of RIT, Dubai’s mechanical engineering master’s program. Friess’ industrial and academic career spans a variety of consulting and entrepreneurial activities in Europe, Asia, and Africa, most notably as founding faculty in
right data to help us evaluate the final project outcomes when the time comes, documenting why and how successful outcomes were achieved and explaining results that failed to meet our expectations? Are there things we could do now to improve that future documentation? Page 25.1068.2This paper describes how implementation evaluation can help answer those questions. It givesillustrative examples for two case studies—a three-year campus-wide NSF-ADVANCE projectto increase faculty diversity and improve departmental climates for all faculty, and a three-yearNSF-CCLI project to integrate sensor technologies into the civil engineering
interested in renew- able energy. Natalie received a BSME from Florida State University, a MSME from Georgia Institute of Technology, and a MBA from Indiana University. She has taught at Wentworth Institute of Technology as an Adjunct Professor. She has also worked in industry at Pratt & Whitney for several years and served in roles such as Integrated Product Team Leader and Affordability and Risk Manager for the F135 Engine Program. Page 25.1457.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Validating the diagnostic capabilities of concept inventories
also conducted.1. Introduction and Related LiteratureCurrent national priorities in engineering education in the U.S., such as those advanced by ABET(formerly known as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) and the National Page 25.616.2Academy of Engineering’s Engineer of 2020 reports [3, 4], emphasize the importance of trainingengineers to situate their work more broadly. For example, ABET requires accreditedengineering programs to have documented specific student outcomes, including the following *: (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as
AC 2012-4365: ENGINEERING TEACHING KITS, EXPERIMENTS, ANDDEMONSTRATIONS AS PART OF WORKSHOPS FOR TEACHERS TOFACILITATE LEARNING OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGMiss Caridad Cruz, Universidad de las Americas, PueblaMs. Lourdes Gazca, American University in Puebla, MexicoProf. Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla Aurelio Lopez-Malo is professor and Past Chair, Department of Chemical, Food, and Environmental En- gineering at Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, in Mexico. He teaches food science and engineering related courses. His research interests include emerging technologies for food processing, natural antimi- crobials, and active learning.Dr. Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla Enrique
include socio-cultural issues in mathematics education and various equity topics in STEM fields. She has served as a Lead or Co-investigator for multiple educational research and evaluation projects. She published more than 30 articles in scholarly and professional journals world-wide and authored seven book or monograph chapters. Page 25.368.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Critical Review of Research on the Role of Social Engagement in Engineering Students’ Retention and Academic Success Sandra L. Dika and Jae Hoon Lim
AC 2012-4659: CHALLENGES TO ENSURING QUALITY IN QUALITA-TIVE RESEARCH: A PROCEDURAL VIEWDr. Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Joachim Walther is an Assistant Professor of engineering education research at the University of Geor- gia (UGA). He is Co-director of the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), an interdisciplinary research group with members from en- gineering, art, educational psychology, and social work. His research interests span the formation of students’ professional identity, the role of reflection in engineering learning, and interpretive research methods in engineering education. He was the first international recipient of the ASEE
AC 2012-3730: CREATING LOW-COST INTRINSIC MOTIVATION COURSECONVERSIONS IN A LARGE REQUIRED ENGINEERING COURSEDr. Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Geoffrey L. Herman earned his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illi- nois, Urbana-Champaign as a Mavis Future Faculty Fellow. He is currently a Postdoctoral rRsearcher for the Illinois Foundry for Engineering Education. His research interests include conceptual change and development in engineering students, promoting intrinsic motivation in the classroom, blended learning (integrating online teaching tools into the classroom), and intelligent tutoring systems. He is a recipient of the 2011 American Society for
. The National Academies ofEngineering have recognized that in order to prepare the engineer of 2020, we must firstrecognize the changing socio-technological challenges they will need to address8. Handlingthese diverse challenges calls for people with diverse perspectives working together. In additionto the benefits of diverse perspectives, the reduced size of the pool of potential STEMpractitioners reduces the ultimate number of those practitioners. This in turn reduces America'sability to compete in the global market and harms all of its citizens. Finally, social equitydemands that we discover and demolish the barriers that are systemically preventing females,minorities, and disabled people from STEM professions.By investigating student and
Web toenhance students' learning has been recognized, and to this end a pilot web-based system hasbeen developed as an online interactive resource for the teaching and learning of anundergraduate module on Communications within the Department of Electrical Engineering andElectronics. Rüschoff and Ritter[28] discussed the current state of the art with regard to the use ofnew technologies in the classrooms. Lu and Bol[20] found that peer review has becomecommonplace in composition courses and is increasingly employed in the context oftelecommunication technology. The results of their research from both semesters showed thatstudents participating in anonymous e-peer review performed better on the writing performance taskand provided more
authors examined datafrom student Longitudinal Assessment of Engineering Self-Efficacy (LAESE)surveys. Despitethe shrinking number of women engineering students at San José State University , the self-efficacy levels of the women engineering students were high. The authors can surmise thatwomen who choose to study engineering at SJSU feel confident in their abilities to succeed inengineering and or project such confidence given the male-dominated terrain of Engineering.A. Theoretical basis for the researchThere is little empirical research on the specific impact of cultural attitudes about gender roles ongirls’ interest and career choice in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)fields, particularly about STEM interest and career
member in 2011. She was awarded NAE’s 2008 Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education.Dr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has incorporated service-learning projects into the senior capstone design course for environmental engineering since 2001. Her engineering education research interests include sustainable engineering, ethics, and retention of female students.Dr. Daniel W. Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder Daniel W. Knight is the engineering Assessment Specialist at the Integrated Teaching and Learning Pro
AC 2012-3136: USING A SYSTEMS ENGINEERING APPROACH FORSTUDENTS TO DESIGN AND BUILD LABORATORY EQUIPMENTDr. Tim L. Brower, University of Colorado, Boulder Tim L. Brower is currently the Director of the CU, Boulder, and Colorado Mesa University Mechanical Engineering Partnership program. Before becoming the Director of the partnership three years ago, he was a professor and Chair of the Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering and Technology Department at Oregon Institute of Technology. While in Oregon, he served as the Affiliate Director for Project Lead the Way - Oregon. In another life, he worked as an Aerospace Engineer with the Lockheed Martin Corporation in Denver, Colo. He is an active member of ASEE, ASME, and
AC 2012-3166: INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS OF CLASSROOM RESPONSEDEVICES IN MANUFACTURING EDUCATIONDr. George M. Graham P.E., Chattanooga State Community College George M. Graham Graham is the Director of the Wacker Institute and Department Head of Chemi- cal, Manufacturing, and Industrial & Systems Engineering Technology at Chattanooga State Community College. He was previously an Assistant Professor in the Department of Manufacturing and Industrial Technology at Tennessee Technological University. Prior to his academic appointment, he held Director, Manager, engineering, and research positions in automotive manufacturing and construction industries. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
) established bythe Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). The outcomes are:1. Basic knowledge of the tools of operations research (a, e, k)2. Insight into the modeling and application of solutions to operations research problems (g, i)3. Basic knowledge of some software used for operations research modeling (e, k)In the topics “Introduction to Model Building” and “Linear Programming” (9 hours total), theLego® experiment is presented to the students in addition to the discussion of three case studiesshowing real-world implementation of linear optimization models. Later on, 9 typical linearproblems are discussed in detail. Initially, the general model for production mix is discussed andit is linked to the Lego® experiment. Next