Paper ID #33586Biologically Inspired Design For Engineering Education: Online TeacherProfessional Learning (Evaluation)Dr. Meltem Alemdar, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Meltem Alemdar is s Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist at Georgia Institute of Tech- nology’s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC). Her research focuses on improving K-12 STEM education through research on curriculum development, teacher pro- fessional development, and student learning in integrated STEM environments. Dr. Alemdar is currently co-PI for research on various NSF funded projects
enrollment caps staying the same at an average of 26 students. The class alsosatisfied 3-credit hours and was offered on a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule for 50-minutes or Tuesday-Thursday for 75-minutes. Classroom design and locations also stayed thesame as the regular course. The three main differences between the regular required course and the targeted coursecentered on the course objectives and finer details of the curriculum that was geared towardengineers. First, where the regular course explores classic examples of speechmaking, theengineering course was grounded in supplying relevant examples from the scientific community.For example, students were shown full presentation examples delivered by engineers aboutengineering topics
byengineers entering practice and the competencies that a new engineer should develop as theyprogress through their professional career. In addition, this Third Edition of the CEBOK(CEBOK3) emphasizes that engineers should also develop an appreciation for effectivecommunication and demonstrate key abilities related to the affective domain. With theimportance of communication to future engineers’ practice of civil engineering clearly defined,undergraduate curricula must adapt to meet this need. At the University of Delaware, the civilengineering curriculum included significant communication content prior to the issuance of theCEBOK3. However, the standard communication coursework of public speaking and technicalwriting left a gap in critical
with partner discipline input that utilizes the mathematical concepts identified in the fishbowl exercises. The sharing of materials can be used in the classroom. In this way, collaborations among partner disciplines and mathematics can lead to substantive changes in the classroom curriculum to benefit student learning.The creation of these lists constitutes an important element in the success of SUMMIT-P’s work,as the wish lists could be implemented by each institution to map course learning objectives.More about the SUMMIT-P fishbowl activities can be found in Hofrenning et al. [10]. Table 2. Fishbowl Activity Questions General 1. As you read the CF report, do the recommendation still ring true? 2. Do you
semester. This study reports thesurvey data collected from the class and discusses how the data help design and develop thecourse. It makes recommendations to improve future courses when applying a similar hybridinstructional model.IntroductionEngineering education plays an essential role in preparing students to innovate advancedtechnologies in the future. New course design and development are part of the strategic plan tohelp students advance their learning goal while in school. In order to effectively deliver coursecontent covering a broad range of topics and facilitate interactive learning activities, engineeringcourses have been traditionally delivered in classroom settings until recent years when Internettechnologies have become an integral
training. Integral to the work is research tounderstand how students use the models as learning aids with a goal of using these observationsto develop general activity design principles that may be applicable to a wider array of STEMcourses. We presented the project rationale, goals and research questions along with the overallresearch design in 2020 [1].After a year of development and pilot activities, we commenced data collection in classroomimplementations of a relatively mature curriculum starting fall 2019. Data collection ended inMarch 2020 when the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic forced an abrupt shift to online learning.Clearly, an educational intervention featuring group learning in classroom activities with sharedmanipulatives would need
: encouraging younger students’ interest in STEM related fields while changing the definition and conversation of what it means to be an engineer. Her research interests include motivation and STEM curriculum development and evaluation. She is very excited to be a part of this community and hopes to spark the interest of engineering education research within her peer groups and to return to education after industry experience.Dr. Jeanne L. Sanders, University of Nevada, Reno Jeanne Sanders (she/her/hers) is a postdoctoral researcher in Engineering Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. She graduated with her Ph.D from North Carolina State University in the Fall of 2020. She plans to pursue a career in academia in the
the following high-level research question: 1. How does the workshop impact the implementation interest of the active learning pedagogy across all STEM disciplines?The Intellectual Merit of the ProjectThe project contributes to understanding of the impact of hands-on learning activities that allowfaculty to integrate ECP and new sensors into the curriculum. The multidisciplinary nature of theproject team also allows an understanding on how to undertake authentic learning activities thatspan across the curriculum. The project equally provides valuable insight into learning innovationfor minority students by the adoption of ECP beyond the field of electrical engineering. The projectalso focuses on advancing knowledge and understanding of
information, requiring a degree of clarity between the senderand the receiver, and based on knowledge that is acquired through the curriculum of core andsupport courses as shown in Figure 3. 393Figure 3. Communication at the center of an integrated curriculum.Although written, graphical, and verbal communication skills are of paramount importance inAEC fields, dedicated communication courses in these fields are often limited to a speech orpublic speaking class, with content not connected or relevant to the core of the curriculum.AbouRizk and Sawhney point out that traditional teaching methods are not fully capable ofproviding AEC students with the necessary skills and knowledge to solve real world
to and read about how these engineering projects are making adifference in their communities: • Project BUILD (Building Using an Interactive Learning Design) [7] • Community-Engaged Engineering Interventions with Appalachian Youth [8] • Connections in the Making: Elementary Students, Teachers, and STEM Professionals Integrating Science and Engineering to Design Community Solutions [9] • Zipping Towards STEM: Integrating Engineering Design into the Middle School Physical Science Curriculum [10] • Collaborative Research: American Innovations in an Age of Discovery: Teaching Science and Engineering through 3D-printed Historical Reconstructions [11]In addition to the profiles of ITEST projects like
number systems. The class also reads program source code, a type ofclose reading different from that applied to literature, but alike in the concentration required byeach that can presumably be strengthened by the other (although no research was found thataddresses this).Many contemporary commentators lament the erosion of humanities enrollments in favor of othercollege subjects [8, 9]. Certainly the liberal arts need promotion not just because they constitutenice things in society, but because they help us query conditions and solve problems. The motivehere is not an assault on curriculum committees, but a broadening and refinement of the studentexperience in higher education, most naturally done through humanities. The text providesparticular
, components that the majority of engineeringdepartments are adopting include rapid prototyping tools, such as additive manufacturingmachines (3D printers) and laser cutters [3], [4].Makerspaces and Engineering Education. Makerspaces have become popular withinengineering education. Integrating a makerspace into an engineering curriculum can be adaunting task given the scope and sequence of university engineering coursework. Recentresearch found that over a three-month period, students who took part in a course that integrateda class project within the makerspace were positively and significantly impacted in the domainsof technology self-efficacy, innovation orientation, affect towards design, design self-efficacy,and belonging to the makerspace [5
is a phenomenological case study that is explaining how a community college student experiences an undergraduate research experience and its influence on their motivation and values, including its influence on the completion of their engineering degree as they pursue and continue a career in engineering.Dr. Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Richard Goldberg is a Teaching Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Depart- ment of Applied Physical Sciences at UNC Chapel Hill. He is developing a new integrated engineering minor and major at UNC. He is interested in integrating engineering with the liberal arts and an en- trepreneurial mindset. He teaches a variety of
bring entrepreneurialtraining into higher education settings. In 2011, NSF set in motion the National Center forEngineering Pathways to Innovation and I-Corps Program to implement entrepreneurshiptraining in students and faculty. More than 130 institutions have integrated the EpicenterProgram and exposed more than 450 students to entrepreneurship training through the UniversityInnovation Fellows [6]. Overall, these courses [1] and university level [6] programs report thatentrepreneurship education programs have a positive impact in improving attitudes towards self-employment amongst engineers.Smaller-sized firms are also evolving and creating employment opportunities for entrepreneursin engineering. Engineers who develop an entrepreneurial
Paper ID #32882WIP: Developing a Virtual Information Literacy Training Program for aMulti-Disciplinary First-Year Engineering ProgramMr. Alexander James Carroll, Vanderbilt University Alexander J. Carroll, MSLS, AHIP, is the Librarian for STEM Research at the Vanderbilt University Libraries. Alex serves as a liaison librarian for the School of Engineering and STEM academic units within the College of Arts and Science, supporting the research of faculty and developing curriculum- integrated information literacy instruction programs for students in the sciences. Alex serves as an Assistant Editor for the Journal of the Medical
/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award, and the 2006 Halliburton Excellent Young Teacher Award. In addition to carrying on an architectural practice while teaching, many of her scholarship and creative activities relate to teaching in the Comprehensive Design Studio. Topics include multidisciplinary collaborations and integration of systems. She has collaboratively created educational material covering basics of egress design which has been viewed by students and professionals worldwide, and has led multidisciplinary design teams and research projects. She has presented at a variety of architecture, engineering, and fire protection academic and professional venues.Mr. William Crawford American
, onlineeducation tool for control systems that integrates the traditional curriculum with interactivecomponents to create a more comprehensive learning experience. The technical products used todevelop the learning tool project were often free and opensource-- indication of the increasedaccessibility of developing virtual education tools. The project was evaluated with user feedbacksurveys and common user metric research methods with a sample of students that have recentlytaken the control systems course at The University of Texas at Dallas. The results ultimatelyunderlined the appeal of immersive, gamified learning experiences to students and highlights theopportunity the education field has in developing more multimedia, engaging learning materials
contribution, we focus on providing acase study of our story that features an Enhanced Innovation Schema (i.e., one centered on use of a“Group Genius Approach”, Sawyer [2]) that has been leveraged by this team. This schema allowsinterdisciplinary voices, equitable conversations, and logistic models to be integrated into theprocesses by which funding opportunities are generated (please see more below).To begin, we illustrate the motivation behind this work and offer related and relevant literature tosituate this schema within the extant scholarship on problem identification and innovation-drivenapproaches in engineering education. We then offer theoretical background regarding the two majormodels that have been adopted and adapted to create the anchor
Project PROCEEDAn engineering student project is an exercise that usually requires integrating several tasks toachieve a defined goal. It can be an individual project or a team project, or even some form ofboth. The Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin hasembarked on systemic educational reform throughout the ME curriculum. Called PROCEED,for Project-Centered Education, this curriculum reform is an attempt to bring real-world projectsinto the classroom that underscore the need to learn fundamental principles while addingexcitement and relevance to the experience. One important aspect of PROCEED is garneringsupport from industrial partners who supply project ideas and personnel for the student projects.Two
assessments, with paired interactive components. The middle sectionprocess in the diagram is iterated for each module in the suggested flow, but as described before thestudent can really jump around to any point in the flow chart. Figure 3. Suggested flow of the education toolIn order to fully support the curriculum, the capstone team also felt that it was important andnecessary to include some other components. There is a reference wiki section on the websitehighlighting the main formulas and charts needed for each module or topic. There is also transparentdocumentation of the entire project—from where to find the resources supporting the curriculumaspect to how the technical products were integrated. An accompanying blog
from the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan.Prof. Rashaunda M. Henderson, The University of Texas at Dallas Rashaunda Henderson received the B.S.E.E. degree from Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, in 1992, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The University of Michigan, Ann Ar- bor, MI, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. From 1999 to 2007, she worked as a R&D device engineer at Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola Semiconductor Product Sector). Since Fall 2007, she has been researching novel passive components and integration techniques for millimeter-wave circuits and systems at UT Dallas in Richardson, TX. As an Associate Professor she advises
whatengineering disciplines and careers can be and do in the world. This structural change canreinvigorate higher education and forge new connections and collaborations among high schooltechnology programs or vocational high schools, two-year colleges, and four-year institutions.Curricular and Pedagogical ChangesThese structural changes establishing inclusive infrastructure pathways for EWD and DCIundergird an integrated plan to develop and deploy inclusive engineering curricula andparticipatory learning pedagogies over the next decade (Figure 2).Pre-college curriculum development is at the start of EWD and our pedagogical approach willintegrate the engineering design process,24 design thinking skills,25 and engineering habits ofmind,26 which have proven
later as authors of their own medical cases,students integrate their medical (anatomy/physiology) and technical (materials, systems, devices) learning within curated contexts thatforce an exploration and understanding of specific social determinants. The cases also require attention to technical writing and design asthe cases blend and integrate material from across the curriculum.This work-in-progress paper will articulate how the medical case can be deployed as a pedagogy, present a specific case, anddemonstrate educational goals embedded in the case design. The paper will also provide resources for cases that specifically addresssocial determinants. The presentation/poster will provide an interactive medical case, deconstruct the case
component of RET programs is the instructional material development;depending on the structure of the specific program, teachers receive various levels of support indeveloping a lesson plan that connects their research project with a standard-based curriculumunit. According to Klein-Gardner et al. [11], in order to be more effective, RET programs shouldinclude time for lesson development and for training focused on the integration of real-worldcontexts into curricular material. Herrington et al. [17], in their study of a two-year long RETprogram, reported that the impacts of such RET programs could be improved by introducingseparate, guided, curriculum development support. The NASCENT RET program providesextensive support in instructional material
++, which makes it possible to capture any changes in the environment. Each UAV isrepresented as a node in OMNet++ and communicates wirelessly by using the INET library.However, there is another challenge due to the different simulation mechanisms between Gazeboand OMNet++. The Gazebo is a time-based simulator, and OMNet++ is an event-drivensimulator which means the synchronization of both simulators needs to be carefully andaccurately handled. One alternative is to implement a module setting ROS clock as the timereference and scheduling a corresponding OMNet++ message so as to force the OMNet++simulator to generate an event based on timestamps in ROS [22].Most recently, a more sophisticated open-source integration interface of ROS-Network
thinking skills that can help students program in any language. This paper illustrates the creation and implementation of an innovative approach to developalgorithmic reasoning and computational thinking with two popular programming languages, Cand Python for middle school female students by using a hands-on, application-oriented approach.The research questions for this study are: 1) What factors are involved in identifying STEM-confidence in middle-school female students when learning in a female-only STEM learning environment? 2) How are Femineer® students developing algorithmic reasoning or computational thinking through participation in this Innovative Coding curriculum?This curriculum will become part of the Femineer
, Kettering University Dr. Peters is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kettering University.Miss Meher Rusi Taleyarkhan, Purdue University, West Lafayette Meher R. Taleyarkhan is a graduate student earning her Master’s in Engineering Technology degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette Indiana. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University and majored in Mechanical Engineering Technology. During her undergraduate she was an un- dergraduate research assistant studying renewable energy with an emphasis on solar energy for residential and utility use. Current research as a Master’s student is in curriculum development for engineering tech- nology programs, notably at Purdue
. Teachers were alsodivided into grade-level groups and were tasked with presenting a lesson they would deliver totheir respective grade-level. The final assignment was an individual implementation plan thatrequired the teachers to explain how they would be integrating CS into their curriculum in thefollowing academic year.2.1.3. Saturday WorkshopsThe project included five half-day workshops held on Saturdays across the academic year. Thepurpose of these workshops was to support participants in enacting the CS they learned in the Figure 2. Summer PD program second-week CS pedagogy course schedule.summer, as well as to return to major CS topics (e.g., conditionals, flowcharts, variables, event-driven programming, etc.). An explicit focus of
short video is presented thatshows the ideal set of choices to maximize the score, and how the 3C’s (and the KEENframework) is related to various choices in the game. Students are encouraged to apply EM inthe upcoming project, outside the class, and their future careers as engineers.The TY4YS activity is part of an EM module, which includes an instructional video,discussions/reflections, and the assessment quiz. All of these resources can be accessed viahttps://engineeringunleashed.com/card/2427. The EM module is suited for both online or on-sitecourses, with or without flipped-classroom structure. It is easily integrated into existing courses.Research Approach and ResultsTo measure the effectiveness of this gamified intervention, the students
University. He is currently interested in engineering design education, engineering education policy, and the philosophy of engineering education.Dr. John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin John Heywood is professorial Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin- The University of Dublin. he is a Fellow of ASEE and Life Fellow of IEEE. he is an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Ireland. He has special interest in education for the professions and the role of professions in society, and the work of ASEE’s TELPhE division from whom he has received a best paper and meritorious service awards. He is author of Engineering Education. Research and Development in Curriculum and Instruc- tion which received an outstanding