of California, Merced in 2018. As a postdoctoral researcher at Purdue University, School of Engineering Education Soheil is working on a multi-institutional project characterizing governance processes related to change in engineering education, and pursuing other research interests in epistemology and design, among other philosophical topics in engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work in Progress: What is the Impact of Engineering Education Research on University Administrators?BackgroundThis work is part of a multi-institutional project to understand how governance structures inengineering education impact educational reforms. Here
) educational programs and careers [1]. This underrepresentation is reflected in the normsand culture existing in STEM fields. The perception of a white-men dominated environment canoften result in unfair stereotypes and biases imposed on women and people of color. These studentscan face assumptions of inferiority and be considered as part of the STEM field only as part of arequirement or quota [2],[3],[4]. Group based project learning is a common tool used in the engineering classroom topromote the acquisition and development of skills that prepare students for engineering careersrequiring significant collaborative effort. Working in groups and collaborating towards acommon goal allows students to develop their communication, leadership
short student engagement activity. Typically, this could bea think-pair-share about applications of the innovation, classroom survey of what type(s) ofengineering would work on this project, or even getting a show of hands to demonstrate who hadseen the innovation previously (typically less than a quarter). This provides opportunity forstudents to connect to ideas that interest them, and to see the contexts by which engineers worktogether on similar projects.Table 1. Example engineering innovations used in a first-year engineering course. Topic Innovation Major Relation(s)* Wearable sensors that detect glucose Biomedical, Chemical, Health
and Society” isused as a general introduction to the college of engineering, while also addressing socialchallenges and the values of problem solving from a multidisciplinary approach, by using thehuman centered design process. A team project based course, students are presented andencouraged to explore prototyping skills such as solid modeling, basic programming skills,electronics, sensors, data acquisition, power tools, and 3D printing [3]. It was clear that whatever an introductory engineering program’s structure, its success andoverall impact was dependent on the successful integration of multidisciplinary information andprinciples. This is for the intended purposes of providing first year students with the knowledgeto make an informed
the City University of New York and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was a Chancellor’s Fellow (City University of New York) and a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow (Weill Cornell Medical College-Division of Molecular Medicine). As the Executive Director of the LSAMP, he was responsible for the day-to-day operation of the NYC Louis Stokes Al- liance program across the 18 member campuses of City University of New York. Claude also served as the Co-Director of the Black Studies Program at the City College and the Project Director of the City College Black Male Leadership and Mentoring Program. The Black Male Leadership and Mentoring Project (BMLMP) at the City
- cation with specific emphasis on innovative pedagogical and curricular practices at the intersection with the issues of gender and diversity. With the goal of improving learning opportunities for all students and equipping faculty with the knowledge and skills necessary to create such opportunities, Dr. Zastavker’s re- cent work involves questions pertaining to students’ motivational attitudes and their learning journeys in a variety of educational environments. One of the founding faculty at Olin College, Dr. Zastavker has been engaged in development and implementation of project-based experiences in fields ranging from science to engineering and design to social sciences (e.g., Critical Reflective Writing; Teaching and
an R&D engineer for Agilent Technologies in Colorado Springs, CO where he designed electronic test equipment.Dr. Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University Carolyn Plumb is the recently retired Director of Educational Innovation and Strategic Projects in the College of Engineering at Montana State University (MSU). Plumb has been involved in engineering education and program evaluation for over 25 years, and she continues to work on externally funded projects relating to engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Design & Evaluation of a Multi-Purpose Course Structure for Teaching Digital LogicAbstractThis paper presents the
theyneed to think of more authentic and appropriate assessments? In this example, the instructorkeeps the weekly homework assignments as "concept checks” but then develops projects forstudents assessing the higher-order learning outcomes.In the fourth unit, "Learning Activities,” instructors discuss and explore learning activities thatfoster more student-centered learning environments. While the previous unit might be achallenge for some STEM instructors, this unit is the most challenging for all STEM instructors.Instructors struggle with activities that are authentic for student learning within engineering andSTEM courses. It could be logistically restrictive, for example, to have a course in a constructionmanagement class visit a construction
et al.[8] proposed and implemented an augmented reality-based drawing verification system. Thesystem utilizes both marker and markerless recognition methods for efficient operation. Theirstudy suggested that the system can improve the understanding of drawings and will be moreuseful for railway construction which consists of a combination of heterogeneous drawings.Also, Serdar [9] developed mixed reality tools in an engineering drawing course. The toolsenable students to visualize geometry problems and enhance their spatial visualization skills.In this project, student exercises from the textbooks were selected for AR model development.These AR models require 3D models of the exercises and target/scan images. These images canbe either two
Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. He also serves as an Extension Services Consultant for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). His past experiences include having been a middle school science teacher, Director of Academic and Instructional Support for the Arizona Department of Education, a research scientist for the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET), and an evaluator for several NSF projects. His first research strand concentrates on the relationship between educational policy and STEM education. His second research strand focuses on studying STEM classroom interactions and subsequent effects on student
Electrical Engineering department at California Polytechnic State Uni- versity. He has a BS in Engineering with a Computer concentration from LeTourneau University and a PhD in Engineering with an emphasis on Microelectronics from Louisiana Tech University. His current activities focus on project based learning and online student assessment.Dr. Bridget Benson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Bridget Benson received a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obipso in 2005, a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara in 2007 and a PhD degree in the Computer Science and Engi- neering at
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Kettering University. Dr. Finelli’s current research interests include student resistance to active learning, faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices, the use of technology and innovative pedagogies on student learning and success, and the impact of a flexible classroom space on faculty teaching and student learning. She also led a project to develop a taxonomy for the field of engineering education research, and she was part of a team that studied ethical decision-making in engineering students. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Continued Assessment of i-Newton for the Engaged Learning of
Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His areas of scholarship include student teaming, longitudinal studies of engineering undergraduates, and data visualization. He is a founding developer of the CATME system, a free, web- based system that helps faculty assign students to teams and conduct self- and peer-evaluations. He is a co-author of the Engineering Communication Manual, an undergraduate text published in 2016 by Oxford Univ. Press. He can occasionally be found playing guitar at a local open mic.Mr. Russell Andrew Long, Purdue University Russell Long, M.Ed. was the Director of Project Assessment at the Purdue University School of Engineer- ing Education (retired) and is Managing Director of The Multiple
the Division of Engineering, Design & Society at Colorado School of Mines. She is a social scientist, holding a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of California at Irvine and an MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago. She is Co-Chair of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology and Computing in the American Anthropological Association. She studies experts and their work in relation to environments, technolo- gies, and human lives. Her current research projects deal with earthquake risk management technology in Mexico and the United States, environmental data justice in the US/Mexican borderlands, and the development and practice of engineering expertise
NeedsAbstractAs institutions of higher education strive to maintain effective and affordable educationalpathways, innovative partnerships between associate and baccalaureate degree grantinginstitutions can facilitate a student’s progress while maintaining close alignment with industryneeds. This paper details the continuing efforts of a multi-year project between a two-yearcollege, a university and industry that has resulted in the creation of well-aligned associate andbaccalaureate degrees in mechanical engineering technology. These offerings represent newdegrees for both institutions, as well as an entirely new department of engineering technology forthe university that complements its already existing engineering programs. Both degrees arebased on a
Paper ID #26700Board 111: STEM Curriculum for a Minority Girls’ After-School Program(Work-in-Process-Diversity)Ms. Henriette D Burns, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, IL Henriette is currently a STEM Fellow at SIUE STEM Center. She has worked at Johnson & Johnson, Ab- bott Labs, Baxter Labs, Tenneco, Monsanto, Frucon Construction, SC Johnson Wax and HP as a design engineer, a manufacturing engineer and a project manager. She holds an engineering degree from North- western University, an MBA from University of Oregon and a MiT from Washington State University where she is currently finishing her Ph.D. in Math
., Charleston, WV Synergistic Activities: Project Leadership Team for STEM Achievement in Baltimore Elementary Schools (SABES), an NSF Funded Math Science Partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools Grant No. DUE- 1237992, 2012 – 2018. Advancing Excellence in P-12 Engineering Education contributor 2017 and 2018 100K in 10 project team, 2019 Professional Engineer, Commonwealth of Virginia, License No. 021864, 1996-2010 Board of Directors, Maryland Science Olympiad, 2010-present; Chair, 2017 - present Co- Lead, STEM workgroup, Consortium for Urban Education, Baltimore, MD 2014-2015 Maryland State Department of Education STEM Equity workgroup 2014-2015 Champions Board, Mid Atlantic Girls Collaborative Network
project would increase China’s independent ability, efficiency, and quality in key com-ponent manufacturing. He took with him to China his laptop and an external hard drive containing a significant amount ofthe U.S. company’s highly sensitive, proprietary, and export-controlled materials—including data from projects outsidehis scope or access.Upon his return to the United States from China, the Chinese citizen was found in possession of several suspicious doc-uments containing Chinese characters and $10,000 in cash. Weeks later, he tried departing the United States for Chinawith export-controlled and proprietary documents. The documents contained information on the U.S. Air Force’s MetalAffordability Initiative. The U.S. Air Force declared the
; Computer Science The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Dr. Ala Qubbaj is the Dean for the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) and the Principle Investigator (PI) for the UTRGV’s ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF); which focuses on increasing the representation and advancement of women in STEM fields. He is also the PI on an NSF INCLUDES (Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Dis- coverers in Engineering and Science) project/Symposium for ADVANCING STEM Latinas in Academic Careers. Prior to his Dean position, Dr. Qubbaj served as Senior Associate Vice President
device that contains a collection of generic logic cells and interconnectsthat can be configured (i.e., “programmed”) to perform a specific function [2,11]. As thetechnology advances, the capacity and capability of FPGA devices continue to grow and mixed-signal blocks, such as an ADC (analog-to-digital converter), are incorporated into the devices.Since the power usage and thermal management are an important aspect of an FPGA baseddesign, the development software suite includes a power analysis tool. These make FPGAprototyping board a good experimental platform to study the power and thermal characteristics. Xilinx is one of the major FPGA manufactures and our project uses an entry-level board,Arty-A7, for the experimental platform. The
providing cost-effective online education and training inscience and engineering using the latest advances in technology and a project-based and systemsapproach. Currently, it offers certificates in mechatronics and mathematical modeling [1]. Onlineeducation is known to offer many advantages, and has grown considerably in the last fewdecades. One area of great potential for growth is in science and engineering. It is an area stillsubject to a subtle but not significant barrier to market entry [4].The role of API in the partnership included the design and delivery of suitable online curriculathat satisfy the needs of ENC, including:• electromechanical/mechatronics engineering• mechanical engineering• biomedical engineeringAccording to the Bureau of
al. (2016) pointed out that the university-basedentrepreneurial ecosystem is a complex network composed of individuals, projects,departments and units, and supports the realization of commercialization and entrepreneurship in the form of infrastructure, leadership support, education and training, financing and innovation culture. In fact, although some scholars have been discussing the university-based entrepreneurship ecosystem, they have not yet reached a consensus on its concept, but the elements of that ecosystem proposed by scholars also share some commonalities (Table 1). Table1 University-based entrepreneurial ecosystem dimensionsBuilding blocks for University
, energy audits and condition surveys for various mechanical and electrical and systems. He has conducted several projects to reduce carbon dioxide and other building emission impacts by evaluating and improving the energy practices through the integration of sustainable systems with existing systems. His current research focuses on engaging and educating students in sustainable and green buildings’ design and energy conservation. He is currently investigating various ways to reduce energy consumption in office buildings. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Enhancing Teaching Practices for Fluid Power Class with Interactive Learning Exercises and its Impacts on Students
of design isintended to capitalize on early design ideas, successful or not. However, this iteration requiresattention to features of the design and environment. One can imagine how an attentive studentmay enact design—with careful confidence building based on the results and lessons learnedfrom past project, the establishment of challenging goals and a strategy for approaching theproblem, monitoring throughout the project to ensure an appropriate trajectory, and reflection tosynthesize the experience afterwards. These aspects are among the constituent parts of Self-Regulation Theory, which was integrated with design to form the theoretical framework of thiswork.Self-regulation is “self-generated thoughts, feelings, and actions that are
efforts.IntroductionFinancial, physical, and human capital resources are used to provide additional efforts intendedto support undergraduate students in STEM, particularly underrepresented racial, ethnic, gendergroups in certain disciplines [1]-[3]. With U.S. demographic projections indicating a growth indiversity of the population, we can anticipate an increasingly diverse population ofundergraduate students. In preparation for this shift in demographics and in response to historicalissues of diversity in STEM, it is important that we begin to rethink our offerings of studentsupport.The larger project in which this paper is situated aims to help colleges improve their studentsupport investments by developing and testing the validity evidence for an instrument
thesetopics in-depth through in-class debates and an individual analysis of a topic of theirchoice. In the final team project, students design a science or engineering solution thatpromotes social justice.Students are introduced to topics in social justice through lectures, assigned readings,documentaries, discussions of current events, and guest speakers (Table I). Table I. Overview of Curriculum Week Topics and Class Activities 1 Introduction + Classroom expectations What does social justice look like? 2 Implicit Bias Representation: Who Identifies as a Scientist or Engineer? History of Sex/Gender and Sexuality in Science and Engineering 3 History of Disability in Science and Engineering
.,goals), and of strategies to achieve those goals, respectively. These three types of metacognitiveknowledge influence students’ approaches to academic work.Tasks, which refers to “problems” in our research project, can be defined in terms of threeinterrelated characteristics: task purpose, task structure, and task components (Figure 1). Metacognitive knowledge about task purpose refers to students’ perception about the underlying reasons for solving the problem; Metacognitive knowledge about task structure
to ensure their design satisfies the functional The activity is considered simple to implement, requirement and constraints.requiring only a computer station with CAD software In the rest of this paper, a more detailed description ofavailable in most engineering schools. Continuous the activity is provide as well as observations andimprovements to the project are made based on faculty assessments of the activity. Results from a student surveyobservations and assessments, as well as a survey are also presented.administered to the students. 2. Description of Project1. Introduction
Objectives [5]. Course assessment is also avery important first step towards ABET program assessment activities. Many educators reportedon the practices, strategies and tools they employed when assessing course learning outcomes.Meyer [6] reported on evaluation instrument selection and use of static versus dynamicthresholds in computer engineering courses. Sanders et.al [7] reported on assessment processesfor interdisciplinary capstone projects. Beyerlein et. Al [8] developed a framework to createefficient assessment instruments that can be used to assess capstone design courses. Rowe et al.[9] highlighted the importance of assessment at the freshman level, and reported on innovativeformative assessment used in a freshman level course with a focus
during post doctorate research positions at the Uni- versity of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan), and Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). He has taught classes for and been an advisor on capstone senior design projects for Wentworth students in the programs of electrical engineering, computer engineering, electromechanical engineering, and biomedical engineering.Mr. Joseph F. Santacroce P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Girl Scouts STEM DayAbstractGirl Scouts STEM day is a program at Wentworth Institute of Technology to help 4th or 5th gradestudents explore STEM fields. The event is organized