Paper ID #34434Improving Programming Content Delivery in an Introductory BiomechanicsCourse Using a Blended Classroom ApproachMr. Jeffery Ethan Joll II, Vanderbilt University Ethan is in the final year of his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University where he works under Dave Merryman. His laboratory work investigates the mechanobiological underpinnings of cal- cific aortic valve disease and post-menopausal osteoporosis. His education research focuses on blended learning strategies to improve content delivery in undergraduate biomedical engineering courses. He is investigating careers in educational research
, biology, and engineering. For the past three years, Melissa has been a content specialist for CTE where her role is to support and advocate for all CTE teachers across the Tempe Union High School District and teaching engineering part-time. Melissa’s undying passion and love of science, technology, and mathematics are what drives her in her teaching career. Melissa has a bachelor’s of science education from New Mexico State University and a Master’s in Education from the Teachers in Industry program at the University of Arizona. During her Master’s degree program she discovered her passion in education by becoming apart of Career and Technical Education. She started the engineering program at Mountain Pointe High
Foundation CAREER award and the NIH New innovator award.Prof. Pinshane Y. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Pinshane Y. Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University, as well as a B.A. in Physics from Carleton College.Prof. Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Andr´e Schleife is a Blue Waters Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineer- ing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He obtained his Diploma and Ph.D. at Friedrich- Schiller-University in Jena, Germany for his theoretical
learning.Keywords: NSSE, high impact educational practices, engagement IntroductionResearch shows that engineering majors lose talented, capable individuals to other non-engineering majors and careers [3]. Despite ongoing efforts to improve science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate persistence and success, the attrition ratesamong women and students in underrepresented minority groups have increased over the pastdecade. A recent report suggests that nearly half of college students starting in STEM majors leavethe STEM field before the fourth year of their degree program [13]. Over the years, researchershave developed innovative ways to increase engagement among engineering students
not see the relevance of such coursework in advancing their studiesand careers. Students generate coursework motivation when they see the relevance to their careers.Coursework overload could have a negative effect on academic success, especially among first-year students, because they might develop overwhelming feelings. Also, faculty must be aware ofthe diverse background of E/CS students, which means that some students are less equipped tohandle overloaded coursework than others.Academic achievement is also a marker for persistence, admission, and further studies in agraduate school in an engineering major. Academic achievement is powered by a students'deliberate practice, willpower, interest, love of learning [11]. Over the recent years
. C. Flanagan, “The Critical Incident Technique,” Psychol. Bull., EDP careers poems. Phase 2 will uncover the experiences and contexts critical to Figure 3: Data analysis sequence with purpose of each phase vol. 51, no. 4, 1954. the development of engineering teacher professional identities forFigure 1: Superstar elementary teacher of engineering superstar teachers using the fourth step of the critical
Paper ID #32668Quality Improvement Using a Stage Gate Approach in EngineeringProgrammes and CoursesDr. Calvin Sophistus King, MCET Heads Outcome Based Education division of the college. Is responsible for implementation and review of outcome based approach in programmes offered. Teaches engineering at the first degree level.Dr. Venugopalan Kovaichelvan, TVS Institute for Quality and Leadership Dr. V. KOVAICHELVAN is the Director of TVS Institute for Quality and Leadership, the Corporate University of TVS Motor Company Limited, India. The Institute focus on holistic development of talent through career lifecycle with focus
: emotional and psychological support; directassistance with career and professional development; and role modeling. In academic support forSTEM majors, peer mentoring has often referred to upper-year students serving as academicsocial role models for lower-year students. For the purpose of this study “peer mentoring” andsubsequently “peer mentor(s)” will refer to year 2-6 students who lead first-year students in pre-college engineering camps, serve as Supplemental Instructors in historically challenging coursesin engineering, conduct community outreach events, and assist first-year students withscheduling their courses [6]. Crisp and Cruz [7], and Kiyama and Luca [8] contend that there is a gap in the literatureon the experience of mentors
research is related to engineering education and modeling, designing, building, instrumenting and testing complex systems ranging from spacecraft to electric vehicles.Caroline Benish American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Assessing the Value and Implementation of Interdisciplinary Activities in Academic Makerspaces and Machine ShopsIntroductionThis paper first investigates the value that engineering companies place on (1) interdisciplinaryexperiences and (2) hands-on skills learned in university makerspaces and machine shops. Asurvey was completed by 259 company representatives at the University of Wisconsin College ofEngineering (UW CoE) career
me.One of the returners referred to his experiences making him more confident, and extrapolatedthat beyond his coursework and into his future possible career trajectory, stating that I actually feel confident that if I got sent to China and someone would translate the code for me I could make sense of it, you know, or Europe, so I like the fact that those courses marry the theory, which I appreciate, with the practical knowledge, which makes you a better engineer, a more intellectual, intelligent engineer. It makes you more versatile. It makes you understand where everything comes from, that's the whole point.Decreases in ConfidenceWhile the majority of those who mentioned confidence reported that theirs had been
. Respondents (N=16) estimatedthat they had used these curriculum materials with over 3,600 students across grades 5-12.Evaluation results indicate that 93% of RET teachers who authored and used the units “agreed”or “strongly agreed” on a five-point Likert scale that: their students were very interested in thecurriculum activities; that the curriculum increased their students’ awareness of neuralengineering careers; and that the curriculum was a useful teaching resource that used engaging,real life contexts and had strong ties to neural engineering concepts.Acknowledgements: The RET program was conducted at the Center for Neurotechnology. It was supported byAward Number EEC-1028725 from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Supplementary funding
or beyond theircollege careers. TABLE VI PRACTICE PROBLEMS QUOTES (MATRIX LOWER HEMISPHERE) Pseudonym Quote Momo “I’d like it if I had more choice into the projects I want to work on… but it is important to give students the option of choice to a certain limit - it might be unfair to students if it was totally open” Azula “I really like what Solar Car does - giving students free reign to work on the problem… but in classes, initially I wouldn’t want to get a very broad problem and figure it out, especially in intro courses.” Haru “So far we’ve just been doing the
(Chabalengulaet al., 2017). The grouping of engineering as part of STEM has essentially left the decision to teachengineering topics in pre-college setting up to science or technology teachers (Honey et al., 2014;NGSS Lead States, 2013).If engineering is offered as its own course, it is typically included under the Career and TechnicalEducation (CTE) electives (Lewis & Zuga, 2005). This option then leads to other challenges ofmeeting state CTE standards that tend to emphasize technology learning. The decision to lumpengineering in with these other disciplines is also closely tied to the difficulties associated withfinding teachers trained in engineering content areas. The majority of currently available pre-service teacher education does not cover
pole representing programs emphasizing systems thinking and low fidelity modeling, interaction competencies , and leadership competencies and (B) the opposite pole representing programs emphasizing an in-depth treatment of numerical analysis, and subfields such as reliability engineering, and requirements engineering. A key takeaway from the paper is our program is designed to intellectually stretch our students consistently by requiring coursework in some area the student has not been in before. We believe that our curricular design will develop students who are more nibble, less averse to ambiguity, and with a leaning to remaining a life long learner over their careers. This is an unproven
concise definition of “critical thinking” (CT): the objective analysisand evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement. Wikipedia defines CT as the analysis offacts to form a judgment; the rational, skeptical, unbiased analysis, or evaluation of factualevidence. Everyone agrees that critical thinking is a desirable trait. However, it is difficult toexplain exactly what it is, and even more difficult to teach it. The Indeed Career Guide [7]includes the following five common and impactful critical thinking skills in its top list:observation; analysis; inference; communication; and problem solving. Jessop [8] gives a verycomprehensive definition of CT: “Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process ofactively and skillfully
Education at Tufts University. Her research efforts at at the Center for Engineering Education and Out- reach focus on supporting discourse and design practices during K-12, teacher education, and college- level engineering learning experiences, and increasing access to engineering in the elementary school ex- perience, especially in under-resourced schools. In 2016 she was a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). https://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/faculty/kristen- bethke-wendellDr. Chelsea Andrews, Tufts University Chelsea Andrews is a post-doctoral researcher at Tufts University and University of Massachusetts-Boston in STEM education. She received a B.S. from
Electrical Engineering from Howard University and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He is currently serving as professor and Interim Dean for the Clarence Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering. Morgan State University at one of the na- tion’s preeminent public urban research institutions in the Clarence Mitchell Jr. School of Engineering at Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland. His career spans over twenty-eight years of progressive scholarly experience in such areas as research administration/ implementation, pedagogical innovation, international collaboration, strategic planning, promoting community engagement and academic program development. He instructs courses in computer vision
graduate study and HPC careers byengaging them in exciting and meaningful research experiences and by cultivating their talentsduring their summer experiences and beyond. To address this project goal, our REU sitepursued three objectives: 1) Engage a total of 10 students annually from traditionally underrepresented groups or from colleges and universities with limited research opportunities, immersing these students in ongoing research projects in HPC-related engineering fields. 2) Cultivate talented students to effectively plan, conduct, and communicate scientific research through meaningful and engaging research projects, close and effective mentoring, weekly group meetings, mentor training, and public presentations. 3
Professor and Founding Chair of Experi- ential Engineering Education at Rowan University. Dr. Farrell has contributed to engineering education through her work in inductive pedagogy, spatial skills, and inclusion and diversity. She has been hon- ored by the American Society of Engineering Education with several teaching awards such as the 2004 National Outstanding Teaching Medal and the 2005 Quinn Award for experiential learning, and she was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland).Dr. Rocio C Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education Rocio Chavela is Director of Education and Career Development at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE
successful business. Junior Engineer at You are a junior engineer at Occidental Engineering. You were hired 6 months ago after a grueling job search. Having recentlyOccidental Engineering graduated from a highly prestigious engineering university, you approach the engineering field with enthusiasm and moral vigor. You want the world to be a better place for all people, especially for your family. Spouse of the Junior You are the spouse of a junior engineer at Occidental Engineering. Both of you are young and ambitious, but you have decided to put Engineer your career on hold in order to take care of your new baby. Your spouse works in the Aerospace
. In contrast to the previous process, volunteers can now quickly complete tasks byperforming simple changes on their mobile devices. In addition, Trusted World staff are now able to morecompletely understand and visualize the state of their operations through specialized reporting functions.SummaryBy working on mission-critical projects for nonprofits, students are able to engage with the community whilelearning personal and interpersonal skills. Trusted Inventory is a successful case study of a combinedlab-lecture approach with direct student-client interaction that increased efficiency of a nonprofit organizationand helped prepare students for future careers in industry.AcknowledgementsThank you to team members Han Bao, Justin Chen, Sid
of their career preparation and ultimately into their engineeringstudies. In this qualitative method, open interviews provide research participants an opportunity tonarrate and construct meaning of their life history. The interview questions were open responseallowing participants to guide the information sharing and tell the context and concepts in their ownlinguistic and cognitive framework. From a total of 24 interviews, 11 themes emerged, includingfaculty support, and most comments about faculty mentorship were positive. Check-in survey results for mentee satisfaction in 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 had 100% and 95%very satisfied or satisfied responses. In Fall 2017, 100% of mentors were 100% very satisfied orsatisfied. In Spring 2018 one
, behaviors, and mindsets relevant to various STEM careers. Through students’participation, program leadership and researchers expect students to internalize attitudes andbehaviors that can support a future career in STEM. As a result, the program design intends todefine what it means to be STEM professional for the pre-college participants. By exposingdiverse pre-college students to the field of engineering, the program design becomes a criticalcomponent of the STEM education ecosystem that defines who belongs and what counts inengineering education.This paper uses critical reflection to challenge cultural ideologies commonly embedded in aninformal engineering program. This paper includes critical reflections of two engineeringeducation researchers
,constructive feedback avoids personal criticisms.Is speedy. We all need feedback. Our careers are dependent on it. The great work weare doing cannot be shared and be used by others if it is not published in a timelymanner. 7One way that you might think how to start your review is to ask yourself these 3questions. If the answer is yes to all 3. it’s likely that you want to convey yourenthusiasm for the work and offered specific and addressable suggestions to theauthorsNicki Sochacka talks about there being a common exception to this approach. What ifthe answer is yes but the problem, theory (if used), methodology/methods, andfindings do not align and, therefore, the
Committee on the Integration of Education in STEM, Humanities, and Arts, culminating with the release of the National Academies report ”The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineer- ing, and Medicine in Higher Education: Branches from the Same Tree.” He is currently a member of the National Academies Planning Committee for the Convocation on Promotion and Tenure. Professor Martello is the author of Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American En- terprise, a study of how Paul Revere’s manufacturing career helped pioneer America’s transition into the industrial age, and is currently researching Benjamin Franklin’s printing and business endeavors
for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conferencewith a project conducted on Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) University Design Challengeand it illustrated that the approach enhanced the design functionalities stipulated by the AFRL. Figure 1 Subject matter experts (SME) integrated into the traditional series of steps in engineering design [4] 2. Description of the Program, Capstone Course and SME Integrated Approach The curriculum in mechanical & industrial engineering (MIE) emphasizes design,manufacture, and automation while preparing students for careers in industry and continuededucation. A four-credit engineering design course is designed
, and lectures.from various engineering disciplines. The course Previously, an engineering graphics and “fundamentals”presented a great breadth of topics through a series of style intro sequence was required of all students and thetutorials, laboratory experiments, and lectures. When faculty led the programs through a change to thereflecting and commenting on the course, students aforementioned model in 2008. In 2012, the author started hisexpressed frustration with a “lack of accomplishment” faculty career at Norwich and was immediately tasked withand “jumping around”—indicators of low self-efficacy “fixing” this introductory course, which was in its infancy. Abeliefs. Further
]. Further, the lack of access andinclusion begins much earlier than the college level. Traditionally, access to pre-collegeengineering education programming in classrooms could be described as limited and sporadic,with most such programs in extra-curricular or summer programming [16]–[19]. Such programsare important but depend on students being able to access them and may not be sustained overmore than a few weeks’ time. Thus, issues of access and exclusion in engineering can begin inK-12 education: students without access to such programming have had less opportunity todevelop an engineering identity, defined here as relating to, “…[students] earliest conceptions ofengineering and potential career aspirations and how these conceptions and
engineering education,and embody diversity from the perspective of gender, international identity, career stage,underrepresented minority status, and first-generation. We will present salient features fromeach pathway that connect to potential recommendations for advancing recruitment and retentionefforts in engineering. We will also highlight themes across each pathway in the context offrameworks that represent the college experience, and conceptualizing value within a system.IntroductionThe topic of diversity and inclusion has been a longstanding topic of exploration with theengineering education community. From the onset and over a century long period, societal needshave influenced the evolution of the engineering education field and the field in
gradeandtheirperceptionsofengineering? MechanicalEngineers Hollands Career Centerhttp://www.utsa.edu/careercenter/images/riasec/riasec.png http://www.onetonline.org PreliminaryResults:InterestFit of Personal Interests and Perceptions of Engineering Survey (F-PIPES) 3.00 2.90 2.80 2.70 2.60 All Students 2.50 2.40 2.30 2.20 2.10 2.00 Realistic Investigative Artistic Social Enterprising Conventional Interests (N=715) 2.57 2.55 2.50 2.80 2.63 2.42 Perceptions (N=653