Paper ID #45909BOARD # 292: Prospective Elementary Teachers Design Models to ExplainPhenomena DUE IUSEDr. Jaclyn K. Murray, Mercer University Jaclyn K. Murray is an Assistant Professor of Science & Engineering Education at Mercer University.Alex St Louis, Mercer University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Prospective Elementary Teachers Design Models to Explain Phenomena IUSE PROBLEMDesign thinking in scientific modeling promotes creativity, collaboration, and iterativerefinement, making it an effective educational tool that enhances critical
other subjects. Moreover,there are many questions about the dispositions for, attitudes toward, and stereotypes concerningcomputational thinking and how they connect to stronger learner identity. Investigatingdifferences between how males and females develop computational thinking is also needed, aswell as the trajectory between novice and expert computational thinking. Very little research hasbeen published on how teachers learn to incorporate computational thinking into their content.Project ActivitiesWe envisioned a professional learning experience for secondary STEM teachers that wouldprovide an authentic research experience in data science. We also wanted to help translate thatexperience into high quality curriculum that incorporates the
work in curriculum, Dr. Linder has multiple national publications relating to early childhood and elementary mathematics motivation and achievement, preservice and inservice teacher quality and professional development, cross-curricular and technology integration in mathematics, and teacher beliefs related to mathematics pedagogy.Dr. Cindy M. Lee, Clemson University Cindy M. Lee serves as the department chair of Clemson University’s Engineering and Science Education Department, a graduate-only department that offers a graduate certificate program in STEM education pedagogy and introduction to education research methods as well as a PhD program in STEM education research. Cindy’s research and teaching has focused on
Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research is on engineering design reasoning.Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PWL) (COE) Carla B. Zoltowski is an associate professor of engineering practice in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and (by courtesy) the School of Engineering Education, and Director of the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program within the College of Engineering at Purdue. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue. Dr. Zoltowski’s research interests include the professional formation of engineers, human-centered design, and engineering
engineering makerspaces have on engineering students. It was clear in our initialefforts of survey development and implantation that there was a greater depth and moreopenness to the questions that we were asking about makerspaces. These three studies thatwe have presented here address our current state of research on makerspaces. While itconstitutes both a review of previous literature that has been published and new findings, thispapers aims to showcase how to integrate different approaches for studying a highly complexand uncontrolled space. Longitudinal data of design self-efficacy, retention, GPA, demographicsand makerspace involvement are all being collected. In order to interpret and expand on thedata, we pursued implementing an ethnographic
teachers inSouthwest Virginia experience while integrating engineering into their classrooms. These needsguided both the format and content of the workshop. Participants expressed a strong desire forpractical, adaptable tools and resources that could align with their existing curriculum and forgreater exposure to engineering career pathways.The workshop addressed these needs through several hands-on activities. For instance, onesession focused on systems thinking and explored the interconnectedness of systems and theirapplication in various subjects. Another session included a data science activity that usedregional datasets to demonstrate the local relevance of engineering problems. Additional sessionsincluded programmable microcontrollers, lab
21st century of digital learning, and technology integration. Yang’s latest research focuses on employing an innovative synergis- tic approach to prevent/eliminate misconceptions from forming with first-year engineering students, and teaching STEM disciplines in online environments.Dr. Inanc Senocak, Boise State University Dr. Inanc Senocak is an associate professor with the Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineer- ing at Boise State University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Florida in 2002. Dr. Senocak served as a postdoctoral research associate at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Stanford University prior to joining Boise State in 2007. Dr. Senocak
materials as they progress through theengineering curriculum. Moreover, by introducing engineering through the lens of the NAEGrand Challenges, we ought to be able to capture and motivate a broader, more diverse array ofstudents. The Elective Units are electronic in format, learner-centered and designed for on-linedelivery. These materials are thus readily translated and integrated into the freshman engineeringcurricula at most any college or university.The ENGR 102 HS component of the proposed work addresses national interest in theproduction of skilled STEM professionals (including K−12 teachers) and citizens knowledgeableabout STEM. In this innovative arrangement between the College of Engineering and highschools in Arizona, students gain an
need to widenor build new roadways; (3) improve transportation access for the young, older adults, and peoplewith disabilities; (4) reduce costs associated with delivering freight, and (5) reduce the need toengage in driving, and thereby reduce stress associated with driving and allow for moreproductive use of commuting time. To that end, the development of AV and other transportationdisruptive technologies has and will continue to require an interdisciplinary approach, leveraginginput from engineers and scientists from multiple fields and varied backgrounds.However, there are significant challenges with introducing new and cutting-edge content (e.g.,transportation disruptive technologies) into the curriculum for a broad population of
fairness and mistreatment in the workplace and in STEM classrooms and programs.Dr. Jeffrey E. Froyd, Ohio State University Dr. Jeffrey E. Froyd is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Education in the College of En- gineering at Ohio State University, College Station. He received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He was an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and a Research Profes- sor at Texas A&M University. At Rose-Hulman, he co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum
through during a design. Tobuild upon concepts learned and components used, few sensors and integrated circuits were added to thedesign to construct the full hardware of a smart street light in figure 3. Smart street lights are the public streetlighting that adapt to the light in the surrounding where they are automatically turned OFF or ON during theday and night respectively. To add functionality to the design, a simple introduction to programming was donewhere participants wrote a simple code to make an LED blink. Fig. 3: Smart street light hardware design.Day 4: Smart Street Light Software Design (Related Disciplines: Engineering, Technology, and AppliedScience, Computer Science)Participants were
Cybersecurity program and serves as Academic Coordinator of the M.S. in Software Engineering Program at West Virginia University. She has served on program and organizing committees of many international conferences and workshops.Dr. Erin Carll, University of Washington Erin Carll is a research scientist at the University of Washington Center for Evaluation and Research for STEM Equity. She earned a PhD and MA in Sociology as well as a certificate in demographic methods and a concentration in social statistics from UW. She also earned an MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from Columbia University, a BA in Political Science and Russian Studies from Central Connecticut State University, and an AA in Liberal
communication, interpersonal,and teamwork [1]. This project, supported by NSF DUE #2012339, aimed to incorporate softskills training and experiential learning into a required curriculum for an engineering honorsprogram at a research intensive university.Employers of college graduates consistently rate communication skills and teamwork as criticalin the candidate selection process [1] and look for problem solving skills and group projects onresumes [2]. To address these needs, we designed two courses to prepare future leaders of theSTEM workforce: Service Learning in STEM and Leadership in STEM. Class sizes are small,with 20-35 students per section, to ensure that students have every opportunity to have a voicein class, and be open about their
virtual lab experiences havemuch more possibilities without being limited to lab courses. The project team and faculty in EEsuccessfully integrated laboratory experiences into purely theoretical courses via Hardware-in-Homework (HiH) concept [13, 14]. The Analog Discovery kit is a good example of HiH, whichcan play an important role for students who learn EE materials in an online setting. The uniquemeasurement features of the Analog Discovery kit can be appropriately applied to lower to upper-level courses [14]. Due to its readily available and portable nature, it will be beneficial forstudents who learn well with hands-on activities. With a growing need of an integration of online labs in engineering curriculum, it isimperative that we
experience for thesynthesis and integration of prior engineering content knowledge [1]. It may have implication onthe disciplinary approach to teaching and learning, as well as how different educationalexperience and interventions in the classroom may advance learning. With an ultimate goal offacilitating more effective teaching and learning of design [2], this study proposes thedevelopment of methods to assess engineering understanding [3], conceptions of engineering anddesign, and an assessment framework for design learning. For the purposes of this study wedifferentiate between design and engineering ways of knowing, thinking and doing (problemformulation and problem solving), and design and engineering learning (focused on change inthe student’s
education to explore how language, race, and socialization shape engineering pathways and engineering practice. In 2025, Dr. Mejia received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award for his contributions to engineering education.Dr. Laurie O Campbell, University of Central Florida Laurie O. Campbell, Ed.D., is an Assoc. Professor of STEM and Instructional Design and Technology, at the University of Central Florida. She pursues research related to STEM curriculum and STEM identity among underserved and underrepresented populations, pDr. Florencio Eloy Hernandez, TAMUCC Hern´andez currently serves as a Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the College of Science at Texas A&M
VOLTA can be used as an effective learning tool in circuits’ laboratories.1. IntroductionLaboratories have always been an integral part of the engineering education, where engineeringconcepts were reinforced by hands-on experience in laboratory experiments. Traditional on-siteexperiment-based laboratories have several limitations, such as expensive laboratory resources,limited space, schedule conflicts and short term exposure. Therefore, it is necessary to find Page 26.449.2alternative methods for enhancing the engineering laboratory experience.1,2.Over the past few decades, interesting laboratories have been developed in different branches
2011, she has been a Teaching Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Currently, she is the Education Director for the NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST).Dr. Pam Page Carpenter, Pam Page Carpenter, Ed.D is Director of Education programs for the National Science Foundation Fu- ture Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center headquartered at NC State University. She has developed and led K-20 programs in renewable energy and alternative transportation with a focus on and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). She is an
. Connie Mosher Syharat, University of Connecticut Connie Mosher Syharat is a Ph.D. student in Curriculum and Instruction and a Research Assistant at the University of Connecticut as a part of two neurodiversity-centered NSF-funded projects, Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (NSF:RED) ”Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engi- neering Innovation” and Innovations in Graduate Education (NSF:IGE) Encouraging the Participation of Neurodiverse Students in STEM Graduate Programs to Radically Enhance the Creativity of the Pro- fessional Workforce”. In her time at the University of Connecticut she has also has served as Program Assistant for an summer program in engineering for middle school students with
, quality, novelty, and variety of the solutions. Results indicatedthat the task-specific self-concept scores of self-efficacy, motivation, and outcome expectancydid not change significantly as students progressed through the engineering curriculum, althoughthe level of anxiety was less for the seniors than the sophomores. It was also found that the task-specific self-concept scores were not accurate predictors of the design ideation abilities of thestudents.IntroductionSelf-efficacy is defined as an individual’s belief in his or her own capabilities to performactivities in order to successfully achieve a specific outcome. A student with high self-efficacytends to expend more effort towards the activity, persevere when encountering obstacles
students mustobtain prior to attending these courses. In an effort to identify and attract more entry-level college studentsto these programs, faculty at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) have been working with OnondagaCommunity College and Corning Community College to develop a sequence of entertaining, engaging, andeducational forensic games, suitable for first year students in college. We explore game-based learningstrategies to engage students learning through interactive game scenarios. Following narrative and/orstorylines of the game via interactive dialogs and visualized abstract concepts, we expect that students willbe motivated and engaged to obtain the necessary knowledge, and to develop their problem-solving skillswhile playing
. Page 24.714.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Improvements through the Second Year Research Experiences for Teachers ProgramAbstractWe have successfully finished our second summer in our National Science Foundation (NSF)supported Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site entitled “Multidisciplinary EngineeringResearch for Rural Michigan's Future.” The summer program was 6 weeks long and hosted 7 in-service teachers (high school science) and 5 pre-service teachers (integrated science majors).Participants were split into 6 groups and teamed up with an engineering faculty and anengineering undergraduate student each. During their 40 hours/week work
Engineering Education, Shuman is the Founding Editor of Advances in Engineering Education. He has published widely in engineering education literature, and is co-author of Engineering Ethics: Balancing Cost, Schedule and Risk - Lessons Learned from the Space Shuttle (Cambridge University Press). He received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University in Operations Research and a B.S.E.E. from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Shuman is an ASEE Fellow.Dr. Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Mary Besterfield-Sacre is the Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor in Industrial Engineering at the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh. She is the Director for the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson
Engineering Studies, and Executive Committee Member of the International Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum. Dr. Zhu’s research interests include global and international engineering education, engineering ethics, engineering cultures, and ethics and policy of computing technologies and robotics.Dr. Scott Streiner, University of Pittsburgh Scott Streiner is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department, teaches in the First-Year Engineering Program and works in the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Scott has received funding through NSF to conduct research on the impact of game-based learning on the development of
A&M University. His research interests include integration of supply chain management with new product development decisions, distributor service portfolio optimization, pricing optimization, supply chain risk analysis, lean and six sigma, and large scale optimization. He has authored 30 refereed articles in leading supply chain and operations management journals, and 35 peer reviewed conference proceedings articles in these areas. He has B.S. in ME, and both M.S. and Ph.D. in IE. He is a member of ASEE, INFORMS, and a senior member of IIE.Dr. Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and In- dustrial Distribution
2015.1,2 Research and development in nanotechnology is likely to changecompletely the design, analysis, and manufacturing for a wide range of engineering products.Nanotechnology, however, is still mostly a topic for graduate schools whereas undergraduateprograms that focus on nanotechnology remain sporadic.3 Our NSF-NUE award will builda multidisciplinary, cross-campus educational program that integrates nanotechnology to theundergraduate curricula in science and engineering. Our educational program in nanotechnologywill also reach out to high school (K9-K12) and graduate students.In the development of an educational program for introducing nanotechnology to undergraduate(UG) students majoring in STEM at the New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Intense Course ModulesThis paper presents two new course modules that have been developed for junior-level ChemicalEngineering core courses: Chemical Reaction Engineering and Chemical EngineeringThermodynamics II. As currently offered at Rowan University, both of these courses integratesimulation and computer lab activities in which students devise models of key physical systems,and then interrogate the models to study cause-and-effect in these physical systems. Thesecomputer labs are an integral part of both courses, but the scope (one 160-minute period) limitsthe complexity of the models that can be used, if the students are required to build the modelthemselves. In the course modules described here, students will study two physical systems
Paper ID #9940Virtual Community of Practice: Electric CircuitsProf. Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDr. Lisa Huettel, Duke University Dr. Lisa G. Huettel is an associate professor of the practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University where she also serves as associate chair and director of Undergraduate Studies for the department. She received a B.S. in Engineering Science from Harvard University and earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Duke University. Her research interests are focused on engineering education, curriculum and laboratory
Americas and First VP. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Model of Domain Learning Based Skill Assessment: Instrument Set Choice Flexibility & ComplexityThe assessment of students’ development in their professional skills has been discussed to bechallenging not only for the engineering curriculum but also in other undergraduate programs,including information sciences, business, and other disciplines. Given the importance ofdeveloping these skills in students, an assessment framework based on the Model of DomainLearning (MDL) is proposed. The use of MDL is aimed at providing flexibility and practicalityin the assessment of these skills. In this paper, the implementation
, among other publications.Dr. James Nyachwaya Nyachwaya, North Dakota State University James Nyachwaya is an Associate professor in the departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and School of Education at North Dakota State University.Emily A Berg, North Dakota State University Emily Berg is the Director of Institutional Research and Analysis at North Dakota State University.Dr. Jared Ladbury, Minnesota State University MoorheadProf. Paul Kelter, North Dakota State University Paul Kelter’s 39-year career has focused on the integration and transfer of knowledge among students and teachers at all educational levels. He was the inaugural director of the Science Outreach Office at the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh in