) demonstrated the impact of inclusive educationalprograms in STEM, where a seminar and toolkit provided students and early-career professionalswith a safe space to develop inclusive communication skills while highlighting the structuralbarriers that persist.This study aims to describe and highlight how a seminar focused on JEDI can strengthen theeducation of future sustainability minded engineers. Therefore, this work addresses the followingresearch question: how does a seminar focused on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion withina sustainability engineering program influence students' learning and understanding of JEDIprinciples in sustainability?In this paper, we share a descriptive study of student learning in a JEDI seminar offered within
United States Department of Education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Experience of Women Undergraduates Attending a Trip to a Regional Women in Computing Celebration Mary Villani Ilknur Aydin Lisa M. Cullington Computer Systems Computer Systems Provost’s Office Farmingdale State College Farmingdale State College Sacred Heart University Farmingdale, NY USA Farmingdale, NY USA Fairfield, CT USA villanmv@farmingdale.edu aydini@farmingdale.edu cullingtonl@sacredheart.eduABSTRACTInstitutions, nationally and internationally
Paper ID #37812A Comparative Study of Collaborative and Inclusive SkillsDevelopment in Capstone Design Teams at Three DifferentEngineering InstitutionsCourtney Pfluger (Teaching Professor) Dr. Courtney Pfluger took a position in Fall 2011 as an Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University as a part of the First Year Engineering Faculty and affiliated Faculty in the Chemical Engineering Department. Dr. Pfluger redesigned and piloted the first-year curriculum which included engineering design and computational problem solving using the Engineering Grand Challenges as real-world applications of global
. Journal of Mechanical Design, 141(3), 031103. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4042048[30] Linsey, J. S., Tseng, I., Fu, K., Cagan, J., Wood, K. L., & Schunn, C. (2010). A study of design fixation, its mitigation and perception in engineering design faculty. Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, 132(4).[31] Kokotovich, V. (2008). Problem analysis and thinking tools: an empirical study of non- hierarchical mind mapping. Design studies, 29(1), 49-69.[32] Dinar, M., Shah, J. J., Cagan, J., Leifer, L., Linsey, J., Smith, S. M., & Hernandez, N. V. (2015). Empirical studies of designer thinking: past, present, and future. Journal of Mechanical Design, 137(2), 021101.[33] Lee, J. W., Daly, S. R
schools from ageographic perspective?What might explain these maps?What might explain these maps?DV: Engineering enrollmentSchool SizeSurrounding SES% 4-Year GoingWhat might explain these maps?DV: Engineering enrollmentr2 = .495 Beta SigSchool Size .096 .074Surrounding SES .229 .001% 4-Year Going .456 .000What might explain these maps?DV: Engineering enrollment 4-Year Going Engineering EnrollmentWhat ideas can wegenerate forgrouping schools?What VA universities come tomind when you hear“engineering”?Where do Virginia students go toschool for engineering by region ?From what Virginia regions doengineering students at each of the mainVirginia engineering schools come?Take a guess:What comes to mind in termsof high
Adolescence, Contemporary Educational Psychology, c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #27418and Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. She received a Spencer Foundation Grant in 2007to examine academic prospects, interpersonal relationships, and social well-being of students in schooldistricts with a high concentration of students of Arab and Chaldean origins. Recently, she received in-ternal grants from the University of Toledo to conduct mindfulness intervention projects with elementaryschool students and preservice teachers. She is also the recipient of the Fulbright Specialist Fellowship
require significant research and development as best practices aredeveloped and refined. In this paper we focus on the third in that list: integrated curricula.Combining content from multiple disciplines in a meaningful way is no easy task, and it isimportant to ensure that the essential aspects of each of the different content areas are not lostthrough the process of integration. With that in mind, in this study we examine the engineeringcontent in 10 curricular units developed for use in science classrooms to teach science andengineering content through engineering design challenges. These curricula were developed bypracticing science teachers who were attempting to add engineering and mathematics content totheir middle school science courses
Implementation of 21st century skills Figure 1. Preliminary analysis pertaining to the effectiveness of teachers’ use of computer and internet-based technology in their classrooms using the Jonassen’s framework17.We are hoping that the teachers’ exposure and experiences in the EDP as part of the professionaldevelopment programs in PISA2 will help them to achieve a better understanding of these mind-tools and overall, enhance their ability to successfully engage students in engineering design andscientific inquiry to foster 21st century skills, such as creativity and innovation. Page
faculty advisors.We want to connect with our students. Fostering an environment of help, information anddirection may lead to more successful academic achievement and persistence in the engineeringprogram.This is also an opportunity for the Baker College Student Chapter of ASME (American Societyof Mechanical Engineers) to communicate directly with like-minded students for recruitment andsupply information on meetings, events and tours.General information can be communicated via this medium. As some alumni have keptmembership in the Facebook group there is an opportunity to share information across thegraduation-gap. Discussions are posted with potential job and co-op opportunities, careerinformation and scheduling of Fundamentals of Engineering
tours 3) Become familiar with the demands and expectations of college-level courses 4) Receive credits for 3 units of required UA engineering coursework at significantly reduced tuitionPre-College, engineering programs have been shown to attract students to engineering and otherSTEM careers (11, 12, 13), therefore, the way one designs and delivers the curriculum is important.Our goal is for our teachers to offer varied, hands-on projects in their engineering classroomsthat are practical, but also community minded, artful, or even musical. The types of workengineers do in the real world is vast, so the introduction to engineering course must go beyondthe stereotypical. ENGR 102 HS presents engineering as a helping
assess high school graduates forcompetency in mathematics, reading or writing in the name of DEI [16], [17], [18].In this milieu, the new engineering professor enters the American university. Alongside the needto research, serve the college and profession, mentor graduate students, and publish, theengineering professor has an ethical responsibility to help shape the next generation ofinnovative engineers. Meanwhile, many of their students, through no personal fault, enter collegewithout the habits of mind or self-control expected of previous generations of collegeundergraduates. New educators may find students who struggle to adapt to the model of highereducation that produced the educators. Further, college graduates must self-direct their
Paper ID #16192STEM-Discovery – An Integrated Approach to DESIGNDr. Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech UniversityDr. Kelly B. Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University Dr Kelly Crittenden is a member of Louisiana Tech University’s Integrated STEM Education Center (ISERC), and the Harrelson Family Professor of engineering. He earned his PhD and BS in BioMedical Engineering in 2001, and 1996 respectively. Dr Crittenden’s interests lie in K-12 outreach, developing project-driven curricula, and product design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 STEM-Discovery – An Integrated Approach to
Paper ID #40088Work in Progress: Examining the Impact of a Faculty Development Programin Engineering Instructors’ Teaching Practices and Perceptions on ActiveLearning MethodologiesGianina Morales, University of Pittsburgh and Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile Gianina Morales is a Faculty at the Universidad de Valpara´ıso, Chile. She has an M. Ed degree and is currently a Fulbright Ph.D. student at the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on disciplinary literacy in engineering and the improvement of instructional practices to foster persistence and equity in undergraduate engineering
,thewaysinwhichwedesignthecurriculumneedtochange. Perhapsfacilitatingmultidisciplinaryorinterdisciplinarynotonlyinengineeringeducationbutalsoinbroadereducation,aswellastheshiftfromclassroomteachingtomorestudent-centricandproject-basedlearninghasreachedaconsensus.Whileclassroomteachingisanefficientapproachtodeliverdiscipline-based knowledge and methods, the effectiveness of high-level knowledge learning and required skillspreparingforstudentsisstillbeingchallenged(deGraaffetal.,2007).Atthesametime,thefoundationofscienceandmathematicsinengineeringremainssignificant,thevalueofengineeringdesignandpractices,aswellascommunicationsandteamworkarestillfeaturedheavily.Therefore,theredesignofengineeringeducation needs to borrow the idea of “engineering habit of mind” while our education preparing
Paper ID #40092Mechatronics Engineering Integrate Project: An Approach in Project-BasedLearning with the Subjects of Instrumentation, Control Systems, andMicrocontrollersProf. Fernando Silveira Madani, Centro Universit´ario Instituto Mau´a de Tecnologia Fernando Silveira Madani received the B.S (1998) in Mechatronics Engineering from the Univ. Paulista – Brazil, the M.S. (2002) and Ph.D. (2010) from the Aeronautical Institute of Technology (ITA) - Brazil. In 2002, he joined the faculty of the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Mau´a Institute of Technology – Brazil, where he is currently as a full professor and Head of the
the European Journal of Engineering Education [14]. Despite such omissions, theanalytical strategy presented in this work-in-progress paper advances how a researcher in anydiscipline, whether seeking to examine the state of a field, set of journals or publication venues,or a certain body of research within a field, can construct a dataset of procedural diagrams toexamine the corpus’ methodological landscape. The Method, an Ego-Network Systematic Methodological ReviewThe premise of the method described in this paper draws from work by Ring and Frohlich [15],which examined mixed methods research designs in mindfulness research. Their insight was toconsider a research design as a network, where each procedure in the design was a
engineering Ph.D. students is 60%, compared to 55% for HispanicAmericans, 53% for Asian Americans, and 47% for African Americans (Kerlin, 1995). In 2008,the Council for Graduate Schools reported a quantitative study tracking attrition and persistence,noting that graduate attrition in engineering is between 24%-36% for men and women inengineering, respectively (Sowell, 2008). More recently, in 2015, Sowell, Allum, and Okahanareported data disaggregated for graduate engineering men and women of color, noting alarmingstatistics for most traditionally underrepresented groups, including that ten-year completion ratesfor African American engineering graduate students, are only 48% (Sowell et al., 2015). Withthese statistics in mind, it is not unreasonable
,female, first year students who show an early interest in majoring in engineering and computerscience (ECS). Female students who show an initial extrinsic interest in these majors can bedriven away far too easily by their experiences. SPARK has two primary goals: (1) create anenvironment where belonging to a like-minded cohort nurtures a strong sense of self, and (2)deliver high quality, high impact practices that engender female students’ success and retentionin ECS.Guided by Albert Bandura and Frank Pajares’ research on self-efficacy in theory and practice,the SPARK project sheds light on self-efficacy and confidence as predictive of persistence forfemale students in ECS. Additionally, the effect of SPARK students’ spatial visualization
AC 2007-268: EMPLOYING LEAN ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES AS A STUDENTEXERCISE TO MODIFY THE CONTENT OF TRADITIONAL AIRCAFT ANDPROPULSION DESIGN COURSESCharles Eastlake, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Prof. Charles Eastlake has taught aircraft design at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for 28 years and is an instructor for the MIT Lean Academy. He is a past chair of the Aerospace Dvision of ASEE.Magdy Attia, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Dr. Attia is an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He teaches Air-breathing Propulsion Design and is an instructor for the MIT Lean Academy
, J., Cocking, R., How People Learn –Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, National Academy Press, 2000 JACK WASSERMAN Jack Wasserman is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Science where he has taught in the biomedical option. He is currently the Coordinator for the Biomedical Engineering Degree Program. He is the winner of 7 teaching awards and is a Fellow for the Center for Undergraduate Excellence and a Fellow of the Interactive Technology Center. RICHARD JENDRUCKO Richard Jendrucko is the Associate Department Chairman and professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Engineering and Engineering Science
fostered and made moreconcrete for students is one such use. It is with this in mind, that Lehigh Universitycreated an innovative course in which engineering students entered into a relationshipwith an industry client to produce an instructional product. The completion of thisproduct required the students to incorporate their subject matter expertise as well as touse critical thinking and problem solving skills.II. Literature ReviewAccording to Sengupta 1, the very definition of engineering as an applied science isproving to be a myth. An applied science indicates a profession in which students studyfundamental scientific theory and then apply it in a professional career. It is becomingclearer that an engineering education requires more than
Engineering Education Annual Conference, Session 2566, Albuquerque NM, June 24-July 27, 2001.4. Piaget, J. (1973), To understand is to invent. New York: Grossman.5. Vygotsky, L. (1978), Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes MA: Harvard University Press. Page 7.416.9 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society from Engineering Education6. Bilén, S., A. Skraba, E. Kisenwether, and A. Lau, Designing a temperature control system using a Basic Stamp II Microcontroller: An
expected.”Participants intended to apply what they had learned from the conference in many ways. Specificcontent from individual sessions was referenced in comments, such as K-12 outreach: “WISE hasK-12 outreach programs.”; student identity: “Group work dynamics based on culture was veryuseful. Student identity, ways to develop it and the importance of that longterm for students.Those are the top of my mind now, but there was more that I incorporated after I came back.”;engineering storytelling: “Storytelling in engineering curricula is exciting, useful, andapproachable”, and artificial intelligence: “How to be more open-minded with new generations,how to use AI and other technologies” and competency-based learning. Other participants wrotehow
Center for Teaching and Learning. She practices mindfulness meditations rooted in Theravada Buddhist tradition and has been incorporating mindfulness practices in her classes since 2019. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Learning Map Framework to Align Instruction and Improve Student Learning in a Physics-Engineering Mechanics Course SequenceMotivationPrerequisite course sequences are ubiquitous in post-secondary engineering education [1]. Forundergraduate students to succeed in their degree, they must retain and transfer learning fromtheir prerequisite coursework into new and more advanced learning contexts. If knowledgetransfer is incomplete, students may struggle in subsequent
Bringing Concurrent Engineering into Classroom through Multidisciplinary Product Design Project - Design and Construction of Chemical Detection Robots Andy S. Zhang, Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology, NYC College of Technology Farrukh Zia Department of Computer Engineering Technology, NYC College of Technology Iem Heng Department of Computer Engineering Technology, NYC College of TechnologyANDY S. ZHANGProfessor Andy S. Zhang earned his master’s in mechanical engineering from the City College ofNew York in 1987 and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Graduate
who holds true to the social/technical divide and is an able-bodied, cis-gender, and heterosexual man, workplace norms and incentive structures are designedwith these people in mind, systematically disenfranchising queer engineers.Later steps in addressing equity in this space would include engendering gender equity intoengineering culture and ways of doing and considering the ways in which engineering culture’sassumptions about gender are structurally embedded in our education systems and workforce– notonly recognizing the importance of diversity in the field but also ensuring the importantdifferentiation of support structures so that engineering can become a more level playing field. Inother words, in order for all engineers to feel
Paper ID #11750Facilitating the Transition of a Traditional Engineering Course to a Struc-tured, Active, In-Class Learning Environment as a Teaching AssistantSarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Pennsylvania Sarah I. Rooney is a Ph.D. candidate in the Bioengineering department at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her B.S.E. (2009) and M.S.E. (2010) in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).Dr. Julie Schafer McGurk, University of Pennsylvania Julie McGurk is an Associate Director for the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her B.S. in
encountered by students as they move through these institutionalized trajectories. He is co-editor of a 2010 National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, Learning Research as a Human Science. Other work has appeared in Linguistics and Education; Mind, Culture, and Activity; Anthropology & Education Quarterly, the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science; the Journal of Engineering Education; and the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research. His teaching interests include develop- mental psychology; sociocultural theories of communication, learning, and identity; qualitative methods; and discourse analysis.Frederick A. Peck, University of Colorado Frederick Peck is a PhD Candidate in the School of
relationship and interplay among the three members of the sub-team, and with this goal in mind, I decided to conduct a focus group rather than individualinterviews (Procedural Validation, Process Reliability). This follow-up focus group serves as akey data source for one chapter of my dissertation. I would have the thick, rich descriptions ofthese three students’ cross-disciplinary development without this additional data source(Procedural Validation, Communicative Validation).ConclusionThroughout this audit trail, I have shared my real, raw process of conducting a qualitativedissertation study in engineering education. I have included challenges I faced, set backs I had toovercome, and decision points that emerged while I was entrenched
approach of Experiential Learning (EL), Entrepreneurial Mindset(EM), and real-world application using the entrepreneurially minded curriculum, for engineeringand technology courses.The purpose of this study is to highlight findings and lessons learned because of integrating anentrepreneurially minded interdisciplinary project (including bio-inspired design and STEAM)into the engineering technology classroom. Specifically, curriculum changes were implementedinto a course on programming industrial robots (as part of the minor in robotics). This course isdesigned for teaching technology students how to install, maintain, and work with industrialrobots through real-world applications. This course also assists students in discovering thecapability of