of Computing in Civil Engineering, vol. 13.3, pp. 144-152, 1999.[4] R. Luna, R. Hall, M. Hilgers, and L. Ge, “GIS Learning Tool for Civil Engineers,” Int. J.Engng Ed., vol. 26(1), pp. 52-58, 2010.[5] N. Bearman, N. Jones, I. Andre, H.A. Cachinho, and M. DeMers, “The Future Role of GISeducation in creating critical spatial thinkers,” Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol.40(3), pp. 394-408, 2016.[6] W.H. Sprinsky, “Integrating Instruction in Geographic Information Systems with a CivilEngineering Technology Curriculum,” in Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference &Exposition, Montreal, Canada, June 2002.[7] J. Komlos, S.L. Walkup, and K.A. Waters, “Modernizing an Introductory Civil EngineeringCourse with Project-Based
this study demonstrate that there is significant value in getting students toconsider both technical and professional competencies concurrently as they work through project-based experiences in academic settings. Importantly, this study shows that a little reflection can goa long way in improving student outcomes and supports an argument that professional competencyreflection as a regular feature in the engineering curriculum.1.0 IntroductionThe motivation for this work stems from a need to help engineering undergraduates in therecognition and development of professional competencies. An important challenge forundergraduate programs is to provide students with experiences, inside and outside of theclassroom, that give insight on what it means
unlikely to become more accurate over time.Mr. S. has taught middle grades at two different rural schools for the past 10 years. The academicyear following the RET, he switched to teaching ninth graders in the same rural system’s highschool. • Mr. S’ developed curriculum activity featured an introductory look at wireless communications in his integrated science course that he shared with his ninth-grade students. Aside from a Morse code activity for the students to complete, the lesson was mostly a lecture format with Mr. S asking frequent questions for comprehension checking. Students did indicate their understanding of the key points being illustrated by the teacher through discussion responses.Ms. M. has
a background in both engineering education and design thinking, her research focuses on how Hispanic students develop an identity as an engineer, methods for enhancing student motivation, and methods for involving students in curriculum development and teaching through Peer Designed Instruction.Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University As an assistant professor of engineering education at Florida International University, Dr. Alexandra Coso Strong works and teaches at the intersection of engineering education, faculty development, and complex systems design. Alexandra completed her doctorate in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech. Prior to attending Georgia Tech, Alexandra received a
structural engineering, water resources engineering, environmental engineering, trafficengineering, geotechnical engineering and project management. These speakers talk about thework done in their field, highlight projects that they are currently or have previously worked on,and talk about what it is like to work in an engineering firm. They also provide time for thestudents to ask questions. This section of the course is very well received by students andprovides a wealth of valuable information.Approximately seven of the lectures are used to introduce topics that will be used throughout thecivil engineering curriculum, as well as for the design project integrated into the course. Thesetopics include: an introduction to civil engineering, the
student’s education, that ofcommunication. Long before ABET made it a point that had to be addressed, instruction inwriting and oral production were included in multiple courses. Students practiced their writtenskills in fluids, controls, vibrations, design, heat transfer, and capstone courses. Communicationwas not an add on to all these courses it was an integral part of the curriculum. Short writtenassignments culminating in formal reports allowed students to experience a path that they wouldfollow in their careers. The important element was making sure that this writing experience washappening on a regular basis throughout the curriculum, not as a one-time affair and quicklyforgotten. Over the years, students showed that continuous practice of
deploy and operate existing wind energy technology, but to evolve thetechnology to be more efficient, cost effective, and adaptable to the electricity grid. Asprogressively larger and technologically more sophisticated turbines are designed and built, bothonshore and off, and as wind plants continue to provide an ever-larger fraction of the energysupply, there are significant scientific and engineering challenges to be addressed such asmaterials and structures, grid integration, and energy storage [6], [7]. In planning for the future,universities, and members of the North American Wind Energy Academy (NAWEA), identifieda number of strategies to address the lack of university programs, most of which rely oncollaboration. These include
knowledge of the computer science (CS) concepts behind these devices. Thisworkshop will introduce elementary teachers to various CS concepts and providerecommendations for integrating them into their existing curriculum. The hands-on activitieswere created and tested in 3rd, 4th, and 5th-grade classrooms and allow the students to practicetwo critical engineering professional skills: (1) problem-solving skills and (2) teamwork.Additional instructional guidance and suggestions are provided for working with children frompre-kindergarten through first-year college students. Each fifteen to twenty-minute activity canbe presented separately or taught in a suggested sequence to create a one or two-hourpresentation. Materials available to workshop
opportunities for students at the undergraduate level toconnect STEM and the global [2]. However, we want to create environments that transcendSTEM and put STEAM at the forefront of an integral, necessary education that nurtures thesensibility to learn from local and global partners.References[1] D.E. Goldberg, & M. Somerville. A whole new engineer. The coming revolution in Engineering Education. Douglas MI: Threejoy, 2014.[2] N. Saienko, Y. Olizko, & M. Arshad. Development of Tasks with Art Elements for Teaching Engineers in English for Specific Purposes Classroom. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 14(23), 4-16. Kassel, Germany: International Journal of Emerging Technology in
interests are in integrating physical models with data driven approaches for information extraction using remote or minimally intrusive sensing. He has over 160 publications. He is Fellow of SPIE and the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico. Received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers award from the US President in 1997. He chairs the SPIE Conference on Algorithms, Technologies and Applications for Multispectral, and Hyperspectral Imaging. He is board member of the Inclusive Engineering Consortium (IEC).Dr. Shiny Abraham, Seattle University Shiny Abraham is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seattle University. She received the B.E. degree in
-technical process constructed from small sub-systems or networks of role players (notnecessarily human) whose interactions drive the system forward. Such structures are open toconflict both within and between them. For example, as Larry Bucciarelli has showndesigners work in a social system and the resultant designs are as much a result of the culturecreated by the system as they are of anything else [8]. Elsewhere it has been suggested thatunderpinning all these knowledges is the desire of an organization to learn [9].Therefore to be technology literate an individual requires an integrated knowledge from anumber of disciplines including engineering. This in turn means that a curriculum composedof engineering plus a variety of subjects in the
American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #33197Dr. Sarah E. LaRose joined the Department of Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication atPurdue University in the fall of 2018 as an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Education. She earneda Bachelor of Science in Animal Science and a Master of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction from theUniversity of Connecticut, and her Ph.D. in Agricultural Education and Communication from the Uni-versity of Florida. Dr. LaRose has over 13 years of experience in agricultural education in secondaryand postsecondary settings. Since joining the faculty at
Paper ID #33612Student to Scholar: A Professional Skills Focused Library CollaborationDr. Matthew Frenkel, New York University Matthew Frenkel is the engineering librarian at NYU’s Bern Dibner Library, and an adjunct faculty in Mechanical Engineering at NYU Tandon. He is a member of the ASEE Engineering librarian division (ELD). Matthew’s background is in the experimental study of optical whispering gallery sensors, but his current research interests are in how undergraduate and graduate engineering students develop their professional skills.Dr. Azure Janee Stewart Azure is an interactional ethnographer whose research
research divisions.To integrate hands-on energy topics, particularly gas turbines, into STEM curricula, we proposean alternative to creating virtual laboratories with no real hardware or investing in capitally-intensive lab equipment. An archive of “Energy Engineering Laboratory Modules” (EELMs) isbeing developed by collaborating faculty and students at MSOE, accumulated, and disseminatedto facilitate spiral insertion of energy engineering concepts into college and high school coursesacross STEM curricula. EELMs are economical, hands-on, “turn-key” activities that can beincorporated into any STEM curricula to introduce energy studies. For example, a series ofbuilding energy audit exercises was recently created and described that harvests
would be personalized to community collegestudents’ career interests. This curriculum would represent how algebra is used in practice bySTEM professionals. However, our results were not what we expected in that engineers did nottypically use many of the concepts from College Algebra. In this paper, we discuss three majorthemes that arose from qualitative analyses of the interviews, and their implications for the fieldof engineering.Keywords: STEM, algebra, career interest engineeringMathematics has long been a stumbling block for undergraduate students seeking to pursue avariety of majors – including science and engineering (Harackiewicz et al., 2012). Mathematicsis an important tool in engineering practice, as mathematical rules govern many
itrequires a mix of technical and professional skills, an ability to communicate and workeffectively across disciplinary boundaries and with many different stakeholders, strong socialconsciousness, creativity, multicultural understanding, and business/entrepreneurialunderstanding [6].”Courses in the first year provide an important opportunity to frame students’ understanding ofengineering and shift preconceived notions of engineering as solely a technical discipline.Addressing these misconceptions in the engineering curriculum could improve retention forstudents who are socially inclined and indicate altruistic reasons for choosing a career in scienceand engineering, particularly women and historically underrepresented students [7], [8], [9], [10
(CAED) Student Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (SDEI)committee at the authors’ institution developed online summer workshops focused on topics ofanti-racism titled the Unlearning Series. This series began with the mission of questioningpractices and education in the built environment that are integrated in formal instruction. Thegoal is to utilize an alternative method of education where participants (students, faculty, staff,and administrators) recognize how their discipline shapes and supports systems of oppression,while giving them tools to combat it.Before each session, videos and readings were provided to participants to establish anunderstanding of the new topic. The online workshop started with a brief lecture from an SDEIcommittee
andstudent affairs, and adequate resources), as well as a supportive academic (e.g., common courses,faculty advising, academically supportive climate) and co-curricular (e.g., study groups, socialactivities, career workshops) environment. The pinnacle of the best practices is an integration ofthese various layers and an assessment plan that allows practitioners to make changes.There are two types of research that has been conducted on LLCs: those that compare acrossmultiple programs and those that focus on one particular program. Research comparing LLCsacross programs have shown that they can have a positive impact on first-generation participants'transitions to college [2]; increased sense of belonging in their college [3]; and increasedopenness to
Computer Engineering isnot part of the curriculum of many high schools; thus, students are not exposed to this field ofstudy. Many high school students have misconceptions of engineering, a complete lack ofunderstanding of “what it means to be an engineer”, and/or feel they are incapable of achievingsuch high aspirations. The University of Texas at San Antonio is the third largest Hispanic-serving institution in the U.S. One of the goals of the University is to recruit disadvantagedstudents and underrepresented minorities, especially those who are the first generation, to attain adegree in higher education. To this end, the authors, in collaboration with the College ofEducation and Human Development’s Academy for Teaching Excellence have created a
fromtalent identification up to bachelor’s or master’s degree completion. This paper outlines thedevelopment, implementation, and evaluation of the Holistic Programmatic Approach for Transfer(HPAT) model. The model is built on a well-thought-out program design reflected in a transferarticulation agreement and a joint commitment to quality and student success. Integral to theapproach is the requirement that the rigor of the curriculum at the community college matches thatof the 4-year partner. In addition, faculty, administration, and staff work synchronously andcollaboratively to provide intentional student support at each institution, with financial assistanceup to the master's degree completion. Holistic student support implements the
earn a Master of Science in Engineering in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, while working with the Austin chapter of Engineers Without Borders. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Paper ID #33350 Her love of learning was first fostered by an unusual elementary school education that was deeply inter- disciplinary with a substantial arts curriculum, which has informed all her subsequent thinking about the potential for education to transcend conventional models
jamboards which we could view once the group was back together. e) FlipGrid – Flipgrid is a short educational video making platform. Flipgrid was used forgetting to know your videos, and for students to demonstrate physics experiments anddemonstrations. Flipgird integrates with canvas and participants could submit an assignmentthrough the platform. Students created videos about newton’s laws of motion, getting to know you,and more. This program works on any device and moderators can assign specific video lengths. • https://info.flipgrid.com/ f) Physics Simulations – We used two online physics simulations programs where studentscould change parameters and test ideas since we could not meet in person. • https
explores the nature of global com- petency development by assessing how international experiences improve the global perspectives of en- gineering students. Dr. Streiner has published papers and given presentations in global engineering ed- ucation at several national conferences. Scott is an active member in the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) both locally and nationally, as well as the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).Dr. Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut Daniel Burkey is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Professor-in-Residence in the De- partment of Chemical and Biomolecular
this ideatakes form as optional work, where curriculum is designed by the instructor to help students gaina full understanding, but it is the decision of each student how much they will choose to engagewith the content. Weimer’s take on responsibility for learning is that faculty have an unhealthy large shareof the load. As educators, faculty design “rules, regulations, and stipulations” to force studentbehaviors into line with our assumptions about what positively affects learning. The argument ismade that this is a disservice to students, contributing to graduates with little commitment to orrespect for learning, who cannot function without structure and imposed control. However, theauthor believes that Weimer in this instance has
Climate Change Communication that found 78% ofvoters support upgrading the electrical grid and expanding renewable energy sources usingfederal funds [1]. One possibility to consider when integrating renewable energy into ourexisting infrastructure is through harnessing the enormous amount of vehicular kinetic energythat is available on our roadways.As of 2017 the Federal Highway Administration reports that there are 4,184,471 miles of publicroad in the United States alone [2]. These roadways provide a diverse environment for energyharvesting within the vast amount of infrastructure that already exists. The near constantexposure to solar radiation, wind, run-off from precipitation, and repetitive mechanical loadingcreates an opportunity to
universityeducation tends towards an integral formation, where teachers take a role as process facilitators,adapting strategies to students' needs. In this approach, all actors are relevant since theycontribute with ideas, reflections, and feedback en-route to a shared learning experience;therefore, everybody learns continuously, which allows us to develop continuous improvementsand apply what we teach. Here lies the value of feedback provided by each student.As can be seen in figure 5, the Questionnaire proposes seven areas to evaluate by students. Thetotal of responses was 817, the rate of responses with comments: 23.75%. The results of thisevaluation are as follows. Figure 6. Item: The facilitator created an atmosphere of trust.Given the
burden on the student and allowing any studentaccess to the learning materials.This paper presents the use of online software to teach PLCs in a Mechanical Engineeringcurriculum. The software used is Automation Direct’s Do-more12 PLC Emulator Softwaredevelopment suite. It is chosen as the instructional vehicle herein in order to illustrate howstudents can learn PLC programming and implement Proportional Integral Derivative (PID)loops within simulated control system environments. The use of PID loops in industry iscommonplace and the theory behind them is well understood13. The body of the paper is outlinedas follows: first an overview of the Do-more PLC emulator is given, followed by an example ofhow a PID loop is implemented on the Do-more
. Constans et al, "The Benchtop Hybrid-Using a Long-Term Design Project to Integrate the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum," Advances in Engineering Education, 2019.[5] *J. R. Haughery et al, "Toward Understanding the Impacts, Whys, and Whats Behind Mechatronic-based Projects and Student Motivation," 2017.[6] R. M. Reck, "No title," Experiential Learning in Control Systems Laboratories and Engineering Project Management, 2016.[7] A. G. Abdullah et al, "Preliminary design of industrial automation training kit based real mobile plant," in 2014 International Conference on Advances in Education Technology (ICAET-14), 2015, .[8] M. Matijevic and M. S. Nedeljkovic, "Design and use of digitally controlled electric motors for purpose of
Paper ID #32460Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Online Graduate EngineeringEducation: Learning-Centered Vision, Administration, and Course DesignDr. Andrea Gregg, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Gregg is the Director of Online Pedagogy and an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Penn State Me- chanical Engineering department. She facilitates faculty development to maximize teaching and learning efficacy throughout the ME curriculum, with a primary focus on online learning. She is also respon- sible for leading quality instructional design for residential and online offerings; facilitating an activity community
Pennsylvania in 2020. Meagan conducted research on the biomechanics and physiology of chronic pain for her doctorate degree and has experience teaching undergraduate first-year engineering and mid-level biomechanics courses. Meagan is currently working with the KEEN partnership at OSU, integrating her interests in STEM edu- cation, entrepreneurial partnerships, and community engagement. Meagan values authenticity, connection with others, & integrity and prioritizes these values as an educator, bioengineer, and scientist.Laine Rumreich, Ohio State University Laine Rumreich is a graduate student studying Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. She completed her undergraduate research thesis in the