capstone project, where students designed an assembly, used the propertolerances, optimized their print in Cura, and then submitted their files to the course instructor orto Innovation Commons for printing. Again, the students did not print their own designs.The course was run in this format for two semesters. Feedback was gathered from the studentsvia informal surveys and Student Ratings of Teaching Effectiveness (SRTEs). The course washighly anticipated by the ME students. Two sections were offered in both the Fall 2016 andSpring 2017 semesters; and both sections filled quickly with students requesting additional seatsin the course. Student feedback was mixed. The students enjoyed the course and learned thetopics that were presented to them, but
., North Carolina A&T State University Keith Schimmel is a Professor of Applied Engineering Technology, Director of the Applied Science and Technology PhD Program, and Education Director for the NSF CREST Bioenergy Center at North Car- olina Agricultural and Technical State University.Dr. Marcia Gumpertz, North Carolina State University at Raleigh Marcia Gumpertz is professor of statistics at North Carolina State University. She serves as PI of the AGEP-NC Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate - North Carolina Alliance project. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 How Do Departments Support Their
also a broad experience in the glass industry, specifically in fabrication of automotive safety glass. He worked for Vitro Glass Company for more than 19 years where he held different positions such as Process Engineer, Materials Planning and Logistics Manager, Production Superintendent, Manufacturing Engineer and Glass Technologist. During his time in the company, he co-authored two patents related to glass fabrication and glass coatings pro- cessing. Dr. Gonzalez is a Six-Sigma Black Belt and has participated in numerous process improvement projects. He has been trained as well in the Methodology of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) that he applied to solve complex problems. In the manufacturing operations field
Engineering department.Murad Musa Mahmoud, Wartburg College Murad is an Assistant Professor at the Engineering Science Department at Wartburg College. He has a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Utah State University. Research interests include recruitment into STEM, diversity in STEM as well pedagogy and instruction.Prof. Kurt Henry Becker, Utah State University Kurt Becker is a professor in the department of engineering education and his areas of research include en- gineering design thinking, adult learning cognition, engineering education professional development and technical training. He is currently working on National Science Foundation funded projects exploring en- gineering design systems thinking and several
Anne Salomone, University of PortlandDr. Valerie J. Peterson, University of Portland Associate Professor of Mathematics American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Making Teaching Matter More - The Making of a T1UniversityAbstract“Research I (R1) university” is a category that the Carnegie Classification of Institutions ofHigher Education uses to indicate universities in the United States that engage in thehighest levels of research activity. There is currently no analogous classification for a T1institution: institutions that engage in the highest levels of teaching activity. In Fall 2020,as part of an NSF IUSE project designed to enhance student-centered pedagogical
, bioinformatics, information retrieval and computer science education.Dr. Joseph Arthur Brobst, Old Dominion University Joe Brobst holds a BS in Biological Sciences, MA in Curriculum & Instruction, and Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, all from the University of Delaware. Formerly a high school biology teacher, he is now an ed- ucational research and program evaluation specialist with experience working on a wide range of projects sponsored by organizations including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Of- fice of Naval Research, U.S. Department of Education, and Corporation for National and Community Service. His areas of interest and expertise include broadening participation in STEM higher
to measureP-V-T relations for an ideal gas. The second part was a solar-powered hydrogen fuel cell vehicleand focused on energy conversion and efficiency concepts. The third is a project where studentsworked in teams to propose a project in their choice of one of two topics: one is a design projecton solar thermal energy and the other is a research project using calorimetry.The course consists of a 1-hour weekly lecture on Monday morning to discuss theory needed forthat week and present skills such as using MATLAB, uncertainty analysis, writing lab reports, etc.Students then meet in the afternoon on one day (Monday-Thursday) for a 3-hr lab session. Duringthis session, they are divided into breakout rooms to meet and work with their peers on
Paper ID #33653Electronic Mentoring During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects onEngineering Graduate Students’ Academic, Career, and Mental HealthOutcomesDr. Chi-Ning Chang, The University of Kansas Dr. Chi-Ning (Nick) Chang is an assistant research professor at the Life Span Institute at the University of Kansas. This study was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) RAPID grant (DGE-2031069; DGE-2051263), using funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Chang currently serves as a PI on this collaborative NSF project (DGE-2031069). His research work centers on engineering graduate
projects involving printed-circuit boards, Ohm's law,frequency response, logic circuits, etc. By Fall Quarter of 1980 the student population had increased sodramatically that the mini-experiments or projects had to be dropped dueto a shortage of faculty and facilities. The modified course outline isshown in Fig. 2. The authors have had many good reports of the value ofEEE 102 to the students, especially the hands on experimental aspect. 11 11Also the aspect of getting to the good technical topics is appealing 11 11to new students. However, the large student population mitigates againstsuch an approach at the present time.Philosophy Since the EEE 102 instructor serves at
(EDUC-ATE) project since Fall of 2017.Mrs. Olivia Reynolds, Washington State University Second year Chemical Engineering doctoral student pursuing research on the development and dissemina- tion of low-cost, hands-on learning modules displaying heat and mass transfer concepts in a highly visual, interactive format. Graduated from Washington State University with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engi- neering in 2017 and M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering in 2019 with work related to potentiometric biosensing.Olufunso Oje, Washington State University Olufunso Oje is a Masters student in the Educational Psychology program at Washington State University. His research interests include learning strategies in engineering
have they are selected at random from thosethat volunteer to be next. The next student must define the term and explain how it is related tothe previous term.Figure 2 List of Terms Used in Exercise Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE North Midwest Sectional Conference 4An “ideal” progression through the list of Figure 2 might be: Project Delivery Systems, Design– Bid – Build, Design Build, Construction Management, and CM@ Risk. This could then befollowed by the different types of contracts such as: Lump Sum, Unit Price, and Negotiated.However, “ideal” rarely happens and the progression through the list is at times unrelated
experience.Average responses to those are summarized below.Question AvgIf you were able to fund your own graduate study (or won a fellowship that paid all 3.80your expenses), how likely would it be that you would choose a research project similarto the one you are currently working on (0 very unlikely to 5 very likely):How rewarding do you find your grad school experience? (0 not rewarding to 5 very 3.88rewarding)How challenging do you find your research project to be? (0 not challenging to 5 too 3.74challenging)Do you feel that success on your research project is mostly within your control or does 2.71it mostly depend on lots of other factors? (0 in my
experiments on campus, six experiments that involved analysis andsoftware simulation, and a final project with an oral presentation. Some final projects includedhardware and software while others were limited to circuit design and software simulation. Thispaper briefly describes six remotely performed exercises that used Multisim to perform circuitanalysis and simulation and help students learn the course material. While there were severalchallenges, overall students were able to perform the experiments and successfully complete afinal project.IntroductionA report by the United Nations estimated that closures of schools and other learning spaces dueto the COVID-19 pandemic impacted 94% of the world’s student population in 2020 [1]. Thisincluded a
, and convenient way. This method requiressimple setup by the users. Design SpecificationFigure 1 displays different parts of this project. In this project 16-bit Micro-controller 68HC12,DSP board by Texas Instruments, Liquid Crystal, Keypad, Speaker, and a Microphone are used.The audio feedback suppressor is designed to do real-time filtering noise of an audio signal usingDSP. The 68HC12 is used as the mean of interfacing with the users and display system status.The 68HC12 interfaces with a keypad and a LCD. The keypad is for the user to select thefiltering modes to improve the quality of the audio output. The LCD is to display the welcomemessage as the system power up and the user selection mode. In this
Creating Interactive Scenes using Open Broadcaster Studio (OBS) Studio for Streaming Virtual Classroom over Zoom and other Platforms Maqsood A. Mughal Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA 01609 AbstractThe idea behind this project is to improve Many educators vision student engagementstudent engagement and create an during the lecture as fundamental forenvironment that increases student acquiring knowledge, skills, and conceptsparticipation in a virtual/hybrid classroom. [1][2]. In fact, for some educators, it is anOpen
Honors Society, is a Student Research Mentor, is a Dean’s Honors student, and also serves her community by sitting on the Academic Commis- sion Committee, the Student Services Committee, and the ICC Funding Committee. Additionally, in her free time, Sophia decided to teach herself Python and is now leading the research project Studying Statis- tics in Python. In the future, she hopes to become a physician-scientist studying preventative measures for Alzheimer’s disease and treatments for Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease. ¨Ms. Sophia Isabella Ibarguen, Pasadena City College Sophia Ibarguen is a first-generation college student of immigrant parents, who is majoring in Biology and minoring in
conference.COVID-19 has both exacerbated and made more obvious the unevenness and inequities in oureducational practices, processes, and infrastructures. This paper is an extension of a broadercollaborative research project that accounts for how an exceptional group of engineeringeducators have taken this opportunity to socially broaden their curricula to include not just publichealth matters, but also contemporary political and social movements. Engineering educators forchange and advocates for social justice quickly recognized the affordances of diverse forms ofdigital technologies, and the possibilities of broadening their impact through educationalpractices and infrastructures of inclusion, openness, and accessibility. They are makers of whatGary
aims to answer the question: Do design competencies and learning types differ acrosslearning communities with varied degrees of making integrated into the curriculum? And if so,how?2 BackgroundMersand [12] broadly defined makerspaces as “places where participants may work together tocreate and co-create knowledge and physical or digital products” (p. 175). Activities can rangefrom engineering, tinkering, circuitry to crafting and forms of artistry, as well as much more [4,13]. Makerspaces are open spaces for any student to work on academic, extracurricular, orpersonal projects, and for many, makerspaces are the embodiment of learning by doing.Over the last fifteen years, the number of makerspaces has increased dramatically as the MakerMovement
courses complementing the primary major, and atwo-semester capstone project course; 10 courses worth 30 credit hours in total.Figure 1: Program outline. Shaded courses form a required core. Arrows to electives are notdrawn, different core courses are prerequisites for different electives.2.2 Core coursesThe goal of the core courses is to develop fundamental knowledge and skills. All core courseshave non-credit weekly labs associated with them.2.2.1 Introduction to Computer Science IIntroduction to Computer Science I (Intro I) course is designed for students with no priorbackground in computing. It has two central aims. The first aim is to enable the students todevelop computational solutions to practical problems: • Break a
QUALITY OF UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON by Scott J. Conrad University of Wisconsin ABSTRACTThis paper summarizes a project undertaken by three undergraduatestudents at the University of Hisconsin-Madison to assess the qualityof engineering education. The project involved developing a surveyinstrument to measure 11 qualityn and administration of the survey toundergraduates, recent graduates and faculty. Results and highlightsof recommendations generated by the survey are also presented. 22
c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Academic and Industry Collaboration – A Literature ReviewAbstractAs part of a larger project determining best practices for establishing and maintaining effective,sustainable, collaborative relationships between academic and industry professionals, thisreview will outline the available materials and, conversely, the multiple gaps that exist regardingcourse content, methods of teaching, and practical experience relating to preparation for careersin engineering and engineering technology. Currently, there is no clear agreement on whichprinciples and practices best enable industrial partners and academic institutions to establishand maintain mutually-beneficial partnerships. In fact
successful designs, discover biomimetic projects that are currentlyunderway, and experiment with biomimetic strategies to better solve the problems by achievingthe benefits without the issues. This curriculum helps change the mindset and foster creativity inthe next generation of engineers who will be tasked with solving the problems of the future. Thispaper will explain the course in greater detail, and how its approach differs from conventionalengineering education. It will provide perspectives from students of different disciplines who havetaken the course, co-instructed in the course, and are currently applying their changed mindset totheir research and jobs.IntroductionTeaching the next generation of engineering students to solve problems
/construction/architectural engineering especially in SC areas. As anexample of a graduate project, this paper demonstrated an ANN and GA based knowledge modelwhere the customer’s preferences regarding comfort and safety issues in a large residentialmultistory flat housing scheme was studied. Architecture/engineering is an applied science wheremany lessons can be learned from existing structures, their successes and failures, andincorporating them to find out new techniques for a better structure. This implies that thedesigner should be able to derive from each previous design some qualitative values, especiallyon user’s approval regarding building’s safety and comfort quality as to assure a successfuldesign. Architects/design engineers are quite often
laboratory for a course in Instrumentation and Measurements.The course, designed for the undergraduate junior level, was a two-semester course for a total offour credits, and it took place in conjunction with a one-hour classroom lecture in mechanicalengineering. A modified version of this approach, however, can easily be used at all levels of themechanical engineering curriculum. This laboratory’s development process began by writing asuccessful proposal for outside funding in order to create a hands-on teaching laboratory. A two-semester long, open-ended project was utilized, a process which required the students to come upwith creative approaches to problem solving. Consequently, a full-cycle learning experience tookplace. The students began with
.Heather Lee Perkins, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI) Heather graduated from the Applied Social and Community Psychology program in the spring of 2021, after completing her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati. She has par- ticipated in various research projects examining the interaction between stereotypes and science interest and confidence, their influence upon womens’ performance in school and the workplace, and their pres- ence in the media and consequences for viewers. Her primary research interest is science identity, STEM education, and participation in online communities. American c Society for Engineering
flagship first-year engineering design and Prototyping and Fabrication course. This practical hands-on course increases student proficiency in the development of prototypes using low fi- delity prototyping, iterative design, and advanced manufacturing tools. Dr. Wettergreen’s efforts to scaf- fold prototyping into all of the OEDK’s design courses were recognized with Rice’s Teaching Award for Excellence in Inquiry-Based Learning. In 2017, four faculty members, including Wettergreen, combined the engineering design courses at the OEDK to create the first engineering design minor in the US, cre- dentialing students for a course of study in engineering design, teamwork, prototyping, and client-based projects
particular area [8], such as project man-agement [9], marketing [10], big data[11], and so on. Using text mining to analyze the job postingsto develop the job profiles used for recruitment has been effective and efficient [12]. It can alsohelp to identify merging potential occupations [13] and to improve the quality of job matching [14].Text mining is one of the major tasks of NLP [15], which has been a topic of interest in variouseducational research including e-learning [16], gamification in education [17], higher education[18, 19], STEM education [20–22] and more. Prior studies have exemplified how applying NLPto job postings can generate job market trends that offered additional educational considerationfor CS education [23]. By utilizing
Paper ID #33440Assessing and Communicating Professional Competency Development ThroughExperiential LearningDr. John H. Callewaert, University of Michigan John Callewaert is Director of Strategic Projects in the Office of the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, College of Engineering, University of Michigan. He previously served as a program director with the University of Michigan’s Graham Sustainability Institute, Director of the University of Michigan- Flint’s Office of Research, and the Director of the Institute for Community and Environment at Colby- Sawyer College. He completed doctoral study in Resource
. Beyza Akgun, Georgia Institute of Technology Beyza Akgun is a graduate from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she received a B.S. in Me- chanical Engineering, a minor in Industrial Design, and a concentration in Automotive Engineering in May 2021. During her undergraduate studies, Beyza was involved in Georgia Tech Motorsports, the school’s Formula SAE team, research on prototyping in design, and assistantship in a project-based de- sign course. Following graduation, Beyza accepted a full-time offer at Triumph Integrated Systems in Connecticut as a project engineer, and she plans to further continue her education by pursuing graduate school in the future.Dr. Katherine Fu, Georgia Institute of Technology
at Purdue University. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education Group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at pawleyresearch.org. She was a National Academy of Engineering CASEE Fellow in 2007, received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women, and received the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute in 2013. She has been author or co-author on papers receiving ASEE-ERM’s best paper award, the AAEE Best Paper