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learning. Page 14.1102.7In recent years, there has been an increase in the quantity of literature devoted to describing whata successful professional development program should look like. Most researchers agree onspecific criteria that will make a professional development program successful. The key featuresof a successful science professional development program include: (a) intensive and sustainedtraining with opportunities for active learning, where teachers are able to practice using the skillsand knowledge developed, (b) delving into deep science content and process knowledge(subject-matter knowledge), (c) modeling strategies teachers will
Paper ID #216602018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29”What the problem really was. . . ”: A preliminary exploration of youth prob-lem definition in everyday contexts.Jacqueline Handley, University of Michigan Jacqueline Handley is a graduate student at the University of Michigan, in Science Education. Her back- ground is in Material Science and Engineering, with an emphasis on Biomaterials Design. She is inter- ested in, broadly, how best bridge engineering practice and education. More specifically, she is interested in engineering access and
argumentation is a promising approachto teaching engineering, the National Research Council (NRC, 2012) contended that studentsshould master “constructing a convincing argument that supports or refutes claims” for solutionsabout the designed world – a recommendation that was adopted by the Next Generation ScienceStandards (NGSS Lead States, 2013, p. 63).Although argumentation can help both students and engineers achieve positive outcomes(Gouran, 1995; Zohar & Nemet, 2002), it’s not always a simple skill for students to master(Wilson-Lopez & Garlick, 2017). Consequently, we argue that there is a need for more researchrelated to best practices for supporting K-12 students in engaging in engineering argumentation.The purpose of this review is to
examine the impact of thelearning community experience on first-year retention in engineering and at the university. Theresults of this analysis, limitations and conclusions are discussed.Engineering Learning Community DesignSeveral published studies have linked learning communities to increased retention of first-yearstudents, higher first year GPAs, and lower incidence of academic probation [3]. Zhao and Kuh[4] indicate the cluster enrollment model featuring a cohort of students co-enrolled in two or morecourses is improved upon when the faculty involved in these courses design activities thatincorporate the curriculum of the courses in cluster. This integrated curricular approach was thebasis for the WTAMU engineering learning community
, activities, and impact of the curriculum development, teacherand student summer institutes, and preliminary classroom implementation results for the firstphase of the project: designing the wire-guided, underwater ROV and controlling it to performthe initial set of performance challenges related to maneuvering around the pool andcollecting/placing wiffle balls in a goal.BUILD IT Program and Learning Goals and ActivitiesIn meeting the ITEST program goals to provide more students with experience and motivation topursue IT and STEM study and careers, the BUILD IT project focuses on three keyconstituencies: (1) middle and high school teachers; (2) their students; and (3) guidancecounselors. In addition, we have sought to engage parents and the greater
, making athoughtful response to selected readings, conducting an informational interview with aprofessional in their intended field, reporting on best practices, and participating in a juriedposter presentation of a small research project.Overall, the curriculum is designed so that the task difficulty is slightly greater than students’current ability as established by their transcripts and pre-assessment results. Students areexposed to vicarious successes and role models, with opportunities to present successes and 440correct errors. Each student’s performance gets honest feedback, with specific information abouthow to improve their skills and performance. Instructors and staff meet regularly to
Environmental Policy, and En- gineering Risk and Uncertainty. Her recent research is about gaseous emissions of reactive nitrogen from fertilized fields into the atmosphere and impacts on air quality and climate change.Prof. Eleftheria Kontou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Kontou joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in October 2019. She received her PhD in Civil Engineering, focusing on trans- portation systems, from the University of Florida under the advisement of Dr. Yafeng Yin. She holds a MSc from Virginia Tech in the same field. She graduated with a BSc in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. She
. https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2019/06/academia-or-industry-how-i- learned-pivot-between-them (accessed Feb. 28, 2021).[24] “Integrating Development and Operations in Cross-Functional Teams - Toward a DevOps Competency Model | Proceedings of the 2019 on Computers and People Research Conference.” https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3322385.3322400?casa_token=dmOlMsfxiscAAAAA%3A9t6lNXkH7j- stOCU75MXEmwH3N5w7cUMMxp3kiLCWIWIrfpCRPhgmowFnTLpqhDIciYRroxNuvgYEg (accessed Feb. 28, 2021).[25] J. Laurent and R. M. Leicht, “Practices for Designing Cross-Functional Teams for Integrated Project Delivery,” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, vol. 145, no. 3, p. 05019001, Mar. 2019, doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943
, the returns oninvestments in this form of educational practice have justified the expense. True education residesin experiential learning, however, not all experiences are equally valuable. We must optimize ourstudents experience. Laboratory intensive education and a capstone senior project requirementhave provided Poly graduates with a margin for excellence. This exposure is valuable becauseengineers are inherently innovators, the nature of engineering is problem identification andsolution. Engineers have designed and built the structure and the infrastructure of society in eachand every era, and in each and every sector. From chips to ships, from “It” to “Freedom”engineers use the materials of their age to shape their world. Thus, if the
newprocesses, using new materials and analyzing product/process reliability. They must performsophisticated life cycle testing and product reliability studies in a short amount of time in order tounderstand processes and the yield for new products. Page 11.1221.21 Corresponding Author – Phone:585-475-6081, Fax:585-475-7167, Email: smrmet@rit.edu2 Graduate Research AssistantTherefore, engineers must have multi-disciplinary skills that allow them to understand design forexcellence concepts. Industry needs new graduates who can contribute to design teams and allaspects of manufacturing, including assembly inspection, testing and reliability
research design, community-engaged research and mentoring to a) investigate how people perceive, understand, and make decisions about the planet in order to b) address access, inclusion, equity, and justice in STEM and academia. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Developing a conceptual framework to understand student participation in entrepreneurship education programsAbstract: The importance of fostering innovativeness and creativity in graduates has beenwidely noted in national calls and accreditation reforms to enhance graduates’ competitiveness inthe global economy. As a result, universities and other higher education institutions haveinitiated curricular
incorporate legitimate engineering tasks into curricula which help students advance towards and prepare for careers in engineering.Dr. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element analysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2011 Dr
for increased “relevancy” of engineering educationwith greater industry-academia collaboration on many fronts. It was inspired by a round tablediscussion, where engineering graduates of Region’s colleges have suggested ways to startdeveloping viable and enduring connections between local industries and the academicinstitutions of the Arab Gulf States. Strategies to help promote the collaboration effort areoutlined. In particular, activities (plans, and scenarios) perceived as effective in closing the gapbetween academia and industries are described. Training, capstone courses, consulting by facultymembers, and joint research projects, aimed at serving the interest of both parties (academia &the industrial partners) are also addressed. The
from this research and for this population of students, that humaninteraction with a live instructor has greater receptiveness than electing to use an interactiveresource (i.e., ChatGPT). However, as additional tools of the kind are launched, like Khanmigo,an AI tutor by Khan Academy, this paradigm may change [23]. We acknowledge that additionalresearch is needed to determine the impact of student use of Gen-AI tools for achieving studentlearning outcomes (SLOs) and best student engagement practices that support student learning,and how teachers must tailor instructional practices to accommodate student Gen-AI use. Aprimary result of this research investigation leads to the conclusion that students must have abaseline knowledge of solving
have authored over 150 peer-reviewed technical articles and two have been recognized as best papers in American Society of Mechanical Engineers journals. He is a Fellow of ASME. Ali has taught 11 different courses and leads an engineering- based study abroad course in Brazil as well as the jointly-funded NSF-DoD REU site on Hypersonics (HYPER). Ali is well-known for engaging undergraduates in research, and he is UCF’s 2019 Champion of Undergraduate Research inaugural awardee. At UCF and in the broader higher education community, Ali focuses his efforts on expanding the pipeline of graduate students qualified to pursue careers in academia. Just before joining UCF as an Assistant Professor, he earned a PhD in Mechanical
CollegeAbstractThe engineering education in China has made a lot of promising changes recently. The Chineseeducators are actively aligning their teaching styles, course materials and utilization of availableresources with the popular practices in the western countries (such as the US). The authors of thepaper piloted a graduate course, Advanced Manufacturing Systems, in spring 2014 at YangzhouUniversity in China. An American classroom environment was simulated in this course. It wastaught in English and covered a wide range of up-to-date manufacturing topics. It was alsoproject-based and involved large amounts of in-class discussions. The student feedback wasexciting. In this paper, the authors will introduce how the course was designed and taught. Theywill
reasoning between native- and non-native-English-speaking students arebetter explained by cultural than language differences 2. engineering ethics education canincrease ethical reasoning abilities, and 3. ethical reasoning is positively associated with anemphasis on care, and negatively associated with an emphasis on loyalty. Shortcomings of thecurrent study and directions for further research are also discussed.IntroductionThis paper presents the motivations for and results of a preliminary study exploring theinfluences of culture, education, and moral dispositions on ethical reasoning among engineeringstudents in China. Previous research has examined the effects of engineering ethics education onethical reasoning, but this work has tended to take
and software engineers,software developers, designers, researchers, and other professionals. The Success Summit alsohosts a career and college fair during which students meet representatives from companies andschools that many of them are unfamiliar with. They ask questions of company representativesand learn best practices for success in landing offers and thriving in their workplaces.The success of Beam Village is evident in the large numbers that enroll in college, oftenpursuing non-traditional majors, which they previously thought they would not like or could notmaster. They build ongoing relationships with mentors, land scholarships, and attend conferencesthat they never would have been aware of if not for the Beam Village
calculated in each frame and passedthrough all the VQ codebooks. A soft decision approach to generate the SNR estimate asdescribed in [1] is used. The codebooks with the three best scores are selected. Based onthese scores, a weighted linear combination of the SNR estimates corresponding to thesethree codebooks determines the final SNR estimate. This is known as a soft decisionapproach [1].The student research team implemented the VQ based system and a similar system basedon a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) classifier. For this case, a GMM model for eachSNR value is designed using the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm [9][10]. Inachieving this implementation, students gain much insight into the concepts ofprobability and random variables. The
impact of their lowerstarting representation and higher attrition rate on workforce diversity. Exit rates fromengineering careers are highest in the first 10 years after graduation. Thus, unlike mostworkforce retention research, this study focuses on participants who are still in the midst of thiscritical phase of their careers. We investigated what engineering graduates say about how andwhy they make early career pathway choices. The motivations for their choices were examinedthrough the lens of gender differences (and similarities) while resting on the fundamentalpsychological framework provided by self-determination theory (SDT). SDT has demonstratedthat the more behaviors are autonomously motivated, the more stable, the more fulfilling, and
students designed for seeding entrepreneurship and researching technologies thathave direct impact on local communities in Montana by partnering with non-profit organizations,as well as public and private high technology companies. It is a platform that provides thenecessary processes and environment to deliver real products. It is about learning, sharing andgrowing entrepreneurial ideas that span the causal chain from inception to deployment, but notcommercialization. The Software Factory brings together students and experiencedprofessionals enabling unique cooperative projects that serve as incubation points for new ideasand technology innovation. The idea of a Software Factory approach for MSU was developed by working in
”: Curiosity, Connections, and Creating Value. The three Cs serve as “containers”designed to be somewhat extensible. For example, some universities have effectively created acollection of goals that are an amalgamation of ABET criteria, KEEN outcomes, and additionaluniversity criteria. While it is too early in KEEN’s existence to have established a body of workdescribing the impact of these criteria, thousands of instructors and students are employing theKEEN entrepreneurial framework. This KEEN framework along with Sarasvathy’s work oneffectual logic serve as the basis for the work in this paper.When perusing the KEEN framework in the Appendix, it became clear that many of the examplebehaviors and complementary skills are well-represented in common
complicated impacts of learning technologies and design on K-12 STEM curriculum, pedagogy, and institutional policies in the Philippines and Canada.Prof. Andre Phillion, McMaster University AndrA©˜ Phillion is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Director of the facultyˆa C™s Experiential Learning Office at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. His research interests focus on mathematical modelling ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 First-Year Students in Experiential Learning in Engineering Education: A Systematic Literature ReviewDr. Gerald TembrevillaGerald Tembrevilla is an Assistant Professor at Mount Saint Vincent
of 10+ Best Paper Awards from majorinternational conferences, including IEEE CPSCom-2019, IEEE ICII 2019, IEEE/AIAA ICNS 2019,IEEE CBDCom 2020, WASA 2020, AIAA/ IEEE DASC 2021, IEEE GLOBECOM 2021 and IEEEINFOCOM 2022. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023NSF REU Site— Drone Swarms in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceAbstractDrone swarms, the ability of drones to autonomously make decisions based on shared information,create new opportunities with major societal implications. However, future drone swarmapplications and services pose new networking challenges. A resurgence of artificial intelligence(AI) and machine learning (ML) research presents a tremendous opportunity for addressing thesenetworking
Alexandra Coso is a Ph.D. candidate in the Cognitive Engineering Center at Georgia Tech, where she is pursuing a doctorate in Aerospace Engineering. She is expected to graduate in May 2014. She received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT and her M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. Her research interests include the integration of stakeholders into the engineering design pro- cess, development and evaluation of interdisciplinary engineering courses and programs, mixed methods research designs, and graduate student experiences in engineering programs.Dr. Adam R Carberry, Arizona State University Adam R. Carberry, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University in the Fulton Schools
sample of the readings from different sections of thecourse designed by the course instructors. For the full syllabus, please reach out to the authors. Sample of Readings from Syllabus Part 1: Sovacool, Benjamin. 2016. “The history and politics of energy transitions: comparing contested Energy views and finding common ground.” WIDER Working Paper 2016/81 Basics and Smil, Vaclav, “Examining energy transitions: A dozen insights based on performance,” Energy Context Research and Social Science 22 (2016): 194-197 EIA (Energy Information Administration: Use of energy; Refining crude oil; Electricity explained; US energy facts explained “It’s not just Willow: Oil and
. Create a new practice-based electiveMENG 4324 Computer Aided Manufacturing course to teach modern computer-driven manufacturing methods.MENG 3309 Mechanical Systems Design (required) Enhance design sequence courses withMENG 4214 Design Methodology (required) hands-on capability enabling students toMENG 4320 Design for Manufacturing (elective) produce components and sub-assembliesMENG 4415 Senior Project Design (required) for their design projects.The curriculum development described here is a direct application of our department’s strategicplan for addressing needs of local and regional industry, and is designed to produce MechanicalEngineering graduates who are equipped to step
Paper ID #6119Not All the Same: A Look at Early Career Engineers Employed in DifferentSub-OccupationsMs. Samantha Brunhaver, Stanford University Samantha Brunhaver is a fifth year graduate student at Stanford University. She is currently working on her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in engineering education. Samantha completed a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University in 2008 and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in Design for Manufacturing from Stanford in 2010.Dr. Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford UniversityMichelle Marie Grau, Stanford University Michelle Grau is a senior
Paper ID #21292Teach-Flipped: A Faculty Development MOOC on How to Teach FlippedDr. Cynthia Furse, University of Utah Dr. Cynthia Furse (PhD ’94) is the Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Utah and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Furse teaches / has taught electromagnetics, wireless communication, computational electromagnetics, microwave engineering, circuits, and antenna design. She is a leader and early developer of the flipped classroom, and began flipping her classes in 2007. She is now regularly engaged helping other faculty flip their classes (see Teach-Flip.utah.edu