understand the academic and socialexperiences of African American and Latino American men in these fields. Interviews revealedthat these students tend to (1) feel alone and invisible, (2) lack same race peers and facultymembers, (3) have difficulty applying theory to practice, and (4) lack the pre-college preparationnecessary to succeed in STEM fields.IntroductionIncreasing the number of American college students who complete degrees in science,technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields is a compelling national interest, as a decliningnumber of workers appropriately skilled in scientific and technical careers threatens U.S. globalcompetitiveness, potentially reduces national security, and almost ensures continued exportationof highly technical
-curricular programmes catering for engineering undergraduates. They consulted over 70 expertsand investigated over 40 programmes. Graham et al.4 provided a summary of the significantprogramme activities of eight highly regarded engineering leadership programmes from acrossthe world. The programmes include: - Engineering leadership program, Iowa State University - Teamwork and Leadership Module, Loughborough University - Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership program, MIT - Leadership in a technological environment, Monash University - Engineering Leadership Development Minor, Penn State University - Leaders of Tomorrow, University of Toronto - Global Engineering teams, Technische Universitat Berlin
research in key focal areas over the last 20 years. TheCollege of Engineering and Science emphasizes and utilizes an interdisciplinary, team-basedmodel in all aspects of administration, education, and research1,2. The college incorporatesengineering, engineering technology, computer science, math, chemistry, and physics in asingle administrative structure, which emphasizes collaboration and removes manytraditional systematic hurdles. The practical structure of the college demonstrates a morecollaborative, versus competitive, work environment than most institutions. The collegeleadership is reasonably familiar with gender issues as they relate to undergraduate education,faculty retention and success. The college has been successful in securing
do not exhibitAptitude-Treatment-Interactions.Chronbach's framework of Aptitude-Treatment-Interaction is not exclusively limited to learning styles,but rather, it extends to any pre-existing characteristic of a student prior to engaging with instruction.Many of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines have the unique situation inwhich students enter the classroom with a wealth informed ideas and intuitions that they haveaccumulated over a lifetime of interacting with the physical world. This is especially true introductoryphysics. Because these ideas existed prior to engaging with formal instruction (at least formal instructionat the university level), these pre-existing ideas, or preconceptions, fit the definition of
Improving Students’ Writing Skills in EngineeringAbstractTechnology and Civilization is an advanced general education course (Area V: Culture,Civilization & Global Understanding) in the College of Engineering at San José State University(SJSU) that is designed to introduce students to the realm of history and usage of technology insociety from an international perspective and to increase their awareness of both the uncertaintiesas well as the promises of the utilization of technology as a creative human enterprise.This paper will present detailed data on student achievement of the course and GeneralEducation learning objectives. This course utilized the ETS Criterion Writing Evaluation Systemto allow the students to get
are thedevelopment of objectives and criteria, synthesis, analysis, construction, testing, and evaluation.Several experts in the field of technological education have provided strong evidence thatengineering design should be the central focus of technological education1,2,3. Wicklein proposed Page 23.1196.3that the field of technology education adopt a design-based interpretation on the engineeringdefinition and suggested that the most appropriate approach for infusing engineering intechnology education is by establishing engineering design as the focus. Some key aspects thatwere the basis for the assertion were that engineering design
Summer Camp focused on accelerating students to prepare them for college mathand to increase their interest in Information Engineering Technology and MechanicalEngineering and other STEM disciplines. The program has been very successful, as measuredby the progress made by the students in their math skills. The student body is 85% Hispanic. Thefirst two summer camps targeted high-school students, while the last summer focused on collegefreshmen students with low-level math skills. This paper describes the strategies used, therecruitment tools used, and the results obtained for three years of Summer Camps. One of themain results shows that an average participant student has improved their math skills theequivalent of one semester or even one year
course coordinator for the freshman-level General Chemistry for Engineers as well as an instructor for Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics 1 and Chemical Engineering Kinetics at Northeastern. He also is the author of the recently-published textbook General Chemistry for Engineers.Lauren Gianino, Northeastern University Lauren Gianino graduated in May of 2012 from Northeastern University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering. During her time at Northeastern, she held three co-op positions at Lockheed Martin, 1366 Technologies, and Genzyme and completed a summer REU program at UC Berkeley in Bioengineering. Lauren is currently employed at EMD Millipore as a Quality Engineer.Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern
Paper ID #7365Collaborative Research: Center for Mobile Hands-On STEMProf. Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kenneth Connor is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering where he teaches courses on plasma physics, electromagnetics, electronics and instrumentation, electric power, and general engineering. His research involves plasma physics, electromagnetics, photonics, engineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning. Since joining the Rensselaer faculty in 1974, he has been continuously involved in research programs at
Technology (NCWIT). In addition to her lead- ership in the office, Dr. Litzler is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and a Board Member of Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN). Her research interests include the educational climate for students in science and engineering and gender and race stratification in education and the workforce. Page 23.1058.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Seeing the Big Picture: The Role that Undergraduate Work Experiences Can Play in the Persistence of Female Engineering
position at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Ar- gentina, and has served as visiting and resident professor at universities in Brazil, and many other countries in Ibero-America. He is the Executive Vice President and Founder in 1990 of the Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC), a successful non-profit organization with the mission to accelerate STEM education, R&D and entrepreneurship in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. He serves on the Board of Directors of several industrial and professional organizations. He served as Vice President for the Americas Region and Executive Committee in the International Federation of Engineer- ing Education Societies. He is on the Board of
Paper ID #8347Establishing an American Global Campus in SUNY Korea: Challenges andExcitement in Preparing Global EngineersProf. Imin Kao, Stony Brook University (SUNY) Dr. Imin Kao is the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS), and a Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University (SUNY). He is also the founding Faculty Director of the Information and Technology Studies Undergraduate College (ITS College)–one of the six thematic Undergraduate Colleges at Stony Brook University, established to transform the university life and learning experience for the
Paper ID #6447Web-based audience response system for quality feedback in first year engi-neeringDr. Brian M Frank, Queen’s University Brian Frank is an associate professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he has taught courses in electronics and wireless systems. He is the DuPont Canada Chair in Engineering Education Research and Development, and the Director of Program Development in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science where he works on engineering curriculum development, program assessment, and developing educational technology. He is a co-founder of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Southern Polytechnic State University. His research interests include enumerative combinatorics, permutation pattern avoidance, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.Dr. Christina R Scherrer, Southern Polytechnic State University Christina Scherrer is an Associate Professor of industrial engineering technology at Southern Polytechnic State University. Her research interests are in the application of operations research and economic decision analysis to the public sector and in assessing education innovation. She teaches primarily statistics and logistics courses, at both the undergraduate and graduate level. She received her Ph.D. in industrial engineering from
Paper ID #7975Designing an Introductory Entrepreneurial Thinking CourseMr. Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Daniel M. Ferguson is a graduate student in the Engineering Education Program at Purdue University and the recipient of NSF awards for research in engineering education. Prior to coming to Purdue he was Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio Northern University. Before assuming that position he was Associate Director of the Inter-professional Studies Program and Senior Lecturer at Illinois Institute of Technology and involved in research in service learning, assessment processes
Science degrees in four engineering majors: chemical, electrical,mechanical and petroleum. The curricula offered at Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ)are materially identical to the ones offered at the main campus in College Station, Texas andcourses are taught in English in a coeducational setting. The reputation for excellence is thesame, as is the commitment to training engineers equipped to lead the next generation ofengineering discovery pioneers. Qatar has the world’s third largest proven natural gas reserves,as well as some reserves of petroleum; it also hosts the most advanced existing plants andrefineries in Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) technology, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), in addition toseveral chemical and petrochemical plants. The
. Specifically, wesought to find out what they did well and where they struggled, what the student-designersunderstood, and their perception of engineering design when developing modeling artifacts.Although there was the potential for many phenomena to be investigated, we believe anexamination of the students thoughts and processes around modeling was salient. We alsosought to demonstrate the utility of the pedagogical focus on modeling artifacts in engineeringdesign. Page 23.972.2Situated in Literature In science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) education at the K-12 level, thereis an established infrastructure for all the sub-disciplines
Paper ID #6298The Impact of Self-efficacy, through Experiential Education, on the Reten-tion of Engineering StudentsDr. Mohamad Metghalchi, Northeastern University Metghalchi is full professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department. He received his doc- toral degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980 and has been involved in education since then. He was Chair of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department from 2004 to 2011 and interim Dean of the college in 2006-07. He is currently Editor of ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology.Mr. Richard Harris, Northeastern University Assistant
Paper ID #7087Connecting Rural Teachers and Students to Nanoscale Science and Engineer-ing through Teacher Professional DevelopmentMrs. Joyce Allen, National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network Joyce Palmer Allen is the assistant education coordinator for the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) and works at the Nanotechnology Research Center at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her job includes planning, developing and implementing educational outreach programs in nanotech- nology and representing the NNIN Education and Outreach office at local and national conferences and meetings. She also helps to
ProgramsAbstractThe importance of collaborative learning is well recognized. But achieving collaborative learning,especially in engineering (or, in general, in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM))courses, is challenging. Over the last several years, a number of online technologies that can beused to effect collaborative learning have been introduced. Especially promising are wikis and pro-grams in various disciplines have introduced wiki-based collaborative activities. But researchershave reported that, contrary to expectations, wiki-based activities have not resulted in promotingcollaborative learning. The results have been especially poor in STEM courses.Peer-instruction (PI) is a classroom technique that helps students help each other
Paper ID #6940Using MyMathLab for Learning Reinforcement in the Classroom and Atten-dance Data for Engineering CalculusDr. James E. Lewis, University of Louisville Dr. James E. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals in the J. B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. His research interests include parallel and distributed computer systems, cryptography, engineering education, undergraduate retention, and technology (Tablet PCs) used in the classroom.Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville Dr. Jeffrey L. Hieb is an Assistant Professor with the
for Today’s Practicing Engineers”, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1997 Conference •”Successful Model for Corporate-University Col- laboration”, International Association for Continuing Engineering education (IACEE), 2001 5th World Conference, in partnership with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor •”Designing Engineer Educa- tional Partnership Model”, IACEE 2001 5th World Conference, in partnership with Michigan Technolog- ical University •”Reengineering a Successful Graduate Program”, IACEE 2001 5th World Conference, in partnership with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute •”Developing Product and Manufacturing Integra- tion Engineers”, IACEE 2001 5th World Conference, in partnership with
Paper ID #6724Sustaining Successful Continuing Professional Engineering Education Pro-grams by Systematic Assessment of the Key Performance ResultsDr. Soma Chakrabarti, University of Kansas Dr. Soma Chakrabarti is the director of the Center for Engineering and Interdisciplinary Professional Education (CEIPE) and the associate director of Continuing Education at the University of Kansas. She provides strategic direction in business development to the units of Aerospace Short Course Program, Engineering Technology Certificate Program, Engineering Management Certificate Program, engineer- ing conferences and
State Berks Dr. Rungun Nathan is an associate professor in the division of engineering at Penn State-Berks. He got his B.S. from University of Mysore, his DIISc from Indian Institute of Science, his M.S. from Louisiana State University and his Ph.D. from Drexel University. He has worked in electronic packaging in C-DOT in India and then as a scientific assistant in the Robotics laboratory at the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, India. He worked as a post-doc at University of Pennsylvania in the area of Haptics and Virtual Reality. His research interests are in the areas of unmanned vehicles particularly flapping flight, mechatronics, robotics, MEMS, virtual reality and haptics, and teaching with technology
Extended Abstract with Poster STEM High School Teaching Enhancement Through Collaborative Engineering Research on Extreme Winds Danielle ReynoldsScience Department Chair, John A. Dubiski Career High School, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA Nur Yazdani Professor of Civil Engineering, UT Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA Tanvir Manzur Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. AbstractThe Research
Paper ID #8302The Attributes of a Global Engineer Project: Updates, Inputs, Faculty Devel-opment ConsiderationsDr. Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Dr. Stephen P. Hundley is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Communication at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He also serves as IUPUI’s Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives.Ms. Lynn G Brown, The Boeing Company Lynn G. Brown is the Corporate Higher Education and STEM International Program Manager for for The Boeing Company and the Chairperson of the ASEE
Paper ID #8203”Decision Making: The Full Monty!” – A Uniquely Inspired Leadership Train-ing ExperienceMr. Noah Miller, Northrop Grumman, Electronic Systems Noah Miller – Change Agent, Intrapeneur, and Software Engineer – brings passion to all that he does, es- pecially in fusing technology and people to accomplish the mission. Most recently, ”His business aware- ness and leadership skills have grown in scope as he takes on challenges beyond his cost and schedule objectives that are geared towards helping elicit excellence from others in the company.” He has kicked it into high-gear as an engineer-teacher after
, and design and evaluation of learning environments informed by the How People Learn framework.Dr. Mehmet Ayar, TUBITAK Dr. Mehmet Ayar is a scientific programs expert in the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). He received his PhD. in Curriculum and Instruction with specialization in STEM education at Texas A&M University in 2012. His research is in ethnographic studies of science and engineering practice, curriculum development, design of learning environments and robotics activities. Dr. Ayar worked for the Live Energy Project during his PhD studies at Texas A&M University. Prior to his PhD studies, he worked for three years as a science teacher at a private school in
in an EU-US DAETE and DAETE2 projects to develop international quality standards for continuing education centers. She is also a co-creator of the Bray-Scalzo Partnership Model for creating and sustaining successful partnerships. Kim currently serves as Chair of the Continuing Professional Development Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE-CPD). She is also a member of the International Association of Continuing Engineering Education (IACEE) Council and serves as the Vice President for Products and Services on the IACEE Executive Committee. Additionally, she has served as a member of the National University Telecommunications Network (NUTN) Advisory Board and is currently a member of
energy systems, and dynamic systems and control. Page 23.1397.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Work-in-Progress: Videos and Video Podcasts - What Engineering Educators Ought to KnowAbstract The use of recorded video for education has been around for several decades since theadvent of film. But recent technological advancements, in particular the continued growingpopularity in the U.S. and in other countries of devices that can be used for viewing videos, requirecertain key questions to be re-visited and new questions to be answered. A