, Purdue University Behzad Beigpourian is a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant in Engineering Education at Purdue Uni- versity. He earned his master’s in Structural Engineering from Shahid Chamran University in Iran, and his bachelor’s in Civil Technical Teacher from Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University in Iran, Tehran. He has been official Technical Teacher at Ministry of Education in Iran from 2007 to 2018, and received many certificate in education such as Educational Planning, Developing Research Report, and Understanding School Culture. Mr. Beigpourian currently works in the CATME project, which is NSF funding project, on optimizing teamwork skills and assessing the quality of Peer Evaluations.Mr. Frank
Behzad Beigpourian is a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant in Engineering Education at Purdue Uni- versity. He earned his master’s in Structural Engineering from Shahid Chamran University in Iran, and his bachelor’s in Civil Technical Teacher from Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University in Iran, Tehran. He has been official Technical Teacher at Ministry of Education in Iran from 2007 to 2018, and received many certificate in education such as Educational Planning, Developing Research Report, and Understanding School Culture. Mr. Beigpourian currently works in the CATME project, which is NSF funding project, on optimizing teamwork skills and assessing the quality of Peer Evaluations.Mr. Siqing Wei, Purdue University
Education (ToE) and the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE). She and her coauthors received the 2011 Wickenden Award for the best paper in JEE and the 2011 and 2015 Best Paper Awards for the IEEE ToE. In Spring 2012, Dr. Lord spent a sabbatical at Southeast University in Nanjing, China teaching and doing research. She is on the USD team implementing ”Developing Changemaking Engineers”, an NSF-sponsored Revolutionizing Engineering Education (RED) project. Dr. Lord is the 2018 recipient of the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Reimagining Energy Year 2: Integrating CSPs into Course DevelopmentOverviewThis NSF project focuses on the development
position in the School of Engineering and Technology and the Science of Advanced Materials program at Central Michigan University (CMU). Prior to joining CMU, Dr. Kaya was a post-doctorate associate at Yale University from 2007 to 2010 and a research and teaching assistant at Istanbul Technical University in Instanbul, Turkey from 1999 to 2007. He was a consultant at Brightwell Corp. in 2007, and a senior VLSI analog design engineer and project coordinator at Microelectronics R&D Company from 2000 to 2006. Dr. Kaya was a visiting assistant in research at Yale University from 2004 to 2005. Dr. Kaya received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics Engineering from ITU. His research interests in electrical
technical answers made agreat impact. This site has not only provided useful information for the Engaged inThermodynamics material, but has expressed an interest in future class visits, student internships,and possible senior projects.A third avenue that has opened up is for the fuel cell scenario. Feedback from students duringthe original proof-of-concept indicated that they were looking for more detailed and in-depthinformation in how the engineering equipment actually worked and was put together, rather thanjust theoretical equations. Additional efforts were therefore placed on creating or obtainingadditional schematics, cross-sections, and animations of systems. During a professionaldevelopment tour with a fuel cell manufacturer, the project
solving. His research interests particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU. Page 24.410.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Development and Implementation of Interactive Virtual Laboratories to Help Students Learn Threshold Concepts in Thermodynamics
project aims to characterize how engineering students view and approach innovation. Aspects of the research that are accomplished so far include: 1) a multi-phase protocol that includes interviews, process mapping tasks, and think-aloud protocols, 2) a content analysis to determine typical innovation and discovery behaviors used in innovation in technical areas, and 3) a meta-synthesis of assessment methods used in engineering entrepreneurship. Based on the findings from these studies, we made recommendations that inform activities associated with the educational plan including classroom activities and assessment tools. Introduction While innovativeness is a
ECR: BCSER program is to build a researcher’s capacity and expertise in STEMeducation research [10]. The author’s proposal titled “An Individual InvestigatorDevelopment Plan for Building Capacity to Study Undergraduate Latinas Interest inGraduate School” was selected for funding.Project ApproachThis NSF project incorporates capacity building through the “4 steps to Growth in EngineeringEducation Research” depicted in Figure 1. These steps were designed to strengthen the author’scapacity to carry out fundamental engineering education research (EER). The proposed strategystarts with Step 1: Knowledge Building. The knowledge building step outlined opportunities togain knowledge through both formal and informal learning opportunities. As an
workshop in June 2022. A goalof this workshop was to survey the community as to what already existed in this field and to considerhow to expand electricity access education in the United States.Following the success of 2022 workshop, an expanded workshop on this topic was held in October2023. About 40 attendees, including engineering faculty members, students, and field practitionersparticipated. The two-day program of sessions included keynote speakers, moderated panels, andthemed discussions. This paper presents details of the second workshop along with feedback fromthe attendees about the workshop and how they found it beneficial.This project was funded by a grant from the Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)of the National
communities.Julianna R Beehn, Harding University Julianna Beehn is a student majoring in Cognitive Neuroscience at Harding University. She is on track to graduate from the Honors College with distinction in 2025.Olivia I Bell, Harding UniversityChelsei Lasha Arnold, Harding University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Engineering Faculty Members’ Experience of Professional Shame: Summary of Insights from Year ThreeAbstractIn this paper, we provide an overview of an NSF CAREER project (Award #2045392) where weseek to advance academic well-being by understanding how engineering faculty experience andreproduce experiences of professional shame. After conducting non-standardized
on curriculum development, etc.) both during their research experience and the academic year; 4. Create strong communication between the teachers, the RET Site project faculty team and the industrial advisory board during the academic year to provide the teachers with support as they refine their curriculum modules utilizing inquiry methodology; 5. Increase teacher self-efficacy related to manufacturing content knowledge and inquiry-based teaching needed to inspire their students to consider careers in advanced manufacturing; 6. Deliver workforce development specific professional development targeted to increase teachers’ knowledge of regional career opportunities in advanced manufacturing to inspire
Engineering Education, 2023 1 Connecting Classroom Curriculum to Local Contexts to Enhance Engineering Awareness in Elementary YouthProject OverviewThis paper reports on the year three findings of a National Science Foundation Research in theFormation of Engineers project focused on increasing rural and indigenous youth’s awareness ofengineering and engineering related careers. To reach this goal, we worked with elementaryteachers to connect the engineering activities taught in the classroom with local funds ofknowledge and local engineering opportunities (Hammack et al., 2022; Hammack et al., 2021).Each of the four participating
over the past twodecades, although disagreement exists concerning how ethics can and should be taught in theclassroom. With the support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ImprovingUndergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program, a collaboration of investigators from theUniversity of Connecticut, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of Pittsburgh, andRowan University are conducting a mixed-methods project investigating how game-based orplayful learning with strongly situated components can influence first-year engineering students’ethical knowledge, awareness, and decision making. We have conducted preliminary analyses offirst-year students’ ethical reasoning and knowledge using the Defining Issues Test 2 (DIT-2),Engineering
engineering over the past twodecades, although disagreement exists concerning how ethics can and should be taught in theclassroom. With the support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ImprovingUndergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program, a collaboration of investigators from theUniversity of Connecticut, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of Pittsburgh, andRowan University are conducting a mixed-methods project investigating how game-based orplayful learning with strongly situated components can influence first-year engineering students’ethical knowledge, awareness, and decision making. We have conducted preliminary analyses offirst-year students’ ethical reasoning and knowledge using the Defining Issues Test 2 (DIT-2),Engineering
Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), and was previously an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM). In addition to his research in Geotechnical Engineering on the topics of soil-structure interaction and engineering characterization of geomaterials, Dr. Pando has been actively involved in teaching and mentoring students at both UPRM and UNCC, including 14 undergraduate civil engineering students through the NSF Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Program. Examples of his recent and ongoing engineering education research projects include the development of a Bridge to the Doctoral Program to attract Latinos to geotechnical
(Virginia Tech) on an NSF grant funded project that explores broadening participation of African Americans in Engineering and Computer Science. In addi- tion to her work at Virginia Tech, Chane´e is the co-founder and principal consultant of Foresight Strategy Solutions, a P-12 and Higher Education consultancy, as well as an independent researcher with San Fran- cisco based strategy and innovation consultancy Entangled Solutions. Her work is focused on supporting schools, districts, administrators, educators, policy makers, communities, and families in dismantling sys- temic barriers to education and social mobility in order to put in place innovative policies and practices that enhance social ecosystems and overall life
AmbassadorsSummary and Introduction To solve today’s engineering challenges, we need a wide range of solutions, which can berealized only by having enough engineers with diverse and strong technical backgrounds.Workforce studies have shown that the number of students being educated in STEM (science,technology, engineering, and math) cannot meet projected demands [1]. Also, the currentenrollments in engineering are not diverse, especially among women, blacks, and Hispanics [2].On another issue, a recent survey of engineers in industry indicates a compelling need forengineers to have strong communication skills [3]. Addressing these challenges is the Engineering Ambassador Network: a network ofprofessional development programs for undergraduate
-related topics into their already-crowded curricula, yet undergraduate engineering students are rarely exposed to real biomedicaltopics through their coursework. To provide students with the skills directly relevant to theevolving needs of the biomedical industry, this project will develop and integrate applied bio-medical course content and experiments throughout the Rowan University Engineering curricu-lum.A plan is presented to introduce hands-on, biomedically-related experiments and course materi-als into the engineering curriculum, with a focus on artificial organs. These biomedical moduleswill be integrated throughout Rowan University’s engineering curriculum, into the multidiscipli-nary freshman engineering course, core engineering courses
[5] partners engineers and social scientists to promote cultural, notjust curricular, change.In addition to these efforts, several schools have created Departments of Engineering Education(e.g., Virginia Tech, Purdue, Ohio State, Arizona State, Rowan, with others and more information) to focus on advancing engineering education research and practice. Recently, the NSFinitiated a new program that partners engineering educators with social/learning scientists toconduct education research projects; the Research Initiation in Engineering Formation program.However, even with a multitude of efforts, significant gaps in the research-practice cycle [6] stillexist: two specific gaps being 1) engineering education research’s struggle to permeate into
Paper ID #24797Board 107: Explaining Choice, Persistence, and Attrition of Black Studentsin Electrical, Computer, and Mechanical Engineering: Award# EEC-1734347- Year 1Dr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 30 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since 2004, she
developing and introducing curriculum inhardware description languages and programmable logic design. This paper will discuss thecurriculum development and course assessment results at Michigan Technological UniversityElectrical Engineering Technology Program and The partner Community College. The paperalso addresses project activities including the two-day Faculty Professional Developmentworkshop on VHDL and FPGA design implemented in December 2012, assessment results andlessons learned, and finally, the undergraduate research experience at Michigan TechnologicalUniversity. I. IntroductionProgrammable Logic Devices in general and FPGA-based re-programmable logic design becamemore attractive as a design media during the last decade, and as a
InterfaceIntroductionFor students to succeed in engineering design (and engineering practice) they must be able tomake design decisions that are grounded in data and analysis. The potential danger, however, inintroducing analysis and calculations too early in the design process is that this may lead thedesigner to become “fixated” on the current design idea and not explore other, potentially betterideas1, 2. This can be problematic as engineering education endeavors to teach students to bemore innovative. Thus, while it is important to teach students how to support their designdecisions with analysis, it is likewise important to help them engage in analysis without leadingto limited exploration of alternative ideas. The overarching goal of this project is to
Ethics and the Impact of Technology on Society for ten years before retiring, and is actively engaged in teaching young faculty how to teach engineering ethics. He is currently prin- ciple investigator for an NSF Grant entitled: Making Ethics Explicit: Relocating Ethics to the Core of Engineering Education. Page 23.881.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Making Ethics Explicit: Relocating Ethics to the Core of Engineering EducationAbstractOur project is motivated by the expanding and at times controversial literature that
engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. Scott’s research relates to accessible and inexpensive engineering equipment for laboratory education.Wendy Cagle, Western Carolina UniversityDr. Andrew Ritenour, Western Carolina University Andrew Ritenour is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering + Technology at Western Carolina University (WCU). In addition to teaching in the field of electrical engineering, he coordinates the senior engineering capstone program which is a multidisciplinary, two-semester course sequence with projects sponsored by industrial partners. Within this role, he focuses on industrial outreach and the teaching and assessment of professional skills. Prior to joining WCU in 2018
updated student standards, rapidly changing impacts of artificial intelligence (AI), andan increasing number of school systems requiring a CS class for graduation. In order to preparefor these changes – as well as to address the equity issues that have plagued CS since its inception– we engaged in a project designed to reimagine content and pathways for high school CSeducation. As a collaborative project, we hosted multiple events for relevant parties (includingK-12 educators and administrators, higher education faculty, industry professionals, state anddistrict CS supervisors, and CS education researchers). These events were designed tocollaboratively seek input for the creation of a series of reports recommending what a CS coursethat satisfies
Virginia University Institute of Technology (WVU Tech) has aTrack 1 S-STEM project and is participating in an accelerator grant program administered by aTrack 3 project at Virginia Tech.Recruitment for S-STEM programs can be a challenge. To combat this challenge, the presentstudy is part of a larger initiative to investigate intra-institutional partnerships and share findingsbroadly to help ensure that no eligible S-STEM scholars are overlooked in future S-STEMprogram recruitment efforts. Institutional partners at WVU Tech included the S-STEM principalinvestigators, financial aid, the Student Success Center where first year advising occurs,enrollment management where admissions is housed and university relations where marketingand communications
.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
Paper ID #13462Probing the Flipped Classroom: A Controlled Study of Teaching and Learn-ing Outcomes in Undergraduate Engineering and MathematicsDr. Nancy K Lape, Harvey Mudd College Nancy K. Lape is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College.Dr. Rachel Levy, Harvey Mudd College Rachel Levy is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. In addition to her work on fluid mechanics, she is the founder of the blog Grandma got STEM and an investigator on two NSF-funded education projects: one studying flipped classrooms and the other preparing teachers for mathematical modeling in the
focuses on the development of scientific discourse among k-12 students in a context of perpetual STEM reform. He conducts sociocultural research to examine learning in science classrooms, with a particular emphasis on engaging students with histories of academic failure. He also researches teachers’ beliefs and practices regarding Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM) innovations and their impact on the youth of today. His research has demonstrated that transformative and culturally relevant pedagogy along with mobile technology, live data collection, and citizen science approaches can engage marginalized students for improved STEM expertise. Among other projects, he has investigated how engineers in higher
qualitative and quantitative results of a project designed to improveSVS’s for STEM students managed under two strategies. The first strategy utilized was a seriesof face-to-face (FtF), two-hour training sessions taught over six weeks to all majors in STEM.This strategy was offered in Spring 2014 and every semester from Fall 2015 - Spring 2018. Thesecond strategy was an embedded training (ET) implemented by one faculty from Fall 2017- Fall2018. The faculty embedded the training in the US 1100 freshman seminar and was highlymotivated to increase awareness of students on the importance and applicability of SVS in theirfields of study. As reported by Swail et al. [6], cognitive, social, and institutional factors are keyelements to best support students