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
Development Administration (EDA) awarded a $1.5 million grant toIndiana Tech to purchase technical equipment to support engineering- and manufacturing-relatedcertification programs. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan [5]. The supportedprograms are • Programmable Logic Controller Certificate • Cybersecurity & Data Analytics • Additive Manufacturing / 3D Printing Certificate • Automation Certificate • Cybersecurity & Information Management • Artificial Intelligence Certificate • Printed Circuit Board Design CertificateThe Additive Manufacturing Certificate is the focus of this paper.3. Project Description3.1. Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing certificateThis program
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science. Theframework is presented together with a tool developed to guide any instructor at the college levelto select ways to insert ethical considerations into their class. These insertions could come fromcase studies, every day examples, or even instructional approaches.IntroductionThis paper begins with a discussion of one of the outcomes of an NSF-sponsored project aroundthe future of STEM education at the university level. After this introduction, we present anexample of how to implement the Ethical Reasoning InstrumentTM (ERITM) in a first-yearintroductory engineering class. We hope that this example might inspire others to use theinstrument to embed ethics in disciplinary engineering courses.The Future Substance of STEM Education project
a core skill that graduates should be equipped with upongraduation. To foster the development of these skills, design projects have been incorporatedinto the first year of many engineering programs in addition to capstone senior designprojects [1], [3].While there have been significant endeavors to incorporate design into engineering programs,an issue remains with the assessment of design tasks and projects. These forms of activitieshave traditionally been assessed through portfolios, rubrics, and criterion grading tools [4]–[7], which have some limitations when assessing open-ended design projects. Some of theselimitations include excessive time investment in grading, timeliness of feedback, validityissues, and low levels of reliability [8
SHPE’s Virtual STEM Labs: Engaging and inspiring Hispanic youth to pursue STEM degrees and careers.Background/MotivationSolving the world’s most pressing and complex issues, including the recent pandemic, climateand environmental challenges, and sustainable economic development, is dependent on scientificinnovation. This need is reflected in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(STEM) occupation growth which has increased 79% since 1990 and is projected to grow by10.8 percent by 2031 [1]. To meet these labor market demands, the United States hasconsistently invested over $500 million dollars in STEM education specifically since 2019 withan emphasis on programs that increase participation of
demonstrated as a way to combat poverty and elevate the status of women byMuhammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Prize for his efforts.Since then a large number of microfinance organizations have arisen. More recently, internetbased microfinance has broadened the participation of both borrowers, who may live in remoteareas, and lenders, who may now be private individuals, investing through organizations such asKiva or Zidisha.History of MicrofinanceMicrofinance was practiced as early as 1720 as a means to alleviate poverty in Ireland, includingbefore and after the famine [1]. Microfinance proliferated after the success of the Grameen Bankin Bangladesh. Started as a project in 1976 by Yunus, the Grameen bank has grown to
: Overview of a Financial Literacy Course for Incoming Engineering Students at a Hispanic Serving Institution”AbstractThis Work in Progress paper discusses a financial literacy course offered in an introductory engineeringcourse to prepare freshman students on personal finance and money management. The Yes, SHE Can!program from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) developed the financial literacy course, whichgenerally consists of an introduction module, five learning modules on key topics related to financialliteracy, and a final project. Students were exposed to finance and money management related topics suchas cash flow, budgeting, savings accounts and strategies, investments, retirement accounts, and work-forcebenefits. Access to
theaim of introducing them to the different approaches that engineers, scientists and policy makersbring to problem solving in order to promote a more methodical approach to the creation ofpublic policy and a more comprehensive consideration of constraints to engineeringimplementation in solving societal problems.In designing a course that would contribute to the development of leaders and decision makersfor a technology-driven future, we determined that, a dynamic learning environment consistingof lectures, group projects and discussions, guest speakers (practitioners from the differentfields), and experiential learning to inform the final project, was critical. This type of learningenvironment would be conducive to learning outcomes whereby
understanding of student experiences across sites ofwork, and to protect students in meaningful ways.IntroductionConducting research that involves students is fraught with ethical and justice concerns: are thestudents being coerced? Are the students worried that they’ll be punished for something theysay? Will students feel pressured to participate? These questions are amplified when the studentsat hand are from marginalized and minoritized groups and when those students are asked tospeak about their experiences within the classroom. Scholars across engineering education havebuilt projects that report out on student experiences, and all of these implicitly or explicitlysuggest that ethnically and racially minoritized (ERM) students experience trauma
exclusion andbarriers to use, as well as research and design methods by which these can be overcome. Thecourses consisted of 34 (BID) and 37 (MID) students each, and included a multi-week,team-based participatory co-design project that would meet the needs of a diverse range ofusers—such as older adults, users with visual, cognitive, or motor impairments, and users whoare deaf or hard of hearing. Both classes were project-based, where students were placed into 2groups based on their interests. Students were asked to interview their participant and identifycurrent pain points with existing artifacts, and then co-design solutions to improve userexperience
David Hall develops and promotes project-based engineering for engineering and engineering technology programs. He believes that projects build intuition and confidence which are important for the successful application of fundamentals and the successful development of technology solutions. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Implementation and Evaluation of a Predictive Maintenance Course Utilizing Machine Learning Jonathan Niemirowski, David Hall, Krystal Cruse Louisiana Tech UniversityAbstractThis paper explores a course designed to instruct students on project-based machine learning inpredictive
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
dynamics. By including a diverse set of students as the problem solvers in the videosused in class, the author would not only get some help expanding the tool, but also do so in away that expanded the diversity of possible role models that the students were exposed to as partof their class experience. The rest of the paper explores the theoretical foundation of the project,the methodology used, some preliminary assessment results, and the future avenues of researchfor the project.Background and Literature Review:Open Educational Resources and the Mechanics Map Project:The line of research discussed in this paper was born out of a necessary expansion of theMechanics Map Project [1], an online resource for engineering statics and dynamics. With
] regardless of age. More recently, theVR modules were found to engage students via dynamic interaction with the necessaryinformation for critical thinking [21], spatial reasoning ability [22], and 3D modeling [23], toname a few.At Prairie View A&M University, a hammer fabrication project (see Fig.2) involving the manuallathe, milling machine, and drill press had been traditionally used to train students withmachining devices. Due to space limitations, limited equipment, staff, and safety requirementswithin the laboratory, relevant experiments were usually conducted in groups of 3~4 students ata time. This infrastructure gave each student minimal hands-on experience each week, perhaps acouple of minutes at maximum. The lack of hands-on experience
Paper ID #38307How ”Multidisciplinary” Is It? Measuring the Multidisciplinarity ofClasses and Student TeamsMs. Julie Sonnenberg-Klein, Georgia Institute of Technology Assistant Director, Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program, Georgia Institute of Technology; Doc- toral candidate in Education Policy Studies at Georgia State University with a concentration in Research, Measurement and Statistics; Master of Education in Education and Organizational Leadership, Univer- sity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.Prof. Edward J. Coyle, Georgia
incompletewithout engineers becoming more aware of long-term implications of their engineering work onsociety, especially those concerning how costs and benefits of civil engineering projects aredistributed across different social groups and affect their wellbeing in the long-run [3]. Forexample, it has been argued that engineering education should put greater emphasis onengineers’ social responsibility toward "an equal distribution of rights, opportunities, andresources in order to enhance human capabilities and reduce the risk and harms among thecitizens of a society" [4, p. 10]. Thus, complementary education on social justice implications ofcivil engineering may benefit civil engineering education further.We argue that integration of social implications
Engineering & Society, University of Virginia. Before joining UVA. she was a research fellow at National Institutes of Health, and worked for Drexel University as assistant research professor.Dr. Jongmin Lee, University of Science and TechnologyDr. Sean Michael Ferguson, CSUCI This paper is a joint project of Drs. Sean Ferguson, Sharon Ku, Jongmin Lee, and our amazing RA Yixiang Sun. Sean Ferguson was Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Society’s Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Program at the University of Virginia from 2014-2022. He currently has been working with a team at NYCU in Taiwan and UST in Korea to run a global virtual classroom. In addition, with collaborators at California State
, mentoring, and identity development.Dr. Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University Dr. Stacy Klein-Gardner serves as an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt Univer- sity. She is the co-PI and co-Director of the NSF-funded Engineering For Us All (e4usa) project. She is also the co-PI and co-Director of the Youth Engineering Solutions (YES) Middle School project focusing on engineering and computational thinking. Dr. Klein-Gardner is a Fellow of ASEE. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Evaluating a High School Engineering Community of Practice: The Perspective of University Liaisons (Evaluation)AbstractThe NSF-funded research study Engineering
and in college in general [7]. Our projectbuilds on the existing two-course first-year engineering sequence at WCC that we have offeredsince Fall 2017. The first course, ENGR 101: Introduction to Engineering, explores the academicand career options within engineering through hands-on projects that strengthen students’academic preparation for future courses by exploring basic science and math concepts along withproblem solving strategies. Activities also encourage goal setting, develop academic skills, andintroduce students to the social context of engineering. ENGR 101 generally includes a multi-week service-learning project in which students design and deliver STEM outreach activities forlocal children and their families. Participation in
systems, dynamic obstacle avoidance algorithms for unmanned aerial vehi- cles, improving software engineering pedagogy, and et ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Undergraduate Research as a Tool for Building Entrepreneurial Mindset inEngineering StudentsAbstractEntrepreneurial Mindset (EM) has become a widespread classroom practice in many universities in recentyears. Our research project is focused on how EM may be infused into undergraduate researchexperiences for engineering students. For several years, we have offered a workshop to help facultydevelop methods to build EM into research practice. This includes research in traditional lab groups andalso building course-based undergraduate research
unique in that it is one of only avery few programs in which the ARCH and ARCHE programs exist in the same school. Ourprogram focuses on professional practice of building design and construction, and the interactionof the students in the two majors is a precursor to what they will encounter upon graduation andentrance into the professions. The programs are currently structured such that students take manyof the same courses at the start of the curriculums, before dividing and concentrating on thecourses that make their majors unique. At the end of the curriculum, the students come backtogether in the capstone design course, where they act on interdisciplinary teams to arrive atsolutions for a semester-long building project. The number of ARCHE
Paper ID #39821Board 44B: Work in Progress: TikTok Format Videos to ImproveCommunicating Science in Engineering StudentsSamantha Elizabeth PaucarinaJosu´e David BatallasDr. Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador MiguelAndr´es is an Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering at Uni- versidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, an M.Sc. in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University as a Fulbright Scholar, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech, and two Graduate Certificates from Virginia Tech
gain knowledge on major climate issues. Visitsincluded a tour of CTE, a company that works to make LEED-certified buildings; a biomass landfill;energy storage laboratories of the University of Sao Paulo; Zambianco, a sustainable sugar and ethanolplant; Angra, the only nuclear power plant in the country, and others. Incorporated in the trip was a project where students were split into groups and paired withBrazilian students from the University of Sao Paulo and an employee at CPFL Energia. CPFL is thesecond largest non-state-owned group of electric energy generation and distribution in Brazil. Theprogram's goal was to solve real issues that the company faces. Solutions were required to be analyzed foreconomic, political, and social
STEMAbstractThe Hispanic Serving Institution Advanced Technological Education Hub 2 (HSI ATE Hub 2) isa three-year collaborative research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) thatbuilds upon the successful outcomes of two mentoring and professional development (PD)programs in a pilot that translates foundational theory related to culturally responsive pedagogyinto practice using a 3-tier scaffolded faculty PD model. The goal of HSI ATE Hub 2 is toimprove outcomes for Latinx students in technician education programs through design,development, pilot, optimization, and dissemination of this model at 2-year Hispanic ServingInstitutions (HSIs).The tiered PD model has been tested by two faculty cohorts at Westchester Community College(WCC
Paper ID #37942The influence of notebooks on elementary teachers engaging inengineering practices (Fundamental)Dr. Matthew Johnson, Pennsylvania State University Matt is an Associate Professor of Science Education and Associate Director of the Center for Science and the Schools in the College of Education at Penn State University. His research interests focus on how teachers learn about epistemic practices of engineers through in-service teacher professional development and how that learning manifests itself as they teach engineering projects to their students.Minyoung Gil, Pennsylvania State University Minyoung Gil is a
India, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and Durgapur Projects Limited.Dr. Anurag K. Srivastava, West Virginia University Anurag K. Srivastava is a Raymond J. Lane Professor and Chairperson of the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department at the West Virginia University. He is also an adjunct professor at the Washington State University and senior scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Lab. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2005. His research interest includes data-driven algorithms for resilient power system operation and control and engineering education. In past years, he has worked in a different capacity at the R´eseau de
and research interests include solid mechanics, engineering design, and inquiry-guided learning. He has supervised undergraduate and master’s student research projects and capstone design teams.Dr. Aleya Dhanji, Highline Community College Physics faculty at Highline College with research interests in culturally responsive STEM education, inclusive advising and mentoring practices, and antiracist faculty development.Kira Glynn KingDr. Jie Sheng, University of Washington Jie Sheng received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2002 from the University of Alberta, Canada. Since then, she has been an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2003-2004); a lecturer at the University of
the University of Toronto (Canada) in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, the Institute for Robotics and Mechatron- ics, the Toronto Institute of Advanced Manufacturing, and the Institute for Aerospace Studies. He was a researcher in Onboard Space Systems at Lule˚a University of Technology (Sweden). Dr. Bazzocchi also worked for the RHEA Group as a spacecraft concurrent design engineer on the Canadian Space Agency satCODE (satellite concurrent design) project. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Advancing Engineering Education through University Ground Stations Michael I. Buchwald and Michael C.F