transfer into Lipscomb from CCs and that students whoreceive support will be more likely than their peers to persist and graduate with an engineeringdegree. These survey responses also suggest that the students would benefit from an overview ofCAD, MatLab, and expectations at Lipscomb. This could be achieved in a few sessions withstudents after acceptance into Lipscomb. Having current S-STEM students participate or mentorincoming students may also prove beneficial.Program EvaluationTo create an effective pathway from CC to a baccalaureate degree in engineering, LipscombUniversity’s S-STEM award focused on addressing: 1) how well is the institution’s NSF-fundedS-STEM project proceeding (identifying the current status of objectives and outcomes
Paper ID #34492First-Year Engineering Students’ Experiences and Perceptions ViewedThrough the Lens of Transdisciplinary Knowledge and Threshold ConceptsDr. Gerald Gallego Tembrevilla, McMaster University Gerald Tembrevilla completed his PhD in science (physics) education in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada in July 2020. Currently, he serves as a postdoctoral fellow for the PIVOT project, a cutting-edge revamp of the engineering curriculum in the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. During
Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Gendered Elective Track Choice in Engineering Undergraduate Education: Antecedents and Career Path ImplicationsIntroduction With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Program,this Institutional and Community Transformation project aims to serve the national interest ofbroadening participation by improving the representation of women in more technically-orientedroles and career paths within engineering. Research has shown that women who pursueengineering careers are more likely than their male counterparts to be in less technical roles andcareers paths, and these gendered career patterns increase attrition risk for female engineers [1-3]. This project
Engineering Division of ASEE.Dr. Nazli Yesiller, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dr. Yesiller is the Director of the Global Waste Research Institute (GWRI) at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Incorporating Contemporary Policy Issues in Science and Engineering CurriculaAbstractA curriculum development project was implemented to provide classroom-to-classroominteractions between a civil engineering computer programming class and a microbiology class toincorporate a contemporary policy issue into science and engineering curriculum at theundergraduate level. Both courses are
) convenient sampling procedure.The administered survey consisted of eight questions for Cohort 1 and Cohort 2: Question 1. Prior to joining the group, did you engage in research efforts? Question 2. If not, did you discuss this with the faculty advisor? Question 3. Did you meet with the faculty advisor after you were accepted into the group? Question 4. Did the faculty advisor respond in a pleasant manner? Question 5. If so, did the faculty advisor give you a general overview of the current project? Question 6. At any point did you talk (or email) the faculty advisor about graduate school or internship opportunities? Question 7. If so, have you applied for any internship opportunities
Dr. Beyerlein has taught at the University of Idaho for the last 34 years. He is a former department chair and collaborates the college of engineering introduction to engineering course, the inter-disciplinary capstone design course, and the FE review course. Dr. Beyerlein has been active in research projects involving engine testing, engine heat release modeling, design of curricula for active learning, design pedagogy, and assessment of professional skills.Mr. JJ Petersen, University of Idaho American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Transforming Introductory Engineering Courses to Match GenZ Learning
southernhemisphere. There is no precession at the equator and the pendulum keeps swinging in the samedirection. Our small-scale Foucault’s Pendulum experiments were carried out in two differentcountries as an independent study by a sophomore engineering student. Project Based Learning(PBL) was applied in this study. Since Foucault’s experiment is in such a big scale, logistically itis hard to demonstrate it at schools. The aim of this study was to create a small-scale pendulumso other students and teachers around the world can easily build one to prove the Earth’srotation. Using a small-scale setup, about 3 meters in length, we studied the effects of the Earth’srotation on the pendulum’s precession with identical materials (i.e., object’s mass and size
College London and from the University of Johannesburg. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 WIP: Collaborative Learning in an Online-Only Design for Manufacturability CourseAbstractIn contemporary design-for-manufacturability education, the use of design-thinking (or human-centered design) and team-based design projects are ubiquitous. Students are typically taken on ajourney to better appreciate synthesis of the “big picture” while learning to consider an open-ended manufacturability problem from various perspectives and discovering the value inempathy and co-creation. However, with
for input and pin 11 as output to apiezo. If it is bright out and it is hot, implying that it is a hot day in this scenario, the piezobuzzes (alongside the LED already being on due to light). I like to think of this as a circuityelling at you to drink water.”Student electronics designs and code (block or typed) for their final group projects in the courseare slightly more complex than the one-week assignment sample shown in Figures 5 and 6, butthe final project is a group effort and teams are given over a month to develop that larger human-centered functional prototype and report.Quantitative Analysis of Impact of Virtual ToolThroughout the semester in Engineering Design & Society, all students were given the choice onany programming or
California, Santa Barbara. She received her B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona in 2017. She has worked with informal science institutions for the past 11 years, including The Chandler Museum, Tucson Children’s Museum, and Biosphere 2. Currently, her research interests are facilitator, curriculum and exhibit development within informal science environments as well as Research- Practice Partnerships to benefit the local community. For more information about current projects and interests, please visit alexandriamuller.com. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Engineering Explorations: Connecting K-12 classroom
Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engi- neering at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA. Her main areas of research interest are collabo- rative work-structures, virtual teams, and team decision-making and performance.Dr. Jennifer Jill Kidd, Old Dominion University Dr. Jennifer Kidd is a Master Lecturer in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Old Dominion Uni- versity. Her research interests include engineering education, computational thinking, student-authored digital content, and classroom assessment, especially peer review. She currently has support from the National Science Foundation for two projects related to engineering education for preservice teachers.Dr
between the Naval Postgraduate School,the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) and the Georgia Tech ResearchInstitute (GTRI) to better understand swarming UAVs. [8] The article describes the advantagesof collaboration between the military, and academia to advance the state of unmanned swarmingtechnology.Another example is the robust UAS program at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. This is oneof ten locations designated by the FAA to spearhead specific technologies related to UAS,according to Hatfield, et.al.[1] The program is able to advance beyond visual line of sighttechnology, which is critical if UAS are eventually able to operate beyond a very small area nearthe operator or with multiple operators able to observe the air
design, teamwork, prototyping, and client-based projects. Wettergreen has over ten years of experience teaching client-based engineering design courses, and a deep interest in engineering education, specifically curriculum that can be employed to build capacity for student development in makerspaces. Building off of this interest, he has taught and mentored faculty in Brazil, Malawi, and Tanzania to launch makerspaces and work with institutions to develop engineering design curriculum. Dr. Wettergreen is the faculty mentor for Rice’s Design for America chapter, for which he has been given the Hudspeth Award for excellence in student club mentoring. Wettergreen is also a designer of consumer products under Data
Paper ID #34393Blended Learning to the Rescue: How one Construction ManagementProgram is Mitigating the Risk of COVID-19 in the ClassroomDr. Peter D. Rogers P.E., University of Southern Mississippi Dr. Pete Rogers is an associate professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. Prior to joining the university, he worked at Georgia Southern University, the University of Texas at Tyler, and the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers’ Institute for Water Resources. He also spent several years working throughout Latin America on water and sanitation projects including a term as the national supervisor of USAID-Honduras water
ElementsAbstract:Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) is an extremely important skill formechanical engineering students who will mainly design mechanical devices and components.However, a GD&T course is typically not included in an undergraduate mechanical engineeringcurriculum. In our mechanical engineering curriculum, bits of basic concepts of GD&T arebriefly mentioned or discussed in several different courses. It has been observed in the lastseveral years that some students in their senior capstone project designs still didn’t know how toproperly define assembly dimension tolerances or component dimension tolerances. In the lasttwo years, the authors used one and a half weeks out of a total of a fifteen-week semester toteach GD&T
is a self-reflection activity which encourages independent learning thereby becoming transformative [22].A third example is team contracts that may offer a level of accountability leading to learnersatisfaction with group projects [23].ProcedureA narrative research design with a qualitative sensibility was selected to describe the personalexperiences associated with the COVID-19 pandemic intervening in the classroom. The rationaleis that a narrative study affords an opportunity to tell the story through teacher reflection [24].The story is a first-person, autobiographical account [25] with prompting from archived coursedocuments. The classroom setting is a private institution with architecture students takingstructural engineering
programs atthe university (see Appendix A for the rubric). In addition to the institution-wide assessment ofinformation fluency, the Library department conducts its own assessment of information fluencyinstruction on an offsetting cycle from IWAC. In this assessment, librarians review therecommendations from previous IWAC findings and collected interim data to monitor theprogress and effectiveness of implemented changes.During the 2016-17 academic year, IWAC collected artifacts from seniors of all programs toassess this learning outcome. Mechanical Engineering students were assessed at the masterylevel using their senior lab reports, capstone project final reports, and engineering ethics papers.The results of the rubric scoring showed the
, and hy-flex classroom teaching.Dr. Jack Bringardner, New York University Jack Bringardner is the Assistant Dean for Academic and Curricular Affairs at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He is also an Assistant Professor in the General Engineering Department and Civil Engineer- ing Department where he teaches the First-Year Engineering Program course Introduction to Engineering and Design. He is the Director of Vertically Integrated Projects at NYU. His Vertically Integrated Projects course is on Smart Cities Technology with a focus on transportation. His primary focus is developing curriculum, mentoring students, and engineering education research, particularly for project-based cur- riculum, first-year
studies. [4] With the exception of ‘founder’, having an entrepreneurial parent had no effectas well. These results differ from Li et al., who stated that having close entrepreneurial relatives waspositively aligned with increases in entrepreneurial mindset. However, their definition of entrepreneurialmindset encompassed all of our EEI. There seems to be a movement of student interest from ‘inventor’ to‘developer’ in general as students work through innovative, open-ended projects, such as senior capstoneor our introductory bioengineering final project. Students who identified as having previousentrepreneurial experience demonstrated a greater affinity for ‘founder’ and ‘developer’ than studentswho did not claim this experience. The previous
NSF RED Project focused on competency- based learning modules for sophomore aerospace engineers.Dr. Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University Dr. Kristi J. Shryock is the Frank and Jean Raymond Foundation Inc. Endowed Instructional Associate Professor and Associate Department Head in the Department of Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. She also serves as Director of the Craig and Galen Brown Engineering Honors Program. She received her BS, MS, and PhD from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M. Kristi works to improve the undergraduate engineering experience through evaluating preparation in areas, such as mathematics and physics, evaluating engineering identity
categories might be considered antecedents to other ways of experiencinghuman-centered design. Beginning with Category 3, "User as Information Source Input to LinearProcess," the categories become hierarchically related, wherein each more ‘comprehensive’category includes and builds on the design behaviors and attitudes of preceding categories [2].Figure 1 shows the hierarchical relationship between these categories.Category 7, "Empathic Design," describes the most holistic way of experiencing human-centereddesign [2]. According to Zoltowski et al., empathic design is characterized by a deep connectionbetween the designer and the user that extends "beyond scope of the project" and into a deepcontextual awareness of elements that affect the user (e.g
), mandated by the United Nations for projects involving indigenous peoples.FPIC is a principle, enshrined in international human rights standards, that states that all peopleshave the right to self-determination and that all peoples have the right to freely pursue theireconomic, social and cultural development. Third, it does not provide guidance on how to“navigate power inequalities, divergent interests, and diverse cultures of communication andgovernance” [5].This paper investigates how a critical take on corporate social responsibility shapes the ways inwhich engineering students conceptualize and critique the SLO. Drawing on pre- and post-surveys of 95 students who participated in our research, we explore: 1) how they defined theSLO; 2) whether
engineering CISTAR-related research project,acquiring not only research knowledge but also professional development.Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU). In the REU program, undergraduate studentsparticipate in chemical engineering CISTAR-related research projects and professionaldevelopment during the length of the summer program (approximately ten weeks.)Research Experience and Mentoring (REM). The REM program combines an REU or RETexperience with a mentoring experience at the National Society for Black Engineers (NSBE)Summer Engineering Experiences for Kids (SEEK) camps. The in-person SEEK camp was notoffered, so the regular REM program was postponed for summer 2021. Instead, students andteachers helped with a project to develop
cost DAQ, National Instruments NI USB-6001, is required equipment for each student,instead of an equally-priced textbook. Penn State University (PSU) license permits an installoption for students to use LabVIEW™ (LV) on their own computers for educational purposesonly. In addition, the DAQ is used in subsequent semesters for other classes, adding value to thestudent investment. Hopefully, the students will use this equipment to experiment and tinkeroutside the class, adding valuable hands-on experience that many students lack.This paper presents the syllabus and topics selected. The paper will discuss the development ofsome of the exercises and projects used in the class. These activities develop student’s interest inhands-on experience which
(NSF's) Division ofUndergraduate Education (DUE) funded project in the Department of Mathematical andComputer Sciences (MACS) at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). The program is calledScholarships Creating Opportunities for Applying Mathematics (SCOAM). A variety ofactivities each semester are designed to strengthen relationships within the academic and STEMcommunities. Ways in which the goals of the project are being met are outlined in this paperincluding: recruiting strategies used to get students into the program; offering of activities in theform of presentations and workshops to help students prepare for careers the STEM industry;peer-led tutoring sessions to help with academic success in mathematics classes, and monthlymeetings in
so the organization may effectively conduct cybersecurity work Strategic planning and policy Executive cyber leadership Program/project management and acquisition Protect and Defend Identifies, analyzes, and mitigates threats Cyber defense analysis to internal information technology (IT) Cyber defense infrastructure support systems and/or networks Incident response
peerinteractions as well as interactions with faculty members, and these interactions could encouragemore effective understanding of materials and exploration of topics. Second, liberal artseducation focuses on cultivating adaptive problem-solving skills based on critical thinking,collaboration, and effective communication. These skills make students valuable collaborators inengineering projects and afford them a smooth transition into professional life [3]. That means aliberal arts education can potentially lead to a successful engineering career.In the meantime, the integration of engineering education into liberal arts universities posesseveral challenges to the engineering faculty members. For instance, faculty members may lackthe knowledge needed to
Master Teacher. Kathleen currently serves as the Engineering Education Project Director and Outreach Coordinator at Stony Brook University. She helped to develop the Engineering Academy, ensuring alignment to state education standards and use of appropriate pedagogy and managed all logistics related to the camp. Kathleen continues to work with school districts and the University to provide high-quality experiences that expose students to various disciplines of engineering.Mr. Hechuan Wang, Stony Brook University Hechuan Wang received his B.S. degree in Automation from Hefei University of Technology, China, in 2014 and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Stony Brook University. During his Ph.D. study, he actively par
. Emmett is a certified Project Management Professional and since 2018 has supported strategic global and online initiatives in engineering, including developing online modules to train global engineering competencies. He is the author of the books Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of US Garden Writing (University of Massachusetts Press, 2016) and with David E. Nye, Environmental Humanities: A Critical Introduction (MIT Press, 2017). With Gregg Mitman and Marco Armiero, he edited the collection of critical reflections and works of art, Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene (University of Chicago, 2018). His humanities scholarship has appeared in the journals Environmental
plans and assigning roles and responsibilities. This stage ideally comeswith conflicting opinions that needs to be addressed. Norming is where the relationships arebuilt, and the group starts functioning as one unit displaying good teamwork skills. Theperforming stage is when the team it at its peak efficiency, trusting each other, displayingcommitment and accountability for the common goal. The Adjourning stage is when membersreflect on the team performance and provide peer evaluation at the close of a project [18].Other team models that have been identified in literature include Cogs ladder model GPRIModel, and the Katzenbach and Smith Model [19] [20] [21] .While these models are an effectiveguide, Forsell [22], believes that theoretical