activitiesto foster community building was designed for this course. All the activities were related to thecontent studied in class but had an element of community building. We created two instrumentsto collect data: A series of open-ended questions and a survey using a 5-point Likert scale fromstrongly agree to strongly disagree. Results showed that a significant group of participantsexpressed positive perceptions of community and teamwork. Moreover, students felt encouragedto participate in all the group activities, team projects, and assignments to achieve the academicgoals for the semester. Students also felt in a safe environment to ask questions and to ask forthe help needed to succeed. The perceptions of students related to community building
femalestudents noticing and appreciating high numbers of female faculty. High numbers of enrolledfemale students also meant community within the department was easy to find, which fed a senseof belonging.Methodology Undergraduate and graduate students were considered separately due to fundamentaldifferences in curricular demands and degree outcomes at their respective stages. Undergraduatestudent focus groups were selected over one-on-one interviews in order to promote psychologicalsafety among students and allow students with shared experiences to bounce ideas off each other.Aligning with IRB exemption requirements, all interviews and focus groups began with asummary of the research project, protocols, and confidentiality statements. With the
Administration from The George Washington University. She is also an NSF IASPIRE Fellow and the Principal Investigator on a nearly $3-million dollar grant aimed at advancing access, diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM . Her research interest includes exploring the relationship between faculty mentor engagement and minoritized student STEM persistence. She is a critical methodologist who uses both post positivism and postmod- ernism to guide her inquiries.Dr. Dianne G. Delima, University of California, Irvine Dr. Dianne G. Delima is the Project Policy Analyst for The Institute for Meaningful Engagement (TIME). Dr. Delima received her doctorate in Higher and Postsecondary Education at Teachers College, Columbia
responsibilities included production planning, forecastingand reservoir maintenance. This production planning and forecasting consisted of history matching andprediction based on selected drilling. The reservoir maintenance included: water/gas injection and gas liftfor selected wells to optimize reservoir production plateau and prolonging well’s economic life.Terra Tek, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, 1985-1987; Director of Reservoir Engineering; Responsible of con-ducting research for reservoir engineering projects, multiphase flow, well testing, in situ stress measure-ments, SCA, hydraulic fracturing and other assigned research programs. In addition, as a group directorhave been responsible for all management and administrative duties, budgeting, and
via the NSF-funded AssessingWomen in Engineering (AWE) project [3]. Some items were modified to maintain relevance tothe local community college structure eliminating those referencing junior or senior standing andcertain preparation activities. Nine additional questions were added focused on engineering self-efficacy as related to experimental skills, design skills and tinkering [4]. Sense of belonging wasaddressed with three questions on belonging within the college community and three more onbelonging to the specific ECS major [5]. These constructs are based on the students' perceptions,each of which are represented by anywhere from 2 to 5 individual items that students rate on a 4-point Likert scale. A value of 1 indicates little
Lab under the supervision of Dr. Sarah Hernandez. He has worked on various projects involving the Na- tional Science Foundation, the Arkansas Department of Transportation, and the Institute for Trade and Transportation Studies. He is the treasurer for the University of Arkansas ITE Student’s Chapter.Sarah Hernandez, University of Arkansas Sarah Hernandez is an Associate Professor and holds the Walter E. Hicks and Blossom Russell Hicks Endowed Chair for Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Arkansas. She received her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a specialization in transportation systems engineering from the University of California, Irvine. She holds a M.S. from the University of
Systems, and has recently developed a new graduate course in Modeling and Simulation of Mechanical Engineering Systems. He is very active working on industry- academia projects within the Modeling & Simulation Lab. In addition, he is part of team that has been awarded a $650K NSF grant to study and improve retention and graduation rates of engineering students. Don is the author/co-author of over 50 technical publications and is currently working on modeling solar collectors, energy systems, and heat loss from buildings. He is a licensed professional engineer and is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society of Engineering Education.Dr. Josue Njock Libii, Purdue University
; f) healthand biomedical workforce disparities; g) differences in patient perspectives on health care; and h)cultural norms and their effects on health care [4].Several academic programs have attempted to incorporate healthcare disparities content into theirundergraduate coursework, particularly at minority-serving institutions. For example, at CityCollege of New York, a Hispanic-serving institution, undergraduate biomedical engineeringstudents engage in healthcare disparities challenges through curricular modules, researchinitiatives and design projects [6] – [7]. Additionally, the HBCU University of D.C. uses a seminarseries to integrate the physiological determinants of health and social determinants of health. Atthe University of
strategies that may work well to understandentrepreneurial mindset (EM) in engineering students.Our team is also working to help those new to the topic to find tools quickly that may align withthe EM project or research questions they are working on. The research group includes experts inassessment from the fields of education, psychology, and engineering - a composition that allowsus to evaluate different tools from the perspective of validity and the educator. While we cannotyet answer each research question below, this paper presents our current work-in-progress onseveral research questions: 1. What tools and best practices have been developed for the assessment of EM? 2. What are the best descriptors of assessment for
background is in propulsion systems and combustion. Dr. Husanu has more than a decade of industrial experience in aerospace engineering that encompasses extensive experimental investigations related to energy projects such as development of a novel method of shale natural gas extraction using repurposed aircraft engines powered on natural gas. She also has extended experience in curriculum development in her area of expertise. As chair of the Engineering Technology Curriculum Committee, she is actively engaged in aligning the curricular changes and SLO to the industry driven student competencies. Her main current research interest is in engineering pedagogy, focusing on development of integrated mechanical engineering
surprise. Instructors at all levels had to quickly learn and adoptnew tools for online course delivery. The adoption of new tools that could capture the uniquefeatures of design courses, which are primarily project based and open-ended, and require in classdiscussions, feedback and teamwork represented a major challenge in an online environment. Itwas not clear how the online environment would affect the perception of instructors and theperformance of the students. The primary purpose of this paper was to investigate potentialrelationships between the perception of instructors of the impact of the course delivery on thestudent learning, namely the final course grades and student performance against expectations.The instructors’ perceptions
beach.Ms. Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut Constance M. Syharat is a Ph.D. student and Research Assistant at the University of Connecticut as a part of two neurodiversity-centered NSF-funded projects, Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (NSF:RED) ”Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engineering Innovation” and In- novations in Graduate Education (NSF:IGE) Encouraging the Participation of Neurodiverse Students in STEM Graduate Programs to Radically Enhance the Creativity of the Professional Workforce”. In her time at the University of Connecticut she has also has served as Program Assistant for an summer pro- gram in engineering for middle school students with ADHD. Previously, she spent
Paper ID #38522A Comparative Literature Review: Comparing Approaches to TeamworkAssessment in Engineering Education in the US and ChinaMiss Yi Cao, Virginia Tech CAO Yi is a Second-year PhD student at the Department of engineering education in Virginia Tech with the guidance of Dr. Jennifer Case. She has been working as research assistant at the International Center for Higher Education Innovation(ICHEI), a UNESCO Category 2 Center for two years. She did several researches related to project-based learning, teamwork assessment and comparative education research.Dr. Qin Zhu, Virginia Tech Dr. Qin Zhu is Associate Professor
engineering is an interdisciplinary major that offers lectures, team projects, andlaboratory tasks. One of the milestone courses, Biothermodynamics, which encompassesformulas, equations, and physical applications of biology systems, is traditionally taughtpassively through lecturing and note-taking. In the past two decades, active learning methodshave been studied and promoted vastly in engineering education, including adding group workand peer interaction into the teaching and learning of such courses to increase studentengagement [1-4]. This work-in-progress study further explores the ability to create a“neighborhood” in a sophomore-level Biothermodynamics classroom. The present study aims todesign a new learning environment that maximizes students
(under 1%),only changing from 117 doctorate degree recipients in 2010 to 120 in 2019 [3].NASA Historical Efforts with Tribal Colleges and UniversitiesAccording to Maynard [3], NASA has supported an effort called “Tribal Colleges andUniversities Project (TCUP)” since 2010, as one of various STEM education and outreach grantprograms specifically targeted to support Tribal Colleges and Universities-related initiatives.“The overall goal of the project is to expand opportunities for the nation’s STEM workforcethrough capacity building, infrastructure development, research and engineering experience,outreach, and information exchange” [4]. In 2008, Congress directed NASA to establish a projectthat was focused on climate change education. The Global
subjects, and effectivelycommunicating results to academic, industry, policy, and other audiences.This paper reports on a research project, supported by an NSF EAGER award, that exploresinnovative ethnographic research methods for studying engineering practice. Here we primarilyfocus on the experiences of three students who were directly involved in our data collectionefforts. One undergraduate student engaged with one field site (a utility company, “UtilityCo”)through job shadowing and informal interviewing, while two graduate students collected data asparticipant observers at a second site (a small software start-up, “SoftCo”). In this paper, ourprimary research objective is to examine how these three students experienced their roles
students in 11both the 2018 (n = 10) and 2022 (n = 13) versions of the course. Six assignments comprised thetotal coursework for the EGR 340 course: (1) Homework assignments, (2) the Borrow/Fillsimulation project, (3) The Atterberg project, (4) Gravity Dam project, (5) a midterm, and (6) acourse final assessment. The projects–Borrow/Fill, Atterberg, and Gravity Dam–are detailedabove (see the section titled Development & Delivery of EGR340). All six assignments wereequally weighted in both 2018 and 2022. All quantitative analyses were carried out using Rsoftware (R Core Team 2020).Qualitative analysis followed a process of grounded analysis of themes
allow 3-D visualization, to perform calculations in rudimentarythermodynamic processes (e.g., isobaric, isothermal, and isentropic) for water, R134a and otherrefrigerants. The project began in Jan 2021 and concluded in Dec 2022, supporting participationsof several undergrad/graduate students and class evaluation. This Toolkit is essentially a desktop calculator app with convenient programming featureswith a goal of replacing the interpolation that students generally do in standard thermodynamicscourses in mechanical, chemical and biomedical engineering. The tabulated discrete data in thetextbook and/or published by NIST are converted into a database, and the intermediate values arecomputed by built-in linear interpolation consistent with
faculty to fit existing equipment using simple fabrication and 3D printing. Asnecessary, sensors and materials were purchased to create additional experiments. In theacademic year leading up to the fall roll out of the course, two test stands (Pendulum Test Stand,Variable Speed Single-Plane Balancer) were designed by students as senior design projects. Fordata acquisition and processing, low-cost, National Instruments USB data acquisition cards wereused together with MATLAB data processing applications. Prior to the initial implementation ofthe course, faculty refined the basic equipment to meet the needs of each experiment. During theterm modifications were made based on student response and effectiveness of thedemonstrations.Goals of Laboratory
, software packages, instrumentation and project organization that will berequired in upper-level classes. The motivation for developing a freshman course came from asense of declining student interest in the electronics field; the initial objectives we had for thecourse were to a) engage with freshmen entering our program who faculty would otherwise notcome into contact with until the sophomore/junior years, b) generate interest in and motivationfor the electronics field through lab exercises and projects, as well as to acquaint students withthe topics noted above.Although we did not evaluate our objectives for increasing interest in the field, there seemed tobe another problematic aspect of students entering the program. In the past number of
manufacturing, Quality Engineer / QA Specialist - examining medical products after/duringmanufacturing process, Biomedical Engineering Researcher - research on medical solutions - Researchscientist/Research engineer, Physician - this could be a "Pre-Med" program leading to medical school.BMET Market AnalysisThe driving forces to create a Biomedical Engineering Technology (BMET) concentration are the following:• Program Health: Positively trending 3-year enrollment trends (+15.5%) with most students migrating into theprogram as new to the institution.• Workforce Demand: Both state and national data projects the target occupations related to the biomedicalconcentration within the Engineering Technology program to increase; ten-year projections 2022 2032
. Peter Knox is a postdoctoral associate with Project CORE at the University of Vermont. His areas of interest and research include family engagement, social/familial capital, public education/school policy, school-community partnerships, and community-based organization involvement in schools, as well as equity/social justice in education. Originally from Montana, he has a strong interest in and experience working with and in rural, under-resourced communities and with policy implementation and evaluation methods using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods data collection and analysis.Ms. Sawsan Werfelli, State University of New York at Binghamton Sawsan Werfelli received her undergraduate degree in English from
Paper ID #39660Board 360: Practicing Facilitating STEM Discussions: A Study on the Useof a Digital Simulation Tool for TeachersG. R. Marvez, Tufts University Marvez is a PhD student in the joint STEM Education and Cognitive Sciences program at Tufts University interested in games, language, and controversial discussions. In past research projects, they have worked on the development of virtual simulations for teachers to practice leading controversial discussions. They are interested in ways to prepare teachers to facilitate controversial debates with students in STEM class- rooms, such as through simulations and games
problem solving, based on the learning process, emphasizes thecross-integration of multiple technologies, and takes cultivating talents withcomprehensive scientific literacy and creative, practical ability as its fundamentalgoal[6]. It can be seen that STEM education is not simply an interdisciplinary courseformed by combining disciplines in form, nor is it just project-based learning thatfocuses on practical and hands-on ability[7].STEM education is centred on realproblems in real situations[8], and it flexibly uses the knowledge of various disciplinesof inquiry learning, has the characteristics of interdisciplinary, real situation andcooperation and communication[9].2.2 History of STEM education Historically, STEM education originated in
theclassroom to increase productivity and reduce defects [11, 27]. In pair programming, twostudents share a single screen (virtually or in person) while working on a project synchronously.One student uses the keyboard to write the code (the driver), while another observes, offeringfeedback, and suggesting alternate courses of action (the navigator). Pair programming has beenhighlighted in the literature as an active learning technique that benefits computer science (CS)students in several ways: it allows “continuous review" where defects are corrected as they arise,it increases confidence in the final product, and it is “40-50% faster than programming alone"[20]. If done properly, students experience an improvement in “programming assignment grades
with upgrades to theroom security and climate control. A glovebox using argon as the internal inert environmentalgas, with ppm O2 and H2O monitoring capabilities was installed. Coin-cell electrode punchingdies, a precision balance, cell assembly tools, micro-pipetting, and cell crimping capabilitieswere set up for use in the lab. A multi-channel cell cycling station was installed in the earlyspring of 2022 and full assembly and cycle-testing operations began in the late spring of 2022. Four LTU engineering students (two undergraduate students, and two graduate students)were employed as research technicians for this project. Two LTU faculty members alsosupported this work. Li-ion materials handling, cell assembly, lab techniques, and
- ogy receiving degrees in Construction Technology, Architectural Technology, and a Master’s in Facility Management. His field experience includes residential and light commercial construction. He has been an architectural designer as well as superintendent for single and multi-family residential construction projects. Mr. Ray worked as an engineering design manager in the Building Components Manufacturing Industry for over fifteen years.Brenda Morrow, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis Brenda Morrow is a Lecturer of Interior Design in the School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She is NCIDQ certified and a Registered Interior Designer (RID) in
reported adding realistic projects or case studies that are morehands-on or industry related into the course design [34]–[39]. Other studies talked about addingrealistic components to a curriculum as a whole rather than just in project work in a particularclass [24], [27]. Other studies took this step further into actually interfacing with industrythrough the use of industry mentors [23] or work-integrated learning where students worked inthe field [30]. However it was done, there was a clear emphasis on real-world experiences thatseemed prevalent to high-achieving and honors populations.Bridging topics and disciplines: One interesting finding was the emphasis on learning that wasinterdisciplinary or that bridged multiple topics together. For
student creatingnovel speed bump alternatives, highlighting the multistep design process used and encouraginginnovation and creativity in the academic environment. Similarly, (Sawatzki, 2021) shares thebenefits of a hands-on engagement that comes with the inclusion of project based designcurriculum in the engineering classroom, with a focus on low-cost kit based projects. Like ourresearch, (Raviv and Radzins, 2014) describe the learning process and outcomes of anundergraduate research experience and (Sawatzki, 2021) shows the importance of designintegration into undergraduate curriculum. However, unlike the subjects in both studies, in thispaper the student tackles a highly technical problem and produces not only a single component,but a full
ETD 365 Implementing Renovated Robotics Platforms in Engineering Technology Laboratories Gregory Lyman and Jeffery Wilcox Central Washington UniversityAbstractAs an update to the introductory paper submitted at the 2019 CIEC conference [1], data will bepresented as to the implementation of the retrofit project regarding acceptance within thecurriculum. In 2018, the Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) team at Central WashingtonUniversity (CWU) started a renovation project on seven ATLAS robotics platforms built in the1980s. From consultation with