questions, and potentially identify areas of research interest. This paperis the outcome of an Innovations in Graduate Education project supported by the National ScienceFoundation. The authors are graduate students from three engineering majors from the Universityof Massachusetts Lowell and the University of the District of Columbia co-creating an educationalmodule with faculty and experts on human balance. The developed module related to analyzingthe vestibular balance system mechanics will be integrated into undergraduate courses acrossengineering departments in partnering institutions. Index Terms Vestibular System, Experiential Learning, Co-creation, Simulation
-credit students (upper-level undergraduates) 4-credit students (graduate students)1) Project paper: 20% (proposal 3%, outline 1) Project paper: 20% (proposal 3%, outline 7%, paper 10%) 7%, paper 10%)2) Project video: 10% 2) Project video: 10%3) Final exam: 20% 3) Final exam: 20%4) Midterm exam: 20% 4) Midterm exam: 20%5) Homework/quizzes: 10% 5) Homework/quizzes: 10%6) Case study: 10% 6) Case study: 5%7) Participation: 10% 7) Policy memos: 5% 8) Briefing: 5
Paper ID #39511Board 91: Work-in-Progress: A Systematic Gap Analysis of the AustralianPower Engineering CurriculumMiss Nisaka Munasinghe, University of New South Wales Nisaka Munasinghe is an enthusiastic undergraduate student at the University of New South Wales. She will be graduating with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Hons), 2023, with her thesis project present- ing research for improvements to the Australian Power Engineering Curriculum. Since 2020, she has been working in construction as a cadet engineer with Sydney Trains, helping deliver and commission railway signalling projects for the NSW transport
, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and generalEngineering that included Chemical Engineering and Computer Engineering concepts. Classsizes ranged from 10 – 60 students and included first, second, third, and fourth-year students. Allcourses were previously taught in-person with traditional lectures, homework, exams, quizzes,team projects, and active learning exercises. Five of the classes included labs and 10 of the 12classes traditionally had closed-book, closed-notes quizzes and exams. After the switch to onlinelearning, all 12 of the classes used a blend of synchronous and asynchronous lectures, videos,and office hours using Zoom, and just two classes remained in a closed-book and/or closed-notesformat for quizzes and exams.CE1412
Community of Practice and social learning initiatives, their collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Frontier Set, a network of 31 post-secondary institutions working to close the student opportunity gap, and the NSF funded Pathways to Innovation program, a network of 50 post-secondary institutions working to embed innovation and entrepreneurship into undergraduate engineering.Cynthia Anderson, Alula Consulting Cindy Anderson (she/her/hers) is the founder and CEO of Alula Consulting. Cindy specializes in in- novative sustainability- and online-focused research and curriculum projects for academic institutions, non-profits, government and corporations. Cindy has taught thousands of people through
, TX, USA Author Note:This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundationunder Grant No 1902072.Authors are listed in the order of their contribution to the manuscript.Correspondence regarding this manuscript should be sent to Magdalena G.Grohman at magdalena.grohman@unt.edu.AbstractMultiple studies report the benefits of authentic research experiences in STEMeducation. While most of them focus either on course-based research projects oron undergraduate students’ experiences, few document authentic learningexperiences unfolding in real time among and between graduate students inresearch laboratories. Therefore, we situate our study in the context of authenticresearch experiences in
number of studies also found that high school students who participatedin Project Lead the Way, robotics club, or STEM activity experiences had no significant impacton retention [4] - [8]. Due to the complex and multifaceted nature of education, researchers arestill exploring the correlations and causation between various pedagogies and their impacts onstudent retention rates. For senior high school students, cultural norms and other external factorscan influence their motivation and habits [9] - [11]. Research studies have demonstrated thatinterventions such as goal setting, self-reflection, and providing feedback are effective inenhancing student motivation and academic achievement. At the highest level, these factorsinclude the preparedness
primary research project is sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, and focuses on improving engineering education methods. I am also contributing to a research project sponsored by the US Department of Energy, in which I am assisting with the solid mechanics modeling of moisture swing polymers for use in low-energy carbon capture. For my senior capstone, I led the development of a theoretical offshore wind farm for the 2022 Collegiate Wind Competition, and helped our team earn second place at the competition. This experience led me to become the current president of NAU’s Energy Club, where I now manage two interdisciplinary engineering teams who are working to complete the Collegiate Wind Competition and
student readiness and contribute to the development of skilled professionalsin the engineering industry. This study provides insights for educators seeking to enhance onlinehands-on learning in engineering education.IntroductionOnline engineering education has seen significant growth in recent years due to advancements indigital technologies and the need for flexible, accessible learning opportunities [1]. However,traditional hands-on engineering courses present unique challenges in the online format. Thesecourses often involve laboratory or project-based work requiring access to specialized equipmentand collaboration with peers, which can be challenging to achieve in an online setting [2]. As aresult, educators are exploring new strategies to
Engineering industry has long partnered with academia to guide universities anddepartments in producing engineers with skills that are valued in the workforce. Industries haveconsulted on curriculum [5] and research projects with real-world and industry use cases [6][7].In these cases, industry members share their knowledge about the skillsets they need employeesto have upon entry into the workplace. They may also directly provide research opportunities orguidance on research for projects that are of interest and importance to the company.Sponsor Literature in engineering education research has focused on the role of industry insponsoring discipline-specific technical research and projects [7][8][9]. While a lot of theseinstances involve
structured interviewdata collected through an extracurricular student project. We investigated three key aspects ofgraduate school, particularly experiences with 1) work-life-balance, 2) imposter syndrome, and3) burnout. To develop the survey and interview instruments, we developed a pool of memes andgraduate student oriented advice columns then used thematic analysis to identify 9 thematicquestions about the graduate student experience. For this work, the data set was abbreviated toconsider only the 3 most salient topics. We found that students generally disagreed with thenegative themes identified and that memes tended to exaggerate these features of graduatestudent experience. However, emergent themes of self-efficacy in our analysis demonstrated
in engineering.MethodsThe authors are all women in engineering who have been in spaces where we are in the minority.At times, some of us have struggled with our own feelings of lack of competence or belonging inthe discipline.ParticipantsMaroon University is a small, private university in the southwestern United States. Participantsin this study were students from Maroon University who completed a Statics course during thesecond semester of their first year at their university. In addition to assignments from thetextbook, students in the course were asked to solve an open-ended question about a real device,the iWalk 2.0 Hands Free crutch. This question was assigned as a three-part project: anindividual homework assignment in which students
is an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition and the writing program admin- istrator at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, AZ. His research on rhetorical theory, in- frastructure, and communication pedagogy informs his teaching of courses in rhetoric, composition, and technical communication in engineering.Elizabeth Ashley Rea, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Fostering Educational Equity in EngineeringAbstract: This is a research paper. Students in introductory engineering courses face challengescommunicating and integrating their ideas in team projects. Often these challenges with
the class. In classexperiments included absorption spectroscopy, pinhole cameras, fluorescence spectroscopy,building telescopes, and investigating fiber optics. Students were evaluated on class participationand via a worksheet completed during class. Figure 1: A student observes a ring light projected through a pinhole camera they made Figure 2: Students assemble a Galilean telescope on an optics railIn addition to in-class experimentation students were led on tours of several locations on the PennState campus including the Breazeale Nuclear Reactor, the Penn State Dairy Complex, Dr. KatiaLamer’s, of Brookhaven National Lab, mobile aerosol lidar suite, and Dr. Venkat Gopalan’sUltrafast and Nonlinear Optical Characterization
Paper ID #36642Comparison of Configuration Options for Utilizing Software-Defined Radioin Undergraduate Electrical Engineering LabsDr. Eve Klopf, High Point University I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at High Point University. I earned my PhD in Electrical Engineering at Colorado State University in 2011; my PhD work focused on computational electromagnetics. As faculty, my interests and active projects are in the areas of computational electromagnetics, microwave engineering and engineering education.Dr. Hilda Goins, High Point University, Webb School of Engineering Dr
. The report should be prepared in a business letter format. Keepthe letter brief but be sure to use an appropriate writing style and include all analyses in anattachment.Locate a spot in your house that you believe to be wasting energy and determine if you can © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conferencedevelop an economic project to reduce the waste. Be sure to consider the following: What is thecurrent process? How much is the current energy usage? Why is it inefficient? What should beinstalled or replaced, and how much energy will it use? How much would it cost to purchase andinstall the proposed equipment? How much are the maintenance costs
, information exchange and collaboration on projects. The details of the courseand the lessons learned are presented in this paper.Why a Global Perspectives Course?With the goal of training globally and culturally aware STEM students, and the financial supportprovided by the American Councils for International Education, a collaboration was establishedbetween a US and Central Asia institution. Virtual meetings were held between the faculty atboth institutions to create an understating for the expectations related to the course content andthe desired course outcomes to be achieved by both institutions. Once the details were ironedout, the US team visited the Central Asia institution along with three students to collectivelycreate the course syllabus and
earned a BS in Civil Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, an MBA from the University of Notre Dame, and EdD in Organizational Change and Leadership from the University of Southern California. At the University of South Florida (USF) she leads the project coordination for the National Science Foundation Florida Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (FL-AGEP), a $2.4M award to Florida A&M University (with a subaward to USF and Virginia Tech), Bethune-Cookman University, Florida International, and Florida Memorial University. Also, Dr. Johnson Austin is the project coordi- nator and Co-Principal Investigator for Project Racism In School Exclusionary Suspensions (RISES), a $30k grant
3rd year Ph.D. student in the Curriculum and Instruction Graduate Program at Boston College. His research primarily focuses on STEM education, scientific literacy, and AI literacy. He is currently working as a research assistant in the lab ”Innovation in Urban Science Education” led by Dr. Mike Barnett, Professor, Boston College. He also collaborates as a research assistant with Dr. Irene Lee’s team at MIT Media Lab on the ”Everyday AI” project. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Ethics in AI Education: Preparing Students to become Responsible AI consumers and developersAbstractThe rapid expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) necessitates a need for
operations.To strengthen international research collaborations of the future, this project is seeking tounderstand the challenges, benefits, and supports that were necessary during the pandemicdisruption to provide international research experiences for students in a virtual environment.Although the project is not advocating for a replacement of international in-person experienceswith virtual experiences, it aims to highlight program elements that were necessary during andafter the disruption that programs may want to consider continuing into the future. Thus, thisproject aims to address the following questions: ● How could each element of an international research experience for students be translated into a virtual environment? ● What
the Transfer Student Pathway: Findings from an S-STEM-Enabled PartnershipBuilding partnerships between community colleges and four-year institutions has been identifiedas a cost-effective strategy for academically talented low-income students to earn a bachelor’sdegree [1]. What often happens, however, is that the onus is placed on the community college tosupport students through the transfer pathway with much less engagement by the four-yearinstitution during this process [2]. Funded through the National Science Foundation’s (NSF)Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM)program, the Virginia Tech Network for Engineering Transfer Students (VT-NETS) project hasfocused on improving
Brown students’ access to engineering education and careers. This executive summarypresents insights about the second year of the study and is organized around threetopics—project overview, year 2 research activity summary, and looking ahead to year 3.MOTIVATIONBroadening participation efforts aims to transform those who can access opportunities toparticipate in engineering by targeting individuals historically excluded from it. However, Blackand Brown students’ participation in engineering at all levels remains stifled [1]–[5]; theexclusionary culture and practices ingrained in engineering is part of the reason for this persistenttrend [6]–[9]. As a result, there is a growing demand for scholarship to advance ourunderstanding of how to enact
will better match the Laplace-transform-based theory the students will be learning.There will be opportunities for investigators to study the learning process by looking at quizzesand lab reports related to both the servo motor and the laser power feedback apparatus.ConclusionsWe preparing a suite of optical tools to share with the community for implemented as guidedlabs and projects for teaching engineering. Emphases of this effort include simplicity, low costand 3D printed apparatus wherever possible, and the opportunity for students to exploresomething outside of the traditional lab curriculum.This work is supported by the National Science Foundation IUSE program.References 1. H. A. Hadim and S. K. Esche, “Enhancing the engineering
Forecasting C. Smith-Orr*, V. Cecchi*, P. Mandal**, S. Kamalasadan* * Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. ** Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte The University of Texas at El Paso I. Introduction and Overview In order to better comprehend the depth and breadth of understanding that students have abouta specific topic requires the use of strategic assessments. In this project, concept maps have becomethe tool of choice in learning how students conceptualize the dynamic of energy forecasting.Within this paper we will discuss the methods used to evaluate such concept maps and presentsome preliminary data of student concept maps on forecasting in the
wereoffered courses for which expertise was available. The first essential skills course was a 1-creditcourse, ‘Fundamentals of Intellectual Property’, taught by the director of Technology TransferOffice. The students found the information unlike in any other courses they had taken. They werefascinated and felt the course could be useful in the future, but some were not sure how to applythis knowledge in practice, especially during their PhD. It was already a cultural shift.Subsequently, three 1-credit courses (‘Facilitation and Teamwork for Projects’, ‘Decision Makingand Ethics on Projects’ and ‘Project Leadership’) were offered. These courses, which were partof the Project Management Concentration within Lehigh’s MBA curriculum, were never
implementations through the Massachusetts Health Information Exchange. At Wentworth, Dr. Feldman is focused on project-based instruction, hands-on simulations, experiential learning approaches, and first year curriculum. Dr. Feldman is one of the lead instructors for Introduction to Engineering courses, with enrollments in the hundreds each fall. His re- search and teaching interests, in addition to first year engineering, include telemedicine, health informat- ics, rehabilitation engineering, and medical robotics. Dr. Feldman has collaborated with researchers and engineers from organizations including Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Vecnacares, and Restoreskills.Dr. George D. Ricco, University
Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: Supplementing theoretical modeling with empirical data for improved designIntroductionOur first semester course in biomedical engineering includes a semester-long project thatintroduces students to the design process and allows them to practice working in teams. Thestudents work for a fictional company with a hypothetical hospital as a customer to design, build,and test a portable air filtration system. While the experience for the students has overall beenpositive, they struggle in a specific section of the course and fail to make a connection betweencourse content and application to the project. We are looking to address this short-coming withan
years of engineering and project management experience with a large variety of local, state, and federal projects and facilities. In addition to teaching civil engineering courses, Paul has assisted with engineering service projects in the United States, Uganda, Bolivia, and Guatemala. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Co-ops are Great! but What are the Final Numbers Telling Us?AbstractThis paper discusses the results of an engineering cooperative program for over a three yearperiod. At York College of Pennsylvania (YSP), students are required to pursue three co-opopportunities over the course of their four year academic schedule. Many faculty and industrypersonnel are familiar
University of Virginia. He is the principal investigator at University of Virginia on the ’4C Project’ on Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM education with col- leagues from Notre Dame, Xavier University and St. Mary’s College. His research focuses on wicked problems that arise at the intersection of society and technology. Rider holds a Ph.D. in Sustainability from Arizona State University, and a Master’s degree in Environmental Management from Harvard Uni- versity and a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from University of New Hampshire. Before earning his doctorate, he has worked for a decade in consulting and emergency response for Triumvirate Environmental Inc.Andrew LiRebecca Jun, University of Virginia
Paper ID #39981A SwarmAI Testbed for Workforce Development and Collaborative,Interdisciplinary ResearchMartha Cervantes, Johns Hopkins University Martha Cervantes is a Mechanical Engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labora- tory where she works in mechanical design and integration of robotic systems. Additionally, Martha is the project manger of the CIRCUIT Program at JHU/APL, which connects and mentors students from trailblazing backgrounds to STEM careers through science and engineering projects. Martha received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and she is currently