should be addressed nationally.IntroductionSTEM (i.e., science, engineering, technology, and math) fields are critical to the advancement ofthe United States in the global economy. Therefore, it is important that institutes of highereducation support students succeeding in STEM education by completions of STEM degrees.Advancing STEM education plays a fundamental role in improving student learning in STEMfields and, in turn, can enhance the production of STEM graduates. By investigating STEMeducation at colleges and universities, we can expose areas of needed improvement and enableprograms to become more effective and efficient. If the field of engineering wishes to broadenparticipation, it is imperative that such efforts include institutions
Paper ID #18637New Faculty Learning Community as Retention Tool for UnderrepresentedMinoritiesDr. Anne-Marie A Lerner, University of Wisconsin, Platteville Anne-Marie Lerner is an associate professor in mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Platteville. Her professional interests include inclusive in-class and out-of-class supports, investigat- ing effective teaching pedagogy for remote delivery as well as to nontraditional students, and education assessment. She received her PhD in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008.Dr. Christopher Frayer, University of Wisconsin
. Slevin, Strategic management of small firms in hostile and benign environments. Strategic management journal, 1989. 10(1): p. 75-87.8. Neck, H.M., P.G. Greene, and C.G. Brush, Teaching entrepreneurship: A practice-based approach. 2014: Edward Elgar Publishing.9. Zhu, E., Interaction and cognitive engagement: An analysis of four asynchronous online discussions. Instructional Science, 2006. 34(6): p. 451-480.10. Yang, Y.-T.C., A catalyst for teaching critical thinking in a large university class in Taiwan: asynchronous online discussions with the facilitation of teaching assistants. Educational Technology Research and Development, 2008. 56(3): p. 241-264.11. Ellis, R.A., et al., Engineering students' conceptions
Residential Summer Program for Underrepresented High School StudentsIntroductionThe educational achievement gap in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(STEM) disciplines in America continue to persist among underrepresented groups [7].Underrepresented groups include Hispanics, African American, Native American, andNative Hawaiian students. While underrepresented student enrollment has beenincreasing in secondary schools, the achievement gap in STEM widens as students’progress from kindergarten to high school [5]. Underrepresented minority students facemore barriers from persistence to graduation [3]. The achievement gap is compoundedover time and when underrepresented students reach high school, they are not prepared totake the
Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Kepler Tech Lab: Developing an affordable skills-based engineering lab course in RwandaPractical hands-on education remains one of the main challenges of science and engineeringeducation worldwide [1]. Numerous innovations have made it easier for teachers to incorporatehands-on lab activities into their curricula, including commercially available student lab kits,virtual labs [2], and maker space technology [3]. However, these innovations are often expensiveand inaccessible in lower-income communities.In addition to adapting existing technologies from developed to developing contexts, we need tofind novel approaches to incorporate hands-on activities into global engineering
Paper ID #18217Student Perceptions and Attitudes Towards a Required vs. an Optional Coursein LeadershipDr. Alan R. Parkinson, Brigham Young University Alan Parkinson was dean of the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology from 2005 to 2016. Previously he served as chair of Mechanical Engineering from 1995 to 2001.Dr. Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University Gregg M. Warnick is the Director of the Weidman Center for Global Leadership and Associate Teaching Professor of Engineering Leadership within the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology at Brigham Young University (BYU). The center
Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Morgan State University. Mrs. Partlow currently serves as the Program Director of the Verizon Minority Male Maker Program, which focuses on providing minority middle school boys with hands-on learning experiences using advanced technology, app development software, 3-D design techniques, and entrepreneurship skills. Mrs. Partlow also serves as the Lab Manager of the Engineering Visualization Research Laboratory (EVRL) where she helps to advise students on undergraduate electrical engineering research projects ranging from smart lighting technologies to cyber security. She has also served as an online course development specialist responsible for the creation
thoroughly researched (Miller, Slawinski Blessing, and Schwartz,2006, Wang, Eccles, and Kenny, 2013). Career opportunities these fields are growing withadvancements in technology. The present study examines young students’ perceptions, of notonly engineering careers broadly, but also how students perceive career opportunities inelectricity and energy fields. This study explored the following research questions:1) Are there gender differences in engineering and electricity/energy career interests for youth ingrades 4-6?2.) Does an interest in engineering correlate with career aspirations in engineering or careeraspirations related to energy and electricity?3.) Do the factors of self-efficacy, outcome expectations, interests, and goals predict
Paper ID #19164The Effects of Design Thinking Methods on Pre-service PK-12 Engineeringand STEM Teacher Capabilities, Confidence, and Motivation in Creativity(Work in Progress)Dr. Tanner J. Huffman, The College of New Jersey Dr. Tanner Huffman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative STEM Education in the School of Engineering at The College of New Jersey.Prof. Manuel Alejandro Figueroa, The College of New Jersey Dr. Manuel Figueroa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Technological Studies at The College of New Jersey. His research involves the development of nanoparticle coatings for various
level on issues related to the success of women in engineering and innovative STEM curricula.Dr. Lee Kemp Rynearson, Campbell University Lee Rynearson an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Campbell University. He received a B.S. and M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2008 and earned his PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue University in 2016. He also has previous experience as an instructor of engineering at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology, in Kanazawa, Japan. His current research interests focus on instruction for metacognition and problem solving.Dr. Lynn A. Albers, Campbell University Dr. Lynn Albers is a proponent of Hands-On Activities in the classroom and
madesubstantial changes to the state’s curriculum and high school graduation requirements since itwas passed by the state legislature in 2013. HB5 came into effect in Fall 2016 and has threemajor components: 1) A core set of courses each student must complete for a total of 22 credits; 2) The requirement that each graduating eighth grader select one of five Endorsements (listed below), which are broad categories of career related courses; and 3) A Distinguished Level of Achievement for outstanding performance within the chosen endorsement. The five endorsements are: 1) STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
laboratory development, antennas, wireless communications, sig- nal processing, and instrumentation.Shane P. Corbett, USCGA Shane Corbett is currently a senior electrical engineering student at the US Coast Guard Academy. At an early age Shane found himself tinkering with electronics more than he would like to admit. His parents feared buying him new pieces of technology because inevitably they would end in pieces on a work bench next to a kid with a smile on. Once accepted to the USCGA Shane took his curiosity to the classroom and began his studies within the EE major. After an antennas course his junior year he found himself perplexed at the intricacies of this field of study. He then pursued an internship at MIT
Paper ID #18971Gender Differences in Pathways to Faculty Career SatisfactionDr. Heather Walling Doty, University of Delaware Heather Doty is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware (UD). Dr. Doty teaches undergraduate courses in thermodynamics, statics, and dynamics, and conducts research on gender in the academic STEM workforce. She is co-PI on UD’s NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transfor- mation grant, which aims to recruit, retain, and advance women STEM faculty at UD. Dr. Doty is faculty advisor to UD’s Women in Engineering Graduate Student steering committee and a past co-chair of
include physics education research and science and technology studies. Venugopal received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA.Ms. Meghann Norah Murray Meghann Murray has a position and conducts research in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at University of Detroit Mercy. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry from UDM and is certified to teach high school chemistry and physics. She has taught in programs such as the Detroit Area Pre-college and Engineering program. She has been a judge and mentor with the Science and Engineering Fair of Metropolitan Detroit, FIRST Lego League, and FRC Robotics. She is currently the Chair of the Younger Chemists Committee and
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Proceedings Frontiers in Education, pp. 1- 2, 20067. K. Christensen, D. Rundus, H. Fujinoki, and D. Davis,”A Crash Course for Preparing Students for a First Course in Computing: Did it Work?,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol 91, Issue 4, pp 409-413, October 2002.8. D. C. Williams, Y. Ma, L. Prejean, M. J. Ford, and G. Lai, “Acquisition of Physics Content Knowledge and Scientific Inquiry Skills in a Robotics Summer Camp,” Journal of Research on Technology in Education, vol 40, no 2, 20079. M. W. Kirst, and A. Venezia, “From High School to College: Improving Opportunities for Success in Postsecondary Education,” Teachers College Record, vol 107, no 8, 2005.10. S. P. Choy, L. J. Horn, A.-M. Nuñez, and X
Paper ID #17765Applying Scrum to Manage a Senior Capstone ProjectDr. Zesheng Chen, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne Dr. Chen is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Indiana University - Pur- due University Fort Wayne. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2007. He also holds B.E. and M.E. degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shang- hai, China in 1998 and 2001, respectively. He worked as an assistant professor in the Department of
Paper ID #18171Addressing one of the Engineering Challenges in Pre-College Programs: Mod-ernizing the Electric GridDr. Pam Page Carpenter, Pam Page Carpenter, Ed.D. is Director of Education programs for the National Science Foundation Fu- ture Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center headquartered at NC State University. She has developed and led K-20 programs in renewable energy and alternative transportation with a focus on and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). She is an adjunct associate professor in the Technology, Engineering, and Design department at NC State
engineering’s learning, discovery, engagement and collaboration study.Dr. Jinyuan Zhai, University of Akron Jinyuan Zhai is Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Akron. She earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from The University of Akron in 2016 specializing in solid mechanics areas. Her dissertation work was on Modeling Ductile Damage of Metallic Materials. She has also worked as a lecturer (assistant professor) of mechanical engineering at University of Science and Technology, Beijing. Dr. Zhai received her B. Eng and M. Eng degrees in Engineering Machinery from Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, formerly known as Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Insti- tute where she
Paper ID #18475Measuring the Impact of NSF ADVANCE Programming at the University ofDelawareDr. Robin Andreasen, University of Delaware Robin O. Andreasen (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science. She earned her PhD in philosophy and specializes in philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, and in science and policy. A race and gender scholar, Dr. Andreasen is research director and co-PI for UD’s ADVANCE-IT grant.Dr. Heather Walling Doty, University of Delaware Heather Doty is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware
Paper ID #18216Educational Application of Virtual Reality in Graphical Simulation of theConstruction Process of Chinese DougongMr. Shilun Hao, Ohio State University Shilun Hao is a Ph.D. student at the Ohio State University. Shilun has been awarded the B.S. in in Civil Engineering from the Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture in 2012 and M.S. in the Ohio State University in 2014. Shilun’s current research is mainly on the application of virtual reality in engineering and education.Dr. Adrian Hadipriono Tan, Ohio State University Adrian H. Tan is a Ph.D. alumnus from the Ohio State University. Adrian
Paper ID #19408Helping Students to Provide Effective Peer FeedbackDr. Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University Dr. Gehringer is an associate professor in the Departments of Computer Science, and Electrical & Computer Engineering. His research interests include computerized assessment systems, and the use of natural-language processing to improve the quality of reviewing. He teaches courses in the area of programming, computer architecture, object-oriented design, and ethics in computing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Helping Students to Provide Effective
, M. P. Jones and D. A. Major, "Understanding women's underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics: the role of social coping," Career Development Quarterly, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 169-179, 2010.[11] R. J. Larsen and M. L. Marx, An Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and Its Applications, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2001.
Paper ID #19777A Scalable Online Platform for Evaluating and Training Visuospatial Skillsof Engineering StudentsMr. Ziang Xiao, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign I am a Phd student from the computer science department at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My primary research interest is in human-computer interaction.Ms. Yuqi Yao, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign I am an undergraduate student and research assistant at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I am interested in educational technology and developmental psychology.Mr. Chi-Hsien Yen, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignMrs. Sanorita Dey
from Yangon University. She is now doing another master’s degree in education at Hong Kong University. She is strongly interested in teach- ing, doing research related to teaching and learning process and collaborating with other teachers from different academic fields. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Wastewater treatment in Myanmar: A multidisciplinary learning experience for engineering and science students from two countriesThe ever changing technology landscape is driving engineering education to becomeincreasingly global, cross-disciplinary, and collaborative in nature everywhere. Besidesdelivering technical knowledge in classroom, a comprehensive engineering curriculum
Paper ID #20484Identifying Affordances of Physical Manipulative Tools for the Design of Visuo-haptic SimulationsMs. Yoselyn Walsh, Purdue University, West Lafayette Yoselyn Walsh graduated with her bachelor’s degree in industrial design engineering with a specialization in visual communication and information architecture in 2010 from the Costa Rica Institute of Technol- ogy. After four years working in educational software design and designing learning objects for online courses, she returned to school and graduated with a master’s in computer and information technology from Purdue University. She is currently pursuing a
plan toeducate scientists and engineers with a strong and vital humanities and arts component.The WPI Plan reasoned that the humanities and arts would place engineering in an ethicaland humane context, graduating young men and women to develop technology with aneye toward the greater good. More than forty years later, the humanistic values that haveremained so important to WPI’s general education of engineers have been embraced byschools of business and by engineering programs seeking to develop entrepreneurialengineers. Two of the attributes of an entrepreneurial engineer, as defined by the KernFamily Foundation’s Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), are essentiallythe qualities found in a well-educated humanist: First, curiosity
profit or non-profit organization 137 (2.60)Started or co-founded a student club or other student groups on campus 478 (9.10)Entered a social entrepreneurship/social innovation competition 119 (2.30)Total Hands-on Experience in Entrepreneurship & Innovation * 1,235 (23.50)(3) Non-hands-on Activities in Entrepreneurship & Innovation n (%)Attended a speaker series or related presentation about entrepreneurship & 2,158 (41.10)innovationAttended a presentation on a new engineering technology, process or design 1934 (36.9)(outside of class)Lived in a residential or dorm-based
Chair of the IDSA Design for the Majority Professional Interest Section. He has been involved in doing research on Design for the Bottom of the Pyramid and leads the Industrial Design for Learning and Empowerment courses and study abroad initiatives at Virginia Tech. ID4Learning emcompasses projects focused on financial literacy, collective learning environments and using affordable digital technologies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Session W1A Workshop: Implementing Cloud Collaboration using Fusion 360 into a First-Year Engineering Design
2017 ASEE International Forum:Columbus , Ohio Jun 28 Paper ID #20760Developing successful partnerships in Electrical and Information Engineer-ing Education (EIE) with EU-programsProf. Anna Friesel, Technical University-Copenhagen Anna Friesel is Professor at the Center for Electro-technology, DTU Diplom - Technical University of Denmark, Campus Ballerup. She is also the president of the EAEEIE - European Association for Ed- ucation in Electrical and Information Engineering, which is a European non-profit organization, with members from nearly seventy European Universities