, particularly engineering(Stoeger, Duan, Schirner, Greindl, & Ziegler, 2013; Wang, Degol, & Fe, 2015). Although girlsreceive comparable or even higher scores than boys in mathematics, there are questions as towhether girls have comparable affinity towards mathematics. Mathematics is a particularlycritical subject area for those wishing to pursue coursework and a career in engineering. This NSF ITEST funded research reviews the achievement scores and affinity towardsSTEM scores of male and female students after participating in a unit focused on understandinga solenoid. The unit is based on Constructivist Theory and uses project-based learning.Constructivists Theory suggests that humans construct knowledge and meaning from
current focus on diversity and improving the quality of research to examine effective practices on a large scale. She oversaw the recent development of csedresearch.org, a website with manually curated data from over 500 articles and a list of over 50 instruments for evaluating computing education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Evaluating the Long-Term Impact of Pre-College Computing Education Phase 1 OverviewOverview of ProjectThe goal of this NSF IUSE project is to create the resources and tools necessary for identifyingbest practices for determining the long term impact of pre-college computing activities onparticipants, including analyses of data based on gender and
American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Developing Subgoal Labels for Imperative Programming to Improve Student Learning OutcomesOverviewThis NSF IUSE project incorporates instructional materials and techniques into introductoryprogramming identified through educational psychology research as effective ways to improvestudent learning and retention. The research team has developed worked examples of problemsthat incorporate subgoal labels, which are explanations that describe the function of steps in theproblem solution to the learner and highlight the problem solving process. Using subgoal labelswithin worked examples, which has been shown effective in other STEM fields, is intended tobreak down problem solving procedures into
at Urbana-Champaign.Dr. Nicole Johnson-Glauch, Nicole received her B.S. in Engineering Physics at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) in May 2013. She is currently working towards a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) under Professor Angus Rockett and Geoffrey Herman. Her research is a mixture between understanding defect behavior in solar cells and student learning in Materials Science. Outside of research she helps plan the Girls Learning About Materials (GLAM) summer camp for high school girls at UIUC. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Mathematical Maturity for Engineering Students: NSF project summary
Engineer in Florida.Dr. Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida Richard Gilbert is a Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Florida’s College of Engineering . Richard is the Co-PI for the grant that supports the NSF designated Center of Excellence for Advanced Technological Education in Florida, FLATE. FLATE, now in its 10 year of op- eration, addresses curriculum, professional development, and outreach issues to support the creation of Florida’s technical workforce. Richard has over 30 years of experience working with the K-14 education community. Other funded efforts include projects for the NIH and the US Department of Education. The latter was for the development of an
understanding how first-generation c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #24914college students author their identities as engineers and negotiate their multiple identities in the currentculture of engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 EAGER: Measuring Student Support in STEM: Insights from Year TwoAbstractThis paper is a status update for an NSF-funded project aimed at developing and collectingvalidity evidence for an instrument to help colleges improve the impact of their student supportinvestments. By enabling the
Purdue University, West Lafayette in 1989. In 2004, he joined the Virginia Commonwealth University as a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He has taught previously at Purdue University campus in Indianapolis (IUPUI). He has taught several courses in design, mechanics of materials, optimization, and directed many interdisciplinary projects related to design. Dr. Pidaparti’s research interests are in the broad areas of multi-disciplinary design, computational mechanics, nanotechnology, and related topics. Dr. Pidaparti has published over 250 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Pidaparti received a Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation and the Young
project using Sentaurus Process simulation software from Synopsiswas assigned. It was confirmed that the user-friendly environment of the software allowed thestudent to obtain a hands-on exposure to the integrated-circuit fabrication process developmentwithout any of the complex logistics and safety issues that would be involved in offering ahands-on experimental experience with real hardware. Seventeen students including 16undergraduates and 1 graduate took this course during the fall 2014 semester. Page 26.71.4A new computational project and new computational labs were developed for the ECE 4293-01/6293-01, Nano-electronics course. The Medici
vision that, bybroadening the base of participants, we can all work together in trying to answer the questionposed by Felder and Hadgraft: “How can we do that (to put into practice all we know abouteffective teaching and learning)?”The NSF Workshops This project will also build upon what the Center for Mobile Hands-On Learning STEMhas accomplished with HBCU’s during the past few years [10] and extend it to all the Hispanicengineering schools in Puerto Rico. It is yet to be determined if mobile hands-on learning isuniversally accepted [10]. This project will provide initial data to test the hypothesis that mobilehands-on learning can be successfully diffused within the Hispanic undergraduate student andfaculty community of Puerto Rico
development projects in the area of X-ray CT for medical and industrial imaging. She is a named inventor on 9 patents. She has been active in the recruitment and retention of women and minorities in engineering and currently PI for an NSF-STEM grant to improve diversity at Rose-Hulman.Dr. Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University Page 26.360.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Collaborative Research: Center for Mobile Hands-on STEMRemarkable progress has been made in the development and implementation of hands-onlearning in STEM education. The mantra of See One, Do One, Teach One overly simplifies theidea but does
Director of the Center for Building Energy Efficiency. She has previously taught courses such as Thermodynamics, Thermal Fluids Laboratory, and Guided Missiles Systems, as well as serving as a Senior Design Project Advisor for Mechanical Engineering Students. Her research interests include energy and thermodynamic related topics. Since 2007 she has been actively involved in recruiting and outreach for the Statler College, as part of this involvement Dr. Morris frequently makes presentations to groups of K-12 students, as well as perspective WVU students and their families. Dr. Morris was selected as a Statler College Outstanding Teacher for 2012, the WVU Honors College John R. Williams Outstanding Teacher for 2012, and
Paper ID #26881Board 111: Gateways-ND: Building the Institutional Infrastructure towardsViable Postsecondary STEM Education ReformDr. Jill Marie Daigh Motschenbacher, North Dakota State University Motschenbacher focuses on educational program development and support, instructional improvement projects, assessment program implementation, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) educa- tional reform, and university-wide administrative initiatives at North Dakota State University. Motschen- bacher works to provide opportunities for faculty, instructional staff, and graduate students to advance individual and
mainly include ultrasonic vibration-assisted additive manufacturing process of high performance metallic materials and laser additive manufacturing of ceramic and composite materials. Dr. Cong has taught two undergraduate manufacturing classes and two graduate advanced manufacturing classes at TTU.Dr. Meng Zhang, Kansas State University Dr. Meng Zhang is specifically interested in preprocessing (pelleting and size reduction) for advanced biofuel manufacturing, additive manufacturing, and engineering education innovation. He teaches man- ufacturing processes and renewable energy. Dr. Zhang is actively involving undergraduate engineering students in his research projects with a tradition in providing research
subordinate positions in officially-sanctioned networks of scientific knowledge),a phenomenon that has received less scholarly attention.38Recent efforts to “connect” engineers and scientists to society have given rise to an Page 23.860.2increasing number of interdisciplinary educational initiatives that bring humanities, socialsciences, and even art into technical curricula. Often embodied in project-based servicelearning (PBSL) components, projects, and programs and facilitated by academic andnon-academic institutions alike, these initiatives aim to cultivate what some have termed“humanistic” scientists and engineers.39-40 They are designed to foster in
- ing Tool, and the AIChE Concept Warehouse. His dissertation is focused on technology-mediated, active learning techniques and the mechanisms through which they impact student performance.Ms. Christina Smith, Oregon State University Page 23.298.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Collaborative Research: Integration of Conceptual Learning throughout the Core Chemical Engineering Curriculum – Year 2Overview and ObjectivesWe report on the progress of the second year of a CCLI Type 2 project. The goal of this projectis to create a community of learning within the
(FREE, formerly RIFE) group, whose diverse projects and group members are described at the website http://feministengineering.org/. She can be contacted by email at apawley@purdue.edu.Dr. Stephen R Hoffmann, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Stephen Hoffmann is Assistant Head for First-Year Engineering in the School of Engineering Edu- cation at Purdue University-West Lafayette. His background is in chemistry, environmental science, and environmental engineering, and he has done work to bring sustainability concepts into a wide variety of courses in several disciplines.Dr. Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette Monica Cardella is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and an Affiliate in
c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Increasing Retention in Engineering and Computer Science with a Focus on Academically At-Risk First Year and Sophomore Students1. IntroductionThe program described in this paper seeks to increase retention rates for engineering andcomputer science students and to evaluate the effectiveness of best practices for retention ofacademically at-risk students. The main hypothesis is that students who fall behind their cohortearly in their college career are less likely to be retained in engineering and computer science.As such, we focus this project on the academically “at-risk” student group defined as first-yearcollege students who are not
Northwestern University.Linlin Li, WestEd Dr. Linlin Li, Research Director at WestEd, has more than 20 years of experience in research, evaluation, and consulting, including key roles on cross-site, multi-year federally funded projects. Her research work focuses on the areas of developmental psychology, math, science, and social-emotional interventions, and family engagement. Her recent work involves using interactive games to design and evaluate interventions for students living in poverty and at risk for academic difficulties. She received her PhD in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.Nagarajan Akshay, University of California San Diego Akshay Nagarajan is a cognitive
issue, our project, funded by the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEMEducation (IUSE) program, aims to cultivate an early interest in hardware engineering tomotivate students to view it as a promising career option. We are developing a hands-on andgamified curriculum to simplify fundamental hardware concepts such as binary numbers, logicgates, and combinational and sequential circuits. These concepts serve as a stepping stone fordelving into the complexities of AI hardware and edge computing. We utilize hardwareplatforms such as low-cost Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and microcontroller andsensor-based IoT boards to facilitate this learning journey by introducing an additionalabstraction layer. This approach is particularly beneficial for
by determining what sorts of technology is present inchildren’s home, and how such technological experiences impact children’s familiarization withand use of technology in preschool classrooms for children ages three-five. The presented studyis part of a larger, National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project in which preschoolers,their teachers and their families experience an intervention to improve children’s access totechnology and experience in pre-engineering and early computer science education with theirearly childhood teachers.The referenced “umbrella” study’s research questions include: (1) In what ways does theproject’s infusing of play-based early computer science and pre-engineering into childdevelopment programs impact young
the past two years, this site has hosted a diversecohort of undergraduate researchers. They worked on interdisciplinary research projects inelectric and autonomous vehicles, green construction materials and structures, and resilientinfrastructure. In addition to the individual research experiences, all SRTS-REU participantsengaged in cohort experiences including workshops and seminars that addressed sustainabilitytopics and supported the development of students’ research, communication, and collaborationskills. In this short paper, we summarize findings on perceptions of sustainability amongparticipants of the latest cohort of the SRTS-REU program, which can be used to inform similarfuture programs that aim to engage undergraduate students in
Paper ID #7337Meeting the NAE Grand Challenge: Personalized Learning for EngineeringStudents through Instruction on Metacognition and Motivation StrategiesDr. Michele Miller, Michigan Technological University Dr. Michele Miller is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological Uni- versity. She teaches classes on manufacturing and does research in engineering education with particular interest in hands-on ability, lifelong learning, and project-based learning.Dr. James P. De Clerck, Michigan Technological University After an eighteen year career in the automotive industry, Dr. De Clerck joined the
Page 23.896.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Mental Models of Students and Practitioners in the Development of an Authentic Assessment Instrument for Traffic Signal EngineeringAbstractConducting fundamental engineering education research on student and practitioner ways ofknowing is a critical and often overlooked first step in curriculum and assessment design. Thisresearch project determined the core concepts related to and synthesized student and practitionerconceptual understanding of isolated and coordinated signal systems. A modified version of theDelphi Method was used to develop consensus among 16 transportation engineering faculty
, Abington Janice M. Margle is an associate professor of engineering at Penn State-Abington. She received her M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. She is co- PI and project manager of the NSF-Sponsored Toys’n MORE grant and currently teaches introductory thermodynamics and introductory engineering design courses. She is active in promoting activities to increase the number of women and minorities in engineering. She is a licensed professional engineer and has worked for IBM, the Navy, NASA, PPL, and private industry.Dr. Jill L Lane, Clayton State University Dr. Jill Lane has more than fifteen years experience working with faculty and teaching assistants on methods to
mutual agreements acrosscolleges may then vanish, continued disputes over academic territory, and challenges over resourceallotments. Essentially, there may be little to no incentives for academic departments to engage intransdisciplinary programming within the existing structures of higher education. However, some insightsand practices have emerged from this research project that can be useful in moving towardtransdisciplinary learning around topics of convergence. Accordingly, the paper will highlight features ofan educational model that spans disciplines along with the workarounds to current institutional barriers.This paper will also provide lessons learned related to 1) the potential pitfalls with educationalprogramming becoming “un
,Signals and Systems, and Microcomputers I, through which students gain solid foundation beforestudents take on senior design projects. Lab modules with open-ended design learning experience through using a lab-in-a-boxapproach were developed to allow students to solve lab problems with multiple approaches thatallow problem solving independently and collaboratively. Because this innovative lab designallows problem solving at various cognitive levels, it is better suited for concept exploration andcollaborative lab learning environments as opposed to the traditional lab works with a“cookbook” approach that tend to lead students to follow certain procedures for expectedsolutions with the absence of problem exploration stage. In addition to
. During this time, Christina discovered a love for research, prompting her to pursue a Ph.D. She is a recipient of both a Graduate School Recruitment Fellowship and a Texas New Scholar’s Fellowship. She is a member of the National Science Teachers As- sociation, and currently serves as the STEM Education representative to the Graduate Student Assembly at UT.Dr. Todd L. Hutner, University of Texas, AustinDr. Richard H. Crawford P.E., University of Texas, Austin Dr. Richard H. Crawford is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and is the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow No. 3. He is also Director of the Design Projects program in Mechanical Engineering. He received his BSME
1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. He served as Project Director a National Science Foun- dation (NSF) Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized innovative undergraduate engineering curricula. He has authored over 70 papers and offered over 30 workshops on faculty development, curricular change processes, curriculum redesign, and assessment. He has served as a program co-chair for three Frontiers in Education Conferences and the general chair for the 2009 conference. Prof. Froyd is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the American So- ciety for Engineering Education (ASEE), an ABET Program Evaluator, the Editor-in-Chief for the
Technical Humanitarian Opportunities of Service-Learning) for approximately ten years. She has incorporated service-learning projects into her classes and laboratories since she started teaching in 2000. Her research interests include community engaged learning and pedagogy, K-12 outreach, biomaterials and materials testing and analysis.Ms. Melissa Rose Taylor, University of DaytonDr. Ahsan Mian, Wright State Unviersity Ahsan Mian received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Bangladesh Univer- sity of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh, the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Auburn University
Paper ID #39936Board 264: Endeavour S-STEM Program for First-Year Students: 3rd-YearResultsDr. Diana G. de la Rosa-Pohl, University of Houston Diana de la Rosa-Pohl is an Instructional Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Houston (UH). She is currently the Director of the Endeavour S-STEM Program. In addition to S-STEM courses, she teaches courses in computer engineering and capstone design. She has also developed multiple project-based first-year experience programs. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Endeavour S