to be reified. A broaderdefinition of Making, one that acknowledges that all communities and cultures have beenengaged in design and generative practices throughout history and circumstance, could lead tomore inclusive, welcoming, and interesting making experiences for all learners.The Making Connections project seeks to contribute to this conversation around making withinthe engineering education community by challenging common definitions and perceptions of“what counts” as making. As a partnership between a large Midwestern science and technologycenter and several local communities of color, Making Connections explores culturally-embedded making practices and provides a platform to potentially expand and revise what isconsidered making
-Perry Witmer has brought to the classroom her experience working on drinking water projects with communities in the developing world. Ms. Witmer holds degrees in engineering, journalism and art history, and values the importance of developing a well- rounded understanding of the communities she serves. She has taught courses in international service design, as well as introductory engineering courses for freshmen, at the University of Illinois since 2013.Mr. Matthew Tan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Matthew Tan is an undergraduate student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has a passion for working on international service projects which led him
presents its habitat design to a panelof volunteer faculty members and classmates who critique both the design and the team’s oralpresentation.This paper provides insights into the project tasking; the roles and responsibilities of the differentdesign engineers; and the basic engineering considerations and computations required of the finaldesign. It addresses typical conflict issues arising among team members and the means to theirresolution, and presents elements – both positive and negative – of the typical team presentation.Achievement of project learning goals and a summary of assessment results are also discussed.IntroductionThe Hex-Oid Habitat (H-O-H) Design Challenge is an academic exercise developed for theocean engineering program at the
University. In July 2020, she completed her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering at the National University of Colombia. After graduation, Lorena worked as a research assistant investigat- ing the effects of development projects on environmental parameters and rural communities in Colombia, South America. Lorena has also been part of initiatives that promote access to high-quality education, gender equality, and environmental protection. Lorena recently started her doctoral studies at Mississippi State University, where she serves as a graduate assistant in the Office of Diversity Programs and Stu- dent Development at the Bagley College of Engineering. Currently, Lorena is interested in learning more about
) and Architecture (1), from whichfive are faculty teachers at the UFRJ or other public universities.The programSoltec’s educative activities take place at three levels: a) service learning practice teams; b)elective undergraduate disciplines; c) master program in Technology for Social Development.Such levels are in a non-hierarchical order. They are summarized as follows:Service learning practice teams. Currently, six projects are running at Soltec [15]: • PAPESCA works with artisanal fishing dwellers with issues related to management, solidarity economy, empowerment, environmental sustainability, among others; • TIFS provides technical support on software engineering to social movements, co- constructing application software
student success; and (c) cultivate more ethical future scientists and engineers by blending social, political and technological spheres. She prioritizes working on projects that seek to share power with students and orient to stu- dents as partners in educational transformation. She pursues projects that aim to advance social justice in undergraduate STEM programs and she makes these struggles for change a direct focus of her research.Devyn Elizabeth ShaferDr. Brianne Gutmann, San Jos´e State University Brianne Gutmann (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at San Jos´e State University. She does physics education research with expertise in adaptive online learning tools, identity-responsive mentoring and community
Education and Training to Improve Preparedness and Increased Access to Energy Workforce for Engineering Technology GraduatesAbstractElizabeth City State University (ECSU) implemented a comprehensive education and trainingprogram to strengthen the renewable energy curriculum and increase the pipeline of qualifiedworkers, especially underrepresented minorities for the growing energy industry. Theoverarching goal is to meet the current and future energy industry workforce needs, especially inthe renewable energy sector. The project activities were designed based on three tenets, whichinclude mentoring, research, and education/training. The project components included,enhancing renewable energy courses, establishing a wind and solar energy
, they need to understand the different stakeholders who are impacted by thedesigns they create. In a typical civil engineering design process, direct stakeholders (e.g. theclient) may be involved during the beginning of the process when establishing the criteria of theproject, with perhaps some limited community engagement during public outreach. This approachhowever limits the perspectives contributing to a project. Values Sensitive Design (VSD) is amethodology that asks the engineer to systematically consider values and norms, direct andindirect stakeholders, and the long-lasting impacts early and throughout the design process to craftmore equitable solutions and reduce or eliminate unintended consequences. In a senior technicalelective
, demonstrating that the student veterans werehaving a positive impact in the classroom. This paper presents a brief overview of a new project-based assignment in a technical writing course designed to assess multiple outcomes, itsinstitution-specific implementation, and current veteran success indicators. Data from surveysand institutionally-defined leadership characteristics are presented. Finally, by teaming studentveterans with traditional students, technical writing educators can provide opportunities forstudent veterans to demonstrate in-classroom leadership and contribute experiential insight forthe collective benefit of student veterans and their traditional student counterparts.IntroductionIndustry has recognized the need for engineers with
signal. The majority ofthe time is spent constructing and troubleshooting a simple model for a traffic light controller,consisting of a 1 Hz oscillator, a two-bit counter, and a binary decoder to produce a four-statemachine. Red, yellow and green LEDs are connected to appropriate outputs so that the LEDsflash in the sequence produced by a two-way traffic signal. This project provides a way toconnect the abstract ideas of digital circuits and multi-state systems with an example fromeveryday life.The project has been conducted on an annual basis for over ten years. Key to the success of thisactivity is the support provided by faculty and students in the ECE department. Undergraduateand graduate students assist in construction and troubleshooting
traditional department than for students in thenon-traditional department. However, students in the non-traditional department showedstatistically significantly higher levels of collaboration compared to the traditional department.This work contributes to the ongoing conversation about engineering identity development bybeginning to explore the pedagogical approaches that impact students’ engineering attitudes.Implications of results are discussed.MotivationThe purpose of this research paper is to ascertain the impact course activities that areintentionally designed to develop engineering identity in students has on engineering identitydevelopment. The overarching goal of this project is to help students persist in engineering,particularly those
years.The paper concludes with a discussion of the program’s efficacy and participant benefits.Planned future changes and activities are also discussed.2. BackgroundThis section presents prior work in two areas relevant to the current study. First, prior work onexperiential education and project-based learning is presented. Next, prior relevant work incybersecurity is discussed.2.1. Experiential Education & Project-based LearningUndergraduate research experiences, as the name would suggest, fall squarely in the category ofexperiential education. Undergraduate research is a project, with answering the identified researchquestions as its key goal (from students’ perspectives). For educators, undergraduate researchprojects seek to provide students
Service-Learning. He was a co-recipient of the National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engi- neering and Technology Education and the recipient of the National Society of Professional Engineers’ Educational Excellence Award and the ASEE Chester Carlson Award. He is a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and the National Society of Professional Engineers.Mr. Ashish, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Ashish had been working with RuTAG IIT Delhi as a P.A. Tech. for the past five years. He has conducted extensive research on rural problems and worked on community-based projects aimed at improving the livelihoods of marginalized people. Ashish’s commitment to
Paper ID #37967Learners’ Peer-to-Peer Interactions of Aerospace and Aviation Educationwith Unmanned Aerial Systems Designs Using Data Methods IntegrationVicleese Sloan, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Department of Engineering and Aviation Science, Avia-tion Management Senior Student My background experience in education with The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has been on two recent applications of model-based learning with developing solutions in mitigating coronavirus in avia- tion. I’ve also worked on the 5G Smart City Model for Project Based Learning, also in the Student Model Project Based Learning. AREN/NASA
related to post-hazard structural evaluation training. Supported through a grant byStructural Engineer’s Association of Northern California, SFSU is progressively developing animmersive experience for trainees to explore a structure damaged from an earthquake event.Trainees will need to navigate around the structure and control their point-of-view to examinethe evidence of damage. Ultimately, the trainees must classify the structure based on acceptablelevel of occupancy access (i.e. red card - no access, yellow card - limited access, green card - okfor occupancy). This environment is being developed progressively with the first stage of workfocusing on a desktop version of this training. Through this project, three computer sciencegraduate
years professional experience in the architecture and construction industry in residential, commercial and mixed-use projects. She has 8 years of experience in teaching and research in areas of architectural design, sustainable design, historic preservation and BIM. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Integration of Virtual Reality (VR) in Architectural Design Education: Exploring Student experienceAbstract The architecture industry significantly relies on visual communication. Virtual reality helpsdesigners create a greater sense of realism and a better understanding of a project by designingwhile immersed in them. That technological advancement has the
Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 10 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and intersections of motivation and learning strategies.Dr. Gary R. Kirk, School of Public & International Affairs, Virginia TechDr. Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia
research techniques, we sought to address the research question,“What aspects of engineering students’ innovation experiences were critical to the developmentof their ways of experiencing innovation?”Conceptual BackgroundThis study builds upon a previous study that explored differences in the ways engineeringstudents experienced innovation13. The current study expands the previous by exploring criticalincidents that led to new or refined understandings of innovation, but it is necessarily rooted inthe theoretical underpinnings and findings of the previous study. In this section, we summarizethe previous study and discuss how it informs the current investigation.The genesis of this project was a phenomenographic analysis of innovation among
, 2016 Development of a Photovoltaic Emergency Power SystemAbstractThis paper describes the efforts in closing the “skills gap” that exists between the currentworkforce and the needs in the photovoltaic (PV) industry by educating engineering studentsthrough the development of a project for the course titled ‘Photovoltaic Systems’. The aim of thecourse project is to provide students with the hands-on skills and practical knowledge that willenable them to succeed in the field of solar PV.“Development of a Photovoltaic Emergency Power System for a Hospital in Malawi” wasselected as one of the course projects in the fall of 2012, as requested by an American doctorworking in Malawi. The goal of the project was to specify, design
, engineering, architecture, computer science,medicine, agriculture, animal husbandry, etc.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangzhou_University)In spring 2014, the College of Mechanical Engineering gave the approval to the authors of thepaper to design and pilot a graduate engineering course, Advanced Manufacturing Systems. Itwas a 40-hour, lecture-based, interdisciplinary course that covered material processing, processimprovement and process optimization. The course was taught in English and the Americanengineering teaching style was adopted.Approach to build the American classroom environmentIn the US, the instructor usually uses project-based learning to motivate the students’ interests 8.The class is more flexibly-structured and the instructor is
Paper ID #12827Integrating Research in Sustainable Energy and the Environment across Dis-ciplines through a NSF funded REU SiteDr. Hua Li, Texas A&M University-Kingsville Dr. Hua Li, an Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University- Kingsville, is interested in sustainable manufacturing, renewable energy, sustainability assessment, and engineering education. Dr. Li has served as PI and Co-PI in different projects funded by NSF, DOEd, DHS, and HP, with a total amount of more than 2.5 million dollars.Prof. Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University-Kingsville Dr. Abdelrahman
(MET) and Manufacturing Engineering Technology(MFET) programs were among the first to be developed in response to the Grinter Report’srecommendation to create two paths to engineering careers, where engineering technologyprograms focus on educating engineering practitioners.8 Several factors have contributed torecent jumps in popularity and corresponding enrollment growing pains, e.g., pre-collegecurricula like Project Lead the Way and the re-shoring of a number of manufacturing operationsto the United States.9 While industry acceptance of the engineering technology baccalaureatedegree still lags engineering, the outstanding placement rate of graduates from these MET andMFET programs indicates their widespread recognition.10At Purdue
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701 {rileyh1,cs044712,jp953310@ohio.edu}Abstract— Active learning occurs on different levels and we engineering students may undertake highly self-define a relevant problem for which students may achieve directed projects to engage learning about sensors,“hands-on” learning. The Infra-Red (IR) spectrum sensing for software design, and hardware development. One ofautonomous vehicle applications is a compelling approach to these self-directed student projects considers thedetecting objects in the path of vehicle travel. Official data
instructor for several courses including Introduction to Engineering, Introduction to Materials and Manufacturing, and Structural and Chemical Characterization of Materials.Dr. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Gender
embedded systems in a variety of courses.Typical courses can include C programming, microcontrollers, instrumentation and measurementsystems, wireless communications systems, networking, and control systems, and they can belower-division and/or upper-division courses. Lab content within these courses provides studentswith hands-on projects which are intended to support the lecture material. The intent of this paper isto demonstrate that an inexpensive Programmable System-On-Chip embedded board (PSoC 5LP)can be used as a basis for many lab projects within a wireless communications systems course. Thesoftware development environment for the PSoC provides the flexibility to program in C as well asto use the schematic entry capability. The goal of
the engineering major. Advanced GE at SJSU is designed to help students become integrated thinkers who can see connections between and among a variety of concepts and ideas. In the College of Engineering at SJSU, we believe that it is critical that engineering students integrate the GE student learning outcomes into their engineering studies. In these two courses, students are challenged to understand the relationship of engineering to the broader community both in the U.S. and worldwide. In addition to the assignments in this course, the engineering faculty have created linked activities in the senior project courses that allow the students to apply these concepts to your engineering disciplines. The engineering senior level general
to address this gap in the literature by determining what students perceive therole of stakeholders should be during the design process and identifying the design project traitsthat facilitate learning the value of human-centered design processes.Research DesignStudy PurposeThe goal of this study was to determine how student perceptions of stakeholders differed beforeand after their capstone design experience, and to determine if and how the students’ interactionswith stakeholders during the semester changed their perceptions. We also explored how different Page 26.1695.2design project traits may have affected the level of stakeholder
confidence, so when ingroup projects later they do not shy away from the design and building portion of team basedengineering projects;c) Improving student skills for increased participation in engineering societies, internships,hands-on outreach projects, and student build teams; andd) Promoting a culture of making within all engineering students.Two groups of students were included in this study to examine female-only versus co-edenvironment; a 20-person group of female students (Building Women in Engineering), and a 20-person group of co-ed students (Building Skills in Engineering). Students from 10 differentengineering majors, and all years of undergraduate studies were represented. Both groups hadthe same female faculty member and female
Paper ID #16200Virtual Online Tensile Strength Testing SimulationMr. Steven Wendel, Sinclair Community College Steve Wendel serves as Director of the National Center for Manufacturing Education (NCME), originally established as a National Science Foundation Center of Excellence in the NSF Advanced Technological Education Program, the NCME provides leadership development for deans, program chairs, faculty and other educational leaders in manufacturing and engineering technology. Steve is also the Director for the Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Affiliate in Ohio. PLTW-OH has grown to over 400 programs nearly 190 school
and learning of STEM courses at both K-12 and college. Specifically, examination of factors influencing student performance in STEM related courses and instructional pedagogies at the college level associated with success in STEM courses.Kathryn Ann Bartosik, Clarkson University Kathryn is senior chemical engineering major at Clarkson University with minors in business and com- munications. Kathryn worked on the NSF-funded Innovation Corps project in the summer of 2018, and she interned at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in the summer of 2019.Pankaj Sarin, Oklahoma State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Exposure of undergraduate research students to entrepreneurial