learning.1. IntroductionThe understanding of the true motivations and drivers for why a post-graduate student wishesto do a PhD and enroll onto a doctorate program at university is a valuable piece ofinformation. Those personal and individual motivations set the foundations of their doctoraljourney. This journey is far from straight forward and seamless. It can be a trying venture thatchanges the candidate forever. In our role as supervisors and PhD project directors, we oughtto support the student when hiccups occur. An effective way to support the student throughthis personal and professional journey is to utilize and re-call upon their motivations.However, these are often not well articulated or communicated by the candidate because theyare
level.INTRODUCTION The National Curriculum Parameters for Undergraduate Engineering Programs in Brazil,instituted by Resolution No. 2, of April 24, 2019, establish that every undergraduate program inEngineering have a Pedagogical Project for the Program which, in addition to ensuring thedevelopment of the competencies established in the profile of the graduate and to present the set oflearning activities in the curriculum, clearly specify and describe “[…] VIII – the process of self-assessment and program learning management that includes the instruments for assessing the skillsdeveloped, and the respective contents, the diagnostic process and the elaboration of action plans toimprove learning, specifying the responsibilities and governance of the
Paper ID #38022Toward Bidirectional Faculty Development: A Collaborative Model forDesigning and Implementing Faculty Trainings on Evidence-BasedStrategies for Supporting Student Learning in Low- and Middle-IncomeCountriesMr. Steven Ghambi, Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences Steven Ghambi has over seven years experience as a lecturer in Materials engineering, currently with the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS). While searching for better teaching strategies, Steven got attached to the NEST project co-implemented by Rice University and MUBAS. Through these collaborations, Steven has
dichotomy in the way that the companies could both use emotional control whileproviding what appeared to be supportive structures. Roger, who said he didn’t want to “rock theboat” by “offer[ing] up attitude” also said that My boss actually was the one who kind of empowered me to be like hey, yeah, what you say goes, take that and own it. It just took a while of just kind of that mantra being chanted at me for a little while.Our participants did find ways to assert their personal agency. As a young engineer, Albert tookthe initiative to request participation on an international project, which opened up futureopportunities for him. Ben used his experience as a source of agency, saying You know, I’m in a position now where I
fieldsuffer from poor spatial visualization skills. Spatial visualization or reasoning skills are definedas “visualizing three-dimensional objects and perceiving what they will look like from differentviewpoints or what they would look like if they were rotated or transformed in space” (Sorby etal., 2013). The aid of spatial visualization is imperative in larger engineering projects thatinvolve designing 3D objects in computer programs such as CAD and MATLAB.Water Chemistry is a required upper-level course at University of Colorado Boulder, wherestudents build on previous chemistry knowledge and focus on the fundamentals of inorganicaqueous compounds and contaminants. This course was selected as a case study forimplementation of the AR/VR. Water
been pivotal in the development of structural programs to promote research inpredominantly undergraduate institutions [2]. This has led to an increase in undergraduateresearch programs at different universities over the last 35 years.Several models for undergraduate research programs exist, in addition to REUs. These modelsinclude capstone experiences, senior theses, internships and co-ops, course-based undergraduateresearch experiences (CURES), wrap-around experiences, bridge programs, consortium/project-based programs, community-based research programs [1], [3]. However, most of these programsare relatively short-term (i.e., limited to one to two semesters) and thus constrain how deeplystudents can delve into their research.Earlier studies
differ regarding measures of self-efficacy, mental rotation, and academic success at the end of the course when exposed to a facilitative instructor model with active learning modules?Method A quasi-experimental design iterative study was conducted in an introductory engineeringgraphics course at two universities in the United States. Data on self-efficacy, mental rotation,ability, final project grade, final exam grade, and final course grade was collected fromconsenting participants in the study who were students enrolled in the course. Self-efficacy was measured using a 3D Modeling Self-Efficacy instrument (22). Spatialvisualization and mental rotation skills were measured using the Purdue Spatial
high tolerance ofambiguity (a) seek out ambiguity, (b) enjoy ambiguity, and (c) excel in the performance ofambiguous tasks.” It is this latter definition that is used for this research as it describes a skill ormindset that today’s engineering graduates must possess in order to solve the problems they willincreasingly face and must be prepared to solve—problems that are complex, fraught withuncertainty, and given to conflicting interpretations by varying components.“Wicked Problems” Introduce AmbiguityTo better situate the project in the literature and to more explicitly define the nature of suitableproblems for our research intervention, wicked problems—as defined in the literature—will beused.Wicked problems, as described by Farrell and
concept, bond with their peers over a sense of pride, or seek outresources to combat isolation.In this study, we designed a semi-structured interview protocol to explore undergraduatestudents’ perceptions of emotion in their engineering education. We interviewed 20 mechanicaland human factors engineering undergraduate students at a private university in the northeasternUnited States. We conducted a qualitative thematic analysis of interview data to address thefollowing research question: In what ways do emotions and learning intersect within theengineering education contexts of problem set sessions and makerspace project work?Conceptual FrameworkThis study is grounded in the emotional configurations perspective [10]. In this perspective
Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network’s 3Cs - Curiosity, Connections, and Creationof Value [1].MethodsThis study explores the overlap between the objectives of undergraduate laboratory and project-based courses and the KEEN Entrepreneurial Mindset framework. After the fall 2022 semester,we surveyed students about their mindset after completing a laboratory or design course at ourinstitution. The purpose of this phase of the study was to pilot an existing instrument todetermine if it would be a useful assessment in our courses. The details of the data collection,context of the courses, and analysis are described below.Data CollectionWith IRB approval, after the fall 2022 semester, students enrolled in one of seven project-basedor laboratory
, it is theadvisor’s responsibility to provide research funding and student funding when students are notsupported by other scholarship/fellowship funding. The funding is therefore, a big driver for thework the students perform and learn about. While the structure has been in place for many years,any person who has obtained a degree in chemical engineering can tell you that outside of theclasses, the quality of the experience varies. Every advisor stresses different skills or takes adifferent approach to teaching. However, when the degree is awarded, all students are expectedto be able to lead projects, manage teams, have strong oral and written communication,teamwork, problem-solving skills, economic skills, and be aware of their professional
theoretical or analytical frameworks (e.g., from data science or complexity science) and (3) conducting design-based research to develop scaffolding tools for supporting the learning of complex skills like design. He is the Division Chair Elect for the Design in Engineering Education Division for the 2023 ASEE conference.Esther Komolafe, University at Buffalo, SUNY Esther Komolafe is an undergraduate Biomedical Engineering student at the University at Buffalo. Through- out her educational career she has applied herself to several different projects. She is currently working as a researcher for the Engineering Education Department at the University at Buffalo where she analyzes and qualitatively codes data. She has worked
types of courses may not be able to deliver the intended learning outcomeseffectively [4]. It is reasonably expected that many institutions and students will face limitationsin attending conventional classroom settings in the foreseeable future. One pedagogical shift toaddress this limitation is to leverage innovative technologies that to date have been utilizedprimarily only for research projects. Using Digital twins is an innovative technology that utilizesdigital representations of physical objects and processes such as buildings and their systems, hasthe potential to transform remote learning by providing simulated hands-on experiences that aresimilar to those used in in-person settings.A digital twin is a virtual representation of a real
main objective of this paper is to present our three data-analytic strategies: predictive,descriptive and prescriptive and how they have improved student outcomes, intervened at-riskstudents, strategized cost cutting in the department, projected actual outcomes and finally indetermining the effectiveness of our data-decisions. For example, our predictive tool is helpingidentify potential low performing students at the course level and assigning them to mentoringand tutoring resources. Our prescriptive tool is helping with strategies and suggestions forcost-cutting and improving retention at the department level. Our descriptive tool is helping withdata-driven unbiased communication between staff, faculty and students at the college level
, 2023 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference Designing an ASR-based Interactive Game for Enhancing Speech Therapy to encourage young children to adhere to therapy protocols: A Case Study in User Interface Design Chang Ren, Dongji Feng, and Cheryl D. Seals Auburn University Auburn, AL USAAbstractThis research discusses an application which recognizes disordered speech with machine learningtechniques. The User Interface Design (UID) course focuses on the theory and practice ofdesigning and developing interactive systems. This project inspects the current application designand will potentially redesign a gamified system that
Science (M.S) in 2009 and with a Ph.D. in 2012. Her research is primarily focused on traffic operations, congestion pricing, traffic simulation, and engineering education. Dr. Michalaka is a registered Professional Engineering in the state of South Carolina. Also, in December 2020, she graduated with a M.S. in Project Management from The Citadel.Dr. David S Greenburg, The Citadel David Greenburg is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering Leadership and Program Management (ELPM) in the School of Engineering (SOE) at The Citadel. He served over 20 years of active military service in the United States Marine Corps in a variety of command and staff and leadership positions. Upon completion of
2002. Currently, he is a Professor at the Escola de En- genharia Mau´a, Instituto Mau´a de Tecnologia, Brazil. The professor has more than 21 years of work in the academic field and developed several academic works, including 05 master’s degree orientations, 35 Course Completion Works and 27 Scientific Initiation projects. Additionally, he produced around 150 publications including journals, book chapters, complete works and abstracts published in the annals of scientific conferences (national and international). His expertise areas include control systems, industrial automation, autonomous robotics, IoT (Internet of Things), artificial intelligence (neural networks and fuzzy logic), embedded electronics, assistive
Barbara and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. At AHC, he is Department Chair of Math- ematical Sciences, Faculty Advisor of MESA (the Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement Pro- gram), and Principal/Co-Principal Investigator of several National Science Foundation projects (S-STEM, LSAMP, IUSE). In ASEE, he is chair of the Two-Year College Division, and Vice-Chair/Community Col- leges of the Pacific Southwest Section. He received the Outstanding Teaching Award for the ASEE/PSW Section in 2022.Dr. James M Widmann, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Jim Widmann is a professor and chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at California Polytech- nic State University, San Luis Obispo. He received
Arizona University Dr. Carol Haden is Vice President of Magnolia Consulting, LLC, a woman-owned, small business special- izing in independent research and evaluation. She has served as evaluator for STEM education projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the NatProf. Ismail Uysal, University of South Florida Dr. Ismail Uysal has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida. He is an Associate Professor and the Undergraduate Director at the University of South Florida’s Electrical En- gineering Department. His research focuses on theory and applications of machine learning and machine intelligence for sensor applications. ©American Society for
around the globe, economically,culturally, socially, and ethically. In the present project, we have launched and have begundevelopment of a web platform open to the world that focuses on economic, ethical, andcommunity issues in global oil production. Development of the web platform, titled PetroleumEngineer, is modeled on the highly successful web platform for students’ reactions toengineering ethics, the Ethical Engineer: https://EthicalEngineer.ttu.edu. The PetroleumEngineer website is being developed through a required undergraduate course in the PE major.The primary materials for the Petroleum Engineer website are petroleum engineering casestudies, approximately 1000 words in length. Students read and reflect on a case study, post acomment
significant undertaking that requires properplanning and commitment. The planning phase is crucial in defining the scope of the work andsecuring the necessary resources for the project. During this phase, I used the followingquestions to guide my thought process. • Why is this open textbook project important? • What features are essential and are of pedagogical significance? • What resources are required for this project in terms of time commitment, funding, and team support? • What open platforms will be used to host the book? • How to maintain the book in the post-publication stage?As of 2019-2020, there were limited OER on thermodynamics [8-10] and on relevantengineering subjects in general. The proposed open textbook aims to
engineeringdesign when applying the instrument in multiple disciplinary design contexts and by accountingfor how instructional design contexts and practices influence empathic formation. At the time ofthis writing, this project is concluding Year 1, but emergent findings have supported the need fora contextually valid assessment in engineering design. Moreover, this project has begun fosteringcommunity among a small group of design instructors. Upon completion of this work, thisproject will generate an instructional tool for assessing empathy in engineering design, newknowledge on best practices for promoting empathic formation in engineering design, andcommunity among design instructors who are interested in empathy in engineering design.Keywords: Empathy
Paper ID #38632Board 229: Can You See Yourself Here? Broadening Participation in STEMthrough Virtual Reality Career ExplorationDr. Sarah Lynn Ferguson, Rowan University Dr. Ferguson is the STEM VRCE project team leader, investigating the magnitude impact of STEM career exploration through the use of virtual reality video. An applied methodologist in education research, Dr. Ferguson focuses on the application of advanced research methods and statistics approaches to issues in education. Currently Dr. Ferguson works as an Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods at Rowan University, teaching education research courses in
fields [8][9]. These short individual learning modules should provide enough introduction andcomprehension of the three subjects to qualify as proceeding through the knowledge,comprehension, application, and analysis levels on the original Bloom taxonomy [10] or makingprogress toward factual, conceptual, and procedural knowledge on the updated taxonomy [11].They will be broadly project-based and able to be evaluated similarly to other project / teamexperience exercises using skills evaluations and teamwork rubrics [12] [13].Figure 1 – Purdue University Agricultural Systems Management (ASM) undergraduate studentsworking on a John Deere® combine simulator, learning to use the onboard electronic harvestoptimization software. Under the terms
, insufficient background inmathematics, and lack of role models, especially for first generation students, [2], to name a few.In this work, the leadership from three separate but similar programs operating at independenturban research universities, collaborate in a Track 3 NSF S-STEM funded project with theoverall goal of not only increasing student success but in studying and extending their programsto better reach student populations in need. This collaboration team refers to itself as ‘The UrbanSTEM Collaboratory’, and consists of three unique intervention programs, one from eachuniversity, that support student success and have demonstrated positive student outcomesthroughout the duration of the project, [3, 4, 5]. Although there are three separate
domain-specific programs: material science and engineering andarchitectural engineering. This project is broken down into the following objectives: 1) facilitate datascience education and workforce development for engineering and related topics, 2) provide opportunitiesfor students to participate in practical experiences where they can learn new skills through opportunities innew settings to transform data science education, and 3) expand the data science talent pool by enabling theparticipation of undergraduate students with diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills, and technicalmaturity. The paper will focus on the topics, deployment strategies within courses and curricula,establishing data sets, representative examples of work-in-progress
, University of Toronto Sowrov Talukder is a Computer Engineering student at the University of Toronto helping to improve programming labs in education.Mr. Parth Sindhu, University of TorontoDr. Hamid S. Timorabadi, University of Toronto Hamid Timorabadi received his B.Sc, M.A.Sc, and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He has worked as a project, design, and test engineer as well as a consultant to industry. His research interests include the applicati ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 WIP: Lab Container: An environment to manage a student’s time to complete programming labs while providing effective
Fall 211 5 2023 Spring 156 5Course Goals and StructureThe course goals are for students to learn: (1) to analyze data in the context of engineeringproblems, (2) programming using MATLAB, (3) to work effectively in teams, (4) to prototypeusing hand tools, basic CAD, and 3D printing, and (5) to articulate differences and overlapsbetween engineering disciplines and practices. These course goals are stated on the syllabus.Students in ENGR 130 meet in two 75-minute laboratory sessions and a single, combined 75-minute lecture per week. In the lab, students complete two-week modules that combineMATLAB programming and hands-on design projects, working in teams of three or
. Received Ph.D. in Me- chanical Engineering-Design from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and MBA from Rutgers University. Interests are in product development, topology optimization, additive manufacturing, and engineering ed- ucation. Over 25 years of industry and academic experience. Worked as design/project engineer in the steel-making industry, and consults on re-engineering and computer-based analysis. Teaches courses in CAD/CAE, mechanical design, FEA, and optimization; author/co-author of over 170 publication; PI/Co- PI in grants for over $3M, and in-kind donations for more than $12M.Montasir Mamun Mithu, Western Michigan University Completed MS in Manufacturing Engineering from Western Michigan University
"mathematization of space" in relation to making graphs. Fenner andO'Neill [10] had similar results from a project aimed at improving engineering students' abilitiesto analyze, interpret and communicate data. Their study found that engineering students in alinear circuits laboratory collected experimental data correctly but frequently failed to synthesizeand summarize the findings. Hadley and Oyetunji [11] found that engineering students maypossess the mathematical procedural knowledge associated with numeracy but are notnecessarily able to employ these skills in specific engineering contexts. While this researchexplores the QL of engineering students, no current instruments are specifically designed tomeasure the QL of engineering students.This work-in