formal research methods, we believein the importance of the timely dissemination of these observations to the engineering educationcommunity to inform future activities in this area. To maintain objectivity, the informationpresented includes only observations that are shared by the entire organizing team and programmentors.Background - Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) ProgramThe REU program was the first formalized attempt to expose students to engineering educationin a strength-based setting. The specialized program combined a ten-week traditional summerREU research experience with close mentorship, specially designed seminars, workshops, androundtable discussions to address the strengths and needs of participants. Due to the type
current director for the Center for Engineering Education Research (CEER) which examines innovative and effective engineering education practices as well as classroom technologies that advance learning and teaching in engineering. He is also working on National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects exploring engineering design thinking. His areas of research include engineering design thinking, adult learning cognition, engineering education professional development and technical training. He has extensive international experience working on technical training and engineering educaton projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and U.S. Department of Labor, USAID. Countries where he has worked include
, and inappropriate construction practices [3], [4]. Furthermore, proper planning forinfrastructure projects, or better-called infrastructure management (IM), is often not met due tothe complexity of such projects, thus causing schedule overruns and failure to meet theforecasted budgets. Research shows that, despite the usual practices, the best way to deliver aproject is focusing on the Front-End Planning (FEP) phase, prior to authorizing its funding andsubsequent construction [5], [6]. The FEP of a project is a fundamental process of scopedefinition so that the stakeholders can address and minimize risks to accomplish improvedproject outcomes [7]. Applying FEP practices to infrastructure projects is vital for thedevelopment of these projects
]) and in engineering/designeducation (e.g., [4], [5]) to gauge creative function-object relationships, students generatealternate uses of an existing object, e.g., a brick, a pencil. For research purposes, the AUT can beused as a measure of an individual’s potential for divergent thinking. For instructional purposes,the AUT may instead be used as an exercise to show benefits from individual versus team levelcreative problem solving, as a warm up step before students tackle a more complex design task,or to exemplify the varying performance levels in creative problem situations as faculty teachabout the importance of creativity. Typically, the novelty and originality of AUT responses arelater evaluated by human raters, often professors and
. Page 26.1241.5Evolved Practices & Impact on Innovation:Reality can turn around the best of intentions. The program described above was soon modifiedwhen finding engineering instructors for the different TCUs proved to be problematic. One TCUhad an instructor identified before funding was awarded and is still part of the program. Anotherfound instructor within three weeks of funding and he participated 3 years in a number of coursesbut was caught up in some administrative changes and moved on. However, that same TCUfound a backup instructor and then a second backup instructor to help. The third TCU tookseveral months to find an instructor and he remained at the institution for one year and was luredaway by a national engineering firm in the
solving abusiness problem, instead of just blindly doing analysis with no application for the client.[3]Once an analysis is complete, the information must be presented either in writing or in person toa client. Therefore, it is important for analysts to have the ability to communicate the results ofan analysis in a way that can influence decisions. However, this is the portion of training thatsome analysts, like LaBarr[3] and Starbuck [10], think needs additional attention and training foryoung statisticians. Nonetheless, the best communication in the world will not help if thesenovices do not understand the basic theories and methodology behind the analysis; therefore allskills should be developed and practiced simultaneously throughout the
the University of Portland in Portland, Ore- gon. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in Measurement, Statistics, and Research Design from the University of Washington. An elementary school teacher at heart, she now teaches educational research and STEM methods to undergraduate and graduate students. Her research fo- cus involves bringing active learning strategies to STEM, best practices of research-practice partnerships, and applied research in partnership. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Connecting Entrepreneurial Mindset to Software DevelopmentAbstractThe purpose of this research was to develop
is a program of KISS Institute for Practical Robotics, a private non-profiteducation and research organization that uses robotics as a means to engage students inscience, engineering, math, and computer programming. In Botball, teams of middle andhigh school age students are given two challenges: 1) build and program a team ofautonomous mobile robots to play the current tournament game; 2) create a website thatmeets this year’s defined challenges.The mission and purpose behind BotballBotball’s mission addresses three populations:For Educators: Botball exists to provide educators with knowledge, resources andequipment with which to foster an engaging and continuous hands-on learningenvironment for science, technology, engineering and math.For
University of Rhode Island with research work done at Rhode Island Hospital. Previously, he was an assistant di- rector at Massachusetts General Hospital (a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School) in Boston. He has also held faculty appointments in Illinois, Miami and Singapore. At NTU in Singapore, he was the founding director of the BME Research Center and the founding head of the Bioengineering division. He was the Principal Investigator for several Biomedical Engineering projects. He also worked in R&D at Coulter Electronics in Miami and in hospital design and operations management at Bechtel for healthcare megaprojects. He has served in the National Medical Research Council in Singapore. His research in
tuition, research, consulting, and other activities and for what itspends, in terms of salaries, expenses, travel, recruitment, etc. As such, a culture for living withina budget is being increasingly promoted. This approach provides a medium conducive toimplementation of some popular practices employed by businesses and companies. SSBS is onesuch practice that promises to be of value in this respect in the opinion of the author, who is theChairperson in the Department of Construction Technology of the Purdue School of Engineeringand Technology. Without really employing the terminology of SSBS and scaring the faculty andstaff with the notion that this is a business and not an academic department, the SSBSmethodologies are being employed for some
half the distance of its dimpled counterpart. Students will study the effectof dimples on the drag coefficient of a golf ball. The objectives of this module are as follows: (1) Perform background research todetermine the velocity of a golf ball upon impact and estimate the Reynolds number. (2)Develop an experiment using the 0-100 MPH wind tunnel to measure the drag coefficient vs.Reynolds number of a golf ball. (3) Repeat the experiment on a smooth, golf ball sized sphere.(4) Make a plot of drag coefficient vs. Re number for both experiments and interpret the resultsin terms their impact on the game of golf. (5) For a given impact velocity, numerically calculatethe distance that a golf ball will travel in a vacuum, in air with dimples
peer leader. These topicsbecome the basis for the formation of new practice groups. Each group then designs theirapproach to investigating the topic and plans for ways to present this new information. Thepurpose of the final project is to share the knowledge they have researched or generated withothers in the course support community as a whole (Community of Practice).Training our peer leaders to model self-directed learning approaches in their sessions is the firststep toward supporting students as they transition into college and develop skills in reflecting onchallenges and adapting to improve success. We have intentionally designed our peer leadertraining course to immerse new leaders in a self-directed learning environment, by allowing
that the skills in both fields overlap. A good artist and a goodengineer need to have confidence in their abilities in creative problem solving. Structuring thecamp with a theme of art allows students more opportunities to feel like they belong in the field. The sculpture area at WSU provided hands-on practices in three-dimensional art includingsculpture and jewelry/small metals as part of our contribution to the camp. Most often theworkshops applied the welding skills students learned from the engineering lessons to createexperimental sculptural forms in metal with an emphasis on being playful, creative and havingfun. However, the most notable project with the strongest impact and depth in learningprofessional art and design issues was
completesurprise to many faculty and administrators.The parallel with industrial quality control can provide guidance regarding assessment todepartment chairs of engineering technology departments. Consider that you are in a plantmixing concrete and that you want to implement a quality control program for the product ofyour plant. To consider that implementation and continuous verification of the quality of theproduct can be performed at no cost is unreasonable. Research on this subject indicates that thecost of quality control in this type of facility is about six percent of the total cost of the product1.Standard practice in construction engineering is for the owner to hire an engineering firm thatwill be in charge of quality control to assure that the
societal aspects of engineering practice are the subjects of several ABET2000 outcomes. ABET 2000 criterion 3(f) states that "Engineering programs mustdemonstrate that their graduates have an understanding of professional and ethicalresponsibility." Criterion 3(h) states – "Engineering programs must demonstrate that theirgraduates have the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineeringsolutions in a global and societal context." And, Criterion 4 requires that programgraduates have design experience…that includes most of the following considerations:economic, environmental, sustainability, manufacturability, ethical, health and safety,social, and political"(Schimmel, 2000), (ABET, 1998). Notwithstanding ABETrequirements, a recent
, undergraduate, and graduate students for large-scale data handling and analytics. Thework focuses on institutions that have comparatively lower levels of advanced CI adoption, suchas second-tiered institutions (Carnegie Classification R2), historically black colleges anduniversities (HBCU), and community colleges.The project’s secondary aim is to lay the groundwork for future broadening adoption ofadvanced CI training resources that have the potential to influence wide segments of CIcommunities. This is achieved through identification of best practices derived from the project,modular curricula, and experiential hands-on learning materials. The course is further advancedwith carefully designed outreach activities to establish and maintain a pipeline of
(USA). Dr. Ayala is currently serving as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology Department, Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. Prior to joining ODU in 2013, Dr. Ayala spent three years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Delaware where he expanded his knowledge on simulation of multiphase flows while acquiring skills in high performance parallel computing and scientific computation. Before that, Dr. Ayala hold a faculty position at Universidad de Oriente at Mechanical Engineering Department where he taught and developed graduate and undergraduate courses for a number of subjects such as Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer
, and so forth. IT-enabled workers include bankteller, business project managers, product developers, marketing managers, and so forth. I focuson reasons women are detached from pursuing education necessary to join the IT workforce; I donot consider the IT-enabled workforce.In identifying IT educational fields, I limit along two dimensions—the nature of IT work andeducation needed for such work. The Computing Research Association (CRA), a nonprofiteducational organization to promote research and advanced education in computing, hascategorized IT jobs into four classes: (1) conceptualizers, those who conceive of and sketch outthe basic nature of a computer system artifact; (2) developers, those who work on specifying,designing, constructing, and
. Thetrip to Peru was designed to provide the students with a global scholarly and humanitarianexperience. Other impacts of the trip were the acquisition of cultural and social capital thatcannot be accomplished through non-experiential activities [13]. The trip included a project inLima, daily tours to museums in this city, national research labs, and a final trip to MachuPicchu, the Lost City of the Incas in Cuzco.Project: A Sustainable Approach for Informal Settlements or Asentamientos Humanos in PeruEducational research has demonstrated that a rich learning environment plays an important rolein improving learning achievements and also attitudes toward studies and research [26]. Thistype of environment can be implemented through project-based
. Her current research interests include transient photovoltaic inverter modeling, micro-grid design, monitoring of advanced composite designs, and pedagogical methods and strategies. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Student perceptions of online learning effectiveness during the COVID-19 quarantineAbstract - Limited studies exist examining the effect of the initial COVID-19 quarantineon engineering education, and those available tend to be limited to a single engineeringdiscipline. This paper examines student perceptions of the learning experience in theemergency situation presented by the COVID-19 pandemic across four engineeringdisciplines. Student
help from Microsoft Project or Oracle Primavera and Autodesk Navisworks, Revit handles construction schedule analysis better; • Vico’s strengths lie in preparing bid packages, performing cost and cash flow analyses; and • Neither solution is able to detect potential clashes. However, both solutions can collaborate with Navisworks seamlessly to perform this task. This function can play a very important role in construction risk management.Drawing on findings from previous research and this study, a workflow for a BIM course isproposed. Designed for the wide-accepted BOK for ConE education and the most commonlyused BIM solutions, this workflow can be easily adopted throughout the ConE academiccommunity and should help to remove
established, the actual measurementand ultimate impact on students is less clear. For example, mentoring/advising problems oftencited by students include the non-availability of faculty outside of the classroom, large sectionsizes taught by graduate assistants, too many courses taught by non-English speaking instructors,or simply the perception of being reduced to a number; e.g., one student of many. Althoughthese characteristics are often associated with larger research oriented universities and are not asprevalent on our campus, which has a stronger focus on undergraduate education, we are notimmune to similar concerns. Indeed, retention rates at our university, while competitive, arehardly exemplary. At the same time, while retention rates have
, more recently, filled via “Course Management Learning System”. The universityadministration uses such evaluations to solve agency problems related to the selection and motivation ofteachers, in a context in which neither the types of teachers, nor their effort, can be observed precisely(Becker & Watts, 1999).Truly speaking, students’ evaluations are useful during the hiring process of professors. Particularly ithelps to ascertain the situation whether to promote a professor or not. Some of the educational institutionswhere more research is emphasized on professors, the administration relies fully on students’ evaluationof teaching (Becker & Watts, 1999).Administrators from educational institutions have struggled for a long time with
Aaron S. (2012) Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day, Eugene: International Society for Technology in Education, 2012. Print.[17]. Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (2004). Television goes to school: The impact of video on student learning in formal education[18]. Acharya, S., Manohar, P. A., & Wu, P. (2016). Using Case Study Videos to Effectively Teach Software Development Best Practices (pp. 230-235). The 20th World Multi- Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (WMSCI) Conference, Orlando, FL, Organized by International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS).[19]. Bonwell, C. C., & Eison, J. A. (1991). Active Learning; Creating Excitement in the
Tsegaye, Florida Gulf Coast University Dr. Seneshaw Tsegaye is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, Civil Engineering, and Environmental Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. He is the Backe Chair of Research for Sustainable Water and Renewable Energy. He has 10 years of experience in the fields of integrated urban water management, water-energy-food nexus, infiltration-based best management practices, flood modeling, and decision support systems for transitioning to vegetation-based stormwater systems. Dr. Tsegaye’s latest research project is focused on the application of Virtual Reality for flood resiliency and engineering education. With many years of teaching and research experience
that community was at the core ofeducational philosophy and practice leading him to believe that learning results fromexperience that is contextually based and socially situated. Lipman (199114) argued that “theProceedings of the 2012 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for EngineeringEducation 11reflective model is thoroughly social and communal” (p. 19). As a result, social presence feltin the classroom can have a direct impact on student learning. According to Swan (200515) In traditional, face-to-face classrooms, educational researchers found that certain teacher immediacy behaviors, such as making eye-contact, smiling
ofplanning performed during the previous steps will impact the implementation. The first six stepsare where most of your time should be spent. This will ensure that the implemented activity hasthe greatest impact.h. Assessing the outcomeAfter the activity has been tested, think critically about what pieces were successful and whichpieces failed. Did students all struggle with one segment of the project? Could better materialshave been provided? Did you have way too much or way too little of any supplies? How did it fitwithin the time frame? How did the wrap-up discussion go? Did the students meet yourexpectations? Ask other staff and even the participants for their perspectives and feedback on theactivity. Facilitators can design a formal assessment
, Page 22.932.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 and France. He has served at TARDEC for 40 years in various capacities of increasing responsibility. Dr. Bryzik is a Fellow Grade member of the Society of Automotive Engineers(SAE), an editorial reviewer for SAE, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Combustion Institute. He has been an Adjunct Professor and Graduate Faculty Member of Mechanical Engineering at Wayne State University for 30 years, both continuously teaching graduate courses and performing advanced research. Dr. Bryzik has served as a member of numerous significant National Academy of Engineering (NAE) panels on ad- vanced automotive
students to understand their capabilities to function in multicultural interactions. Meredith has undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a student, Ms. Blumthal studied abroad in the Netherlands and had a Foreign Language Areas Fellowship (FLAS) where she studied Quechua and conducted field research in Ecuador during her graduate program.Brian Woodard (Director, Undergraduate Programs)Molly H Goldstein (Assistant Teaching Professor) Dr. Molly H. Goldstein is a Teaching Assistant Professor and Product Design Lab Director in Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering. Dr. Goldstein’s research focuses on student designer trade-off decisions through the study of their
(provided by NSF and an industry partner) to produce graduates with intrapreneurshipcompetencies. A total of 68 scholars in four cohorts were admitted to TIP. Scholars, hiringmanagers, and mentors were surveyed on topics to reveal the efficacy of the program. Bothqualitative and quantitative data were collected. This paper presents data on the growth inintrapreneurship competencies for each of the cohorts of students, data on mentoring practicesthat were integral to the TIP experience, as well as student and mentor perception data on thebenefits of the program.introductionThis paper examines the outcomes of a National Science Foundation sponsored Scholarships inSTEM (S-STEM) program. This S-STEM program (TIP) was designed to produceintrapreneurial