Paper ID #32980Minority Graduates in Engineering Technology: Trends in Choice of MajorMr. Yury Alexandrovich Kuleshov, Purdue University, West Lafayette Yury A. Kuleshov is a graduate student earning his Master’s in Engineering Technology degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He received his Diploma in Engineering (6-year program) from Bauman Moscow State Technical University, where he majored in Robots and Robotic Systems, and specifically Underwater Robots and Vehicles. He has experience working as an engineer, a research assistant at Purdue University, and an instructor. His research as a Master’s
Paper ID #19309Moving Towards Individual Competence From Group Work in Transdisci-plinary EducationDr. Colin M. Gray, Purdue University, West Lafayette Colin M. Gray is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology and a Fellow in the Educational Research and Development Incubator. He holds a PhD in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University Bloomington, a MEd in Educational Technol- ogy from University of South Carolina, and a MA in Graphic Design from Savannah College of Art & Design. His research focuses on the role of student experience in informing a
engineering design sequence which represents the spine of the curriculum for the Department of Engineering. The research and teaching interests of Dr. Nagel tend to revolve around engineering design and engineering design education, and in particular, the design conceptualization phase of the design process. He has performed research with the US Army Chemical Corps, General Motors Research and Development Center, and the US Air Force Academy, and he has received grants from the NSF, the EPA, and General Motors Corporation.Prof. Matt Robert Bohm, Florida Polytechnic University Matt Bohm is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Florida Polytechnic University (Florida Poly). He joined the University in 2016
developed design based curriculum for multiple K-12 teach PDIs and student summer camps.Dr. Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University Dr. Kimberly G. Talley is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Technology, Senior Research Fellow and Maker Space Co-Director for the LBJ Institute for STEM Education and Research at Texas State University, and a licensed Professional Engineer. She received her Ph.D. and M.S.E. from the University of Texas at Austin in Structural Engineering. Her undergraduate degrees in History and in Construction Engineering and Management are from North Carolina State University. Dr. Talley teaches courses in the Construction Science and Management Program, and her research
Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teach
time-domain simulations of distributed generation renewable energy facilities. Today, he leverages his experience managing projects in industry to develop an extremely realistic senior capstone program at SDSU. Cory has also developed or implemented numerous active and experiential learning opportunities in a number of 200- and 300-level electrical engineering courses.Dr. Robert Fourney, South Dakota State University Bob Fourney is an Associate Professor at South Dakota State University, where he has been teaching since 2003. He teaches the digital design and embedded systems portion of the Electrical Engineering curriculum and serves as both a formal and informal advisor for the microcontroller and computer aspects
net-zero energy building design. Professor Figgess was the lead faculty advisor for the CSU Sacramento entry into the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015 and played a supporting role in the 2016 SMUD Tiny House Competition. Figgess holds a BS in Construction Management and an MBA. His research interests include sustainability, water conservation, and renewable energy, as well as methods of teaching and learning. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Experiential Learning Opportunities through Collaborative ProjectsIn 2014, California State University Sacramento entered the SMUD 2016 Tiny HouseCompetition. Sponsored by the local
changethe market dynamics of CAD design through revitalization of the design curriculum. Thoughuniversities currently exhibit full design cycles across a variety of courses spread out in differentsemesters, it could be of major benefit for universities to integrate student extracurricular designteams as a part of the engineering curriculum. The ingrained collaboration required in designteams, as well as the cross-disciplinary interaction of students, academic mentors/advisors andindustry sponsors, is the most realistic analogue to the full end-to-end design cycle currentlypresent in an academic setting. In addition, since the competitive aspect of design competitionsto create superior designs push students to explore new/creative design avenues
STEM pedagogy, design thinking, project-based learning and educational entrepreneurship.Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Carla B. Zoltowski is an assistant professor of engineering practice in the Schools of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue. Prior to this she was Co-Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue where she was responsible for developing curriculum and assessment tools and overseeing the research efforts within EPICS. Her academic and research interests include the profes- sional formation of
followed this trend.The self-efficacy findings are comparable to the findings from the phenomenologically basedinterviews of female students who are each voluntarily involved in the makerspace. The femaleusers were introduced to the space through both friends and class, and given that the intervieweeswere split 50/50 with seeking out hands-on making activities upon starting their undergraduate,this reaffirms that initial motivation does not impact involvement in the space as strongly as beingpresented an initial opportunity to use the space. It seems that student involvement in themakerspace is more impacted by the engineering design curriculum and their exposure to thespace. Engineering design curriculum does not necessarily have to enforce
Engineering seminars, and oversees WIEP’s K-12 outreach programming. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016Gender in the workplace: Peer coaching to empower women engineering students in the classroom and as professionalsAbstractFormal coaching approaches within higher education is a relatively new concept and holds greatpromise as a way for students to make decisions and to outline action items and means ofaccountability while facing challenges and/or moving forward through transitions such assuccessfully moving from an undergraduate degree program to the workforce. In this study, theconcept of coaching is integrated into a women in engineering senior seminar class at a largeMidwestern university in order
- gogic Consultant at the Planetarium of Bogot´ for the project Centers of Interest in Astronomy, Innovation a Mediator at the science and technology museum Maloka and Chemistry Teacher in school environments. He has worked in primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors, and in private and public companies throughout his professional life. He also develops as Hatha Radja Yoga Teacher.Dr. Morgan M Hynes, Purdue University at West Lafayette Dr. Morgan Hynes is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity and Director of the FACE Lab research group at Purdue. In his research, Hynes explores the use of engineering to integrate academic
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(Tversky & Kahneman, 1975). In other words,while expert intuition may allow for elegant decision-making, an abundance of experimentalpsychology and social science research provides thorough evidence that intuitive reasoning mayutilize cognitive biases such as anchoring bias, availability bias, and implicit bias. The use oftools and formal processes can reduce the impact of these biases, but they are inherent to humancognition. Burke & Miller (1999) posit that decision-makers need to iterate between intuitiveand rational strategies for effective decision making.Working from the assumption that intuitive reasoning can and should be integrated intoengineering education (per argument presented above), this work provides a baseline of
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Project, Concrete Canoe, First Robotics, and a growing multitude of other activitiesbring to the student experience. However, there are many unanswered questions about the trueeffectiveness of these activities, who participates, and why students participate. We need tounderstand the value we are bringing to students’ educational experience and if we find thatresources are worth investing, we must understand how to bring the experience to more students,do it effectively and in tandem with the regular curriculum, while ensuring that the collaborative,multi-disciplinary, and grass-roots nature of these groups is not eroded. An opportunity lies inthis extracurricular project-based space to attract and better prepare students as new-centurycitizen
entrepreneurial processes (ideation, customer discovery, clientvalidation, and commercial viability) that teach the above concepts. Furthermore, we draw onpedagogical research in experiential learning [26] and scaffolding [18] to “package” the processesto support student learning with a minimum of resources.1 It should be noted that n our approachas each of the processes can be implemented independently, different programs can choose toimplement only those that fit best with their program’s logistics and goals.We emphasize that the four entrepreneurial processes we have developed and integrated into ourcapstone curriculum are designed to familiarize our students with an early product developmentphase of a start-up, where limited resources both in terms
teams into a tailspin. Difficulties were seen as a failing on the part of thesponsors or the instructors, not just part of the normal design process; all are examples of externalattribution for challenges faced.SummaryThese findings represent an opportunity for those of us in capstone leadership and engineering educationin general to work to prepare our students and our faculty in a more informed way around the foreseeablechallenges inherent in the design experience. We have the unique opportunity to reframe the students’perspectives on the unscripted aspects of capstone in particular. Accordingly, we can accomplish thefollowing throughout the academic process: Early in the engineering curriculum, infuse experience in managing challenges
an inclusive makerspace can support these efforts.Benefits Beyond Engineering ProgramsMakerspaces are not unique to engineering. Performance and visual art galleries and laboratories,educator spaces, and libraries are often locations on campus where makerspaces can be found[1], [6]. Makerspaces create intersections between multiple disciplines [7].Makerspaces provide a wide range of opportunities to supplement engineering curriculum withhighly valuable non-technical skills. Design thinking and engaged learning are learningobjectives that cut across disciplines. Makerspaces are necessarily collaborative resulting in moreinterdisciplinary projects. Faculty and students from various disciplines bring different skills andassets to the making
over 20 years with an emphasis on mechanical packaging of microwave circuitry.Dr. Diane L. Zemke Diane Zemke is an independent researcher and consultant. She holds a Ph.D. in leadership studies from Gonzaga University. Her research interests include teamwork, small group dynamics, dissent, organiza- tional change, and reflective practice. Dr. Zemke has published in the International Journal of Engineering Education, the Journal of Religious Leadership, and various ASEE conference proceedings. She is the author of ”Being Smart about Congregational Change.” c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 How Students Create Verbal Descriptions of Physical PartsClear and precise
sequence of courses is intended for students to not only use skills learnedthroughout their academia endeavors, but also to require students to go beyond traditional coursework and expand their knowledge base by deeper researcher, through consulting with subjectmatter experts and experiential learning. Most projects are industry sponsored and for aconsiderable portion of students, the capstone project represents their first interaction with anindustry-like environment. At ECU DoE, two sequential project management and design coursesare required before students begin the capstone course as part of a spiral curriculum [1]. Thesecourses are designed so that the students can begin thinking about the design process and gainsome experience in managing a
was deemed ‘not cut out for’ engineering,” this paper eloquently outlined“the ways that many other actors (students, teachers, societal labels, engineering culture)contribute to and construct this student ability in everyday moments.” The final pitch is for alleducators to view culture not as a past explanation for the current plight, but instead as a currentchallenge to create a desired, inclusive culture.The team of Svihla et. al. [10] added an engineering design course early in the curriculum as astrategy to support persistence in engineering, especially with underrepresented groups. The goalwas to help students discover and gain confidence in individual attributes, skills, and beliefs thatare critical for engineering design. Those
water finding paste, which changes colour when immersed in water. So the presence of water can be noticed by the paste. Manual measurement is inaccurate, is difficult to do, for example when it is raining, and incurs a risk on the user who must climb atop tanks to take the measurement. Overall Goals: There is a need to design an automatic system that can measure the fuel levels in tanks, check the presence of water, calculate (measure) the density of the fuel, and display this information to the responsible people view so they can take the appropriate actions.The curriculum of the FYP courses has also shifted to provide more structure and support forstudents in their projects. Now, in the first semester of the FYP course for ME and EE
significantly, the hackathon environment encourages the same type ofinnovation one would expect from a PBL course. Hackathons, however, have not previouslybeen thought of as an environment for PBL in the same way that classroom courses have. Giventhat hackathons are becoming increasingly integral to the success of computer science students, itis useful to consider how, and to what extent, elements of PBL are manifested in hackathons.4The purpose of this research study is to use the Buck Institute of Education’s (BIE) GoldStandard PBL framework to analyze hackathon environments for the presence of key project-based learning characteristics.2 This was accomplished through a qualitative study utilizing bothobservation and interview protocols of selected
, Louisiana.17. Nilsen, E., Monroe-White, T., Morrison, E. F., and Weilerstein, P. (2016, June), Going Beyond "What Should We Do?": An Approach to Implementation of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Curriculum, 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.18. Raber, M., and Baker, J. R. (2016, June), Integration of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Elements: The Whole is Greater than the Sum of the Parts, 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.19. Wilson, G. (2015, June), Developing Practice Fields for Interdisciplinary Design and Entrepreneurship Exposure, 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington.20. Anderson, C. (2012), Makers: The New
the final year of engineering education, as part of the capstone design experience. Studentsfirst begin to develop design skills while they are also integrating their engineering contentknowledge and learning to apply it in authentic (or pseudo-authentic) contexts. In some cases,design is also introduced as part of a “cornerstone” experience in the first year of an engineeringprogram. Generally, however, the bulk of the engineering curriculum consists of engineeringscience courses that rely heavily on theoretical mathematics and closed-ended problem solving.Many design studies have investigated the difference between novices and experts in practicingdesign. Novice designers perceive the design task as a well-structured problem5 and
courses,experiential learning can promote lifelong learning, a common goal for many higher educationinstitutions.6 The research also found that professional skills are best cultivated and enhanced bypracticing them through real experiences.6 Davis et al. also stated that it is difficult for studentsto achieve leadership skills in a lecture format.11ReflectionExpanding on the experiential learning theories, reflection is an increasingly important elementthat must be discussed in student learning. Self-reflection is a way to bridge connectionsbetween elements of specific experiences and contributes to true learning and positive changes.4Similarly, Wong et al. stated that reflection integrates theory with practice and appreciation ofthe world.14
Kirshon is a Decision Science major at Carnegie Mellon University with an additional major in Professional Writing and a minor in Public Policy and Management. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Teamwork in Engineering Undergraduate Classes: What problems do students experience?AbstractWhile teamwork is commonly integrated into engineering programs, it often discourages womenand minorities. The purpose of the current research is to better understand what teamworkproblems women and minorities most frequently encounter and the resources they currently havefor solving these problems. The researchers report findings from a two-part study. In Part I, 677engineering
resulted in sheep shearing robots (1975- 1993). He and his students produced the first industrial robot that could be remotely operated via the internet in 1994. He was presented with the 1993 Engelberger Science and Technology Award in Tokyo in recognition of his work, and has twice been presented with the Japan Industrial Robot Association award for best papers at ISIR conferences. These are the leading international awards for robotics research. He has also received university, national and international awards for his teaching and papers on engineering education. From 1996 till 2002 he researched landmine clearance methods and his web site is an internationally respected reference point for information on
for three consecutive summers at EQT, a natural gas company head- quartered in downtown Pittsburgh, PA. Megan’s research interests correspond to identifying ways to teach students how to become better designers and learners through creative and non-traditional means.Dr. Julie S. Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Julie S. Linsey is an Associate Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineer- ing at the Georgia Institute of Technological. Dr. Linsey received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas. Her research area is design cognition including systematic methods and tools for innovative design with a particular focus on concept generation and design-by-analogy. Her