to be used with the very audience for which they are intended.Many projects that are funded by NSF result in the production of lessons and activities. Anexamination of the literature shows that existing rubrics are designed to assess lesson planquality, perhaps as a way to assess the effectiveness of professional development. Another set ofrubrics can be found for lesson plans generated as a part of a preservice teacher program, whichare designed to generate a grade. This paper looks at lesson plans differently, without an attemptto assess quality. Because so many constituencies are creating lessons around engineering, andthose constituencies come from so many different academic backgrounds, the question of howthey get their approach to
exams.Suggestions for a revised undergraduate online engineering coursesTo improve the quality of learning in the UOEC, collaboration between students will beencouraged. To implement collaboration in the UOEC the following additions could be made.• Discussion on weekly reports: A project report will be posted on the discussion forums for the students to read and discuss with other students to exchange ideas.• Group projects: The class will be divided into groups of three. These groups will submit a short paper on a research idea and its applications from the concepts learned through the course.For example, a weekly report will have students complete simulation tutorials on cantileverbeams with various types of loadings, such as uniformly
being supported by theirorganizations and perceiving their work as valued (Singh et al. 2014). More recent researchdemonstrated this uncomfortable culture exists well before entering the workforce.Undergraduate women cite informal interactions and sexism in teams as propagating a culturethat is unwelcoming to women (Seron, Silbey, Cech, & Rubineau, 2016).Most efforts to change these percentages of representation both in the workforce and in schoolfocus exclusively on those in the minority. However, our NSF funded study seeks to change theculture of engineering to be more welcoming and supportive of women and underrepresentedminorities by helping all engineers appreciate and seek out diversity In our project we haveworked with several
project ideas butnot knowing how to fulfill them. Therefore, we experimented including in this course theconcept of closed-loop control system with variety of sensors and actuators.II. Arduino UnoArduino Uno is the most popular Arduino platform in the family of the Arduino product line.The following table (Figure No. 1) compares the basic features of the various Arduinos andArduino Compatibles platforms presently available. The user has a choice among the manyArduino platforms with regard to 1) Processor and its speed, 2) Physical footprint, 3) Number ofI/O s, 4) Memory size, 5) Compatibility with the daughter boards (Shield in Arduinoterminology), etc. A very important consideration to note is that the user has a large list ofdaughter boards to
students, not just GE students. As such, it isbeing developed by faculty within and outside GE.1st Year: User-Centered DesignOne major challenge that engineers universally face is the disconnect of their work from itsusers. In this first year class, we stress that designs cannot be based simply on the designers’ ownunderstanding, and we emphasize the need to develop empathy for users, who may have differentassumptions and experiences. In an effort to better integrate social justice into engineering, thiscourse aims to help students understand their own privileges, which we achieve throughreflection journals, activities such as a trip to a local museum with an exhibit on race, andclassroom discussion. The course project entails a community
Associate Professor at the Engineering Department of Central Connecticut StateUniversity. Her research enthusiasm and expertise lie in quantitative analyses and modelingtechniques, with applications in transportation planning and engineering. Recently, she has focusedon issues of STEM education since planned and directed a Federal Highway Administration(FHWA) funded outreach program: National Summer Transportation Institute (NSTI). Ms. Sharon Okoye, Connecticut Department of TransportationMs. Sharon Okoye is a senior transportation engineer with over 22 years of experience ranging fromtransit asset management, intermodal planning and highway design projects, to managing theFHWA federal aid Safe Routes to School program. Ms. Okoye
, abstracts, and technical reports. Ted received his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University, all in mechanical engineering with an emphasis in the thermal sciencesDr. Carolyn J. Lawrence-Dill, Iowa State University Carolyn Lawrence-Dill has devoted the last 20 years to developing computational systems/solutions that support the plant research community. Her work enables the use of existing and emerging knowledge to establish common standards and methods for data collection, integration, and sharing. Such efforts help to eliminate redundancy, improve the efficiency of current and future projects, and increase the availability of data and data analysis tools for plant
preparesprofessional cost engineers and project control professionals for the certification examsadministered by the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE)International. Because the course is part of the organization’s recommended introductory course,it attracts a global audience of professional engineers from six continents.The original course structure consisted of readings from the recommended textbook andcompleting 15 assignment sheets. Once a student signed up for the course, the universitycontinuing and extension office mailed the required textbook and assignments. Correspondencebetween the instructor/Teaching Assistant (TA) and learners was facilitated by mail, fax, oremail. Once learners had completed the assignments, they would
metacognition and problem solving.Dr. Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Campbell University Anastasia Rynearson is an Assistant Professor at Campbell University in the School of Engineering. She has worked on the PictureSTEM project as a graduate student and Postdoctoral Research Assistant through INSPIRE in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received a PhD from Purdue University in Engineering Education and a B.S. and M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her teaching experience includes outreach activities at various age levels as well as a position as Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Kanazawa Technical College. Her current research
“scientists in the classroom” during the school year. School year activitiesinclude field trips to USM, visits of faculty and graduate students to teacher classrooms, graduatestudent mentoring of high school science and engineering fair projects, presentation by teachersof workshops at the Mississippi Science Teachers Association (MSTA), and participation byteachers in American Chemical Society (ACS) symposia. The research-based classroomactivities are disseminated through the RET website and publication in Teach Engineering.Activities and ImpactThe goal of the RET in Engineering and Computer Science Site for Sustainable PolymerEngineering Research (RET) at the School of Polymers and High Performance Materials(SPHPM) at the University of Southern
. Fidan. He is also the build team director for the TTU Motorsports Formula SAE team. Reed is also the recipient of the 2017 Rising Renaissance Engineer Spectrum Award. He enjoys spending his time working in the machine shop and working on cars.Mr. Serhat Sahin, Tennessee Technological University Mr. Sahin is a Computer Science Master of Science student and graduate research assistant at TTU’s Center for Manufacturing Research under Dr. Fidan’s supervisory. His current research is on Additive Manufacturing security vulnerabilities. Before joining Tennessee Tech, Mr. Sahin worked as a researcher on security and speech processing related projects at The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. He has a BS
using qualitative interviewing, ethnographic and rhetorical methods to examine communication in diverse contexts ranging from aging families to university campus cultures. She has advised undergraduate and graduate students in ethnographic and qualitative interview projects on a wide-range of topics, has taught research methods at the introductory, advanced, and graduate levels, and has trained research assistants in diverse forms of data collection and analysis.Dr. Wendy C Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr Wendy C. Newstetter is the Assistant Dean of Educational Research and Innovation in the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech.Dr. Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Julie S. Linsey
developing world. Dr. George has worked on projects in the Caribbean and in West Africa. Her projects combine her expertise in thermodynamics and heat transfer with the preservation of food, the cooling of space in hot dry climates, and empowering women’s cooperatives to better manage their natural resources.Ms. Erin Anne Kern, University of St. Thomas Erin is a Mechanical Engineering and French student at the University of St. Thomas in her junior year of study. She works in the Playful Learning Lab in the engineering department of her university and leads projects on using code to interpret music. Erin is interested in technical writing, finding ways to connect art and engineering, and sustainable engineering, and she
laboratory curriculum is the focus of this paper.(Online delivery of the circuit theory class has been established for over 4 years now at MPC.)Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation Improving Undergraduate STEMEducation program (NSF IUSE), the present work is being performed for a project known asCreating Alternative Learning Strategies for Transfer Engineering Programs (CALSTEP) andinvolves faculty from three community colleges in Northern California. The primary goal of theCALSTEP project is to facilitate access to key lower-division laboratory courses, or courses witha strong laboratory component, in the engineering transfer curriculum, and thereby help addressa national shortfall of STEM graduates2,3. The specific courses
advisory committee (IAC) at Western Carolina University of the ConstructionManagement program have reported shortages of craftsmen and project managers to such aserious degree that they are not bidding on and refusing work where they anticipate a seriousshortage of workers. The opportunity for these companies for profit growth is lost whereworkers are not available. Many companies are at a loss as to a course of action to replaceretiring workers. Many state funded trade craftsmen programs across the country have beeneliminated at vocational and technical colleges due to budgeting issues. Many parents of collegeage students are reluctant to recommend construction programs to their offspring due to therecent memories of the 2008 housing market crash
Paper ID #18704The Influence of Perceived Identity Fit on Engineering Doctoral Student Mo-tivation and PerformanceBlanca Miller, University of Nevada, Reno Blanca Miller is a Computer Science & Engineering Graduate Student at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research focus lies in engineering education across P-24. Her projects involve investigations of un- plugged computer science lessons in K-12, identifying how machine learning can facilitate formative assessment, and understanding the motivation and identities of engineering students. Her education in- cludes a minor in Mechanical Engineering, a B.S. in
coding the entire 53 transcripts. For the purposes of inter-raterreliability and determination of coding consensus of the affective characteristics, three of theresearchers independently coded 9 of the 53 interview transcripts. Three transcripts were randomlychosen from each grade level. We were able to reach agreement on our codes before coding theremaining 44 transcripts. In the following section, the findings are broken down by the three characteristics andparticipant quotes are provided to illustrate how the participants expressed the effect the camp hadupon them in terms of each affective characteristic. Motivation. Camp participants reported how excited they were to conduct projects and experimentswhich they
exercise, students negotiate alabor contract necessary for the construction of a major sewerage project. Our goal is tointroduce students to one important and difficult skill necessary for entrepreneurialthinking: the ability to apply creative thinking to ambiguous problems, particularly whenthe variables include human beings.Background“Humanitarian Engineering Past & Present: Worcester, 1885,” is a first-year, generaleducation course. The course includes engineering content within a humanistic frame thatmakes it ideal for general education. The course puts students in the roles of actual peopleliving in a turn-of-the-century industrial city in central Massachusetts. Students learn andpractice engineering concepts (engineering design
the excerpt from Bok is often true at research-intensive engineering institutions.Perhaps even more critical than the delay to a student’s doctoral thesis completion, as identifiedby Bok, many faculty advisors view student-time spent teaching as directly conflicting withprogress on experimental testing, computational simulation, and technical publicationagreements with research sponsors. This perception of conflict is not unwarranted: faculty are atthe behest of governmental/private entities that can freeze further funding or request recompensefor previously distributed grants if project deliverables are not timely. A graduate student, orteam of students, is a significant driver in moving the research forward to meet these
seniors at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), who have interest in pursu- ing STEM disciplines at the graduate-level. Annually, Dean Vaughan supervises direction of the 4-week FAME/UD Summer Residential Program for 30-35 high school students, the RISE Summer Enrichment Program for incoming engineering freshmen and, in the past, the HEARD (Higher Education Awareness Response in Delaware) Project, a college awareness program, funded by the Department of Education through Philadelphia GEAR UP for College Network. Globally in the College, he manages academic programs and policies that impact the careers of all engineering students at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Dean Vaughan is focused on
in several ways to the education of ethical and culturally-sensitiveengineers in both countries. First, as engineers increasingly work in international teamsand deploy projects outside their home countries, knowledge about ethical valuesemphasized in other cultures will help educators prepare students to practice engineeringin ways that respect local values and ethical standards. Second, as engineeringprograms—especially those in the US—attract a great number of students from abroad,understanding international students’ ethics training in their home countries will helpengineering educators anticipate and accommodate their learning needs. Third, acomparison of the theories, practices, and challenges of ethics teaching in two of theworld’s
Paper ID #20136Increasing K-12 Students’ Understanding of Photovoltaics: Using Solar En-ergy to Engineer our Energy Future (Resource Exchange)Dr. Michelle Jordan , Arizona State University Michelle Jordan is as associate professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State Uni- versity. She also serves as the Education Director for the QESST Engineering Research Center. Michelle’s program of research focuses on social interactions in collaborative learning contexts. She is particularly interested in how students navigate communication challenges as they negotiate complex engineering design projects. Her
experiment from EDIBON Co.Ahmed et al. (2015) first reported the beginning of constructing lab equipment in-house at theEngineering and Physics department at SAU. This current paper reports the continuation of theeffort made earlier and discusses the building of an equipment in-house for the “Impact of a Jet”experiment.Design and Construction of the Lab EquipmentThe equipment was designed, constructed, and tested in a senior design project undertaken bythree senior students Joseph Lonigro, John Hauver, and Allan Derrickson in spring 2017. Theyunderwent a complete design experience in the process. The design team researched existingdesigns, developed engineering design specifications, produced a project management plan,evaluated several concept
games & simulations. http://www.agentsheets.com. Geometer’s Sketchpad (GSP): model geometrical concepts. http://www.dynamicgeometry.com. Stella: investigate chemistry concepts via modeling of rate of change. https://www.iseesystems.com Project Interactivate: online courseware for exploring STEM concepts. http://www.shodor.org. Excel: constructs hands-on modeling & simulations using rate of change (new = old + change). Scratch: a menu-driven language for creating games and simulations. http://scratch.mit.edu. Python: An object-oriented language with simple and easy to use syntax. http://www.python.org/.Quasi-experimental design: Using above tools and federal support, we ran a 5-year (2003-2008) professional development (PD) program for
Paper ID #18223The Role of Engineering Identity in Engineering Doctoral Students’ Experi-encesHeather Perkins, North Carolina State University Heather entered the Applied Social and Community Psychology program in the fall of 2014, after com- pleting her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati. She has participated in various research projects examining the interaction between stereotypes and science interest and confi- dence, their influence upon womens’ performance in school and the workplace, and their presence in the media and consequences for viewers. Her primary research interest is
Student DemographicsColorado School of Mines’ air pollution course was designed to help students become familiarwith air pollution issues, understand the basic chemistry behind major air pollutants, develop aworking knowledge of engineered approaches used to mitigate the effects of common airpollutants, and prepare them for future air pollution work in the public or private sectors. Thecourse introduced air pollution fundamentals, such as the ideal gas law, US legislation, thesource, nature, and control of particulate matter (PM) and gaseous pollutants, indoor airpollution, and dispersion modeling. The course contained two projects, one of which involvedaspects of PM pollution (visibility, emissions, deposition), while the other measured indoor
Paper ID #17925First Generation Students’ Engineering BelongingnessMr. Hank Boone, University of Nevada, Reno Hank Boone is an Academic Success Coach at Nevada State College and a recent graduate from the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on First Generation engineering college students’ engineering identity, belongingness, and how they perceive their college experience. He also worked under his advisor on a project looking at non-normative engineering students and how they may have differing paths to success. His education includes a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Nevada
nature of the VLSI course sequence to the U.S. Air Force. Adapted from [6].In response to the growing need for a secure on-shore high-performance supply chain, the AirForce Research Laboratory Mixed Signal Design Center sponsored AFIT to participate in the 4Trusted Access Program Office multi-project wafer silicon runs.54 The Trusted Access ProgramOffice provided a path for the Department of Defense to “have guaranteed trustedmicroelectronics technologies”55 through IBM facilities, including design, packaging,fabrication, and characterization.Course Structure and Teaching TechniquesThe students in the VLSI course sequence are enrolled in the MSEE
runs through the first week of December when the winterinspection of the airplane. break begins. The Spring period starts in January and runs If during the technical review the judges detect some through the end of May.discrepancy between the measurements written in the When the class period begins, the project students jointechnical report and the aircraft that presents the equipment, the same activities as the rest of the students and spendpoints are subtracted to
development of "Introduction to Embedded Computing," which provided avaluable model for both pedagogical approaches as well as laboratory and instructor resourcesthat would be required.7 All of these courses are taught in a studio style in which the laboratoryand lecture material are combined into a single cohesive period and in the same physical space,as shown in Figure 1. Each class meeting typically consists of a short lecture in which conceptsthat are relevant to the experiment are introduced followed by the experimental section of themeeting; all classes have both experimental, and lecture components and each course in thesequence is taught each semester. Educational research has demonstrated the effectiveness of hands-on project-based learning