learning pedagogies ofproblem-based and project-based learning (PPBL). Using PPBL as a teaching and learning strategyfacilitates cooperative learning, critical thinking, systemic reasoning, creative approach, andsocietal awareness, which are the core values of sustainability. However, translating this into aworking curriculum is quite complex, and raises implementation issues such as physicalarrangements for an active learning environment, changes in the assessment and grading system,providing both teachers and students with at least rudimentary knowledge of PPBL methods,achieving institutional support, etc. Another issue is the program-level decision of having a fulldedicated course on sustainable engineering, or introducing modules on
review.IntroductionThis project began in 2019. While it is still a work in progress, the authors wanted to focus onthe methodology chosen to undertake this study, as well as the current status of the researchbeing conducted. The topic itself arose from several conversations at the 2019 ASEE conferencein Tampa where the authors were curious about the landscape of engineering librarianshippublications, focusing on what research methods were typically being used by engineeringlibrarians in their research and how appropriate and well were these approaches being explained.Explorations of the types of studies typically conducted by librarians has been discussed, studiedand editorialized from many years [1]–[4] but the focus in most of the papers examined seemedto be
that semester-long courses (16 weeks) are the most effective preparationformats for preparing GTAs to teach in engineering; however, the content that constitutes such acourse and the impact of the course on the GTAs’ TPACK domains still require further exploration.The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of a semester-long preparation course on theTPACK domains of GTAs in Engineering.In Spring 2022, 165 GTAs took a semester-long teaching and leadership preparation course forengineering graduate students. The course was composed of fourteen 50-minute weekly sessions,seven bi-weekly written assignments, and one optional service learning project. Forty-sevenstudents participated in the study. They completed a validated and reliable pre
- tion of human-centered considerations in engineering systems and/or the design process. Her research program has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Procter & Gamble, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and many others. Her projects that involved the intersection of diversity and mechanical engineering have been featured in media sources including National Geographic, NBC’s Today Show, Essence Magazine, Reuters, National Public Radio and many others. A highly sought out role model for the younger generation, Dr. Reid Smith’s story about her double dutch jump rope in- vention is featured in two children’s books and was on the 2017 New York State English and Language Arts Common Core
complete and reflect upon the results of two implicit association testsperformed on their own through Project Implicit [25]. An additional third assignment requiredthe students to catalogue and reflect on instances of bias or discrimination that they observedthroughout the remaining half of the semester. At the end of the semester, SES led a finalsummary and in-class discussion of the content and reflections related to our educational module.Additionally, the importance of moving beyond individual bias and addressing systemic biaswithin institutional policies was communicated [20], [26] followed by an in-class brainstormingactivity asking students to identify academic policies at PSU that they believe maybe contributeto lack of diversity, equity
University of Virginia Social and Behavioral Sciences IRB,protocol number 3236.This study was conducted in concert with a second-year course in design for biomedicalengineering students. The course itself was focused on the development of software, hardware,and fabrication skills of particular use to biomedical engineers [3]. These included CAD,microcontrollers, basic circuits, 3D printing, subtractive approaches to prototyping (dependingon semester), and digital image analysis. The course culminated in a closed-ended team-baseddesign project with a physical prototype due at the end.Students would have taken 0 to 3 courses prior to the design course in question. This is becausestudents at our institution enter their major after their first year, and
the importance and unique characteristics ofstructural design education. Aparicio and Ruiz-Teran [1] provided a historical perspective ondesign education, with a central question on what should be taught and how to most effectivelydeliver. Over the past decades, educators have looked at different ways to teach structural design,including problem and project based approaches (e.g. Quinn and Albano [2], Mills and Treagust[3]), as well as teaching tools utilizing web-based technology [4][5]. While code document is aninseparable part of design, there has not been dedicated discussion in existing literature (based onthe author’s limited experience) on the adoption strategy for code documents in lectures. In thispaper, a viable approach to
and second-order systems through heat transfer and beam vibration problems. Overall, theexperiments conducted were a success in allowing the students to achieve the ABET outcomesduring the process of the experiments. The students were able to research the engineeringtheories, and applied the theories through multiple variations of the experiment to find thedesired answers for the course.Assessment and Impact: Several aspects of what they have done in this course are reflected intheir Capstone Sr. design projects as well as projects in other courses that involve experimentalset-ups and using LabVIEW code, modeling and so on. Numerous groups use data acquisitionset-ups to capture signals to analyze their data. This course also helps them
, funded by the Department of Defense, with colleagues in Purdue’s College of En- gineering. The project focuses on developing a scalable and sustainable workforce development program for microelectronics that will serve as a model for other workforce development efforts (i.e., artificial intelligence, hypersonics). In this role, she examines organizational and leadership issues that span across an ecosystem of partners within the following areas: defense, government, industry, community colleges, and universities. Dr. Linvill’s research is strategically designed to address organizational challenges and create novel solutions to those challenges. Her work has been presented at national and international conferences and
Paper ID #39420Preparing Students to Solve Challenges Related to a Changing ClimateDr. Mujde Erten-Unal, Old Dominion University Mujde Erten-Unal is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and director of Sustainable Development Institute at Old Dominion university. She has a Master of Engi- neering in Environmental & Planning Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Science and Technology University of Missouri-Rolla. She has worked in industry as a project engineer before joining ODU. Her research interests include adaptive design to climate change and sea level rise
the School of Engineering at the Universidad Andres Bello in Santiago, Chile, where currently collaborates with the Educational and Academic Inno- vation Unit, UNIDA (for its acronym in Spanish), as an instructor in active learning methodologies. Her research interest topics involve university education in STEM areas, faculty and continuing professional development, research-based methodologies, community engagement projects, evaluation tools and tech- nology, and gender issues in STEM education. https://orcid.org/0000- 0002-0383-0179 ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Remedial courses effectiveness on timely graduation rates and degree progression within construction
-on, collaborative learning through solving real-world problems. He directs the operations of the Institute-wide Georgia Tech Capstone Design Expo, which highlights projects created by over 2000 Georgia Tech seniors graduating students on an annual basis. He serves as the faculty advisor for the student organization of over 100 student volunteers who all train, staff, and manage the operations of Georgia Tech’s Flowers Invention Studio – one of the nation’s premier volunteer student-run makerspace, open to all of the Georgia Tech community. Dr. Jariwala’s research interests are in the field of makerspaces, evidence-based design education, and advanced additive manufacturing process. During his Ph.D. studies, he was
enrolled in at least 2 of the 5 courses, and this overlap is noted. Graduatestudents can co-enroll in the senior level courses but take additional rigor in their semestercompared to the undergraduates. Key differences between the junior and senior level courses arethat the senior level courses have less assigned homework and a semester-long term project. Thissemester-long term project includes two interim deliverables that are reviewed by the instructorand revised by the students into a final deliverable. These projects are group projects that are anearly complete design of an engineered system such as the foundations for a large, big boxstore, using the actual site information for a real-world project, the actual structural loads fromthe actual
group work. Students willapply and be selected to enroll in the first-year course based on a variety of considerations.Sparking CuriosityTopics in the first-year course are broad and diverse. During the three semester-hour course,students will work with 3D printers while learning computer aided design, hand tools whileprototyping, and microcontroller chips while building electronics. Interest and curiosity inengineering begins in lesson one with a small hands-on mini-design project. This activity willdraw upon one of the FERL activities, wherein students are challenged with a fictitious scenarioand must purify water with only a small bin of materials to stay alive while trapped in a mine.That activity is hands-on, low-stakes, and is completed
York University Tandon School of Engineering Jack Bringardner is the Assistant Dean for Academic and Curricular Affairs at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He is an Industry Associate Professor and Director of the General Engineering Program. He teaches the first-year engineering course Introduction to Engineering and Design. He is also the Di- rector of the Vertically Integrated Projects Program at NYU. His Vertically Integrated Projects course is on the future of engineering education. His primary focus is developing curriculum, mentoring students, and engineering education research, particularly for project-based curriculum, first-year engineering, and student success. He is active in the American Society for
organizational management, this paper discusses how the use of practitioners supports the“leadership” aspect of the fifth ABET student outcome. The seven ABET student outcomes and nineUSAFA institutional outcomes are shown in Figure 1: Figure 1: ABET Student Outcomes and USAFA Institutional OutcomesLiterature Review on Utilization of Practitioners in Education:Academic partnerships with industry provide many learning benefits that include opportunitiesfor field trips (Welch et al. 2018), service-learning experiences (Oakes 2011), and internships(Tener 1996, Saviz et al. 2011, Weatherton 2012, Welch et al. 2018). Partnerships with industryfor realistic projects in capstone courses is quite common (Akili 2010, McGinnis and Welch2010, Aktan et
learning [4, 5]. Unfortunately, not allfeedback is productive and many students do not view feedback without prompting. Trueproductive feedback will not only enhance student learning within a course, but will also readystudents for lifelong learning [6].In order to gauge student competencies, some form of assessment must be carried out, thefeedback from which can be crucial. These assessments can be completed at the student level,course level or instructor level and can be quantitative or qualitative. Student level assessmentsevaluate how well a single student has mastered a given topic or skill and can include things likeexams, homework assignments, projects, and laboratory assignments. For the purposes of thispaper, course level assessment will
Education (ATE) program that focuses on two-year college technical education [11]. The majority of this support has been in the form of grantsthat fund projects or resource centers or centers of excellence that promote the dissemination ofinformation about new emerging technologies, provide faculty development opportunities, orintroduce/ research innovative teaching methods. One of the broad areas that the NSF-ATEprogram emphasizes is advanced manufacturing at the two-year college level. As notedpreviously, the ASEE Workforce 4.0 initiative also addressed two-year college technicianeducation but not as expansively as four-year engineering education. Indeed, the recent Industry4.0 Workforce Summit almost exclusively emphasized engineering versus
experiences for participating scholars to fulfill theirGCSP talent competency. The talent competency encourages engineering students who are partof the GCSP to engage in undergraduate research in an approved team, individual research, ordesign project with a university faculty member, focusing the research on one of the fourteenNAE grand challenges by completing an appropriately approved independent study projectfocusing on one of the four grand challenges’ themes (sustainability, security, health, and joy ofliving). This summer experience consisted of 15 students conducting research in labs for 25hours per week over a 10-week period with additional workshops and weekly hangout meetingswith the director of the GCSP and participating scholars. The
awards, leadership awards, teaching and mentoring awards, and a PECASE in 2012. She is strongly involved in Purdue’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Her research group’s diverse projects and group members are described at pawleyresearch.org. Email: apawley@purdue.edu ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 On faculty responsibility for increasing students’ sense of support in the classroom: lessons from I-MATTER about Black and Brown studentsAbstractTeaching engineering students how to work in teams is necessary, important, and hard to do well.Minoritized students experience forms of marginalization from their
global market for industrial automation and robots is projected to grow at a compoundedannual growth rate of 11.4% in 2022-2029 [4]. With advancements in manufacturing processesand industrial automation, there is an increased demand for highly trained and skilled workers inthe state. However, due to insufficient manufacturing engineering technology programs, there is ashortage of qualified candidates to meet the workforce demand for high-tech manufacturing jobsin the state. This necessitates a robust manufacturing engineering technology program to bedeveloped that serves the needs of the local manufacturing industry.Higher educational institutions promote hands-on experiential learning and provide students withskills that lead to good jobs while
Paper ID #37342Talking Tech: How Language Variety in Engineering Curriculum InstructionCan Ease Delivery and Engage StudentsIngrid Scheel, Oregon State University Ingrid Scheel is a Project Instructor at Oregon State University. She works to teach from an integrated sociotechnical perspective in engineering science and design courses. Her focus is systems engineering and program management. Scheel has experience in small business strategic planning and risk assessment, designing and deploying fiber optic sensors and sensing systems, prototype development, instrumentation, data acquisition and analysis, and reporting
whileincorporating the various frameworks and traditions of inclusive teachings. For example, weleaned heavily on UDL and culturally responsive teaching principles and frameworks tosupport our sections on pedagogy and content and leveraged design justice principles tosupport our section on engaging students in design.MethodologyPositionality StatementThe objective of this positionality statement is to acknowledge and disclose our worldviewsand influences as authors relating to inclusive teaching and learning. The first authoridentifies as an Asian female and an engineering education researcher. Her experiences as aminority and an international student spurred her interest to work on research projects andinitiatives that improve ethics, diversity, and
programquality in Eng Ed PhD programs originate from a different position. For example, researchers,Murzi, Shekhar, and Mc Nair cited the increasing number of Eng Ed PhD programs, as a keymotivator for their foundational scholarship on Eng Ed PhD program quality and as a reason foradditional research in this area [2]. Their work, as well as that of Lopez and Garcia [4] andBenson et al. [3], provides a strong basis for our study, having presented a document-based,comparative analysis of the formation, aims, requirements, and outcomes of existing Eng EdPhD programs. To expand the existing knowledge on the topic, we designed an overarchingInterpretative Phenomenological Analysis project to examine the conceptions of program qualitythat Eng Ed PhD program
Engineering at the University of California, Davis. Dr. White has been a faculty member at UC Davis since 2015, and he teaches process design and economics, process safety, bioseparations, and senior laboratory courses. He has helped lead the creation of the CHEM E CAD and Industrial Automation club at UC Davis, and he has sought to develop authentic, project-based learning experiences for his students in his courses. Dr. White also serves as the accreditation lead for the chemical engineering program at UC Davis. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Impact of The Design of Coffee, A General Education Chemical Engineering Course, on Students’ Decisions to Major in STEM
underlying values) atwork in their departments and programs. Specifically, this paper reports a subset of data that ispart of a larger NSF-funded research project (award #2024296) exploring the interplay amongindividual value foundations and disciplinary ethics frameworks in engineering and STEMeducation. We conclude by analyzing the conceptual and practical distinctions betweenresponsibility and accountability as they relate to the standards identified by the disciplinaryfaculty we interviewed.Faculty Roles in Shaping Normative ValuesStudents are often exposed to the ethical norms, or frameworks, of the discipline through manydifferent vehicles, both implicit and explicit. Students might be implicitly enculturated throughthe mentor-mentee
to toxic silica dust, amineral that slices the lung like shards of glass” (Lancianese, 2019, par. 5). The National ParkServices cite 764 as the death toll, in which the majority of these deaths were Black men (NPS,n.d.). Following congressional hearings and the public outcry about the working conditions atGauley Bridge, the Walsh Healy Act was passed in 1936, which was the first federal governmentintervention in worker safety and health (Bingham, 1980). This act only applied to contractorsworking on government-funded projects, which stipulated minimum wages, overtime wages, andsome health and safety requirements. Part of the act was to mandate the use of respirators,another way to shift the responsibility from the company to the workers
thesame way that experts learn (as Marshall M. Lib strongly suggested in 1996 to ASEE). Wepropose that conscious implementation of ungraded classrooms is an ideal means to deepenengineering formation. This paper examines the impact of ungraded classrooms in geotechnicalengineering classrooms at the junior and senior undergraduate levels. Throughout this timeperiod student opinion surveys and student learning outcomes data have been collected toevaluate the effectiveness and reception of ungraded classrooms. These classrooms have a finalgrade, but the individual homework, quizzes, projects, and exams are treated as assignments inthe engineering office. They are submitted, reviewed, and then revised. Revisions occur as manytimes as needed until
Society (STS) joined forces with the Chair of the Engineering Department atLoyola University Maryland (LUM) to radically transform the university’s introductoryengineering course. The former contributor arrived at the project having spent several yearsexperimenting in the classroom with various pedagogical strategies intended to historicize forengineering students the political, social, and economic context in which they (and those whocame before them) have lived, learned, and worked. That the complementary interests and skillsof a recent STS PhD and a seasoned Electrical Engineer would converge on the same problem(i.e., How to place engineering in context?) and at the same moment in time (i.e., mid-2022) maybe fortuitous. More likely, though, it
traditionally comefrom small farming towns that are dehydrated from educational and occupational resources(Klutter, 1980). These areas remain economically disenfranchised and environmentallyneglected. Virginia’s higher education and health institutions acknowledge the plights ofAppalachian communities and develop community-based projects embedded in their researchand courses to serve and meet their needs as well as similar underserved communities (GobblerConnect, n.d.). Similarly, institutions are embedding additional support structures for Blackcommunities [especially along the coastal areas of Virginia] that are navigating anti-Blackracism, environmental issues regarding rising sea levels, financial strain due to significant wealthgaps, and more