Paper ID #39912Board 82: Remote, Hands-on ECE Teaching: Project RECETDr. Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and The Inclusive Engineering Consortium Kenneth Connor is an emeritus professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engi- neering (ECSE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where he taught courses on electromagnetics, electronics and instrumentation, plasma physics, electric power, and general engineering. His research in- volves plasma physics, electromagnetics, photonics, biomedical sensors, engineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology
curricula to make education more all-inclusive and effective is too important to ignore [1].To enhance imaginative and creative thinking skills of undergraduate students in industrial andsystems engineering, poetry-writing assignments were incorporated into a required upper-levelcourse that focused on the modeling and analysis of inventory and supply chain systems in alarge public university’s industrial and systems engineering curriculum [4]. An assessment ofstudent perceptions of these assignments revealed that poetry writing not only provided thestudents with an opportunity to practice their imaginative and creative thinking skills as expectedbut strengthened their conceptual understanding of the technical material as well [5]. To this end
Paper ID #39226A Framework for the Development of Online Virtual Labs for EngineeringEducationDr. Genisson Silva Coutinho, Instituto Federal de Educac¸a˜ o, Ciˆencia e Tecnologia da Bahia Genisson Silva Coutinho is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials at the Federal Institute of Science and Technology of Brazil. Genisson earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. His specialties are engineering education research, ed- ucational innovation, laboratory education, product design and development, finite element analysis, ex- perimental stress analysis, product
and teaching thecourse since they likely took a course with similar content in their academic preparation giventhat the content largely remains the same.The authors aim to extend this investigation and attempt to correlate the findings of the facultysurvey with what the construction industry considers as “static” and “dynamic” courses, andevaluate what industry professionals perceive as topics that need constant update, and whattopics require the teaching of the fundamentals alone. The results can be used to evaluate thestatic/dynamic nature of an academic program as a whole.References1. Hartman, J.C. Engineering economy: suggestions to update a stagnant course curriculum. in Proceedings of the 1998 Annual ASEE Conference, June 28
❏ Include a diversity/inclusive statement and land acknowledgment in your course syllabi - Make course names and descriptions inclusive so they correspond with everyone - Add pronouns and inclusive language to syllabus - but not as separate thing, as integrated into the syllabus so it becomes normalized (and talk about it) - Resources: Sample Inclusive Teaching Statements for the Course Syllabus ❏ Clarify the role of the instructor during your first-day instruction -- as a facilitator of learning as opposed to an authority figure - Share your personal story and motivation with the class - go beyond your professional titles. Students tend to feel connected with instructors who are willing
and better communicate to students how all engineering decisions should be madewithin the broader moral landscape, as opposed to a select few decisions. An engineeringeducation integrated with ethics as a way to make longer-lasting systemic change [13], [12].Incorporating experiences such as community outreach and guest speakers helps, in part, toframe an education in the ethical issues beyond the workplace [16]; however, this is just anextension, albeit a very valuable one, of the current education strategy. More recent papershave proposed game-based learning experiences, or ‘playful learning’ as a way for students toimmerse themselves in ethical issues and consider them from new perspectives [9], [8]. Thesestrategies provide an alternative
Classroom in the Online Environment of Covid? Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 2022. 30(2): p. 517-531.5. Morgan, J., E. Lindsay, C. Howlin, and M. Bogaard, Pathways of Students' Progress through an on-Demand Online Curriculum, in ASEE Conference and Exposition. 2019: Tampa, FL.6. Tsai, Y.-S., D. Rates, P.M. Moreno-Marcos, P.J. Muñoz-Merino, I. Jivet, M. Scheffel, H. Drachsler, C.D. Kloos, and D. Gašević, Learning Analytics in European Higher Education—Trends and Barriers. Computers & Education, 2020. 155: p. 103933.7. Mavroudi, A., M. Giannakos, and J. Krogstie, Supporting Adaptive Learning Pathways through the Use of Learning Analytics: Developments, Challenges and Future
theassigned projects, students apply the basic programming knowledge they learned in theBasics part to engineering applications. The Student-Led project allows students to solidifytheir programming knowledge by using MATLAB to build an engineering product of theirchoice. Systematically designed application problems and guided problems are provided tohelp students understand programming concepts at each step of learning in the Basics partand the two assigned projects in the Projects part.This proposed course is designed for 1 – 2 credit hours with a recommended minimum of 2contact hours per week to provide enough time for students to practice in class. This course issuggested to be offered as a full college-level course. However, the curriculum of
Paper ID #38645Death by 1000 cuts: Workshopping from Black engineering narratives frominterview to stageDr. Debalina Maitra, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus Debalina Maitra is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at ASU. Prior to her current role, Debalina Maitra was employed by CAFECS (Chicago Alliance for Equity in Computer Science), a NSF-funded Research Practice Partnership, for almost two years. She complDr. Brooke Charae Coley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Brooke Coley, PhD is an Assistant Professor in Engineering at the Polytechnic School of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona
coming in to sightWhen it feels so rightTakes all my mightTo change my mindLook behindAnd be okayWith what I sayAnd what I doSo close to youBut I feel too trueTo myselfPlease give me helpTo move beyondThe feelings so strongThey eat awayHappiness staysDon’t you leaveNo not againPain happensBack in sightNot black and whiteCan I be okayWith all these shades of greyAnother area that might allow students to branch out from the engineering curriculum is free-hand drawing, a drawing that is executed by hand without guiding instruments, measurements, orother aids. Freehand drawing enables visualization of an idea in the form of a sketch. It is also auniversal language designers use to communicate with other participants of a project. That iswhy freehand
coming in to sightWhen it feels so rightTakes all my mightTo change my mindLook behindAnd be okayWith what I sayAnd what I doSo close to youBut I feel too trueTo myselfPlease give me helpTo move beyondThe feelings so strongThey eat awayHappiness staysDon’t you leaveNo not againPain happensBack in sightNot black and whiteCan I be okayWith all these shades of greyAnother area that might allow students to branch out from the engineering curriculum is free-hand drawing, a drawing that is executed by hand without guiding instruments, measurements, orother aids. Freehand drawing enables visualization of an idea in the form of a sketch. It is also auniversal language designers use to communicate with other participants of a project. That iswhy freehand
lower division courses o Highly significant predictor in 4 of 4 cohorts o With an ideal transfer environment, students would not take any lower division coursework at their 4-year institution. o Appears to be a systemic issue due to curricular that are FTFY-oriented. Curriculum redesign is underway as part of the semester conversion. • Number of upper division courses o Highly significant predictor in 3 of 4 cohorts, or significant o An unusual result. Transfers take 3-4 more upper division courses, typically, compared to FTFY. The difference is significant, although with a small to moderate effect size. Issue deserves more
toward community needs. It also,importantly, requires that students tie their work with the community to a deeper understandingof their discipline.Service learning plays an important role in engineering education because it connects the oftentheoretical engineering curriculum to the world they are seeking to better. Historically, mostengineering classes have been heavily focused on imparting science and math knowledge to thestudents. The students often solve simple technical problems or design well-defined technicalsolutions to theoretical problems. There is, therefore, a gap between what students are toldengineering will be (changing the world) and what they are practicing as students (theoretical,well-defined problems). Project-based service
engineering being amongst the most active participants in embeddingentrepreneurship into curricular and cocurricular activities [1]. Well-developed and theoreticallygrounded educational interventions have been shown to increase entrepreneurial skills andperception among students [1] - [4]. Organizations including the National Science Foundationthrough the Lean Launch Curriculum and I-Corps program, VentureWell through curriculumdevelopment grants and their E-Team program, and the Kern Family Foundation through theKern Entrepreneurial Education Network (KEEN) have provided significant funding to embedand transform entrepreneurial teaching and practice into colleges of engineering [5] - [7]. Thisactivity combines with an added emphasis among
? Learning Environment Relationships Does the instructor integrate faith [BYU is a faith-based institution] into the course and inspire students in their learning? Are instructor-student interactions appropriate, respectful, inclusive, and motivating to students? Does the instructor foster positive and supportive student-student interactions and ensure respectful discussions of challenging issues? Settings Does the instructor use the classroom, lab, studio, etc. to create an effective setting for inspiring learning? Does the instructor create an atmosphere that motivates students to be active and engaged learners? Does the instructor create an atmosphere of civility and respect that welcomes
results suggest that theselabs effectively introduced students to PLCs, ladder logic, and pneumatic systems.IntroductionLaboratory experiences are an essential part of engineering education, allowing students to gainconcrete understanding of engineering concepts through experimentation on physical systems,augmented by simulation, test, and measurement hardware and software [1,2]. However, it canbe challenging to fit many laboratory-specific courses into an engineering curriculum at aliberal-arts focused institution; leading faculty to adopt a mixture of in-class, virtual, take-home,or homework-style lab experiences [3]. One area where these experiences can be particularlyuseful is in control systems education, as students may struggle to bridge
). Throughout her engineering career, she has tried to integrate global engineering into her work. Most recently, she spent the final year of her PhD at the University of Cape Town, integrating her benchtop cardiovascular research into computational models. In 2018-2019, she spent a year living and working in Tanzania, in East Africa through the Fulbright US Scholar program, teaching and conducting clinical research. Now at UD, her scholarship work includes embedding global engineering opportunities into the engineering curriculum through study abroad programs, new courses, serving as an advisor for UD’s Engineers Without Borders, and hosting global design workshops. ©American Society for Engineering
curriculum: at Tufts, students take the course(ES 4) in the fall semester of sophomore year and it forms part of their core conception of whatelectrical and computer engineering is. In general, their courses up to this point have been genericacross engineering, and many students see the course as a way to confirm whether an electrical orcomputer engineering major is right for them. As a result, we have both an opportunity and anobligation to inspire and motivate students in addition to helping them develop prerequisite skillsfor other courses.Digital logic labsAs at most universities, our offering of the course has a substantial laboratory component, wherestudents put in the hard (and rewarding) work of translating pencil-and-paper logic designs
MentorProgram [20, 23].IRAP/ELCIR includes course credit. Each participant must register for a research elective whichis conducted as an independent study course [14, 15, 20]. The elective can be taken for up to fourhours of credit [20, 24], although one hour is the typical load for an IRAP participant [14, 15].The course curriculum is adapted specifically to the IRAP process and spans three semesters,spring, summer and fall.IRAP/ELCIR’s spring activities are an “orientation and training workshop” [20]. These arefollowed in the summer by a “two-week trip to Yucatan in Mexico, where students take a classon introduction to research, visit research sites and tour cultural areas of Yucatan, includingUxmal, Chichen Itza, the cenotes and the Mundo Maya
test novel vehicle designs with the ultimate goal of competing on thenational and international level.The Solar Splash competition is comprised of various events providing unique challenges thattest each part of the vehicle’s construction and performance. These competitions allow MTSUstudents the opportunity to compete against top engineering schools from around the world.The Solar Boat project is an integral experiment in the professional development of MiddleTennessee State University (MTSU) students. These essential experimental vehicles projectsprovide a friendly environment in which S.T.E.M students to exercise their classroom knowledgein a real-world setting and learn essential leadership and team collaboration skills. The studentsare
collection, analysis, and drafting of this document, is pursuing a doctoral degree in Engineering Education. The author also shares many of the same or similar disabilities with those who were interviewed. Although this alignment was unintentional, it ended up being an integral aspect of the interview process that allowed for greater comfortability and vulnerability in interviews. We believe that this aspect of shared identity amongst the researcher and students helped foster richness in the data and a deepened understanding of student experiences during analysis. The second author holds identities as a disabled white cisgender woman, tenure-track engineering professor, and engineering education researcher
astudent reaches the junior level of an undergraduate curriculum, it is practically a certainty that thestudent will graduate with a bachelor’s degree. Unfortunately, that is not the case at PFW. A reviewof institutional data regarding the graduation rates of rising juniors in the College of ETCS from2006 to 2015 reveals that only 27.5% of new juniors completed their degrees in two years; 58%completed their degrees in three years; 64% in four years; 72% in five years; and 82% in six years.The ranges of percentages within the college and the corresponding weighted averages are shownin Table 1. Some of these students get discouraged and quit altogether. Therefore, the significanceof this project is that it will shorten the time it takes students to
learning (PjBL) is an excellent framework for undergraduate engineeringeducation, as it provides benefits to learners from different learning styles while buildingcommunication and critical thinking skills [1]. A recent study with high school students foundthat PjBL was especially beneficial to the lowest-performing students, enabling them to improvetheir mathematics test scores more than middle- and high-achieving students [2]. At the sametime, PjBL places additional burdens on instructors, lab spaces, and departmental budgets,particularly when a hardware component is involved. To aid in the deployment of PjBL at ouruniversity and others with similar interests, we are developing a series of optical tools andlaboratories that can be easily
developing and implementing pedagogical methods in engineering education.Dr. Samuel Garcia, Texas State University Dr. Samuel Garc´ıa Jr. serves as an Educator Professional Development Specialist at Kennedy Space Center. Prior to his position at Kennedy Space Center, Dr. Garc´ıa worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. As an education specialist, Dr. Garc´ıa is deeply committed to developing STEM educational mindsets, tools, and resources and facilitate educational experiences for educators and students. Prior to working as an education specialist, Dr. Garc´ıa served as secondary school educator in Rio Grande Valley in Texas for seven years. Dr. Garc´ıa, a first-generation college student, earned both
interests. Learningobjectives likely focus the course and allow effective assessment of whether the students arelearning the material. The instructor specifically teaches the big ideas, not just the details, andshows the students the structure of the content they ae learning. Often there’s an effort to showthe students where they can apply this material beyond the course. The instructor focuses onexplaining, not just covering the material and actively engages the students with thinking aboutthe content. This is apparent in the assignments as well as the lectures.Inspired teaching – This level describes courses students look forward to. The classes areinteresting, students are engaged, content feels relevant and fits the curriculum well
, higher-level reasoning, differentiating views ofothers, and teamwork [2], [3]. They are also highly effective with individual studentaccountability [4]. In addition, they have proven to be successful pedagogies within STEMeducation, in particular with regards to achievement, persistence, and attitudes [5].In May 2009, Lawrence Technological University (LTU) embarked on an eight-year facultydevelopment initiative that would modify 75% of the courses in the engineering curriculum toinclude active collaborative learning (ACL) and problem-based learning (PBL). Besidestraditional engineering courses, such as statics and design, the modified courses include those inthe general education core curriculum, such as calculus, history, literature
.[4] J. Li et al., “Web GIS for Sustainable Education: Towards Natural Disaster Education forHigh School Students,” Sustainability, vol. 14, no. 5, p. 2694, Feb. 2022, doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/su14052694.[5] D. Goldstein and M. Alibrandi, “Integrating GIS in the Middle School Curriculum: Impactson Diverse Students’ Standardized Test Scores,” Journal of Geography, vol. 112, no. 2, pp. 68–74, Mar. 2013, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00221341.2012.692703.[6] M. B. Schlemper, V. C. Stewart, S. Shetty, and K. Czajkowski, “Including Students’Geographies in Geography Education: Spatial Narratives, Citizen Mapping, and Social Justice,”Theory & Research in Social Education, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 603–641, Feb. 2018, doi:https://doi.org/10.1080
Paper ID #36686Board 373: Renewable Energy Systems Training (REST) Project Final Re-portDr. Mohsen Azizi, New Jersey Institute of Technology Mohsen Azizi is an assistant professor in the School of Applied Engineering and Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. From 2010 to 2013, he was an R&D engineer at Aviya Tech Inc. and Pratt & Whitney Canada Inc., Longueuil, Canada, where he designed and developed control and fault diagnosis systems for jet
. Eddington, Kansas State University Sean Eddington (Ph.D., Purdue University) is an assistant professor of Communication Studies at Kansas State University. Sean’s primary research interests exist at the intersections of organizational communi- cation, new media, gender, and organizing.Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Carla B. Zoltowski is an assistant professor of engineering practice in the Elmore Family School of Elec- trical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and (by courtesy) the School of Engineering Education, and Director of the Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program within the College of Engineering at Pur- due. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in
the director of the Learning Resource Center at Penn State Behrend for 20 years, where she is also an affiliate instructor of English. She has been involved in a number of federal grants, including two NSF STEM grants, an EU-AtlantDr. Corinne C. Renguette, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis Corinne Renguette, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Technical Communication, Chair of the Department of Technology Leadership and Communication, and Director of the Technical Communication Writing Center in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI. She is co-coordinator of the Di- versity Equity and Inclusion track of the Assessment Institute and her research focuses on inclusion in STEM