interviews at the beginning, middle, and end of the semester.Participants were diverse in terms of their home countries, genders, and engineering discipline.Using thematic coding, we are analyzing the data using both a priori codes drawn from theliterature and inductive codes emerging from the data, with particular attention to engineering-specific and ITA-specific experiences.Preliminary findings suggest that three of the four general categories developed by priorresearchers are relevant to the experiences of engineering ITAs. At the same time, the data allowus to operationalize these experiences in the context of engineering classrooms, including bothlecture and laboratory courses, and identify nuances in each category that are unique to the
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS). Dr. Spiegel also served as Director of Research & Development for a multimedia development company and as founding Director of the Center for Integrating Research & Learning (CIRL) at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University. Under Dr. Spiegel’s leadership, the CIRL matured into a thriving Center recognized as one of the leading National Science Foundation Laboratories for activities to pro- mote science, mathematics, and technology (STEM) education. While at Florida State University, Dr. Spiegel also directed an award winning teacher enhancement program for middle grades science teachers, entitled Science For Early Adolescence Teachers
Paper ID #12025A Robotics-Focused Instructional Framework for Design-Based Research inMiddle School ClassroomsMr. Matthew Moorhead, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Matthew Moorhead received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2014. He is currently pursuing a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY, where he is a teaching fellow in their GK-12 program. Matthew also conducts research in the Mechatronics and Controls Laboratory with an interest in robotics and controls.Dr. Jennifer B Listman, NYU Polytechnic School of
building client-based relationships with members of various educational learning communities.Participants and Course Context:The first set of participants are the students enrolled in the Programming 2 course, which is thesecond course in the introductory programming sequence at Ohio Northern University. Bothintroductory courses have three 50-minute lectures and one 175-minute laboratory sessionweekly during the semester, with the laboratory being used to reinforce just-covered lecturematerial. The first course uses C++ to provide experience in breaking problems down intofunctional units involving sequence, selection, and iteration; whereas the second course uses Javato explore the event-driven graphical user interface paradigm through
forty hours a week across two summermonths conducting both field and laboratory research at the university with a focus on environmental sciencesand engineering. Paired with graduate students and professors, the freshman-level interns have practicedgraduate-level research including on-site research at several local wetlands. Various projects have beenundertaken, ranging from ecological studies on topics including potentially harmful vectors like mosquitoes andecologically critical and valuable pollinators like bees, vertebrate presence and habitat selection, andenvironmental water quality and its impact on both aquatic invertebrate and plant community dynamics.Through our summer bridge program, we have created a pyramid-like synergistic effect
within Penn State system.It should be noted that both MATH 140 and PHYS 211 are foundational courses (“gateways”) formany science and engineering majors at the Penn State University and important prerequisitesfor later work in many STEM disciplines. MATH 140 (4 contact hours) is an important buildingblock in the education of any professional who uses quantitative analysis and includes standardintroductory topics in differential calculus, integral calculus and their applications. PHYS 211 (5contact hours) is a calculus-based introduction to classical mechanics, and laboratory exercisesare an integral part of this course. PHYS 211 covers the following topics: kinematics, dynamics,laws of conservation, and their applications. Moreover, both MATH
large public state university and taking part in the same researchproject. The internship was an 8-week program in the Biomedical Engineering (BME)Department funded by the Massachusetts Life Science Center (MLSC). All three students wereworking in the same lab co-hosted and mentored by the two laboratory Principal Investigators, aswell as undergraduate and graduate students in the lab. In-depth interviews with the three internsand their parents/caregivers were conducted and analyzed to understand parental relationships,mentorship relationships, and components of the home environment in developing STEMidentity and interest. Faculty mentors were also interviewed and provided perspectives on skillsets and confidence coming into the internship and
degrees on time [15], [16]. Future work will studystudents’ on-time graduation and degree completion, as well as the factors contributing to theseparamount problems in the academic community.Conclusions and RecommendationsSeveral academic as well as non-academic factors hinder minority students’ interest, persistence,and success. These factors include poor-quality teaching and advising, a challenging curriculum,deficiencies in mathematics, uninspiring courses, lack of sense of belonging, a lack of interactionbetween students and faculty, financial difficulties, a lack of hands-on projects as well as theavailability of infrastructure and laboratory facilities [1]–[3], [8]–[11]. All of these factorsgreatly contribute to major change and dropout
after the successful launch of both boats (right).USCGA Project DescriptionIn contrast to the course at USNA, cadets at USCGA typically enroll in the boat design/buildcourse as a first-year student (freshmen). The design portion of the course is an optional one-credit lecture offered during the fall semester. The build or construction portion of the course isoffered in a one-credit laboratory format during the spring semester. Both semesters areconsidered “Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory” electives and do not affect the students’ GPA. Studentscan join each class independently, meaning a student may enroll in the build portion in the springwithout participating in the design portion in the fall. Typical enrollment for the fall is upwardsof 20
educationand that of their children [20]. Foreign scientists and engineers hold important positions in U.S.universities, laboratories, and scientific industries [21]. Finally, one in four U.S. technologycompanies were founded between 1995 and 2005 by a foreign entrepreneur [22].In the case of Israel, the unrestricted mass migration of Jews from the former Soviet Union (FSU)in 1990 has been unique in the world for its benefits. Jewish immigrants from the FSU increasedIsrael's population by 20%, created their political parties to become a coalition government,promoted greater economic freedom, and moved the country away from socialism [23]. Clark etal. demonstrated with their empirical analysis of different countries that immigrant flows wererelated to
highlight each student project related to each component(Table 1).3.0 Experimental Component Projects3.1 Research OverviewOne of the aspects that was attractive to the researchers and students in the Foods and NutritionalSciences, Human Sciences Department at the Tennessee State University, was that Calabresemicrogreens are high in isothiocyanate sulforaphane and are known to prevent certain cancers[6]. Therefore, they conducted laboratory experiments to analyze the growth cycle and nutrientcontent of the Calabrese microgreens. The human sciences ecological framework was used tostudy how the Calabrese microgreens could improve the lives of students, researchers, andstakeholders at the individual, family, community, and environmental level. Students
in the I-RISE program. Therefore, the research experience wasmeaningful and addressed real-world problems in science and engineering, often involving hands-on andlaboratory experiences. The duration of the research activities was approximately five months. During thisperiod, students and faculty met frequently. The faculty derived the dynamics of research experiences anddirectly mentored students owing to the central role of faculty support in UREs [17]. Sometimes, graduatestudents working with the faculty trained students with the laboratory work and the technical aspects. Inregular meetings with students, the faculty discussed and guided the research and academic matters ofinterest to the students. ii) SponsorshipSponsorship through
]. They alsoobtain increased monetary compensation [5] and report higher job satisfaction. A study alsoshows that depth of experiential learning, as indicated by the amount of time committed to thoseactivities, correlates positively with cognitive gains, while breadth, as indicated by the number ofactivities that a student engages in, is associated with improved teamwork skills [6]. Inparticular, the number of internships that an undergraduate has is a major predictor of initialcareer outcomes [4].Experiential learning is increasingly considered a critical component of higher education,complementing more traditional forms of classroom and laboratory instruction. Experientiallearning opportunities can also inform career choice, help students build
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
projects focused on broadening participation and success in STEM academia. Her research centers on creating inclusive higher education policies and practices that advance faculty careers and student success.Dr. Jennifer TygretAnneke BruwerDr. Comas Lamar Haynes, Georgia Tech Research Institute Comas Lamar Haynes is a Principal Research Engineer / faculty member of the Georgia Tech Research In- stitute and Joint Faculty Appointee at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research includes modeling steady state and transient behavior of advanced energy systems, inclusive of their thermal management, and the characterization and optimization of novel cycles. He has advised graduate and undergradu- ate research assistants
Design for Learning (UDL) framework,” in 2019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Covington, KY, USA, Oct. 2019, pp. 1–5. doi: 10.1109/FIE43999.2019.9028693.[A5] C. C. Hain, W. C. Turek, A. E. Zaghi, and A. Hain, “Board # 156 : Experiences of Pre- College Teachers Working with Undergraduate Engineering Students with ADHD in Research Laboratories,” presented at the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, Columbus, Ohio: ASEE Conferences, Jun. 2017. doi: 10.18260/1-2-- 27786.[A6] M. Chrysochoou et al., “Redesigning Engineering Education for Neurodiversity: New Standards for Inclusive Courses,” presented at the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, ASEE Conferences, Jul. 2021.[A7] A
cycle. Collaborating with course developers, she discovers innovations for engineering education.Mr. Malcolm Kenneth Porterfield, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Malcolm Porterfield is a Ph. D. candidate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York, and a GEM Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. His current research focus is Molecular Dynamics with the long-term goal of unlocking a major breakthrough in Energy Sustainability. More specifically, he is exploring the possibility of thermal-to-electrostatic energy conversion to harvest waste heat. Raised in Albany, New York, Malcolm graduated from Albany High School before attending Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) where
Labs for Automation Teaching: a Cost Effective Approach⁎⁎Authors thank Tecnológico de Monterrey because its support.,” IFAC-Pap., vol. 52, no. 9, pp. 266–271, Jan. 2019, doi: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.08.219.[24] A. A. Altalbe, “Performance Impact of Simulation-Based Virtual Laboratory on Engineering Students: A Case Study of Australia Virtual System,” IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 177387–177396, 2019, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2957726.[25] “Commercialization Center,” Lamar University.edu. https://www.Lamar University.edu/commercializationcenter/index.html (accessed Jan. 20, 2021).[26] “21 CFR 820.30 - Design controls. - Document in Context - CFR-2012-title21-vol8-sec820- 30.” https%3A%2F%2Fwww.govinfo.gov%2Fapp%2Fdetails%2FCFR
year or even second year ofstudy. Until recently, Binghamton University students have declared their engineering major atthe end of their second semester of study. Now, the declaration of major is done at the end of thefirst semester, although students are informed that they can still change their selection with nopenalty until the start of their second year. The fall semester of engineering courses introducestudents to the engineering majors offered at Binghamton University. There are guest lecturersfrom the engineering departments and industry. The engineering lectures, laboratories, andstudent projects represent all the engineering majors. These educational experiences are designedto give students a better understanding of the engineering
function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives [6]Programs necessarily define points within the curriculum where these outcomes are included incoursework. In some cases, these are included in coursework in ways where there may not be anatural fit in a typical lecture or lecture/laboratory course, or that appear to be contrived.Teamwork may consist of students put into groups based on proximity, with minimal instructionin how to effectively operate as a team; while this is indeed working within a group, it isarguably not effective teamwork [7]-[9]. Effective communication often consists of in-classpresentations
://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc[4] P. Orduña, L. Rodriguez-Gil, J. Garcia-Zubia, O. Dziabenko, I. Angulo, U. Hernandez, E.Azcuenaga, "Classifying online laboratories: Reality simulation user perception and potentialoverlaps", 13th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation(REV), pp. 224-230, 2016.[5] D. Samuelsen, O. Graven, "Adopting an exercise program for electronics engineeringeducation utilising remote laboratories for the age of MOOC", IEEE Frontiers in EducationConference (FIE), pp. 1-7, 2016.[6] N. Kafadarova, N. Mileva, S. Stoyanova, "Remote Wireless Communications lab in realtime," IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), Berlin, pp. 69-74, 2013.[7] S. Kocdar, A. Bozkurt, T. G. Dogan, "Engineering
the semester during theregularly scheduled laboratory sessions, which are otherwise used for the implementation ofcoding concepts and development of programming skills through interactive group activities andcode-writing exercises. The coding interviews provided an opportunity for each student to meetindividually with a Teaching Assistant (TA) or Instructor to discuss the core programmingconcepts of the course in the context of code that the student wrote for a previous assignment.The TAs were trained to keep the interviews as an informal discussion focused on the codingconstructs implemented in the student’s code with primary goals as follows: • To ensure each student is developing fundamental programming skills and to flag those
engineering education during the 2020-2021academic year. The transition to remote learning was particularly difficult for many of the hands-on experiential learning and laboratory courses that are integral parts of an engineeringeducation. Very few engineering programs in the United States offer purely remote learningenvironments for engineering students, and so this kind of teaching and learning was new forboth faculty, rapidly adjusting their curriculum in a short amount of time, and for the studentswho had to quickly adapt their learning styles [1]. In addition, most students across the countryleft their campuses and returned home to complete the spring 2020 semester from afar, leading tofewer interactions with their peers, faculty, and staff for
Climate Change Panel for the City of New York, and more recently as Senior Visiting Scientist of the Beijing Institute of Urban Meteorology and of Brookhaven National Laboratory. He was named in 2019 the Founding Editor of the newest ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities.Prof. Joseph Barba, City University of New York, City College Dr. Joseph Barba is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Grove School of Engineering at the City College of New York. He received his BEE and MEE from the City College of New York and his PhD from the City University of New York. His research interests focus on the development of image and signal processing algorithms for biomedical applications. These
bridge was built in 1968-1969, the steel is assumed to be A-36 for calculations,but this assumption must be verified. The steel A-36 has the following properties: Yielding stress, Fy = 36 ksi . Then: Fy = 0.9x36 = 32.4 ksi Ultimate stress, Fu = 58 ksiFigure 7a shows the stresses from the dead loads using the model consisting of the steel beamsand fresh concrete. Figures 7b and 7c show the stresses due to the lane load and the truck loadamplified by the impact factor of 1.33. The maximum ultimate stress is 38.7 ksi, which is 20%greater than the design stress.To comply with AASHTO loads, the following tasks are necessary:a) Investigate about the steel type used in the beams. A laboratory tensile test is necessary for this purpose. The
students to take the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam which is inherently computational, leaving little opportunity to vary teaching methods and topics. 4. Engineering faculty have many responsibilities, including, but not limited to: teaching a heavy course load, laboratory research, writing publications, applying for funding, attending conferences, managing laboratory materials and safety, mentoring students, networking with industry, and professional development. Therefore, professors’ time is often limited, and professors may not see the value in adjusting a preexisting course. 5. Engineering education is often based on precedent; it is slow to accept change, especially relative to liberal arts