, particularly in the design thread of the ECE curriculum. Initial results are positive, andthe project is currently experimenting with different e-portfolio formats that can elicit howstudents are developing both functionings and capabilities. One major issue that is still beingworked out is how to have a single portfolio that covers all four years of the program. The initialexperiments are thus focused on having students address different prompts each year. In the firstyear students explore various functionings in the major and identify personally relevantfunctionings. In the second year the focus is on potential careers, extending the functioningsview beyond the undergraduate program. In the third year students focus on processes ofpersonal
.” (P1) Identifying Identify “I don't know the product, so to speak. So I don't even know Stakeholders anyone who how to explore the options, you know? And so literally the would impact first thing I do is find out as many stakeholders as or be possible in the process. And I just pull them all together impacted by in a meeting and force them to talk. It's less about me the project exploring the diverse options in this case. And this is what I mean by I moved to kind of a different phase of my career. I’m not exploring the diverse options. I’m sort of pulling diverse
is supported by NSF S-STEM #1833983. References[1] D. K. D. Alfrey and I. U. P. University, “CLEAR Scholars in Engineering: Academic, Career, and Leadership Development to Help Students with Financial Challenges Achieve their Full Academic Potential,” in ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, Salt Lake City, UT, 2018, p. 5.[2] D. K. Gosser, M. Cracolice, J. A. Kampmeier, V. Roth, V. S. Strozak, and P. Varma-Nelson, Peer-led Team Learning: A Guidebook. Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2001.[3] K. Goodman et al., “Launching the Urban STEM Collaboratory,” in 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings, Virtual On line, Jun. 2020, p. 34894. doi: 10.18260
organization whose goal is to encourage high school, middle school, and homeschool students to pursue careers in engineering, science, and technology. It does this byholding an annual robotics competition where teams from local schools compete forplacement in the district, state, and national championships. DC BEST gets schoolsinvolved by providing them free of charge the supplies, the game field, the environmentfor competition and any technical help that they may need. For 2004, DC BESTprovided to the schools three events: Kick Off Day, Mall Day and Game Day. The KickOff Day event was held on September 18, 2004 at the UNT College of EngineeringResearch Facility, Denton, Texas; the Mall Day event was held on October 24, 2004 atthe
their careers. Currently, the United States lacksadequate infrastructure or capacity to support the teaching of AI in the K-12 curriculum. Toaddress these challenges, we introduce the use of visual media as a key bridge technology toengage students in grades 6-8 with AI topics, through a recent NSF funded ITEST program,labeled ImageSTEAM. Specifically, we focus on the idea of a computational camera, whichrethinks the sensing interface between the physical world and intelligent machines and enablesstudents to ponder how sensors and perception fundamentally will augment science andtechnology in the future. Two workshops have been conducted, the first in summer 2021, and thesecond in summer 2022. The first workshop was delivered virtually due to
accurately.The program also enhanced Fellows’ ability to show the power of science by identifying thedimensions of public good on issues. By connecting their research across scientific disciplinesand communicating scientific research to lay audiences and by developing and teaching inquiry-based lessons Fellows gained valuable skills for future career. They presented their learningsfrom the mentoring activities at the annual Innovative Research Symposium for undergraduatestudents at the university. Figure 6 shows an image of their presentation. One of the Fellowsnoted, “This experience helped me discover creative ways to describe sustainability, alternativeenergy and electricity. It helped me evaluate topics in new ways and change how I talk about
when particular teams felt disappointment or frustration because theirprojects were not going according to plan and they were forced to adjust their timeline or scopeof work. These are valuable lessons for students to learn, as similar challenges are likely toreoccur throughout their education and into their careers, so it is important to emphasize to thestudents that their ability to adapt is more important than their ability to execute a task perfectlyon the first attempt.There are also significant logistical challenges in simultaneously directing multiple projectgroups who have widely varying scopes of work, while also advancing towards the goals of thebroader research project. Especially given that these were first-year students, they
accelerated students interested in engineering school and asubsequent successful engineering career. Homeschooling may not be a good fit for everyone,but it can help those interested in deep diving into mathematics and science ahead of engineeringschool.Keywords: homeschooling, aerospace engineering education, elementary school, middle school,project-based learning, accelerated learning, dual enrollment, concurrent creditTo become an aerospace engineer, one needs to study advanced math and science; however, onedoes not need to wait until they are eighteen years old to begin the journey. This paper discussesmy educational plan as I hope to study aerospace engineering and law.Aerospace engineers can contribute more than just the design and execution of
instructional tool.Using Capstone projects to develop laboratory tools is not new, but it was observed that capstoneprojects in thermal science areas are limited in number [3], [4]. This might contribute topreventing interested students from following a future career in this area [5]. Furthermore, it isthe author’s belief that the development of students’ projects applicable to thermodynamicscourses are also a perfect fit for incorporating an entrepreneurial mindset learning (EML)component in a technical thermodynamics course [6].- Team: The team consisted of four MET students, one CET student and one CSET student. The MET students oversaw developing the behind the curtains power cycle simulators using Excel, the CSET student oversaw the
preparing students for anypossible legal situations they may find themselves in during their engineering careers. It willencourage the understanding of topical knowledge and will help develop critical thinking skillsused throughout their time as biomedical engineers. As a particular form of “case study”exercise, Moot court exercises present one of the optimum means of instruction in that itprovides a rich experience but is still structured enough to constrain the overall effort and focuson the intended learning objectives. Proceedings of the 2022 ASEE North Central Section Conference Copyright © 2022, American Society for Engineering Education
for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t beeninvented, in order to solve problems that we don’t even know are problems yet.”pg. 4Like most in the professoriate here in the U.S., Krishna also received doctoral education. Inaddition to being a doctoral student and learning and researching on mechanical engineering,Krishna was an international graduate student learning to navigate a different country,language, holidays and customs, and a bevvy on visa related issues.Even as a child, Krishna knew that he would grow up to teach students. In his reflections, henotes: "my career path to education always felt inevitable. I was born on “Teacher’s Day” - acelebration in India dedicated to educators. I was often reminded of this
Center of Tampa. In 2007 she founded Charis Consulting Group, LLC as the President and CEO. Dr. Johnson Austin has held positions as: executive director of Curated PathwaysTM to Innovation in San Jose, CA; senior vice president for operations at the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. (NACME); president and CEO of St. Michael’s High School; executive vice president of the Community Partnership for Lifelong Learning; executive director of the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minori- ties in Engineering and Science; and Minority Engineering Program director at The Pennsylvania State University. She began her career as a cost engineering at Bechtel Power Corporation. In 1998, she
independentstudy opportunities allow students to directly apply their engineering knowledge to real-worldproblems as a continuation of their in-class learning. The research and independent studyopportunities under the guidance of an ECE professor described in this paper have providedstudents with unique experiences to augment their coursework with diverse applications as wellas increasing agency in their developing engineering careers. Agency in education allowsstudents to create rather than seek out learning opportunities. The students can also get practicewith innovative problem-solving — promoting innovative thinking is crucial to develop as anadaptive expert. One proposed adaptive expertise framework differentiates two dimensions alearner may develop
and inform them Illinois about the available resources. Project Makerspace Berwyn, Illinois (Chicago Introduce students to Makerspace and Suburb) engineering career. Development of Engineering N. Lawndale (Chicago West Develop engineering components of a Curriculum for local K-8 side) curriculum for primary school students. STEAM School Adopt Our Classroom Chicago Public Schools Implement a Web-based app to facilitate the connection between public school teachers and
that we have a plausiblesolution to the problem and can make evidence-based changes to our curriculum for futureofferings of this course sequence.BackgroundThe Engineering Technologies, Safety, and Construction (ETSC) department at CentralWashington University offers three bachelor’s degree paths for undergraduate students:Electronics Engineering Technology (EET), Industrial Engineering Technology (IET), andMechanical Engineering Technology (MET). These specialized programs provide students witha combination of engineering theory and application-based instruction to prepare graduates forcareers in industry [1]. The department also offers a variety of minors from which students maychoose to enhance their academic careers. After years of
sections with 30 to 35 students. Usually, in thiscourse the labs this large are not a big problem as the class is taught using project based learningwhere the students worked on teams to produce a underwater autonomous vehicle. However,three times during the semester the labs met in the computer lab. Below is a mostly true story Iwrote about an event that occurred during one of the computer lab activities. Moises is respectful of authority. He listens and tries to disappear into the crowd. This has worked for him his entire academic career. He is smart and resourceful. He does his work quickly which helps so much. Of course, the speed causes errors, but in general he has achieved high marks. The lab today is in the computer
, typically taken in the second half oftheir junior year or the first half of their senior year. Students in the course wrote an essay, as arequired assignment, in which they reflected on the links between their co-op work and thecourse, and were asked for permission to use those essays in the professor’s research on thistopic. Analysis of the essays shows that students typically did see connections; in many cases,these were connected to the course content. However, in other cases, students noted that they hadlearned problem-solving skills, time management, or other skills that were not directly connectedto the class content, which were also useful in their co-op assignments and future careers. Theresults of this work can be used to motivate students
-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona BeachDr. Erin Elizabeth Bowen, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott Currently appointed as the A. Dale Thompson Professor of Leadership at the University of Texas at Arlington, Dr. Erin Bowen is a scientist-practitioner with an interdisciplinary focus on the intersection of I/O Psychology and Aviation. With a research and practice career focused on applying psychological science to the aviation industry, Dr. Bowen’s expertise is relied on by research and industry partners as well as numerous national and international news outlets. Recent media appearances include ”Good Morning America”, live in-studio on NBC’s ”Meet the Press”, CNN’s ”The Lead” with Jake Tapper
the pandemic on their educationand career. While SWE continues to study the impact on gender equity in engineering andtechnology, this paper focuses on the responses received from women engineering students andacademic professionals from the summer survey.MethodologyData for this study was collected using an online Qualtrics survey. The survey link was emailed toengineers over the age of 18 who were members of the professional association conducting thestudy. Data collection took place between June 3, 2020 and June 15, 2020. Responses werereceived from students in engineering programs and those working in a variety of industries,including academia. The majority of respondents were from the United States, with 5% basedoutside of the U.S. Over
western public university and has been used to track students’development as they progress through their academic careers. The 14 different constructs that areexplored are big-five personality [1, 2], grit [3], identity [4-6], mindset [7], motivation [8,9],gratitude [10], mindfulness [11], belongingness [12], test anxiety [13], time and studyenvironment [13], perceptions of faculty caring [12], self-control [14], student life stress [15],and meaning and purpose [16]. A short description of each of these, as well as how we chose andvalidated these constructs, can be found in our earlier work [17,18].MethodsData CollectionThe study was approved by our institutional review board and informed consent was obtainedfrom each student. For the current
against the physical process to detect anomalies.Overall, the students were engaged with the material and found it relevant to their upcomingcareer. The post-training perception of the topics in relation to their career is shown below inFigure 3a. The average student change in perception is shown in Figure 3b. The post trainingdata indicates that all of the topics appeared to be relevant to the students for their career.Artificial intelligence scored the least relevant, perhaps due to the approach taken to describemachine learning or the intimidation of the complexity of implementation with advancedcomputer programming. In the change in perception results, it was interesting and promising tosee that Data Contextualization, providing meaning to
Science, University of California Transportation Center Student of the Year Award, New Faculty Award by the Council of University Transportation Centers, the Cunard, Fred Burggraf and D. Grant Mickle outstanding paper awards by the Transportation Research Board, Harry West Teaching Award by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State, Out- standing Teaching Award by the Penn State Engineering Alumni Society, and Faculty Early Career De- velopment (CAREER) Award by the National Science Foundation.Dr. Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Sarah Zappe is Research Professor and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering
University’s College of Engineering and Technology. He is also Director of Business Development and Advanced Manufacturing Education at the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM). At VSU, Lorin works on behalf of the College of Engineering and Technology to better engage with industrial partners, finding opportunities to place students both in internships and full-time roles. At CCAM, he is responsible for connecting this manufacturing technology research center with new industrial partners and championing their work to build career opportunities and education in advanced manufacturing. He joined both organizations in February 2019. Previously, Lorin served for nine years as Manufacturing Executive and
. government has placedcybersecurity as a national priority in order to minimize damage from cyber incidents. In thefiscal year of 2019, the President's Budget included $15 billion of budget authority forcybersecurity-related activities to improve the security and resilience capabilities of nationalinformation infrastructures [3].In addition to the efforts made from the government in national cybersecurity protection, it isalso important that everyone should receive a basic training of cybersecurity concepts andtechniques. The National Initiative For Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) stated: “Wemust teach science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and other cyber concepts to allstudents, and educate all students on the secure use of
and GPA requirements, the total number of eligiblestudents was 42; so fewer students than were eligible applied in year 2. The percentages ofaccepted applicants were 24% from Tiers I/II and 76% from Tier III. Twenty-four percent of theaccepted applicants transferred multiple math and science courses and were grouped with TierIII. Our external evaluator noted (after reading all the applications) that the fall 2019 applicationsdid not capture the at-risk students we aimed to get in the program; so, we revamped efforts forfall 2020. Table 3: Application questions that continuing applicants complete We are interested in how the S-STEM program helped to further your academic and career 1. goals. Please give an example of how the
Paper ID #33645Low-cost Open-architecture Experimental Platform for Dynamic Systems andFeedback ControlMr. Sergio Arturo Esteban, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Sergio Esteban is an alum from Cal Poly Pomona’s Mechanical Engineering undergraduate program. He will be joining the California Institute of Technology’s Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. program this Fall 2021 to study robot controls and dynamics. Throughout his career, he’s had the opportunity to take roles as a researcher, test and assembly engineer, design engineer, tutor, and mentor. Sergio has worked at engineering institutions such as the NASA
, they are often not emphasized in classrooms. Nevertheless, they are stillconsidered critical skills by industries. They continue to popup on lists of what students shouldbe able to do to be successful in their careers including recent research by Project Lead the Way[5] and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) [6].The school district shared their experience with us. The class is within their Career andTechnology Education pathway. Ultimately, they want all 8th graders in the district to take thisclass. During their pilot program, the teachers followed a design curriculum based on anenvironmental engineering project. The students were supposed to learn about an environmentalissue. Then they were to break into teams
advance in STEM fields and being a part of institutional change to support women in overcoming barriers. Dr. Luthi is recognized for her efforts in securing federal grants through the National Science Foundation and Department of Labor that provide educators the tools they need to encourage women to enter and succeed in careers to include engineering and engineering technology where they are traditionally under-represented.Dr. Lisa Macon, Valencia College Dr. Lisa Macon holds a BS in Computer Science from Hofstra University, an MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a PhD in Mathematics from University of Central Florida. She has worked as a software developer and project manager in the
these items include:“I know the way my mind works when I work through a problem”, “I’m constantly thinkingabout my reasons of doing things”, and “I feel nervous when I speak in front of a group”.The second section, that measures Social-Awareness Indicators as means of public welfarebeliefs and social consciousness, is composed of three subsegments; The first subsegment is composed of three items, and asks the respondents to rate their personal importance of multiple public welfare beliefs. Students are asked to respond to the question: “What, in your opinion, makes a successful engineering career?” by rating “Professional and ethical responsibilities”, “Understanding the consequences of technology”, and
interested in user research as a career. These heuristics will be helpful for my future internship in which I might do more user research. • The user interface report was a great way to examine some real-world objects that could be improved on and then take that step. This unit helped me learn concrete ways to do that. Table 1 Cont. Students’ Reflection on the UI Module and Report Assignment 3. Improving critical thinking • This assignment stretched my critical thinking, creativity, and technical skills. I now feel like less of an imposter when creating user interface designs. • It makes you realize that just because something is trending, it doesn’t mean it will be the best solution for