engineeringdesign capstone courses include: ● the culture of the engineering program and of the design course [8][11][20]-[23] ● mentoring and engagement in a community of learning [8][11][13][16][18][19][21]-[23] ● professional identity development [8][11][13][16][18]-[23] ● reflection practice integration [8][10]-[11][20]-[23] ● affective awareness and professional integrity development [8][10][11][20]-[23]The prevalence of these influencers across best practice and theoretical research indicates thatthey have strong impacts on transformative teaching and learning. While they have beenseparated out because of our need to focus narrowly on each one in order to deepen ourunderstanding, they are all closely tied. For example, the culture
degree if desired. Forteachers who do not wish to take graduate coursework, the experience of designing a unit with acoach’s help, implementing the unit, and reflecting on its implementation has been packaged intoa professional development opportunity where the teacher and coach interact virtually over athree month period. As a result, there are other avenues available for teachers to learn andpractice these instructional strategies without participating in a two year program. In addition, while CEEMS evaluation results so far are promising, more research is needed todemonstrate whether engineering design challenge activities truly result in a positive impact onstudents’ acquisition of critical math and science content. Even more convincing
a Master of Business Administration (MBA). The survey asked how likely are you to hire agraduate of each of the following master’s programs. The Likert scale ranged from 1 – not at all Page 12.526.3likely to 5- very likely. The HRMs were then asked to identify how many graduates for thesethree programs the organizations where likely to hire in the next five years.The second section of the survey was designed to determine how many employees eachorganization would like to enroll in a master’s program. The same three programs listed abovewere listed as options. However, this section provides the choice of traditional face-to-faceinstruction and
AC 2011-71: TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT OF ”ETHICS IN ENGI-NEERING PRACTICE”Rodney W Trice, Purdue University, West Lafayette Rodney W. Trice joined the faculty of Purdue University as an Assistant Professor in August 2000 after completing a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at Northwestern University. His research there focused on investigating the processingstructureproperty relationships of plasmasprayed coatings using mechanical testing and transmission electron microscopy. Prior to Northwestern, Rodney received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (1997) where he studied the high temperature properties of a ceramic composite made via ceramic-loaded polymer extrusion methods. From 1989 through 1995, he
2004, Time Magazine dubbed Dr. Edwards the ”Plumbing Professor” and listed him among the four most impor- tant ”innovators” in water from around the world. The White House awarded him a Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1996. In 1994, 1995, 2005 and 2011 Edwards received Outstanding Paper Awards in the Journal of American Waterworks Association and he received the H.P. Eddy Medal in 1990 for best re- search publication by the Water Pollution Control Federation (currently Water Environment Federation). He was later awarded the Walter Huber Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2003, the State of Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award in 2006, a MacArthur Fellowship from 2008 to 2012, the
timeline to allow for delays and shifts.Related to the flexibility theme, we recommend that researchers prepare alternate interviewquestions and activities to allow for participants to best take part in the study. Additionally, wesuggest building a research timeline with significant buffer space to allow for the many delayswhich can occur in this type of research.Conclusion & Future WorkSignificantly more work is needed to better understand the impact and experiences of allstakeholders and participants in informal STEM learning experiences. A better understanding ofthese experiences will help support the development of a STEM-literate society and futureSTEM professionals, meeting the needs present in national calls. However, this type of
University is a strong proponent ofexperiential learning, a “bottom-up” method in which general lessons and principles are learnedthrough direct personal experiences and observations. Active modes of learning can enrich,broaden and deepen the knowledge base, which is gained from readings and class lectures1,2,3.The system used at Rowan is called Engineering Clinics. This is an eight semester project basedseries of courses which are a requirement of all engineering students for graduation. It can beseen in the following sections that experiential learning is a hallmark of Rowan’s engineeringcurriculum, which will be utilized for these projects. Professionalism and “Real-Life”engineering practices are emphasized in a multidisciplinary environment
social interaction problems nowadays, as research indicated“the majority of coursework in engineering education today focuses on technical knowledge and skills ofmathematics, science, and engineering as well as new graduates generally feel prepared for the technicalaspects of practice, but many have difficulty transitioning to the socio-technical practices and culture ofthe workplace[28] ”.Additionally, to explore the collaborative inquiry deeply, we conducted a longitudinal study for threeinnovative engineering design works (arc-path prediction, parallel design of robot structure andsymmetrical design for robots) in our research case “Robo”. It can be seen that the three dimensions ofcollaborative inquiry are significantly repeated in different
Paper ID #15777Renewable Energy Technician Education: The Impact of International Fac-ulty CollaborationMary Slowinski , M.Ed., CREATE NSF-ATE Mary Slowinski is an educator/consultant specializing in collaborative learning research and design. She received her M.Ed. in Learning Science from the University of Washington and is currently completing her PhD with a dissertation on communities of practice for educators. A co-PI on a National Science Foundation research grant focused on industry/education partnerships, she has worked extensively with the NSF’s Advanced Technological Education program in a variety of consulting
chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on an NSF faculty development program based on evidence-based teaching practices. The overall goal is to develop dis- ciplinary communities of practice across the college of engineering. The approach is being promoted through semester-long faculty workshops and then through a semester of supported implementation of faculty classroom innovations. Changes in faculty beliefs and classroom practice should positively im- pact student performance and retention. He was a coauthor for the best paper award at the FIE convention in 2009 and the best paper award in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2013.Dr. Casey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University Casey J. Ankeny, Ph.D
Paper ID #37847A Strategic Curriculum Design for an IntroductoryEngineering Course to Encourage Self-Empowerment ofMinority StudentsVictor Manuel Garcia (Research Associate) Victor Garcia holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Victor is currently a research civil engineer at the US Army – Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, MS. He leads research projects sponsored by the US Department of Defense that focus on improving the design and construction practices for military transportation installations. Victor has been also collaborating with UTEP faculty on
technical writing to effectively communicate major ideasThe IED Culminating ProjectThe goal of the IED team project is to design a device for a specific customer. Since the fallof 2005 the projects consist of opportunities from (1) a grant from the Tennessee Departmentof Education and (2) UTC faculty needing small devices to support research or upper levelcourses or projects. Early in the semester a request for project proposals is sent to the grantparticipants and the faculty of the UTC CECS. The course instructors select those proposalsthat best meet the needs of the course and the abilities of the freshman students (many ofthese students have yet to take an engineering course). The projects must include a threedimensional application as well as
Paper ID #34660Creating a Communications Curriculum for the Modern EngineerDr. Geoffrey Recktenwald, Michigan State University Geoff Recktenwald is a member of the teaching faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University. Geoff holds a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University and Bachelor degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Physics from Cedarville University. His research interests are focused on best practices for student learning and student success. He is currently developing and researching SMART assessment, a modified mastery learning pedagogy for problem
Paper ID #34234Work in Progress: Investigation of the Psychological and DemographicCharacteristics that Impact Performance in Online Modules and CoursesDr. 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 Education at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement and testing. In her position, Sarah is responsible for developing instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support for educational proposals and
teaching continues for over 12 years since his graduate school. He has been active with ASEE and educational research for over 10 years. He is particularly interested in en- hancing critical thinking skills among civil engineering students through various educational approaches. His research interests include water - energy nexus, desalination, and biofuels. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Understanding student expectations of writing skills in engineering designcourses and professional practiceThe importance of writing in engineering practice is often not emphasized. As a result, manyengineering students do not appreciate the impact of written reports in expressing theengineering content
Academic Communication in Industrial and SystemsEngineering and a faculty member at Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on workplace communication skillsneeded by practicing engineers. She has led the workplace communication research, coordinated the activities in thelab, and co-authored the communication instruction for undergraduate engineers.JOEL S. SOKOLDr. Joel S. Sokol is an Assistant Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Hiseducational research interests include communication and the teaching of modeling. His technical work is in linearprogramming, inverse optimization, and combinatorial optimization, as well as the application of operationsresearch techniques to logistics, biology, and network design
Paper ID #29189”Adversary or Ally”: Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Perceptions ofFacultyMr. H. Ronald Clements III, Purdue University H. Ronald Clements is a postbaccalaureate research assistant in the STRIDE lab at Purdue University and an incumbent graduate student for Purdue’s Engineering Education department for the 2020-2021 year. He works with Dr. Allison Godwin on her NSF CAREER grant titled ”Actualizing Latent Diver- sity: Building Innovation through Engineering Students’ Identity Development,” assisting with narrative analysis and interviews and helping to understand the identity trajectories of latently
interests include student persistence and pathways in engineering, gender equity, diversity, and academic policy. Dr. Orr is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award for her research entitled, ”Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision-Makers.” American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 The Centrality of Black Identity for Black Students in Engineering: A Reflection on Methods and TheoryKeywords: Race/ethnicity, Black identity, undergraduate programsIntroductionThe recent emphasis on increasing the number of engineering graduates has been coupled withgreater concern about the lack of diversity in engineering fields. However, despite
- chronous circuit synthesis. In the past he has served as a graduate research assistant at Mississippi State University as well as the instructor of record of multiple courses at both UA and MSU. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Using Information Gap Learning Techniques in Embedded Systems Design EducationIntroduction Commercial market trends tend to trickle into engineering program curricula. In thecomputing systems marketplace, customers are demanding ever more complex features ascomputing systems become more capable and affordable. Today, engineering educators arefeeling the pressure to provide more realistic, comprehensive, and complex lab
AC 2012-3718: EXPERIENCES LEARNED IN CONDUCTING A SUM-MER WORKSHOP ENTITLED ”INTEGRATING NASA SCIENCE, TECH-NOLOGY, AND RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM ANDTRAINING (INSTRUCT)” FOR HBCU/MI INSTITUTIONSDr. Ajit D. Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University Ajit D. Kelkar is a professor and Chair of Nanoengineering Department at Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering. He also serves as an Associate Director for the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures. For the past 25 years, he has been working in the area of performance evaluation and modeling of polymeric composites and ceramic matrix composites. He has worked with several federal laboratories in the area of fatigue, impact, and finite
analysis:The student focus group and interviews were audio recorded, transcribed, and uploaded toDedoose, a qualitative analysis software [19]. A thematic analysis was used to identify majorpatterns within the narrative. The best practices for completing a thematic analysis recommendedby Braun and Clarke [20] and Creswell [21] were adhered to. The researcher that facilitated theinterviews and focus groups initially made several passes through the data and then generated aninitial codebook consisting of six themes and twenty-four codes. An inter-rater reliability testwas completed, which involved a second researcher applying this codebook to the data. A pooledCohen’s kappa score of 0.44 was produced suggested poor to fair agreement [19, 22, 23]. Thetwo
thesix professional skills to the ABET engineering criteria, engineering education in the US today is“falling far short of preparing engineering graduates for practicing—and leading—in a change-driven, knowledge-intensive, global society that will characterize the decades ahead.”3In Restructuring Engineering Education: A Focus on Change, the NSF recommends thatengineering courses include early and continued exposure to environmental, political and socialissues and their international and historical contexts, as well as legal and ethical implications ofengineering solutions.4 Oberst and Jones argue that engineers shape and are shaped by “theemerging realities of a truly global workforce. Engineers as a professional group are thuscanaries in the
Preparingthe Engineer of 2020 (P2P) projects. The research design, data sources, and analytical methods aredescribed in the following sections for each study.Prototyping the Engineer of 2020: Conditions and Processes of Effective Education (P360)The research team for P360 used a nationally representative dataset developed for the EC2000study14, which assessed the impact of ABET’s outcomes-based EC2000 accreditation criteria, toempirically select six case study sites. Using the data from the EC2000 study, the research teamidentified institutions in which graduates reported a high level of ability in design skills,contextual competence, and interdiscipliary competence. In consultation with a NationalAdvisory Board, the team identified five institutions
encourages the students to take control of the discussion as much as possible. Staff-leddiscussions are most common in situations when the student seems to be unsure of what to donext, or has questions about best practices, such as effective information arrangement and designfor posters, slide show presentations, and technical papers. In the Fall 2003 semester, forexample, the RCS had three studio groups of four students, each of which met weekly for 75minutes. In one group, all four undergraduates experienced problems with their research thatkept them from moving forward for several weeks; as a result, this group spent more time thanthe other two on professional issues such as creating a resume and discussing what happens in ajob interview. In
at State Technical Institute at Memphis where she built one of the first interactive multimedia programs in a 2-year college; and owned and operated CC Design, a design and multimedia studio in Tallahassee, FL. Her research interests include computer-based interactive instruction for K-12, digital storytelling, curriculum design in digital media, and interactive multimedia art. Cornett has won numerous awards for design, illustration and interactive media, including Best of Show honors in the ADDY competitions. She is a registered Judge for the American Advertising Federation, and serves as a curriculum auditor for the Tennessee Board of Regents
, Atlanta, GA, USA in 1997. He is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at the University of New Haven. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at the State University of New York, Maritime College. He has practiced engineering in the petroleum, aerospace, integrated circuit fabrication and fiber-optics industries. Dr. Levert is a member of STLE, and ASME, and was awarded the best paper award by the ASME Tribology Division in October 2000 (as co-author) for ”Interfacial Fluid Mechanics and Pressure Prediction in Chemical Mechanical Polishing”.Dr. Junhui Zhao, University of New Haven American c Society for Engineering
the New Vision Engineering college preparatory program and at the John Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. He integrates his over thirty years of practical experience as a research, design, and systems engineer across academia, industry, and business into teaching methodologies. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Transdisciplinary Knowledge Approach using a Holistic Design Thinking Methodology for Engineering EducationMark J. Povinelli, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse UniversityIntroductionGiven the wealth of design practices, it is worth examining that engineering design educatorsoften lack methodologies for students that provide sufficiently
supervisors, this might be a limiting factor in otheruniversity climates.RecommendationsThe following sections will discuss recommendations for future courses or programssimilar to the practicum experience, as well as a model for how this experience could beimplemented for other graduate teaching experiences.General RecommendationsThe effectiveness of this engineering education practicum course indicates that it haspotential as a useful approach to GTA training and future engineering faculty training.Ground the course in relevant literature establishes the importance of constructingteaching strategies around established research and proven practices. This sentiment isechoed by the Innovations with Impact report published by ASEE as an important
Texas at El Paso Diane works diligently to support minorities, especially women in STEM and preparing future educators to be STEM strong in knowledge and skills. She is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and serves as the director for the University of Texas El Paso’s YES! She Can and STEMShine programs.Victor Manuel Garcia Jr., Victor Garcia is a doctoral student at The University of Texas at El Paso and a research assistant of the Yes She Can program from the College of Education. His research topics are in the areas of characterization and design of pavement materials, civil ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 “Work-in-Progress
criteria be used to effect similar change? (2) How can faculty responses to Swivl-based lecture capture be optimized? (3) What best practices emerge from a QM-based dashboard tool coupled with Swivl-capture technology?Prior to the pandemic, a need for QM-based capture tool was already forming. As The Citadelwas moving some courses and graduate programs online, even before the pandemic, programdirectors and institutional audits noted a disparity in online course delivery. A large number ofstudents taking certain online classes during the summer were failing or withdrawing. In many ofthese courses, the instructor had very little online presence, was communicating solely by emailwith the students and vice-versa, and providing no or very