extended beyond my discipline curriculum and I believe it has a great impact on improving my professional skills preparing me for my future career. While participating in this project, I had the opportunity to practice and integrate much of the knowledge I learned during my three years of course work as an undergraduate student. Working in the renewable energy lab in a team of two with an expert professor, enhanced my communication abilities; team working skills; and added a valuable experience that I could not obtain during my usual course work. Throughout the time I spent working on this project, I had the chance to express my ideas and think critically and independently in solving related problems
. Prior to beginning her PhD, she worked for almost 7 years at Stanford University as a Certified Athletic Trainer.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and associate professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information & Learning Sciences program and in the Chemical & Biological Engineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Education / Spencer Post- doctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in
technological solutions that address pressing societal needs at the intersection of health care and engineering. Dr. Sienko is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and several teaching awards including the ASME Engineering Education Donald N. Zwiep Innova- tion in Education Award, UM Teaching Innovation Prize, UM Undergraduate Teaching Award, and UM Distinguished Professor Award.Mrs. Amy Hortop, University of MichiganMs. Elizabeth Ann Strehl, University of Michigan Elizabeth is an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan studying Biomedical Engineering and Applied Mathematics. She has worked as a research assistant for Dr. Robin Fowler in the Technical Communication Department of the College of Engineering for
would be unbeneficial to compare the scoreswithout having a record of teaching methods and styles.The flipped course presented in this paper indicates that students’ interests can be retained withmore hands-on activities. This came into agreement with other studies such as [11], [12] and [13].Compared to conventional, instructor-centered based courses, PBL learning techniques offer abetter vehicle to retain concept, providing richer context in which a topic can be learned andpracticed at the same time. This not only retains students’ interests and helps them understand theconcept, but also helps prepare them succeed rapidly in their future careers as most companies relyon team work, critical-logical thinking, complex problem solving in their
Paper ID #25692The CEBOK3 and ABET Accreditation Criteria: A Gap AnalysisDr. Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama Kenneth J. Fridley is the Senior Associate Dean for the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama. Prior to his current appointment, Fridley served as Professor and Head of the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alabama. Dr. Fridley has been recognized as a dedicated educator throughout his career and has received several awards for his teaching efforts, including the ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) Leadership Award in 2010
still do, that engineeringgraduates will have better career and advancement opportunities, but it is too early to confirmwhether that is indeed true or not. For the employers of our graduates, we believed that withengineering programs we would be able to provide them with better prepared graduates than wecould with the engineering technology programs. Part of this was due to aforementioned increasein foundational math and science courses, and the ability to achieve more depth in upper-divisioncourses as a result. In addition, we knew that we would be able to increase the number of creditsin the programs as we transitioned from engineering technology to engineering, so we felt that wecould add content without having to give up any content that
exclusively in those states that have adopted the Next Generation ScienceStandards, which include engineering performance expectations at all grades [1]. Aside from itsinclusion in the NGSS, there are many reasons for even the youngest K-12 students to learn toengineer. Engineering is motivating for students, engages their creativity, introduces them toengineering careers and helps to reinforce and apply scientific and mathematical knowledge [2-5]. Engineers and K-12 students alike use iterative engineering design processes to solveproblems [3, 6-8]. The designed solution to a problem is often an object (e.g., a bridge), but canalso be a system or process. In the early part of design processes, students: define the problem;consider relevant knowledge
students to learn more about STEM and possibly choose it as afuture career. While these hopes were future-oriented, they were also intentionally part of thelessons and activities. Jill explained her hope that students will take on STEM identities whileengaged in classroom work, I would love for them to start to be little engineers where they are keeping their own little engineering notebook and saying okay this is how I’m going to make a table, this is what the table is going to look like and then make the graph afterwards.By putting students in the position of STEM professionals in the classroom, Bob had similarhopes, “And so, hopefully, and maybe no one will from there, but I hope some of the kidsthere…maybe they will want to
], [6].Commercial success was based on Hyatt’s development of a technology for molding celluloid,and the use of the substance persisted until 1949, eventually replaced by newer, less flammableplastics. His machine has been hailed as a “direct forerunner” of modern injection molding [5].Hyatt’s invention foreshadowed a manufacturing revolution, starting with the successful launchof Bakelite in 1907, developed by Belgian-born scientist Leo Baekeland, who graduated from theUniversity of Ghent with a degree in chemistry and began work as an assistant professor. After ashort career of teaching pure chemistry, however, he discovered that he was more interested inapplications, and he and his new wife immigrated to the US in 1889, where he began work
Post- doctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a two-strand research program focused on (1) authentic assessment, often aided by interactive technology, and (2) design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Dr. Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico Jamie Gomez, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer III in the department of Chemical & Biological Engineering (CBE) at the University of New Mexico. She is a co- principal investigator for the following National Science
perspectives.Notwithstanding the issue of finance, or indicators of issues for research raised by this study,as for example, levels of required mathematical attainment, Krupczak shows there is plentyof research to be done in this area that is not being done and should be done. He writes,“one suggestion for research might be to inquire of those engineers whose career paths haveled them out of engineering into positions in which they are making contributions in otherspheres of activity. Engineering is well known for the fact that many formally trained asengineers are now fulfilling other responsibilities that may also be occupied by individualswith other types of formal training. All types of business and management are obviousexamples but individuals formally trained
degree from Clemson University. His research interests focus on teacher education and students learning issues within Engineering Education/Pedagogy and Computa- tional Thinking/Pedagogy field of studies. He received national and international recognitions including an Early Career Researcher award from European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) and a Jhumki Basu Scholar award from National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST). In addition, he is one of two scholarship recipients awarded by NARST to attend the ESERA summer re- ˇ e Budˇejovice, Czech Republic in 2016. He can be reached at iyeter@purdue.edu. search program in Cesk´Dr. Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Campbell
members of the “ADA Generation,” or the first children togrow up with legally mandated access to education. The oldest of these young people are now intheir late twenties and early thirties, still fairly early in their careers. Since they were often thefirst Deaf students in their engineering programs, their engineering educations have beenconducted, with very few exceptions, entirely in spoken English.The state of sign language usage in postsecondary engineering educationDeaf engineers and their sign language interpreters (hereafter, “interpreters” will refer to signlanguage interpreters in this paper) have been using sign language to communicate abouttechnical topics for many years. However, due to Deaf engineers largely being educated
Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). https://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/faculty/kristen- bethke-wendellNicole Alexandra Batrouny, Tufts University PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University. Interests: upper elementary engineering education, integrated science and engineering, collaboration in engineering, decision making in engineer- ing.Dr. Tejaswini S. Dalvi, Univeristy of Massachusetts, Boston c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Elementary Students Navigating the Demands of Giving Engineering Design Peer Feedback (Fundamental) Throughout the design process, practicing engineers seek out feedback on their
first Ph.D. in me- chanical engineering from National University of Singapore in 1997. She served as Assistant Professor and subsequently Associate Professor in mechatronics engineering at University of Adelaide, Australia, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, respectively. In 2006, she resigned from her faculty job and came to Connecticut for family reunion. Throughout her academic career in Australia and Sin- gapore, she had developed a very strong interest in learning psychology and educational measurement. She then opted for a second Ph.D. in educational psychology, specialized in measurement, evaluation and assessment at University of Connecticut. She earned her second Ph.D. in 2010. Li has a unique
Engineering in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He completed his PhD degree majoring in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Engineering Education and minoring in Educational Psychology as well as an MS degree in Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University. He also obtained an MEd degree from Clemson University. His research interests focus on teacher education and students learning issues within Engineering Education/Pedagogy and Computa- tional Thinking/Pedagogy field of studies. He received national and international recognitions including an Early Career Researcher award from European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) and a Jhumki Basu Scholar award from National
reflective engineer will be something that will encompass my entire engineering career but I feel that I am much more aware now, and this class is a direct link to this positive lifestyle.” —Student 03One student at a time... 13 of 20Acknowledgements The pilot course described here was conducted with partial support from Texas TechUniversity under a Seed Grant for Interdisciplinary Research. The data analysis and paperwriting were conducted with partial support from the National Science Foundation under GrantNo. 1806889. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily
, construction, experimentation,and data analysis skills. Student feedback collected for each course offering indicated thatstudents had a better visual and physical understanding of various steel LFRS systems byundergoing the complete cycle of design, fabrication, testing, and analysis. As a result, studentswere able to more fully comprehend consequences of their design decisions, lessons which theywill hopefully draw on in their future structural engineering career focusing on seismic design.IntroductionAn undergraduate course in structural steel design is typical in the civil (structures focus) andarchitectural engineering degree track. Common curriculum for this course is the analysis anddesign of: (i) steel and composite members subject to
associate professor and Associate School Head in the School of Civil and Environmen- tal Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a study to characterize prac- ticing engineers’ understandings of core engineering concepts. He is a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education.Mr. Matthew Stephen Barner, Oregon State University M.S. student at Oregon State University working under Dr. Shane Brown. Research interests include: engineering education, diffusions of innovation, concerns-based adoption model, conceptual change theory, and earthquake engineering.Dr. Masoud Ghodrat
when possible. Encourage students to attend relevant extracurricular activities. Encourage teamwork, group projects, etc. Highlight relevant news or current events relevant to the course. Relate course material to familiar phenomenon and problems that students may be called upon to solve in their intended careers. ○ Get to class early and post something on the screen (the NASA picture of the day or equivalent, quote, physical object on document camera, etc.) and ask students: what do you notice? What do you wonder? Spend the first few minutes of class talking about it. -- from Chapter 7 in [5] ○ Resources: i) Everyday Engineering Examples - blog
abstract learning and higher order thinking ability. Authors found that therewere no significant gender differences in CS skills, and the activity encouraged both men andwomen and can potentially solve the problem of underrepresentation of female students incomputer science. Authors also reported that females scored much better on higher-order thinkingskills in comparison to men.Similarly, using a mix-method design, Cakir et al. (2017) developed and evaluated a game-designworkshop in order to improve young girls’ abilities of programming and consequently enhancetheir views of the CS career. Changing young girls’ attitude help them develop their identity as acomputer scientist. Analysis of surveys, interviews and game content indicated that the
strategies in their classroom, andprepare them to value effective teaching as part of their career aspirations [5]. Furthermore,Eddy, Converse, and Wenderoth [8] discuss how these strategies developed to encourage activelearning need to acknowledge the day-to-day life of faculty as well as potential barriers describedin the literature, such as the limited effort to train faculty members on teaching methods. At theindividual level, faculty may not recognize that their teaching strategies are not as effective asother strategies; professors can lack clarity of what active learning is, or how to engage studentsin active learning strategies, and finally, they doubt about the implementation of the teachingtechniques [10], [11], [12]. Moreover, literature
general, free response question about the course saw 19% (N =99) of the students mention the escape room projects. Of those comments, 68% were positive.The following are examples of these responses: “The strength of this course is giving students projects to work on and then letting them run with it and make their own creative solution” “I was very proud of the outcome of our project this semester.” “It may be the only time in your engineering career where your homework is to make an Escape Room, so get into it! It will be more enjoyable if you actually try.” “He makes the class fun and interesting, and his puzzle theme is engaging! ” “The long term team project really puts all
University in 2015.Dr. Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, Indiana-Purdue University Soheil FatehiBoroujeni received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Merced in 2018. As a postdoctoral researcher at Purdue University, School of Engineering Education, Soheil is working on a multi-institutional project characterizing governance processes related to change in engineering education, and pursuing other research interests in epistemology and design, among other philosophical topics in engineering education.Dr. Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato Jennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial
Paper ID #25395Achieving the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge in the Affective DomainDr. Norman D. Dennis Jr. P.E., University of Arkansas Norman D. Dennis, Jr., is a University Professor of Civil Engineering serving as the Senior Associate Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Before joining the U of A faculty in 1996, he served in the US Army as an engineer officer for 24 years. During his military career Dennis had the unique opportunity to build roads, airfields and other facilities on five different continents and spend over 11 years as a member of the faculty at the US
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