: Throughout the project, I have learned plenty of skills. Some skills that I strengthened during this project were problem solving, designing of new parts, and integrating creative ideas to simulate something in the real world. Problem solving skills are essential to everyday life and especially in the field of engineering. These skills within this project showed through the process of designing the modular pieces to become something truly relevant in the real world and it proved to be difficult at some times. Throughout my high school and college career, I’ve loved designing new parts by using applications such as SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor. By designing the new parts such as spur gears, rack
Paper ID #32290Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of an Asynchronous OnlineElectric Circuits LaboratoryProf. Wesley G. Lawson, University of Maryland College Park Prof. Lawson has earned five degrees from the University of Maryland, including a Ph,D, in Electrical Engineering in 1985. In his professional career at College Park, where he has been a full professor since 1997, he has worked on high-power microwave devices, medical devices, and engineering education. He is an author or coauthor on 5 books and 72 refereed journal articles and over 200 conference presentations and publications.Dr. Jennifer L. Kouo
2020 terms. The survey consisted of twelve questions to determine the impact thatthe remote environment had on the course outcomes, the students' overall learning experience,and student preferences (see Table 2). Responses were collected using Likert scales, multiple-choice, and free-text formats. Table 2. Survey questions. Question Response Type Course Outcomes and Curriculum Q1. How relevant was this course in preparing you for a career as an Industrial Likert Scale Engineer? Q2. Which three Industrial Engineering
are satisfiedwith the design of the Engineering and Science Modeling course. The results suggest thatstudents achieve the course's objectives and get real-life experience working with the challengesin each avenue. The introductory course raises students' awareness of the different engineeringareas that might not interest them; however, they value the importance of those areas. Raisingstudents' awareness of the different engineering areas aligns with institutional efforts to helpstudents enter a globalized world and improve their interdisciplinary job market competencies.Another important conclusion is that the course helps students reflect on their career choices.After taking the course, some decided to change their degree in the School of
as a learning tool,” while another wrote, “problem solving takes going back and retrying,refitting, over and over again to get it right, or what you want it to be. Along the way you learnregardless.” Teachers especially liked the portion of the lessons where students wereconstructing, testing, and revising their designs, as this both engaged students and helped themlearn through trial and error, like engineers do. Interactive science centers are in a uniqueposition to provide opportunities for engineering education through K-12 field trip programs.Early experiences in engineering and science have been shown to be important for developing aninterest in STEM and motivation for pursuing STEM careers. The Engineering Explorationscurriculum
investigate the impact of an emotional experience coupled with a targeted ethical intervention,we used a sophomore level Experiential Learning Seminar (ExpLS) over the course of two years,Spring 2017 and Spring 2019, for a total of 50 students with 35 participating in the survey. Thesestudents had declared or were planning to declare their major in biomedical engineering. Thecourse met once a week for 50 minutes and was focused on building professional skills in areflective environment including team-building, communication, and leadership. Each year thecourse was run, there was a slightly different line up of topics ranging from the biodesign process,personal values, listening and empathy, future career plans, and ethics based on the faculty
Paper ID #33727Exploring Self-directed Learning Among Engineering Undergraduates in theExtensive Online Instruction Environment During the COVID-19 PandemicDr. Qin Liu, University of Toronto Dr. Qin Liu is Senior Research Associate with the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include engineering students’ competency development, learning assessment and career trajectories, and equity, diversity and inclusion issues in engineering education.Ms. Juliette Sweeney, University of Toronto
camps provide a hands-on experience tovisualize and correlate fundamental engineering concepts, thereby providing students a fundamentalgrasp and arise curious questions about several working principles in nature. These camps also help increating an interest and awareness about various engineering disciplines and assist them in decisionmaking related to a pathway for an engineering career. Engineering summer camps are generally held bythe College of Engineering that include hands-on projects and sometimes visualizations projects relatedto several engineering disciplines such as Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Computers, Civil, Industrial,Petroleum and more.Prior to COVID-19 pandemic, all engineering summer camps were held face-to-face with an
. The software programdescribed in this paper is an Excel spreadsheet, similar in concept to Burge and Leach but muchmore extensive in its reporting capabilities and without some of the problems inherent in theaveraging of student data (discussed later in this paper). III. Program assessment ABET program assessment is a complex undertaking. Every educational program has certainobjectives in mind. From the ABET standpoint, important evidence that a program is successfullyachieving its objectives comes from its graduates. Evidence of the degree to which graduateswere adequately prepared for their chosen field comes ideally from those who are 3-5 years intotheir careers. Surveys of alumni and other similar instruments often are used to provide
pages serve are engineering educators andfaculty members, similar to us, the authors of this paper. We are international engineeringeducators in the United States, who are in the early phases of our careers, and identify as womenof color. As universities switched to the online format during the Spring 2020 semester, we, likemany of our colleagues, had to adapt to new and unusual circumstances as well as makesignificant adjustments to our professional and personal lives. At the onset of the pandemic, wecreated a support group to share our experiences as we navigated these unprecedentedcircumstances. Through the course of the months following the sudden shift in learningenvironments, we continued to reflect and record our personal challenges of
thecurriculum to better prepare students for their future careers. His three courses though were allon-campus and viewed from one instructor's perspective. The challenges he faced were budget,logistics, and course workload issues and he plans to address them in his future work.Team formation is always a challenging task in a group design project. It is always a dilemmawhere the students will select their team members or the instructor will assign the team members.However, it is found that the success of a team doesn't depend on the team formation procedure[18]. In a second-year client-centered design course at the University of Ottawa, the teams wereformed in two ways by dividing the students into two groups. One group could pick their teammembers as
viewed asemployees. In this view, students develop the engineering knowledge and skills they need fortheir career, akin to employees producing products to a specification. As with an assembledproduct, the quality of the value-added process at each stage of a manufacturing process directlyimpacts downstream components, especially if there is a direct reliance for a particularrequirement. For example, calculus is required in nearly all engineering courses, and competencyin calculus can be analogous to quality of an input stage early in the manufacturing processinitiated by the employee.Finally, we present a learner-centered course redesign of a statics course to show theapplicability of modern manufacturing principles towards improving engineering
University (2014-2017). Throughout his career, his primary responsibility as a faculty member has been teaching students, for which he aspires to provide them with a quality and enjoyable experience. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 AMechanics Race: An Exam Review ActivityAbstractReviewing for exams can sometimes be tedious and overwhelming for students. While it isimperative the students know the content for the exams, reviewing concepts only or usinginstructor-solved examples may not help prepare the students as well as if the students practicedproblems.Welcome to AMechanics Race! In this engaging activity, teams of students race around
Paper ID #34756A Model for Conducting K-12 STEM Summer Outreach Programs DuringtheCOVID-19 PandemicDr. William A. Kitch, Angelo State University Dr. Kitch is Professor and Chair of the David L. Hirschfeld Department of Engineering at Angelo State University. Before starting his academic career he spent 24 years as a practicing engineer in both the public and private sector. He is a registered professional engineer in Colorado, California and TexasMs. Andrea L. Robledo, Angelo State University Dr. Andrea Robledo received her PhD in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Indiana University. Dr. Robledo currently serves as
mightthey be feeling? What might they be seeing? What might they be hearing? Can you see yourselfin the subjects or do you see someone distinctly different from you? Can you hear your ownvoice narrating or the voice of someone you know? Can you feel what they are feeling or are youchallenged by the unfamiliarity of the narratives?The Circle DanceOn a round stage, circling the point of engineering identity, I fix my eyes on the identity I aspire to.Circling and circling my eyes stay fixed on the goal. All of me committed to an idea, my education, my career, my thoughts, my values, my sense of worth, my ego, my paradigm… me. I am going to be an engineer.Standing, tightly circling in place, on the point of
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Testing lab at Missouri S&T, teaches mechanics of materials and develops digital educational resources for the engineering students. He had the opportunity of leading several scientific and industrial research projects and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students. Over the span of his career, Dr. Libre authored and co-authored 3 chapter books, 17 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 60 conference papers. He has advised and co-advised 8 gradu- ate students and mentored over 30 undergraduate students. He has collaborated with scholars from several countries, including Iran, China, Slovenia, Canada, and the US. He also served as a reviewer for 6 journals and a committee member of 5 conferences. He is the
struggles faced by our participants intheir studies and in their efforts to graduate and pursue their professional pathways. Theparticular challenges faced by transfronterizx students in this study included: getting andmaintaining a student visa; struggles to cross the border; limits on professional trajectoriesbecause of citizenship status; and navigating a lack of diversity in career settings. Participantsdescribed overcoming these sociopolitical challenges by persevering through their majors tokeep their immigration status, showing tenacity through internship and job rejections, andfinding resilience to graduate and find a job. In this section, we highlight illustrative examplesof engineering/CS students in navigating these sociopolitical
Course and Lab Projects Development Director at Stanford, where he brings his 25-year industry experience to the role. He is responsible for the ongoing strategy, design, curriculum plan and instruction plans for capstone courses in the Mechanical Engineering Department, as part of a broad effort to redesign the curriculum requirements for the undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering. Jeff has over twenty years’ product development and manufacturing experience bringing medical and consumer products to market, through the course of my career journey with Apple, SGI, Nektar, Boston Scientific and Amazon/Lab126. In addition to working with and training engineers in industry, his 9+ years coaching and teaching
? o What approaches or activities do you provide that are valuable to students? In what ways are these valuable for their pathway towards a future career? o Do your instructional approaches provide more value than what they can get from competing resources (such as reading a book or online materials)?• Key Activities: The key activities are your instructional approaches that you use in the course. These include 1) instructional strategies to teach (i.e., lecture, active learning), activities students do (i.e., group work, projects), and assessment strategies (tests, homework, etc.). When considering your key activities, consider the following: o When considering your value propositions
. This means that subjective improvements demonstrated in survey knowledgeratings were also accompanied by objective improvements according to the course assessmentmechanisms, which presents a strong case that the modules are effective in educating participantsfor what is assessed and that they align with the learning goals set forth for this project.5.3 Anecdotal feedback from students and STEM professionalsA mid-career professional who used the materials as a graduate student, commented, “Iparticularly appreciated...using the teaching tools you and your students have developed. Quitehonestly, I wish they were around when I was in undergrad - I would have understood the materialso much more easily!” Two personnel from the Naval
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NSF.References[1] National Academy of Engineering, Understanding the educational and Career pathways of engineers. Washington, DC: The National Academic Press, 2018.[2] H. Diefes-Dux and W. W. A. W. Salim, “Transforming the First-Year Engineering Experience through Authentic Problem-Solving: Taking a Models and Modeling Perspective,” Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 56. No. 8, pp. 314–332, 2012.[3] C. L. Dym, A. M. Agogino, O. Eris, D. D. Frey, and L. J. Leifer, “Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching, and Learning,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, no. 1 pp. 103-120, 2005.[4] L. Bosman, E. Kim, G. Strimel, “Informed Design through the Integration of Entrepreneurial Thinking in
interest for thestructured review; 2) the career status of the participant; 3) a commitment to co-author a structuredreview as part of the workshop; and 4) prior experience with authoring reviews.Workshop organizers:1. DanielB.Oerther,PhD,PE,BCEE,FellowoftheAmericanAcademyofNursing,Professorof environmentalhealthengineering,MissouriUniversityofScienceandTechnology, oertherd@mst.edu2. HeatherRoss,PhD,DNP,RN,FellowoftheAmericanAcademyofNursePractitioners, Professorofnursingandhealthinnovation,ArizonaStateUniversity, Heather.M.Ross@asu.edu3. PascalSaikaly,PhD,Professor,KingAbdullahUniversityofScienceandTechnology, pascal.saikaly@kaust.edu.sa4. MuhammadAli,PhD,Postdoctoralfellow,KingAbdullahUniversityofScienceand Technology,muhammad.ali
intend that the change we’ve made to our laboratory courses to equip thestudents with function lab equipment to use at their remote locations will maximize theprobability that all students are able to gain suitable practical laboratory experience that isimportant for their career. Vutukuru6 reports that remote electronic laboratory students weremore engaged and eager to learn by building circuits in the comfort of their own homes thanwhen on campus. Vutukuru also reports that laboratory exercises were creatively adapted so thatstudents got a full laboratory experience though remotely. We believe that the adaptability andinnovation that Vutukuru discusses is a key component that can lead to positive studentlaboratory experiences in spite of the
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further develop problem solving and communication skills [19]. Inmechanical engineering programs, a component design course is traditional in the junior year. Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE North Midwest Sectional ConferencePenn State has attempted to improve its relevance by using open-ended design problems tointroduce component design topics [34]. Although the courses may not be dedicated to design,some design content has been added to many engineering science courses in the sophomore andjunior years. The University of Hartford has successfully incorporated design project workthroughout a students’ academic career [35].Hands-On LearningStudents learn by seeing, hearing, acting, reasoning, memorizing and visualizing. A
relating nanofiberfabrication and characterization such as SEM, which also benefit their future career developmentin the field relevant to nanoscale science and engineering. In addition, these successful designprojects also allow the author to formulate standard design project modules for expanding theseprojects to research border students at NDSU and other universities.4. Concluding remarks This paper has introduced the author’s and his colleagues’ ongoing activities onimplementation of hands-on nanofabrication projects into traditional mechanical design courses.Several successful design projects have been introduced and discussed. Such an effort would begreatly beneficial to undergraduate’s nanoscale science and engineering education and
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