Division of the American Society for Engineering Education for her commitment to innovation in teaching and potential to make substantial contributions to engineering education. Prior to joining the Polytechnic School, Dr. Coley served as the Associate Director for the Center for Diversity in Engineering at the University of Virginia and as a policy fellow at the National Science Foundation. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 An exploration of the diverse stories of engineering students at community colleges: Findings from year oneAbstractIn this NSF-funded Research in the Formation of Engineering (RFE) project, we are exploringthe unique experiences of
optics, microfluidics and devices that interface to the biological world. Dr. Dickerson is also interested in enhancing undergraduate engineering education, and investigates new and innovative methods for improving the learning experience for electrical and computer engineering students.Dr. Renee M Clark, University of Pittsburgh Renee Clark is Research Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Director of Assessment for the Engineering Education Research Center (EERC) in the Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh. She conducts research on education projects that focus on active learning and engineering professional development. Current research includes the propagation of active learning
inthe areas of mathematics, physics, computing, and electrical and computer engineering theoryand practice.A distinction of our hands-on curriculum is the senior design experience. All senior engineeringstudents participate in year-long design projects sponsored by local companies. Teams of fourstudents, advised by industry professionals and faculty members, bridge the gap betweeneducational and real-world experiences by working on practical design projects, preparingengineering reports, delivering oral presentations and responding to review comments from asponsoring company. Final project presentations are given on Projects Day, an annual eventthat takes place at the end of the spring quarter.The main objective of this project was to increase
); attend presentations given by NA STEM graduate students,Sloan Scholars, and Native American STEM faculty; as well as participate in other activitiesdesigned to support and encourage graduate school through our partnership with UndergraduateResearch Opportunities Consortium (UROC). Students who have successfully completed thisprogram have gained essential scientific knowledge related to their projects, professionaldevelopment skills that will help them excel as engineers and/or scientists, gain confidence andskills to apply for and succeed in graduate school, and develop relationships with peers andfaculty that will open doors for them throughout the remainder of their academic careers andbeyond [3].Research MotivationThrough CIAN’s partnerships
energy and smart grid.” We discuss the recruitment mechanisms in place (advertisingstrategies, community college visits, and class visits), activities (practicum, research projects, andfield trips), application procedure, and the impact of these scholarships in enabling studentscontinue their studies with a higher quality. Our evaluation results via midterm and exit surveyshave indicated the significant positive impact these NSF scholarships have had on the students’grades, life balance, and even the ability to stay in school.Scholarship ProgramFig. 1 shows an overview of our recruiting strategy. Students pursuing the Bachelor’s degree withan emphasis in electric energy and the smart grid are recruited from one of the two groups. The
theclassroom. The expectation is that students who experience classrooms led by ISE-2 faculty willhave higher engagement, success, and retention than students in non-ISE-2 classes. Additionally,although students from all backgrounds are expected to benefit from experiencing ISE-2classrooms, underrepresented minority (URM) students in Engineering programs (i.e., women,ethnic minorities, first generation) are expected to have an even greater positive outcome thantheir non-minority peers, because the content of the development program directly addressessome of the causes of experiences that lead URM students to report feeling less welcomed in thefield of Engineering [1], [2]. The project period is March 1, 2017 to February 29, 2020 [3].As part of the
a licensed Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania since 1998. Dr. Walters worked in industry as a process controls and automation engineer for eighteen years prior to joining the faculty at Behrend in 2010. Most of his experience is in the design, development, and commis- sioning of PLC-based control systems for the food & beverage and cement industries. He has developed and teaches a course on PLC-based control systems for engineers. He also teaches a course on advanced digital design using FPGAs, a course on embedded systems using 8- and 32-bit microcontrollers, and the two-semester capstone project sequence for electrical and computer engineers at Behrend.Dr. Jessica Resig, Pennsylvania State University Dr
system increases homework motivation instruggling students and is as effective as paper-and-pencil-based homework for teaching methodof joints truss analysis. In focus groups, students believed the system enhanced their learning andincreased engagement. This project will assess a range of engineering education researchquestions as well as have a broader impact through its positive impact on at-risk students. Toobserve the effectiveness of this system for this project, it has been implemented into variouscourses at three universities, with two additional universities planning to use the system withinthe next year. Student knowledge is measured using Concept Inventories based in both Physicsand Statics, common exam questions, and assignments
. Furthermore, it has alsobeen widely cited in industrial literature that there is a concern regarding the job readiness offresh college graduates and the gaps in skills sets needed to be successful in an industrial setting,especially in the engineering or manufacturing fields. One approach to bridge the skills gap is toprovide customized continuing education to current the workforce as per the industry need. Thispaper presents a case study of such customized continuing education offered by Texas A&MUniversity for oil and gas industry in Houston, Texas. Specifically, as a part of National ScienceFoundation Advanced Technological Education project, two professional development sessionswere organized in the summer of 2018 in Houston targeting the
Education, 2016 Engineering Ambassadors Network: Progress in 2015 on Creating a National Network of AmbassadorsSummary and Introduction To solve today’s engineering challenges, we need a wide range of solutions, which can berealized only by having enough engineers with diverse and strong technical backgrounds.Workforce studies have shown that the number of students being educated in STEM (science,technology, engineering, and math) cannot meet projected demands.1 Also, the currentenrollments in engineering are not diverse, especially among women, blacks, and Hispanics.2 Onanother issue, a survey of engineers in industry indicates a compelling need for engineers to havestrong communication skills.3 The
teaching and doing research.Dr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 20 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since 2004, she been a member of the NSF-funded MIDFIELD research project on engineering education; she has served as a Co-PI on three research projects, including one on transfer students and another on student veterans in engineering.Michelle M
relating to the technical details of a particular project component or part, thetechnical or mechanical details of the larger product being created, and the immediate existingstructure surrounding the project – including course requirements or team competition rules. Anumber of students also mentioned considerations relating to the temporal elements of aproblem. For many, this meant an emphasis on the project timeline or time as a factor thatrestricted them from exploring other solutions. Several students mentioned looking at howsimilar projects had been addressed previously or how they might adapt their solution in thefuture.Other types of factors were less commonly mentioned among undergraduate engineers. Severalstudents mentioned factors
Networking (SDN) has been a core technology in cloud computing and other cyber-physical systems whereSDN facilitates network management and enables network programmability and efficient network configuration to improvenetwork performance, monitoring, and security. In this paper, we will demonstrate our great efforts in the development of GENIand SDN learning and experimental modules for computer networking and security courses in order to achieve the goal of ourfunded NSF project. Specifically, we will first present our methodology for the design of our modules and then give the detail ofGENI and SDN modules including GENI account setup and resource reservation, measurement tool labs, as well as SDNlabs for network traffic management and the
- year college. The program's objectives are to (1) increase the number of financially needy and academically talented students who graduate or transfer in a STEM program and (2) improve the retention and completion rates of STEM students through individualized and group support systems. The project was launched in the fall semester of 2016. Up to 60 students will receive full scholarships and support over five years to aid in their completion of a two-year program for graduation or transfer in either Chemistry, Physics, or Engineering. A central feature of the program is the use of a STEM Student Success Coach as the first line of support for participating STEM students. The Student Success Coach provides personal one-on-one
laboratory projects for teaching topics inprototyping, fluid mechanics, chemical kinetics, electrochemistry, separation science, heat andmass transfer, process control, biotechnology, materials science, and image processing.Microfluidicis is also an useful gateway for introducing engineering students to biotechnologyand biomedical fields, since many chemical and biotechnology processes done on the chemistrylab bench can be translated to microfluidic formats. Moreover, microfluidics is emerging as animportant commercial technology, and engineering students will be well served by gainingknowledge and experience in this field. A typical microfluidic system is centered around a credit-card sized plastic ‘lab on a chip’ thathosts a fluidic network of
classification scheme to accurately determine specific coursecontent when considering credit awarded for transfers, to develop introductory engineeringcoursework, formulate course foci, and to identify and fund efforts toward appropriateassessment gaps.MethodologyThis project involves a study and the development of a classification scheme for courses meant tointroduce engineering to first-year engineering students. Such courses are typically entitled“Introduction to Engineering” or similar; yet, this course title can describe fundamentally differentcourses. For instance, an introduction course with weekly presentations from differentdepartments is fundamentally different than one with an outcome to cover programming skills.With the various nuances and
CoachingPeer mentoring and reciprocal peer coaching are integral components of our project, as weexpect the engineering peer mentors to provide real-time, instructive feedback as well asguidance on efficient study habits to students enrolled in calculus and who are consideringengineering as an academic major. Moreover, we use peer mentors to connect students to campusresources as well as to one another. Peer mentoring is regarded as a successful intervention toaddress issues of student retention in academic programs12. Peer mentoring, as defined byKram13 is “a helping relationship in which two individuals of similar age and/or experience cometogether … in the pursuit of fulfilling some combination of functions that are career-related andpsychosocial
the viewer’s attention and conveying explanations more effectively22. On the otherhand, the Internet’s interactive feature is usually utilized well but its advantage to learningevaluation is often neglected. For example, the Internet provides the teaching-learning process anefficient and automatic means to receive un-biased feedback by designed assessmentfunctions19,26. A dynamic tracking system embedded in the Internet accessible interactivityteaching software is highly desirable to use the Internet’s un-biased and online feedback featureto influence evaluation.Educational Hypothesis and Project ObjectiveThe motivation to start the project was to match student’s learning style10, “I hear and I forget, Isee and I remember, I do and I
, andinternational field. There is a clear need for a standardized terminology and organizational system – a setof keywords – to map the field and communicate research initiatives. Such a taxonomy could providemultiple benefits, including: better connections between research and researchers; more accessible research results, recognition for and identification of emerging research areas, a way to describe the diversity of engineering education research areas, and a common terminology with which researchers could frame their efforts.The goals of our NSF-funded project, then, are two fold: (1) to develop a comprehensive taxonomy ofkeywords that could be used to describe engineering education research projects, publications, authors,and
graduate school and that if they can do it, then certainly others like them can. This messagehas been very reassuring to students such as the 3.8 GPA student who feels that s/he just isn’treally “smart” enough for graduate school. We also talk about the “imposter syndrome” andstudents are amazed to learn that many students with good GPAs have feelings of inadequacywithout any real cause.V. ProgrammingThe programming and assignments are changed each semester. The “Guaranteed 4.0 Plan” is astaple for the students and the first meeting each semester is devoted to this topic. A new topicthis semester was “mentoring” presented by the project co-PI. The students were encouraged toinvite mentors to help them with different aspects of their lives.In the
personality characteristics that contribute to a lack of willingness to implement innovations, aswell as a lack of knowledge about engineering education research; and (2) environmentalperceptions, such as perceptions of the tenure and promotion process that suggest a lack ofsupport for innovations.The project discussed in this paper investigates the characteristics of faculty members whosuccessfully adopt engineering education innovations and studies the impact of their workingenvironment on their decision to adopt. Additionally, the project investigates characteristics offaculty members who do not adopt engineering education innovations and whether that decisionwas affected by perceptions of their working environment.This paper describes preliminary
interests include collaborating on the Dynamics Concept Inventory, developing model-eliciting activities in mechanical engineering courses, inquiry-based learning in mechanics, and design projects to help promote adapted physical activities. Other professional interests include aviation physiology and biomechanics.Mathew Bissonnette Page 25.1041.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Physical Experiments to Enhance Model-Eliciting Activity ImplementationAbstractModel-Eliciting Activities (MEAs) use open-ended case studies to simulate
2020. The majority, constituting 41%, is allocated to debugging. Due to theuncertainty in the debug time and the time requires to fix the bugs, the debugging process hasgained the nickname of the Schedule Killer [10], highlighting its impact on the project scheduleand the company’s bottom line. 1 In this paper, we interchangeably refer to verification engineers and validation engineers. Design Engineers Verification Engineers 12 10 Design Projects 8 6 4 2
to enrollment in engineering majors. Perceptions of pre-college robotics focused oncompetitions can prevent some students from participating. By broadening the applications ofrobotics to human-centered designs and bringing soft material robotics into classroom curricula,the field of soft robotics may be a platform to engage a diversity of students in K12 robotics andlater, engineering majors. Until recently, most soft robotics work resided in university researchlabs or as K12 activities presented through practitioner-delivered outreach events. Until softrobot activities are put in the hands of teachers, their reach remains limited. In this project, weleveraged teacher input to develop and deliver an introduction to soft robotics
privateuniversities to promote transfer capital and student engagement in STEM transfer students. There are fourobjectives of the project. The first objective is to increase the number of academically talented and low-income students that transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions. The second objective isto improve the retention and graduation rates of CC transfer students in STEM fields byproviding them with evidence-based curricular activities, co-curricular activities, and support services.The third objective is to increase the number of students placed into STEM graduate programs orprofessional positions by providing intensive faculty mentoring and research opportunities. The finalobjective is to generate new knowledge about how
engineering education, design and manufacturing, automation and robotics, machine learning/deep learning, computational optimization, and mariner and offshore safety.ROBERTO G DIMALIWATPeter Weber, University of HoustonMs. Dua Chaker, University of Colorado Boulder Dua Chaker is a Senior Project Engineer at TeachEngineering- a free online collective of K-12 STEM resources – within the National Center of Women & Information Technology at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dua graduated summa cum laude from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. With a career spanning over a decade, Dua has been an integral part of the TeachEngineering team since 2011. She leads the
Intersection of Roles, Responsibilities, and Care in Engineering Graduate EducationMotivationWhether in response to the mental health crisis or the widespread inequities and discriminationwithin engineering graduate programs, the graduate engineering education community needs totake targeted action to create change and healing from standing systemic issues. Research inengineering graduate education, up to this point, has focused almost exclusively on studies ofstudent experiences, advisors, and departmental policies. Yet, the graduate education system iscomposed of many more stakeholders who impact and are impacted by graduate student mentalhealth and wellbeing. This collaborative research project focuses on one such
Page 24.1022.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Promoting the Adoption of Innovative Teaching Practices by Transportation Engineering Faculty in a WorkshopIntroductionThe National Transportation Curriculum Project (NTCP), a consortium of researchers fromfifteen colleges and universities, is concerned with the development, dissemination, andwidespread adoption of curricular materials and best practices in transportation engineeringeducation [1]. In 2012, the NTCP hosted a two-day Transportation Engineering EducationWorkshop (TEEW) to facilitate the collaborative development and adoption of active learningand conceptual-assessment exercises for the introduction to
member the Board of Governors of the IEEE Education Society. He was the 2002–2006 President of Tau Beta Pi.Dr. Richard A. Layton P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Page 24.1289.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Understanding Diverse Pathways: Disciplinary Trajectories of Engineering Students—NSF REE Grant 1129383Project goalsThis project focuses on examining the research question “How do the trajectories of engineeringstudents in different engineering disciplines vary by both race and gender?” Trajectories aremeasured at matriculation, four years later
project: An empirical evaluation. Applied Measurement in Education,22(3), 290-308.Page |3 January 7, 2013 NSF CCLI Phase 3 Grant 0817403, SMARTER Teamwork: System for Management, Assessment, Research, Training, Education, and Remediation for Teamwork 6. Loughry, M.L., M.W. Ohland, and D.D. Moore. Development of a Theory-Based Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 6 2007; vol. 67: pp. 505 – 524. 7. Ohland, M. W., Layton, R. A., Loughry, M. L., & Yuhasz, A. G. (2005). Effects of behavioral anchors on peer evaluation reliability. Journal of Engineering Education, 94(3), 319-326. 8. Kaufman, D