student attributeson student grades and course evaluations. The data come from undergraduate courses given atthe University of Texas at Austin during the 1992 through 1998 calendar years. Instructorexperience, standing, and gender; course department and credit hours; and student classification,test scores, gender, and other variables are used to explain variation in both grades andevaluation scores. The results of multivariate weighted-least-squares regressions of average grades givenacross a sample of over 2,500 courses suggest that the average male instructor assigns lowergrades than female instructors, while lecturers and teaching assistants assign higher grades thanfull, associate, assistant, and adjunct faculty. Instructors teaching
Electrical andComputing Engineering (ECE), and educational researchers from the Teaching + LearningCommons at UC San Diego. The study is based on data collected from Fall 2021 to Fall 2022.Over 5 quarters, a team of 7 faculty from MAE and ECE designed and implemented oral examsin 13 undergraduate engineering classes (9 unique courses): ● MAE 30A Statics and Introduction to Dynamics ● MAE 30B Dynamics and vibrations ● MAE 131A Solid Mechanics I ● MAE 131B Solid Mechanics II ● MAE 107 Computational Methods in Engineering ● MAE 8 MATLAB Programming for Engineering Analysis ● ECE 35 Introduction to Analog Design ● ECE 65 Components and Circuits Laboratory ● ECE 101 Linear Systems Fundamentals ● ECE 144 LabVIEW
Paper ID #38326S-STEM: Creating Retention and Engagement forAcademically Talented Engineers - successes and challengesIndira Chatterjee (Associate Dean of Engineering)Kelsey Scalaro (Graduate Student) Kelsey is an engineering education Ph.D. student at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has a master's degree in mechanical engineering and 5 years of experience working in the aerospace industry. Her research focuses on identity development and motivation. After graduation, she plans on teaching project-oriented mechanical engineering classes or returning to industry working in training or retention.Ann-Marie
University. Ms. Kurr completed her Spanish Business Certificate from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Energy Science and Engineering from the University of Tennessee’s Bredesen Center. In her free time, Ms. Kurr sits on the Standard Technical Panel for Underwriters Laboratories UL-746 (polymer materials) and serves as a professional development facilitator for Tau Beta Pi’s – The Engineering Honor Society – Engineering Futures Program and the National Science Foundation-funded CyberAmbassadors Program.Mr. Jimmy A. Landmesser Jr., UT-Battelle Mr. Landmesser has 14 years of experience as a fire protection, nuclear and systems engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Upon
AC 2008-2883: THE TEXAS SPACE GRANT DESIGN CHALLENGE PROGRAMDebbie Mullins, Texas Space Grant Consortium Debbie Mullins is the Program Coordinator for the Texas Space Grant Design Challenge. Many of the facets of the program are based on her ideas and she is the face of the program to students in the participating academic programs. She solicits projects, recruits mentors, and attends to the many details of running the program.Wallace Fowler, University of Texas at Austin Wallace Fowler is Paul D. & Betty Robertson Meek Centennial Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the U. of Texas at Austin. He also serves as Director of the Texas Space Grant Consortium
as designing and testing of propulsion systems including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate
Paper ID #18643Managing Interdisciplinary Senior Design with Nuclear ApplicationsDr. Tristan Utschig, Kennesaw State University Dr. Tristan T. Utschig is Associate Director for Learning Sciences in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) and is Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Kennesaw State University. Formerly, he was Assistant Director for CETL and the Office of Assessment at Georgia Tech, and prior that was a tenured Associate Professor of Engineering Physics at Lewis-Clark State College. Dr. Utschig consults with faculty across the university about bringing scholarly teaching and
, online education, metacognitive teaching and learning strategies, reading apprenticeship in STEM, and the development of novel instructional equipment and curricula for enhancing academic suc- cess in science and engineering.Dr. Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College Amelito Enriquez is a professor of Engineering and Mathematics at Ca˜nada College in Redwood City, CA. He received a BS in Geodetic Engineering from the University of the Philippines, his MS in Geode- tic Science from the Ohio State University, and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include technology-enhanced instruction and increasing the representation of female, minority and other
(IBBME), University of Toronto. In addition to instruction, she has acted as the Associate Director, Undergraduate Programs at IBBME as well as the Associate Chair, Foundation Years in the Division of Engineering Science. Currently an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, she serves as faculty supervisor for the Discovery program and is program co-director for the Igniting Youth Curiosity in STEM Program. Dawn was a 2017 Early Career Teaching Award recipient at U of T and was named the 2016 Wighton Fellow for excellence in development and teaching of laboratory-based courses in Canadian UG engineering programs. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Discovery
Review program for two years. He has also held an undergraduate research position in a biomaterials laboratory on campus.Ms. Caroline Ghio, Northeastern University Caroline is a second-year undergraduate student at Northeastern University, majoring in chemical engi- neering. She has been involved in the Connections Chemistry Review program for one year. She also participates in undergraduate research in a neuroengineering laboratory on campus and is active in the university’s branch of Society of Women Engineers.Dr. Paul A. DiMilla, Northeastern University Paul A. DiMilla is an Affiliate Associate Teaching Professor in Chemistry & Chemical Biology and Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University. During his
, and could perhaps be helpfulif a follow-up is written in the near future.On behalf of the students, faculty, staff, and community members, the authors wish to expresstheir gratitude to the donor company and all those that helped pave the way for the developmentand installation of fabrication laboratories and makerspaces throughout the country and theworld.References[1] S. Weiner, M. Lande and S. Jordan, "What Have We ”Learned” from Maker Education Research? A Learning Sciences-base Review of ASEE Literature on the Maker Movement," in 2018 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings, Salt Lake City, 2018.[2] V. Wilczynski, J. Zinter and L. Wilen, "Teaching Engineering Design in an Academic Makerspace: Blending
the Advanced Virtual Manufacturing Laboratory for Training, Education and Research (AVML), an innovative e-learning tool for educating students and training the next generation workforce in sophisticated technology and its underlying the- ory. Dr. El-Mounayri teaches courses in Design, CAD/CAM, and Nanotechnology. His research focus is in advanced manufacturing, including nano- machining. Dr. El-Mounayri has worked as consultant for and conducted R&D for a number of local companies in the areas of CAD/CAM, CNC machining, and process development/improvement. Dr. El-Mounayri is a member of ASME, ASEE, and SME. He has published over 75 technical papers in renowned peer-reviewed journals and technical conferences
Paper ID #12366Student Reflection, Self-Assessment and Categorization of Errors on ExamQuestions as a Tool to Guide Self-Repair and Profile Student Strengths andWeaknesses in a CourseDr. David Benson, Arizona State University Dr. David Benson is a Senior Lecturer with the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. Dr. Benson develops and teaches classes in ”Introduction to Engineering” and project-based classes such as EPICS and Global Engineering.Dr. Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University Haolin Zhu is a faculty lecturer in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State Univer- sity. She
Paper ID #12283Bioengineering Global Health: Design and Implementation of a Summer DayCamp for High School StudentsDr. Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington Dr. Dianne G. Hendricks is a Lecturer in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Wash- ington. She earned a BS in Molecular Biology at the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in Genetics at Duke University. Dr. Hendricks’ teaching interests at the University of Washington include develop- ing and teaching introductory and honors courses in bioengineering, tissue and protein engineering lab courses, and capstone projects. She is committed
provide the students with application specifictraining.The lab experiment described here focuses on working knowledge such as vocabulary, blockdiagrams, startup, and tuning. The lab experiment seeks to teach the students what a controlsystem is, how it works, and how to use it. The students write code in the Arduino to implementa PID controller. The focus is on heuristics rather than theory.This lab was inspired by Ray’s paper [2] “An Inexpensive Control System Experiment:Modeling, Simulation, and Laboratory Implementation of a PID Controller-Based System”. Thisone to two week lab uses an electronic model of a mass spring damper system as the plant, and aPID controller to teach controls. Both the plant and the PID are constructed on a bread
Nancy. At Rice, was awarded six campus-wide teach- ing awards, served as College Master for 10 years, served as founding Director of the Rice Center for Teaching Excellence, as founding Director of BrainSTEM (a weekly outreach program that pairs Uni- versity Neuroscience student mentors with High School Apprentices) and as founding Director of the Gulf Coast Consortium for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience. Has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals in Mathematics, Engineering and Science. Coauthored the text, Mathematics for Neuroscientists, with Fabrizio Gabbiani. Joined the Engineering Faculty at Northern New Mexico College in 2016, intent on recruiting, mentoring, teaching, challenging and
based on Commonality/Diversity, Modularity, and CostFew would argue that engineers are more likely to be active rather than reflective learners6, andthe benefits of “hands-on” educational activities such as product dissection are many. Forinstance, product dissection has been successfully used to help students identify relationshipsbetween engineering fundamentals (e.g., torque and power) and hardware design (e.g., a drill)7.It has also been used to help teach competitive assessment and benchmarking8, 9. Productdissection is part of the freshmen Product and Process Engineering Laboratory at North CarolinaState University where users take turns playing the role of user, assembler, and engineer10.Sheppard11 was among the first to develop a formal
Tapping Hidden Talent Ronald A. L. Rorrer1, Daniel Knight2, Richard Sanders3 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center/2Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory, University of Colorado at Boulder/3Department of Music and Entertainment Industry Studies, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences CenterAbstractWe have developed a summer program intended to tap the talent of high school students whohave the capability to succeed in college, but are currently not on a college bound path. Thecourses in the program consist of a merging of
course that are offered. To date, the course has been offered twice through the Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory (http://itll.colorado.edu). The course gives students a thorough understanding Page 10.364.9 of some of the most common and important technologies being introduced in small-scale Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education community developments. Students are asked to create, design and construct appropriate technological systems, processes
thatstudents are often “turned off” by the way technical subjects are taught; traditional classroomlectures followed by “cook-book” type laboratory experiences that provide little opportunity toactively engage in creative real-world problem solving. Engineering technicians are problemsolvers – individuals who skillfully apply their knowledge in solving real-world problems.Working side-by-side with engineers and scientists, engineering technicians are the “hands-on”side of an engineering team, responsible for designing experiments, building and troubleshootingprototypes, analyzing and interpreting data, and presenting experimental results to peers,supervisors and customers. If the U.S is to attract more students into STEM-related careers, theymust be
?ContextIntroduction to Chemical, Food, and Environmental Engineering Design is a 3 credit requiredcourse for CE, FE, and EE. Course content and classroom activities are divided into two, 75-minute sessions (Concepts, and Laboratory) per week. Students have three different facilitators(an instructor and two teaching assistants).Course main goal is to introduce students to the Engineering Method, this is accomplished byfocusing on six course objectives: self-regulation, communication, working cooperatively andcollaboratively, problem solving, modeling, and quality. Introduction to Chemical, Food, andEnvironmental Engineering Design uses active, collaborative and cooperative learningtechniques; course structure is displayed in Figure 2
curriculum objectives and requirements, teaching methods and techniques, training ofstudent's skills through laboratory and design experiences, use of computers, oral and writtencommunication, qualifications and teaching load of academic staff, facilities and theiravailability, administration procedures, information system and counseling, admissionprocedures, student performance, competence of graduates, and internal quality assuranceprocedures. It appears, however, that appropriate measures which characterize the dynamics ofchanges made in the past and the preparation of an institution for future changes, being in ouropinion essential indicators of education quality, are rather rarely encountered in the existing andproposed external quality
order to exist and thrive at the university.Developing a national forum to support a positive discussion and debate concerning the futuredevelopment of technology programs and their role in fulfilling the university’s mission shouldbe a national priority. Clearly, a major dichotomy is the appropriate balance and focus in theareas of teaching and research. Clearly, good classroom and laboratory instruction is expected atall major universities, especially those that are state supported.Some would also argue that good teaching is not possible without good research and scholarship,and that the scholarship should be grounded in the creation and development of new knowledge.This new knowledge could come in the form of new curriculum or pedagogy, or
students.Course Management IssuesThe current structure allows for the dedication of three faculty assigned to the class. However, thegoal is to make the offering more “standardized,” such that by 2006, one faculty with several studentTAs can teach the course. Part of this objective will be satisfied by documenting a series of bothfinal projects and standard weekly projects. An instructor can select a final project, then choose fiveto seven short projects which will support that final project. Accumulating short projects is similarto the activities which produced the fine laboratory manual offered by Wang. [11] The authorswould have chosen this manual as a required text in the new course revision, but for the fact thatEGR 286 needed to be offered with
constructing robots). The role ofevaluation and communication are stressed. The course provides an important overview andhands- on experience normally not available to engineering students until their senior designcourse.BackgroundManaging Creativity is a concept developed based on the author’s 35 years of experience in avariety of creative enterprises, including management of NASA’s $150M per year MarsExploration Program and of the Pathfinder microrover, Sojourner Truth, which roamed Mars in1997. In 1997 and 1998 the author and a collaborator (Alice M. Fairhurst, a counselingpsychologist with expertise in personality type), developed a short course in how to managecreativity for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The course
for purchase to complete the labs without having to use the physical lab facilities on campus. Students were provided with access to the physical lab facilities and a supporting teaching assistant but with strict requirements on social distancing and reduced student numbers in the labs (resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic). In place of in-person demonstrations, students were required to record and upload a video demonstration to confirm completion of their laboratory activities. Flipped Style Format: In the semester after asynchronous delivery the course transitioned to a flipped-style class model based on the courses at institution returning to on-campus, face-to-face delivery. In this
to be engaged teacher-scholars who: (1) teach introductory and advanced engineering classes atthe undergraduate level; (2) teach first year and upper-level interdisciplinary topical courses to majors and nonmajors alike; (3) establish avigorous, externally supported research program (in domains that could include fundamental and applied engineering as well as teaching andlearning) that will include undergraduate students in meaningful projects; and (4) serve the department and university through studentadvising, undergraduate mentoring, active participation in faculty governance, and establishing links to industrial and community partners. Allfaculty are expected to participate in and support the department’s curriculum and program design
-person vs. remote) influenced science identity development.In what ways does participation in regular research group meetings impact science identitydevelopment?The weekly pulse survey focused on the REU students’ perceptions of identity related to theirparticipation in research group meetings. While regular research group meetings were a regularfeature of all the REU host laboratories, two remote REU students (Kiara and Saanvi) did notparticipate in these research meetings. Kiara was a unique case as she participated remotely fromKorea and the time difference precluded her participation. In both cases, the REU students metweekly with their PI and mentor rather than engaging with the full research group. Table 3 sharesthe results of the weekly
Paper ID #37426Evolution of an invention education summer camp as abridge from high school to college STEM (Evaluation)Gerald W. Recktenwald (Associate Professor) Gerry Recktenwald is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Portland State. His research interests are heat transfer, fluid mechanics and numerical analysis applied to building energy, hypothermia, solar power production and cooling of electronics. In addition to technical areas he does research on active-learning, problem-based learning, and laboratory-based pedagogy in engineering education. Gerry is the director of the
Paper ID #32970Mechanical Engineering Students’ Perceptions of Design SkillsThroughout a Senior Design Course SequenceValerie Vanessa Bracho Perez, Florida International University Valerie Vanessa Bracho Perez is a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering student and Gradu- ate Research Assistant in the School of Universal Computing Construction and Engineering Educations (SUCCEED) at Florida International University (FIU). She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from FIU. Her research interest includes integrating LAs into engineering courses, examining responsive teaching practices in