the networkdensity, clustering coefficient, and efficiency, present new characteristics of what is happening inthe brain [60]. Central regions, or nodes, in the brain may facilitate functional interaction and actas a control for information flow as it interacts with other brain regions [61]. The networkcharacteristics (e. g., density, clustering coefficient) that best correlate to design performance isnot known [62]. Future research can begin to look for default networks and central brain regionsthat are relevant to “retrieval” paths during design.Understanding how concept mapping performance correlates with neurocognition can begin tohelp inform pedagogy. The research presented in this paper demonstrates how using conceptmaps can improve
participating in teaching, scholarship and service to the department. Dr. Stiner-Jones recently won funding for the College’s first National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates SITE program. She and her co-investigators aim to pro- vide students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds with a 10-week research immersion and prepare them for graduate school. She is the recipient of the 2018 College of Engineering Faculty Diver- sity Excellence Award for achievements that support the College’s goal of excellence through diversity and inclusion. She and her co-author are the recipients of the 2019 Best Paper and Best Diversity Paper Awards from the American Society for Engineering Education for
in Mechanical Engineering from University of New Hampshire, USA and B.Tech [Hons.] in Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture from Indian Insti- tute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. Her research interests include Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Heat Transfer Applications, Mechanical Design, Nanotechnology, HP/HT Rheology. She also has strong industrial experience as a Senior Technical Pro- fessional at Halliburton [Oil-well Cementing Research & Development]. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Full Paper: Provision of the practical learning environment via application-based
hopes to pursue a career in STEM education and educational research.Cayla Ritz Cayla, originally from Freeland, Maryland, has attended Rowan University for all undergraduate and graduate-level degrees. She graduated in Spring 2020 with her BS in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Honors Studies. She also has her MSc in Mechanical Engineering with a COGS in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and is pursuing a PhD in Engineering with a concentration in Engineering Education. Specifically, her research interests are focused on combining the humanities and social sciences with STEM education to create a unique learning experience for students.Cheryl A Bodnar (Associate Professor, Experiential Engineering Education
turbomachinery instabilities, for which he received NASA Performance Cash awards. Dr. Richard is involved in tutoring, mentoring, and outreach and teaches first-year introductory engineering, fluid mechanics, and space plasma propulsion. He has authored/co-authored 45+ peer-reviewed journal and conference papers.Janie M Moore (Assistant Professor) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Work-in-Progress of an initial phase of a research study of data on student performance impacted from modifying a first-year/semester engineering core course during a global pandemic
topersisting in these fields [9]. Compounding these challenges, when engineering and computer sciencestudents begin their higher education at a community college, they take longer to complete their degree,and are less likely to graduate [10].Research has shown how retention of and completion for underrepresented minorities in engineering andcomputer science can be increased by (a) improving math proficiency through summer bridges, (b)providing extensive faculty mentoring, (c) research experiences, and (d) student support designed to breakdown barriers to inclusiveness, and (e) fostering a local Community of Practice (CoP) [11-16]. To enablea CoP, programmatic frameworks such as one-stop intentional advising; tutoring; near-peer, faculty
Paper ID #37397Lessons Learned: Developing Homebrew Software Tools toEnhance and Combine Grading, Assessment, and ResearchBenjamin Daniel Chambers (Associate Professor of Practice) Dr. Ben Chambers is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, and Director of the Frith First Year Makers program and of the Minecraft Museum of Engineering. His research focuses include creativity-based pedagogy, the interactions of non-humans with the built environment, and the built environment as a tool for teaching at the nexus of biology and engineering. He earned his graduate
Paper ID #36010Design, Analysis, and Fabrication of A 3D Printed Violin for the PublicMs. Claire Marie Dollins, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Senior undergraduate Mechanical Engineering and Data Science student at Worcester Polytechnic Insti- tute. Currently working on my capstone research project with the Department of Mechanical Engineering.Meghan Scruton, Worcester Polytechnic Institute My name is Meghan Scruton and I am a senior studying Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Mechanical Design at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.Eli Ross Breitbart Frischling, Worcester Polytechnic Institute I am Eli Breitbart
capital (inside knowledge of the best ways tosucceed in a university) and social isolation [1]-[3].These students are also less likely to reach graduate school, impacting our ability to recruitdiverse students beyond the undergraduate degree. It has been shown that research experiencesduring undergraduate careers increase the likelihood of undergraduate degree completion andcontinued participation in the scientific workforce [7]. As such, integrating research into thefreshman engineering experience could be powerful in engaging diverse students early in afruitful career. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceIntroduction to Digital Computing
and technology education. His current research interest is to explore the use and impact of formative assessments in online learning to promote self-regulated, self-directed life-long learning. He has expertise in the development and use of think- aloud protocols, and quantitative, qualitative and mixed-method research designs. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Virtual REU Program: Engineering Education ResearchAbstract:This paper describes a National Science Foundation-funded Research Experiences forUndergraduates (REU) Site program conducted through virtual working environment. Due to theCovid-19 pandemic
force which focuses on finding the current perception and help define theknowledge skill set needed for the upcoming era [26]. Their survey found a lack of capabilityamong graduate students in project management and business processes. These two elements areconsidered in this research through learning about the life cycle of a bike from productconceptualization to manufacturing and marketability to illustrate the impact of decisions on thevarious parts of the life cycle of a product. Based on the product development life cycle, the current research designs and buildslinkages within and between courses in engineering and business curricula to provide students witha compressive and integrated view of how products in the real-world
to show how shareddialogue between a mid-career faculty member and an early-career postdoctoral researcher canshed light on issues and lessons related to preparing for an academic career. The aim of this workwas to use individual reflection and collective sensemaking to examine professional formationand explore how to seed and sustain a discipline-based education research group in engineering.PositionalityThe collective and individual voices are woven throughout the paper with the author’s namespecified for personal reflections. Both of us completed our undergraduate and graduate degreesin civil engineering at large, public research-intensive universities in the United States: Denise, aBlack woman, at Clemson University and Madeline, a White
79Sample Questions Submitted by Participating Planning Grant PIs Category Sample Question Center Design and Does NSF prefer to fund ERCs that serve the needs of existing Vision industries, or those that can serve as a platform to develop science and engineering for future technologies (or to push existing industry in new directions that they do not have the scientific knowledge base to move into at this point)? Research How do you best determine whether a given ERC thrust is timely or competitive? Workforce Do we need to think about doing research in
technical aspects of an engineering career and foster a broadersense of life-long learning.Other important aspects of professional practice that support design include budgeting, teaming,diversity & inclusion, ethics, and project impacts. These are described below.Budgeting Money is a key aspect of a design. Funding for capstone projects is an area of significantvariation among capstone courses nationally [7]. In our program, a two-phased fundingapproach is used, which augments their communication and persuasive skills. Each team isallocated a baseline funding amount. They are informed that they will have an opportunity to“pitch their project to interested investors” for additional funding. These investors are, in fact,the university’s
Paper ID #37072A Sequence of Laboratories for Beginning Statics ClassesJim Sizemore (Professor) Jim graduated from Washington State University with a B.S. and Stanford with a Ph.D. in engineering. He worked in the semiconductor industry for many years on a wide variety of projects such as ion-implantation, oxidation, diffusion, metal- semiconductor contacts, device physics, CCDs, LEDs, electronic noise, high voltage devices, radiation-hardened devices, thermal management, statistical analysis of yield, statistical process control, plasma process, IC materials adhesion and fracture, software, etc. He turned to
institutions should supportbased on the existing problem [5].The existing gap between academia and industry has enormous impacts on reducing the chanceof employment for engineering graduates [6]. Many scholars discuss the importance of thedesign skills industry and state that universities should pay more attention to capstone designprojects in their curriculum [7]. Capstone design projects give students the chance to work onreal-world projects, strengthening and linking the information gained during their studies topractical concepts [8].This paper aims to determine the most demanded skills of a graduate in electrical and computerengineering by identifying the curriculum needs based on the skills required by professionalengineers with at least ten
Paper ID #37818Defining Engineering Education Research: The ElevatorPitchJeffrey Wayne Paul I am a Engineering Education Research PhD student with a passion for life-long learning. My current research is focused on how we can develop pedagogical content knowledge in instructors using nudge theoryRenato Alan Bezerra RodriguesNikita Dawe PhD Candidate, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering and Collaborative Specialization in Engineering Education, University of TorontoSherry-ann Ram (Ms) Graduate Student at the University of TorontoNicholas James RuparMandeep Raj PandeyRobyn Paul (PhD Student
socioeconomic groups. [23] has given an example ofBlack lesbian engineering students whose reality cannot be adequately understood by discreteconversations on race, gender, and sexual orientation into three separate different groups. Weshould in designing both research and practice explicitly focus on the intersectionality ofmultiple marginalized identities. The minoritized students in this study who embody intersectional marginalized identitiesface systematic oppression of classism, racism, and sexism. These inequitable experiences shapethe decision-making of a minoritized student to enroll, persist or drop out from the engineeringeducation ecosystem. Those students have to divert resources (cognitive, emotional, time) innavigating engineering
(b) improving graduate student technical and professional competencies as wellas preparation for a career at the high priority convergent research topic targeted by thetraineeship. Using a cohort-sequential design with retrospective and concurrent comparisongroups, the evaluation includes both formative and summative activities reflective of bestpractices per Patton [8], Kundin [9], Schwandt [10], as well as Hendricks, Plantz, and Pritchard[11]. These activities and mixed-methods data, collected across multiple stakeholders, fostercontinuous program improvement during the project timeline, establish an evidence base forsuccesses and lessons learned, and generate best practice resources.3.1. Transferable skills courseThe 15-week Transferable
) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Engaging undergraduate researchers: Contextualizing beliefs and identities about smartness in engineeringIntroductionUndergraduate research is considered a high-impact practice (Zydney et al., 2002). It providesstudents with the opportunity to improve their critical thinking and personal communicationskills and offers the opportunity to build mentoring relationships with faculty, increasing thelikelihood of graduate school attendance (Zydney et al., 2002). Additionally, researchers haveshown that participating in undergraduate research can build confidence (Reisel et al., 2015) andenhance the undergraduate
, experimental design can be taught through literaturediscussions, and lecture material can be presented using experimental results from recentliterature. Crafting open-ended homework assignments and projects allows students to designtheir own experiments, enabling them to practice these skills, which are critical for graduate orindustrial R&D. Optimization and decision-making in the presence of competing variables isanother key R&D challenge. Instructors can use open-ended active learning problems to allowstudents to debate the best decision for a problem in groups, showing students that there are oftenmultiple competing priorities and several correct approaches. In addition, instructors canintroduce students to risk assessment methodologies
Arral Mariah Arral is a 4th year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her Ph.D. advisor is Dr. Kathryn Whitehead, and her thesis research focuses on lipid nanoparticle-mediated messenger RNA (mRNA) delivery. Mariah obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire and did her Honors thesis with Dr. Jeffrey Halpern studying electrochemical biosensors. She has received multiple awards including the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP). Mariah is an openly disabled scientist and has a passion for creating equitable access to education for everyone. During her undergraduate studies, she developed an
Paper ID #37614Summer Bridge Programming for Incoming First-YearStudents at Three Public Urban Research UniversitiesMiriam Howland Cummings (Graduate Research Assistant) Miriam is a PhD candidate in Education Research and Evaluation Methods at the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) and a graduate research assistant on an NSF S-STEM grant in CU Denver's College of Engineering, Design, and Computing.Maryam Darbeheshti (Faculty) Dr. Maryam Darbeheshti is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver. Her research interests are in multiphase fluid flow, and Engineering
to analyze the interaction students hadwhile working in the team, to understand better their cognitive design process when faced withother lenses of expertise and developing best practices to design such challenges in the classroom.Future studies will aim to understand the interdisciplinary design process to understand theeffectiveness of student´s contribution as interdisciplinary work, and its connection to sustainabledesign traits. Furthermore, the researchers will aim to understand how to apply suchinterdisciplinary experiences into other experiences of the majors both within specific courses andbetween majors.References[1] E. J. Power y J. Handley, «A best-practice model for integrating interdisciplinarity into the higher education
Understanding the Situated Workplace Practices and Habits of Engineers Using Agile EthnographyIntroductionThis methods paper describes the application of and insights gained from using aspects of anemerging methodology, agile ethnography, to study engineers working in practice. Research hassuggested that there is a misalignment between what is taught in engineering school and thetypes of work that engineers do in practice [1]. Little is known about the types of engineeringwork that are conducted in practice [2], [3]. In order to best prepare engineering graduates tomeet the demands of the engineering workforce, students should be taught the types ofknowledge and problem-solving strategies that are commonly used by practicing
appliance industry for two years. Kelley is also a Graduate Facilitator with the Center for Socially Engaged Design and a Graduate Academic Liaison with the Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning.Shanna Daly Shanna Daly is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Education from Purdue University. In her work, she characterizes front-end design practices across the student to practitioner continuum, develops empirically-based tools to support design best practices, and studies the impact of front- end design tools on design success
, most do experience a degree of professionalisolation from other teachers within their content areas; and most have heavy preparatoryworkloads as they teach multiple subjects and grade levels. The diversity of rural teachers’situations contraindicates a one-size-fits-all approach to professional development [16].Nevertheless, Goos, Dole, and Geiger’s assertion that “professional development needs to occurin school-based contexts [9]” is not easily practicable for frontier and remote teachers, especiallyprofessional development focused on specific content areas. While the ITS-RET removed ruralteachers from their local contexts for an intensive on-site program, the research identifiedprofessional development outcomes that continued to impact
Industrial, and Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. His research is focused on system level design optimization and integration of disciplinary analyses. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comInter-Disciplinary Senior Design Projects with Industry Partnership – A Pilot Study 1. Project DescriptionThree inter-disciplinary senior design engineering projects were undertaken over the course of twosemesters (Fall 2020 and Spring 2021) at the Kennesaw State University. At the beginning of Fall2020 semester, a call was sent to all senior engineering students to enroll in a newly designed
,the current exercises will continue to start with synthetic workload analysis, but will include someintermediary simulation-based workload analysis and simulation design, with the final project asis today. Student course evaluation feedback and surveys will be used as metrics for how effectivethis new pedagogical method is in terms of improving learning outcomes. This new idea will beintroduced to the summer 2022 class and re-tested in summer 2023, and measured results presentedin future follow up analysis.Ideally the summer 2022 class would be unmodified and surveys taken as a baseline with the newexercises integrated in 2023 for a clear A/B comparison. While this is perhaps the best approachfrom a pedagogical research viewpoint, the authors
Paper ID #35645The Impact of Prior Programming Experience on Computational ThinkinginFirst-Year Engineering Experience.Dr. Noemi V Mendoza Diaz, Texas A&M University Dr. Mendoza Diaz is Assistant Professor at the College of Education and Human Development with a courtesy appointment in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. She obtained her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in Educational Administration and Human Resource Development and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning- INSPIRE at the School of Engineering Education-Purdue University. She