Paper ID #28967Countering Threats to Licensure with ASCE’s Engineer Tomorrow InitiativeMr. Bradley Aldrich PE, American Society of Civil Engineers Bradley F. Aldrich, P.E., F.NSPE, F.ASCE is a Senior Associate and former President of Aldrich + Elliott, PC an environmental engineering firm and also serves as vice-chair of the Board of Professional Regula- tion for Engineers in Vermont. He earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Vermont. Over his thirty-five year career, Mr. Aldrich has held project management and leadership positions with a national general contractor and several
. 2016, Accessed: Mar. 17, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/blended-learning-in-a-rigid-body-dynamics-course-using-on-line- lectures-and-hands-on-experiments.[3] D. O’Connor, “Investigations into Engineering Dynamics Theory: A Student-Led Project to Utilize Smartphone Technology,” presented at the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2017, Accessed: Mar. 17, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/investigations-into-engineering-dynamics-theory-a-student-led-project- to-utilize-smartphone-technology.[4] C. D. Facciolo and A. Behrouzi, “Interactive Physical Experiments in an Advanced Undergraduate Structural Dynamics Course,” presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference &
toprovide engineering students with the basic skills needed to succeed in higher level courses andan early introduction to the engineering discipline [2], [3]. Institutions with FYE courses orprograms (i.e., multiple FYE courses in a sequence) create these courses in the way they best seefit to help their students succeed. However, this means that programs vary significantly in bothcontent [4] and in matriculation patterns [1]. These FYE courses are some of the earliestexposures that students have to their engineering disciplines; however, their impact on students’engineering identity and community development is not well understood.This project seeks to answer the question, “How do students who are pursuing engineeringdegrees through pathways that
for FEWS. Figure 1. Project objectives mapped to components of the Traineeship under the Stewardship framework.The key components of theTraineeship are: 1) Dissertation research on a FEWS issue for the generation of new knowledge; 2) A graduate certificate in Data-Driven Food, Energy and Water Decision Making, which consists of 3.5 credits of core courses and 9 credits of electives as described in Table 1 that represents conservation of knowledge; 3) A Graduate Learning Community [3] for transformation of knowledge that includes a two-year series of monthly workshops and weekly small-group activities designed to enhance the trainees’ interdisciplinary
learning to design teaching and learning, program content and structure, student assessment, and continuous course improvement techniques. She managed and was a key contributor to a two-year pilot project to introduce blended learning into the chemical engineering capstone design courses, and is the author of a number of recent journal, book, and conference contribu- tions on engineering education. Her research focusses on how to teach innovation and sustainable design practices to engineers and develop a curriculum reflective of engineering practice requirements. Recently she has taught a short course on how to design and teach process engineering courses to professors in Peru and workshops on Metacognition and
comments and responses on thewebsite, and often adapt substantial aspects of the course based on student feedback. In this way,students have a voice in shaping the class. Additionally, students vote on topics to cover for thelast few weeks of the semester; this community process allows them to further exercise controlover their own learning. Students also have agency over their learning at the end of the coursewhen they can complete an optional final project. The projects typically consist of writing apaper about a topic we did not cover in depth in the course, and can replace part of an examgrade. In addition to having agency over their learning, the final project option also providesopportunity for students to define what is interesting and
Expected Outcome Control Setting Academic Model Academic content Teacher-led Primarily a single Mixed model Product within Teacher – student Single or multiple constraints of collaboration classes, community academic requirements Entrepreneurship Model Product Student led School and CommunityTABLE II shows the features of entrepreneur-oriented education paradigm in comparisonwith other models [13]. POL distinguishes itself from project-based learning with thesefeatures: the
honored as a promising new engineering education researcher when she was selected as an ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Recruiting More U.S. Women into Engineering Based on Stories from MoroccoIntroductionThe objective of this project is to examine the differences between Moroccan and Americancultures with regards to prevalent messaging about engineering. This examination will help usdetermine the factors that contribute to women's decisions to pursue engineering degrees athigher rates in Morocco and similar non-western cultures. Due to a partnership between ouruniversity and the International
Paper ID #28845Small Teaching via Bloom’sDr. Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary Dr. Marjan Eggermont is a Teaching Professor and faculty member at the University of Calgary in the Mechanical and Manufacturing department of the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary. She co-founded and designs ZQ, an online journal to provide a platform to showcase the nexus of science and design using case studies, news, and articles. As an instructor, she was one of the recipients of The Allan Blizzard Award, a Canadian national teaching award for collaborative projects that improve student learning in 2004. In 2005
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Center for Earth System Sciencesand Remote Sensing Technologies (CESSRST), the NSF REU program has attracted first-generation college students and underrepresented minority STEM students from the twenty-threecolleges within the City University of New York system. The students are trained through severalmini courses for the first three weeks out of a nine-week summer research program. The coursescover topics on MATLAB, Geographic Information System Mapping, Basic Statistics, andRemote Sensing, and they provide the necessary background for research projects related tosatellite and ground-based remote sensing of the hydrosphere, the lithosphere, the biosphere, theatmosphere, and the cryosphere
learners,the equipment vendor’s reactions are described. This project narrative suggests that when acompany designs a new product with auditory alerts, they should also add visual alert signals inorder to benefit a wider range of users. In addition to following Universal Design principles, it isfar more effective in terms of both cost and time to implement this in the original design insteadof needing to make aftermarket modifications.BackgroundIn American culture, deafness has typically been portrayed with a negative stigma; it is a medicalcondition of being unable to hear, an impairment, and a disability [1]. Engineering culture showssigns of this medicalized view of deafness. For instance, (hearing) engineering students mightwork on
skills students hoped to learn and/oraccomplish included programming, completing Calculus credits, mini-projects, working withother majors in projects, and coding. Social skills connected with academics included getting tomeet and connect with professors and mentors. Professional goals included visiting companiessuch as the New Balance Company, meeting environmental engineers, meeting inspiring peoplesuch as panel participants drawn from several local companies, and improving communicationskills. It is important to note that New Balance Company stood out, because this visit highlightedto students the varied nature of engineering careers that may be available to them. Finally,several responses emphasized social connections and getting used to
Education Annual Conference, Tampa, Florida, June 2019[3] E. Scott, R. Bates, R. Campbell and D. Wilson, “Contextualizing Professional Development in the Engineering Classroom”, Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Washington, DC, October 2010[4] J. Sharp, “Interview Skills Training in the Chemical Engineering Laboratory: Transporting a Pilot Project”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2008[5] J. Sharp, “Behavioral Interview Training in Engineering Classes”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, June 2012[6] E. Glynn and F. Falcone, “Professional Development for
Paper ID #28761Teaching concepts of ’scale-up’ from chemistry to chemical engineeringusing process flow diagrams (Resource Exchange)D’Andre Jermaine Wilson-Ihejirika P.Eng., BrainSTEM Alliance D’Andre Wilson-Ihejirika completed her B.Eng in Chemical Engineering at McGill University and her MASc. from the Centre for Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship (CMTE) at the University of Toronto. She worked for several years as a Professional Chemical Engineer in the Athabasca Oil Sands, before taking a Project Management role in Research & Innovation at York University. D’Andre is the founder the STEM education consulting
- versity of Chicago, 2018). His humanities scholarship has appeared in the journals Interdisciplinary Stud- ies in Literature and Environment, Environmental Humanities, Resilience and elsewhere orcid.org/0000- 0002-4526-6094). From 2013-2015, Dr. Emmett served as Director of Academic Programs at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany. He has taught humanities courses in interdisciplinary programs at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Ludwig-Maximilians- Universit¨at in Munich. He holds a Ph.D. in English (University of Wisconsin) and is a certified Project Management Professional.Dr. Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Homero
Clemson University. She has over ten years of construction and civil engineering experience working for energy companies and as a project management consultant. Dr. Simmons has extensive experience leading and conducting multi-institutional, workforce-related re- search and outreach. She is a leader in research investigating the competencies professionals need to compete in and sustain the construction workforce. Dr. Simmons oversees the Simmons Research Lab (www.denisersimmons.com), which is home to a dynamic, interdisciplinary mix of graduate researchers and postdoctoral researchers who work together to explore human, technology and society interactions to transform civil engineering education and practice with an
used by students in their lab reports relate to their comprehension oftheory? The objective of this research project is to investigate the connections between studentselection of information sources and the comprehension of theory in an engineering lab course.The results will provide instructors with a tool that provides multiple aspects and qualities toexamine when assessing the information sources students use in an engineering lab course.This study examined the types of information sources that students cited in their lab reports byfour facets that include format, author, editorial process, and publication purpose and comparedthem with a disciplinary evaluation of their technical reports. Classification of these facets wasbased on a
rewarded with a Nintendo Labo VR kit with the successful completion of his or herworkshop. Lessons learned from these workshops including the need of increasing the durationof the workshops and feedback from the participants are also included in this paper, and will beemployed in improving these workshops. The workshops will also be offered at the elementaryschool level and utilized in other outreach events such as Carnegie Science Center Sci-TechFestivals and the National Engineers Week events. The paper is concluded with future possibleoutreach project ideas, based on the technical programming content and ability of NintendoSwitch development environment and the Labo VR kits.Introduction and Literature ReviewNintendo Switch development
evaluations for projects ranging from consumer products to power systems. As a consultant she worked with over 75 different clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Prof. Wodin-Schwartz is passionate about teaching core engineering and critical thinking skills that apply to application driven problem solving. She is excited to work with students to help them understand not only the technical skills required of them as engineers but also the social, environmental, and physical implications of implementing technical engineering solutions. Her work with adding context to problems and projects her courses has lead her to receive teaching awards including the Russell M. Searle and Morgan Distinguished
thiscourse for their professional engineers and scientists, we were confident that the content of thiscourse would have value for engineering and science students.Figure 1. Timeline of actions that we took to build and develop the online resources. The items in blue representsteps we took to test our online resources. The items in green represent responses to those tests. The item in whiterepresents our initial innovation. Nothing significant occurred on the project in December 2019. Our starting point for the online resources (our initial innovation) closely followed thepopular textbook [3], with ten lessons representing the ten chapters and four supplementarylessons following the book’s four appendices. To create the films, we used a film
for engineering educators by providing atransferable, easy-to-implement reflection activity that can be implemented in any engineeringcourse that includes a presentation assignment.Reflection to Enhance Learning and AssessmentReflection as a teaching approach is becoming increasingly recognized in engineering education[1, 2], where it is often used to promote cognitive development and can help students learn morefrom projects, internships, and other educational experiences [3-7]. For example, a common in-class reflective activity is the “exam wrapper”: shortly after an exam, students articulate whatthey did that helped them do well on the exam and what they could do differently to improvetheir performance on a future exam.Recently, reflection
Paper ID #32048Getting Students to Explore Engineering Ethics through Debate-StylePresentationsDr. Ashish D Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. Ashish Borgaonkar works as Asst. Professor of Engineering Education at the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Newark College of Engineering located in Newark, New Jersey. He has developed and taught several engineering courses primarily in first-year engineering, civil and environmental engineer- ing, and general engineering. He has won multiple awards for excellence in instruction. He also has worked on several research projects, programs, and initiatives to help
todevelop a meaningful relationship with at least one faculty member in the College of Engineering.The mentoring in this program was derived from a model of one-on-one mentoring for junior facultymembers at NMSU. There was no expectation or requirement of undergraduate research with thefaculty mentor, or research project outcomes from the mentor pairing. This was a new model forfaculty in the College of Engineering. The faculty who volunteered as mentors had significantexperience mentoring students in undergraduate research experiences. Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Copyright 2020, American Society
) promoting scientific inquiry attitudes in students through designing, implementing, and assessing in- novative inquiry based physics labs. 2) conducting research regarding the role of language in conceptual understanding. 3) exploring cosmic rays (detection, data collection, and analysis).Mr. George Tremberger Jr George Tremberger serves as Lecturer in City University of New York Queensborough Community Col- lege Physics Department and his interests include pedagogy and astronomy.Prof. Tak Cheung Tak Cheung, Ph.D., professor of physics, teaches in CUNY Queensborough Community College. He also conducts research and mentors student research projects. American c
multiple awards for excellence in instruction. He also has worked on several research projects, programs, and initiatives to help students bridge the gap between high school and college as well as preparing students for the rigors of mathematics. His research interests include engineering education, integration of novel technologies into engineering classroom, excellence in instruction, water, and wastewater treatment, civil engineering infrastructure, and transportation engi- neering. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Focusing on the Silver Lining: How COVID-19 Pandemic is Influencing the Pedagogy of Mechatronic Course
motivation to learning through domain-based problems[23]. One way proposed in literature [22] for bringing computational activities to students is byembedding them within STEM coursework that students are already required to take. We believethat engaging students through their existing STEM courses is a strategy that is much more likelyto succeed in increasing the interest and appeal of computational thinking.In another study [21] experimental activities related to statistics and mathematical projects keptstudents motivated and actively engaged in the process of learning, problem solving anddeveloping a better intuition for understanding complex mathematical concepts. The majority ofstudents appreciated this hands-on experience as a useful one, not
program, aninterdisciplinary team of faculty created a new minor in Applied Computing for Behavioral andSocial Sciences. A large number of diverse students are studying behavioral and social sciences,and the ability to model human behaviors and social interactions is a highly valuable skill set inour increasingly data-driven world. Applied Computing students complete a four-coursesequence that focuses on data analytics and includes data structures and algorithms, data cleaningand management, SQL, and a culminating project. Our first full cohort of students completed theApplied Computing minor in Spring 2019. To assess the success of the minor, we conductstudent surveys and interviews in each course. Here, we focus on survey data from the
learning, and support them in developing an intellectual identity”[12]. Students are also introduced to the biomedical engineering field and encouraged early on tobecome part of the BME community at Georgia Tech. Students complete nine focused reflectionassignments as part of our work toward teaching reflection as an engineering skill andscaffolding the students ability to reach the levels of reflection/critical reflection described byKember et al. [13]. Additionally, reflection is incorporated into the design projects anddiscussions throughout the course. BMED1000 was designed and piloted during the 2018-19academic year and is now running at full scale as a required course for entering biomedicalengineering majors. At the end of BMED1000
from an internal grant opportunity by a group ofalumna and friends of WPI to support women in STEM [1]. In the very first iteration of theprogram, the goal was to enable high school women to engage in hands-on STEM research instate of the art research laboratories under the guidance of women graduate student role modelsfor a semester (10-12 weeks).By having the research projects supervised by graduate students, we did not have to burdenfaculty members (although they needed to approve their graduate student’s participation in theprogram) and the graduate students had opportunity to develop their skills in scoping a shortresearch project and mentoring younger students. Furthermore, to compensate the graduatestudents for their time and effort, a
Clean Water through Chemical Engineering 4. Teachers Notes presentation slides a. Mechanical filtration background info (separation of cornmeal from water) b. Chemical filtration background info (removal of food coloring from water) c. Mechanical filtration experiment setup tutorial d. Chemical filtration experiment setup tutorialReferences1. Baldwin, J. Service Learning Project In Brazil: From Concept To Reality. ASEE AnnualConference, 2006.2. Pumphrey, S., Hoessle, A., Oerther, D. Service Learning At Cincinnati: Researching WaterTreatment For Emerging Economies. ASEE Annual Conference, 2006.3. Dacunto, P., Varriano, V. R., Ko, J. Project-based Learning in the Developing World: Designof a Modular