Paper ID #11638Exploring the Effects of Problem Framing on Solution Shifts: A Case StudyMs. Samuelina M. Wright, University of Michigan Samuelina Wright is a senior in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has worked in design and ideation research for over a year. Her focus has been on quantifying the diversity of so- lution sets, studying design problem framing, and exploring paradigm relatedness. She is interested in engineering education, which is where her passion for teaching and her technical background in engineer- ing overlap. As an engineering designer herself, she is interested in
,” International Journal of Engineering Education, 24(5), pp. 936–954.[13] Defranco, J. F., Jablokow, K., Bilen, S. G., and Gordon, A., 2012, “The impact of cognitive style on concept mapping: visualizing variations in the structure of ideas,” American Society for Engineering Education, American Society for Engineering Education.[14] Jablokow, K. W., and Booth, D. E., 2006, “The impact and management of cognitive gap in high performance product development organizations,” Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 23(4), pp. 313– 336.[15] Lindsay, P. R., 1985, “Counselling to resolve a clash of cognitive styles,” Technovation, 3(1), pp. 57–67.[16] McCarthy, R., 1988, “An investigation of role conflict and
maintaining student interest in engineering and related science and technology and works with several regional K12 programs to help increase the pipeline of students interested in pursuing careers in these fields.Ms. Christine Olson, University of Massachusetts Amherst Christine Olson is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of Mas- sachusetts Amherst. Her research interests include media production and social participation practices online, social inequality and new media technologies, children and new media, and digital media litera- cies. Her work has been presented at International Communication Association conferences.Dr. Charles M Schweik, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Charles
Paper ID #11241Work in progress: Development and use of an active learning classroom for acourse on Dynamic SystemsDr. Tiina M. Komulainen, Oslo and Akershus University College Tiina M. Komulainen is associate professor in automation at Oslo and Akershus University College in Norway. She earned MSc and DrSc degrees in chemical engineering from Helsinki University of Tech- nology, Finland. Dr. Komulainen has background in industrial process modeling and control. She has worked with dynamic process simulation of large scale industrial oil and gas processes at Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies before joining Oslo and
Fontecchio, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.) Page 26.54.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 A Hands-On, Arduino-Based Approach to Develop Student Engineering Skills and Introduce Cybersecurity Concepts to K-12 Students (Work in Progress)I. AbstractWithout a doubt, today’s generation is one driven by computer-based technologies. The vastmajority of students uses computers and mobile devices on a daily basis and regularly posts onsocial media sites. As computer-related fields continue to grow, a future job market rich intechnology
Paper ID #12752Developing a Remote Laboratory at TAMUQ Based on a Novel Unified Frame-workMr. Ning Wang, University of HoustonDr. Siu Chun Michael Ho, University of HoustonMr. Qianlong Lan, Texas Southern University Dpt. of Computer Science Graduate StudentDr. Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University Dr. Xuemin Chen is the founding Director of Virtual and Remote Laboratory and an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Technology at the Texas Southern University. He received his BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), China, in 1985, 1988 and 1991
has worked for United Technologies (Hamilton Sundstrand) and General Dynamics on numerous projects including International Space Station Life Support, Joint Strike Fighter Propulsion Control Systems and U.S. Army Biodefense. He received his B.S. from Vanderbilt University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Browne serves as the Chair of the Engineering Technology Division of the Southeastern Section of ASEE; he also does extensive volunteer work for the FIRST Foundation (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology).Dr. Wesley B. Williams P.E., University of North Carolina, Charlotte Dr. Williams is an assistant professor in the department of
EvaluationAbstract:This paper demonstrates the success of the Summer of Innovation program over a four yearperiod and answers the question “Does summer STEM engagement increase student interest andteacher instruction among underrepresented and underserved youth?”Summer and after-school programs present a prime venue for fostering student interest inScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) because of their informalatmosphere and their unique ability to inspire and excite children through enrichmentexperiences and hands-on, project-based group activities. Out-of-school time (OST) activitiesallow students to connect with STEM on a personal level, which is especially important forstudents who are underrepresented in these fields and may not have
, and his research focuses on the intersections of pedagogy, performance, and professionalization among teachers.Dr. Karen R. Den Braven, South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics Karen R. Den Braven is the Director of Engineering Programs for the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics, a statewide magnet STEM high school. After receiving degrees in Mechan- ical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and Colorado State University, she spent over 25 years at the University of Idaho as a Professor and as Director of the National Institute for Ad- vanced Transportation Technology where she brought in over $10 millon in research funding. She was also advisor to
Moses, Brigham Young University Samuel Moses is a research assistant and lab manager at Brigham Young University in the Cyber Security Research Lab. He is graduating with a Bachelors in Information Technology this year, emphasizing in the fields of System Administration and Cyber Security. After graduation, Samuel Moses is planning on continuing his education at Brigham Young University studying for a Masters in Technology emphasis in Cyber Security. Page 26.301.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Building a Vulnerability Testing Lab in an
Excellence (ELITE).Mr. John S Small, Texas A&M University at Qatar Page 26.306.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Building Human Capacity to Meet Demand for Engineers and Scientists in the Middle East and North Africa (other) Abstract Several countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have been investing significantly in the past two decades to promote and attract young and upcoming talent to pursue professions in science, technology, engineering, and
Paper ID #11950Communicating Advanced Manufacturing Concepts to Middle-school Stu-dents Using Lego-machines (Work in Progress)Mr. James Nowak Jr., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute James Nowak is a senior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Class of 2015) majoring in Mechanical En- gineering. His research work includes 3-D printing on nano-composite materials and machining studies on bio-materials. He is passionate about inspiring local students to pursue engineering careers in ad- vanced manufacturing. James is the recipient of the 2013 Haas Student Manufacturing Award and 2014 Rensselaer Founder’s Award of Excellence.Mr
consultant for Michigan State’s Research Experiences for Teachers program for the last three years. Currently, Leyf is the Program Coordinator at the Engineering Place at North Carolina State University where she also teaches an Introduction to Engineering course to incoming freshmen.Dr. Claudia K Gunsch, Duke University Page 26.1192.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Novel Approach to Developing and Implementing Curriculum in a High School Summer Engineering Camp (Work in Progress)AbstractA shortage of graduates in the science, technology
systems, but he has ongoing projects in the area of hospital patient health monitoring. He is actively engaged in K-12 outreach through several venues including Summer Ventures, high school STEM day, the NC Science Olympiad, a Math Science Partnership grant, volunteer work with a local literacy camp, Boy Scouts Robotics Merit Badge counseling, and teaching the science portion of VBS and children’s Sunday School at his local church.Dr. Zhen Zhu, East Carolina University Zhen Zhu is an assistant professor at East Carolina University. From 2010 to 2013 he was a senior research engineer and a principal investigator with the Navigation Systems Division and the Advanced Concepts and Technologies Division in Northrop Grumman
Page 26.1600.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Transformation of STEM to STEAM – How a traditionally run STEM camp incorporated the ARTS into its framework resulting in a successful STEAM Camp (Work in Progress)IntroductionSummer 2014 marked a transition from STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) toSTEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, ARTS, and Math) with the incorporation of theArts into an existing informal educational model used to enhance K-12 education in an out-of-school program – a day camp experience for 60 children. This camp infused Art into engagingactivities and pointed educational modules designed to teach
Acceptance questions, 30% of students indicated that the Beagleboard-xM wasmuch more or more accepted than the DSK board, while 54% felt that it was as good or thesame, and 19% perceived the Beagleboard-xM to be less acceptable than the DSK board.In questions about the “Relationship to Accreditation Board of Engineering Technology (ABET)Student Outcomes,” the mean Likert scale score is M = 3.35 with a SD = 0.65. The alphareliability coefficient of 0.7603 indicates that even this small set of data (3 questions) is notrandom. The p-value of 0.4256 is quite large and thus does not allow the rejection of the null-hypothesis—namely, there was no change in relation to ABET criteria as a result of introducing
systemthat may correlate to societal shifts.Feminist activism has had pervasive influences on society, far beyond the acquisition of adesired right or privilege 5–8. I first describe how the three waves of feminism have influencedpublic school and post-secondary curriculum in British Columbia, and how those changes maycorrespond to the continuing gender gap in post-secondary education for STEM areas: science,technology, engineering and mathematics. Next, I present the analysis of four decades of studentdata collected from a comprehensive community college in British Columbia. The purpose ofthis analysis is to determine the percentage of girls who successfully completed high schoolphysics credits and to present a trending view of their career choices
Paper ID #11602Curriculum Exchange: Transforming Teaching through Implementing In-quiryDr. Aaron C. Clark, North Carolina State University Dr. Aaron C. Clark is a Professor of Technology, Design, and Engineering Education within the College of Education and is the Director of Graduate Programs and Associate Department Chair for the Depart- ment of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education (STEM). He received his B.S. and M.S. in Technology and earned his doctoral degree in Technology Education. Dr. Clark has worked in both industry and education, including administration at the community college and
Paper ID #14217Simultaneous Implementation of Experimental Centric Pedagogy in 13 ECEProgramsProf. Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kenneth Connor is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) where he teaches courses on electromagnetics, electronics and instrumentation, plasma physics, electric power, and general engineering. His research involves plasma physics, electromagnetics, photon- ics, biomedical sensors, engineering education, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning. He learned problem solving from his father (ran a
. Macnab, and S. Friesen, "Inspiring Girls to Pursue Careers in STEM with a Mentor- Supported Robotics Project," in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Conference, 2011.[3] C. Feldhaus, “Project PETE: Pathways to Engineering and Technology Education," in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Conference, 2005.[4] B. Sarder, "Designing STEM Curriculum for K12 Students," in Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Conference, 2013. Page 26.1769.6[5] W. Rochefort, K. Levien, E. Ford, and E. Momsen, "Everything I know I learned in Kindergarten: Examples of
Paper ID #12360Effect of extended use of an executable flowchart for teaching C languageProf. Cho Sehyeong, MyongJi University Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, MyongJi University Page 26.576.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Effect of extended use of an executable flowchart for teaching C languageTeaching computer programming to students is a daunting task, especially to those without anybackground or experience in computer programming. Even simple assignment statements orarithmetic operations
Paper ID #11173It’s a SNAP: Student Note-taking Achieves PerformanceDr. Dennis A. Silage, Temple University Dennis Silage received the PhD from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Temple University, teaches electromagnetic field theory, digital data communication, digital signal and image processing and embed- ded processing systems. Dr. Silage is past chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Division of ASEE, recipient of the 2007 ASEE National Outstanding Teaching Award and the 2011 ASEE ECE Division
Paper ID #13210Teachers in Industry: Teaching Transformed through Authentic Work Expe-rienceDr. Bradley Bowen, North Dakota State University Bradley Bowen is an assistant professor at North Dakota State University. He has a duel appointment with the Teacher Education Department and the Department of Construction Management and Engineering. He has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech and received a Master’s of Civil Engineering and an Ed.D. in Technology Education from N.C. State University. He specializes in developing and integrating project-based activities into the K-12 classroom that incorporate engineering and
equity in a multi-site science, technology, engineering, and mathematics program evaluation. Page 26.1299.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Race, Inclusion, and Science: Things That Really Do Go TogetherIncreasing diversity has emerged as an important goal for improving the productivity,innovation, and culture of science1, 2. Many current strategies play a numbers game: they try toincrease the number of underrepresented students, both women and minorities, exposed toscience, or increase the number recruited3. Yet, exposure and recruitment do not solve broaderissues of
Paper ID #11649Teaching Digital Designs by Building Small Autonomous Robotic Vehicles Us-ing an FPGA PlatformDr. Cheng Chih Liu, University of Wisconsin Stout Cheng Liu is an Associate Professor in the Computer Engineering Program at University of Wisconsin Stout. He taught courses in electrical, computer engineering, and engineering technology. His teaching and research interests are embedded systems, systems on programmable chips, FPGAs, controls and instrumentation. Page 26.1472.1 c
majormethodologies, implementations, assessments and accomplishments of the hands-on projectare described in this paper. ELEE4650/5650 Hardware Description Language Laboratory isan elective course in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, which is anadvanced graduate-level course. Previous instructors employed different textbooks andexperimental FPGA circuit board, Altera FPGA board. Techniques this curriculum coveredare recently developing rapidly [1]. Consequently, this course was created from scratch,piecing together topics from a range of textbooks in order to keep track of state-of-the-artFPGA technology. The entire lecture slides, reading materials, various handouts, homework,quizzes, exams, and specifically, project assignments were
electronics, linear systems and controls, electromagnetics, microcontrollers, and digital electronics. For the computer engineering students it also includes systems software and real-time programming. 2. The course provides preparation for the year-long senior design project. Students learn how to complete an open-ended project that has little direction other than a list of constraints. They also are introduced to the tools and technologies that are needed to make a project successful such as 3-D printing, circuit board fabrication, packaging, and safety issues. 3. EE 380 provides and efficient way in which to assess several ABET outcomes including: ABET (b) an ability to design and conduct an
Paper ID #11120A Project-Based Learning Approach to Teaching Computer Vision At the Un-dergraduate LevelDr. Sami Khorbotly, Valparaiso University Received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Beirut Arab University, Beirut, Lebanon in 2001. He then received the M.S. and Ph. D. degrees both in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Akron, Akron, OH in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Frederick F. Jenny Professor of emerging technologies at Valparaiso University. He teaches in the areas of digital
Paper ID #11508A Senior Design Project on the Kelvin-Helmholtz InstabilityDr. John E Matsson, Oral Roberts University John Matsson is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK. He earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden in 1988 and 1994 respectively.Mr. Justice Boisselle, Oral Roberts University Justice Boisselle is a Junior engineering major at Oral Roberts University. For the past three years he has worked with Dr. John Matsson performing CFD research in the field of pipe flow
current first-year engineering efforts, conducting rigorous engineering education research to improve first-year experiences, and promoting the adoption of evidence-based in- structional practices. In addition to research in first year engineering, Dr. Mohammadi-Aragh investigates technology-supported classroom learning and using scientific visualization to improve understanding of complex phenomena. She earned her Ph.D. (2013) in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech, and both her M.S. (2004) and B.S. (2002) in Computer Engineering from Mississippi State. In 2013, Dr. Mohammadi-Aragh was honored as a promising new engineering education researcher when she was selected as an ASEE Educational Research and Methods