Paper ID #11490Project-based learning in a high school pre-engineering program: Findingson student achievement (RTP, Strand 3)Todd France, University of Colorado Boulder Todd France is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is part of the Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education Program and helps teach and develop curriculum at a high school STEM academy. His research focuses on pre-engineering education and project-based learning. Page 26.1265.1 c American Society for
Paper ID #14315Bringing in the World: Internationalizing the Curriculum of a First-Year In-troduction to Engineering Course at a Large Public American UniversityProf. Jennifer DeBoer, Purdue University, West Lafayette Jennifer DeBoer is currently Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses on international education systems, individual and social development, technology use and STEM learning, and educational environments for diverse learners.Mr. Shreyas Vathul Subramanian, Purdue University Shreyas Vathul Subramanian is a PhD candidate in the school of Aeronautics and
authentic contexts forlearning and enables students to make connections among the STEM disciplines, as well assupports developing knowledge and skills within and across the STEM disciplines8. Engineeringis a critical element of integrated STEM education as it can be seen as a vehicle to teach andlearn science and mathematics1. At the K-12 level, engineering education should (1) include andemphasize engineering design, (2) incorporate important and developmentally appropriatescience, mathematics, and technology knowledge and skills, or (3) promote engineering habits ofmind which are the general principles of K-12 engineering education1. Successful implementation of any integrated STEM program is related to the curriculummaterials used9
obtaining her MBA, Laura became the Director of Corporate Purchasing and was a financial analyst in Investor Relations. Laura left the utility to become the Director of Women’s Sports at STX, Inc., a sporting goods manufacturer where she became the holder of four patents. Returning to the classroom once again, Laura obtained a Masters in environmental engineering from UMBC and became an Affiliate Professor for Project Lead The Way. Laura is now the Engineering Department Chair at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) where she has built an engineering technology program and dou- bled the size of the engineering transfer program by stimulating interest in high school students, training PLTW teachers, and
Paper ID #13934The Impact of Summer Research Experiences on Community College Stu-dents’ Pursuit of a Graduate Degree in Science and EngineeringMs. Lea K. Marlor, University of California, Berkeley Lea Marlor is the Education and Outreach Program Manager for the Center for Energy Efficient Electron- ics Science, a NSF-funded Science and Technology Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She manages undergraduate research programs to recruit and retain underrepresented students in science and engineering and also outreach to pre-college students to introduce them to science and engineering career opportunities. Ms
creative self-efficacy. Results ofthe study found no association between students’ self-efficacy and their creativeoutcomes. This study also reported on the inter-rater reliability of the web-based versionof the CAT and its discriminant validity. Results proved that the web-based version of theCAT is a valid and reliable means of measuring student’s creative outcomes. The resultsand implications for K-12 technology and engineering education are discussed in thisreport. IntroductionNot only is creativity seen as an essential component of human cognition, its promotionis essential to a global economy and creating globally competitive citizens ([1]; [2]). Thecultivation of our high school students as innovative
is the past chair of the IN/IL section. He is a fellow of the Teaching Academy and listed in the Book of Great Teachers at Purdue University./ He was the first engineering faculty member to receive the national Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning. He was a co-recipient of the National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education and the recipient of the National Society of Professional Engineers’ Educational Excellence Award and the ASEE Chester Carlson Award. He is a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education and the National Society of Professional Engineers.Mrs. Jean M. Trusedell, EPICS Jean Trusedell is a
Paper ID #11520Experiential Learning Framework for Design and Development of Environ-mental Data Acquisition System Enhances Student Learning in Undergradu-ate Engineering CoursesMr. Xavier Shastri Domnique HenryDr. Lei Zhang, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore Dr. Lei Zhang received his Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering on 2011 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Since 2012 he is working in the Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore. His main research interests include image processing, autonomous system, optical SoC/NoC architecture, and on-chip optoelectronic
collaboration Page 26.974.2 agreements and support for each other’s research and grant proposals, 17 distinctive projectswith these community partners, and four spinoff research projects.Background21st century jobs require a new set of skills, many of which are connected to the science,technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.1 Colleges and universities seek topromote academic excellence but are also responsible for developing students as active citizens.To meet future needs and to grow knowledge capital, there must be investment in technology andsupport for programs that promote innovation and spur leadership. Colleges and universities
- oping and maintaining the hybrid version of that class, and researching improvements methods to teach programming to incoming freshmen using new technologies. She also researches means to incorporate more engineering mathematics and physics into the programming course, as this specific programming course is ”for engineers”.Dr. Heidi M Steinhauer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach Heidi M. Steinhauer is an Associate Professor of Engineering, Department Chair of the Engineering Fundamentals Department, co-advisor for the only all-women’s Baja SAE Team, Founding Member of FIRST (Female Initiative Reaching Success Together), and former director for GEMS (Girls in Engineer- ing, Math, and Science). Dr
learning.The groundwork underlying this paper represents the initial steps toward those goals.AcknowledgementsThe authors gratefully acknowledge numerous helpful discussions with Dr. Kurt Fischer and Dr.Theo Dawson.Bibliography 1. Borrell, B., Speaking Out on the "Quiet Crisis". Scientific American 2011, 305 (6), 94-99. 2. Gates, J., S. James; & Mirkin, C., Encouraging STEM Students is in the National Interest. The Chronicle of Higher Education June 25, 2012, 2012. 3. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, 2011, Retrieved at: http
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 2003, where he was a National Defense Science and Engineer- Page 26.880.1 ing Graduate (NDSEG) Fellow, and a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, in 2006. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Design Center Colorado Founder/Director of Graduate Programs in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado in Boul- der, CO. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Surgery and an affiliate position c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015
undoubtedlycapturing students’ interest, they were also shifting focus away from the more-importantengineering-relevant learning goals in the academy. An administrator addressed this issue, notingthat because project-based learning had been trickling down to the lower grades of the schooldistrict, courses needed to shift their emphases to improve students’ skill-sets. She stated, “Nowit’s really about, okay, what technical skills – math, science, technology – do you need to be ableto truly access engineering at a higher level. . . . Because if we just keep having kids build stuff,well they’re done, they got that. I mean after fifth grade, they’ve got that
, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates to ensure the future success of the state’sworkforce. In addition, there is a necessity to develop the quantity and quality of Georgia’s P-12science and mathematics teachers. This study focuses on evaluating early education teachers’willingness to receive STEM education training, receive assistance with introducing andimplementing STEM concepts to their students on a daily basis in their classrooms, and also toidentify challenges to their willingness to embrace new curriculum concepts. A survey wasdeveloped to assess teachers’ comfort levels with science, technology, math, and scienceeducation, and their willingness to receive additional training, if necessary, in one Title I Georgiaelementary
school classrooms, and also on advancing the use of knowledge building pedagogy in higher education. His most recent article (2013) is entitled ”Tasks and Talk: The Relationship Between Teachers’ Goals and Student Discourse,” in Social Studies Research and Practice.Prof. Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, M.S. Civil Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, is professor of physics and civil engineering technology at Springfield Technical Community College. She focuses on developing meaningful educational strategies to recruit and retain a diverse student body in engineering and designs innovative learning environments at all levels of the engineering pipeline
Paper ID #11813A systematic review of undergraduate engineering students’ perception of thetypes of activities used to teach electric circuitsMiss Nicole P Pitterson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Nicole is a PhD. Candidate in Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a M.Sc. in Manufac- turing Engineering from Western Illinois University and a B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Technology, Jamaica. Her research interest is eliciting conceptual understanding of AC circuit concepts using active learning strategies.Dr. Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette
assessment is not simply on whether or not students “get theright answer,” but on how they acquire science and engineering knowledge and skills in the questfor optimal design solutions. Engineering design assessment thus requires innovative solutionsthat can track and analyze student learning trajectories over a significant period of time.Sophisticated data mining technologies originally developed for scientific and businessapplications provide such solutions.Year 1 Project Goals and ActivitiesOBJECTIVE #1: Advance the data collection capability of a CAD platform to create a “goldmine” of educational data. The Concord Consortium team has expanded the logging capacity ofEnergy3D to generate varieties of learner data. These efforts helped transform
Paper ID #11523Feedback in Complex, Authentic, Industrially Situated Engineering Projectsusing Episodes as a Discourse Analysis Framework – Year 3Dr. Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in Chemical Engineering. He currently has research activity in areas related engineering education and is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher-level cognitive skills in engineering problem
. Additionally, it presents analyses from three waves of student surveys from over 250undergraduates that were conducted in Fall 2013 through Fall 2014. Forty-three (64%)engineering faculty participated across the same period of time. Analyses highlight therelationship between faculty knowledge and student perception of the classroom learningenvironment as they relate to student learning outcomes.IntroductionImproving engineering education is a challenging and persistent national issue that hasimplications for the number and quality of future U.S. engineering and technological workforce.Indeed, there is a significant amount of research that attempts to identify what specific aspects ofengineering education can be improved and strategies for reaching
(Pri- mary – Bioengineering: Affiliated - Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Science and En- gineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry) as well as the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Rohit received dual B.Tech. degrees (in Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science and Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi in 1996 and his doctoral thesis work at Case Western Reserve University (Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering) was in the area of polymer spectroscopy. He then worked as a Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (2000-2005) in the area of biomedical vibrational spectroscopy. Rohit has been at Illinois
researcher in STEM at Ca˜nada College. Her research interests include understanding how students become involved, stayed involved, and complete their major in engineering and STEM majors in general, particularly for students in underrepresented populations.Mr. Nick Patrick Rentsch, Canada College Nick Rentsch is an adjunct professor of physics, engineering, and computer science at Ca˜nada College, Skyline College, and San Francisco State University. He received his M.S. degree from San Francisco State University in embedded electrical engineering and computer systems. His educational research interests include technology-enhanced instruction and the development of novel instructional equipment and curricula for enhancing
recipient of four NSF awards for research in engineering education and a research associate at Purdue University. Prior to coming to Purdue he was Assistant Professor of En- trepreneurship at Ohio Northern University. Before assuming that position he was Associate Director of the Inter-professional Studies Program and Senior Lecturer at Illinois Institute of Technology and involved in research in service learning, assessment processes and interventions aimed at improving learning ob- jective attainment. Prior to his University assignments he was the Founder and CEO of The EDI Group, Ltd. and The EDI Group Canada, Ltd, independent professional services companies specializing in B2B electronic commerce and electronic data
Evaluating Web-Based Learning Resources in School Education," Journal of Information Technology Education, Vo. 9, 20102. Valerie Young, Edward Perry, Patrick Mensah, Jean-Pierre Bayard, Rassa Rassai, and Joseph Tront, "Making Use of the MERLOT Database," Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition,3. Edward F. Gehringer, "A Database and Search Engine for Sharing Fine-Grained Course Materials over the Web," Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition,4. MERLOT website: www.merlot.org Page 26.682.7
2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Can Real-life Projects in Engineering Classes Result in Improved Interest and Performance in Clean Energy Careers? Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Diane Schilder, Christos Zahopoulos Northeastern University/Evaluation Analysis Solutions, Inc. / Northeastern UniversityAbstractWith funding from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, Northeastern University has beenoffering the Early College Experience (ECE) program to Boston Public high school seniors withthe goal of increasing their interest in Clean Energy careers. The ECE program has provided highschool students the opportunity to take a college-level Engineering Design course that
discovery. In 2007, Brian left the world of engineering to pursue a career in education. For the past 5 years, Brian has taught various levels of high school physics, mathematics, applied technology, and robotics. Brian joined Sparkfun Electronics to help integrate ”tinkering,” electronics, and computational thinking into the classroom. One of his goals is to help teachers to de-mystify how household consumer electronics work. With a few simple tools, classrooms can excite and encourage students to explore the possibilities of microcontrollers, electronics, and physical computing. Brian Huang has a Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign and a Masters in
) A. Student Organizations V. Advising (PROF VI.0.0) I. Grand Challenges (DESN I.F.0) A. Plan of Study IV. Types of Engineering II. Concern for Society B. Study Abroad V. Engineering History A. Assistive Technologies C. Co-op or Internship VI. Definition and Vocabulary B. Social Entrepreneurship 1. Interviews A. Nature of Engineering C. Design Safety D. Intro
program continues to evolve we are looking to connect the Common Reading Experienceto courses taken by our incoming students. In 2014, the book selected was Ingenious: A TrueStory of Invention, Automotive Daring and the Race to Revive America by Jason Fagone.Through contacts within the faculty at UVa-SEAS we were able to invite the author to discussthe book and answer student questions in Science Technology and Society (STS) 1500: a coursedesigned to strengthen writing and speaking skills and provide students with an introduction tothe engineering profession, engineering ethics, and the social issues of professional engineeringpractice. A complete list of book selections from 1993-2014 is provided in Appendix A1.Additional RecommendationsWe
Paper ID #11122Power Engineering Day-a way to attract high school students from underrep-resented groups to consider careers in electric powerDr. Lisa Shatz, Suffolk University Associate Professor at Suffolk University In Electrical Engineering. PI of NSF SSTEM grant, Electrical Engineering Scholars at Suffolk. Work with the Power Industry to put an emphasis on electric power in our curriculumDr. Timothy A Poynton, University of Massachusetts Boston Dr. Timothy Poynton is an associate professor in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of
staff and teachers, and served as museum liaison to UT Austin’s Science and Engineering departments and the local STEM professional community. She received training in inquiry-based learning from the Institute for Inquiry at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA. She is currently the Education Director for Phoenix Arising Aviation Academy and the Program Director for STEM Education programs with iFLY.Mr. Stuart B Wallock Stuart Wallock has spent the last 20 years involved with the convergence of technology, ecommerce, media and entertainment industries in various online and retail capacities. He holds a BA in Liberal Arts from UT Austin. Stuart joined SkyVenture/iFLY Indoor Skydiving from Dell, Inc., in October of
Paper ID #13394Design and Implementation of an Inexpensive Laboratory for Providing Hands-On Design Prototyping and Manufacturing Experiences to Engineering Stu-dentsMr. Jeremy John Vaillant, University of Massachusetts Lowell department of Mechanical Engineering Ph. D candidate with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering with a Design and Manufacturing Concentra- tion who develops CNC technology for academic research and education. He also designs experimental hardware, electronics and software coding to automate mechanical systems.Dr. Christopher J Hansen, University of Massachusetts, LowellProf. Stephen Johnston, University of