anddifficult to scale up.An alternative model is to develop the skills of engineering faculty so that they can effectivelyincorporate writing instruction and practice into their existing technical courses. The DavisEducational Foundation has supported a project following this faculty-development model forengineering curricula at the University of New Haven. The first cohort to go through thisprogram just graduated in 2016, so assessment of its effectiveness is not complete [55]–[57].However, this approach is less resource-intensive and therefore may be more amenable to scalingup for universities having larger student bodies. An interdisciplinary team of researchers atPurdue is working to adapt techniques for writing in large-scale engineering classes
. Reamon, University of Colorado, Boulder Derek Reamon is the Co-director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program (ITLP) and theEngi- neering Plus (e+) degree program, and a Teaching Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineer- ing. As ITLP co-director, he coordinates 19-22 sections of First-year Engineering Projects, a course that has a proven benefit on retention within engineering and is also a nationally recognized model for freshman design courses. The e+ program has created a flexible engineering degree and a pathway to sec- ondary math and science teaching licensure, to increase the numbers of STEM teachers that have strong c American Society for Engineering Education
College of Civic Life and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engagement, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to further engineering education innovations. He also does research on the development of reuse strategies for waste materials.Dr. Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc. Dr. Canney conducts research focused on engineering education, specifically the development of social responsibility in engineering students. Other areas of interest include ethics, service learning, and sus- tainability education. Dr. Canney received bachelors degrees in Civil Engineering and
. As one of the broadestengineering majors, mechanical engineering offers training in areas that range from thermal fluidsciences to mechatronics to machine design. In the ideal program, students are also given a tasteof industry work through team activities, project-based course content, or a required engineeringwork experience. Mechanical engineering graduates have the opportunity to join any number ofindustries, and are indeed highly sought-after for their problem solving skills and technicalbreadth. Yet, mechanical engineering students are generally not provided with guidance onmatching their interests with one of the multitude of jobs or non-traditional career paths availableto them.Students are also lacking direction on skills so
, nontraditional, and veteran undergraduates in engineering.Mr. Matthew Paul Jouffray c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Communicating Findings about Online Forum Use among Undergraduates in Distance-delivered Calculus: Developing a Help seeking Usage ModelAbstractThis paper reports on the synthesis of multiple user-centered design (UCD) tools to develop amodel for student help seeking in STEM courses. Data used to construct the model was gatheredamong science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) undergraduates enrolled indistance-delivered calculus. The resultant help seeking “usage model” serves as a final projectoutcome of an NSF sponsored TUES Type I project entitled “Online Learning Forums
Paper ID #23045Development and Testing of an Instrument to Understand Engineering Doc-toral Students’ Identities and MotivationsHeather Lee Perkins, North Carolina State University Heather entered the Applied Social and Community Psychology program in the fall of 2014, after com- pleting her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati. She has participated in various research projects examining the interaction between stereotypes and science interest and confi- dence, their influence upon womens’ performance in school and the workplace, and their presence in the media and consequences for viewers
; society program in the De- partment of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is the principal investigator at University of Virginia on the ’4C Project’ on Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM education with col- leagues from Notre Dame, Xavier University and St. Mary’s College. He is also the co-leader of the ’Nano and the City’ thematic research cluster for the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University. Rider is a Research Collaborator with the Sustainability Science Education program at the Biodesign Institute. His research focuses on wicked problems that arise at the intersection of society and technology. Rider holds a Ph.D. in Sustainability from Arizona State University
-socioeconomic students as an often understudied population. Justin has served as the ASEE Student Division Co-Program Chair and is a current Director of Special Projects for the Educational Research & Methods Division.Dr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering) Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical
action research project to learn about the student courseexperience and help the faculty improve the course. This project methodology uses a simple andefficient formative approach that incorporates strategic and continuous open-ended surveyquestions in optional feedback assignments to gauge the student experience across the course.Data were collected in the course learning management system (LMS) for multiple sections in afreshman Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering (first circuits) course using aflipped pedagogy across four years and with three different instructors. These assessmentsfocused on identifying challenges to learning, or “Muddiest Points” and student perceptionsabout classroom strategies and general learning/academic
broader societal perceptions of what is “appropriate” for women, or related to otherfactors that have not yet emerged in USA-centric research.Malaysia is one of three cases in our larger project studying women’s participation in engineeringin three predominantly Muslim Countries (PMCs): Malaysia, Tunisia, and Jordan. We chose thesethree countries because they represent three cases with distinct geographical regions, cultures,economies, socio-cultural, legal, political, and education systems in the Muslim world. Moreover,these three countries boast a much higher representation of women in engineering compared toUnited States, with Malaysia having the highest representation. Within each country, we partneredwith the major flagship public university
optimization of intelligent systems through the acquisition, integration, and mining of large scale, disparate data. He is currently working on a project that ambition to design a sys- tem capable of providing students customized motivational stimuli and performance feedback based on their affective states.Dr. Conrad Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Tucker holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor in Engineering Design and Industrial En- gineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also affiliate faculty in Computer Science and Engineering. He teaches Introduction to Engineering Design (EDSGN 100) at the undergraduate level and developed and taught a graduate-level course titled
achieving underserved students differ by gender? 2. How do their computing identities differ by field (CS, IT, CE)? 3. How do their computing identities differ by first year versus upper class status?2 BACKGROUNDNational attention to retaining U.S. prominence on the global stage has precipitated a necessity togarner interest, enrollment, and subsequent graduation of computing majors. The demand for atechnologically trained workforce far outpaces the growth. After all, computing is projected tocontinue to grow at a rate of 17% from 2014-2024, much faster than the average for alloccupations [2]. This urgency has prompted an expansion in literature on understanding theengagement of women, underrepresented minorities, and diverse socio
Professor in Industrial and Manufac- turing Engineering at Cal Poly, SLO. In her current role she overseas Engineering Students Services and diversity effort in the college. Coming from a 24 year career of practicing innovative pedagogies from Project based learning to flipped classrooms, she now works to transform the institution of high education through structures and practices.Dr. Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Jane Lehr is Chair of the Women’s & Gender Studies Department and a Professor in Ethnic Studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is also the Faculty Director of the Cal Poly Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority and Underrepresented
author found that somepredictors of success for women were related to frequency of working on group projects while formen it had to do with satisfaction with math and science coursework and the opportunity to conductresearch. It appeared that the college environment was a greater predictor of success compared tobackground characteristics or precollege experiences. The study also indicated that the collegeenvironment makes students less sure of their motivation to achieve. This may indicate that despitelack of academic preparation, these students can achieve success if the college climate issupportive and conducive to success. Strayhorn [12] summarized his study on the social barriers and supports for URM studentsin STEM fields based upon
MindsetBusiness acumen • Understanding engineers’ roles within the organization • Understanding the role of management functions • Discussing their products and services in business and economic terms • Being willing to make decisions with incomplete information • Effectively collaborating in a team setting • Effectively managing projects and commercialization processUnderstanding • Searching for market opportunities for technological innovationcustomer needs • Recognizing customer segments and their needs or problems • Constructing and communicating customer
evaluation of the projectssuccess, psychometric survey-based measures of these social psychological outcomes will alsobe operationalized as dependent variables, thus providing both quantitative and qualitativeassessments. A vital first phase of this RED project then involves the development of thepsychometric scales (i.e., testing of the tests), that will be used. Although researchers have developed a number of survey-based measures of socialpsychological aspects of the learning process, and recent efforts have been made to assess causal 2models of the multiple social psychological influences on educational and career outcomeswithin the area of engineering [cf. 4, 2, 5]. Importantly, the
art facilities.One of the more effective ways to increase knowledge about science, technology, engineering,and math (STEM) careers is to increase the knowledge of teachers. As part of a National ScienceFoundation Advanced Technological Education project, a group of high school teachers wasoffered the opportunity to work in advanced manufacturing labs with engineering faculty. Theseprojects included additive manufacturing (AM) of ceramics, surface characterization of AMmetal parts, and surface alteration. The teachers were tasked with developing lesson plans whichincorporated the advanced manufacturing concepts that they had learned.As part of the assessment of the program, teachers were given pre- and post- research experiencesurveys
by the high schoolparticipants themselves. Most reports of service learning outreach focus on the experience ofundergraduate and graduate student volunteers, including recent studies of efforts to recruitwomen [15, 16]. Other studies involving K-12 outreach do not address effectiveness of specificmaterials in engaging underrepresented students, but instead focus on general best practices,program development, or assessment [17-20]. Additionally, groundbreaking studies involvingbest practices in teaching engineering to K-12 students have not been within the context ofoutreach, but instead have focused on formal classroom teaching approaches in general such asproblem-, inquiry- and project-based approaches [21]. One program that evaluates
independently, but the students were always recruitedfrom the same two sections of the course (n-range 28-34). This study was approved by theinstitutional review board at the University (IRB# PRO2017002152) and may form the basis of along-term project in the future. The tests consisted of two related instruments – the Defining Issues Test version 2 (DIT-2) [8] and the Engineering Ethical Reasoning Instrument (EERI) [9]. The DIT-2 is used to assessthe moral judgement of individuals when faced with ethical dilemmas. In this test, a specific setof five (5) ethical dilemmas is presented to the individual, who must decide how to solve eachdilemma. The individual is then presented with a series of statements suggesting how they madetheir decision
Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Engineering Boot Camp: An Intense, Transformative Program for Incoming FreshmenAbstractThis complete evidence-based practice describes a new summer boot camp program withobjectives to prepare students for the rigors of university courses and increase student retention.This boot camp is a subset of a university wide program specifically for students entering theCollege of Engineering. It is not a remedial course and all incoming freshmen engineeringstudents are encouraged to apply. This is an intense week-long course requiring students toattend lectures, complete homework assignments and projects, take exams, and partake in skillssessions meant to help students adjust to university life and
Work, online games, IT experiential learning processes, and IT convergence & platform. His papers have appeared in Information Resources Management Journal, Cluster Computing, International Journal of Advanced Media and Com- munication, Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems, and Journal of Korean OR/MS Society and also have been presented at many leading international conferences (ICIS, HICSS, PACIS).Dr. Dante Dionne, Korean Air Dante Dionne is a Senior Innovation Technology consultant. The past 20+ years of his career has centered on management and professional services consulting. Where, he has specialized in leading multi-national project teams in digital business transformation, mobility and innovative
at the undergrad-uate curriculum level is slow and elementary [9], [10]. Few hands-on, lab-based teaching materialsexist in this area both for the undergraduate faculty members and the students. Seeing the value ofSDN through our recent study (Senior Capstone Project), we believe it is a great opportunity anda critical mission to identify and enhance the right tools and platforms that enable educators andstudents to teach, learn, and stay up-to-date on SDN. We also believe that it’s imperative to demon-strate how these tools may be effectively utilized and applied through the development and deliveryof fully tested hands-on labs and exercises to our undergraduate inter-networking classes.The paper is organized as follows. In section 2, we
introduce PNMSat/CubeSat [13], [14], [15]mission design in a systems engineering framework and foster leadership development amongparticipants. The objectives of the course catered towards – (i) Introducing Systems Engineeringfor PNMSats, (ii) Engage students in the design of a PNMSat with a novel payload and (iii)Foster leadership and team development through learning stages. The course agenda consisted of3 phases and the following outcomes were sought for assessing the success of the course.1. Demonstrate a basic understanding of PNMSats and their purpose.2. Demonstrate an understanding of systems engineering and its need for the design and development of PNMSats.3. Envision a project life cycle of a PNMSat mission and plan to be successful.4
State University. Her research focuses on (a) new literacies of online reading comprehension, particularly in complex and ill-structured learning domains, (b) teaching and learning in synchronous hy- brid learning environments, where physically present and remote participants interact in real time through such technologies as video conferencing tools and robots, and (c) the use of augmented reality in STEM education.Dr. Hannah Klautke, Michigan State University Hannah Klautke is a User Experience Research Associate with Usability/Accessibility Research and Con- sulting (Michigan State University Outreach and Engagement). She is involved in usability evaluations, focus groups, and information architecture projects for
X Animated short videos X Hands-on activities X X Demonstrations X Problem solving in class X X Group work X Peer mentoring X Semester-long project X X Active learning X
– Six Sigma – Time Studies – Work Sampling Production Project Management Supply Chain – Production Scheduling – Project Scheduling – Supply Chain Alignment – Theory of Constraints – Risk Management – Material Logistic – Budgets & Forecasts – Inventory Control – Crew Empowerment – Supplier Support – Defect Analysis – Make/Buy Process
through the National Science Foundation’s AdvancedTechnological Education fund and, in 2014, received funding for their project. Now, three yearslater, the Mechatronics and Robotics Systems program at Bay College is one of the fastestgrowing programs on campus with new opportunities being discovered each day for studentemployment and educational partnering. The remainder of this paper describes the ways in whichthis program was designed, the results that have been realized thus far, and a description ofseveral unexpected benefits that make replicating such a partnership at other rural communitycolleges a strong recommendation.An Overview of the ProgramThe final grant award for the proposed project between Bay College and Michigan Tech totaled
literature reviews, data management, finding funding, and reading retention.Attendance at and response to these instruction sessions suggest that a formal program ofinstruction can be beneficial to engineering graduate students. Considering that individualstudents approach the librarians for instruction on topics such as strategies for literature reviews,or that individual faculty members approach the librarians for instruction to the students in theirlabs on topics such as best resources for researching specific subjects or instruction on citationmanagement applications, one might reasonably conclude that there is an unmet need for a broadinstruction program. In this project, the engineering librarians of the U-M disseminated aQualtrics survey to
. Students in the BSME program complete a rigorous,project-based curriculum [7] designed to engage students in the engineering design-build-testprocess during all four years of undergraduate study. Program highlights include small classsizes, access to faculty, and an integrated study abroad option.The University of Evansville has implemented both admissions processes mentioned in theintroduction. Students entering the program directly from high school must meet admissioncriteria for ME Lower Division. After completing the required Lower Division courses with agrade of C- or better, students must apply for ME Upper Division status to complete the final twoyears of study.Lower DivisionLower Division is classified as the first two years of
four authors work together on this project and collateinclusion results.While working through the full-text review, and again during the quality assessment for thepapers in the study, the authors found themselves regularly having to review the inclusioncriteria and get more explicit about exactly what was intended. The need for agreement led todiscussions such as what counted as assessment, what is meant by effective, and how these itemsare represented in a particular study. The authors agreed not to accept a statement ofeffectiveness from the paper authors, rather the paper needed to include some measure of studentlearning gain, which could be done by pre/post measures, or some comparison between groupssuch as, qualitative measure with a