Paper ID #39680Board 245: Description, Assessment, and Outcomes of SeveralInterventions within a National Science Foundation Research Traineeship(NRT): Graduate Certificate, Field Trips, Internships and InternationalExperiencesDr. Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez, University of Kentucky Dr. Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez is PI and project coordinator of a National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) program designed to enhance graduate education by fully integrating research and pro- fessional skill development within a diverse, inclusive and supportive academy. Originally from Mexico, Dr. Santillan-Jimenez joined the University
curriculum.Design PrinciplesThe SCoPE curriculum incorporates several design features to ensure students deepened theirunderstanding of engineering design and the problems engineers may address.Coherence. Curriculum coherence is critical for building students’ abilities to engage inthree-dimensional instruction to explain phenomena and solve problems [25]. One way to buildcoherent curriculum materials is through Project-Based Learning (PBL), which focusesinstruction on a problem to solve or question to investigate. PBL is predicated upon astudent-centered learning environment and has been shown to increase science and mathlearning, even among students from historically underrepresented groups [26]. SCoPE is a PBLunit that requires students to apply ideas
lectures, such as operations research, game theory, and nuclear science. Studentsare free to choose similar topics that are not listed.As with the WWII course, the assignments follow the topics discussed during the EngineeringGraphics course. Being an engineering course, the context of these assignments is different.Engineering Graphics teaches students how to create, display, and interpret designs withinstandard engineering contexts, particularly in orthographic projections and detailed drawings.The overarching purpose and intent of Engineering Graphics are to communicate ideas anddesigns graphically. The problem-solving assignments provide students with a written means todo this. While not being related to a specific time period like WWII, the
navigate diverse cultures and places, learning and applying the course content in afamiliar setting before departing. Engineering students who implement some of the skills andcontent typically see an immediate return during the experience. The reflective final project thatthey complete once they return reinforces the awareness and skills that are a link betweenclassroom theory and concepts and real-time impacts.Through a continuous improvement feedback model, this paper also seeks to identify the rangeof content that can be refined and leveraged for various locations. Quantitative results indicatethat global/cultural skills are relevant immediately, requiring little reinforcement from othercourses. This study provides a baseline of data and
AssistantMr. Assad Iqbal, Arizona State University Assad Iqbal is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Arizona State University working on the National Sci- ence Foundation-funded research project i.e., Engineering For Us All (e4usa). Assad Iqbal is an informa- tion system engineer with a Ph.D. in Engineering Education and around 14 years of teaching experience in undergraduate engineering and technology education. His research interest is to explore ways to promote self-directed, self-regulated life-long learning among the undergraduate engineering student population. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Quantitative Analysis of Self-Regulation in Undergraduate Engineering and
thecore’s microarchitecture.Labs 1-4 show how to program RVfpga using C, RISC-V assembly, and a combination of C andassembly. Lab 5, which is optional, shows how to create a Vivado project to generate a bitfiletargeted to the Artix7 FPGA and the peripherals on the Nexys A7-100T board. This is necessarywhen users wish to extend the RVfpga SoC and test it in hardware, which requires a newlygenerated bitfile. Again, Lab 5 is optional because all labs, including system extension, can becompleted in simulation only. Labs 6-10 introduce memory-mapped I/O and discuss existingperipherals within the SoC as well as how to extend the system to add more peripherals. Bothprogramming and interrupt-based approaches are used in these labs. Interrupts are used
#DancingRocketScientist delivers her inspirational testimony internationally, and works as an operations project management consultant for multiple non-profit STEM Education organizations.Darren . Lipomi ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 WIP: Approaches to pairing proactive advising and teaching students how to learnIntroductionThe mission of the Inclusion Diversity Excellence Achievement (IDEA) Engineering StudentCenter at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering is to promote equity, community, andsuccess for all engineering students at the University from admission through graduation. TheAcademic Achievement Program (AAP) originally focused on academic performance
Paper ID #38946Board 168A: Initial Development of a Pre-college Engineering Framework:An Analysis of the Engineering Accreditation Board in Southeast AsiaDr. Ibrahim H. Yeter, Nanyang Technological University Ibrahim H. Yeter, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education (NIE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He is an affiliated faculty member of the NTU Centre for Research and Development in Learning (CRADLE) and the NTU Institute for Science and Technology for Humanity (NISTH). Additionally, he is the Director of the World MOON Project, the Associate Editor of the IEEE
improvement of the Engineering Technology (ET) curriculum, including integrated laboratories, project- based learning, and practicum-based assessment. Dr. Ertekin serves as the faculty advisor for the student chapter of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (S058) and is a member of the College’s Undergradu- ate Curriculum Committee. Involved in research, Ertekin has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), private foundations, and industry. His research has focused on the improvement of manufacturing laboratories and curricula and the adoption of process simulation into machining and addi- tive manufacturing practices. His areas of expertise are in CAD/CAM, manufacturing processes, machine and process
3students with practice problems. The chatbot should help with project-related tasks such aschecking out equipment and requesting services. Such information is usually hard to find, andstudents might not even know the facilities they have access to. Another tedious task is schedulingmeetings. Students tend to send back-and-forth emails to set meetings with professors and TAs.The chatbot should assist with scheduling meetings based on the availability of the student and theprofessor or TA. The chatbot should also be able to provide general information unrelated to aparticular course such as Q-drop dates or registration information. Finally, it should easily providethe students with access to all safety documents, such as Safety Data Sheets (SDS
the teaching of engineering ethics. Despite use of de-sign iteration and trial-and-error in engineering practice and projects, engineering instructionbroadly does not seem to leave much room for failure as part of the learning experience. Inclasses, students can be instructed only on how to find the right answer, and then be pun-ished, through low marks or exclusion from opportunities, for failure. Even in classes thatcultivate intuition, innovation and creativity, there is usually a right answer and thus a spe-cific, predetermined pathway to success that, unlike Elden Ring, does not repeatedly endurefailure. This may be a practical position for more introductory, knowledge and theory basedcourses (although still debatable), but one area that
theimpact of the current racial climate in the U.S. on their college experience, the third and fourthauthors of this work submitted a research proposal to the university’s advancing racial justicesolicitation [9]. This project aimed to provide information to staff, faculty, and administrators onways to improve the experiences of Black engineering students on campus.Black engineering students’ experiences at UF have not been studied at length. While theinstitution has focused on implementing general measures to address the needs of all Blackstudents, it could benefit from collaborating with its Black engineering students to identify betterapproaches to supporting them throughout their undergraduate studies. One way to achieve thisgoal is through an
and behaviors, there is aquestion about how these programs impact the long-term, deep perspective changes needed forsuccess in the profession [2] [3]. To add to this uncertainty, the empirical evidencedemonstrating leadership program effectiveness is mixed [4-6]. Identity has emerged as apotentially effective approach to leader development in both the leadership studies andengineering leadership fields, as it addresses the complex, dynamic, and long-term aspects ofleader development.This project leverages identity — how one sees oneself, and is seen by others, in society [e.g., 7,8]— to understand and support the leader development process. Using preliminary research oninstructional features of an identity-based approach (reflexive
: • The GE courses were given an entire relook; beware of a growth in percentage of GE courses • It was easy to meet the ABET accreditation requirements in the conversion. • Estimate the amount of work this will take and triple it. Fight for additional compensation for the faculty members involved. • Proceed on a serial rather than parallel approach to the conversion. • Expect your initial plans to be denied in the higher-level review process and adjust accordingly. • The most contentious issues were senior project, digital tools versus physical models, and the mode of instruction for the freshman seminar course. • The program was given a strict budget of 128 semester units but a lot of flexibility
which majority populations accumulate power that harms students underrepresented in certain contexts.Dr. Heather Lee Perkins, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign Heather graduated from the Applied Social and Community Psychology program in the spring of 2021, after completing her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Cincinnati. She has participated in various research projects examining the intNelson O. O. Zounlom`e Nelson O. O. Zounlome, Ph.D., is the Founder, CEO, and a mental health & academic thrive consul- tant through Liberate The Block (https://liberatetheblock.com/) ˜ an agency dedicated to helping Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in higher ed thrive. Dr. Z. is
research projects designed to increase women’s participation in post-secondary com- puting programs. This includes working with faculty and staff from a variety of collegiate computing ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Paper ID #36431 programs to facilitate their local implementation of evidence-based recruitment and retention strategies and translating these successes into resources accessible to post-secondary computing programs on a na- tionwide scale. She also engages in project management and strategic planning for the Extension Services Program. Prior to joining NCWIT, Jamie
Paper ID #36422Inclusive Innovation: Reframing STEM Research in COVID-19Ms. Tamara N. Hamilton, Syracuse University Tamara N. Hamilton is the Co-Principal Investigator and Project Director for the National Science Foun- dation Upstate Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (ULSAMP) at Syracuse University (SU). She has held this position since November 2012. ULSAMP is a collaboration between seven institutions, five private four-year research-intensive and two community colleges, in New York. At SU, Tamara is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the ULSAMP grant and the SU LSAMP Program
Paper ID #38076Interest-Driven Major Pathways for Mid-Program Undergraduate Engineer-ingStudentsMs. Kelsey Louise Scalaro, University of Nevada, Reno Kelsey Scalaro is a doctoral candidate at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her emphasis is on undergrad- uate engineering student identity development with a dissertation focusing on how students access and interpret the recognition of their engineering identities. She seeks to leverage her B.S. and M.S. in me- chanical engineering along with her five years of aerospace industry experience to design project oriented classes that equitably support engineering identity
studies were coded and analyzed to discover any overlap inteaching needs between business and engineering faculty and how the library and librarian fitinto the narrative. Ultimately three core themes emerged: student literature research skills,project-based learning, and electronic access to materials and resources. Recommendations foradditional research and future librarian collaborations, as well as faculty outreach, are prescribed.IntroductionSubject librarians, also referred to as liaison librarians, frequently assist with library researchskills and library resource instruction in the realm of academic librarianship. Typically, thisoccurs through separate research consultations requested by students or, occasionally, faculty, orvia an
undergraduatecomputing students worked in teams to sketch and create ethics based decision making scenariosusing paper or blackboard. This scenario creation activity model was later refined and employedin different Ethics in Engineering courses as a means to increase engagement through gameplayand role playing.In 2022, this work was expanded by joining forces with engineering faculty from the Virtues andVocations initiative and the Ethics at Work project which included other computing faculty,faculty from Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, and faculty from Philosophy, where thegoal was to capture an engineering wide faculty and undergraduate student sentiment about ethicscontent in engineering. A multidisciplinary team of undergraduates, led by advising
Paper ID #37681Computational Thinking Pedagogical + Framework for Early ChildhoodEducationDr. Safia Malallah, Kansas State University Safia Malallah is a postdoc in the computer science department at Kansas State University working with Vision and Data science projects. She has ten years of experience as a computer analyst and graphic de- signer. Besides, she’s passionate about developing curriculums for teaching coding, data science, AI, and engineering to young children by modeling playground environments. She tries to expand her experience by facilitating and volunteering for many STEM workshops.Lior Shamir, Kansas
human factors inthe design or evaluation of technologies or systems.One of the objectives of human factors engineering is to learn about users' goals to better designand evaluate systems and technologies by applying appropriate methods. This user-centereddesign approach is the main methodology that allows engineers to learn about users’ goals andneeds, with the aim of designing user-centered systems.The user-centered design process requires understanding users to the point of forming empathywith them and directing the design and evaluation process based on the users’ needs.Conventionally, in human factors courses, students are required to complete a course project inwhich they would be required to develop a problem statement, understand the
Allen et al. [27] that foundstudents in a CS1 course which used “many-small-programs” instead of a single large project wereless stressed, more confident, had higher performance, and had higher satisfaction. There are avariety of platforms or instant feedback solutions used for hosting short programming problemswith instantaneous feedback. These include Zylabs by Zybooks [5], Stepik [28], CodeRunner [10],CodeWorkout [29], [30], Leetcode [31], Runestone Academy [6], CodingBat [13], Codio [32],CloudCoder [20], etc. While we acknowledge that there are several open source and manyproprietary platforms for hosting coding problems, as well as research on the effectiveness of thesesystems for teachers and students [18], there is not much research on
• Hands-on use of various elicitation methods to gather requirements • Hands-on requirements analysis using various analytical methodsEMSE Senior Senior- • Teams apply systems thinking to holistically Applying,4190/4191 Capstone Fall/Spring examine a selected problem. System Analyzing Project I & II modeling, dynamics, literature reviews, (4190) methodology development and multiple decision analysis techniques are employed
engineers see how they canstay true to their beliefs and lay the groundwork for improved outcomes.An example case illustrates how an early-career engineer stood up for their values in the face ofprofessional pressures. While an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia, that studentstudied the Dominion Energy Atlantic Coast Pipeline project and met residents of in the BlueRidge Mountains of Virginia who were to be directly impacted by the project. These personalencounters made the student question the ethics of the project’s development. She rememberedthat learning experience during her first job as an engineer when she was assigned to work on aconsulting project related to that same pipeline. Aligned with GVV pillars, she drew upon
). The coastal engineering class presents an excellent opportunity to close that gap. Moststudents in the course are senior undergrads or graduate students, nearing their entry (or re-entry)into their professional careers, so the authors decided to hone in on the professional aspect ofcollaboration, as a way to move from simple team projects to what Ellis, Han, and Pardo wouldrefer to as “productive collaboration” (2018, p. 130). When developing the course interventionsdiscussed in this paper, the authors focused less on which skills needed to be taught, and more onshifting the context from undergraduate education to a setting more akin to professionalenvironments. The aforementioned gap between graduate preparation and employee readiness
/technical dualism have included revising stand-alone ethicscourses and adding more social components to previously purely technical courses, such asdesign courses [6-9].Research in this space is still identifying what to expect of students and how to support deeperengagement in sociotechnical topics. This is being investigated through, for example, analyzingstudent interviews and focus groups [10-13], in class whole-group discussion [7, 14], andstudents’ written work [15]. Here, we build on this research base by looking at small group in-class discussions.This study is part of an NSF-funded research project to implement and study integratingsociotechnical components throughout a first-year computing for engineers course. In oneiteration of the
ofwomen faculty in STEM. Much of it has emerged from projects funded by the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) under ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEMAcademic Professions, a program that has been active for more than twenty years. NSFADVANCE has funded more than 200 projects promoting systemic change to enhance genderequity and inclusion for STEM faculty, hosted by postsecondary institutions, STEMcollaboratives, and research organizations. However, project leaders and scholars rarely addresspolicies and practices that impact how welcoming and accessible faculty careers are to peoplewith disabilities.This area of study and practice is particularly important as the number of faculty with disabilitiessteadily increases as the
engineering ethics.Dr. Diane T. Rover, Iowa State University Diane Rover holds the title of University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University (ISU). She also currently serves as the alliance director for the NSF Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska IINSPIRE LSAMP (Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation), co-leads projects in the depart- ment funded by NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) and Scholarships in STEM (S- STEM) programs, and is a co-PI of the NSF Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society led by the University of Missouri. Her teaching and research have focused on engineering education, high impact educational practices, inclusive educational practices, broader
Paper ID #39819Board 2B: WIP: What architects should learn according to the industry inseismic countriesDiego Eduardo Torres ViteriDr. Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ MiguelAndr´es is an Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering at Uni- versidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, an M.Sc. in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University as a Fulbright Scholar, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech, and two Graduate Certificates from Virginia Tech in Engi- neering Education and Future