Student Association Outstanding Mentor Award, the Drexel University ECE Outstanding Research Achievement Award and the International Liquid Crystal Society Multimedia Prize. In 2003, he received a NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship to research NEMS/MEMS adaptive optics in the Microdevices Laboratory at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.Eli Fromm, Drexel University Dr. Eli Fromm is the Roy A. Brothers University Professor and Director of the Center for Page 15.1273.1 Educational Research in the College of Engineering of Drexel University. He has held a number of academic leadership positions and
specific to the subject, basedon understanding of the subject’s life and career, and more general questions designed to furtherthe more general aims of a study to be based on a group of related interviews.Training of Undergraduates in Human Subjects TrainingBoth Ms. Irvin, Ms. Hiteshue, as well as the PI, Dr. Lanzerotti, completed Human Subjects Page 24.962.6Training through the institution’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) prior to conducting the oralhistory interviews of the distinguished leaders. This course is “suitable for investigators andstaff conducting research with human subjects at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)and for
laboratory access iswithheld until all team members complete the assignments.IntroductionThe Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) Program1-4 is an innovative educationalinitiative at the College of Engineering of the University of Florida (UF). In weekly classesspanning two consecutive academic semesters, (eight months), students from various engineeringand business disciplines are taught how to design products and processes. Then, working in smallmultidisciplinary teams under the guidance of faculty coaches and industrial liaison engineers, Page 24.1240.2the students design and build an industrial product or design a manufacturing process
researchare free; two are commercial standalone tools. This prevents students from viewing the vul-nerabilities as a whole problem. We think this could be useful for a course that is focused onsecurity testing but not for an introductory course on software testing.Garousi7 presents open modern software testing laboratory courseware that is similar to theone we report in this paper, but he uses several tools and SUTs. One of his findings is thattesting educators should align the choices of SUTs and tools with the ultimate goal of thecourse at hand, the type of students, and the time and resources available to the students inthe course.Other forays into improving the teaching of software testing have been reported. For in-stance, Cowling5 describes how
) suggests that in terms of student comprehension, using only a well designed fullyautomated online course is as effective as traditional classroom/textbook/lab instruction51. Theeffect size for future more advanced ITSs incorporating the above mentioned capabilities isexpected to equal or even exceed the effect size of one-on-one tutoring.Bloom’s effect size however does not take into account the much smaller cost of ITSadministered courses, nor does it take into account the fact that it requires on average less timefrom the student to go over an ITS course as compared to the total time required to travel toschool, attend lectures, perform laboratory experiments, do homework assignments, go to officehours, study for exams, take exams, and other
Auburn University. He is the co-founder and director of the NSF-funded Laboratory for Innovative Technology and Engineer- ing Education (LITEE). LITEE has recently been recognized by the National Academy of Engineering as one of the 29 programs in the country that have successfully infused real-world experiences into under- graduate engineering education. He is also the founder and director of the Auburn Engineering Technical Assistance Program (AETAP) Prior to coming to Auburn in 1984, Dr. Raju held faculty positions in sev- eral universities in India and visiting positions at the Catholic University of America, Purdue University and the Technical University of Berlin. Dr. Raju received his Ph.D. from the Indian
. Page 23.1368.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 What’s Trust Got to Do with It? Assessing a Research-Based Mentoring Program for Novice EngineersAbstractWhile the importance of trust has largely been explored in large business organizations, littleattention has been given to the role of trust in one-on-one mentoring relationships betweenengineers1. Trust has been relatively understudied in academic settings, especially in mentoringrelationships between undergraduate and graduate students in research laboratory settings. Byassessing ways of creating and maintaining trust in engineering relationships, we will be able tocreate more comprehensive guidelines on building
Development at Northeastern University’s College of Engineering. He is the recipient of the 2021 NSPE Engineering Education Excellence Award and the 2019 ASCE Thomas A Lenox ExCEEd Leadership Award.Dr. Kaitlyn T Hanley P.E., New York University Tandon School of Engineering Dr. Hanley is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at New York University, teaching courses in environmental chemistry and microbiology, fundamental environmental engineering laboratory ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Paper ID #47278 techniques, environmental engineering process design, and the senior
highest undergraduate team ranking in the 2024 international ACC Quanser QCar competition and continues to compete in ongoing challenges. She is also a dedicated STEM advocate, serving as a counselor for the GEMS (Girls in Engineering, Math, and Science) summer program. In addition to her academic and research pursuits, Gabriella is an NCAA Division I swimmer and is fluent in both English and Spanish.Stephanie Weiss-Lopez, University of the Incarnate Word Stephanie Weiss-Lopez has overseen GEMS since 2020 as a Project Manager and Coordinator. Ms. Weiss-Lopez is a UIW alum with a degree in Meteorology, currently the AVS Laboratories Project Manager, and an MBA student at UIW. She has over 18 years of management and
the value of the program in advertising aimed at potential participants.The outreach program also uses a stakeholder survey [SDS2] to invite and identify the suitability ofpotential research Project Mentors (PMs) from departmental faculty, who have research groupswith capacity to support a program participant. The survey explores research groups’ topicsand projects, to help match the mentor and group focus to the interests expressed by theprogram participant. The survey also explores the availability of support resources, such aspeer mentors at the graduate and postdoctoral level, and a research or laboratory group workingphilosophy suited to scoping research projects to fit a community college student level. Thesurvey also explores the
within Penn State system.It should be noted that both MATH 140 and PHYS 211 are foundational courses (“gateways”) formany science and engineering majors at the Penn State University and important prerequisitesfor later work in many STEM disciplines. MATH 140 (4 contact hours) is an important buildingblock in the education of any professional who uses quantitative analysis and includes standardintroductory topics in differential calculus, integral calculus and their applications. PHYS 211 (5contact hours) is a calculus-based introduction to classical mechanics, and laboratory exercisesare an integral part of this course. PHYS 211 covers the following topics: kinematics, dynamics,laws of conservation, and their applications. Moreover, both MATH
Lead Instructional Specialist on the EQuIPD grant coaching K-12 teachers in Florida and providing professional development. Dr. Chisholm excels in using a system thinking approach to support teachers and students to create understanding through conceptual modeling. She has experience in creating professional learning experiences, designing coaching systems, and developing frameworks and lessons. Her research interests include STEM education, system thinking, conceptual modeling, and coaching.Dr. Nancy Ruzycki, University of Florida Dr. Nancy Ruzycki, is the Director of Undergraduate Laboratories and Faculty Lecturer within the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida Herbert
, BAE, Raytheon etc.) and private Foundations. Dr. Rawat is the recipient of the US NSF CAREER Award, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Scientific Leadership Award, Presidents’ Medal of Achievement Award (2023) at Howard University, Provost’s Distinguished Service Award 2021, Researcher Exemplar Award 2019 and Graduate Faculty Exemplar Award 2019 from Howard University, the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Summer Faculty Visiting Fellowship 2017, Outstanding Research Faculty Award (Award for Excellence in Scholarly Activity) at GSU in 2015, the Best Paper Awards (IEEE CCNC, IEEE ICII, IEEE DroneCom and BWCA) and Outstanding PhD Researcher Award in 2009. He has delivered over 100 Keynotes and
Paper ID #47883Work in Progress: A Second Comparative Study of the Impact of VirtualReality in Aerospace EducationMollie Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mollie Johnson is a graduate researcher in the Engineering Systems Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a BS in aerospace engineering, and is furthering her education as a Master’s student in AeroAstro at MIT.Dr. Rea Lavi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rea Lavi received his Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion—Israel Institute of
her interactions in the laboratory were transformed into opportunities for bothtechnical and social learning: “Talking with my classmates about our cultures while we workedhelped me feel like I was not only learning about science, but also about the world.” Theseexperiences demonstrate how the resources available at Purdue, such as organized activities andaccess to local communities, facilitated these participants’ integration into the social context.On the other hand, the group that did not plan to continue graduate studies in the United Statesmaintained a more selective approach to their social interactions, prioritizing relationships thatoffered them emotional support and resonated with their own cultural identities. Martina, forexample
Paper ID #47946The Role of Need for Cognition in Enhancing Innovation Capacities amongInterdisciplinary Graduate Students: An Equity-Focused ApproachMiss Yun-Han Weng, The Ohio State University Yun-Han Weng (she/her) is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program. She serves as a Graduate Research Associate at the College Impact Laboratory at Ohio State University. In this role, she investigates graduate students’ learning outcomes and experiences within an interdisciplinary STEM training program (evaluator), as well as examines the representation of Asian students and underrepresented
opportunity to drawon research about epistemic cognition—how people understand and evaluate knowledge—tobetter understand engineering judgment. Using an undergraduate laboratory course as anexample, we demonstrate how this enhanced understanding can improve how we assess anddevelop engineering judgment in students.What is Engineering Judgment?Engineering judgment has emerged as a critical focus in engineering education research [5],particularly following its formal incorporation as a required outcome for engineering graduatesin the 2016-2017 ABET accreditation cycle, which promotes the use of “engineering judgment todraw conclusions” [9, p. 6]. The persistence of this outcome in ABET’s current criteriaunderscores its continued significance in
) for a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering at UC San Diego. Courses that incorporate the chemical process project are shown in bold. Laboratory and capstone courses where students also work in teams are italicized. A) A 3-year upper division chemical engineering course schedule is typically followed by students admitted freshman or sophomore year. B) A 2-year course schedule is typically followed by transfer students admitted junior year. A) Fall quarter Winter quarter Spring quarter Sophomore Material and Energy Chemical Reaction Thermodynamics Year
ethics.This program began with College-wide, dean’s level administration and support. Thecommunication lab and consultations space was centrally located in the main College ofEngineering building. It was in this space that the director, administrative assistant, and graduateteaching fellows also occupied office space. PhD students from the College of Humanities withinterests in instructional communication, writing/composition, and communication across thecurriculum served as strong ambassadors for the importance of disciplinary expertise. In additionto classroom instruction, communication laboratories, and student consultations, the programdirector and graduate teaching fellows offered monthly workshops targeting engineering facultyon topics related
large public state university and taking part in the same researchproject. The internship was an 8-week program in the Biomedical Engineering (BME)Department funded by the Massachusetts Life Science Center (MLSC). All three students wereworking in the same lab co-hosted and mentored by the two laboratory Principal Investigators, aswell as undergraduate and graduate students in the lab. In-depth interviews with the three internsand their parents/caregivers were conducted and analyzed to understand parental relationships,mentorship relationships, and components of the home environment in developing STEMidentity and interest. Faculty mentors were also interviewed and provided perspectives on skillsets and confidence coming into the internship and
degrees on time [15], [16]. Future work will studystudents’ on-time graduation and degree completion, as well as the factors contributing to theseparamount problems in the academic community.Conclusions and RecommendationsSeveral academic as well as non-academic factors hinder minority students’ interest, persistence,and success. These factors include poor-quality teaching and advising, a challenging curriculum,deficiencies in mathematics, uninspiring courses, lack of sense of belonging, a lack of interactionbetween students and faculty, financial difficulties, a lack of hands-on projects as well as theavailability of infrastructure and laboratory facilities [1]–[3], [8]–[11]. All of these factorsgreatly contribute to major change and dropout
that a key quality of problem solvers is the ability to learn from failure,students were given the latitude needed to find for themselves what works and what does not (evenif foreseen by the faculty mentors).The project typically involves six students during a given semester: i.e., on average two studentsper sub-team. Since an important objective of our initiative is for students to develop hands-on © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022engineering design and research skills, participating students work in the laboratory (wheneverpossible) and maintain a 10 hour-a-week work schedule during the academic year. The students'work schedules in the laboratory are designed such that there are overlaps; thus, there
after the successful launch of both boats (right).USCGA Project DescriptionIn contrast to the course at USNA, cadets at USCGA typically enroll in the boat design/buildcourse as a first-year student (freshmen). The design portion of the course is an optional one-credit lecture offered during the fall semester. The build or construction portion of the course isoffered in a one-credit laboratory format during the spring semester. Both semesters areconsidered “Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory” electives and do not affect the students’ GPA. Studentscan join each class independently, meaning a student may enroll in the build portion in the springwithout participating in the design portion in the fall. Typical enrollment for the fall is upwardsof 20
educationand that of their children [20]. Foreign scientists and engineers hold important positions in U.S.universities, laboratories, and scientific industries [21]. Finally, one in four U.S. technologycompanies were founded between 1995 and 2005 by a foreign entrepreneur [22].In the case of Israel, the unrestricted mass migration of Jews from the former Soviet Union (FSU)in 1990 has been unique in the world for its benefits. Jewish immigrants from the FSU increasedIsrael's population by 20%, created their political parties to become a coalition government,promoted greater economic freedom, and moved the country away from socialism [23]. Clark etal. demonstrated with their empirical analysis of different countries that immigrant flows wererelated to
material was to some extentbeneficial for learning, but it cannot be replaced by the face-to-face environment thatallows association with laboratory equipment and field trips that provide a directapproach to the area of study [29], [30], [31], from this deduction doubts and concernswere born by students about the lack of practical training within their areas of study[32].The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the lives of the general population includingstudents in particular aspects, among them are students who were in the transition stagestarting their university studies (Post pandemic students) and students who wereinterrupted in the middle of their process (Pre pandemic students), however, bothgroups were separated from their social groups and were
did undergraduate students face during a research course, and how did they overcome these challenges to successfully complete their project? Sub-Question 3 (Self-Reflection): What impact did the research course have on undergraduate students' skills and knowledge and interest in research?3. BackgroundVarious efforts have been made to effectively organize and manage undergraduate researchprograms (URPs). One of the efforts, as suggested by Weldon and Reyna [5] and Thornton et al.[6], is to design a lab manual that outlines clear expectations for undergraduate researchers in thelab to help with a smooth transition for new students so that faculty mentors do not have toreinvent the wheel each time a new student joins the laboratory
highlight each student project related to each component(Table 1).3.0 Experimental Component Projects3.1 Research OverviewOne of the aspects that was attractive to the researchers and students in the Foods and NutritionalSciences, Human Sciences Department at the Tennessee State University, was that Calabresemicrogreens are high in isothiocyanate sulforaphane and are known to prevent certain cancers[6]. Therefore, they conducted laboratory experiments to analyze the growth cycle and nutrientcontent of the Calabrese microgreens. The human sciences ecological framework was used tostudy how the Calabrese microgreens could improve the lives of students, researchers, andstakeholders at the individual, family, community, and environmental level. Students
like peer assessments, self-assessments, and co-teaching facultygraders or Teacher Assistants (TA) remains a challenge.Communication skills and associated projects could be embedded across the engineeringcurriculum to enable students to hone WID and learn effective communication techniques.However, retention of communication skills could be lacking if well-designed integration andassessment processes are not implemented. Hence at the University of South Florida (USF), wehave embarked on developing courses that attempt to bridge this gap and ensure undergraduatespossess the necessary communication skills to become successful engineers. For instance, afoundation engineering laboratory course was developed for first-year students in
88% of responding universities offered an introductorycourse in transportation with 79% of responding universities requiring the course forundergraduate students in the civil engineering department. These courses ranged from three tofour credit hours, with 26% including a laboratory component. The lack of laboratorycomponents coupled with the discovery of only 85% of faculty having a transportationengineering background beg for further investigation into the state of transportation engineeringcurricula nationwide. The final question of the survey asked respondents to suggestmodifications to their university’s introductory transportation engineering courses. Mostrespondents suggested adding a laboratory to the introductory course or adding a
University and her M.S. and Ph.D. at East Carolina University in Biological Sciences specializing in coastal ecology. Currently, Deborah is a Instructional Consultant in the Foundational Course Initiative in the Center for Research in Learning and Teaching. While completing her doctoral studies, she redesigned the second-semester introductory biology laboratory, integrating authentic research experiences using citizen science. After joining the University of Delaware in the Interdisciplinary Science Learning Laboratories, she continued developing authentic learning experiences for students in her integrated biology and chemistry course. Deborah has also created pedagogical training programs for graduate assistants