indevelopment, then this limits student learning. This is a common problem with long termundergraduate projects and one that is not unique to the Herbie project.We present this work not as a solution to the problem of student project knowledge transfer, butas a case study in documenting the development of our particular robot. In order to get theplatform working, the initial 18 months of development was done by the primary faculty advisor.Initial development included selection of computing hardware, selection of mechanicalcomponents, and writing software. This is not ideal in terms of student learning, but the goalwas to get the platform functioning to a base level and then to have students develop modularprojects that enhance the functionality and
events. Faculty advisors and staff assistantsare available to help and advise, but the students are the ones who do most of the work.In addition to planning events for the UD engineering community, all department representativesare liaisons, or points of reference, for other women in their departments. Similar to anombudsperson, WIE members are available to provide their peers guidance or information, or alink to a supportive faculty member. WIE committee members have in the past made criticalconnections between a student and the dean’s office, resulting in interventions that improved thestudent’s situation.Officers The committee elects officers, including a chair, a co-chair, webmaster(s) andpublicist(s). The role of the chair is to plan and
Pitch: Advocating for Your Good Ideas were provided to help students developindependent research ability, better present research outcomes, and effectively promote researchfindings. Participants were divided into two groups and the team members in each group wererotated after 4 weeks of the program to promote team work and peer learning. Weekly meetingwas utilized to ensure the research to be in the right direction and allow students to practice theirpresentation skills through the mandatory presentation given by the participating students.In order to evaluate the success of the internship program, pre- and post-program surveys wereconducted. The pre-program survey was administered on the first day of the internship programand the post-program
faculty members in the submission of approximately 600 grant proposals, including co-writing, editing and serving as the Pro- gram Manager for 8 awarded STEM education grants totaling more than $13M. She has collaborated with University offices, faculty and staff in the facilitation of recruitment strategies to increase the quality and quantity of undergraduate and graduate enrollment in STEM programs. Ms. Ward now manages the day- to-day operations of the DragonsTeach and ExPERTS programs, including supporting the development of programs of study, student and teacher recruitment, fundraising and grant-writing, hiring and supervising staff and student workers as well as coordinating program evaluation.Dr. Adam K
Houston, xyuan@uh.eduAbstractIn this paper, the authors detail their journey writing and implementing a successful S-STEMproject proposal, and sharing the lessons they learned in the process. In addition to providingscholarship for twenty promising students, the S-STEM grant allowed a team of faculty frommultiple disciplines to develop and test new student support mechanisms and programs at theengineering technology programs in an urban large public university with a diverse studentpopulation. The goal of the program is to enrich and enhance students experience during theirhigher-education tenure and ensure their success after they graduate and join the professionalworkforce by preparing them to be technically competent and professionally ready
Education, 2018 Paper ID #23616 chemical and biosensors andthe integration of sensors into wireless, non-invasive and inexpensive sen- sor devices. She is focused onhealth applications, and environmental health and safety. Currently, she has over 70 peer-reviewed publications, three patents,11 patent applications and 4 transferred intellectual properties. In addition, she has served asGuest Editor of Nanotechnology Journal, and is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Biosensorsand Bioelectronics.Dr. Heather M Ross, Arizona State University Heather M. Ross, PhD, DNP, is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School for
level of interest incontinuing on to graduate/professional school (Lopatto, 2004, 2007; Massi et al., 2011), andare more likely to enroll in graduate/professional school compared to non-participants(Hathaway, Nagda, & Gregerman, 2002). REU participants from underrepresented groups aremore likely to be attracted to academic careers in the computing professoriate if they gainexperience collaborating with their peers and mentors, learn about social impacts related tocareers in computing research, understand the graduate admissions process, and familiarizethemselves with graduate student life (Tamer & Stout, 2016).High quality faculty-student mentor interactions are characterized by faculty preparation forthe arrival of the student
university. In total, the annual budgetis approximately $6,500, for a program that affects upward of 20 faculty and academic staff annually. 3Faculty participants see more benefits; for example, there are (independent of the NFLC) modest start-up packages that new faculty access through an internal grant process. The start-up packages are opento all new faculty, but those who attend the NFLC programming are able to share and refine their ideasin the space afforded by the community. In short, it behooves a new faculty member to attend thesemeetings so they can write a stronger proposal.Faculty are also introduced to best practices for retaining URMs and scholarship in that area throughcollaboration
that thesense of belonging in women students is consistently higher in departments where they arerepresented in higher numbers9. At Arizona State University, the long-term effects to a suite ofstrategies designed to increase sense of belonging were found to be an increase in retention from0.9% per year to 1.6% per year in their undergraduate engineering cohorts from 1998 to 201310.Four areas were identified at the University of Washington as being important to thedevelopment of community and belonging of ethnic minority students: co-curricular activities,peer support, faculty/department support, and residence programs. They found that supportmechanisms changed with time and responsive strategies should reflect that11. Sophomore andjunior level
. Activitiesof the program included: pre-test and post-test to gauge knowledge and interest; field trips todemonstrate green energy; professional STEM presenters; ArcGIS® software training todemonstrate geographical constraints. Field trips associated with the program included visits tothe Iowa Flood Center, to Iowa Hydraulics Modules and to the Kirkwood Community CollegeWind Turbine. The students worked in pairs and had to answer the question: Which geographicalfactors are most important when placing a wind turbine? Students presented the results of theirmapping exercise to their peers and mentors. Comparison of pre and post STEM interest surveyswere used to reveal the program impact, and provided guidance for further improvement of theprogram.17
(Dym et al. 2005). At the start of the semester, students self-assemble into teams of 4-5,and each team chooses a lower-income country to explore. Over 14 weeks, teams use their chosencountry as a starting point to work through a cycle of biomedical device design, including broadscoping and needs assessment, problem definition, concept generation and iteration, CADprototyping, and design iteration based on peer, student instructor, and faculty feedback (see Table1). They also examine case studies of (successful and unsuccessful) biomedical device design,learn about healthcare innovation systems, and reflect on key challenges and best practices forbiomedical engineering design.Over 3 consecutive semesters, our students have developed a variety
college awareness. endeavors. Applicants Skill- set Is dependable and Relates well to reliable/Has good peers/Commun attendance, icates openly punctuality, and with school record. staff Cooperates with school staff
level of academicachievement (Strimel et al., 2018). The purpose of these programs can often be viewed asproviding students with the information necessary to ensure the proper selection of anengineering discipline-specific major and the knowledge and skills necessary for success in theirselected major. The first-year engineering curriculum is often designed to reinforce basic scienceand mathematics concepts while developing a student’s engineering design capabilities.According to Strimel et al. (2018), the typical core requirements during a student’s first yearincludes physics, chemistry, multiple levels of calculus, and writing/composition as well as anengineering orientation seminar and multiple engineering courses focused on design
) a single college or university within a country or an academic discipline.As our understanding of impactful learning evolves, many instructors are drawn to explorealternative pedagogies such as flipped classrooms, hands-on exploration, problem-based andproject-based approaches, case studies, peer instruction, and more. These and other activepedagogies can improve engineering student learning [2]. Effectively deploying any of theseapproaches entails a shift in curricular culture. Roles, activities, expectations, and artifactschange from one pedagogical approach to another, and so the underlying assumptions facultymembers make about teaching and learning must change as well.Faculty members undertaking such pedagogical modifications sometimes
. Our community college partnersmay accept students into their schools even if the student is not skills proficient inreading and/or writing and/or math; these students then take remedial or developmentalcourses so that they can become skills proficient in reading and/or writing and/or math.At the senior college, all of the students who enter into the school of engineering asfreshmen are skills proficient. Once a student is accepted into the school of engineering,s/he is classified as an engineering major and once s/he begins as a first-time, full-timestudent, the student is part of the cohort that is tracked and reported for retention andgraduation data analysis.In order for information to be consistent, the cohort of students in a program has
leaders of relevant organizations, providing students withengineering faculty as mentors, and finally, introducing them to the design process, working inteams, technical writing, and oral presentation.More specifically, cognitive stimulation was supplied by introducing the concept of engineeringdesign to the students early in their academic career. In some sections of the experimental US1100classes, a design project was completed after design theory was taught. Introducing students todesign early on in their academic careers has been shown to help students develop crucial skillsthat they would need throughout the remainder of their education and well into their career, suchas critical thinking, working effectively in teams, and technical
make adaptations to suit students with less flexibleschedules, especially engineering students, reflected a commitment by faculty and administratorsto be entrepreneurial in seizing opportunities to develop the program.Engineering ChangesAs entrepreneurship activities proceeded in the Business Department, in the Engineeringdivision, a first-year introductory course intended to familiarize students with computerapplications for engineers was modified in 2013 to follow a new paradigm wherein coursecontent was presented paralleling a real-world engineering consulting project. Topic-specificlectures focused on requisite computer application, analysis and writing skills were paced withperiodic “business meetings.” Those meetings were related to a
testhypotheses, and rebuild or reprogram accordingly--students learn to see errors as opportunities,not failures); communication (as mentioned above students are asked to present at school-wideor parent events. In addition, they write about their progress and challenges in a blog or on-lineworksheet.) A key aspect of this program is to engage parents substantively. Working with the schools,LSA prepares events which guide parents to understand education and career paths for theirchildren in STEM and STEM-related professions. LSA does this with the hope that in additionto being better able to advocate for their children, parents (many of whom are young themselvesand un- or under-employed) will see STEM in their own education or career path. While
staff advisors. Each advisor meets with two teams over a one hour“cohort” meeting once per week to discuss progress of the project. The teams come preparedwith a short slide deck (1-5 slides) detailing the progress made in the past week. Lectures areonce per week and serve the purpose of reinforcing the design process by introducing techniquesfor project management, research, design process management, sketching, ideation, prototypeplanning, photography and videography skills, effective presentations and writing skills.The Electrical Engineering capstone course consisted of 6 projects. Five of these projects weresponsored and defined by industrial partners, and 1 was industry sponsored but competitiondefined (SpaceX Hyperloop Pod). The course
education.12 In literature, themost popular way of integrating real-world problem solving, especially in multidisciplinaryteams, seems to be through capstone design courses. As of 2005, roughly 35% of undergraduatecapstone design projects were conducted in multidisciplinary teams of students (an increase from21% in 1994).6 Evidence has shown, both qualitatively and quantitatively, that students benefitgreatly from working in multidisciplinary settings. Survey results show that engineeringprofessionals associate interdisciplinary thinking with creativity in their peers and ratemultidisciplinary work as very important in preparation for industry.7 Similarly, students whoparticipated in a multidisciplinary capstone course identified functioning in a
, SketchUp). To train students in using modern prototyping equipment (low cost 3d printing, vinyl cutting, vacuum forming) and tools. To require that students work in teams, give presentations, and write reports, thus developing both their oral and written communication skills.In order to design content that provided these educational objectives, the Project ExecutionTeam, along with the content experts in each of the three primary threads met multiple times toprovide an initial layout of the project content. The team followed the DESIGN model, proposedby one of the Project Execution Team members. This is a model that builds upon previoussuccessful projects, but is a new iteration that was piloted for STEM-Discovery. DESIGN
modeling and simula- tion, dynamic modeling of physical systems, and STEM education. She has published 20 peer-reviewed publications in these areas, and her research has been funded by the NSF, AFRL, and LA-BOR. She also serves as an Associate Editor for the American Control Conference and the Conference on Decision and Control, two premier conferences in the controls community. She is a member of the IEEE, SIAM, and ASEE.Dr. Paul Hummel, Louisiana Tech University Paul Hummel is a lecturer in the Electrical Engineering department at Louisiana Tech University. He has a BS in Engineering with a Computer concentration from LeTourneau University and a PhD in Engineering with an emphasis on Microelectronics from
. Amelink et al. (5), innovative thinking skills include: a)critical thinking and effective generation of new ideas, b) application and integrationof science/engineering content knowledge, c) ability to organize newinformation/ideas/products articulately, d) ability to communicate ideas to peers andothers, effective use of technology/tool selection in design process, e) complex Page 26.261.2thinking process that transforms a creative idea into useful services/products,potential for prototyping/commercialization. The program discussed here has beendeveloped to promote innovation with focus on the following learning outcomes:Understanding of Design (a thru e
andmagnets to illustrate applications of different interest factors, One Minute paper, Muddiest Pointpaper, think-pair-share, individual and group problem solving, assigned reading, daily individualand team quizzes, daily assignment, daily presentations of homework by the peers, exams linkedto the learning objectives and a number of other techniques. Many of these ideas are derivedfrom best practices presented as part of a Mini-ExCEEd Teaching Workshop at our institutionconducted by our Dean for new faculty3,4. Page 26.377.3After the course learning objectives were articulated and assessment questions regarding thelearning objectives were devised5
robotic character (animatronic) that moves and talks Smart Home Challenge Set (for example purposes listing only 1 challenge level not all): Level 5 - Pick an enchanted object from a movie, storybook, or fable. Write down what the enchanted object does in the story. Write down how those features would be useful in real life. How can you create a real world object that has those same functions using technology, computer science, and engineering? Using the tools that you have available to you such as the litteBits, Legos, paper, markers, etc try to create a prototype or your own working version of this enchanted object so that you can demonstrate how such works to people. Once you have done such create a video telling people what your object does
systems (MEMS) and microfluidics. He has published two book chapters and over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, and is co-inventor on three U.S. patents. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Multidisciplinary Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) Teams at the University of Hawai‘i: Challenges and SynergyAbstract: The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program is characterized by large,multidisciplinary teams of undergraduate and graduate students focused on long-term researchproblems aligned with the faculty mentor’s field of interest. In terms of methodology, it follows aproject-based cohort approach to education where students can potentially work on the
peers andgained the knowledge and skills to be applied in future Challenge-It sessions. Learning Blockswere broken down into sections with specific expectations as shown in Figure 1.Figure 1: Learning blocks used to guide camp activitiesThe learning blocks were divided into different categories, subjects and sections. Learn-Itsections were 10-minutes in duration and consisted of brief explanations of the theory,introduction and purpose of the activity, and expectations with facilitators providing fun andengaging presentations using videos and live examples. The emphasis here was to provide asummary of the key terms, topics and strategies without elaborating in regards to specificsolutions or challenges. This gave campers a basis for
joined the faculty at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona as an Assistant Professor in 2014. She has expertise in the areas of Nanotechnology with application in nanomaterial synthesis, electronics devices fabrication and characterization, low cost and robust manufacturing processes, 3D printing of energy storage device for UAVs and water contamination treatment. Her research has resulted in patent applications, peer- reviewed journal papers and book chapters, and has been sponsored by California State University (CSU) Agricultural Research Institute (ARI), NASA CPP Startup, and other industry and government grants. She is also active in her
-weekresearch project. The scholars and their mentors participated in a weekly WebEx meeting withcoordinators from all CISTAR institutions. The graduate student mentors led these sessions, andsite education coordinators reviewed the assignments. The students created a literature review,followed by a research abstract, and finally a poster to share in a poster session at their institutionand a five-minute WebEx presentation to their peers and graduate mentors. Finally, each scholarwas required to plan and execute one or more outreach activities at a local school, library orscience center and submit a summary of the activity and a reflection on their own experience.The YS program was a successful collaborative effort by Fellows and staff at all
particularly important within increasingly international and multicultural societiesthroughout the world. Therefore, the present study randomly assigned partners to students forparticipation in pair programming, which involves close collaboration to complete a computerscience coding task. Within a sample of 819 responses from 369 undergraduates in the UnitedStates (US), non-US citizens benefitted from having a partner from another country (primarilythe US) in terms of the amount of lab assignment completed, belief that the assignment wasvirtually error-free, and confidence in quality of the submitted assignment; however, thesestudents were also less involved in writing code during pair programming when they had apartner from a different nation than