subjects cited the benefits of working alongsideprofessionals with which they could personally identify and several of them specifically pointedout that they encountered both men and women who served as valuable role models to them.An area of future investigation will seek to better understand the following. Can work self-efficacy, considered to be so vital to mobilizing the positive results from co-op experience, bebrought out in other experiential activities such as capstone projects, undergraduate research, andeven experiences within the classroom environment? Answers to this question could benefitengineering schools with an active co-op program in helping faculty and academic advisorscoach and inform first and second year students as to best
development advising, capstone projects program, industry partnerships, first-year interest groups, and other special programs.Dr. Mia K. Markey, The University of Texas - Austin Dr. Mia K. Markey is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin as well as Adjunct Professor of Imaging Physics at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Markey is a 1994 graduate of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy and has a B.S. in computational biology (1998). Dr. Markey earned her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering (2002), along with a certificate in bioinformatics, from Duke University. Dr. Markey has been recognized for
Paper ID #11317Finite Element Analysis Active Learning Modules Embedded Throughout ACurriculum: Implementation and Assessment of Results Based on StudentGPAProf. Kyle A. Watson, University of the Pacific Kyle Watson earned his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Villanova University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University. He has been a faculty member at the University of the Pacific since 2003 and has taught undergraduate courses in thermodynamics, heat transfer, combustion, air-conditioning, dynamics, and senior capstone design.Dr. Ashland O. Brown, University of the Pacific
Page 26.238.2for water demand worldwide present challenges to scientists and engineers to attain sustainablemanagement of water resources. A recent United Nations report projects that virtually everynation will face a water supply problem within the next 8 years; currently more than a billionpeople have little access to clean drinking water, and 2 billion live in conditions of waterscarcity2. To address these critical issues, the NAE’s “The Engineer of 2020” highlights the needfor implementing ecologically sustainable practices to preserve the environment for futuregenerations. Further, the report emphasizes that water supplies will affect the future of theworld’s economy and stability3. As a result, the NAE warns that unless better ways to
-ended questions, the first of which asked for a brief description ofany current coverage of DEI topics in the program. The goal of asking this question was to gatherexamples that may be helpful to other programs. Thirty responses were provided and includedsome common ways of addressing DEI topics, including the following: ● In required courses, e.g., capstone, a first year course, engineering ethics course, professional practice course ● In general education courses or other courses required by the university ● Distributed throughout the curriculum where relevant ● Case studies in subject-matter courses (e.g., transportation access in a transportation course, urban infrastructure placement in an infrastructure course
sustainability offers the only viable path to human safety, equity, health, andprogress” [21, p. 6]. There are strong synergies between ideas of generational equity andsustainable development, for example [22], [23]. Within civil engineering, the infrastructuresustainability rating system Envision [24] is commonly used. Envision has been integrated intoengineering education as a method to educate students about sustainability [25], [26], [27]. DEIissues are included within the Envision credits including the following examples: • QL1.2 Enhance Public Health and Safety [24, p. 32] • “Measures taken to increase safety and provide health benefits on the project site, surrounding sites, and the broader community in a just and equitable
aseither an undergraduate or graduate student, and asked respondents to rate their experiences on ascale of 1 to 4, where 1 indicates a “poor experience, decreased my overall confidence ofsucceeding in structural engineering” and 4 indicates a “great experience, increased my overallconfidence of succeeding in engineering”. The most popular courses (as reported in Table 8)among the survey respondents were structural analysis and earthquake engineering. Senior(capstone/integrated) design, finite element analysis and foundation engineering were given thelowest ratings. The finding that capstone design was unpopular was somewhat surprising, but thesurvey questions did not allow us to uncover reasons behind these responses.Table 8. Respondents’ ratings
, stochasticprocesses, engineering economics, and human factors. The fourth year focuses on a requiredcapstone experience, along with the completion of student-selected technical and generalelectives. The required technical IE courses and capstone experience are collectively referred toas “core” or “required” coursework in this paper.Data collectionSurvey data from 152 IE students and interview data from 15 IE students were analyzed for thispaper. Survey and interview data were collected from both ME and IE undergraduates as part ofthe larger study, though only the IE student data was analyzed for this paper. Findings in regardto the ME student interview data can be found in previous work [24].Students currently enrolled in the IE undergraduate major at this
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programs. This line of research also seeks to understand the nuances and complexities of participation and persistence in these fields and develop new models for explaining such phenomena. Her secondary research strand focuses on the participation and achievement of Black students and professionals in higher education. She is the PI or co-PI on several grant-funded research projects including the national Black Doctoral Women Study (BDWS), the Women in Engineering Study (WIES), and Bulls-Engineering Youth Experience for Promoting Relationships, Identity Development, & Empowerment (Bulls-EYE PRIDE).Dr. Johnny C. Woods Jr., Virginia Tech Johnny C. Woods, Jr. is a Postdoctoral Associate in the School of Education at
Engineering Education and the National Society of Professional Engineers.Dr. Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Marie C. Paretti is a Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she directs the Vir- ginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on communication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity
society.As a practical consideration, there is a high likelihood that in many institutions, the newlyproposed Student Outcomes 4, 5, and 7 (addressing communication, ethics/social context, andteaming/project management, respectively) will all be relegated to capstone courses, perhapswith a cursory introduction in the first year, but with little or no emphasis in the middle years.Our community knows this is a “worst practice,” as many scholars have been building ethicsacross the curriculum, communication across the curriculum, and design across the curriculumefforts for decades.54, 55, 56 The ways in which these disparate skills are lumped together (whyelse would you put teaming, risk assessment, uncertainty analysis, and project managementtogether
multidisciplinary research? What are they? How can a mentor’s reaction to the unexpected motivate or influence a mentee to make good or bad ethical choices? What is the issue or point of conflict?In the case study titled “Plagarism,” participants are asked to imagine what they would do as onemember of a team of students working on a capstone project that has been assigned to develop abackground report about the current state-of-the-art. The day of the deadline, another membersends their background section with what appears to be a large, plagiarized section of text (basedon a quick internet search); the assignment is due today and the author can’t be reached. Thiscase study asks participants to consider what they would do, how they
learning environments of interdisciplinarysettings, which focused on collaboration and equipment malfunctions [20]. In another, a clinicalimmersion program for biomedical engineering students, where participants evaluated clinicalneeds to address in a capstone project, was effectively pivoted to a remote format [21]. Largelyout of necessity, these studies have focused more on the adaptation process than the systematicmeasurement of reciprocal outcomes or virtual internship designs While the immediate needs forvirtual internship opportunities, caused by COVID-19, may be dwindling, these modalities willlikely have a role in addressing access and equity in both the workforce and higher education inthe near future [13], [18].Equity and AccessThere is
theirengineering first-year students with a focus on increasing retention. The authors also wouldintroduce some early appreciation to engineering design, the building of models, prototypetesting, and actual implementation of a product/process to first-year students. An innovative wayof illustrating Senior Capstone projects targeted on solving real-world water problems andenvironmental issues will be attempted.AcknowledgmentThe PI and Co-PIs want to thank the National Science Foundation - Division Of UndergraduateEducation for the grant Undergraduate Scholarships for Excellent Education in EnvironmentalEngineering and Water Resources Management (USE4WRM) (Award #1565049) for thefinancial support that could help enhance the recruitment and the retention in
attributes to be another aspect of the content that provedproblematic. 6Lack of real life-application of contentInstruction focused on AC circuits and other complex circuit concepts should make use oftangible and real life application where possible. Providing students with the ability to engagewith the concept in a concrete manner is reported to have lasting impact on their ability to recalland transfer their knowledge from one domain to another [1-2]. The findings from this study haveindicated the need for the inclusion of real life application in introductory engineeringclassrooms. While the argument can be made that students get exposed to design problems whenthey are assigned their capstone
between delivery methods, defined as the waythe training is incorporated into the curriculum, and instructional strategy, defined as the waythat instruction is delivered in a specific course. They found three primary delivery methods:embedded approach (also known as across the curriculum), joint model or team teachingapproach, and a standalone course.13 Colby and Sullivan found similar delivery methodsdescribed as standalone ethics classes, brief discussions in multiple classes, and modules inintroductory and/or capstone courses. Colby and Sullivan reviewed 100 ABET self-studies andvisited 7 programs. They found that a carefully thought-out strategy for ethical instruction forengineering students was rare. Rather, “overall, a picture emerged of
. Anthony is also active in ophthalmology research - having co-formed and currently serving as a Technical Director for the ophthalmology-based medical device design lab (ORBITLab) at the UIC Innovation Center. Anthony holds a B.S. and Ph.D. in Bioengi- neering.Dr. Miiri Kotche, University of Illinois, Chicago Miiri Kotche is a Clinical Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and currently serves as Director of the Medical Accelerator for Devices Laboratory (MAD Lab) at the UIC Innovation Center. Prior to joining the faculty at UIC, she worked in new product development. She teaches capstone design courses, including the longstanding core senior design sequence and Inter
outreach with underrepresented groups in STEM.Dr. Lauren Anne Cooper, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Lauren Cooper earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a research emphasis in Engineering Education from University of Colorado Boulder. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Her research interests include project-based learning, student motivation, human-centered design, and the role of empathy in engineering teaching and learning.Dr. Trevor Scott Harding, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Dr. Trevor S. Harding is Professor and Department Chair of Materials Engineering at
Paper ID #47312Investigating identity, sense of belonging, and early career transitions forHispanic engineering graduates of an HSI (Work in Progress)Dr. Lori Marie Houghtalen, University of Texas at El Paso Lori Houghtalen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education and Leadership at The University of Texas at El Paso. Dr. Houghtalen’s research interests include career transitions of students and engineering faculty and engineering leadership assessment. Her teaching experience has been focused on designing industry-based senior capstone courses and leadership and professional development for
gives students the verbal communicationskills which heighten their integration and interaction with their work teams. In this example, thestudent wrote a detailed explanation in which she described the different elements that affectsuch performance and the measurements used in her project. Her essay shows that the technicalvocabulary was necessary for her verbal communication skills. SPA2_A7 wrote, I did not know many of the words that I used in the previous paragraph [in this paragraph she explained the internship project she conducted at CEIT, a study of the efficiency of electric boat motors] before starting my internship. It is important to learn and understand the terminology used in an office in case your
courses that explored technical and societal integration,and more design courses and projects that included themes of human-centered design andsystems thinking (Wisnioski, 2012). Paul B. Daitch at Rochester Polytechnic Instituteemphasized design as "the major vehicle which relates technique and society" (Daitch, 1970, p.21).PurposeFirst-Year Engineering (FYE) courses have received attention from practitioners and scholarsalike in the past couple of decades (Pendergrass et al., 2001; Kilgore et al., 2007). The First-Year Programs division of ASEE had 28 papers associated with it in the 2020 Annualconference alone. There is some agreement on the content that is taught in these courses,which comprises concepts such as design, mathematical modeling
Paper ID #29167The Engineering Education Experiences of Students Serving in theReserves or National GuardDr. Catherine Mobley, Clemson University Catherine Mobley, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology at Clemson University. She has over 30 years experience in project and program evaluation and has worked for a variety of consulting firms, non-profit agencies, and government organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the American Association of Retired Persons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Since 2004, she been a member of the NSF-funded MIDFIELD research project on
by the individual, nor is it imposed from the outside, ‘it is constituted as an internal relation between them. There is only one world, but it is a world we experience, a world in which we live, a world that is ours’. The seminal research that developed phenomenography as a research methodology, forexample, investigated students’ understanding of velocity in a physics class[9]. Velocity was theconcept or “the thing”, but the researchers were actually interested in how students understoodvelocity, which is “the thing as it appeared”. It was the students’ understanding that was thephenomenon of research interest. In aerospace engineering, Subject Matter Experts are important assets to projects, andSMEs have deep
both from Michigan Tech. Her research program involves using complementary methods (e.g., statistical modeling and analytics, psychological assessment) to evaluate how individual differences are important and impact behaviors at a cultural, social, and behavioral level. She has served as a project evaluator in the multiple NSF funded projects. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 S-STEM Student Reflections and IDP ProcessIntroductionStudent reflections and using individual development plans (IDPs) for mentoring have been anintegral part of an NSF S-STEM project focusing on students pursuing baccalaureate degrees inEngineering
14 ● George Floyd—Asked 92 students about what engineering faculty should do in a Google form; 87 said engineering faculty should discuss it in the classroom. Used the data to teach qualitative data coding. ● Juneteenth—Read the statement by the university president about Texas’s history and what our state was now doing, put students in random breakout rooms for 5 minutes. Students said it was “cathartic.” ● Protests—Students brainstormed a potential capstone project to aid the protesters. 10 students listed that as their preferred project. The project was eventually not chosen, as students worried about potential privacy implications. ● Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death—Asked students to discuss how her
, Project Director, and a faculty member since 1997. He has served as the PI / Project Director for multiple agencies includ- ing NSF, DOL, DOD, and Perkin’s Grant. His research interests include Industrial Automation Systems, VLSI, ASIC, and FPGA. Other areas of interest are Higher Education Leadership and Accreditation in- cluding ABET. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Building a Rotary Wing Aviation Program to Facilitate Integration of Military Veterans and Service MembersAbstract: During the last decade, the commercial aviation industry has been increasingly affected bythe shortage of skilled pilots, both fixed-wing and rotary-wing (helicopter). In the
developing as a CoP. While CS educationresearchers have shown concern that CoP was not a viable theory for discussing traditional formsof higher education [6] subcommunities such as those defined by specific courses in CS highereducation (e.g., capstone course development teams, service learning programs in computing)have been investigated using the CoP approach. In this study, the scholarship program serves asa sub-population of the department situated within the department and with access to nationaland local activity beyond the typical student experience.Utilizing this theory, the notions of identity and learning are intertwined—as Margulieux, Dornand Searle [7] put it, “learning is identity construction.” (p.216). In this case, the notion
Engineering Sciences. At present, his position is Director of the School of Engineering of the Andres Bello University, and responsible for the curricular innovation processes of the undergraduate programs of the Faculty of Engineering. His research area is Educational Management, undergraduate and graduate programs, using predictive models based on machine learning algorithms.Ing. Danilo Leal, Universidad Andres Bello Doctor (c) in Statistics, thesis in Spatio-temporal point processes on the sphere, Master in industrial en- gineering, Master in Management (minor in Finance) and Commercial Engineer, professional experience in evaluation projects, and management control focused on budget control and provides several types
settings [3]. The concerns about discrepancy between the industry expectations and graduate practice readiness has been alluded to for general engineering [6], studied within software engineering [11], civil engineering [10], and chemical engineering graduates [12]. Literature has shown that there are a number of approaches higher education institutions have taken to improve their graduates’ practice readiness, some of which have enhanced students’ employability through developing generic skills or holistic competencies [4]. Additionally, some institutions have implemented capstone design classes, in an effort to meet ABET criteria on student outcomes and address concerns regarding graduates ill-prepared for industrial