particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Dr. Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington Susan Bobbitt Nolen is Professor Emerita of Learning Sciences & Human Development at the University of Washington. She earned her PhD in Educational Psychology at Pudue University. Her current research interests focus on student engagement in engineering practices and social interaction during learning activ- ity, and their relationship to
the class, students were assigned project teams for completion of their project.Project scope is larger than what most individual students could complete in a single academicyear. Task size requires projects to be divided among team members and teams to coordinate foreffective project integration and deployment.Time PressureThe three term course sequence establishes a three term deadline. Twice each quarter, individualstudents are presented with an assessment of how well they are doing in experience points asrelated to course outcome expectations. Each challenge task had a time limit for task engagementand task completion.Level DefinitionsThe sequence objectives was spread throughout the three term sequence and presented in asequential manner
current graduate curriculum is preparing them for success in the areas that they identified?Through this work, a survey was developed to capture graduate students regarding these researchquestions. Results of this survey are presented in this work.Literature ReviewThrough the last decade, many researchers have noted a misalignment between knowledge,skills, and attributes desired by employers hiring engineering graduates and the skills whichengineering possess upon graduation. This misalignment occurs both for engineers holdingbachelor’s degrees as well as in Ph.D. students and graduates, pursuing both industry andacademic careers. Many studies have examined the desired skills of baccalaureate-levelengineering graduates (usually from an
, vol. 24, pp. 8-22, 2013.[7] H. Georgiou. Putting physics knowledge in the hot seat: The semantics of student understandings of thermodynamics” in Knowledge-building: Educational studies in legitimation theory, K. Maton, S. Hood, and S. Shay, Eds. New York: Routledge, 2016.[8] D. Steyn. “Conceptualizing design knowledge and its recontextualization in the studio component of a design foundation curriculum,” unpublished MPhil thesis, 2012.[9] F. Christie. “Secondary school English literacy studies: Cultivating a knower code,” in Knowledge-building: Educational studies in legitimation theory, K. Maton, S. Hood, and S. Shay, Eds. New York: Routledge, 2016.[10] K. Wolff and K Luckett. “Integrating multidisciplinary
compensate for days when you are unable to attend class. No make-up quizzes willbe given. Quizzes will be closed book with no calculators unless otherwise stated.Final Exam. There will be a final exam on the last day. This will be closed book except for onepage of notes.Project. The project will be a team activity that emphasizes creative engineering design usingpre- calculus math skills. This will culminate in a design competition.Academic Integrity The University’s Code of Academic Integrity will be fully enforced and can be found at [website].Program Evaluation You will be invited to submit an evaluation of the program on the last day. Your feedback is important and all responses are confidential. Schedule of Topics Day
class engineers for the Americas. He is actively involved in the International Division of the American Society for Engineering Education and in the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institution (LACCEI) as Vice-President for Finance.Dr. Uladzislau Ivashyn, Pennsylvania State University Uladzislau Ivashyn is an Instructor in Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016Developing a learning module to enhance motivation and self-efficacy ofstudents participating in multinational design projectsThe rapid developments in communications along with the global integration of resources aroundthe world are making the creation of global
which involves conventionalengineering practice but may include a variety of complex features such as conflicting design requirements,unsuitability of conventional materials, and difficult coordination requirements. Work requires a broad knowledge ofprecedents in the specialty area and a good knowledge of and practices of related specialties.Responsibility For Direction of Others. May supervise or coordinate the work of engineers, drafters, technicians,and others who assist in specific assignments.Typical Position Titles. Engineer or Assistant Engineer, Resident, Project, Plant, Office, Design, Process, Research,Chief Inspector, Assistant Professor.Education. Bachelor's Degree in engineering from an ABET accredited curriculum, or equivalent
Equity and Sustainability in Engineering which re-designs and re-centers engineeringeducation around a mission-driven focus on sustainability and the core equity practices thatstudents from underrepresented groups identify as drivers of their success. The Centerreimagines engineering education from the ground up at a new and separate location,implementing an integrated package of best practices in a way that existing infrastructure andinstitutions cannot. It provides a supportive, inclusive community where students learnengineering by working in teams on hands-on multidisciplinary engineering challenges andevery student can develop the competence, confidence, and connections they need to thrive inengineering.In the existing higher education
learning contexts.Dr. Tanya Faltens, Purdue University, West Lafayette Tanya Faltens is the Educational Content Creation Manager for the Network for Computational Nanotech- nology (NCN) which created the open access nanoHUB.org cyber-platform. Her technical background is in Materials Science and Engineering (Ph.D. UCLA 2002), and she has several years’ experience in hands-on informal science education, including working at the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley. While at Cal Poly Pomona, she taught the first year engineering course, mentored student capstone re- search projects, and introduced nanoHUB simulation tools into the undergraduate curriculum in materials science and engineering and electrical engineering
education [46], [47], [48],[49].To hone in on the importance of adopting autoethnography in an ECE educational context, wepostulate that this method can uncover and emphasize the lived curriculum by BLV students inECE education [50], [51], [52]. In reality, even with extensive prior planning, educators anddisability support officers (DSOs) cannot fully predict the impact of their accessibility measureson the realistic experience of an incoming BLV student to an introductory ECE course. Thisdifference between the educators’, DSOs’, and students’ expectations and experiences gives riseto the aforementioned lived curriculum. We believe that autoethnography can afford educatorsand DSOs a deeper understanding of the reality of being a BLV student in an
Teaching Fundamental Concepts of Engineering and Cryptography to a Multidisciplinary Freshman Engineering Class using Flipped Classroom Ideology and Incorporating Smart Devices in the Classroom. Russell Trafford and Linda Head Rowan University – Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering traffo17@students.rowan.edu head@rowan.eduAt Rowan University, undergraduate engineering students from all available disciplines(Biomedical, Chemical, Civil and Environmental, Electrical and Computer, and Mechanical)take part in an 8 semester long sequence of “Clinic” classes. These classes are
(Tech.) (MERGED) Dr. Wright is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, & Curriculum in Drexel University’s School of Education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 “Three strikes, you’re out… actually, that’s four strikes”: Transgressive Teacher and Student Humor in a Pre-College Engineering Classroom George Schafer (they/them), Christopher Wright (he/him) Drexel University School of EducationCoNECD Presentation Page 1 of 22OVERVIEWIntroductionContext of StudyHumor and EquityTheoretical ApproachThemes from AnalysisConclusionCoNECD Presentation Page 2 of 22 CONTEXT OF STUDY
Paper ID #44167A Comprehensive Approach to Modeling Dynamic Biological Systems: EnhancingCritical Thinking and Mathematical Problem-Solving in Biomedical EngineeringEducationCaleb Wilson Hendrick, University of Maine Caleb Hendrick, an undergraduate at the University of Maine, majors in biomedical engineering with minors in electrical engineering and mathematics. He serves as a teaching assistant, committed to creating an inclusive learning environment, particularly in the ”Modeling Dynamic Biomedical Systems” (BEN 401) class, and is actively involved in developing course materials. His research focuses on mathematical
College, where her primary role is to coordinate data collection, interpretation and dissemination to support teaching and learning, planning and decision-makinLeah Mendelson, Harvey Mudd College Leah Mendelson is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College.Steven Santana, Harvey Mudd College ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 The Impact of Diaries and Reflection on Self-Assessments of Learning in a First-Year Undergraduate Engineering Design CourseAbstractThis work-in-progress (WIP) paper communicates the impact of diary and reflection activities onstudents’ self-assessments of their learning in a first-year, studio-format undergraduateengineering design course
Paper ID #10784A Case Study: How Collaborative PBL Affects Learning of Minority Stu-dents in Engineering Courses at Senior LevelDr. Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los AngelesDr. Pearl Chen, California State University, Los Angeles Page 24.22.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 A Case Study: How Collaborative PBL Affects Learning of Minority Students in Engineering Courses at Senior LevelAbstractThis paper presents the current progress and preliminary findings of an NSF
collaborating with cross-disciplinaryteams of professionals to understand and effectively integrate the role of other disciplines and accelerateinnovation. To prepare future engineers for this emerging role, undergraduate engineering studentsshould engage in collaborative and interdisciplinary activities with faculties and students from variousdisciplines (e.g., engineering and social science). Such cross-disciplinary experiences of undergraduateengineering students are not common in today’s university curriculum. Through a project funded by thedivision of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) of the National Science Foundation (NSF), aresearch team of the West Virginia University developed and offered a Holistic Engineering ProjectExperience (HEPE
is ever considered available for replication. 6. Successive rounds continue like Round 3 until the game is concluded (at a round of the instructor’s choosing). Figure 1 - Illustration of a doodle exchange in Round 1. Presented to explain the rules.We instrumented the game as follows to track the prevalence of each doodle across time: 1. Each “datasheet” is marked with a unique identifier number (ID). Additionally, the sheets have numbered spaces for recording IDs as described in step 4. 2. When students create their initial doodle, they copy this ID into the corner of the sticky. Henceforth, this ID uniquely identifies that particular doodle and is considered an integral part of the doodle itself. 3. During
14.711.4Using a program such as ALEKS as homework in lieu of a series of written homeworkassignments can also reduce the load on the instructors, allowing them to spend more time onother responsibilities such as curriculum improvement, student advising, and professionaldevelopment. Therefore, it is important to investigate whether an e-learning program such asALEKS is more effective than, or at least as effective as, traditional pencil and paper homeworkassignment on helping students improve Math skills.Relationship between Learning Styles and Academic PerformanceIndividual students in the same classroom may have different learning experiences due to theircharacteristics such as learning styles. For example, some students may learn information in
AC 2008-177: IDENTIFICATION OF QUALITY INDICATORS OF VISUAL-BASEDLEARNING MATERIAL IN TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION PROGRAMS FORGRADES 7-12Petros Katsioloudis, Berea College Petros Katsioloudis was born and grew up in Cyprus. He was educated in the United States where he received a Bachelors of Science degree in Science and Technology, a Masters of Education in Technology Education and a Doctoral Degree in Technology Education at North Carolina State University. Currently he is employed at Berea College, KY where he serves as an assistant professor and teaches various technology education courses. Petros is also serving as an ambassador of Cyprus to the International Technology Education Association
SVSM educational supports that are not currently(or effectively) being offered at the PI’s institution, and potentially are other regional partnerinstitutions:1) an anti-deficit, assets-based military student awareness training for faculty, staff,administration, and non-military students that can be tailored for use within the college ofengineering as well as the university as a whole, and2) a stakeholder-responsive, semester-long engineering orientation-style seminar for militaryand nontraditional students soon after they enroll in the college of engineering.Both the assets-based awareness training and the engineering orientation-style seminar are beingdeveloped in ways (i.e., online resources, remotely accessible, modular curriculum design
such as introductory circuit analysis may be disadvantaged by entering the class withfaulty mental models of basic concepts related to the subject. While circuit analysis may be firststudied in earnest at the freshmen or sophomore level in college within an electrical andcomputer engineering degree program, concepts related to electricity and magnetism are oftenintroduced into the curriculum much earlier. For example, many fourth-grade students in theUnited States have a module devoted to electricity and magnetism; in addition, students learnmore about related phenomena in their high school and college physics courses. Faulty mentalmodels and common misconceptions relating to the behavior of electric circuits have beendocumented elsewhere [7
independently reifiable processthat just happened to be located somewhere; learning is an integrated part of generative socialpractice in the lived-in world” (Lave & Wenger, 1991, p. 35). However, this promising frameworkfaces challenges in being fully implemented in a formal academic setting. For example, our earlyresults showed the lack of tools that instructors can use to measure the effectiveness of CoP in anacademic setting (Díaz et al., 2022b, Díaz et al., 2023b). CoP-based surveys that were developedin other contexts, like the Community Assessment Toolkit (CAT: Verburg & Andriessen, 2006),were not appropriate to use in graduate engineering students, while other methodologies relyheavily or exclusively on time-consuming qualitative
Curriculum (CxC) program has found that byincluding communication assignments as part of traditional engineering assignments, thetraditional content was not sacrificed by the inclusion of communication assignments, but wasenhanced and facilitated learning at higher levels on Bloom’s taxonomy.5 In the Humanities, ithas long been suggested that a diversity of discourse leads to innovative thinking.6,7 At ourinstitution, we decided that the Encounter Engineering in Europe (E3) program was an excellentplace to include assignments designed to promote creativity, such as open-form essay writing,video creation, and multi-modal travel blogging, as a complement to more traditionalassignments, such as argumentative papers and researched reports, all of which
backgrounds to successfully transfer to and persist in theengineering program at UCI. The designed program targets the population of students who havethe ambition to pursue engineering degrees, but often lack the resources or exposure toengineering opportunities. The program was developed to help combat low persistence rates andlong times to completion within the transfer student population. The goal of the project is toincrease the number of community college students who successfully transfer to an engineeringmajor at a 4-year institution and to improve the transfer student experience in engineering byproviding co-curriculum cohort activities to prepare for STEM careers or graduate studies. Co-curricular activities include a mentoring program as
Society for Engineering Education ETD 515support technical learning outcomes in undergraduate programs [3]. This synthesis was primarilyinformed by ABET, EML, and the National Society of Professional Engineers’ statement onethics [4]. While there is an emphasis on technical skills, it is recognized that supporting skillsenable undergraduates to utilize a combination of skills to create value in their respective fieldsof practice. Hence assessment strategies have been expanded to assess the development of thesesupporting skills at multiple levels, including student perspectives within courses. Preparing Qualified
2006-1293: A PROPOSED PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV) SYSTEMFOR INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSES IN A MODERN MECHANICALENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE LABORATORY PROGRAMAfshin Goharzadeh, The Petroleum Institute AFSHIN GOHARZADEH, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the petroleum Institute. An expert in experimental fluid mechanics, Dr. Goharzadeh obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Le Havre in France (2001). After his Ph.D. he joined the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen (Germany) as scientific researcher. He characterized experimentally the flow at water-sediment interface. Using the Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Refractive Index
with the scholarship of teaching and learning, focusing on experiential pedagogies and inclusive assessment. She is the author of the textbook, COVID-19 and Society (2022, Oxford University Press). Katherine holds a Certificate on Curriculum and Pedagogy in Higher Education from the International Program for the Scholarship of Educational Leadership and is a recipient of the 2023 Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Award from the Canadian Sociological Association.Dr. Robyn Newell, University of British Columbia Dr. Robyn Newell is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. Her teaching initiatives focus on developing experiential, problem
tosuccessful pedagogue and curriculum design to meet the goals of the engineer of 2020. Thisstudy examines the correlation between four factors, visuospatial ability, conceptualunderstanding, prior knowledge, and student course performance as measured by prerequisitecourse grades, course grade, and conceptual knowledge gain. Statistical correlation andhierarchical analysis were applied to the results of the Paper Folding Test (PFT), Card RotationsTest (CRT), pre- and post-Statics Concept Inventory (SCI) tests, admission test scores, andprerequisite course grades to examine these relationships.Although many factors influence student success in an Introduction to Engineering Staticscourse, their understanding of underlying concepts, knowledge from
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-12 research project, and an ITEST re- search project, all funded by NSF. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests include K-12 STEM education, mechatronics, robotics, and con- trol system technology. Under a Research Experience for Teachers Site, a DR K-12 project, and GK-12 Fellows programs, funded by NSF, and the Central Brooklyn STEM Initiative (CBSI), funded by six phil- anthropic foundations, he has conducted significant K-12 education, training, mentoring, and outreach activities to integrate engineering concepts in science classrooms and labs of dozens of New York City public schools. He received NYU Tandon’s 2002, 2008, 2011, and 2014