, industry-wide project which can helphumans to have a better quality of life. Sustainability in construction includes both design andmaterials. Recycling, reducing waste, minimizing negative and maximizing positive impacts arethe goals for sustainable design.Sustainable development education is the journey of sustainable life and work and deals withchanging environmental conditions [7]. On the other hand, education enables students to thinkand act independently and understand the application of knowledge. In recent years, manyprofessional organizations have agreed on the need to incorporate sustainability into engineeringeducation, and the need for sustainability engineering education has been widely recognized.Reflecting the concept of
result in extending their expected graduation time. The time spent in the previouslab may not be recoverable. Most of the participants in this study, except Jessica, who switchedin the first year of her graduate school, reported that they were impacted by the extension ingraduation time. David had one year left to graduate when he switched to a new research groupbecause of his advisor's retirement. Joining a new research group extended his researchobjectives and resulted in an additional year to graduation. According to David, "The direction of the project changed and it affected me because I was originally more focused on doing simulations. But then [the new advisor's] expectations of me changed. [The new advisor] expects me
resultsshowed higher student success with writing-intensive courses in developing critical writing skillsin a construction management course [2]. Challenges of developing writing skills amongundergraduate STEM curricula are addressed by Mayo and Wheaton [3] who state that writingassignments can be developed such that they assist students in connecting their technical work toreal-world applications. In their lesson plan, the students were expected to post their work on apublic platform encouraging students to produce quality work. Richards and Milanovicestablished partnerships with professional writing faculty, industry members and technicalcourse instructors to mentor senior design project students in effective writing through pairedteaching [4]. In a
engineering designprocess, including the designing and building of a physical prototype such as a prosthetic arm[32], soda can crusher [33], insulating cooler [16], rollercoaster [21], water filter [29], andluggage ramp [22]. The goal of each was to build a prototype that met specified design criteria.Using the ASEE performance expectations [9], Table 2 presents the engineering design practicespromoted in the literature. Most instruction included problem framing, information gathering,ideation, prototyping, decision-making, and design communication. Less than half (49%)described the use of engineering graphics, and only 2 studies included project management aspart of the intervention.Table 2. Engineering Design Practices Promoted in the Literature
by using colored transparencies with the marker, according to their help ease this process, define preference of color and the sensations they want to provoke (https://www.avanmuijen.com/watercolor-emotion-wheel). Each who leads each part of the background will be placed in front of the flash light and supported on project. the binder clips.3. Keep in mind that some
of “convergence” in education has become central to how someuniversities seek to enhance the educational experience for students — so much so that BradleyUniversity built the “Business and Engineering Convergence Center” academic building to houseboth the Foster College of Business and the Caterpillar College of Engineering under one roof tohelp facilitate convergence activities between the two colleges.One of the many challenges related to the ASEE EOP Mini Grant Project as expressed by many inthe first cohort as well as those facilitating the project, relates to getting so-called “buy-in” fromother faculty members, to include deans and department chairs and administrators. The “siloeffect” and its consequences has been well studied, but is
to have all its undergraduate engineering, computer science, and cybersecurity degrees to be accredited by ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology). Pursuant to this goal, a capstone project course was added to the updatedcurriculum of the BSCS degree. Even though the six Educational Student Outcomes (ESOs)prescribed by ABET [6] are addressed by the core courses in the curriculum, adding a capstoneproject course to the core curriculum brings together all the six ESOs in one course in a polishedand refined manner for students to see the relationship among all six ESOs. The capstonespecifically focuses on ESO #3 (communication skills), ESO #4 (legal and ethical principles), andESO #5 (teamwork). The foundational block in the
individual and institutional scale, andthen developing models to combat perceived challenges. Borrego et al. [5] provided a statisticalanalysis of survey responses to determine what qualities department chairs are looking for whencontemplating proposed educational innovations. The difficulties of implementing Problem-Based Learning (PBL) are highlighted in [4], in which they outline several common barriers andprovide detailed strategies for fitting them into course projects and activities. A more generalsystematic approach is presented in [6] which sets up a framework for addressing and resolvingbarriers to student learning outcomes and faculty-driven curricular modifications. A seven-stepplan is prescribed which focuses on the goals, objects
showing me this awesome Shakespeare script generator…I always knew thatthis was a really cool thing…it just seemed like something that I couldn’t do…”Others encountered ML/AI outside of the classroom, such as through projects in non-ML/AIinternships, or extra-curricular design teams. Regardless of how they were first introduced, allparticipants sought to take an introductory ML/AI course in university. Some suggested that theculture in introductory courses makes it difficult to engage with the material. For instance, thiswoman-identifying participant shared that the male-dominated nature of one ML/AI coursecontributed to feelings of imposter syndrome that prevented her from asking questions in class: Gender stereotypes contribute oftentimes to
material and experiments to a new set-up, the digital classroom. Itis important to mention that even after the classes resumed in our campuses during the 2022terms, students keep on demanding courses or at least some sessions of a course in an onlineformat.We consider that a good model for Architectural Engineering courses should include a mix ofactivities, including the use of models in the classroom, some videos or documentaries fromfamous structures or construction processes, some collaborative activities or small projects tobe solved in teams of students and also, some online sessions in order to develop some digitaltransformation competences in our students. Other disciplines within the Architecture andCivil Engineering programs are already
challenging for faculty members who are more accustomed to documentingteaching and content delivery. INCOSE does not require that universities teach the contentwithin the recognized course(s). This allows for thesis or final project courses, often taught to awide range of undergraduate students, to qualify for AcEq.Academic Equivalency was designed to offer an alternate path for assessment in languages otherthan English, in countries outside the United States and Western Europe. Despite that intent,fourteen of the fifteen academic equivalencies are in the United States. The champions of theseprograms typically pursue AcEq as a way to provide structure to their courses. It should benoted that only a small portion of AcEq-qualifying students pursue and
the number of available researchers to carry out projects at theforefront of a specific field of inquiry. Faculty at all institutions are obviously recruited from thePhD granting institutions and consequently have typically spent four or more years conductingadvanced research usually on grant money, have authored papers and reports based on theirwork, and therefore enter the academic world already aware of, and presumably now able toexecute on their own, similar projects.However, other factors come in to play. Some new hires in non-PhD granting programs arespecifically drawn to such schools because they are more interested in teaching what they knowto undergraduates than they are in directing graduate students in research work. Others
Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at Texas A&M. He teaches in the areas of materials, manufacturing, and design. His interests are in the areas of Engineering Design for Disciplinary STEM Educational Research, Team Formation and Team Skill Education.Prof. Bruce L. Tai, Texas A&M University Dr. Tai is an Associate Professor in J Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research in manufacturing focuses on machining processes, additive manufactur- ing, and data-driven surgical training. He has over a 15-year track record in manufacturing research and education. The recent research projects include machining non-traditional metal alloys
based on a sub-sample from the larger study forwhich we had repeated measures of NCA profiles over three years beginning in 2017 when these studentswere first-year engineering students.Project FrameworkOur project is aligned with the framework for noncognitive factors developed by the Consortium onChicago School Research (CCSR) [16]. The CCSR framework was developed through a detailed reviewof the evidence of the role of noncognitive factors that contribute to successful secondary-schoolperformance and successful transition of high-school students to college. Although our project focuses oncollege undergraduates instead of high schoolers, a majority of our study participants were in their firstyear of studies. Furthermore, we see no logical
that is often used inconjunction with the OMNeT++ framework is the INET library. INET provides a plethora ofmodules used in communication networks, such as routers, hosts, switches, etc., which can allbe connected using wired or wireless connections, including Ethernet, PPP, IEEE 802.11, etc.[14, 15].Furthermore, the INET library also provides the ability to use different transport layer protocolswithin the simulation, such as TCP, UDP, and STCP [14]. Given the features listed, one canassume that the INET library is a highly beneficial tool for communication networks in theOMNeT++ simulation environment. OMNeT++ is indeed a powerful tool in the realm ofcommunication network simulation. Some core projects utilized with the OMNeT
Paper ID #38699Indigenizing the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Programmed EngineeringEducation Curriculum, Challenges and Future PotentialsDr. Bahar Memarian, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Dr. Bahar Memarian is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator with more than 10 years of research and teaching experience at the intersection of applied and social sciences. She has designed and executed research projects as both a team leader and a member. She has also developed and delivered learning modules and courses in the areas of STEM, design, and engineering education at the secondary and
quantitative studies, have focused on TGNC undergraduates because this populationis small. Those who have presented findings share a common theme of students reporting aheteronormative, exclusionary environment in engineering [17 – 20]. Haverkamp et al. [19]utilized collaborative autoethnographic methods to explore the experiences of two TGNCundergraduate engineering students who expressed an engineering environment withexclusionary social dynamics. Group projects and interactions, which are common toengineering, were identified as “a particular hurdle towards engineering peers being part of theirsocial support network” [16]. The ability to function effectively on a team is listed as a studentoutcome for ABET-accredited engineering programs [21
. During the height of COVID, we wrote and received internal grants andseed funding to start several STEM in a box projects that allowed our outreach to expand acrossthe state. The first boxes we produced, during the summer of 2021, were for students in gradesK-12. These boxes were part of an asynchronous summer program where participating studentscould follow along with videos made by our students and posted to a website. This also includedan option for high school students to learn about robotics or energy through an online Googlesites course, partially funded by an Engineering Research Center at our university. The secondbox was built starting Fall 2021 and was targeted towards teachers and 4-H agents in ruralcounties. That box also shared STEM
changesnor do they recommend additional CIP codes. [12]Action Items in ProcessSuccessful completion of this project will require time, patience, and strategy. Our research hasmade it apparent that the Federal agencies are not used to dealing with faculty members. As anexample, in our correspondences, the current NCES Survey Director for CIP codes wrote, “SinceI have been involved the with CIP (2007), no one has expressed concern over EngineerManagement being included in Series 15” [7]. Neither are we, as faculty, accustomed tointeracting with NCES.The following is a list of action items that we believe are necessary to see this project to asuccessful completion.Desired OutcomeThe goal of this initiative is to reverse the CIP 2000 decision and return
Corporate CS Math/Stat Capstone Project (Optional) Certifications Figure 1. Cyber Security Degree ArchitectureTo complement education with training, the degree also requires students to pass two industrycertifications before they graduate. The course number for each certification is CYBI-3101-xxwhere xx stands for the student’s choice of certification such as Net+, Linux+, Security+, etc. Apool of certifications was carefully studied and approved, and we are
review and critical assessment ofliterature that is related to the student’s proposed praxis research as well as an assessment of theirproficiency with applied engineering research methods. The exam consists of a proctored onlinewritten exam.Comprehensive Exam, Final Praxis, and AdvisingThe students entering the D.Eng. program are self-funded and have identified an applied researchtopic. The praxis research topic is further refined and finalized by the student in consultationwith the praxis committee, which is comprised of the faculty praxis advisor and other graduatefaculty.The Comprehensive Examination consists of a written praxis proposal and an oral examinationthat is a presentation of the praxis proposal. The praxis research project is
DevelopmentThe next iteration of this course will be in an asynchronous online modality. Although most ofthe materials are already available in the college’s learning management system, this transitionwill require revision of some components of the course. Some of the lab activities will beconducted individually by students rather than in a group setting. Other demonstrations havebeen filmed, and students will be provided with the data to analyze rather than making themeasurements themselves. The case study project will require students to collaborate online togive their final presentations and conduct their discussions, which will then be submitted as avideo.ConclusionOverall, this course provided the technical background that the students needed to
. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Zone 1 Conference Pedagogical aspects of teaching nuclear fusion engineering basics M. Nieto-Perez, J. P. Allain Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State UniversityAbstractOver the last 5 years there has been a significant increase in the visibility of nuclear fusion as animportant technology to aid in the transition to clean and sustainable energy production. Althoughthe technology is not mature enough for commercial deployment yet, the field is rapidly movingfrom a basic science field to large projects that require engineering professionals from
University of Central Florida, where he has been a full-time faculty member since 1993. He has completed over 325 articles, 50 funded projects as PI or Co-PI, and 56 graduates as Ph.D. dissertation and/or M.S. thesis advisor. He was previously an Associate Engineer at IBM and a Visiting Research Scientist at NASA Ames, in total for four years, and has been a registered Professional Engineer since 1992. He has served ten terms as a Topical Editor or Associate Editor of various IEEE Transactions and in many IEEE/ACM/ASEE conferences including General Co- Chair of GLSVLSI-2023. He has received the Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award from IEEE and is a Fellow of AAAS.Harrison N Oonge, University of
built on the “Linear Engineering Sequence,LES” that is followed by the PIT as the outcome of the leaning platform (please see Figure 1 inArce et al., 2015).The Foundry is designed to work with student teams. These teams work in collaboration to identifythe challenge associated with their project or tasks; the challenge could be either societal ortechnological and the students learn key aspects about the challenge and tools by using the KAP,and then they apply the KTP to work on addressing the challenge and developing or constructinga PIT. One key aspects of the Foundry is that this application is not a simple “linear” applicationfrom the challenges towards the PIT but, instead, student-teams are required to use a strategy thatinvolves the
program. Hands-on assignments are already used in manycourses. After teaching Python for three years, we considered creating supplemental modules toaddress shortcomings in the curriculum. Different practices for teaching Python were examined4.In our faculty meetings, it was recommended that the last two chapters in the textbook(Recursion and GUI Programming) be replaced by hands-on lab modules for students to developskills on solving real-world problems.Lab DevelopmentThe project was proposed to and funded by the East Carolina University Teaching GrantCommittee. The purpose of the project is to create supplemental lab modules for developingpractical skills of utilizing Python scripting language in Information Technology (IT)applications. The labs
profound impact on thepublic and society. This reaches beyond the extreme “disaster-ethics” where failures inengineering competence or duties result in significant loss of life or property. Engineers, in theirday-to-day capacities, often make design and project decisions that incrementally, but assuredly,influence how technology and society interact. As our world becomes more reliant andintegrated with technology, it is critical that the next generation of engineering professionals beable to identify their ethical responsibilities and act accordingly.Engineering has undergone considerable advancements since the industrialization of our society,moving from a primary responsibility to the employer to a profession holding the safety andhealth of the
in aerospace engineering to include a project-based approach.The course used the design, analysis, manufacturing, testing, and launching of mid-power solidpropellant rockets. A similar study performed by Myose et al. [7] investigated studentperformance characteristics in a hybrid class for the engineering course of Statics.The above-mentioned studies fell short of designing a common course structure for engineeringand STEM related courses. This motivated the initial inquiry and a study performed by Arshadand Romatoski [1] to design the instructional course structure, which has proven beneficial forthe faculty and students alike.Autoethnography focuses on the cultural analysis and interpretation [8] and self-analysis thatproduces purposeful
engineeringcurriculum [1,3]. Interventions in Calculus 1 that foster both better course mastery and improvedhabits and connections to resources that support STEM success more broadly thus have thepotential to significantly improve retention and success in engineering programs.The NSF-sponsored Urban STEM Collaboratory project, a joint initiative at three partner urbanuniversities (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), University ofMemphis, and University of Colorado Denver), provides scholarship support and interventionsfor academic success and retention to students with demonstrated financial need majoring inengineering, math, and computer science. All three campuses employ a cohort model andprovide targeted support in Calculus, community
.” Including “computing” and “STEM” allowed for a larger range ofpapers in our search. We employed the following search string in the “Expert Search” mode:(((Asian American) WN ALL) AND ((students) WN ALL) AND (((engineering) WN ALL) OR((computing) WN ALL) OR ((STEM) WN ALL)))We found 138 records in this initial research. The two authors employed the three followinginclusion/exclusion criteria to screen further these 138 papers: Criterion 1: Are undergraduate students the focus of the research project? Criterion 2: Do research questions address Asian American students? Criterion 3: Is the data empirical research?These three criteria were chosen to center on Asian American undergraduate engineeringstudents. The first criterion allowed