” demonstrates that the REU site experience was beneficialin promoting the inclusion of these students in engineering, regardless of its perceived impact ontheir academic performance. Because the REU site was heavily focused on research, it is importantto understand what specific aspects of conducting research the participants preferred, to understandhow to implement these factors in future programs and in the existing engineering curriculum.Therefore, participants were asked to indicate how much they agreed or disagreed with a series ofstatements following the prompt “One of the best things about doing engineering research is beingable to…” (Table 3). Table 3. Descriptive statistics for responses to the prompt “One of the best things about doing
, thebenefits of inquiry-based learning were highlighted. The students generally took this assignmentseriously and developed test programs that would serve as a strong basis for Masters Thesis. Theprojects were not as formal or extensive as graduate level research, however the students gainedan appreciation for design of experiments. Several of the groups conducted extensive fieldexperiments including field demonstration of wave erosion protection using geotextiles (pullouttests conducted at a local beach) and investigation of water infiltration rates to different surficialsoil types around San Luis Obispo County. More often than not, the scope of the experimentaltest program had to be edited (based on recommendations from the instructor) from
groups. Support the broader RET community by disseminating logistics, schedules, outcomes, deliverables, best practices, and evaluation procedures via the RETAIN websiteTo meet these objectives, our team developed an immersive 6-week summer experience. Theprimary component of the teachers’ experiences within this summer professional developmentopportunity included conducting scientific, nanotechnology-related research in labs at a largepublic Midwestern University under the guidance of individual faculty mentors. Research topicsincluded but were not limited to the design of artificial biomembrane-mimicking systems for cellsubstrate applications; integrated wireless sensor systems; nano-batteries and characterization;and fabrication and
: Using Workshops to Scaffold InterdisciplinaryResearch, Collaboration, and Community BuildingAbstractCo-creation in academe can take multiple forms. In this research, the co-creation focus is oncollaboration between faculty and graduate students to develop educational modules. Thisactivity is designed to improve graduate education and prepare students for conducting graduateresearch. In previous work presented at ASEE 2022, we discussed benefits and challenges ofparticipating in the co-creation process. This current paper focuses on how we took lessons fromour first year and transformed them into a structure to better support interdisciplinary research,collaboration, and community building.We will discuss how we supported the process of co
University.Dr. Anica Gwenell Bowe, Oakland University Dr. Bowe is an Assistant Professor at Oakland University in Rochester Michigan. She earned a Ph.D. in Education Psychology with a focus in Quantitative Methods in Education. Her interests are in eval- uation practices for school-based initiatives, instrument development, the psycho-social development of immigrant adolescents, and education evaluation within the Caribbean.Dr. Brian K Dean, Oakland University Brian K. Dean is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oakland University. He received the B.S.E.E. for the University of Wyoming in Laramie, WY, USA in 2006, the M.S.E.E. in 2008, and the Ph.D. in 2012. Dr. Dean’s research
educational practice [1] that provides opportunities forstudents to develop their research and technical skills, network with other students/professors,raise their awareness of graduate studies, and understand the social context of research. Whileundergraduate students are often able to participate in research at their own institution ornationally in the US (through available Research Experiences for Undergraduates sites), it is alsopossible for undergraduates to complete research internationally.In addition to the domestic benefits of research experiences, this provides an opportunity tonetwork with international students/professors, learn about a different country and culture, andlearn new perspectives on how professionals from other countries
Education and co-director of the VT Engineering Communication Center (VTECC). She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and B.A. in English from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include interdis- ciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a National Science Foun- dation CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios for graduate students to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Her teaching emphasizes the
CISTARcampuses that developed synergy between the University Program and the Pre-College Program.Program MentorsGraduate student mentors for all of these groups were CISTAR Graduate Fellows, a group ofstudent researchers who are supported through CISTAR to understand their impact on industryand the world by participating in professional development activities and a set of definededucational experiences. Mentoring university undergraduate students and high school studentsand teachers is a critical element of the CISTAR Graduate Fellow experience.Changes Made to Programs Based on Previous EvaluationAs the programs were developed for the second year of the center a series of design changeswere made in response to evaluation results and feedback from
center, a collaborative network of five universities, is supported by fourpillars: workforce development, diversity, industry, and research. This poster will outlineresearch experiences and career and graduate school preparation and associated evaluationrelated to workforce development and diversity including a Research Experience for Teachers(RET) for middle and high school teachers, a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)and a Young Scholars program for high school students. Our presentation documents anddescribes steps taken to launch the educational programming during the first year of the center.The overarching broader impact goal of CISTAR Workforce Development is to create atechnically excellent and inclusive community of
scholarship of teaching. His efforts in leading the Sustainable Buildings program were recognized with the 2019 Award for Excellence in Education Abroad Curriculum Design. He has also worked as a construction project engineer, consultant, and safety inspector. He believes educating the next generation of professionals will be pivotal in sustainability standard practices. Regarding engagement, Dr. Valdes-Vasquez has served as the USGBC student club’s adviser and the ASC Sustainability Team’s faculty coach since 2013. He is a CSU President’s Sustainability Commission member, among multiple other committees. In addition, he is involved with various professional organizations at the national level, including the
students to interact directly with high schoolteachers and assist in designing research-focused curriculum to motivate and excite students into pursuingSTEM careers. A multi-level mentoring experience was created by pairing the RET participants with theREU students, faculty mentors and graduate students. RET participants joined 4 weeks before the end ofthe program. RET welcoming events were added to foster inclusion into the research environment. Onesuch event, REU science chalk talks, enabled both groups to ask and answer questions, creating a uniquebond. Teachers were learning from the REU students which reinvigorated learning and teachingexperiences for all. The program achieved its overarching goals with noticed improved mentoring
-tions create a pressing need for graduates capable of systems thinking2 and understanding themanufacturing and product development cycle, from making informed cost- and quality-baseddesign decisions, analyzing these designs, to producing and ultimately testing these designs toensure conformance with specifications.Our educational project aims to harness the recent proliferation of low-cost, multi-axis computer-numerical-control machines to address these evolving market needs within the constraints of en-gineering design education. The lower-cost and lower-accuracy hobbyist CNC machines havelargely benefited from the support of a growing hobbyist and open-source community eager todevelop and capitalize on advanced machining and prototyping
as a small meal allowance. Each teacher has received up to$2000 for the supplies in their lesson plans. Teachers worked in teams on their respectiveresearch projects. The teams worked closely with the engineering faculty members supervisingtheir projects and graduate students. In addition a number of group activities were alsoorganized. These activities include industrial sites visit, research seminars and some professionaltraining such as CAD, machine shop and 3D printing. Besides research activities in the researchlab, the faculty member from the School of Education and Human Resources offered a project-based learning workshop each Thursday. This aims to help the RET teachers to transform whatthey have learned from the research project to
hypotheses and drove my ability to refine my customer discovery approach.” “Conducting customer interviews before reaching out to any potential investors because: interviews establish whom your potential customers are, where the fields are that your product will perform the best, and what your selling points should be for the product.”Below is the remark from a graduate male student on the program impact on selecting his PhDthesis topic. “Deciding on a topic for thesis for a Ph.D. student is a major task. I will use my experience to reshape my objectives of research and choose the topic and courses accordingly.; The interviews helped me in taking decisions on my Ph.D. topic selection. I will choose my
current focus of Dr. Wood’s research includes the development of robotic ground and air vehicle systems using innovative design techniques using cur- rent technology implementations, as well as futuristic projections. Dr Wood also publishes research on advances in the methodology for creative electromechanical systems design.Brock U Dunlap, University of Texas, Austin Brock Dunlap is currently a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin studying active learning and prototyping methodology. He plans to graduate in May 2014 with a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in design and manufacturing. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University.Ella
2015.1,2 Research and development in nanotechnology is likely to changecompletely the design, analysis, and manufacturing for a wide range of engineering products.Nanotechnology, however, is still mostly a topic for graduate schools whereas undergraduateprograms that focus on nanotechnology remain sporadic.3 Our NSF-NUE award will builda multidisciplinary, cross-campus educational program that integrates nanotechnology to theundergraduate curricula in science and engineering. Our educational program in nanotechnologywill also reach out to high school (K9-K12) and graduate students.In the development of an educational program for introducing nanotechnology to undergraduate(UG) students majoring in STEM at the New Jersey Institute of Technology
Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on an NSF faculty development program based on evidence-based teaching practices. The overall goal is to develop dis- ciplinary communities of practice across the college of engineering. The approach is being promoted through semester-long faculty workshops and then through a semester of supported implementation of faculty classroom innovations. Changes in faculty beliefs and classroom practice should positively im- pact student performance and retention. He was a coauthor for the best paper award at the FIE convention in 2009 and the
see it in different courses, and helps students connect the various concepts they learn indifferent courses. It is in this capacity, that PLP facilitates the hardware-software connectionwhen it is used to teach hardware design, assembly programming, compilers, and operatingsystems.Figure 3: PLP’s New Homepage. This organization better reflects the different roles that PLP isexpected to play: an education tool for faculty and students, an engineering education research projectwith some unique methods of qualitative analysis, and a development environment for hobbyists andtinkerers. Page 24.87.5Communities of Practice: In PLP, a class is set
psychologist with twenty years experience leading research and development initiatives and applied re- search studies focused on equitable, high quality teaching and learning for all young people. At the New York Hall of Science, Dr. Culp leads collaborative, multidisciplinary teams to design, develop, implement and study experiences, tools, and media that help highly diverse groups of young people discover their own identities as scientists and engineers. Her research has been funded by the National Science Founda- tion, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education and the Intel Foundation. Dr. Culp is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College (1988) and holds a PhD in developmental
with a design thinking approach, we involved key stakeholders from eachdepartment including students, faculty, staff, and administrators, in the research and design processto co-create solutions that addressed our three interrelated objectives in their specific department.The research study was guided by the following questions: RQ1. How might we make engineering more inclusive? RQ2. How might we better prepare engineering graduates for practice? RQ3. How might we use design thinking to address complex issues in engineering education?In this paper, we provide an overview of the multi-year project and discuss emerging findingsand key outcomes from across all phases of the project. Specifically, we will showcase how theresearch has
percent of the students that graduate each year in civil and mechanical engineering were transfer students. Close to half of the students that graduate at UMKC are transfer students, and yet as an institution, it behaves like it caters to first-time full- time students. [UMKC stakeholder]DiscussionAs Black and Gregersen (2002) noted, seeing a need for change is not enough, stakeholders mustbe ready to move toward implementing change. Our S-STEM project has recently joined anNSF-funded S-STEM Hub initiative, Practices and Research on Student Pathways in Educationfrom Community College and Transfer Students in STEM (PROSPECT S-STEM). As part ofPROSECT, MCC and UMKC will develop a professional learning community (PLC). PLCs
the Materials Science Program in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include faculty development and evaluating con- ceptual knowledge and strategies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for mate- rials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback and internet tool use affect conceptual change and impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and
Paper ID #34072FOUNDATIONS – Integrating Evidence-based Teaching and Learning Prac-ticesinto the Core Engineering Curriculum: Retrospective on the Progress ofTeaching-Track Faculty ParticipantsDr. Gail P. Baxter, Stevens Institute of Technology Gail P. Baxter is the Co-Director, Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens Institute of Technology. Baxter leads CIESE research and evaluation efforts and manages a program to support faculty adoption of evidence-based teaching practices in the core courses in the School of Engineering at Stevens. Before joining CIESE, Baxter was a Senior Survey
engineeringstudent engagement in out-of-class activities can help guide actions of program administratorsand educators to restructure and promote activities to improve engagement and enhance studentlearning both inside and outside of the classroom. In this section, we introduce the BuildingUndergraduate Interventions for Learning and Development (BUILD) Model, a framework. TheBUILD model is based on existing frameworks, models, and effective practices for the design oflearning environments and interventions in out-of-class activities. Prior research has provided thenecessary insight into specific elements of learning environment[45], institutional elements [46],and best practices [47,48] that can be combined to create a comprehensive framework useful
control with applications to engine exhaust aftertreatment.Dr. Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech Dr. Matusovich is an Associate Professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 10 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean’s Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and
Paper ID #8492Analysis of the Impact of Participation in a Summer Bridge Program onMathematics Course Performance by First-Semester Engineering StudentsDr. John R. Reisel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Dr. John R. Reisel is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee (UWM). He serves as associate director of the Center for Alternative Fuels, and co-director of the Energy Conversion Efficiency Lab. In addition to research into engineering education, his research efforts focus on combustion and energy utilization. Dr. Reisel was a 2005 recipient of the UWM Dis- tinguished
. Bodnar, Ph.D., CTDP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University. Dr. Bodnar’s research interests relate to the incorporation of active learn- ing techniques in undergraduate classes as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the engineering curriculum. In particular, she is interested in the impact that these tools can have on student perception of the classroom environment, motivation and learning outcomes. She obtained her certifica- tion as a Training and Development Professional (CTDP) from the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) in 2010, providing her with a solid background in instructional design, facilitation and
Paper ID #41608Board 278: Faculty and Staff Ideas and Expectations for a Culture of Wellnessin EngineeringMs. Eileen Johnson, University of Michigan Eileen Johnson received her BS and MS in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She previously worked in tissue engineering and genetic engineering throughout her education. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. After teaching an online laboratory class, she became interested in engineering education research. Her current research interests are in engineering student mental health & wellness
cybersecurity, as applied to a variety of do- mains including healthcare, finance, and critical infrastructure protections. His recent focus has been on improving student preparation for overall career success.Dr. Mihaela Sabin, University of New Hampshire Mihaela Sabin has taught a variety of computing courses designed to facilitate learning activities that value students’ diverse lived experiences. Her current research includes computing education and cur- riculum development, with emphasis on professional competencies and faculty role modeling. She has contributed to the AI field of constraint satisfaction with a new representational model based on condi- tional constraints. Sabin chaired the ACM/IEEE Computer Society
effectiveness in teaching than it is in research where metrics likeh-indices, research expenditures, and Ph. D. students graduated, provide a quantitative measureof impact. Teaching, lacking such metrics, does not have the same broad recognition ofscholarship (and effort towards training) that research does. When teaching is recognized, it isoften a local award—such as a departmental or college honor—than something that istransferrable between institutions. In fact, many stories exist (and have existed) for decadesabout teaching awards being viewed in a negative light by the tenure and review processes asthey indicate time that might have been spent on technical pursuits (that next paper, that nextexperiment, or that next grant proposal) which are