that were remarkably good.One of the best is shown here as Figure 1, depicting an engineer working on a computer,performing calculations on a white board, and displaying a design drawing on an easel. Thecoffee cup and what might be a diploma hanging on the wall really added to the accuracy of thepicture. Figure 1. Sample illustration submitted in response to the survey prompt “Draw an engineer doing their work”.Overall, the survey responses indicate a quantifiable impact that the “4th Grade Engineering”sessions and in-class STEM activities were having on students’ perceptions and understandingsof the engineering profession. Compared to the students that were not exposed to those sameengineering elements, their understanding of engineering
recently developed and implemented in the3rd semester of the computer engineering program at DigiPen Institute of Technology forembedded systems design. The main objectives of the course are for students to identifyauthentic engineering problems, select one and characterize it to propose a solution through thedesign, implementation and testing of an embedded system of their own. They are expected toapply knowledge from prerequisite and concurrent courses, learn how to do research anddocument all their work via written technical reports. Furthermore, they acquire practice andtheoretical understanding through design and implementation.In this course students are required for the first time to complete a full design for a project oftheir own instead
includes engineering in her elementary and early childhood science methods courses and developed and taught an engineering methods course for middle school teachers. She also developed a graduate-level engineering education course for PreK-6 teachers. Dr. Lottero has provided professional learning experiences in multiple schools and school systems in Maryland. She has co-authored numerous engineering-focused articles for the teacher practitioner journal, Science and Chil- dren, and presents her research regularly through the American Society for Engineering Education. Her current research includes investigating how K-5 students plan, fail, and productively persist. She is the Director of the Integrated STEM
. Leydens won the Exemplar in Engineering Ethics Educa- tion Award from the National Academy of Engineering, along with CSM colleagues Juan C. Lucena and Kathryn Johnson, for a cross-disciplinary suite of courses that enact macroethics by making social justice visible in engineering education. In 2017, he and two co-authors won the Best Paper Award in the Mi- norities in Engineering Division at the American Society for Engineering Education annual conference. With co-author Juan C. Lucena, Dr. Leydens’ most recent book is Engineering Justice: Transforming En- gineering Education and Practice (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2018). His current research grant project explores how to foster and assess sociotechnical thinking in
program is to provide students with real-life engineering challenges before graduation. Dr Guti´errez focuses his efforts on accelerating the academic success of underrepresented and first gen- eration students, creating professional development opportunities for undergraduate students, and imple- menting best practices for engineering education.Mr. Christopher A. Butler, University of California, Merced Since 2012, Christopher Butler has served as the Assistant Director of the Engineering Service Learning program at the University of California, Merced. In this time as Assistant Director, the Engineering Service Learning program has provided design experience to more than 1,800 students, completed over 15
effort has been placed intoimproving the rubric in order to make the rubric accessible to people of any level of engineeringexpertise. Furthermore, the PIs work has helped pave the way to understanding how functionalmodeling impacts students’ mental models as well as how to best teach functional modeling toengineering students.AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank all of the students for their voluntary participation in these studies.This work is supported by the National Science Foundation through grants 1734519, 1525284,1525449 and 1525170. In addition, this material is based upon work supported by the NationalScience Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. DGE-1650044. Anyopinions, findings, and conclusions or
]. Angelo and Cross’ 1993book discusses classroom assessment techniques [6]. Nilson’s 2012 book focuses on research-based resources for college instructors [7]. Walvoord published a practical guide to assessment in2010 [8]. The pre-post methodology is similar to that of one of the co-authors at the Air ForceInstitute of Technology [9] which presents a three-year study of a two-course graduate sequenceand employed a pre-test/post-test methodology with teaching techniques of Felder and Brent [10]to assess student learning using learner-center teaching techniques, one of which was Real-worldmini-sessions in industry, defense, and security. A statistically significant improvement wasobserved in student performance for some courses when the Pre
electrical power generation, including the use of renewableenergy resources. An important aspect of any Introduction to Engineering course is the projector projects which are chosen for the students to work on. Since renewable energy is a relevantand multidisciplinary field, it provides a good topic for a first-year engineering design course,provided the experience is properly designed.This paper describes a successful renewable energy project that has been used for the past sevenyears in an Introduction to Engineering class at a large, public, research university. Details ofthis project and its evolution based on the curricular needs of the university and research-basedbest-practices will be discussed. Some of these research-based best practices
research and using the machine shop. ● Half of EPADS was valuable. ● We do a lot of projects and making things, but I don't think we do enough of actually designing things that we then have to make. ● If you work hard and get good grades in your classes it's not hard to do well in capstone. 88% of the seniors also agreed on the benefit of having projects in the EngineeringPhysics course as shown in the Figure 5.Figure 5. Survey results for the statement 2: “Do you agree that having projects in EngineeringPhysics: Mechanics course related to Capstone Projects would be beneficial to students?” Some students further commented on the 2nd statement: ● Practice on determining forces and inertia in actual devices. ● Maybe
evaluating teamwork models, statewide pre-college math initiatives, teacher and faculty professional development programs, and S-STEM programs.Dr. Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University Marisa K. Orr is an Assistant Professor in Engineering and Science Education with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. Her research interests include student persistence and pathways in engineering, gender equity, diversity, and academic policy. Dr. Orr is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award for her research entitled, ”Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision-Makers.”Dr. Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc Rebecca Brent is President of Education Designs, Inc., a consulting firm located in
degrees and academic careers in engineering; toaid graduate engineering students in preparing to seek employment in academia; and to increasepedagogical understanding and best practices in engineering education” [2]. The similaritiesbetween the missions of the Libraries and ASEE@SU, both of whom pledge to aid students inachieving success in their academic careers and beyond, and the desire to find the mostsuccessful avenues for connecting with graduate students helped to foster a mutually beneficialrelationship. ASEE@SU puts on programming throughout each academic year, mainly in theform of workshops and seminars designed to sharpen ECS graduate student’s soft skills. Theircore programming, however, is the annual Soft Skills Boot Camp, also known
recruitment and remediation-basedinterventions to retain these students to graduation. However, low-income, racial and ethnicminoritized groups and women continue to be underrepresented in engineering, despiteconsiderable funding and individual and institutional effort. For the United States to remain aglobal leader in the STEM fields that require engineering training, the issue of underrepresentationmust be addressed.Institutional ContextUIC is a research-intensive, urban, Minority Serving Institution and also has the designations ofHispanic Serving Institution and Asian American Native American Pacific Islander ServingInstitution. The College of Engineering (COE) at the UIC serves a diverse student population fromvarious ethnic and economic
academic interest in leadership de- velopment in academic contexts. She holds a M.A. in Education from Michigan State University and an M.A. in English from The Ohio State University.Mrs. Astri Briliyanti Astri is a graduate student in the Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University. She previously worked as a researcher and urban planner consultant in Indonesia, helping the government with the creation of spatial and development plan, as well as policy analysis and program evaluation. She is interested in program evaluation, sustainable tourism planning, and urban design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Partners in Professional
Networks (pre-requesite) Topics vLab experiments Tools used in vLabs Hardening devices, • Encrypting configuration files • Virtual local area networks access control lists and • Using hash function to store credentials • Modern routers and switches best practices for • Applying access control lists (ACLs) with management capability network management • Sniffing a Telnet sessions for passwords • Using Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) as a replacement of Telnet for managing devices • Secure local area networks (LANs) by blocking
experiences and training.Dr. Stephanie Marie Kusano, University of Michigan Stephanie Kusano is an assessment specialist at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at University of Michigan. She has a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, all from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include engaged learning and high impact practices, assessment, and learning analytics. Her teaching experience has primarily been with first-year engineering.Dr. Tershia A. Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan Tershia Pinder-Grover is the Director of the Center for Research on Learning in Teaching in Engineering (CRLT-Engin) at the University of Michigan (U-M). She
presentations and were expected to prepare students for theircapstone project thoroughly.Objective of the paperThis paper describes a relatively new and growing program (PMT) at KSP and uses a multi-disciplinaryteam-taught course (COT 706) as a case study to reflect on the outcomes from implementing industryadvisory board's recommendations. While low student enrollments characterize the program/course, theexperience and process involved in the design of COT 706 provide valuable insights on pedagogy, team-teaching, and best practices for student learning.The purpose of this pedagogical research study is to assess using COT 706 course whether a team-taught8-week hybrid format accomplishes the objectives of providing the flexibility in format and skill
approaches for developing an identity to their impact onengineering identity development. This research paper investigates the difference in students’engineering identity, engineering performance/competence, engineering interest, recognition inengineering, and affect towards six professional engineering practices in two differenceengineering departments: a traditional program that implicitly supports engineering identityformation and a non-traditional program that explicitly supports engineering identity formation.Survey data was collected from a total of 184 students (153 from the traditional department and31 from the non-traditional department). Using independent samples t-tests, results show thatengineering identity was higher for students in the
insights were provided by the literature on best studying practices, curricula of similarprograms at analogous institutions, and students’ performance on individual exam questions inone gateway course. Two SMEs were STEM professors (one in mathematics and one inbioengineering) who contributed to the design of Rice’s STEM summer bridge program (theRice Emerging Scholars Program), and the third was a director of Rice’s programming for less-prepared STEM students. The mathematics professor, who has worked at Rice University since1988 and is past chair of the mathematics department, is also co-founder and faculty director ofthe university’s NSF-funded STEM four-year transition program. The bioengineering professorco-designed a first-year engineering
Paper ID #26927Board 68: Problem-Solving Rationales of Practicing Transportation and Hy-draulic Engineers When Provided Multiple Contextual RepresentationsDr. Masoud Ghodrat Abadi, California State University, Sacramento Masoud Ghodrat Abadi is an assistant professor in Civil Engineering at California State University, Sacra- mento. He received his PhD in 2018 from Oregon State University. He is a member of standing committee on Education and Training in Transportation Research Board (TRB).Mr. Sean Lyle Gestson, Oregon State University Sean Gestson is a recent graduate from the University of Portland where he studied Civil
Paper ID #27445Positionality: The Stories of Self that Impact OthersCynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech ynthia Hampton is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. She also serves as program and student support for the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED). While at Virginia Tech, Cynthia has directed summer bridge programs, led peer support initia- tives for underrepresented groups, and served on various commissions, committees, and research groups focused on student support, organizational change, graduate student policy, and culturally responsive evaluation
. Specifically, we note the ways in which tension occurred during the use of interpretative phenomenological analysis in engineering education research and how our process of addressing these tensions transfers to other cultural contexts [11]. 2. Making Sense of Missingness. This paper collates best practices regarding missing data, e.g. checking amounts of missingness and when to practice data imputation. In addition to detailing the missingness analyses conducted within this project, it also acts as a resource for others in engineering education and provides R code for other researchers to use [26].Future WorkAnalyses of Phase 2 data are continuing, with an ultimate goal of producing a testable model topredict and
Paper ID #25480Board 20: Engagement in Practice: First Year Students as ”Engineer for aDay” for Middle School StudentsDr. Cynthia Helen Carlson PE, PhD, Merrimack College Dr. Carlson worked as a water resources engineer for 10 years prior to earning her doctorate, contributing to improved water management in communities within the United States, Middle East, and Singapore. She has been a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) since 2002. Dr. Carlson’s research interests are broadly characterized as ’how civil engineering impacts public health’, and include storm water man- agement, modeling environment/engineering/social
accomplish a mode valueof at least 4 initially. Of course, the ultimate goal is to attain a mode value of 5 in all thefour.VARK Data Analysis Looking at the bar chart displayed in Appendix F we see that Visual (V) andKinesthetic (K) modes recorded Likert Scale mode values of 5. This is to be expected in an engineering classroom. We need to remember that we aretrying to assess the impact of delivery styles. Topics in the area of Advanced EngineeringMathematics are best learnt when students actually see and do. Hands – on learning tools helped the students understand the material better. Thisincluded Power Point Presentations, EXCEL spreadsheet exercises, Problem – Solving Sessions,Practical Applications, Mathematical Analogies
. in Civil Engineering, Dr. Barrella holds a Master of City and Regional Planning (Transportation) from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University. Dr. Barrella has investigated best practices in engineering education since 2003 (at Bucknell University) and began collaborating on sus- tainable engineering design research while at Georgia Tech. Prior to joining the WFU faculty, she led the junior capstone design sequence at James Madison University, was the inaugural director of the NAE Grand Challenges Program at JMU, and developed first-year coursework.Mr. Charles McDonald Cowan II, Wake Forest University Mack Cowan is a recent graduate of James Madison University’s
-accredited engineering or computing programs, but two teams constructingaugmented-reality historical simulations include students majoring in History and GeospatialInformation Science. Most projects have external sponsors - typically a government agency thatappoints a senior engineer to serve as the customer. These customers provide project ideas, inputon scope and requirements, and financial support for equipment and travel.We have formulated an iterative “agile-waterfall” design process combining the traditional“waterfall” design practice found in engineering with agile methodology common to softwaredesign [8], [9]. This process encourages rapid prototyping and short term goal-setting (through aseries of “sprints”) and requires our students to
KU Civil, Environmental, and Ar- chitectural Engineering department, with a specialty in structural engineering and bridge structures. She works closely with KU Engineering’s post-doctoral Teaching Fellow and oversees the overall Engaged Learning Initiative in the School of Engineering. Caroline is responsible for overseeing KU Engineer- ing’s active-learning classroom design and usage, prioritizing course assignments in the active-learning classrooms, helping faculty to advance their pedagogy by incorporating best practices, and advancing implementation of student-centered, active-learning approaches in the School of Engineering. Caroline is also active in contributing to university-level discussions in the area
Surveys, Dimensions of Success (DoS) Observation tool, pre/post topic self-efficacy, and survey student interviews. The results showed that engineering design activitieshad a positive impact on attitude towards STEM learning and careers. Integration ofengineering design principles, student demographics and evaluation instruments and resultsare discussed in this paper.IntroductionEngineering is a natural platform for the integration of science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) content into K-12 classrooms, while sparking creativity amongst youngminds. Research around effective learning in K-12 classrooms demonstrates that anengineering approach to identifying and solving problems is valuable across all disciplines.Educators and
engineering education. Kitana is an active member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) at WSU, and serves as their Graduate Student Chair for the 2018-19 academic year.David B. Thiessen, Washington State University David B.Thiessen received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado in 1992 and has been at Washington State University since 1994. His research interests include fluid physics, acoustics, and engineering education.Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D., and did his postdoctoral work at the University of Oklahoma where he also taught as a visiting lecturer. He has been on the Washington State
Carpenter and Raymond Hansen* {carpentera1, hansenr2}@wit.edu Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering *Dept. of Computer Science and Networking Wentworth Institute of TechnologyAs cybersecurity grows as a specialty within electrical and computer engineering and computerscience, students increasingly choose to pursue projects in the area. These projects come in theform of class projects, senior design/capstone projects, and extracurricular research of varyingdegrees of difficulty and sub-genres of cybersecurity. However, it is easy for these cybersecurityprojects to put students in danger of violating laws or compromising equipment; thus, it is
given for Nicole to comment on the interview based on herunderstanding of experiential shame and to share any new insights. The interview lasted onehundred minutes.Data analysisAlthough Nicole’s interview was professionally transcribed, Mackenzie began her role asprimary data analyst in the study by completing a second iteration of transcribing the audio fileto ensure that the authenticity of the interview event was well-represented in the transcript. Inaccord with best practices of IPA research, she then completed thorough annotations of thetranscript, noting descriptive, linguistic, and conceptual comments throughout [19,20].After performing this level of analysis, designed to critically engage her with Nicole’sexperiences in shame, Mackenzie