Paper ID #44307Developing a Learning Innovation for an Undergraduate Mechanical EngineeringCourse through Faculty, Engineer, and Student CollaborationDr. Sean Lyle Gestson, University of Portland Sean Gestson graduated from the University of Portland (UP) in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and received his M.S. and Ph.D. in civil engineering with a research emphasis in engineering education from Oregon State University (OSU). During his time at OSU, Sean taught multiple undergraduate engineering courses including, geotechnical engineering, highway design, surveying, and senior capstone design. His
majors.The second half of the interviews will dive into social capital and engineering identitydevelopment. We will ask questions in a way to generate stories and storied responses; exampleprompts include: ● How does your undergraduate education affect your interest in engineering? ● How did people in your undergraduate education treat you in regard to being an engineer? ● How did your undergraduate education affect your performance or abilities to perform engineering tasks? ● Describe a particular event that stands out in your mind about your undergraduate engineering tech experience. ● Who helps support your academic journey? ● Can you describe your community in engineering tech?Interviews will be transcribed and
Paper ID #42790Unlocking Success in Calculus for Engineering Majors: Impact of EngagementTactics for Underrepresented Undergraduate Engineering StudentsZenaida Aguirre Munoz Ph.D., University of California, Merced Dr. Zenaida Aguirre-Mu˜noz is a Professor of Cognitive Science and Quantitative Systems Biology at UC Merced. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and in Spanish from UC Santa Barbara as well as a Ph.D. in Psychological Studies in Education from the UC, Los Angeles. Dr. Aguirre-Mu˜noz’s research integrates cognitive science, linguistics, learning sciences, and model-based assessment applied to the following
believe they can do so3. Students will bewilling to generate solutions for complex engineering problems, and that is of interest forengineering programs because that is one of the ABET learning outcomes21. There are benefits toimproving students’ self-efficacy, and the difficult task is quantifying it and identifying whatenactive experiences are most effective in improving efficacy.With the topics of active learning and self-efficacy in mind, at Slippery Rock University (SRU) amulti-cohort design project has been implemented in the mechanical engineering curriculum.Through this project and their capstone design courses, data will be collected and analyzed onstudent achievement of learning outcomes and engineering self-efficacy. This is done to
reflection exercise provided a window into the minds and hearts of our students.Getting a sense of why they are in the program, who inspires or shapes their motivations, andhow they feel about engineering was eye-opening. My heart sank the first time I saw the wordsdescribing their feelings towards engineering (as stressful, discouraged, and confused stood outto me). However, words like proud, curious, excited, and intrigued also found their way torelevance on the word cloud. The biggest takeaway from this part of the exercise came when Ishared results with students. There was an audible gasp in the room as students realized they arenot the only ones who feel some of the negative feelings. Students said that simply seeing theresults of the
; in31 Utilitarianism engineering, choices are made with the majority's best interests in mind. Emotional intelligence is essential for moral leadership and handling Emotional32 emotionally charged circumstances, playing a significant role in Intelligence (EQ) engineering ethics. Ensuring that the benefits of engineering decisions are distributed33 Social Justice fairly, address equality and inclusion, and consider the wider social implications for a more just and equitable society. An ethical philosophy that highlights the intrinsic obligations and34 Duty Ethics
cultural meanings associated with the profession. Understanding thesecultural nuances is key to understanding who enters the field and the perceptions of students asthey enter our classrooms.IntroductionWhen you think of an engineer, what is the first image that comes to mind? Is it a man in a hardhat standing over a set of engineering drawings, a computer programmer, or a solitary personworking on math problems? Whatever the image may be, it has likely been shaped by theportrayals of engineers within popular media. From Dilbert to Howard Wolowitz to Tony Stark,depictions of engineers cultivated in popular media reinforce cultural narratives about whatengineers do and who engineers are. These narratives impact not only public perceptions
.” This canon in itself is ablatant example of how NSPE seeks to propagate business professionalism through ethics,especially considering how overwhelmingly the clients and employers of engineers they areobliged to be faithful agents or trustees of are the state and large corporations. They claim that“experience has demonstrated, beyond any reasonable doubt, that an engineer with a union-minded attitude cannot and does not regard his relations with his employer as that of a faithfulagent or trustee.” The BER offers no support for this claim besides a vague reference to“experience” that falls apart when evidenced by the largely business unionist history ofengineering unions. Even taking their claim on face value, the orientation is not
Paper ID #40677Exploring Engineering Faculty Views on their Role in BroadeningParticipation in EngineeringDr. Gerica Brown, University of Dayton Dr. Gerica Brown serves as the inaugural Assistant Dean for Inclusive Excellence Strategic Initiatives in the School of Engineering at the University of Dayton. Previously, she led the Multi-Ethnic Engineers Program at UD since June of 2016. Prior to her time working in higher ed, Gerica had accumulated 9 years of service working in various Engineering and Supply Chain roles with GE Aviation, including working as a Process Engineer and Operations Manager at engine assembly and
mind with intelligence. The cognitive process involves obtaininginformation, processing it, and storing it in the memory to be accessed again. AI is accomplishedby studying the patterns of the human brain and by analyzing the cognitive process. Artificialintelligence has contributed to various fields including agriculture, finance, manufacturing,security, pharmaceuticals, academia, and others. But now AI has become more of aninterdisciplinary entity.Impact of AI Tools on Engineering EducationAI-powered tools have been in development for several years in different forms, which humansare well-aware of. For instance, word processors can suggest better-sounding sentences andwords while writing an essay or report. Similarly, spreadsheets have
minded learning to the University as part of the KEEN Network and Engineering Unleashed. He is also ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Developing Teamwork Skills Across the Mechanical EngineeringCurriculumMary M. McCall, M.A.Department of Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of Detroit MercyDetroit, MI 48221Email: mccallmm@udmercy.eduNassif E. Rayess, Ph.D.Department of Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of Detroit MercyDetroit, MI 48221Email: rayessna@udmercy.edu Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference 1 Copyright © 2024, American Society for Engineering Education Developing Teamwork Skills Across the Mechanical Engineering
. Only by having the TA and instructor work closely together can the issues be resolvedto develop course appropriate assignments.The Learning Outcomes for the Faculty Member – EE3431When utilizing student TAs in course development the biggest challenge is to keep in mind thedifferences and deficiencies between how the instructor wants to run the class and what the TAhas learned. If the student is a former student in the class for the instructor, the issues are © American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conferenceminimized, but the range of questions will be limited and may not be different from what theinstructor would create. However, a student that was not
©2024, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 535Although automation can also improve quality, financial costs need to be considered whilekeeping profitability factors in mind [3]. So, why haven’t these invaluable tools been prioritizedfor secondary and post-secondary learners? That is a good question. Lean practices encompasspractical problem-solving, critical thinking, collaboration, personal life efficiency, careerreadiness, sustainability, adaptability, life skills, business concepts, troubleshooting, andinnovation. Not only are these tools useful in industry applications, but these skills are also vitalto prepare students both
and willing to investthe effort to develop these skills. Institutions can and should consider ways to encourage andcreate time for this practice.ConclusionThis work demonstrates how connections between philosophical ethical theories can be madewith practical engineering ethics codes. It is valuable for students to learn both of these and to beable to connect them with each other. The engineering ethics curriculum can be designed withthis student learning outcome in mind from the larger EAC concept down to the smaller detailsin individual assignments as demonstrated in this case with the introduction to engineering codesof ethics within an intermediate-level design class.AcknowledgmentsJust as the shared nature brings out the best of the
hierarchical dualisms (e.g. man-woman, mind-body, rational-emotional, culture-nature, technical-social, etc.), I aimed to increase the criticalconsciousness of engineering education and bring awareness to these normative value systems.This paper provides a story of how storytelling methodology saved my sanity, improved myresearch, and led to greater outcomes. Much of the words in the paper are adapted from Chapter3 of my dissertation (Paul, 2024).Prologue: ContextWriting a PhD thesis is a daunting task filled with trepidation, uncertainty, and anxiety. Afteryears of research, reading, data collection, and analysis, somehow this information is to bepresented into a coherent sequence of scholarships that demonstrates enough ‘rigour’ (Riley,2017) to be
Paper ID #43071Sustainability-focused Digital Case Studies: Enhancing Engineering EducationDeepika Ganesh, University of Michigan Deepika is a second year Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, School for the Environment and Sustainability. She specializes in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and is curious about informal education spaces, especially outdoor and digital spaces, and their role in contextual learning environments. Her most recent projects include program evaluation for the Next-Gen Scholars program aimed at first generation and underrepresented masters students in her department, and studying
developing creative data visualizations, it is important to keep in mind bestpractices in accessible design such as using high contrast colors and alt text for digital works.This paper is just a starting point for exploring more compelling data visualizations. More workneeds to be done to develop these for a variety of potential audiences.ConclusionThe presented case studies explore the critical role of creative data visualization in enhancing theunderstanding and impact of various aspects of engineering education. It is important andbeneficial to look beyond traditional data representation methods and towards more innovative,visually appealing, and creative approaches. The first case study addressed the issue of genderdisparity in engineering. Use
Reflection in Engineering Design: Student Perceptions on Usefulness Libby (Elizabeth) Osgood, Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering Christopher Power, School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEIAbstractReflection in engineering design promotes the development of personal and professional skills,helping students to document the steps they took, examine the outcomes, and looking ahead tothe following weeks. This reflective practice contributes to adopting a growth mindset andbecoming life-long learners. In a study of 1,278 reflections of 83 second-year engineeringstudents over two years, this paper is an exploratory examination of
minimum required by a standard undergraduate degree (generally120 credit hours), or as the superfluous credits relative to the student’s specific degree program atgraduation [8, 15]. In this paper, we provide a new definition of excess credit hours (introduced byus in [13]) that takes into consideration the applicability(usability) of credits towards the degreerequirements (refer to Section 3). The more commonly used definition of excess credits used sofar in this Section will be referred to as extra credits from here on in this paper. It is clear thatexcess credits are a subset of extra credits. With this in mind, our primary objective in this paperis to explain the extra credit accumulation pattern of undergraduate engineering students
supervision of Massimo Banzi [1]. The goal of this platform was to providean affordable electronic platform with a low learning curve that could be used by students in orout of a classroom [2]. In 2010, the Arduino UNO came onto the scene and sparked widespreadadoption in many universities across the world. Based on data from Google Scholar, there hasbeen an exponential growth in the number of papers with Arduino, Education, and Engineeringas keywords over the last twenty years (Fig. 1). Since modern engineering problems usually include electrical components, developing aworking understanding and comfort with microprocessors, sensors, and actuators is necessary fortoday’s mechanical engineers [3]. With this in mind, the Mechanical Engineering
PedagogyA recently piloted multi-disciplinary introduction to engineering course features not only asampling of engineering majors, disciplines, and sub disciplines, but also aims to develop themindsets and skills of well-rounded engineering students. Three faculty members from threeunique engineering disciplines taught the course in a round-robin format; small cohorts ofstudents rotated through one-month modules with each faculty. Modules focused on introducingthe opportunities associated with each engineering major offered at the college and began toform the habits of mind and communication associated with all engineering disciplines.Furthermore, the faculty brought their own liberal arts interests in philosophy, science-fiction,theology, and
Paper ID #42866Curriculum-embedded Epistemological Foundations in Nuclear EngineeringHaley Williams, University of California, Berkeley Haley Williams is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California – Berkeley in the Department of Nuclear Engineering. Her research includes studies of speciation and structure in molten fluoride salts. Beyond nuclear, her research interests extend to critical materials recovery and synthesis via molten salts. She is also interested in the values that underlie engineering education, and as a recipient of the Ron Gester Fellowship, she studies how beliefs about the roles and
Paper ID #42007Validity Evidence for the Sophomore Engineering Experiences SurveyMiss Fanyi Zhang, Purdue University Fanyi is a third-year Ph.D. student at Purdue University. She majors in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and works as a Graduate Research Assistant for the Women in Engineering program. Her area of interest focuses on conceptualizing and promoting flourishing and understanding the dynamics of positive relationships. Her current research agenda includes developing a mentor support framework and promoting the effective design of mentor training.Dr. Beth M. Holloway, Purdue University Beth Holloway is
engagement with the critical perspectives advocated by Claris and Riley (2012).What is critical thinking?According to Claris and Riley (2012), there are six themes prevailing in the critical thinking literature inengineering education: ▪ The skills and dispositions perspective. In this perspective, critical thinking is a combination of cognitive skills and affective dispositions. Some researchers suggest that a critical worldview must underly either context or skills. This perspective indicates that students should develop a critical, questioning state of mind, although this questioning does not extend to questioning the foundational assumptions and power relations within engineering (e.g., logical positivism, cost
professional scrutiny and critiqueThe overlap between these two lists is considerable. A couple of important features on the NRClist are 1) the importance and role of theory and 2) the line of reasoning. Together, they provideexcellent guidance for planning, conducting, and reporting engineering education research.The overriding question facing the AREE developers and researchers (Norman Fortenberry, KarlSmith, Alisha Waller, Ann McKenna, Susan Donohue, Beth Cady, and Wendy Knapp) was,what can be done to help build the knowledge, skills, and habits of mind to conduct high-qualityengineering education research?AREE’s mission was to provide access to resources and to engage the engineering educationresearch community in a consensus-seeking conversation
mbiswas@uttyler.edu 1 psundaravadivel@uttyler.edu2, and aadityakhanal@uttyler.edu3,AbstractEngineering professionals are expected to conduct various methods of communication when theyenter the workforce. Video presentations are emerging as a preferred mode of communication formarketing and employment processes. However, such communication is uncommon for project-based learning (PBL) assignments in engineering education. Engineering professionals areexpected to bring some level of entrepreneurial-minded learning (EML) skills to solve social orcultural problems with responses rather than solutions. Moreover, the latest industry trend showsthe incorporation of video presentations to showcase and pitch entrepreneurial endeavors.However, such
both community partner and student outcomesIntroductionEngineering service learning or humanitarian engineering in the university setting has only beenaround since the early 2000s [1]. The many potential benefits of efforts by students andinstructors to apply engineering directed at improving the wellbeing of marginalizedcommunities are evident - communities receive valuable contributions while students gainpractical hands-on experiences and apply theoretical knowledge to solve real-world problems.However, as pointed out in [2] [3] [4] without careful facilitation and being mindful of historicalinjustices, patriarchal philosophies, and power dynamics, service learning can unintentionallyperpetuate a dynamic of
maximize learning inall aspects of their work. The Innovation Mindset and Skillset’s intended learning outcome can bedivided into three categories: (1) developing students’ skillsets, (2) cultivating students’ mindsets,and (3) combining students’ skillsets and mindsets. More information on the framework can befound here [10].3.0. Study Methodology An undergraduate and graduate level course named "Innovation Mind and Skill Sets for Designand Research" was developed based on these learning objectives. Although offered within themechanical engineering department, this course was open to students across all STEM majors. Thecourse’s central focus is on a semester-long collaborative group project to devise an innovativeproduct or enhance an existing
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